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A.D. 1135.] Stephen, Count of Blois, to whom William the Conqueror the Church, was made Abbot of Glastonbury, and subsequently gave his daughter Adela in marriage, had several sons. Two of these Henry and Stephen, had been invited to England

by the late king, who had bestowed great favour and preferment upon them. Beauclerc, cruel towards his enemies, was a firm and generous friend to those who happened to obtain his good-will. Young Henry, who had been educated for the Count of Boulogne. The connection was in the highest degree advantageous to Stephen. Immense estates in England, as well as the earldom of Boulogne, came to him in right of his wife, who moreover, possessed a hold upon the