the Highest Attempts the most Audacious Dangerous Conspiracies and Treasonable Vsurpations ever formerly made not only upon the just antient Rights Priviledges Prerogatives of the Crown but also upon this King and his Kingdoms of England and Ireland themselves occasioned by the Treacheries Rebellions of some of his disloyal Popish Prelates at home instigating the Barons to take up Arms against Him and by the Unchristian Practises Tyranny of Pope Innocent the III. combining with those perfidious Bishops who perswaded him to Interdict the whole Kingdom Excommunicate King John himself for sundry years and at last to deprive him of his Crown Kingdomes and give them to the King of France yea injoyning exciting him and other foreign Enemies to raise puissant forces by Land and Sea to deprive him and his Posterity of the Crown and Realms of England and Ireland by open force The Clashes betwixt the Papal Crosier and Royal Scepter during his reign arising from small beginnings and the contests between Him Stephen Langeton Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops Barons confederating with him farre exceeding those of King Henry the I. and II. with Archbishop Aâ—selm and Becket his trayterous predecessors canonized for their Treasons and producing the saddâ—st Tragedies ever acted in any Age on the Theatre of our other Little World Which though resolutely and gallantly resisted encountred by King John with great Regal Magnanimity Courage Pâ—udence and good success for sundry years at first yet at last through the Terrours of the Popes long-continued Interdicts Excommunications Abjudication of him from his Crown Kingdoms the formidable Forces of his Foreign Enemies ready to invade seise upon Him and them the Treachery of many of his own Bishops Clergy Nobility Subjects all absolved from their Allegiance to him by this nocent Pope Innocent on whose cordial assistance he could not safely rely but principally through the panniâ—k Fears Terrours wrought in his mind by the prophecies of Peter the Hermit forged Letters and the uncessant intoxicating Sollicitations of Pandulpbus the Popes Legate representing all these Dangers to his sad melancholly Thoughts in their blackest colours perswading him there was no other possible means left to preserve his Life Crown Kingdoms ward off the impendent Dangers disperse the Tempestuous Clouds then hanging over him or to save his Immortal Soul but by making his peace with God and taking Sanctuary in Pope Innocents bosom by casting Himself down at his Papal feet and resigning his Crown Kingdoms of England and Ireland into his hands to protect dispose of as his Own was thereupon in conclusion though with much reluctancy induced to resigne them by a detestable Charter into this Popes Legates hands to his use to become the Popes feudatory under an Annual Rent yea to do Homage swear Fealty to him and his successors as their Vassal to his perpetual Infamy as likewise to part with other Chief Flowers of his Royal Ecclesiastical Prerogative and Jurisdiction over his perfidious Usurping Popish Bishops to his own and his Successors grand prejudice Which encouraged succeeding Popes Prelates upon every oportunity to make many new successive dangerous bold Incroachments upon the Prerogatives Rights Priviledges of our Kings their Subjects Liberties Properties to their Intollerable Grievance till at last they were necessitated by degrees to shake off their unsupportable Papal yoaks and Usurpations I shall begin with some Histories and Records in the first Year of King Johns Reign evidencing the Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction both claimed and exercised by him in and over all Persons Causes within his Realms with his vigilant care industry to preserve the same against Foreign Papal Domestick Episcopal and Monastical Usurpations upon several emergent occasions proceeding in a Chronological Method except only where the Series of the History to make it compleat and more intelligible or some other just occasion shall necessitate me to resort to Subsequent Years and Records before their just order of Time BOOK III. CHAP. I. Conteining Evidences of King Johns Supream Jurisdiction over all Bishops Religious and Ecclesiastical Persons Causes Bishopricks Monasteries Tithes Advousons in granting Licenses to elect and to approve or reject Bishops Abbots when elected examining the Jurisdictions of all Ecclesiastical Courts Imprisoning Banishing Bishops Clergy-men seizing their Bishopricks Spiritualties Confiscating their Goods Benefices for their Contempts and Obedience to the Popes Interdicts and unjust Commands with other particulars and his strenuous vigilant defence of the Rights of his Crown against Provisions and other Papal and Prelatical Usurpations in England and Ireland till the 15. year of his Reign IT is very observable that King John at his Coronation in Westminster Abby June 9. Anno Dom. 1199. was sworn in the first place by Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury as Matthew Paris and others relate Quod sanctam Ecclesiam ejus ordinatos diligeret eam ob incursione malignatium INDEMNEM CONSERVARET Dignitates illius bonafide et sine malo ingenio SERVABIT ILLAESAS as Roger Hoveden expresseth it This Archbishop with all the Bishops Abbots Nobles present at and consenting to this Oath and doing Homage and Fealty to him thereby declared him to be Supream Governour Patron Protector and Head on Earth of the Church of England as well in Ecclesiastical as Temporal affairs else this Oath had been Nugatory The 13. of June following he was solemnly divorced in Normandy in the presence of 3. of his Norman Bishops from the Duke of Gloucesters daughter Unde magnam Summi Pontificis Innocentii tertii Curiae Romanae indignationem incurrit praesumens temere contra Leges Canones dissolvere quod eorum suerat Auctoritate Colligatum as Radulfus de Diceto informs us But he no more valuing their Indignation then he did their Canons and Laws soon after married Isabel sole daughter and heir of the Earl of Engolesme who was crowned Queen Octob. 8. by Archbishop Hubert this Pope and Cardinals not daring to question or null his marriage Immediately after Pope Innocent the 3d. sent his Legate to King John desiring him to release Philip Bishop of Bâ—lvoire taken Prisoner by King Richard the first in the Field and kept Prisoner by him all his life notwithstanding this and other Popes importunate Letters for his enlargement VNDER PAIN OF AN INTERDICT who had-then by the space of two years been detained under most cruel Imprisonment some months in his very Armes in which he was taken fighting not suffered to be put off day or night But because the said Bishop was taken in Armes as a Souldier and Plunderer against the Dignity of his Order the King notwithstanding this Popes intreaties and menaces would not enlarge him untill he had paid 6000. marks of sterling money to his Exchequer and 2000. marks for his expences during his Imprisonment under King Richard and himself which he accordingly paid And till he had also taken an Oath before the Cardinals and other Bishops never thereafter to bear Armes during his life
Bracton de legibus Consuetudinibus Angl. l. 5. c. 13. p. 409. 410 Bracton l. 5. c. 14. f. 417. * And doth not the same Law and reason hold in all Ecclesiastieal Courts Consistories Visitations Synods which ought to be derived only from the King as Supream head and Governour of the Church as well as Realm of England See 1 E. 2. c. 2. 1 Eliz. c. 1. * If one Justice cannot substitute another nor one Proctor another how can one Ecclesiastical Judge delegate and subdelegate another Bracton l. 5. c. 15. fol. 412. Bracton de legibus Angliae l. 5. c. 16. Mat. Paris Hist p. 913. Abbates Ordinis Cisterciensis convocantur Regio Edicto Mat. Paris Hist p 921. Praelati Angliae promittunt Regi conditionaliter magnam pecuniae summam Mat Paris Hist Angl p 920. Archiepiscopus Cant. convocat Praelatos suae Provinciae Claus 4 H. 3. m. 6. dorso â— De convocatione revocanda Additamenta Matthaei Paris p. 199 200 201 c. * See here p. 336 337. * Here p. 699 704 705 706. * Their Excommunications were so unjust illegal execrable frequent that all these abhorred and slighted them * Notâ— * It was only their filthy lucre and usurpation under this pretext * Nota. * Their injustice illegality and frequency made them contemptible * See here p. 829 830. * They their Tenants only must be exempt and all others burdened with Taxes * nituntur * morè * Constitutiones legitimae Ecclesiae totiusque Regionis Angl. printed Parisiis 1504. f. 138. * Pag. 204. 205 206 207 208 209. * Matthaei Parisiensis Additamenta p. 204. 205. c. * A fine Episcopal combination one and all against the King * Constitutiones legitimae Ecclesiae totiusque Regionis Anglicanae Parisiis 1504. f. 138 139 140. * It was in neither but An. 1257. Provincialis Guillermi Lindewode l. 5. de poenis Bonifacius f. 226. 227. c. * Why not rather of Gods people under the Popes and their Prelatical Tyranny oppressions usurpations excommunications Interdicts * A right Antichristian Canon directly contrary to Christs and his Apostles examples predictions precepts Mat. 10. 18 19. c. 27. throughout John c 18. and 19. Mar. 7 9 11. c. 12. 11. Rom. 13. 1. to 8. Titus 3. 3 2. 1 Pet. 2. 12 to 24. Acts 4. 1 to 24. c. 5. 17. to 42. c. 12. 2. to 7. c. 22 to ch 28. * Nota. * Nota. * Nota. * Nota. * Nota. * supponat * Provincialis Guillernd Lindewode l. 3. Tit. de Jâ—re Pationatus f. 15. Provincialis Guil Lindewode l. 5. de paenes f. 229. * In Regnoâ—ngliae Mat. Paris Addit Provincialis â— Guil. Lindewode l. 5. de praesenti excommunicatione f. 252. * Their excommunications were so unjâ—st vâ—xatious illegal that the King and his Officeâ—s could not â—xecute them without peril â—o their souls and great injustice * Excellent Justice to inâ—câ—dâ—ct whoâ—e innocent 〈◊〉 Câ—stâ—â—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ct 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—â— gâ—ant a 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 at 〈◊〉 â—aâ—â—◠〈◊〉 e. Pâ—â—vâ—ncialis Gâ—â—l Lindewodâ— â—ol 67. * â—eprehensi â—â—t Paris Addit * Fornaburtur Forbanniuntur Mat. Paris * This in the Parenthesis is not in Mat. Paris and relates to a Council at Oâ—on as if this Council of Boniface was there â—â—â—ld not at Westminster * Guil. Linde wode l. 5. Tit. de Privilegiis f. 235. * Guil Linde wode l. 5. Tit. de Poenis f. 231. * Guil Linde wode l. 5. Tit. de Furtis * Nota. * The King must be admonished his Castles Cities Towns Vilages interdicted and his Subjects Officers Excommunicated with a Major Excommunication for issuing or bringing Prohibitions to relieve their Subjects against Bishops and their Courts Encroachments * interdictuÌ„ Provincial Guil. Lindewode l. 3. de immunitate Ecclesiam f. 184. Provincialis Guil. Lindewode l. 3. de immunitate Ecclesiae f. 186. * Goods taken from Clergy-men â—y the Kings Pâ—â—vâ—yors must be sacrilâ—ge Additamenta p. 207 â— Here p. 609 704 705 706 707. Provincialis Gâ—â— Lindewode l. 3. De immunitate Ecclesiae â— 187. * Nota. * Nota. * The Judges must be Excommunicated and Interdicted if they reverse not their Temporal Judgements according to Law in the Kings Courts conform them to the Bishops interpretation and humours Provincialis Guil. Lindewode l. 5. De Poenitentiis Remissionibus f. 236. Provincialis Guil. Lindewode l. 3. De Testamentis f. 125. * They make Statutes as well as Canons as if they were a Parliament Provincialis Guil. Lindewode l. 3. De Procurationibus Consiliis f. 160. Provincialis Guil. Lindewode f. 253. * Christ had no shaven Crown how then can it be his stigma Provincialis Guil. Lindewode f. 231. * Christ and his Apostles had no such prisons imprisoned none but were imprisoned themselves by Temporal Magistrates Kings Mat. 11. 3. c. 14. 9 10. c. 25. 35. Luke 3. 12. c. 21. 12. Acts 5. 18. c. 8. 3. c. 12. 4 5. c. 16. 23 24. c. 23. 18. c. 28. 17. John 3. 1. c. 4. 1. Phil. 1. 9. 1 Cor. 11. 23. Rev. 2. 10. How then can Bishops claim them †A tempore Excommunicationis Mat. Paris Addit * providerunt Mat. Par. Addit * Mistaken for 1257. * Mistaken for 41. * Here p. 890. * See here p. 740 to 748 751 752 762 788 789 790 793 842. a Claus 7 E. 1 m. 1. dorso See Ryleys Appendix p. 442. Revocationes Provisionum Concilii Radyng b Johannes de Aton Constit f. 131. c Provincialis Guil. Lindewode l. 5. De sententia Excommunicationis f. 254. Claus 41 H. 3. â— 6. dors Pro Episcopo Dunelm Ibidem Pro Rege Pat. 41 H. 3. m. 11. dors Pat. 41 H. 3. m. 13. intus in Cedula De negotio Crucis Decimae Pat. 41 H. 3. m. 5. intus De Thesauro custodiendo apud Novum Templum London Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 913. Rex non accep tavit electum Elyensem Pat. 41 H. 3. m. 6. Cedula dors ejusdem Ibidem Ibidem Pat. 41 H 3. Dors Cedulae 16. Pat. 49 H. 3. m. 9. dors Litera directa Papae de negotio Apull Ibidem Ibidem Ibidem Ibidem Ibidem Ibidem * He reckoned therein before his Hoste Pat. 41 H. 3. in Cedula Litera directa Com. Leic. P. de Sabaud Pat. 41 H. 3. m 6. intus Pat. 41 H. 3 m. 13. dors Pat. 41 H. 3. m. 6. Cedula De Magistro Rustando Pat. 41 H. 3. m. 6. Cedula De negotio Crucis Pat. 41 H 3. m. 6. in Cedula Nota. â— Mat. Paris Hist p. 917. Magnum Parliamentum Mat. Paris Hist p. 918. Summa inutilium expensarum Regis Claus 40 H. 3. m. 12. dorso Claus 40 H. 3. m. 14. dors * See here p. 336. 337 338. Nota. Claus 40 H. 3. m. 14. dorso Mat. Paris Hist p. 907 906. Subprior Elyensis eligatur in Episc See Godwins Catalogue of Bishops p. 209 210. Mat. Paris Hist
