the East, spreading great destruction, and striking all the Christian princes and people with great fear. This year too, the lord Otho, the legate, summoned all the abbots of the Black order to liondon, to consider of the refor mation of the order of Saint Benedict. This year too, that great and famous city in Spain, which is called valentia Magna, was taken and restored to Christian worship. About the same time, the following conventual churches, in the diocese of Lincoln, were dedicated by the bishop of Lincoln, according to the statutes of the council, held at London, namely, in the fens, Ramsey, and Burgh, and Sawtrey ; the church at Ramsey on the twenty-second of September, that at Sawtrey the same week, and the church of Burgh on the twenty-eighth of September. The same year, Baldwin, emperor of Constantinople, returned to Greece, accompanied by a numerous army, to demand back his inheritance by force of arms from the Greeks, who had expelled him from the empire. But the divine favour was wanting to his enterprise,—for a great number of the French In those days, the fame of the blessed Robert, formerly hermit, was much spoken of, as his tomb sweated forth oil. The same year, the bishop elect of Rochester was consecrated at Canterbury, on the day after the feast of Saint Edmund, in the church of Saint Gregory (because the archbishop had suspended the cathedral of Canterbury from the celebration of divine service). The archbishop being assisted by the Masters Robert Black, bishop of London, Robert Grossetête, bishop of Lincoln, the lord Hugo, bishop of Ely, and the lord Ralph de Neville, bishop of Chichester, and Master Simon de Langton, archdeacon of Canterbury, and a great number of other illustrious nobles, the proper request having been previously sent by Richard, prior of Rochester ; and he was installed at Rochester on Saint Andrew's day. Edward, the eldest son of king Henry the Third, is horn. The emperor Frederic is excommunicated bypope Gregory the Ninth. A.D . 1239. The king celebrated the feast of the Nativity of the Lord at Winchester. On Stephen's day, Alexander, bishop of Coventry, died at Andover ; and, at the request o f the king, William de Rale was unanimously elected to the