MarginaliaThurstinus restored.mediatly sent for, and reconciled to the king was placed quietly in his archiepiscopall see of Yorke.

MarginaliaAn. 1122.
William Archbish. of Cant.
The gray fryers first came into EnglandIt followed not long after (within ij. yeares) Radulph Archbishop of Cant. departed: in whose see succeeded after hym, Gulielmus de Turbine. About which time (in the xxvii. of this kings raign) the gray Friers by procuring of the king, came first into England, and had their house first at Canterburye. MarginaliaAn. 1125.
Priestes payd for their wiues.
Ex Roger. Houed.
Et Guliel. Gisburnensi.
Ex Henrie. Huntyngt. Lib. 7.About the same season, or a little before: the kyng called a councel at London, where the spiritualtie of Englād (not knowing to what purpose it was required) condescended to þ^e kyng, to haue þ^e punishment of maried priests: by reasō of which graūt (wherof þ^e spiritualtie afterward much repented) the priests paying a certaine to the kyng, were suffred to retaine their wiues styl, wherby þ^e kyng gathered no small summe of mony. Rog. Houed. Gulie. Gysburnens. MarginaliaThe abbey of Gisburne builded.At this time, begā fyrst the foundation of the monastery called Gisburne in Cleueland.

It was aboue touched, how Matilde or Maude daughter of king Henry, was maried to Henry v. Emperour: who after the decease of the sayde Emperour her husband, returned about this present tyme wyth the imperiall crowne to her father in Normandy: MarginaliaS. Iames hand.
Reading abbey founded.bringyng with her the hand of S. Iames. For the ioy wherof, the kyng builded þ^e abbey of Readyng, where þ^e said hand was reposed. MarginaliaMatilde daughter of K. Henry heyre to the crowne.This Matild was receyued by the sayd councel to be next heyre to the king her father, in possession of þ^e english crowne, for lacke of issue male. And soone after vpon the same was sent ouer to Normandy, to marry w^t MarginaliaGeffray Plātagenet.
Henry the. ii. borne of Matilde the Emperice.Geffray Plantagenet Erle of Angeou: of whome came Henry þ^e second, that (after Stephen) was kyng of England. MarginaliaAn. 1130
The Priorie of Norton founded.And about this tyme was also founded the priorie of Norton in the prouince of Chester, by one William þ^e sonne of Nichelle. In the storye of Polychron. Iornalensis, and Polydorus is declared: MarginaliaThree terrible visions of the kyng.how the kyng was troubled greatly with iij. sundry visions appearing vnto him by night. The first was of a great multitude of husband men of the countrey: which appeared to fly vpon him w^t their mattockes and instrumentes, requiring of him his debt which he did owe vnto them. In the second, he saw a great number of souldiors and harnessed mē to come fiersly vpon him. In the third, he saw a company of prelates and churchmen threatning him with their bishops staues, and fiersly approching vpon him. Wherupon (being dismaid) in all hast, ranne and tooke his sword to defende himselfe, finding there none to stryke: who afterward asking counsel concerning these visions, was monyshed by one of hys phisitions (named Grimbald) MarginaliaThree vowes made of kyng Henry.by repenteance, almose and amendmēt of life, to make some mendes to God and to his countrey whom he offended. Which three vowes thus beyng made, the next yere after he went to England: MarginaliaAn. 1131where þ^t being vpō the seas in a great tempest with his daughter Matilde, remembred there his iij. vowes. And so cōming to þ^e land (for performance of þ^e same) MarginaliaDane gelte released
The church releaued
Iustice rightly administred.first released vnto the cōmons, þ^e Dane gelt, which his father and his brother before had renewed. Secondly, he went to S. Edmunds burye, where he shewed great benefites to the churchmen. Thirdly he procured iustice to be administred more rightly throughout his realme, &c. MarginaliaCarlile newly erected by king Henry.Also he ordeined and erected a new bishoprike at Carlile.

MarginaliaThe citie and Paules church of London burned.In the. 33. yere of this kings raigne (as witnesseth a certayne autor) a great part of the citie of London, with the churche of S. Paule, was burned with fire in Whitson weeke.

