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crowd into the Boat with her, in suchNumbers, that being over-laden it imme-diately funk. With the Prince perish-ed Richard and Matilda, his natural.Brother and Sister, Lucia the King’sNiece, Richard Earl of Chester-, andmany others of the Nobility of bothSexes; with a Hundred and Forty Of-ficers and Souldiers, fifty Sailors, and theOfficers of the Ship : In all about threeHundred Persons.

Henry, being a Widdower, bythe Death of his excellent Queen Ma-tilda, in the Year my, was married in112’, to Adeliza, the Daughter ofGeoffrey , Duke of Louvain, of theHouse of Lorrain. Pie hoped to repairthe Loss of the Prince, by a new Issue,But he was mistaken ; for she neverproved with Child. The King was ob-liged in the Year 1123, to leave hisnew and beautiful Queen, and to makeanother Voyage into Normandy , to sup-press a fresh Rebellion in Favour of hisNephew, William, who, being assistedby several neighbouring Princes, hadSoor > quieted, committed terrible Ravages. He em-barked about Whitsuntide, at Ports-mouth, and was attended with his usualSuccess.

In the Year 1x27, Henry, havinglittle Prospect of Issue by his secondW ife, was solicitous how to secure theSuccession to his Daughter, the Em-press Matilda, now a Widow. To thisEnd he summoned a Great Council, orParliament, to meet at Windsor, atwhich David King of Scotland was like-wise present, and prevailed upon theMembers to take an Oath, to set herupon the Throne, if he should diewithout Male-Heir. But how this Oathwas kept we shall soon see. To streng-

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then her Interest the more, he soon as- 1127.

ter married her to Geoffrey Plantagenet, ste marriesrp 1 CA- J 6 ’the Earl of

Earl of Anjou. [k) Anjou. J

In the Years 1128. and 30. the King 1x28-30.made two Voyages to Normandy, anain the first of these Years his Nephew,

William, was slain at the Siege of Aloft, °f

in whom expired all the legitimate Issue n u ke Ro-of Duke Robert. bert'j Son.

Hackluyt mentions Athelard, a HackluytMonk of the Abby of Bath, as stou- p. n. p. r 5 .rissiing in the Year 1x30. who had Athelard,been a great Traveller, had passed, thro’pgypt, Arabia, and several otherCoun- Traveller.tries, in Search after the Secrets andCauses of natural Things, and deservedworthily to be compared with some ofthe ancient Philosophers.

History furnishing us with no me- 1x33.morable Action of Henry's after theYear 1130. we shall hasten to the Con- jyf Westm.elusion of his Reign. In 1133. (/) he Birth ofwas blessed with a Grandson, by his f n ^ at ^ en *Daughter Matilda, named Henry • Upon '

which he took the Opportupity of ha-ving the Oath of Fealty, which was al-ready taken to her and her Successors,renewed in Form, and with great Pomp.

This done, towards the latter End of Duke Ro-Summer, he made his last Voyage to Bert’s andNormandy, where he died, on the Se- ^eath”^ *cond of December , 1135. in the sixty- 1135.eighth Year of his Age, after a prolpe- M. Paris,rous Reign of five and thirty Years,three Months, and one Day; And aYear ° r ' lta 'after the Death of his Brother Robert,in his Confinement. When he found hisDissolution was approaching, he sentfor his natural Son, the Earl of Glouce-ster, and earnestly enjoined him to bewatchful for the Interest of the Empresshis Daughter, for which he was verysollicitous.

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CHAP IV.

Naval Expeditions and ’Transactions of the English, with some otherEvents, during the Reign of King Stephen.

"sis E come now to the Reign of Both he, and his Brother, had been inW 4 / King Stephen, Earl of Bou- in England , with their Uncle, King' logne and Mortagne, Nephew Henry, in the Years 1x27, and 1130.to Henry I. He was the Son And Henry had taken a Delight in ma-os Stephen, Earl of Blois, and Adela, king them rich and powerful, by pro-Daughter of William, the Gonquerour. curing for Stephen, the Elder, a Match

with

(£) William of Malmesbury and Holinfheadthat the King went over in August of thisYear, (having sent her before in May) to be pre-sent at the Qonsuramation of this Marriage, to

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which, it is said, she had no great Inclination.

(/) According to M. Westm. this Prince was M. Westm .born in 1132. and the Year following Matilda hadanother.