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A red-haired man was hanged for theft after being condemned by a priest, a knight and a monk. -
Difficult situations leave tom and his family in misery and hunger. -
Agnes (tom's wife) dies in childbirth of tom's son. -
Tom abandons the child next to agnes' corpse in the snowy forest. -
Tom changes his mind and goes back for the baby, but the baby has disappeared. -
Tom is reunited with his son Jack and an outlaw named Ellen.
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They discover and conclude that tom's baby is in a monastery in Kingsbridge -
after a few seconds of consideration, tom decides to leave the baby at the monastery. -
Tom is frustrated at not finding work and convinces the Earl of Shiring to give him a job fixing the walls of his castle. -
Phillip (the cell leader) receives a visit from his brother, who warns him that Earl Bartholomew and Earl Gloucestershire are carrying out a plot against King Stephen. -
Philip warns Bigod about the plot against the king and they decide to travel to Kingsbridge Priory, where the former headmaster, Major James, had died a short time ago. -
Bigod promises Philip's support for his nomination as the prior's new bishop, on the condition that he then supports Bigot in his candidacy for bishop. -
Bigod unsure of the honesty of Phillip's word, goes to a noble family whose surname is Hamleigh and tells them what happened with the king, this family had differences with the Earl of Shiring, since the daughter of this one has rejected the son of the Hamleigh, and using this as an excuse they arrest the earl and get their revenge.
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As collateral damage of the Count's arrest, Tom and Ellen who are now lovers, and their children are left homeless again, after which Jack burns the Romanesque cathedral and Tom convinces Phillip to hire him to rebuild it. -
Jack often physically intimidates Alfred being the weakest of the family, this behavior generates friction between Ellen and Tom due to Jack's lack of discipline.
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Brother Regimius accuses Ellen and Tom of fornication.
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Bigod orders Ellen to live separately from Tom and she returns to the forest with Jack.
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Philippe and Bigot approached King Stephen in the hope of convincing him to cede Bartholomevv's possessions, including a huge limestone quarry, to the church so that the money could be used to build a new church. -
Philip learns from the Hamleighs that Waleran only intends to use the county to advance his position. -
Philip realizes that the Hamleighs are trying to separate him from Bigot in order to gain the county and secretly conspires with the Hamleighs.
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They agreed that Kingsbridge Priory should receive the quarry and other land and that the rest of Shiring should move to Hamleighs, but the Hamleighs betrayed the agreement and took the quarry, while Philip received the rights, not the ownership rights.