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A COPY OF THE OTHER TABLET HANGING AT THE MIDDLE COLUMN AT THE SAME
PLACE, BETWEEN THE SAID TOMB OF THE SAID DUKE AND THE TOMB OF SAINT
ROGER LATELY BISHOP OF LONDON.

[Sidenote: The Invention of the image of the Crucifix.]

In the year of our Lord cxl, the Invention of the image of the
Crucifix, at the northern door of saint Paul, London, in the great
river of Thames, by Lucius the first Christian king of England. In
the year of our Lord one thousand lxxxvij, on the seventh day of the
[Sidenote: The church of St. Paul burnt.]
month of July. The church of St. Paul, London, and all things which
were in it, with great part of the city, were consumed by fire; in the
time of Maurice bishop of London, and in the reign of the first king
of the Normans, William the Conqueror who founded the Monasteries of
Battle in Sussex, where himself had fought, and Bermondsey near
London. In the year of our Lord one thousand cxxxij, the ides of
[Sidenote: Most part of London burnt.]
April, the city of London was burnt in chief part, from the fire of
Gilbert Beget. In the year of our Lord one thousand cxxxvij the church
[Sidenote: The church of Paul again burnt.]
of saint Paul, London, was burnt by a fire kindled at London bridge,
and which advanced thence to the church without the bars of the new
temple, London. In the year one thousand cl, so strong was the ice,
that the Thames could be crossed over by people on horseback. In the
[Sidenote: The iiij^{th} year of king John.]
year one thousand ccij such great rains, thunder and hail fell, that
quadrangular stones, to the bigness of eggs descended from the sky
mixt with rain; by which trees, vines, and cornfields were much
destroyed; men were bruised, and birds flying through the air seemed
[Sidenote: The same year.]
to bear lighted coals in their beaks, and to set the houses on fire.
[Sidenote: The vj^{th} year of king John.]
In the year of our Lord one thousand cciiij, began the order of
preaching freres in the parts of Tholouse under their founder Dominic.
[Sidenote: The same year.]
The same year a most bitter winter endured from the circumcision of
[Sidenote: In the vij^{th} year of K. H. iij^{rd}.]
our Lord until the annunciation. In the year of our Lord one thousand
ccxiiij, St. Francis began the order of minor freres near Assise. And
in the year one thousand ccxxiiij, they first came into England, two
[Sidenote: In the v^{th} year of K. H. the third.]
years before the dece