[Illustration: TOMB OF THE HOWARD FAMILY IN FRAMLINGHAM CHURCH.] AUTHORITIES quoted or referred to:--Orderic, Vitalis, Histor. Ecclesiast. lib. xiii.--Simeon Dunelmensis,--Simeon of Durham, Hist. Kings of England, A.D. 616-1113, ed. 1732. Camden, Annales, ed. 1717.--Doomsday Book, ed. 1783.--Bishop Rede’s Register, on the authority of Mr. Tierney, p. 16.--Royal Patents--Clarendon’s History.--Broughton, (Hugh and Thomas,) Collins, Peerage, 1760, 7 vols.--Caraccioli, History of Arundel.--Dallaway, Rape of Arundel--Do. West Sussex.--History of the Castle and Town of Arundel, by the Rev. M. A. Tierney.--Criticisms on the above. Horsfield, History, Antiquities, and Topography of Sussex. Speed, fol. ed. Harding’s Chronicles. Grafton’s Chronicle. Froissart. Monstrelet, 4to. Montfaucon--France Monumentale. MS. Description of Arundel and Environs. Notes on Mr. Tierney’s History, MS. English, French, and Latin Poets. Pictorial History. Civil and Military Transactions. Histories of Hume, Smollett, Lingard, Hallam, Chalmers’ Caledonia. Pinkerton Histories of Framlingham--Loder, and Green.--Lodge, &c. &c. [Illustration: Sᵀ. ALBAN’S ABBEY.] THE ABBEY OF ST. ALBANS. “--------------------------------------- Claustrum MARTYRIS ALBANI, sit tibi tuta quies! Hic locus ætatis nostræ primordia novit, Annos felices lætitiæque dies! Hic locus ingenuis pueriles imbuit annos Artibus, et nostræ laudis origo fuit. Hic locus insignes magnosque creavit alumnos. Felix eximio martyre, gente, situ, Militat hic Christo, noctuque dieque labori Indulget sancto religiosa cohors.” The profound interest connected with the Abbey of St. Albans, has been much increased of late years by the prospect still held out of seeing its magnificent church converted into a cathedral. That this may be speedily and permanently effected, is a hope which every admirer of ecclesiastical architecture, every lover of that soil which has been hallowed by the blood of martyrs, will rejoice to see realised. [Illustration] In the short historical introduction to this subject, we shall adopt the testimony of the old chroniclers, whose names, with other authorities, will be found, chronologically arranged at the end of the chapter, so that the reader may know where to apply for such copious details as cannot be comprised within the limits of the present work. This plan will be carefully adhered to in the successive portions of the work, so that the inconvenience arising from a multiplicity of notes, and the frequent repetition of names and authorities, in the same chapter, may be effectually obviated.