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CASTLES AND ABBEYS OF ENGLAND.

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Cast turn Arundellum et urbem Cicestram dedit; cui postek comitatumScrobesburia; qua; in monte super Sabrinam fluvium sita est, adjecit. Hiesapiens et moderatus et amator sequitatis fuit, et comitatem sapientum etmodestorum dilexit. Tres sapientes clericos Godebaldum, Odolerium, aeHerbertum, diutiils secum liabuit; quorum consilium utiliter paruit,”—p. 254.“ Warino autem calvo, carpore parvo, sed animo magno, Aimeriam neptemsuam et Prarsidatum Scrobesburia; dedit: per quern Guallos aliosq’ sibiadversantes fortiter oppressit, et provinciam totam sibi commissam pacificavit.Guillelmum cognomento Pantalfum, et Picoldum atque Corbatum filiosqueejus, Rogerium et Rodbertum, aliosque fideles fortissimosq’ viros comitatuisuo prad'ecit; quorum sensu et viribus benigniter ajutus inter maximosoptimates maximfe efflorait.”—Order. Vital, de Guliel. primo.

llis pious retirement from the world and death in the cloisters is thusrelated by Orderic—the authority referred to in the text:—“ Having by thehands of Reginald, then Prior of Shrewsbury, obtained from the house ofCluni, in Burgundy, the coat of St. Hugh, some time abbot there, for himselfto put on, he caused himself to be shorne a monk in the said Abbey of Shrews-bury, with the consent of his wife; where it is observed of him, that threedays before his death he wholly applied himself to divine conference anddevout prayers with the rest of that convent; and died on the sixth of theKalends of August, 1094.”—Baron, i. 28. “ Monachile scema devotus sus-

cepit . . . et tribus diebus in colloquiis divinis et oratione inter servos Deipermaneit. Tandem Kal. Augusti mortuus est.”—Ord. Vital, p. 708.

|Dugl) itlontnomcnj, page 9.—The death of this nobleman, as brieflymentioned in the text, is taken from Giraldus Cambrensis, Itin. Camb. p.194, and thus rendered by Dugdale, Bar. i. 28. “ There is in this island of

Anglesey a church of St. Teuredaucus the Confessor, in which Earl Hugh,after he had subjugated these parts of Wales, having kennelled his dogs allnight, found them every one mad next morning; and that he himself died amiserable death within a month thereafter. For hearing that certain pirateswere come to the haven of this island in long-boats, and making haste tooppose their landing, the principal commander of them, called Magnus,standing at the fore end of the boat with a bow in his hand, let flic an arrowat our earl, then armed cap-h-pie, so that no entrance could be made exceptthrough his helmet, at the sights for his eyes; but so fatally was the arrowdirected, that it passed through his head-piece upon his right eye, andpiercing his brain, caused him to fall (from his horse) headlong into the sea.”Girald. Cambrensis erroneously attributes it to Hugh, Earl of Chester, but byall other authorities it is related as having occurred to Hugh Montgomery.Polyd. "Virgil, fob 173, says—“Hugo Comes Salopia; obviutn factus ex ictu