Canterbury, also gave the bishopric of Rochester to John, his archdeacon. At Easter, John of Crema, a Roman cardinal, came over to England, and, after visiting the bishoprics and abbeys, not without great presents, at the nativity of Saint Mary.held a solemn synod at London, where a great mishap befell him. For, having at the synod spoken in the severest terms relative to the wives of the clergy, saying that it was the greatest wickedness to arise from the side of a harlot to make the body of Christ, while he himseR had that same day made the body of Christ, he was, after nightfall, surprised in the company of a harlot. The thing being thus notorious throughout London, could not be denied; and thus the great honor in which he was held everywhere previously, was turned into the greatest disgrace. He returned home, therefore, by the judgment of God, in confusion and disgrace. In the same year died Henry, emperor of the Romans, son-in-law of Henry, king of the English. But by some it is aUeged that the same emperor, being led by a feeling of penitence for having kiBed his own father, after having gone on a certain night, according to his usual custom, to the bed of the empress Matilda, the daughter of Henry king of the English, the lights being put out and the servants having withdrawn, retired barefoot and dressed in woollen garments, leaving behind the imperial vestments, his wife, and his kingdom, and was never after seen, nor was it discovered what became of him. On this, the empress, taking with her the uncorrupted hand of Saint James the Apostle, and the imperial crown, returned to king Henry, her father. After the decease or departure of the emperor Henry, Lothaire succeeded to the throne. Henry, king of the English, being greatly rejoiced at gaining the hand of Saint James the Apostle, founded the noble abbey of Beddinges,12 and enriched it with many valuables, and placed in it the hand of Saint James the Apostle ; the imperial crown he placed in his own treasury. The moneyers throughout almost the whole of England were, by king's order, seized for having secretly debased the coin, and, their right hands being first cut off, were then deprived of their virility. In this year there was a great famine, and so great was the dearness of provisions, that no one in our time 72 Reading. 218 ANNALS OF BOGEB, DE HOVEDEN. A.D. 1126.