Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

papa susceperunt. Walkerus Dunelmensi ecclesie preficitur episcopus.
Anno molxxoiio Willelmus Scotiam intrauit, cui occurrens rex Malcolmus in loco qui dicitur Aberni
thi .1 Rex Willelmus in reditu de Scottia temere per suos capellanos
de Sancto Cuthberto explorare uolens territus a Dunelmo ⁊ sub uelocitate recessit.

Anno molxxoiiio clito Edgarus cum rege Willelmo pacificatus est. Comes Waldeuus necem
aui sui Aldredi comitis, super filios Carl grauiter ulscicitur.

Anno molxxoiiiio Hiltibrandus qui ⁊ Gregorius Romanus archi2 papa est electus ⁊ consecratus iste
papa banno interdixit clericis uxores habere. Tres monachi de Euesham uenerunt id est Ald
winus, Elfwinus, Reinfridus. Ab his tribus instaurata sunt iiia monasteria, Dunelm’, Ebor’,
Witebi. Magna coniuratio contra regem Willelmum facta est.
Anno molxxovo comes Wald’ occisus est. Philippus, rex Francorum, ab obsidione Dol fugauit
regem Willelmum. Greg’ papa precepit ut nullus audiret missam presbiteri coniugati.

Anno molxxovio rex Danorum Swanus bene litteris inbutus obiit. Cui filius suus Haroldus successit.

Anno molxxoviio Rodbertus Curtehose guerram contra patrem suum mouit, auxilio Philippi regis
Franc’, eo quod Normanniam sibi coram eodem rege promiserat ⁊ non dederat.
Anno molxxoviiio nichil dignum memorie.
Anno molxxoixo rex Malcolmus Scot’ Angliam usque ad Tynam uastauit rex Will’ ⁊ fi
lius eius Will’ ante castellum Gerboreth a filio suo Rodberto uulnerati sunt, ⁊ in fugam
conuersi sunt.
Anno molxxxo Walcherus episcopus Dunelmensis occisus est. Odo Baioc’ episcopus missus a rege
Willelmo Norhimbriam uastauit. Rex Willelmus filium suum Rodbertum contra Malcolmum in
Scotiam usque ad Eagelsuret misit. Qui nullo perfecto negotio reuersus Nouum
Castellum conditit. Will’ suscepit Dunelm’ episcopatum. Henricus imperator Greg’ papa
Magontie dre\e/creuit deponendum ⁊ Wibertum Rauenensem episcopum pro eo fecit
antipapam. Ventus ualidissimus in Natale Domini.
Anno molxxxoio Henricus imperator hostiliter Romam aduersus papam adiit, oppug
nans urbem, adhuc non intrauit.
Anno molxxxoiio multis homicidiis ⁊ predationibus inter Henricum imperatorem ⁊
papam Greg’ actis, in nocte palmarum multi sunt occisi. Rex Will’ fratrem suum
Odonem Baioc’ episcopum in custodiam posuit.
Anno molxxxoiiio Henricus imperator urbem Rome infregit ⁊ cepit, ⁊ Wibertum an
tipapam int\ru/sit.3 Greg’ uero Beneuentum adiens, ibidem usque ad obitum, deguit.

Anno molxxxoiiiio Greg’ papa obiit. Rex Will’ de unaquaque hyda per Angliam vi solidos accepit.

Anno molxxxovo rex W’ iiibus capellanis suis, Mauricio Lund’, Willelmo Teodfor
densem, Rodberto Cestrensem dedit presulatum.
Anno molxxxovio rex Will’ fecit describi totam Angliam. Clito Ædgarus
cum cc militibus mare transiens Apuliam adiit, cuius soror Christiana mo4

Notes

1 DB: The erased text is attested in Fulman’s 1684 edition: homo suus deuenit. [Fulman], Rerum Anglicarum Scriptorum Veterum, p. 160. Fulman’s edition in turn is based on a mid-seventeenth-century copy of Cotton MS Faustina B IX, produced by a professional copyist (Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 208, ff. 1–66). See Broun, The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, pp. 31–2. For the erasure of this and other phrases possibly in May 1291, see Broun, The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, p. 75, n. 24.
2 DB: In the left margin, -onus is visible in another hand (the beginning of the word has been lost due to trimming). Although archidiaconus is the appropriate word here, it is not clear exactly what was written before the erasure after archi: in Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 139 (Historia Regum) f. 108r) the reading is archidia\ca/nus, with -ca- added above, probably by the same scribe who wrote archidianus originally.
3 DB: The letters ru have been written over an erasure.
4 DB: The letters mo are accidentally repeated on the beginning of the next folio.
Pope Alexander. Walcher is appointed bishop of the church of Durham.
In the 1072nd year William invaded Scotland, and Máel Coluim, coming to meet him at a placed which is called Abernethy, .1 King William, on the way back from Scotland, rashly wishing, by means of his chaplains, to investigate into St Cuthberht, withdrew from Durham, terrified and at speed.

In the 1073rd year Eadgar the ætheling made peace with King William. Earl Waldef violently avenged the death of his grandfather Earl Ealdred on the sons of Carl.

In the 1074th year Hildebrand, also known as Gregory, Roman arch,2 was elected pope and consecrated. That pope, by a formal proclamation, forbade clerics to have wives. Three monks went from Evesham—that is, Aldwin, Ælfwine, Reinfrid. 3 monasteries were restored by these three: Durham, York, and Whitby. A great conspiracy was made against King William.
In the 1075th year Earl Waldef was slain. Philip, king of the French, put King William to flight from the siege of Dol. Pope Gregory decreed that no-one should hear the mass of priest in wedlock.

In the 1076th year Svein, king of the Danes, initiated in belle-lettres, died; his son, Haraldr, succeeded him.

In the 1077th year Robert Curthose began a war against his father, with the help of Philip, king of the French, because his father, in the presence of the same king, had promised him Normandy, and had not given it.
In the 1078th year nothing worthy of memory.
In the 1079th year King Máel Coluim ravaged England as far as the Tyne. King William and his son, William, were wounded by his son Robert before Gerberoi Castle, and they turned back in flight.
In the 1080th year Walcher, bishop of Durham, was slain. Odo, bishop of Bayeux, was sent by King William to ravage Northumbria. King William sent his son Robert against Máel Coluim into Scotland, as far as Falkirk. He returned, after no business had been concluded, and founded Newcastle. William received the bishopric of Durham. At Mainz the emperor Henry pronounced Pope Gregory to be deposed, and made Wilbert, bishop of Ravenna, antipope on his behalf. The strongest gale, at Christmas.
In the 1081st year the emperor Henry went to Rome as an enemy, against the pope, storming the city, and yet he did not force his way in.
In the 1082nd year, after many killings and plunderings between the emperor Henry and Pope Gregory were committed, many were slain on the night of Palm Sunday. King William placed his brother Odo, bishop of Bayeux, in confinement.
In the 1083rd year the emperor Henry broke into the city of Rome and took it, and forced in the antipope, Guibert. Gregory, going to Benevento, stayed there up to his death.

In the 1084th year Pope Gregory died. King William took 6 shillings from each hide throughout England.

In the 1085th year King William gave prelacies to his 3 chaplains: London to Maurice, Thetford to William, Chester to Robert.
In the 1086th year King William caused the whole of England to be surveyed. Eadgar the ætheling, with 200 knights, went to Apulia, crossing the sea. His sister, Christiana,

Notes

1 DB: ‘Became his man’ has been erased (see note in the transcription).
2 DB: See note in the transcription.