was accustomed to do ; but the king had first of all put on the cap, and as he found the cap too small, he said, " Take it away, let this cap be given to my brother, because he has a smaller head than mine/1 And when it was given to him in compliance to the king's command, the servant incautiously, when he was asked if any one had worn it before, said "Yes," and related what had happened. And Robert said, " Now, indeed, have I protracted my wretched life too long, when that injurious king sends me his old clothes as an abject." And from that time forth he would not take any food, but wasted away both in mind and body, and so died, and was buried at Gloucester. Henry, king of England, dies. Stephen is crowned. A.D . 1135. Henry, king of England, died, when he had reigned thirty-five years and three months, on the second of December, at Saint Denis, in the Lion's Wood. For the day before he had been eating the flesh of lampreys, against the advice of Ins physicians. Henry, archbishop of Huntingdon, ends his Chronicles with this year. Here we may dwell on some unimportant events. Henry established in his dominions the monastery of Reading, the monastery of the canons of Cirencester, the monastery of Prat at Rouen, the monastery of Mortimer, and he did many other admirable actions worthy of all praise, which are more fully related in the book of his life. And the irreparable loss which England suffered was foreshowed by a violent storm of wind on the vigil of the Feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude, which overthrew in a terrible manner towers, buildings, and trees. But Stephen, the king's nephew, by his sister, being the count of Boulogne, was consecrated king, by William, archbishop of Canterbury, on the twenty-second day of December, in London, at Westminster, being the twenty-second day after the death of his uncle. The same year, the church of St. Paul was burnt by a fire, which began at London Bridge, and extended as far as the church of the Danes. At the coronation before mentioned, there were present three bishops with the archbishops. But the king, as soon as he was crowned, took possession of the treasure which his uncle had collected, amounting to a hundred thousand pounds, without counting the vessels of gold and silver, plate and jewels, of inestimable value. But the day