. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. heChurch of Boxgrove are remark-able, and worthy of investigation,although it is difficult to ascertainwith any degree of certainty towhom the Tombs severally are six in number, twosituated against the north wall ofthe north aisle, and another oflarge dimensions under one of thearches which divide the Chancel from the north aisle; and three others, placed against the south wall of the southaisle. Two of these probably contain the bodies of a sister and daughter of Williamde Albini, Earl of Arundel, who lef
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. heChurch of Boxgrove are remark-able, and worthy of investigation,although it is difficult to ascertainwith any degree of certainty towhom the Tombs severally are six in number, twosituated against the north wall ofthe north aisle, and another oflarge dimensions under one of thearches which divide the Chancel from the north aisle; and three others, placed against the south wall of the southaisle. Two of these probably contain the bodies of a sister and daughter of Williamde Albini, Earl of Arundel, who left a donation to the Church for prayers to be made pro anima Adelizse reginse (his mother, and Queen-Dowager of Henry the First), etpro animabus Olivise sororis mese, et Olivise filise mese, quae ibi jacent. Out of thiscircumstance has probably arisen a tradition, that Queen Adeliza was here interred ; butthere is sufficient evidence to prove that her remains were deposited in the ConventualChurch of Reading* Dugdale asserts, but erroneously, that Gundreda, wife of William. * This Adeliza, writes Camden, was daughter to GodfreyBarbatus, of Lovaine, who had for her dowrie Arundell Castleand all the forfeited lands of Robert de Belismo, the Earle,when the King (Henry the First) took her for his second wife. In her commendation, a certaine Englishman in that un-learned age wrote some unlearned verses, of which these linesare the commencement:— When Muses nine thy beauties rare (faire Adeliza QueeneOf England) readie are to tell, they starke astonied beene ;What booteth thee so beautifull, gold-croune or pretiousstone, Dimme is the diadem to thee, the gemme hath beautienone. After the Kings death she married William de Albini ; who, taking part with Maude the Empresse against KingStephen, and defending his castle (of Arundel) against him,was, in recompense of his good service, by the saide Maude, theEmpresse and Ladie of Englishmen (for this title she used),created Earle of Arunde
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