Idolatry Heresie of Pagans the Collyridian hereticks Together with their pretended Doctrine Miracle of Transubstantiation the Great Dianaes of the Pontificians now most insisted on to reduce them from their Romish Idolatry Superstition Errors and keep unstable Protestants from apostatizing to them in this and succeeding ages by the seducements of their superabounding active Emissaries This Tome as those intended to succeed it principally consists of memorable Records preserved in the Tower of London not formerly published intermixed with observable Historical passages pertinent to my Theam taken for the most part out of our best antientest Historians of the Roman Religion writing in or nearest the reigns of K. John and Henry the 3d which I have printed at large in their proper Dialects as most authentick the better to communicate them to forreign Nations and prevent all Cavills of Pontifician or other Criticks against their translations with some usefull Observations on Deductions from them for the Readers information or Romanists refutation if not conviction all which I hope are so genuine solid impartial that no carping Zoilus nor Advocate for Popes or the Court of Rome shall be justly able to quarrell with much lesse to refute or contradict them All the Records herein transcribed were perused with my own eyes and carefully examined re-examined by the Originals which are of so venerable irrefragable authority being carefully enrolled in the respective years they bear date by sworn Clerks without any rasure alteration diminution and so remaining till this present that no person by our Common Lawes may or ought to averr against them By their Verdict I have here not only corrected some mistakes ratified illustrated sundry obscure dubious passages in our Historians Chronologers and King Johns printed Charter but also supplyed many observable defects omitted or pretermitted Bulls Letters Patents Writs Records Transactions relating to the Ecclesiastical Supremacy of our Kings the Church-affairs Archbishops Bishops Clergy Lawes Customs Spiritual Temporal Courts Jurisdictions proceedings in England and Ireland not extant in nor remembred by any Histories or Law-books whatsoever not unworthy the knowledge if not of his Sacred Majesty yet of the greatest learnedest Counsellers Officers of State Prelates Divines Judges Professors of the Common or Canon Lawes the studious Nobility Gentry whether Protestants or Pontificians of both these Kingdoms from whose publike if not private view they have hitherto been concealed If these my crude Historical Collections which I had neither sufficient time nor leisure to digest polish according to the dignity of the subject matter shall through the Almighties blessing on and Your Lordships favourable Acceptation of them produce any Glory to God any honour advantage to our Reformed Protestant Religion Churches Realms any satisfactory Vindication of His Majesties or His Royal Predecessors Soveraign Ecclesiastical Civil just antient Rights Prerogatives against the injurious claimes pretences of Vsurping Romish Popes or Prelates any reformation of revived old Ecclesiastical Vsurpations Excommunications Vexations Corruptions Exactions Extravagances redressed suppressed by these and our other Kings Writs Prohibitions even in times of Popery any conviction conversion reduction of seduced Pontificians or Romish Proselytes to due obedience to his Majesty and the bosom of our Church by discovering to them the manifold unchristian if not Antichristian Practises Corruptions Vices Frauds Errors Exorbitances of Popes the Visible Heads Popish Cardinals Legates Nuncioes Prelates the chief pillars hinges of the Roman Church and the manifold just occasions given by them to our Kings Kingdoms to renounce all dependance on all communion with them Or if they shall contribute any increase of knowledge or other benefit to the honourable Profession and Professors of the Law whereof Your Lordship under his Majesty is and long may you still continue in all splendor and felicity to be the most eminent Patron as well as Member all which particulars were the chief ends aimed at in this Vndertaking I shall then repute my extraordinary expense paines therein sufficiently remunerated and be thereby encouraged with greater vigor and all possible expedition through Gods gracious assistance to compleat the anteceding and succeeding Tomes of this Chronological Vindication Which if God shall vouchsafe me life health oportunity to finish I hope I may crave leave to sue forth my Quietus est from any future labours of this nature because it will then be high time for me only to prepare for another world conclude with Paul the aged I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Hence forth there is layd up for me a Crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also who love his appearing Which Crown of Righteousness that this Soveraign Lord of Lords and King of Kings may most graciously bestow upon Your Lordship in Heaven after You have long served honoured both HIM His MAJESTY His Realms Churches in your Generation upon earth shall be the daily prayer of Your Lordships most Humble Devoted Obliged Servant WILLIAM PRYNNE From my Study in Licolns Inne May 29. 1665. the most joyfull day Festival of his Majesties Birth and Restitution to his Royal Throne at Whitehall To the Candid and Ingenuous Readers especially Professors or Students of the Common Laws in England and Ireland Kinde Readers I Here present to your View and Censure The Second Tome of An Exact CHRONOLOGICAL VINDICATION and HISTORICAL DEMONSTRATION of our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman and English KINGS SUPREAM ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION over all Prelates Persons Causes within their Kingdomes and Dominions c. A Subject heretofore cursorily handled debated by Sir Edward Cooke in the First Part of his Fifth Reports Of the Kings Ecclesiastical Law by Sir John Davis in his Irish Reports The Case of Praemunire by Sir Christopher Sybthorp Knight one of His Majesties Iustices of the Court of Chief Place in Ireland in his Friendly Advertisement to the pretended Catholicks of Ireland Dublin 1621. Part 1. Concerning the Kings Supremacy and the Oath in that behalf to be taken and of late by my learned Friend Sir Roger Twisden in his elaborate acute Vindication of the Church of England in point of Schism as it stands separate from the Church of Rome and was reformed 1 Elizabethae London 1663. But never yet Chronologically and Historically Vindicated Demonstrated by any Lawyers Antiquaries Historians Chronologers or Divines in such ample manner as the Dignity of the subject matter demerits or as some learned French and German Lawyers Antiquaries Writers have Vindicated the Soveraign Ecclesiastical Prerogatives Rights Liberties of the Kings Emperors Churches of France and Germany in large Folio and Quarto Volumes when as our Histories Annals Records afford us more copious Presidents more numerous eminent Monuments of this kinde then France
are inserted out of their due Chronological series or years to which they relate If they consider that this was occasioned either by the continued series of the History to which they relate hapning in divers years which could not well be dis-joyned without greater inconveniences or to unite some Records or Stories of the same kind together illustrating or ratifying each other though different in time or else by casualty or oversight at the Press and withall if they observe how the distinct years rolls of every Record and of most Historians are truly cited quoted in the Text or Margin I hope it will be reputed no Solecism nor just ground of complaint Perhaps some other curious Perusers of this Work may charge me with Tautologie or surplusage for inserting several Letters Procurations of our Kings to Popes Cardinals and Proctors sent to Rome or several Patents and Prohibitions to distinct persons Courts running almost in the same words But I hope the rarity and novelty of them never formerly published in print their confirmation and explanation of each other especially in cases of Prohibitions and the matters conteined in them not mentioned in Story together with my care to avoid the censure of omitting or concealing any records of this nature wherewith others might upbraid me And the constant Practise of the Clergy Popes Prelates Church and Laicks of Rome most likely to pick quarrels with me in repeating sundry dozens scores if not hundreds of Pater-Nosters together on their Beads though that prayer was purposely instituted by Christ himself to avoid and condemn all such repetitions and likewise Reiterations of Ave-Maries of the name of Jesus and other Petitions ejaculations in their Primers Letanies Missals Jesus Psalters Breviaries Offices Howers of the Virgin Mary Manuals of Prayers and other their Bookes of publike and private Devotion will at least acquit if not justifie me against this exception That which I deem some polite dainty Readers will most censure me for is want of Elegant lofty eloquent language embellishments and transitions But this defect my declining age want of competent time to review polish every passage together with the gravity variety of the subject matter the usual Vulgar stile of most of our Records and Law-books will apologize for this defect A plain English Garbe modest natural beauty bush being in Gods and wise mens judgements better decenter commendabler then any fantastick outlandish habit a painted spotted face or effeminate powdred frizled head not of Gods or Natures making but the Barbers or Tyre-womans To conclude all I shall desire of my ingenuous Readers is a friendly construction and kinde acceptation of these my Lucubrations a free pardon of all defects or involuntary oversights if any shall occurr therein together with their cordial prayers for Gods assistance and enablement of me in the compleating of the remaining Tomes if they shall be judged usefull for the publike or gratefull to posterity there being few or none I know or hear of who will probably be at the pains or cost to carry on or compleat them when I am translated hence to a better world and shall rest from all my studies labours in this Farewell The GENERAL CONTENTS of the BOOKS and CHAPTERS conteined in this Second Tome All the particulars whereof being many and various are comprised in the TABLE BOOK 3. CHAP. 1. page 227. COntaining Evidences of King John's Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over