won castles; and the king went against him with a much larger force; and yet they fought not; but the archbishop and the wise men went betwixt them and made this agreement: That the king should be lord and king while he lived; and after his day Henry should be king; and he should hold him as a father, and he him as a son, and peace and concord should be betwixt them and in all England. This and the other compacts which they made, the king, and the count, and the bishops, and all the powerful men, swore to observe. The count was then received at Winchester and at London with great worship; and all did him homage, and swore to hold the pacification. And it was soon a very good pacification, such as never had been before. Then was the king stronger than he ever was before; and the count went over sea; and all folk loved him; for he did good justice and made peace.
An. mc.liv. In this year king Stephen died, and was buried where his wife and his son were buried, at Faversham, the monastery which they had founded. When the king was dead the count was beyond sea; but no man durst do, other than good, for the great awe of him. When he came to England he received with great worship, and blessed for king in London on the Sunday before Midwinter day; and there he held a great court. That same day that Martin, abbot of Peterborough, should have gone thither, he sickened and died, on the ivth of the Nones of January (Jan. 2nd) ; and the monks within a day chose another for themselves, William de Waltevile, a good clerk and good man, and well loved of the king and of all good men. And all the monks buried the abbot honourably; and soon the abbot elect went, and the monks with him, to the king at Oxford; and the king gave him the abbacy; and soon went to Peterborough . . . . . . . . . . and he was also at Ramsey . . . . . . . . .
