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Philip tells the archbishop of Canterbury the story of what’s going on and he agrees with Phillip that it cannot happen but says he can’t do anything until he’s restored back in England to Canterbury

He says he and the King are in agreement on terms. Only the King won’t give him the sign of peace yet so the archbishop worries it may be a trap.

Phillip goes to talk to his bro Frances who works for the King

Chapter 18:

Phillip receives a letter from the King - he wants to make Waleran the 3rd highest ranking archbishop in the Church of England and elevate ArchDeacon Peter to be Bishop of Kingsbridge - all the monks say no way, but what can they do?

Phillip decides to go see the archbishop of Canterbury exiled in France - he is at odds with King and may be an ally

Ellen goes on to tell the story of her first husband, Jack Cherbourg and how Waleram helped to frame him for personal gain

Remigus is there to back up her story since he was in the priory back then - other monks back up the story

Archbishop Peter closes the case - Jack tell at Waleran wanting to know why he killed his father

At the trial, the presiding judge is the former Monk Peter Who Phillip had reprimanded long ago. Waleran presents his case and Phillip responds – he just took care of Jonathan because he was an orphan himself taken in to a monastery.

Ellen comes and tells the story about Tom the builder but Waller in accuses her of lying with no proof - she is enraged

Jack and Jonathan urge Ellen to come testify at Phillips trial that Jonathon is not his son

The only way to get Filipp out of trouble is for Jonathan to prove who his real father is because you can’t prove a negative (that Filipp isn’t his father)

Jack tells him he remembers finding a baby in the forest before they arrived at Kingsbridge when they saw the same baby in the Priory - his mother Ellen tells them about Tom’s original wife Agnes dying in childbirth

Waleran brings charges against Phillip that Jonathan is his illegimate son

Phillip fears that everything he is built here in Kingsbridge will come crashing down because his arch nemesis sits in judgment on him

Start Part 6 - 1170 to 1174

Kingsbridge Cathedral is complete - Kingsbridge has expanded and has suburbs now

Even William admits the cathedral is very impressive

William Hanley is made sheriff to circumvent Earl Richard

Richard kills Alfred as he’s trying to rape Aleana to avoid punishment he joins the crusades in Palestine

End of part 5

Some savage heathens attack Kingsbridge but have no leader and are easily defeated - Aliena has the idea that if Richard would lead the horde, they could go attack William and take back the earldom

A hurricane comes and destroys the village who was already suffering from a famine

Phillip tells Jack they have to lay them in off for winter early this year or they will run out of money

Towns people of Kingsbridge repel William’s attack after building the wall

William convinces WALLER to deny the annulment - Jack tries to convince Eliena to leave Kingsbridge so they can be together. She refuses to make him leave the cathedral - 2nd baby is due in 6wks or so

End of part Four 1142-1145

Part Five is 1152-1155

Jack confronts Bishop Waleran about why he hung Jack’s father - Waleran won’t admit it to Jack

William decides to attack Kingsbridge again - Richard catches wind and warns Jack & Phillip

They are going to try to build a wall from rubble & earthworks that week to deter William and his troops

Jack returns to Kingsbridge and proposes his new design. The monks oppose him claiming he’s living in adultery with Aliena because she is still technically married to Alfred.

Phillip tells him to appeal for annulment to the archbishop of Canterbury, may take a year, but he will be building the cathedral during that time

Alfred can’t consummate the marriage but Aliena is pregnant - w/ Jack’s baby - she hides it but when baby is born, looks like Jack and Alfred kicks her out of the house - she goes on journey to find Jack in France & Spain

Eventually does find him - he almost married an Arab girl in Spain, but couldn’t do it - they are reunited and head back towards Kingsbridge

Jack finds his relatives in France on way back

Aliena has to marry Alfred - Ellen helps Jack escape the monastery and he goes to see her and tries to convince her not to - they have sex and she says she can’t abort the wedding because of Richard - Jack tried to convince Alfred not to wed either, but he wants to out of spite to Jack so Jack leaves Kingsbridge

During wedding, Ellen curses them and then the wedding night is awful - Alfred is abusive already

Aliena is destitute & resolves herself to move forward and marry Alfred. Jack is heartbroken again to hear that

Aliena has a thriving wool business now

William Hanleigh attacks Kingsbridge setting fire to all the houses and Aliena‘s storehouse of Wool

Tom Builder is killed in the melee by a horse - Jack finds his body and praise over him, thanking him for giving him purpose after all

William Hanleigh pillages/ kills / rapes - kills quarry workers and tries to disrupt progress in Kingsbridge cathedral building process for Phillip

Phillip goes to Lincoln to appeal to the King for help

Hundreds of people arrive to help with the construction of the Cathedral as Bishop Henry is coming to inspect whether Philip can pull this effort off

Bishop Henry validates Tom’s work and his sketches and asks God to bless their efforts

They stop at an empty lot w/ a hole in the ground which Lori tells her was her house where she grew up and her mother before that - they go further down the road and arrive a school where all the kids are speaking French - Lori says she won't tell her what to do again besides she is going to this school and is going to learn about their family

Lori & Shawn have a baby girl and live in Boston - they divorce and Evangeline likes her dad's house better (nicer)

Lori & Evangeline fight about speaking English vs French (Evangeline doesnt want to speak French anymore). Eventually, Lori packs up their stuff and they head back to Maine - to Waterville and she notices all the trees are short and young.

Rita shows up at Babs - Babs is sitting there w/ a shotgun waiting on the gang to come try to kill her as fire approaches - she shows Rita she has rigged dynamite on a deadman's switch in the house too

Babs apologizes for being like she is, Rita apologizes for not saving her from Sacha and setting their lives on different path (but she doesn't tell about Sis) - they hear a noise in basement and get their guns ready

Philip goes with Waleran to see King Stephen about money for the church building - there is thought he will give them Barthomew’s earldom land to help finance it, but then he tells them he may have promised it to the Hamleigh’s already - will potentially reconsider and let them know

Babs is trying to raise money for French school - St John’s and some lady accuses her of having white privilege and why does she need any money - Babs explains her past and the persecution as a French person and says “whatever sins go along with being white, don’t pin them on me - I’ve been running from white people my whole life, like most everyone on the planet.”

Tom engaged to rebuild the cathedral - told Philip he could do it in 2wks