all Bishops Religious and Ecclesiastical persons Causes Bishopricks Monasteries Tithes Advowsons in granting Licenses to elect and to approve or reject Bishops Abbots when elected Examining the Jurisdictions of all Ecclesiastical Courts Imprisoning banishing Bishops Clergy-men seizing their Bishopricks Spiritualties Confiscating their Goods Benefices for their Contempts Rebellions Treasons against him and obedience to the Popes Interdicts and other unjust Commands with other particulars and his strenuous vigilant defence of the Rights of his Crown against Provisions and other Papal and Prelatical Usurpations in England and Ireland till the 15. year of his Reign CHAP. 2. page 270. Of King John's most unworthy prostitution not only of the undoubted Rights and priviledges of his Crown but of Himself his Diadem Kingdomes of England and Ireland after so many years Glorious Contests to the Tyrannical Usurpations of Pope Innocent and his own Trayterous Bishops and Clergy Of his resignation of his Crown and Kingdomes by Two supposed Charters but in truth only by one to the Pope and his Successors and resuming them as their Feudatory under an Annual Rent His Oath of Homage and Fealty to the Pope The Validity of this Charter these Rents and their payment debated the present and subsequent Oppositions against them This Kings Opposition against the Encroachments of his Treacherous Rebellious Bishops and Clergy who dealt most perfidiously with and stirred up the Barons warrs Rebellions against him after they had forced him to resign his Crown and protested against his unkingly actions when accomplished by their own procurement and designes With other memorable particulars and Records relating to these transactions and this Kings Charters proceedings in Ecclesiastical Elections Affairs as Supream Patron within his own Dominions BOOK 4. CHAP. 1. King Henry the 3. his succession to King John his Coronation necessitated Oath Homage Subjection to Transactions complyance with the Pope and See of Rome against his own and the Nobles wills his and their Complaints Oppositions Prohibitions against the Popes Bishops Clergies Incroachments Exactions both in England and Ireland With the chief passages concerning Ecclesiastical affairs in them during the first 20 years of his young and troublesome reign CHAP. 4. pag. 447. Containing sundry Records Patents and Historical passages evidencing this Kings Supream Jurisdiction in and over Ecclesiastical persons Courts Affairs in England and Ireland The intollerable Vsurpations Extortions Oppressions Innovations Proceedings of Popes their Legates Agents Instruments to the prejudice of the Rights Priviledges of the King Church Kingdom Subjects in both these Realms with the several Complaints and Oppositions against them The English and Irish Bishops Covents Courts Christians Encroachments upon the Kings Temporal Courts Rights Royal Dignity and Subjects Liberties The Prohibitions Writs Oppositions against them With the principal Ecclesiastical Affairs and transactions in relation to England and Ireland from the beginning of the 21. to the end of the 40th year of King Henry the 3d. his reign CHAP. 3. p. 872. Comprizing sundry evidences out of Law-books Histories and Records manifesting this Kings Soveraign Ecclesiastical as well as Temporal Authority over all Ecclesiastical persons Courts Causes in England and Ireland The Popes and his Instruments intollerable Extortions Oppressions Innovations Encroachments both upon the Kings Prerogative and Subjects Liberties Properties and their respective Oppositions Complaints against them Together with our Popish Prelates and Ecclesiastical Synods Courts illegal Usurpations upon the Kings Temporal Rights Courts Crown Dignity and Peoples Priviledges With the several Prohibitions Writs Mandates issued to restrain them And
them timely to prevent their miseries and lock up his words under the seal of secrecy thereupon addressed their Letters of submission to K. John hoping that Royal blood was ever ready to shew mercy to such who were ready to yield and prostrate themselves as sollicitors for mercy But before these Letters delivered or any answer returned King John fell suddenly sick at Swinshed Abby being at the mercy of an higher Soveraign When he perceived that his death approached he with penitent confession of his sins and great devotion received the blessed Eucharist having the Abbot of Croxston both for his bodily and ghostly Physitian and then not only gladly forgave all his mortal Enemies and Persecutors though very difficult to flesh and blood but also sent command to Henry his son to do the like to whom he caused all present to swear Fealty as next heir to the Crown and sent Letters to all his Officers abroad to assist him After which he commended his soul to God and his body to be interred in Worcester Church where he was afterwards solemnly buried near the body of Bishop Wolston renowned for his constant fidelity to his Prince against the Nobles of his time Our Historians much differ about his sicknesse and true cause of his sudden death some relate he died of grief others of a feaver a third sort of a flux a fourth of a surfet a fifth of poyson the most probable opinion is that he was poysoned by a Monk of Swinshed Abby where he dyed being of the Cisteaux Order which the King had formerly much oppressed and incensed whereupon by way of revenge to prevent further miseries to the Church Realm and gratifie the Rebellious Bishops Monks Clergy Barons his professed Enemies then highly enraged against him this Monk presented the King with an envenomed Cup whereof the King commanded him to be the Taster of which both of them drinking this Votary became the Diabolical instrument of his own and his Soveraigns destruction Some of our Monkish Historians themselves relate that the Monk revealing his intention of poysoning the King to his Abbot though he poysoned himself to effect it and saying That he would suffer this voluntary Martyrdome for the publique as Caiphas said of Christ better one perish then a whole Nation the Abbot at this resolution and constancy of his wept and praysed God for joy whereupon the Monk being absolved before hand by the Abbot resolutely took the Cup wherewith he poysoned both himself and the King For a reward and memory of which his execrable Treason after his decease five Monks of that Abby did sing for this their Brothers soul specially and so would do whiles the Abby stood as the Manuscript Chronicle of St. Albans Caxton Eulogium Mr. Fox Speed and others more at large relate whereas on the contrary these Monks fable That it was revealed to a Monk That King John was in Hell though a Poet for so saying is censured by Matthew Paris himself as Reprobus versificator who though a bitter Enemy to K. John as if he thought ill of and renounced his Religion gives us this final judgement of his death and future estate only for his liberality to two Monasteries Cum autem regnasset Rex Johannes annis octodecim mensibus quinque diebus autem quatuor ab hac vita post hujus saeculi multas perturbationes labores inutiles in multa mentis amaritudine subtractus transmigravit Nihil terrae imo nec seipsum possidens Such was his infelicity througst his Prelates Subjects Treachery Sperandum est autem et certissime confidendum quod quaedam bona opera quae fecit in hac vita allegabunt pro eo ante Tribunal Iesu Christi construxit enim Abbatiam Cisterciensis ordinis de Bello loco et moriturus domui de* Crokestuna decem librarum terram contulit opulentam Yet the malice of many of his Bishops Monks Clergy and other Enemies against him was such that they would neither permit him to enjoy his Temporal Crown and Kingdoms on earth whiles he lived nor permit God himself to bestow on him any Crown or share at all in the Kingdom of Heaven after his untimely death I have now with all possible industry and integrity presented you out of our Histories and Records with the exactest Chronological History hitherto published of the Popes and Prelates manifold unparalleld grand Usurpations upon the Crown Kingdoms Churches of England and Ireland during the reign of King John with his strenuous various oppositions against them for sundry years till by armed violence fear fraud treachery perjury rebellion enforced to resign up his Crown Scepter Kingdoms to his grand Enemy Pope Innocent the 3d. who afterwards undertook his protection against his Rebellions Prelates and Barons not out of any love or respect unto him as King of England but meerly as his sworn Vassal and Tributary by an enforced Charter the nullity whereof both in Law and Conscience I have at large demonstrated against all Popes and their Parasites pretences The new Usurpations made by this Pope and the English Bishops confederating with him upon this Kings supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction during his unfortunate reign are reducible to these heads 1. An usurped arbitrary power for the Pope to examine in the Court of Rome the Elections of Archbishops Bishops Abbots though duly made by the Electors with the Kings license 2ly A Jurisdiction for the Pope to compell some few members of Chapters and Covents in England to elect whomsoever he recommended to be their Archbishop Bishop Abbot without the consent of the majority of the Chapter or Covent even in Rome it self against their Oathes Trusts Charters Priviledges 3ly A Jurisdiction without the Kings previous Regal license to elect or subsequent assent to such Elections to compell the King himself to invest Bishops in the actual possession of their Temporalties by Ecclesiastical censures and force of armes against the Rights and Priviledges of the Crown 4ly A new Prerogative for the Pope or his Legates by their own Provisions or Translations to promote whom they pleased to any Archbishoprick Bishoprick Abby Deanery Benefice in England or Ireland whereof the King himself or any other was rightfull Patron without and against his Royal assent or the Patrons 5ly A meer arbitrary Jurisdiction to Interdict the King and Kingdom of England to prohibit all Divine Service and Sacraments therein for sundry months yea years together against Gods and the Kings expresse commands and that not for any personal or national scandalous crimes found in the King or Kingdom but meerly for opposing the Popes apparent incroachments on the Rights of the Kings imperial Crown 6ly A power personally to excommunicate the King himself and all others who should either eat drink discourse or communicate with him only for disobeying the Popes illegal commands against his antient Rights and Priviledges 7ly An Authority to absolve all his Subjects from their Oathes of Allegiance and
