Now both bricklayers Jack and Alfred fight again. Tom befriends Prior Philip and when Ellen returns, he persuades Philip to forgive her and allow them to marry. Outraged and hating clergy, Ellen urinates on a holy book and returns to the woods with Jack. Alfred despises and harasses Jack, and a fight reveals that Ellen and Tom are not married, accusing them of fornication. Meanwhile, Tom has been building the cathedral and living with his children, Alfred and Martha, his lover Ellen, and his son Jack.
William also fights for the king, but Richard wins his favor when he defends him at the Battle of Lincoln. Aliena works to help Richard become King Stephen’s knight, fighting in the civil war against Maud.
Both swear that Richard will take back the county.
