1210 Twenty Irish princes do homage to John at Dublin. The clergy taxed to the amount of £100,000.
1211 England absolved by the Pope from its allegiance to John.
1212 Great part of London burnt down by a fire which began in Southwark in Middlesex, and consumed the Church of St. Mary Overy, went on to the bridge; and whilst some were quenching the flames, the houses at the other end took fire, so that numbers were inclosed; many were forced to leap into the Thames, whilst others, crowding into boats that came to their relief, were the cause of nearly 3,000 people perishing, partly by water, and partly by fire.
1213 John resigned his dominions to the Pope, and was absolved. In this reign, sterling money was first coined.
1216 Wheat was sold for twelve-pence a quarter, and beans and oats for four-pence a quarter.
1222 The ward-ship of heirs and their lands was granted to king Henry.
1226 The Pope demanded a sum annually from every cathedral church and monastery in Christendom. This demand was refused. Thomas à Becket’s bones were enshrined in gold and precious stones. Two imposters executed, the one for pretending to be the Virgin Mary, the other Mary Magdalen.
1228 The Jews obliged to pay a third part of their property to the king.
1236 Water first conveyed to London with utility. The Pope’s ambassador going to Oxford, was set upon by the students, and his brother slain, himself hardly escaping; whereupon the Pope excommunicated the University, and made all the bishops who interceded in the University’s behalf, and the students, go without their gowns, and barefooted from St. Paul’s church to his house, being about a mile, before he would revoke the sentence.
1246 Titles first used.