kinred who interdicted the Realm with Langeton and his Parents sâ—ising their goods temporalties and of all who obeyed the Interdict commanding it to be published in all Cathedral and Conventual Churches through England the Clergy in England refuse to publish it King John and his Nobles slight it Alexander Cementarius disputes writes against it and the Popes power to inflict it all his Nobles others publickly communicate with him he hath admirable successes in his wars affairs notwithstanding it 248 to 262. His Legates Agents insolent words messages deportment towards the King notwithstanding his promise to receive the exiled Bishops and Archbishop without restitution of the profits of their Bishopricks during their exile 252 261 to 265. He absolves King Johns subjects from their Fealty Oaths obedience to him prohibiting them under pain of excommunication strictly to avoid his company both in Table Counsil Conference 264 265. After which at the Archbishops and Bishops sollicitation he deprived King John and his heirs of the Crown of England gives it to King Philip of France and his heirs writes to him and all Nobles Souldiers in sundry Countries to take arms to deject him and conquer it for his contumacy rebellion to crosse themselves for that purpose granting them the same Indulgences as those who went to the Holy Land against the Saracens Sends Pandulphus his Legat to see it executed yet with secret instructions to him to agree with King John upon termes he was to propound to him 267 288. When the French King and John had both raised great forces by Land and Sea against each other Pandulf by fraudulent perswasions menaces terrors induced King John and his Nobles to receive the exiled Bishops give them dammages swear to make good the terms the Pope propounded for himself and exiles to resigne his Crown kingdoms of England and Ireland to this Pope by a special Charter enjoying them under him and his successors paying 1000. Marks annual rent swearing fealty to him as his vassal The manner therof being effected he prohibited the French King to invade him after vast expences to his great discontent because under his Papal protection by this submission 267 to 293. The Interdicts Excommunications Frauds force by which this Charter was extorted with the protests Declarations against and real Nullities of it 271 273 274 280 281 289 to 330. 414 1058. King Johns Oath to him 274 279 290. The Emperor by his Embassadors stirred up the English others to contradict withstand this Charter Tribute and other illegal oppressions 414 415. 613. His Bull to his Legate to conferr all vacant dignities benefices in England by postulation or Canonical election to correct all rebellious persons opposing his proceedings therein by Ecclesiastical censures without any appeal his tyranny inhumanity proceedings therein especially against those who had been loyal to the King during the Interdict 258 259 329 330 334 335. The Original of his provisions in England 237 329 330 778. His Bull to his Legate for releasing the long Antichristian Interdict of England after 7. years 3. months 14 days space during which divine Offices Sacraments and Christian burials ceased 331 332 33. His Bull for confirmation of the Great Charter of King John to his Prelates Barons and Freedom of Elections to the Church Clergy upon the Kings request 337 338 K. Johns complaint to him against his Great Charter as extorted from him by armed force fear circumvention rebellion and of designs to expell him the Realms now under the Crosse and Popes protection his Oath by St. Peter to avenge this injury His Bull perpetually nulling the great Charter notwithstanding its former confirmations prohibiting any to observe it under pain of excommunication reciting the Barons rebellion obstinacy perjury against their Oaths 341 342 343 345 346 347. He first excited the English Barons by his Bulls to take arms against King John as an obstinate enemy to the Church to enforce him to surrender his Crown to him and after his unworthy effeminate surrender of it to him as his Tributary endeavoured without fear of God or shame of the world to trample them under feet disinherit put them to death and swallow up their estates He promoted none to livings but unworthy outlandish Clerks 414 415. His Letter to the Barons charging them with rebellion disobedience to his commands and the King threatning to excommunicate them if they persisted therin 342. His Letters for the Barons Excommunication sent to the Archbishop and his Suffragans 344 345 348 351. The Archbishop delayes denyes to publish it siding with them for which he is cited to the Council at Rome suspended his Archbishoprick and all prohibited to obey him as Archbishop 343 to 348. His Bull reprehending the Chapter of York for electing Simon Langeton their Archbishop against the Kings and his prohibition and Simons promise his menaces of him and them His election nulled he swears he would provide an Archbishop himself for them unlesse they presently proceeded to a new election whereupon they elected Walter Gray whom the King at first propounded who paid ten thousand pound sterling for his Pall for which he stood bound in the Court of Rome to this Simon Magus and his Usurers 350 351. The Kings Letters to him not to null the union of the Abby of Glaston to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells formerly confirmed being prejudicial to the Crown He appoints delegates to hear and determine the cause 356 357. His Care to preserve King John and his heirs rights in Normaudy 357 535. His Bull exempting all his French appels from Episcopal Jurisdiction and excommunications though a royal prerogative before 358 720 721 727 728 759. His Bull to the Abbot of Abbendon and others to excommunicate certain Barons Londoners and others by name for opposing rebelling against King John with their high contempt thereof and reviling speeches against him and his Papal power as Constantines not Peters successor either in merits or works making a prey of the Church and Kingdom he had invaded 359 360 361 362 414. He absolves the Archbishop upon caution but prohibits his return into England till the King and Barons were accorded 361. He sends Walâ— to the French King Philip to prohibit him or his sonne to invade King John being his Vassal or the Realm of England the Churches patrimony whereof he was supreme Lord by the Kings Charter Homage to him The French Kings reply thereto declaring the Charter void denying England to be St. Peters Patrimony Lewis his Proctors opposition objections before him against King Johns and plea for Lewes his Title to the Realm of England This Popes replyes thereto on King Johns behalf his Dilemma in this controversie between them The Barons reject King John elect receive crown Lewis notwithstanding his Legates prohibitions excommunications of Lewis and them which they contemn 358 to 367. His Usurpations upon King Johns Crown kingdom Church Subjects of England and Ireland 370. His Vnchristian Excommunication and
Januarii 3. 1664. Imprimatur WILL. MORICE THE SECOND TOME OF AN EXACT CHRONOLOGICAL VINDICATION AND HISTORICAL DEMONSTRATION OF OUR British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Over all Prelates Persons Causes within their Kingdomes and Dominions From the First Year of the Reign of King John Anno Dom. 1199. till the Death of King Henry the III. in the year 1273. WHEREIN The several branches of our Kings Ecclesiastical Soveraignty are truly stated the Popes usurped Vniversal Monarchy subverted by their own Popish Assertions concerning the Virgin Mary Transubstantiation and Christs corporal presence on earth in every Hostia Popes Popish Prelates Intollerable USURPATIONS on Vnchristian Practises against the Persons antient undoubted ECCLESIASTICAL TEMPORAL PREROGATIVES JURISDICTIONS RIGHTS of these KINGS CROWNES PRIVILEGES the LIBERTIES PROPERTIES of the Churches Kingdomes Clergy Nobility Commonalty of ENGLAND and IRELAND By Legates Nuncioes Delegates Bulls Palls Exemptions Dispensations Non-obstantes Decretals Canons Appeals Citations Journeys to Rome Inhibitions Sequestrations Provisions Ratifying void vacating legal Elections Presentations to Ecclesiastical Dignities Benefices at their pleasures By Croysadoes Procurations Tenths Firstfruits illegal Oathes Extortions Rapines Excommunications Interdicts Absolutions from Oathes Vowes open Treasons Rebellions Wars to depose enslave our KINGS KINGDOMES and make them HOMAGERS VASSALLS TRIBUTARIES to the SEE OF ROME With their and our Parliaments Nobles Clergies Commons successive memorable Complaints Oppositions Letters Writs Prohibitions Proceedings against them in the height of Popery The principal Transactions of State between these Kings and the Popes Cardinals Legates Court of Rome with their unparallel'd Avarice Bribery Simony Treachery Tyranny Frauds Impieties Extortions Corruptions are impartially related out of the best Historians in or next that age and irrefragable rare Records in the Tower not formerly published With Vsefull Observations on from them And several Indexes to this Tome By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esquire a Bencher and Reader of the Honourable Society of LINCOLNES INNE Tit. 3. 1. Put them in minde to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work 2 Pet. 2. 14 15. An heart they have exercised with covetous practises cursed children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse LONDON Printed for the Author by Thomas Ratcliffe 1665. and are to be sold by Abel Roper at the Sun over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet Gabriel Bedell at the inner Temple Gate and Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britaine To the Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of CLARENDON Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND Chancellor of the Vniversity of OXFORD and one of His MAJESTIES most Honourable Privy Counsell MY LORD IT is the Institution of God and Nature that all things by a divine and natural right should terminate in their Original and revert to the Spring from which they issue Hence St. Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles and of our British Isle resolves that as all things in heaven and earth visible and invisible whether Thrones Dominions Principalities Powers or other Creatures were and are created By so likewise TO and FOR GOD their ALPHA and OMEGA Yea King Solomon long before him not only concluded in point of Divinity The Lord hath made all things FOR HIMSELF but thus demonstrates it by natural experimental Philosophy All rivers run into the Sea unto the place from whence the Rivers come THITHER THEY RETURN AGAIN This Contemplation hath excited yea obliged me in point of Right and Equity not only to return but dedicate this Large Chronological Vindication and Historical Demonstration to Your Lordship from whose unexpected Voluntary Motion and Subsequent Encouragements to collect publish it for the Honour of our Kings Nation Church Kingdome and benefit of Posterity it received its Original Conception Augmentation Production at vacant hours borrowed for the most part from my natural rest and repasts without the least neglect of my other distracting publick Imployments Which may justly excuse all Defects of Ornament Method Stile Substance any Curious Eyes shall discover therein or in my yet uncompleated Preceding or Succeeding Tomes of the same heroick subject not hitherto at large historically discussed by any Antiquary or Historian I have seen I have prefaced this Tome brought forth into the VVorld like Pharez before its elder brother with a brief necessary Introduction to supply the want of my Larger Introduction comprised in the First Book of the First Tome not yet compleated over-large to be annexed to this as I at first designed Wherein I have truly stated that antient Soveraign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction claimed exercised as there was occasion by our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings which I have historically vindicated in Fact and Right in this and my other intended Tomes Whereunto I have subjoyned a short Synopsis of Roman Popes and their Parasites impudent Claims to a Vniversal Antimonarchical if not Antichristian Soveraign Monarchy over all Churches Empires Kingdomes Nations Emperors Kings Prelates Priests persons throughout the world as well in Temporals as Spirituals under their own forged Titles of Christs Vniversal Vicars His and St. Peters Successors which Supremacy they have for sundry ages attempted to exercise and enlarge upon all advantages by scandalous Bulls Excommunications Interdicts Treasons Rebellions Absolutions of Subjects from their Oathes Allegeance deposals of Christian Emperors Kings wresting their Crownes Regal Authority and Kingdomes out of their hands by force and fraud to the grand disturbance of all Christian Realms to which they have forged Titles The sandy foundations of this their pretended Papal Monarchy I have utterly subverted in a new way by the avowed practises of their own Popes Church and Articles of their Romish Faith concerning the Vniversal Empire yea Deification of the Virgin Mary whom they have not only seated Soul and body in the very Throne of the sacred Trinity in heaven but elevated above God the Father and Christ her Sonne intituling her to all their Soveraign Power over all creatures in heaven earth hell to all their Divine Attributes Titles Offices Worship invoking adoring her in their publike private authorized Devotions more then them yea ascribing to her a commanding power over them in heaven it self And by their Doctrine of Transubstantiation or Christs real presence both in his human body soul Deity in every consecrated Host adoring it as God Christ himself seconded with their Legends of his frequent corporeal real visible apparitions on earth which infallibly overturn the foundations whereon they build St. Peters and their own Supremacy Upon which occasion I have briefly and I hope irrefragably refuted by new Topicks not hitherto used or not fully pressed by Protestant Divines their idolatrous Invocations Adorations of the Virgin Mary and other Saints wherein they not only imitate but farr exceed the antient
