Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter, 283 Statute De Religiosis, 246 Statute of Wales, 220 Statute of Westminster, the first, 234 Statute of Westminster, 224 Stephen of Blois, his claim to the throne, 14; his reception in England, 15; his election and coronation, 15; his first charter, 16; his second charter, 17; invaded by the Scots, 17, 19; rebellion of 1136, 18; beginning of troubles, 18; his imprudent policy, 19; debases coinage, 20; his new earls, 20; imports mercenaries, 20; his breach with the clergy, 20; arrests the bishops, 21; beginning of anarchy, 22; taken prisoner, 22; is released, 25; his success in 1142, 26; division of the kingdom, 27; period of anarchy, 28; proceedings at Rome, 30; quarrels with the archbishop, 30; question of succession, 31; negotiates for peace, 32; his death, 33; estimation of his character, 33 Stigand, Archbishop, 61 Stirling, English defeated near, 259 Stratford, John, Bishop of Winchester, 287 Swabia, 6 Tancred, King of Sicily, 119 Taxation, variety of, in Henry II.’s reign, 87; papal, 177; changes in the mode of, 228; summoning of representative assemblies for the purposes of, 232; of the clergy, 246; confirmation of the charter establishing the right of the people to determine, 240 Templars, the, 53, 54 Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, 21; quarrels with Stephen, 30; negotiates the succession of Henry II., 41; adviser to Henry II., 42; his death, 55 Theobald, Count, 14, 16 Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, 269; despotism of, 276, 277; execution of, 280; interior consequences of his execution, 281 Thurstan, Archbishop, 19 Tickhill, castle of, 125 Toledo, 11 Toulouse, war of, 53 Tracy, William de, 82 Valence, Aymer de, Earl of Pembroke, 261, 274, 276; made governor of Scotland, 266; his death, 285 Vescy, Lady de, 273; Eustace de, 159, 167 Waleran of Meulan, 28 Wales, at war with Henry II., 48; second war with Henry II., 71; third war with Henry II., 80; turbulence of the princes, 217; conquest of, 219; statute of, 220; rebellion in, under Madoc, 256 Wallace, Sir William, 258, 260 Wallingford, peace negotiations at, 32 Walter, Hubert, Bishop of Salisbury, 115, 116, 119, 130; made Archbishop of Canterbury, 130; government of, 131; resignation of, 133; transfers his devotion to John on the death of Richard, 137; his death, 144 Walter of Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester, 197, 199 Wareham, 27 Warenne, Earl, 238 Warenne, William of, surrender of his estates in Norfolk, 46; knighthood conferred on, 47 Westminster, treaty at, 32; council at, 74; provisions of, 200; courts at, 226; statute of, the first, 234 William II., King of Scotland, joins a league against Henry II., 94; taken prisoner, 96