| 1135 | SAMSON born at Tottington, near Thetford. | |
| 1144 | Samson taken by his mother on a pilgrimage to St. Edmund. | p. 56. |
| 1146 | Death of Anselm: buried in Infirmary Chapel. | |
| 1146 | Ording, Prior of St. Edmund, appointed 8th abbot. | |
| 1150 | Fire, which destroys the conventual buildings—Abbot’s palace, refectory, dormitory, the old infirmary, and the chapter-house. Rebuilt by Helyas the sacrist, Ording’s nephew. | p. 247. |
| 1150 | (circa). Galfridus de Fontibus writes the tract De Infantia Sancti Eadmundi, dedicated to Ording. | p. 218. |
| 1153 | Eustace, eldest son of King Stephen, plunders some of the lands of the monastery. Dies at Bury. | |
| 1156 | Jan. 31. Death of Ording: buried in chapter-house. | p. 247. |
| 1156 | Hugh, Prior of Westminster, elected 9th abbot. Receives benediction at Colchester from Archbishop of Canterbury. | |
| 1157 | Battle of Coleshill: Cowardice of Henry of Essex. | pp. 103, 243. |
| 1160 | (circa). Samson returns from Paris, and made magister scholarum or schoolmaster. | p. 66. |
| 1160 | (circa). Samson’s visit to Rome. | pp. 72, 236. |
| 1161 | Jan. 12. Bull of Alexander II, confirming the Abbot and monks of Bury in all their rights and privileges, authorizing appropriation of certain manors to special purposes, etc. Future abbots to be freely elected. In important matters there is to be an appeal to the Holy See. (Text in Arnold III. 78-80.) | |
| 1161 | May 22. Brief obtained from Pope Alexander III, confirming the right of the Abbey to the revenues of Woolpit. | p. 74. |
| 1163 | Abbot Hugh at the Council of Tours, where he usurps the seat of the Abbot of St. Albans. | |
| 1163 | Wager of battle between Henry of Essex and Robert de Montfort at Reading. | pp. 104-5. |
| 1166 | Samson takes monastic orders. | p. 60. |
| 1172 | Apr. 7. Bull of Pope Alexander III, dated at Tusculum, exempting the Abbey from the visitation of the Archbishop of the Province as legatus natus of the apostolic see (Cf. Rokewode, p. 107). | p. 7. |
| 1173 | Jocelin of Brakelond becomes Monk of St. Edmund. | p. 1. |
| 1173 | Hugh the Prior deposed: succeeded by Robert. | p. 1. |
| 1173 | October 17. Battle of Fornham. | pp. 1, 86, 221. |
| 1175 | (circa). Samson master of the novices. | p. 6. |
| 1180 | (ante). Samson compiles the work De Miraculis Sancti Eadmundi. (See Appendix I.) | pp. 215-21. |
| 1180 | Sept. 9. Abbot Hugh’s accident near Rochester. | p. 10. |
| 1180 | Nov. 15. Death of Abbot Hugh I. | pp. 10, 225. |
| 1180-2 | Samson subsacrist and master of the workmen. Rebuilds choir of Abbey Church, and makes preparations for building the great tower. | p. 14. |
| 1181 | June 10. Martyrdom of the boy Robert by the Jews. | p. 23. |
| 1181 | Aug. 9. Arrival at Abbey of Archbishop of Trontheim on a visit. | p. 23. |
| 1182 | Feb. 21. Appointment of Samson as Abbot at Bishop’s Waltham, with Henry II’s approval. | p. 31. |
| 1182 | Feb. 28. Samson receives the blessing of the Bishop of Winchester, at Merewell. | p. 36. |
| 1182 | Mar. 21. (Palm Sunday). Samson is solemnly received at St. Edmunds. | p. 37. |
| 1182 | Mar. 29. Samson calls a meeting of the convent, the Knights and certain burgesses as to the election of bailiffs. | p. 109. |
| 1182 | Mar. 31. Samson sends messengers to Rome for confirmation of the Abbey’s privileges. | p. 84. |
| 1182 | Apr. 1. Barons, Knights and freemen summoned to do homage. | p. 41. |
| 1182 | Samson appointed a judge in the ecclesiastical courts, by Pope Lucius III. | p. 51. |
| 1182 | Contests as to town rights and dues. | p. 108. |
| 1183 | Samson restores the Church of Woolpit to the monastery. | p. 72. |
| 1184-5 | Samson founds St. Saviour’s Hospital, at Babwell. | p. 69. |
| 1186 | Kalendar or general survey of Abbey estates completed. | pp. 44-5. |
| 1187 | Victory over Archbishop Baldwin as to jurisdiction in case of homicide at Monks Eleigh. | p. 76. |
| 1187 | Jan. 21. Samson obtains from Pope Urban III the privilege of giving the episcopal benediction. | p. 84. |
| 1187 | Feb. 11. Dispute as to jurisdiction, between Samson and the Monks of Canterbury, brought before Henry II in chapter-house at Canterbury. | pp. 77, 238. |
| 1187 | Sept. 29. Loss of Jerusalem: Samson’s grief. | p. 60. |
| 1187 | Samson waits upon Henry II at Clarendon, to obtain a recognition of the immunity of the Abbey from certain taxes. | p. 96. |
| 1188 | Jan. 20. General exemption granted by the Pope to Samson and his successors from the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury. | p. 84. |
| 1188 | Jan. 21. Henry II takes the Cross between Trie and Gisors. | p. 80. |
| 1188 | Feb. Henry II at Bury. Samson refused permission to accompany the King to the Crusades. | p. 81. |
| 1189 | Sept. 3. Richard I crowned at Westminster; Abbot Samson present. | |
| 1189 | Sept. Purchase of the manor of Mildenhall from Richard I. | p. 70. |