MarginaliaHonorius the. ii.After Calixtus (whose story and time is before discoursed) succeded pope Honorius, ij. Notwithstandyng that the Cardinalles had elected an other: yet he by the meanes of certaine citezins obtained the papacy, an. M. Cxxv. About the second yere of his induction, (as is to be red in Mathæo Parisiensi) MarginaliaMatheus Parisiensis.there was a certaine legate of his, called Ioannes Cremensis sent down to Englād,from the pope for the redres, I cannot well tel whereof. But in dede the chiefest purpose of hys comming (as of all other after him in those dayes) was to fill their pouches wyth english money, as maye further appeare by their procedings. This Legate commyng then with the popes letters directed both to England and Scotlād (after he had wel refreshed himself in bishops houses, and amongst the abbots) at length resorted to Londō: MarginaliaA romish statute concerning priestes wiues, and concubines.where he assēbled þ^e whole clergy together, inquiring of priestes cōcubines (otherwise called their wiues) & making ther-vpon a statute, in the sayd Synode of London, after this tenor: Presbyteris, diaconibus, subdiaconibus, & canonicis vxorum, cōcubinarum, & omnium omnino fœminarum contubernia, autoritate Apostolica inhibemus præter matrem, aut sororem vel amitam, aut eiusmodi quæ omnino careant suspitione. Et qui decreti huius violator extiterit (confessus vel conuictus) ruinam ordinis patiatur. Inter consanguineos, seu affinitate propinquos, vsq; ad septimā generationem, matrimonia contrahi prohibemus. That is, vnto priestes, deacons, subdecons, and canons we doo vtterly inhibite by autoritie Apostolical: al maner societie and conuersation with all kynd of women, except only their mother, sister, or aunt, or such wherof can rise no suspition. And whoseuer shalbe found to violate this decree (being conuict therof) shall sustain therby the losse of all that he hath by his order. MarginaliaMariage forbid to the seuenth degree.Moreouer amongst kindred, or such as bee ioyned in affinitie, we forbid matrimony, vnto the seuēth generation, &c. But see how God worketh against suche vngodlye procedinges. MarginaliaThe popes Legat geuing preceptes of chastitie, was found with an harlot.The nexte night after, it hapned, the same cardinall (ruffelyng and reuelyng with his concubines) to be apprehended in the same vice, wherof he had so straitly geuen out preceptes the nexte day before: to þ^e no little slaūder and shame (as Mattheus Paris. doth write) of the whole clergy.

MarginaliaLotharius Emperour.Vnto this time liued Henricus þ^e v. emperour, after he had raigned 20. yeares, dying without issue as is afore mentioned. Next after Henricus, the imperiall crowne came to Lotearius duke of Saxon. an. MCxxvij..

MarginaliaArnulphus mattered at Rome. The history of Arnulphus.Certayne histories make mention of one Arnulphus in the tyme of this pope Honorius, ij. Some say he was archbishop of Lugdune: as Hugo, Platina, Sabellicus. Trithemius sayth he was a priest: whose history, as it is set forth inTrithemius, I will briefly in english expres. Aboute this time (sayth he) in the dayes of Honorius, ij. one Arnulphus priest (a man zelous and of great deuotion, and a worthy preacher) came to Rome: which Arnulphus in his preaching rebuked the dissolute and lasciuious lousenes, incontinencie, auarice, and immoderate pride of the cleargie: prouokyng all to follow Christ and hys apostles in their pouertie rather, and in purenes of lyfe. By reason wherof, this man was wel accepted, & highly liked of the nobilitie of Rome, for a true disciple of Chirst: but of the cardinals and the clergy no lesse hated, then fauoured of the other. In so much that priuelye in the night season they toke him & destroyed him. This his martirdome (saith he) was reueled to him before, frō God by an angell, he beyng in the deserte, when he was sent forth to preach. Wherupon, he said to them publikely with these wordes: I know (sayth he) ye seke my life: & know, ye wil make me away priuely. But why? because I preach to you the truth, & blame your pride, stoutnes auarice, incontinence, with your vnmesurable gredines in getting and heaping vp riches: therfore be you displeased with me. I take here heauen and earth to witnes, þ^t I haue preached to you, that I was comaunded of þ^e Lord. But you contemne me and your creator: who by his only sonne hath redemed you. And no maruel if ye seke my death, being a sinfull person preaching to you the truth: when as if S. Peter were here this day, & rebuked your vices (which do so multiplie aboue al mesure) you wuld not spare him neither. And as he was expressyng this w^t a loud voyce, he said moreouer: for my part, I am not a-