Germany or any other Christian Kingdom throughout the World as I hope to evidence in due time for the Honour of our Kings Kingdoms Churches Nation if God send life health oportunity encouragements to accomplish such an heroick Undertaking not hitherto essayed by any of our own or other Nation If any shall demand why I preposterously against my Chronological Method published this Second Tome before the Edition of the First I answer Because in my primitive undertaking of this Subject upon the motion of an Honourable Great Officer of State I designed it to be the First beginning my Collections from the First Year of King John when the Charter Clause Fine Liberate and Patent Rolls in the Tower begin All the rest except some few Chartae Antiquae of former Kings reignes never transcribed into Rolls being long since perished or lost beyond recovery and accordingly fitted it for the Presse But afterward upon second thoughts and motions mounting my Chronological Collections in relation to the Kings of our Isle as high as the first preaching embracing of the Gospel therein by the Apostles or their Disciples and to Lucius our first Christian King and deducing them down to King John in a more copious manner then I originally intended a Work of much pains search study difficulty requiring farr longer time to compile then this Tome swelling to another large Folio Volume and my Chronological Introduction to it from Adam the first Monarch in the World till Christs Ascention into Heaven and from thence in relation to the Roman Greek German Emperors and other Christian Kings in forreign parts till our modern age thought fit to be superadded amounting to another Volume requiring a larger proportion of time then I can yet promise to my self had I no other publike or private Divertions to interrupt its progresse I was thereupon not only induced but in some sort necessitated to praepone this Second Tome in point of publication before the First lest death or sickness should deprive posterity of both Whereas if God shall preserve my life bealth afford leisure and encouragement I intend to publish the First with other ensuing Tomes with all convenient expedition What the General and particular Contents of this large Volume are the Title Page the Table of the Books and Chapters and Index in the cloze thereof will fully satisfie the perusers If any require an account from me What persons may probably receive information or benefit thereby I answer with all humility and sobriety That if I be not much mistaken Our KINGS Themselves their Great Officers of State in England and Ireland the reverend learned Prelates Divines Judges Lawyers Nobility and Gentry in both these Kingdoms and all studious professors of the Protestant Faith or Romish Religion may receive more or less advantage thereby in these particulars First our Kings and Counsellors of State may herein discern the antient Ecclesiastical and Civil Prerogatives Jurisdictions Rights Liberties of the Kings Crowns kingdoms Churches Clergy Subjects of England and Ireland herein vindicated and by what Papal artifices frauds conspiracies policies treacheries violences instruments they were gradually invaded undermined encroached usurped upon and trodden under foot by Popes their Legates Nuncioes Agents Confederates how they were countermined opposed and those recovered from them by degrees 2ly Our Protestant Bishops Clergy may here learn and discover how treacherous rebellious seditious undutifull their Popish predecessors frequently were to our Kings Kingdoms Curches yea to their own interests how oppressed fleeced tyrannized over vexed squiesed enforced to trot to and from Rome and other forreign parts whiles under the Tyrannical Vsurped Jurisdiction Citations Censures arbitrary Power Rapines Provisions Oppressions of Popes their Legates Nuncioes and other Agents sent from Rome and what just cause our Kings Kingdomes Churches had in point of conscience as well as policy for their publick ease liberty safety tranquillity prosperity to cast off their Vsurpations Innovations Oppressions and renounce all subjection to or communion with the Roman Pontifs See Court for their manifold Corruptions Extortions Abuses Frauds unsatiable Avarice detestable Tyranny Bribery Simony Injustice Ambition Pride Treachery antimonarchical and antichristian practises which even our Popish Kings Nobles Commons yea sundry of our most conscientious Romish Prelates Monkes Priests Historians publikely abominated and protested against with highest detestation Which if now duly pondered by those of the Romish perswasion may justly move perswade them to reject both the pretended Authority Sanctity Infallibility and real Corruptions of the Popes Court See Church of Rome and return to their due Allegiance to our Kings and unto the bosom of our Reformed Church wherein the true worship of God is more sincerely performed his Word more orthodoxly powerfully preached his Sacraments more purely administred then in any of the Roman Churches or in the Popes own Chappels 3ly All Judges Practisers Students of the Common Laws in England or Ireland may here peruse some memorable resolutions and Records concerning points of Law many Excellent Rare Writs Prohibitions Patents and other Records not formerly published for the most part hitherto unknown against the illegal Constitutions Canons Assemblies Oathes Inquisitions Interdicts Excommunications Provisions Extorsions Rapines Oppressions Vexations Citations Appeals other Vsurpations of Popes Legats Nuncioes Delegates of Rome yea some of our Popish Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons and their Ecclesiastical Officers Courts upon the Rights Prerogatives of the Crown the Kings Temporal Courts Lawes the Advowsons rights Properties of Patrons the Liberties consciences of the Subjects in England and Ireland when ever invaded or endangered by them 4ly The learned Nobility and Gentry of both Nations studious of History Antiquity Church or State-affairs may herein peruse many rare usefull Records never formerly brought to publike view illustrating divers obscure rectifying some mistaken passages supplying sundry defects in our Histories and Annals in the reigns of King John and Henry the III. especially concerning the Archbishops Bishops Bishopricks Affairs of Ireland and sundry transactions between these Kings their Embassadors Procurators and the Popes Cardinals Legates Nuncioes Court of Rome not extant in former Histories or Authors Perchance some Readers may demand why I printed all the Records in their proper Latin or French Dialect and most of the Historical passages interwoven with them out of Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster and other Latin Historians Writers in their own Language I answer I did it upon 3. accounts 1. Because I conceived they would be more authentick usefull gratefull especially to Lawyers and Gown-men in their original proper Dialects then in the best English Translation 2ly To avoid all cavills exceptions of Criticks or Romanists against their translations wherewith they would evade when as now they cannot deny nor disprove their authority being presented to them in their proper words 3ly To make them more communicable and diffusive to Statesmen and Scholars in forraign parts If any Chronologers shall find fault that some few Records and Historical passages herein mentioned
yet Cardinal Baronius Spondanus Bellarmine and other Pontificians confesse to be both Hereticks and Idolaters only for sacrificing Cakes and adoring her as aforesaid which I desire all Romanists seriously to consider 6ly I further appeal to all judicious unbiassed Roman Catholicks whether upon serious consideration of the premises our Protestant Kings Bishops Churches of England Scotland and Ireland had not just cause grounds in point of conscience to abominate all these heretical blasphemous idolatrous Abominations Devotions Assertions Practises of the Church of Rome as Antichristian Innovations Corruptions to separate themselves from them and all others of like nature accompanying them and to renounce the Popes usurped Authority which introduced fomented establshsd them and would never to this day suppresse or reform them after all detections convictions of their execrable impiety idolatry and inconsistency with the Principles Verity Purity of the Christian Religion and Divine Worship of God alone prescribed in his Word 7ly Whether this was not the main ground of their impious bold obliterating the 2. Commandement out of the Decalogue in all their 1 Offices Primers Hours Psalters of our Lady and most of their late 2 Catechismes because it is diametrically repugnant to and inconsistent with their erections invocations adorations of prostrations to the Images Statues Pictures of our Lady and saying Ave Maries Pater nosters with other prayers to and before them as if she and they were God himself And because it is directly contrary to this their usual forme of consecrating their adored Images of God Christ the Virgin Mary and other Saints thus recorded in their 3 Rituale Parachorum Benedictio Imaginum Dei aut B. Mariae Uirginis vel Sanctorum Adjutorium nostrum c. Domine exaudi c. Dominus vobiscum c. Oremus Omnipotens sempiterne Deus te suppliciter exoramus ut hanc Imaginem in memoriam et honorem tui vel unigeniti filii tui Domini nostri Iesu Christi vel beatissimae Uirginis Matris Domini vel beati N. praeparatam bene †dicere et sanctificare †digneris ut quicunque ad ipsum venerandum se devote inclinaverint salutem mentis et corporis consequantur et quicquid juste petierint se impetrasse fatentur c. Et aspergantur aqua benedicta And to the larger special forme de Benedictione Imaginis beatae Mariae Uirginis to be made by their Bishops alone in all their Pontifical accoutrements with no lesse then 4. special Prayers quatenus precibus ejusdem sacratissimae Uirginis quocunque eandem Reginam et gratiocissimam Dominam nostram coram bac effigie suppliciter honorare studuerint et de instantibus periculis eruantur et in conspectu divinae Majestatis tuae de commissis et omissis veniam impetrent ac mereantur in praesenti gratiam quam desiderant adipisci et in futuro perpetua salvatione cum electis tuis valeant gratulari And with the reptition of Psal 87. 123. