taking an oth to be their true and loiall subiects. [Sidenote: 1133. An.
Reg. 34.] After this king Henrie kept his Christmasse at Dunstable, and
his Easter at Woodstocke. In the same yeare, or (as some haue) in the
beginning of the yeare precedent, or (as other haue) in the yeare
following, king Henrie erected a bishops sée at Carleil, [Sidenote:
_Matth. Paris._ Prior of L. Oswald as _Wil. Thorne._ hath, and likewise
_Matth. Paris._ and _Matt. Westm._] in which one Arnulfe or rather
Athelwoolfe, who before was abbat of S. Bothoulfs, and the kings
confessor, was the first bishop that was instituted there. This man
immediatelie after his consecration placed regular canons in that
church.

Not long after, or rather before (as by Wil. Malmes. it should séeme)
king Henrie passed ouer into Normandie, from whence (this being the last
time of his going thither) he neuer returned aliue. And as it came to
passe, he tooke ship to saile this last iournie thither, euen the same
daie in which he had afore time receiued the crowne. [Sidenote: An
eclipse[17].] On which daie (felling vpon the Wednesdaie and being the
second of August) a wonderfull and extraordinarie eclipse of the sunne
and moone appeared, in somuch that Wil. Malmes. who then liued, writeth
that he saw the starres plainlie about the sunne at the verie time of
that eclipse. [Sidenote: An earthquake.] On the fridaie after such an
earthquake also happened in this realme, that manie houses and buildings
were ouerthrowne. This earthquake was so sensible, or rather so visible,
that the wall of the house wherein the king then sat was lift vp with a
double remoue, at the third it setled it selfe againe in his due place.
Moreouer at the verie same time also fire burst out of certeine riffes
of the earth in so huge flames, that neither by water nor otherwise it
could be quenched.