Twice did he wed-his second Queen, the child Yet will the liberal minded mourn to hear Have own'd the poet's satyre had its force. *"No, no," said the irritated King to a great foreign Prince who interceded for the wretched poet, " for this man being for"sooth a Wit, a Bard, and a Minstrel, hath composed many inde66 cent songs against me, and moreover hath sung them openly to "the great entertainment of my enemies. Now, since it hath "pleased God to deliver him into my hands, he shall be punished "to deter others from the like petulance." So the sentence took place, and the imprudent poet died of the wounds he receiv'd in struggling with the executioner. ORDERICUS VITELIS.-Vide ANDREWS. In this King's reign a house of monk's first gave A Muse, cotemporary with the King. POETRY POETRY of the Year 1135. King HENRY is ded! bewty of the world, . For whom is grete dole ; The Goddes now maken room for their kind bro ther, For he is Sole. Mercurius in speech, Marce in battayle, In hest strong Appollo; Jupiter in hest,* egall with Saturn, And enemie to Cupido; King he was a right, And man of most myght, And glorious in rayninge. And when he left his crowne For misse of such a King; Normandy then gave Lowre, And sange wel-a-way! Englond made mone, And Scotland did grone, For to see that day! Vide" THE MUSE'S LIBRARY." • Hest-Command. THE THE SAXON LINE RESTORED.. SUMMARY OF the reign of STEPHEN. Born at Blois, 1105. Crowned, December 6, 1135. Married Maud, daughter of Eustace, Earl of Boulogne. Had issue, Baldwin, Eustace, William, Maud, Mary, and two natural sons, William, and Gervase, Abbot of Westminster. Reigned nineteen years. Died 1154. Buried at Faversham. PRINCIPAL EVENTS. Stephen usurps the crown from the Empress Maud. The Barons assert their independence, and erect upwards of eleven hundred castles. The Empress Maud, with various success, attempts to gain the crown, her claim is at length compromised in favour of her son's succession. The Welch successful against the English. David, of Scotland, invades England and is repulsed. The Abbies of Coggeshall, Essex; Farness, in Lancashire; Carew and Higham, with an Hospital at York, and a Monastery at Faversham, erected. A fire, beginning at London stone, burnt eastward to Aldgate, and westward to St. Paul's. EMINENT PERSONS. John of Salisbury, Roger de Hoveden, Henry of Huntingdon, Ailred, Abbot of Revesby, Geoffry of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph's, William of Malmsbury, historians lived about this period. Curboil and Theobald, Archbishops of Canterbury. Thurstan, Archbishop of York, Lieutenant to the King, appoints Ralph, Bishop of Durham, his General against the Scols. Robert, Earl of Glocester. Ranulph, Earl of Chester. COTEMPORARY COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS. Popes. Cœlestine II. 1143. Lucius II. 1144. Eugenius III. 1145. Anastatices IV. 1153. Adrian IV. 1154. Emperors. Of the East.-John Comnenus, 1118. Emanuel Comnenus, 1143. Of the West.-Lothaire II. 1125. Conrad III. 1128. Frederick I. 1152. Kings. Of France.-Lewis VI. 1108. Lewis VII. 1137. Of Portugal.-Alphonsus I. 1112. Of Scotland.-David I. 1124 STEPHEN. |