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou blessed Lady Mary that dwellest in the Heavens c. with the Magnificat Luke 1. and Allelujahs Ave Maries and these two special Antiphonaes chanted to her before her new consecrated Images by their whole Cathedral Chorus with sound of Organs Sacbuts and all kinds of Musick as at the consecration of Nebuchadonosors golden Image Sub tuum praesidium confugimus Sancta Dei genetrix nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper Uirgo gloriosa et benedicta O gloriosa Dei genetrix Uirgo semper Maria quae Dominum omnium meruisti portare et Regem Angelorum sola Uirgo lactare nostri quesumus pia memorare et pro nobis Iesum Christum deprecare ut tuis fulti patrociniis ad coelestia Regna mereamur pervenire All which are prescribed in the very Pontificale Romanum Clementis 8. Pontificis Max. jussu restitutum atque editum authorized by his special Bull prefixed to it in perpetuam rei memoriam Datum Romae apud Sanctum Petrum sub Annulo Piscatoris die decima Februarii 1596. Pontificatus nostri anno quinto printed then at Rome and since that Antwerpiae 1627. lib. 3. p. 364. Which Prayers Antiphonaes Images can no more consist with nor stand upright before the Second Commandements presence then the Image of Dagon with and before the Ark of God but must needs fall down on their faces and loose both their heads and feet before it which it quite cuts off to prevent which they have totally expunged it out of all their Offices Primers Houres Crownes Litanies late Catechismes and other Offices of our Lady worthy our special notice 8ly Whether the premised passages concerning their Lady Maries Universal Soveraign Power Monarchy over all Angels powers Kingdoms Nations Persons Churches Creatures both in Heaven Earth Purgatory and Hell as their real Lady Queen Empresse Goddesse with her Prophetical and Sacerdotal Offices of the Advocate Mediatrix Reconciliatrix Redemptrix Saviouresse Helper Instructor c. of all Catholicks Saints or Sinners and of all afflicted distressed persons in earth purgatory and hell it self do not very much ecclipse impeach if not subvert the Soveraign Kingly power Priesthood and Prophetical Offices of Christ and totally overthrow all St. Peters and Popes Claims Titles Charters pretences thereunto even by their own premised Doctrines resolutions and these very Texts of Psal 110. 1. Mat. 28. 19 20. Phil. 2. 9 10. with others on which they found her temporal Monarchy over the whole Church world whiles on earth and ever since her Ascension into Heaven And if so as the premises clearly evidence Whether they must not now in point of conscience justice policy henceforth renounce their Popes pretended Universal Ecclesiastical and Temporal Monarchy over all Churches Kingdoms Nations Persons throughout the world if they will avoid her displeasure retain her favour or enjoy the benefit of her Intercession Advocation Mediation and Reconciliation Or else abandon her forecited Dominion Monarchy and Empire over them to retain and enjoy the Popes Or otherwise professedly disclaim and abjure both their pretended Monarchies Powers as inconsistent with Christs Soveraign Regal Sacerdotal Prophetical Offices and the antient Soveraign Ecclesiastical and Temporal Prerogatives of all Christian Emperors Kings Monarchs but more especially of our own I have the longer insisted on these particulars as not only most pertinent to subvert the Popes pretended Universal Monarchy Vicarship and the very foundations whereon it depends and as most powerfull arguments both to reclaim all seduced Pontificians from the Idolatry of the Church of Rome and keep all unstable Protestants from Apostatizing to her but likewise because our two Archbishops of Canterbury Anselme and Becket canonized for Saints in and by the Popes and Church of Rome who first introduced the Offices Joyes publick Invocations of the Virgin Mary into our English Church and extolled her Soveraignty Excellencies above
admonition given them publikely to excommunicate them by name if known on every Lords day and Holy day with Bell Book and Candle and likewise to interdict them without admitting any appeal and to seclude them from all Divine Offices wheresoever they came But that any Archbishop or Bishop put this Antichristian severe command of his in execution I find not in our Historians who barely recite it and the premises prove it was never put in execution In the fourth year of King John some Irish Bishops and Archdeacons Suffragans to the Archbishop of Dublin endeavoured without this Kings precedent license and assent to elect an Archbishop and get him confirmed at Rome by the Pope against the Kings right and dignity Whereupon he entred this Appeal against them before himself to preserve his right and dignity therein VEnerabili Patri in Christo J. Dei gratia titulo Sancti Stephani in Caelio monte Presbytero Cardinali Apostolicae sedis legato J. eadem gratia c. Et debitam reverentiam Cum accepissemus Clocharen Cloanen Cenanen Ardacen Episcopos Archidiaconum Ardmac quosdam Alios velle manifeste operari contra ius et dignitatem nostram super Ecclesia Ardmacana Appellavimus Et ne ab illis vel ab aliis super praefata Ecclesia contra jus et dignitatem nostrum aliquid statuatur Appellationem illam coram nobis per has literas nostras Patentes per nuncios nostros innovamus Teste meipso apud Cenom decimo quinto die Augusti These Suffragans proceeding to elect an Archbishop without the King contrary to his Inhibition and Appeal he going to Rome to get approbation consecration and possession of it by the Popes authority the King thereupon the next year issued out Writs to all his Suffragans and Subjects within the Archbishoprick commanding them to make the like Appeal against him as he had done as one that acted against the rights and dignity of his Crown and was his Enemy and by no means to receive him for their Archbishop upon his return into Ireland REX c. Suffraganeis sedis Armacanae c. Propositum est nobis quod Eug. dictus electus Armacanae Ecclesiae contra assensum nostrum et post appellationem nostram ad Dominum Papam a nobis interpositam Romam profectus est ut in Archiepiscopum Armacanum contra dignitatem nostram promoveatur Et quia manifestum est ipsum E. sicut inimicum nostrum contra dignitatem nostram operari Vobis mandamus quatinus cum appellaverimus appellationem nostram per has literas nostras Patentes per latorem praesentium adhuc innovemus una Nobiscum pro statu Ecclesiae vestrae et dignitate nostra appelletis sicut nos et honorem nostrum diligitis Et si dictus electus in terram nostram Hyberniae redierit nullatenus eum in Archiepiscopum recipiatis Teste meipso apud Rothomagum Vicesimo secundo die Maii. Sub eadem forma scribitur omnibus fidelibus in Archiepiscopatu Armacan constitutis Pope Innocent being so vigilantly and strenuously opposed by King Johns Patents and Prohibitions in this business of conferring the Archbishopricks of St. Davids and Ardmagh on persons elected without his consent by his own Papal Consecrations of them and Provisions to them contrived how to usher in Provisions by degrees without any observation to which purpose he imployed the Archbishop of Ragusium whom he discharged from that Church for fear of death to move King John to bestow a Bishoprick and other Benefices on him in England to relieve his necessities and support his dignity whereupon the King out of his Royal bounty bestowed the Bishoprick of Karliol and the Archbishop of York the Church of Meleburn upon him The Pope being informed thereof sent a Letter to King John wherein he took upon him by his Apostolical Sees benignity to grant this Bishoprick and Benefice to him to supply his wants admonishing and exhorting the King at his Pontifical request to confirm this Bishoprick on him which the King accordingly did at his Petition by this Patent reciting the Popes Letter REX c. Venerabili Patri in Christo Fratri Charissimo J. Dei gratia Eborum Archiepiscopo J. eadem gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hyberniae Dux Norm Aquitan Comes Andeg. salutem Literas Domini Papae suscepimus in haec verba INNOCENTIVS Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei Dilecto filio Johanni Illustri Regi Angliae salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Ad supplicationem instantem Venerabilis Fratris nostri Ragusini Archiepiscopi eum a Cura sollicitudine qua tenebatur Ecclesiae Ragusinae duximus absolvendum eo videlicet quod ibi non poterat secure morari si accessum haberet ad illam mortis sibi periculum imminebat Ne vero idem Archiepiscopus in vituperium Ministerii nostri defectum in temporalibus paciatur Episcopatum Karliolensem et Ecclesiam de Meleburne cum omnibus pertinentiis eorum de munificentia ac liberalitate tua ac concessione Venerabilis fratris nostri Eborum Archiepiscopi ei benigne collatis de sedis Apostolicae benignitate concedimus ad ipsius indigentiam sublevandam Serenitatem Regiam monentes attentius et hortantes quatenus eundem Archiepiscopum nostrarum praecum optentu sic officialii pontificalis intuitu recommendatum velis habere ejus necessitati compatiens ipsius subveniens paupertati dona praesentia per illustrem munificentiam sic reddens ampliora ut per hoc Regi Regum qui Sacerdos in aeternum videaris obsequium exhibere cum illud quod Ministris ejus impenditur sibi protestatur impendi Datum Ferentin Idus Maii. Pontificatus nostri Anno sexto Nos autem juxta petitionem Domini Papae praescriptam ipsi Archiepiscopo Ragusin praedictum Episcopatum Karleolensem de munificentia et libertate Regia not by the Popes Authority or Provision ei concessimus mandantes vobis quatenus ei tanquam Pastori et Episcopo nostro in omnibus intendatis Teste Domino Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo apud Merleb Decimo die Januarii Sub eadem forma scribitur Abbatibus Prioribus Archidiaconis omnibus Clericis Episcopatus Karliolensis The same year there being many contests between the Dean and Canons and Geoffry Archbishop of York who by his Archiepiscopal Authority and violence did much oppresse them the King upon their complaint by his Royal Authority and Letters Patents granted them this protection against him and his Instruments for the Churches peace REX c. Omnibus c. Sciatis nos suscepisse in pacem custodiam protectionem nostram Decanum Canonicos Sancti Petri Ebor. omnes homines res redditus possessiones eorum Et ideo vobis mandamus firmiter praecipimus quod praedictos Decanum Canonicos omnes homines terras res redditus possessiones eorum manu-teneatis custodiatis protegatis defendatis sicut nostra dominica Prohibemus
ne praedicti Decanus Canonici ponantur in placitum de aliquo quod in pace tenuerint tempore Regis H. Patris nostri vel Regis Richardi fratris nostri vel tempore nostro quamdiu controversia duraverit inter Archiepiscopum Eborac et ipsos Etsi Archiepiscopus Eborac vel aliquis Clericus vel Laicus praedictis Decano et Canonicis vel Clericis vel hominibus suis in aliquo fortiam aliquam intulerit vel eos in aliquo molestaverit Praecipimus quod fortiam illam statim facias amoveri et id quod eis forisfactum fuerit sine dilatione emendari Et corpora armatorum qui inventi fuerint in rebus vel redditibus eorum qui fortiam aliquam eis fecerunt sine dilatione capiatis nec dimmitatis sine mandato nostro vel Capitalis Iusticiarii nostri Teste G. filio Petri c. Willielmo Briggner Hugone de Nevill apud Eboracum Anno Regni nostri quinto This year Godfrid Bishop of Winchester deceasing Petrus de Rupibus a Knight and great Souldier vir equestris ordinis in rebus bellicis eruditus Procurante Rege Johanne ad Episcopatum electus succeeded him who going to Rome Vbi magnis Zeniis liberaliter collatis ad Ecclesiam Wintoniensem maturavit Episcopus consecrari write Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster In the 6. year of King John the Bishop Dean and Chapter of Durham the Dean and Chapter of York with sundry other Deans and Chapters Abbots and Priors within the Province of York to prevent the unjust arbitrary Excommunications Suspensions and Interdicts of Geoffry Archbishop of York against their own Persons Tenants Lands and Possessions by reason of some differences between them concerning their Jurisdictions and Ecclesiastical Priviledges which they complained the Archbishop invaded appearing before the King at York did there in the Kings own presence appeal him before the Apostolick See prefixing a certain day to which the King by these Letters Patents gave his Royal testimony and assent they not daring to appeal without his license REX c. Omnibus c. Noverit universitas vestra quod cum Dominus Phil. Dunolmensis Episcopus Decanus Capitulum Sanctae Mariae Eborac de Seleby de Witeby de Fontibus de Riveal de Rupe de Ruchford Abbates de Bridlinton de Wirksope de Blithe de Novo Burgo de Kirkham de Marton de Beolton de