| 1189 | Nov. Samson appointed one of the arbitrators to settle the dispute between Archbishop Baldwin and the Monks of Christ Church at Canterbury. | |
| 1190 | March 18. Massacre of 57 Jews at Bury. | p. 69. |
| 1190 | Oct. Conflict as to monastic discipline, at the Council of Westminster, between Samson and the Bishop of Ely. | p. 81. |
| 1191 | Death of Robert of Cockfield. | pp. 86, 255. |
| 1191 | Samson’s quarrel with William Longchamp, Bishop of Ely. | p. 79. |
| 1191 | Sept.-Oct. Excommunication of Longchamp, and his flight from England. | pp. 79, 240. |
| 1192 | Complaints of the monks to the abbot concerning the Abbey revenues. | p. 114. |
| 1193 | Return of Longchamp. Samson refuses to celebrate Mass before him. | p. 80. |
| 1193 | Collection of money for the ransom of King Richard. | pp. 71, 234. |
| 1193 | Samson excommunicates the disturbers of the peace, and appears in arms before Windsor. | p. 82. |
| 1193 | Samson visits Richard I in his German prison “with many gifts.” | p. 82. |
| 1194 | Feb. 4. King Richard released from captivity. | |
| 1194 | Mch. 12. Lands at Sandwich after an absence of 4¼ years; pays, before the end of the month, thanksgiving visits to (1) Canterbury (2) St. Edmundsbury. | |
| 1194 | June 28. Samson’s contest with turbulent young knights, who hold a Tournament without his authorization. | p. 83. |
| 1194 | Samson grants a Charter to the town. | pp. 116, 244. |
| 1194 | Abbey debts entirely discharged. | p. 46. |
| 1196 | Samson’s contest with his fifty knights concerning their dues: the abbot victorious. | pp. 97-9. |
| 1196 | Samson takes the cellarer’s department into his own hands. | p. 131 et seq. |
| 1197 | Commission of Pope Celestine III for the restoration of the Monks of Coventry. | pp. 142, 246. |
| 1198 | Jan. 14. Samson at Coventry in high spirits. | p. 143. |
| 1198 | Jan. 18. Coventry Monks re-inducted by the Archbishop. | p. 143. |
| 1198 | Samson charges moiety of Wetherden in favour of schools at Bury. | p. 144. |
| 1198 | (circa). Archbishop Hubert Walter proposes to visit the Abbey of Bury. | p. 122. |
| 1198 | Dispute between King Richard and Samson as to the wardship of Nesta of Cockfield. | pp. 147-9. |
| 1198 | Samson goes to Normandy to settle with King Richard as to the four knights demanded from the Abbey for the war against the King of France. | p. 129. |
| 1198 | July 18. Richard I confirms by Charters the Manor of Mildenhall to the Abbey. | pp. 70-2, 235. |
| 1198 | Oct. 17. Fire in the Abbey: shrine of St. Edmund in danger. | p. 162. |
| 1198 | Nov. 23. Shrine transferred to high altar. | p. 170. |
| 1198 | Nov. 26. Samson views St. Edmund’s body. | p. 173. |
| 1198 | Dec. 1. Letter of Pope Innocent III exempting the Abbey from the visitation even of a legate, unless he were a legate a latere. | pp. 124, 245. |
| 1199 | Reconciliation between Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Samson. | p. 127. |
| 1199 | April 6. Death of King Richard I. | |
| 1199 | May 27. King John crowned at Westminster. | p. 178. |
| 1199 | King John visits Bury. | p. 178. |
| 1199 | Violent quarrels between Samson and his monks: he withdraws from the Abbey for a week: reconciliation effected. | pp. 179-83. |
| 1200 | Mar. 15. Ratification by King John of Charter granted by Samson to St. Saviour’s Hospital at Babwell. | p. 72. |
| 1200 | Nov. 6. Samson one of three arbitrators in dispute between Archbp. of Canterbury and Canons of Lambeth. | p. 229. |
| 1200 | List drawn up of knights of St. Edmund. | pp. 183-6. |
| 1200 | Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, visits Bury. | p. 189. |
| 1200 | Death of Prior Robert: Herbert succeeds him. | p. 191. |
| 1201 | Eustace, Abbot of Flay, preaches at Bury. | p. 202. |
| 1201 | Sept. Samson appointed one of three Commissioners sent by the Pope to Worcester to investigate the miracles of St. Wulfstan. | |
| 1202 | Dispute between the monks of Ely and of Bury concerning the market at Lakenheath. | pp. 203, 253. |
| 1202 | Hugh of Northwold (afterwards abbot) admitted a monk. | |
| 1203 | Jan. 31. Samson appointed by the Pope on a commission concerning the dispensation of Crusaders from their vows: and summoned over sea to advise the King on this question. | pp. 207-11. |
| 1203 | Dec. 21. John at Bury, and makes valuable offerings: but prevails on convent to grant him for life the use of the jewels which his mother Queen Eleanor had presented to St. Edmund. | p. 251. |
| 1208 | Mar. 24. Interdict comes into force throughout England. | |
| 1210 | Sept. 23. Fall of central tower of Abbey Church. | |
| 1211 | Dec. 30. Death of Samson: buried in unconsecrated ground. | p. xl. |
| 1213 | July. King John expresses a wish for the vacancy to be filled: Hugh (II) of Northwold chosen. | |
| 1214 | July 2. Interdict solemnly dissolved. | |
| 1214 | Aug. 12. Samson’s body exhumed and buried in the chapter-house of Bury Abbey. | pp. xlii., 247. |