William Rufus celebrated Christmas for the first time as king at London. No diploma from that occasion has preserved the names of the great men who attended, though Henry of Huntingdon mentions the names of the bishops present. His most probable source may have been a diploma for Bishop Remigius of Lincoln, now lost but accessible to Henry at Lincoln. Last of those named (apart from Remigius himself, who would not have witnessed such a diploma but must be counted as Henry's addition) was Odo, bishop of Bayeux. William Rufus had restored him to his earldom of Kent, and he is addressed as earl in one surviving writ, appointing Wido as abbot of St Augustine's abbey, Canterbury, in the closing months of 1087. A source from Canterbury tells us that Odo was present in Canterbury when Abbot Wido was installed by Archbishop Lanfranc. If the much later writer William Thorne has correctly given the date as 21 December, they may have travelled from there to London together for the king's Christmas court. After his coronation William of Malmesbury tells us that ‘for the rest of the winter’ King William ‘enjoyed peace and popularity’, though none of the national chroniclers mentions that in January or February the king, ‘surrounded by a great multitude of the great men of the palace’, travelled north to York, something that must be gathered from Stephen of Whitby's account of the founding of St Mary's abbey.