Sancto Oswaldo Priores coram nobis apud Eboracum essent constituti in praesentia nostra proposuerunt quod in omnibus erant parati Domino Archiepiscopo Eborac Canonicam obedienâ—â—â—m exhibere salva reverentia quam debent Romanae Ecclesiae salvis privilegiis suis libertatibus Ecclesiarum suarum Ne autem praedictus Archiepiscopus motu propriae voluntatis in terram nostram sive homines nostros sive in ipsos vel homines suos vel possessiones eorum aliquam sententiam excommunicationis suspensionis vel interdicti poneret coram nobis ad sedem Apostolicam appellarunt terminum in Octabis Sancti Andreae appellationi prosequendae praefigentes Et quia appellatio illa coram nobis interposita eidem per literas nostras testimonium perhibemus Acta sunt ista apud Eborum sexto die Marcii Anno c. Sexto To conclude the story of this turbulent Archbishop of York about two years after Anno Dom. 1207. King John and his Nobles meeting at Winchester placing his hope and strength in his Treasures required and received through all England the 13. part of all movables and other things as well of the Laity as of all other Ecclesiastical persons and Prelates all of them murmuring at it imprecating and wishing an ill event to such rapine but not daring to contradict it Only Geoffry Archbishop of York not consenting but openly contradicting it privily departed from England and in his recesse Anathematis sententia innodavit actually excommunicated all men specially within his Archbishoprick making this rapine and levying this Tax and in general all Invaders of the Church or Ecclesiastical things for non-payment of this Tax Wherewith the King was so highly offended that he seized his temporalties and banished him the Realm till his death about 7. years after postquam per sâ—ptennium pro libertate Ecclesiae executione justitiae exilium passus est write Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster Such was this Archbishops opposition to the Kings Prerogative and legal aydes esteemed by the disloyal Monks and Clergy of that age I am now arrived in my Chronological Method at the original occasion of the highest longest-lasting and most tragical contests between King John and his traiterous perjured Monks Bishops Clergy and the Pope confederating with them and their most notorious Usurpations upon the undoubted Prerogatives of the Crown King Kingdoms of England and Ireland ever acted on our English Theater in any age the summe whereof is this Upon the death of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury Anno Dom 1205. the 6. of King Johns reign there fell out an unhappy difference about the Election of a new Archbishop without the Kings license against his Prerogative Royal and afterwards upon a double election which Pope Innocent the 3d. taking advantage of vacated both forced the Monks at Rome against their wills oaths to elect Stephen Langton a Cardinal his creature whom he recommended to them and consecrated Archbishop against the Kings consent who refusing to admit him Archbishop thereupon the Pope interdicted the whole Kingdom several years next excommunicated after that deposed the King from his Crown which he gave to the King of France absolved all his Subjects from their allegiance and at last by force menaces and subtil perswasions induced the King to resign his Crown kingdoms to the Pope and resume them from him as his feudatory The Monks Bishops Popes Antimonarchical gradual Proceedings herein with this Kings strenuous Oppositions against them for 8. whole years space are briefly recorded by many of our Historians but most fully by Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster from whom they extract their Narratives whose relations thereof I shall present you with at large in their own stile enlarged with additional Records not extant in them or other Historians because the ground of all subsequent over-bold Papal and Prelatical Usurpations on the Crown Kings Kingdom Church of England and Ireland DEfuncto itaque Archiepiscopo Huberto tertio Idus Maii antequam corpus ejus sepulturae traderetur adolescentes quidam de conventu Cantuariensis Ecclesiae timentes ne Rex more suo electionem suam impediret adds Matthew Westminster Rege non inquisito so one or as another of them expresseth it Regis consensu non requisito Reginaldum Subpriorem suum in Archiepiscopum eligerunt media de nocte post factam electionem Hymno Te Deum Laudamus cantato prius super majus altare ac deinde in Archiepiscopali Cathedra posuerunt Verebantur enim quod si electio sine
Regis consensu ad ipsius aures pervenisset ipse processum negotii impedire laboraret as he had cause Unde nocte eadem idem Subprior praestita cautione juratoria quod sine licentia literis specialibus Conventus se electum non gereret vel literas Conventus de rato quas habebat alicui promulgaret assumptis secum de Conventu quibusdam Monachis Curiam Romanam adivit Hoc autem totum factum est ut electio illa Regem lateret donec probarent si rem inchoatam in Curia Romana possent perducere ad effectum Sed electus praefatus statim ut in Flandriam applicuisset spreto quod fecerat juramento se Caâ—tâ—ariensem esse electum clara voce confitetur ad hoc Romanam se adire Curiam ut factam electionem confirmaret Literas insuper Conventus quas de rato habebat quibuslibet ostendit credens in hoc causae suae meritum non mediocriter promoveri Tandem vero Romam perveniens Electionem suam Domino Papae ejus Cardinalibus illico publicavit literasque suas de rato palam omnibus ostendens constanter a Domino Papa exegit ut electionem factam benignitate Apostolica confirmaret Papa vero cum festinatione respondens dixit se velle deliberare donec majorem haberet certitudinem de premissis being glad of such an opportunity to wrest the disposition of this fat Archbishoprick out of the Monks and Kings hands too to subject both the Church and Crown of England to his usurping power which King John so strenuously opposed To carry on this businesse with as much art and disguise as was possible Per idem tempus ad Monachos Ecclesiae Cantuariensis contuendos Papa Innocentius ejusdem Ecclesiae suffraganeis scripsit sub hac forma INNOCENTIUS Episcopus servus servorum Dei Venerabilibus fratribus Vniversis suffraganeis Cantuariensis Eeclesiae salutem Apostolicam benedictionem Cum tempore Legis Mosaicae quae legitur ad perfectum neminem adduxisse carnales parentes apud Carnalem populum in ea reverentiaâ— fuerunt honore ut qui eis malediceret morte mori de mandato Domini juberetur multo magis sub lege Gratiae constitutos quae preciocissimo Christi sanguine rubriata portas aperit Paradysi ne legis transgrediendo mandata mortis damnationem incurrant tanto convenit diligentius praecavere quanto noscitur amplius formidandum animae quam Corporis incurrere detrimentum Si ergo Carnales Parentes tanta sint reverentia prosequendi quid est de spiritualibus praesumendum nisi sicut corpus spiritus sup rat dignitate sic reverentia honore spirituales parentes Carnalibus praeferantur Haec autem nos fracres praemississe noveritis quia cum vestram debeamus desiderare salutem veremur ne presens tribulatio quae vobis ut dicitur procurantibus suscitata est Matrem Cantuariensem Ecclesiam quam utique velut matrem tenemini revereri vobis periculum generet animarum eidem Ecclesiae tantum pariat detrimentum ut quod dispendiosa contentio generabit vix possit prolixiori temporum spatio restaurari Quocirca universitatem vestram monemus attentius hortamur in Domino per Apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus diligentius attendentes quid super his honori vestro expediat saluti non molestetis indebite Cantuariensem Ecclesiam matrem vestram cujus honores jura fidelitatis debito tenemini defensare ne de vobis merito conqueratur dicat Filios enutrivi exaltavi ipsi vero me non solummodo non cognoscunt sed severissime persequuntur Non autem perea quae premissimus vos a vestra prosequenda justitia dehortamur sed Pia nos facit affectio trepidare ne terminis statutis a patribus non contenti alii faciatis injuriam ea occasione reperta quod velitis prosequi jura vestra De caetero fratres omnipotens Dominus illuminet mentes vestras ut remota omni contentionis materia debitum matri vestrae non negetis obedientiam vel honorem nec contra divinum nec naturale mandatum aliis faciatis quod vobis fieri non vilitis Datum Romae apud Sanctum Petrum sexto Idus Decembris Pontificatus nostri Anno Octavo Monachi interea Cantuarienses cum de Suppriore suo cognovissent quod violato Juramento quod fecerat statim ut in Flandriam applicuisset se Electum gesserat eorum detegendo secretum commoti sunt vehementer contra eum continuo quosdam de Conventu Monachos miserunt ad Regem requirentes abeo licentiam Pastorem sibi idoneum eligendi Quibus Rex protinus absque omni conditione benigue annuit quod petebant et secretius eis alsoquens ostendit eis Episcopum Norwicensem magna sibi familiaritate conjunctum fore ipsumque solum ex omnibus Angliae Prelatis secretorum suorum esse conscium Unde sibi et regno suo magnum asierebat provenire commodum si eum ad Archiepiscopatum Cantuariensem transferre potuissent Rogavit igitur Monachos ut una cum Clericis suis quos missurus erat ad conventum hanc petitionem suam exponerent illis multos Conventui promittens honores si ipsum exaudire decrevissent Monachi vero ad propria reversi Conventui per ordinem retulerunt ea quae sibi a Rege fuerant impetrata Conventus autem ut Regem quem offenderant sibi reconciliarent convenientes in Capitulo Johannem Norwicensem Episcopum unammiter elegerunt illico quosdam de Conventu Monachos ad Electum dirigentes qui tunc pro agendis rebus Regis apud Eboracum erat mandantes ei ut Cantuariam cum festinatione veniret Nuntii quoque praepositum iter expedientes Episcopum jam dictum apud Notingham invenerunt qui Regis expletis negotis ad partes Australes properabat veniensque ad Regem Cantuariam simul profecti sunt atque die sequenti maxima multitudine in Ecclesia Metropolitana concurrente Prior Cantuariensis Rege presente Electionem factam de Johannis de Gray Episcopo Norwicensi palam cunctis pronunciavit assumentes eum Monachi cum Hymno Te Deum Laudamus portaverunt ad majus Altare tandemin Cathedra Archiepiscopali illum collocantes hoc fuit seminarium totius sequentis discordiae quae per secula detrimentum Angliae generavit damnum irrestaurabile Quo facto Rex videntibus cunctis misit electum illum in possessionem rerum omnium ad Archiepiscopatum pertinentium sic singuli ad propria sunt reversi Sicque in hac electione factus est novissimus error pejor priore sicut rerum exitus evidenter ostendit The next year 1206. Rex misit ad Curiam Romanam quosdam Cantuariensis Ecclesiae Monachos inter quos precipuus erat Magister Helias de Brantefeld quibus de fisco copiosas Rex ministravit expensas ut electionem de Episcopo Norwicensi factam impetrarent a Domino Papa
