This year King Stephen died, and he was buried with his wife and his son at Favres-field (Feversham); they had built that monastery.--When the King died the Earl was beyond sea, and no man durst do other than good for very dread of him. When he came to England he was received with much honour, and was consecrated King at London on the Sunday before Christmas, and he held a great Court there: and on the same day that Martin Abbot of Peterborough should have gone thither he sickened, and he died on the 4th of the nones of January. And that day the monks chose another Abbot from among themselves. He is named William de Waltville, a good clerk, and a good man, and well beloved of the King and of all good people: and they buried the Abbot honourably in the Church, and soon afterwards the Abbot Elect and the monks went to the King at Oxford, and the King gave him the Abbacy, and thus he departed, having received * * * * * * * Finis. _Index to the Saxon Chronicle._ A A. D. PAGE 656 Abon Alderman (A. D. 664) 40 710 Acca Bishop of Hexham 56 733 expelled 60 737 dies 60 785 Adrian 1st, Pope, sends to England 71 794 dies 73 675 Adrian, Legate, in England (A. D. 680) 48 897 Æbba killed 114 1007 Ædric Alderman of Mercia 163 1009 favours the Danes 165 1015 murders Sigeferth and Morcær 175 1015 deserts to Cnut 176 1016 his treachery towards Edmund 179 1017 receives the government of Mercia from Cnut 181 1017 killed 181 1017 Ædwig, Ætheling, banished by Cnut 182 933 Ædwine, Prince, drowned 131 1002 Æfic, High Sheriff, murdered 158 650 Ægelbyrht, or Æthelbryht, Bp. of Wessex 33 660 leaves England 42 1058 Ægelric Bishop of Chichester 205 1070 excommunicates Hereward 216 1069 Ægelric (abdicated) Bp. of Durham, arrested 211 1072 dies 226 1077 Ægelwig, Abbot of Evesham, dies 230 1069 Ægelwin, Bishop of Durham, outlawed 211 1071 joins Morker at Ely 225 1071 dies 226 603 Ægthan, King of Scots, defeated 24