Note 38 — KING STEPHEN’S ATTACK ON THE BISHOPS (1139).
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On the other hand, the author of Gesta Stephani states: “The king ordered that the two bishops should be separately confined in foul places and tortured with sharp fasting, and that the chancellor, son of the bishop of Salisbury, now seized and thrown into chains, should be hanged in front of the castle gate, unless the bishop of Ely should surrender the castle and admit the king’s force.”