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ANd after þis Kyng Stephen, regnede Henry [MS Rawlinson B 171 82b] þe Emperesse sone, þat Was cronede of þe Erchebisshop Theobalde þe xvij day bifore Cri[s]tesmas. And in þe same ȝere Thomas
Beket of London, Erchebisshop of Kaunterbery, was made þe Kyngus Chanceller of Engeland. ¶ þe secunde ȝere þat he was cronede, he lete caste doun alle þe newe castelles þat were longyng vnto þe crone, þe whiche Kyng Stephen hade ȝeue vnto diuerse men, & ham hade made erles & barons forto holde wiþ him, & him helpe aȝeyns Henry, þe Emperesse sone. ¶ And þe iiij ȝere of his regne he put vnder his lordeship þe Kyng of Walys. And in þe same ȝer, when þe Kyng of Scotland had in his owen hande, þat is to seyne, þe citee of Kerlil, þe castel of Bamburghe, þe newe castel op Tyne, and þe Erldome of Lancastre, þe same ȝere þe Kyng, wiþ gret power, went into Walys, & lete caste adoun wodes, & make waies, and made stronge þe castel of Rutland & Basyngewerc; and amonge þe castelles he made an house of þe temple. ¶ And in þe same ȝere was Richard his sone born, þat afterward was Erl of Oxenford.
¶ And þe iiij ȝere of hes regne, he made Gaufride, Erl of Britaigne; & in þat ȝere he chaungede his mone. And þe vj ȝere of his regne he lade an huge host vnto Tolouse, & conquerede hit. And þe vij ȝer of his regne, deide Theobalde, þe Erchebissho[p] of Kanterbery; and þo al þe citee of Kaunterbery, þrouȝ meschief, almost was brent.
[Thomas a Becket is made Archbishop of Canterbury, and quarrels with the King.]
Þe ix ȝer of his regne, Thomas Beket, his Chaunceller, was chosen to [MS Rawlinson B 171 83a] ben Erchebisshop of Kaunterbery; and oppon seynt Bernardes day he was sacrede. ¶ And in þat ȝere, born was Alienore, þe Kynges douȝter. ¶ And þ x ȝere of his regne, seynt Edmund þe Kyng was translatede wiþ miche honour. ¶ And þe xj ȝere of his regne he helde his parlement at Northampton; & fro þens fled Seynt Thomas, Erchebisshop of Kaunterbery, for þe grete debate þat was bituen þe Kyng and him; for if he hade bene fonde on þe morwe, he hade bene slayn; & þerfore he
fledde þens wiþ iij felawes, in fote oneliche, þat no man wist wher he was, and went ouer þe see to þe Pope of Rome. ¶ And þis was þe principal enchesoun, forasmiche as þe Kyng wolde haue put clerkes to deth þat were atteint of felonye, wiþouten eny pryuelege of holy cherche. ¶ And þe xij ȝere of his regne, was Iohn, his sone, bore. And þe xiij ȝere of his regne deide Maude þe Emperesse, þat was his moder; And in þat same ȝere was Iohane his doughter born. ¶ þe xiiij ȝere of his regne, þe Duc Henry of Saxoyne spousede Maude, his doughter; & he bigate on here iij sones, Henry, Othus, & William. ¶ And in þe xv ȝere of his regne, deide þe gode Erle Robert of Gloucestre, þat foundede þe Abbay of Nonnes of Eton. ¶ And in þe same ȝere, Marik, Kyng of Ierusalem, conquerede Babilon. ¶ þe xvj ȝ ere of his regne, he lete crone his sone Henry at Westmynstre; & him cronede, Roger, þe Erchebisshop of Ȝork, in harmyng of Thomas þe Erchebisshop of Kaunterbery; wherfore þe same Roger was acursede of þe Pope.