Anno. 20.
[date] Englande was vexed with manye plagues. For greate morayne fell e∣monge cattell, brennynge ••euers, and* 1.1 honger emong people, greate bareyn∣nesse vpon the earth, and muche hurte was done in many places, by the mis∣fortune of fyre: & specially in London. For a part of Paules was brent ye .vii.* 1.2 of Iuly. Kyng Williā builded two ab∣beis in England, one at Battel in Sus¦sex: ye other nere to Londō called Bar∣mondsay. He builded the third at Cane* 1.3 in Normandy. He ended his life the .ix day of September, and was buried at Cane in Normandy, he had .v. childrē, Robert, to whom he gaue Normandy, Richard, who died in his youth. Wil∣liam Rufus, and Henry, which were kinges after him. And one daughter, named Adela, who he gaue in mariage to Steuen Erle of Bloys, who got on her Steuen that after was kynge of Englande.