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Worthies of Buckinghamshire and Men of Note of that County ...
Worthies of Buckinghamshire and Men of Note of that County Author:Robert Gibbs Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m- addressed himself to D'Albini and besought his permission to aim at the sanguinary tyrant. "Nay, nay," exclaimed the baron, "far from me be the heavy guilt... more » of compassing the death of the Lord's annointed." " He would not spare thee," replied the archer, " if thouwert in like case." "Then," rejoined the baron, "that would be as the Lord pleases; the Lord disposes, and not I." At length, to quote Holinshed's chronicle, " they within, for want of vittels, were constrained to yield up unto the King, after it had been besieged the space of three score daies. Thus the King spared William de Albiuey and the other Noblemen and gentlemen, and sent them to Corfe Castle and other places, to be kept prisoners." D'Albini's estates were not confiscated; Hugh D'Albini, his brother, succeeded him in 1236, and he dying without heirs, in 1243, his estate passed, by the marriage of his sister, to John Fitz-Alan, Lord of Clun. The descent and pedigrees of the D'Albinis are contradictory and perplexing ; there were two families, or branches of the family, bearing like Christian names; the distinction at the present day is almost an impossibility. The family of D'Albini were also connected with Clifton Reynes, also with New Buckeuham, in Norfolk, of which latter place they were styled Lords. ALDRICH, ROBERT.—Aldrich was a native of Burnham ; was educated at Eton, of which College he subsequently became Masteraud Provost. In 1537, he was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle, a station for which his learning and piety well fitted him. He had been in his youth a correspondent of the learned Erasmus, who styled him " blandie eloquentiae juvcnis;" he is also commended by Leland ; he died in 1555. ALDRICHE, Colonel.— He was Parliamentary Governor of Aylesbury at a period during the Civil Wars. In 1643,...« less