With respect to the part taken by Albini subsequent to his marriage with Adeliza, queen dowager, on the part of the Empress Maud, her son, and King Stephen at Wallingford--as well as the embassy in which he took the lead--as mentioned p. 42, Dugdale has condensed the particulars under the head of “Will. de Albini Pincerna,” i. 118, as well as all others of any importance respecting the descent of the Castle of Arundel through the families of the Fitzalans and Howards. Albini is thus complimented in the old Rhyming Chronicle; and the orthography shows the pronunciation in that day:-- ¶ Wyllyam, the Earle of Arundell that hyght, _Awbeny_ (Albini) by his surname full well then knowe, At Wimondham, in Northfolke buryed ryght, Father was of Philyp full yonge unknowe [That full courteous was both to hye and lowe] That after him was Earle of Arundell, As Chronycles wryten can clerely tell. P. 273. [Illustration] [Illustration] <g>Robert de Belesmo</g>, Text p. 9.--“Supradictus Comes Robertus de Belesmo qui comitatum etiam Pontinensis pagi rexit eo tempore, ac in Normannia Castella possedit quam plurima; civitatem Scrobesbiriam et castellum in ea situm, castella quoque <g>Arundel</g> et Tikehil, alimentis machinis, armis, militibus, et peditibus contra regem Henricum fortiter munivit. Muros quoque, ac tunes castellorum, videlicet Brige et Carracoue, die noctuque operando perficere modis omnibus festinavit.... At Rex sine delatione Castellum ejus <g>Arundel</g> primitùs obsedit, et castellis ante illud firmatis, recessit; deinde Robertus Lindicolniæ civitatis episcopum cum parte exercitûs Tykehil obsidere jussit. Illè autem Brige cum exercitu penè totius Angliæ obsedit, machinas quoque ibi construere et castellum firmare præcepit. Interim Walanos, &c. Infra igitur triginta dies civitate et omnibus castellis redditis inimicum suum <g>Robertum</g> superavit etignominiosè de Anglia expulit.”--Hov. Annal. Hen. pr. 269. Text p. 39.--“Junior Wilhelmus anno decimo regni sui cū Normanniam, quam à Roberto fratre suo ad Jerusalem profecto, in vadimonium acceperat pro libitu suo disposuisset, redijt ad Vigiliam Paschæ in Angliam, appulit apud <g>Arundel</g>.”--Henric. Huntingd. lib. vi. p. 216. <g>King Stephen</g>, p. 38.--“Statim namque filia regis Henrici, quæ fuerat Romanorum imperatrix, cui Anglia juramento fuerat addicata, venit in Angliam; quam cum Rex Stephanus obsedisset apud <g>Arundel</g>, vel perfida credens consilia, vel quia castrum videbat inexpugnabile, ire permisit ad Bristowe.”--Hoved. Steph. Rex. fol. 278.