sequenti executionem sibi a summo Pontifice demandatam exequi non verentes prima die Lunae in passione Domini quae tunc contigit decimo Kalendas Aprilis sub generali Interdicto totam Angliam incluserunt quod sicut in Autentico Domini Papae expressum habetur non obstantibus privilegiis ab omnibus est inviolabiliter observatum Cessaverunt itaque in Anglia omnia Ecclesiastica Sacramenta praeter solummodo confessionem et viaticum in ultima necessitate et Baptisma parvulorum Quod ex callida indulgentia Papae concessum est ut abalienatis a Rege sibique conciliatis Regni subditis tam Regnum quam Regem sibi subiiceret adds Matthew Parker corpora quoque defunctorum de Civitatibus et villis efferebantur et more canum in biviis et fossatis sine orationibus et Sacerdotum ministerio sepeliebantur Trevisa Fabian Caxton Fox Speed with others adde That all the doors of Churches and other places where Divine Service before was used first in London and after in all places throughout the Land were shut up with Keys Walls and other fastenings no publick Prayers Masses or Divine Service must be once celebrated within them for sundry years ensuing by which unchristian Interdict this flourishing Church of England was publikely deprived for many years together of the very Face of Christianity even by Pope Innocent Christs pretended Vicar who acted here like Julian his professed Enemy immuring up the doors of all Christian Temples in despite of their God and for the Kings bare crossing of his unjust Papal Usurpations in defence of his Prerogative Royal censured even God and Christ himself to lose their publick Worship and all the People Bishops Clergy to hazard their souls living like Infidels without Gods Service and blessed Sacraments yea and dying like Dogs to be tumbled into every ditch without Christian buriall So well did he pursue our Saviours trebled precept to Peter whereon he founded his Papal Soveraignty John 22. 16 17. Feed my Sheep Feed my Lambs Matthew Paris subjoyns Quid plura Recesserunt latenter ab Anglia Willielmus Londinensis Eustachius Elyensis Malgerus Wygorniensis Jozelinus Bathoniensis Eg idius Herefordensis Episcopi chief Actors in this unchristian Tragedy satius Arbitrantes sevitiam commoti Regis ad tempus declinare quam in terra Interdicta sine fructu residere But before their departure they excommunicated all the Kings Officers who seized their Temporalties and Goods for this their Treasonable and Antichristian proceedings not only against himself but his whole Realm though not guilty of any contempt against the Pope The King hereupon out of just indignation and retaliation thus rigorously proceeded against these Trayterous Prelates and all the Clergy confederating with the Pope and them against his Rights and Soveraignty banishing the chief Actors and seizing the Possessions and Goods of the rest Thus registred by Matthew Paris REX igitur Anglorum ob causa Interdicti mente nimis confusus misit Vicecomites suos alios iniquitatis ministros in omnes â—ines Angliae praecipiens tam Praelatis singulis quam eorum subjectis cum comminatione terrifica ut incontinenter a Regno exirent et super hac injuria peterent sibi a Papa justitiam exhiberi Episcopatus insuper Abbatias Prioratus sub Laicorum custodia deputans universos redditus Ecclesiasticos confiscari praecepit Sed in hoc sibi caute prospiciebant Praelati generaliter omnes totius Regni quod de monasteriis suis exire noluerunt nisi per violentiam expellerentur Quod cum a Regiis Ministris suisset compertum Noluerunt alicui ingerere violentiam sicut nec a Rege praeceptum habuerunt sed bona eorum omnia in usus Regis convertentes victum eis vestitum parce ex rebus propriis ministrabant Horrea Clericorum Rege jubente obserata sunt ubique ad commodum fisci distracta Presbyterorum Clericorum focariae per totam Angliam a Ministris Regis captae sunt graviter ad se redimendum compulsae viri religiosi sive quicunque ordinati qui itinerantes reperti sunt in via ab equis suis projiciebantur spoliabantur a satellitibus Regis turpiter tractabantur nec fuit qui eis iustitiam exhiberet Venerunt ea tempestate in confinio Walliae ad regem mâ—nâ—â—râ— cujusdam vicecomitis ducentes praedonem unum manibus a tergo vinctis qui sacerdotem quendam in via spoliaverat interfecerat quaerentes a Rege quid super tali eventu sibi fieri placeret Quibus incontinenter respondit dicens Inimicum meum interemit solvite illum sinite abire Parentes quoque Archeepiscopi Episcoporum qui Angliam sub interdicto posuerunt jubente Rege capiebantur atque bonis omnibus spoliati in carcerem trudebantur Inter hec omnia mala perendenabant Pontifices prefati in partibus Transmarinis omnimodis viventes in delicius sese murum pro domo Domini non opponentes secundum Redemptoris sententiam cum Lupum viderunt venientem dimiserunt oves fagerunt Such was the Piety and Sobriety as well as Loyalty of these Ghostly Fathers who made all to fast from Gods publicke Worship After this general seisure of the Bishops and Clergies Temporalties and goods such of them as submitted to the King and refused to comply with the Interdict celebrating Divine Service and administring the Sacramentsto the people according to their duties both to God the King and people the King by special writs restored their Temporalties chattles goods to them retaining in his hands the Lands and goods of all Abbots Priors Religious houses and Clerks who submitted to the Interdict as is evident by these two Patents for restoring the Possessions lands and goods of the Bishops of Winchester and Norwich who complyed with the King as did Philip Bishop of Duresme heartning him to contemne the Popes causelesse curse though at last when the King surrendred his Crown they were all enforced to cry peccavi for it as Godwin observes REx c. Roberto Lupe G. de Serland Sciatis quod reddidimus domino Wintoniensi Episcopo Episcopatum Winton omnes terras res redditus possessiones suas Wardas suas omnia sua capta in manum Domini Regis occasione Interdicti Custodienda per manum suam Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ei Episcopatum suum omnia sua in Balliva tua habere faciatis in pace terrae saciatis Retentis in manu nostra terris redditibus rebus omnium Abbatum Priorum domorum Religiosorum etiam Clericorum de Episcopatu suo Teste W. Briwer apud Waverle Quinto die Aprilis Per eundem Sub eadem forma scribitur aliis in quorum Ballivis habet terras res vel tenementa MAndatum est Roberto de Burgata quod faciat habere Episcopo Norwicensi totum Regale quod ad Episcopatum suum
sibi inde fieri placeret Tunc Papa Pandulpho quandam pacis formam evidenter expressit cui si Rex assentire decreverit apud sedem Apostolicam poterit gratiam invenire Haec autem pacis forma inferius descripta continetur Per idem tempus Rex capi fecit Galfridum de Norwic. clericum suum fidelem prudentem elegantem in Castro de Nottingham paena excogitata usque mortem torqueri Quod videns Magister Williemus de Neccoto socius dicti Galfridi vir non minoris valoris fugit in Franciam apud Curbolium diu latitavit ne sicut Galfridus immerito necaretur These Clerks then secretly confederated with the Bishops to depose the King who to secure himself against their confederates by special Writs issued to all the Sheriffs of England remaining on Record though not printed in our Historians banished all those out of the Realm who had received any Churches or Rents from the Archbishops or Bishops of England or Priour of Canterbury then beyond the Seas who deprived of him his Crown and to seise their Churches and rents to his use and return them into his Exchequer REX Vicecomiti Middlesex c. Praecipimus tibi quod capias in manum nostram omnes Ecclesias redditus quos Archiepiscopi vel Episcopi Angliae vel prior Cantuariae qui ultra mare sunt dederunt in Balliva tua in absentia sua praecipias omnibus illis qui ea de dono eorum receperunt quod sine dilatione exeant de terra nostra Et scire facias distincte in crastino sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno Regni nostri Decimo Quarto Baronibus nostris de scaccario ubi fuerint redditus illi qui illi sint qui eos receperunt Teste W. Brigwer apud Westmonasterium Quinto die Junii per breve de privato sigillo Eodem modo scribitur omnibus Vicecomitibus Angliae The next year Anno Domini Millesimo Ducentisimo Decimo tertio Mense Januario redierunt a Curia Romana Stephanus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus Willielmus Londonensis Elyensis Episcopi habito in partibus transmarinis Concilio Regi Francorum Episcopis Gallicanis cum Clero pariter populo sententiam quae in Regem Anglorum Romae pro Contumacia lata fuerat solenniter promulgarunt Deinde exparte Domini Papae tam Regi Francorum quam caeteris universis in remissionem suorum peccaminum injunxerunt ut omnes pariter ad Angliam hostiliter accedentes Iohannem Regem a Regni solio deponerent et alium qui dignus efset authoritate Apostolica subrogarent Tunc Rex Francorum rem diu desideratam intelligens accinxit se ad pugnam atque omnes suae ditionis homines Duces videlicet Comites et Barones Milites et servientes cum equis et Armis jussit in Octavis Paschae sub nomine Culvertagii apud Rothomagum ita potenter convenire ne crimine laesae Majestatis damnum exheredationis incurrere viderentur vulgariter sub nomine Felonis Fecit praeterea omnes naves suae potestatis alias multas quas colligere poterat frumento vino carne diversis armamentis optime munire ut in omnium copiam rerum tam numerosus excercitus abundaret Tunc temporis quoque Rex vulpina calliditate ab omnibus Religiosorum domibus ad excusandum excusationes in peccatis chartas exegit quibus testarentur se gratis contulisse quaecunque ab eis violenter extorsit Upon those great Preparations of the French against England REX Anglorum Johannes de omnibus quae in transmarinis partibus agebantur per exploratores edoctus cogitavit qualiter callide insidiis sibi paratis resistere potuisset Fecit itaque mense Martio idem Rex inbreviare omnes Naves de universis portubus totius Angliae per hoc Breve quod singulis portuum Ballivis in haec verba direxit JOhannes Rex Angliae c. Precipimus tibi quatenus statim visis literis ist is eas in propria persona una cum Ballivis portuum ad singulos Portus de Balliva tua facias diligenter inbreviare omnes naves ibi inventas quae possunt ferre sex equos vel plures praecipias exparte nostra magistris omnium navium illarum illis quorum naves sunt quod sicut se Naves suas omnia sua diligunt habeant illas apud Portesm in media Quadr agessima bene adornatas bonis probis Marinellis bene armatis qui ituri sunt in servitium nostrum ad liberationes nostras tunc habeas ibi memoriter distincte inbreviatum quot naves in singulis portubus inveneris quorum ipsae sint quot equos quaelibet ferre possit Et tunc facias nobis scire quot quae naves non fuerint in portubus suis die dominica proxima post cineres sicut preceperamus habeas hoc breve Teste meipso apud Novum Templum tertia die Martii His ita gestis de Navibus misit Rex alias Literas ad omnes Vicecomites Regni sui sub hac forma JOhannes Rex Angliae c. Summone per bonos summonitores Comites Barones Milites omnes liberos homines servientes vel quicunque sint de quocunque teneant qui arma habere debeant vel arma habere possint qui homagium nobis vel ligantiam fecerunt quod sicut nos seipsos omnia sua diligunt sint apud Doveram ad instans clausum Pascha bene parati cum equis armis cum toto posse suo ad defendendum caput nostrum et capita sua et terram Angliae et quod nullus remaneat qui arma portare possit sub nomine Culvertagii et perpetuae servitutis Et unusquisque sequaetur Dominum suum qui terram non habent armahabere possint illunc veniant ad capiendum soliditas nostras Et tu omnem attractum victualium omnia mercata Ballivarum tuarum venire facias ut sequantur excercitum nostrum ita quod nullum mercatum de Ballivis tuis alibi teneatur tu ipse tunc sis ibi cum praedictis summonitionibus Et scias quod scire volumus quomodo venerint de Ballivis tuis qui venerint qui non Et videas quod tu ita effortiate venias cum equis armis haec ita exequaris ne inde ad corpus tuum nos capere debeamus Et tu inde habeas rotulum tuum ad nos certificandum qui remanserint His ergo literis per Angliam divulgatis convenerunt ad maritima in locis diversis Regi magis suspectis videlicet apud Doveram Ferversham Gipeswicum homines diversae conditionis aetatis nihil magis quam opprobrium Culvertagii metuentes Sed cum post dies paucos tantae multitudini victus defuisset remiserunt ad propria Principes Militiae ex inermi vulgo multitudinem
copiosam milites solummodo servientes liberos homines cum Balistariis sagitariis juxta maritima retinentes Venit praeterea de Hibornia Johannes Episcopus Norwicensis cum militibus quingentis equitibus multis ad Regem ab ipso gratanter susceptus est Omnibus igitur congregatis ad pugnam aestimati sunt in exercitu apud Barham donam inter milites electos servientes strenuos bene armatos sexaginta millia virorum fortium quibus si erga Regem Angliae et defensionem Patriae cor fuisset et anima una non fuisset Princeps sub Coelo contra quem regnum Angliae se non defenderet Constituit preterea Rex cum adversariis navale praelium conferre ut eos pelago submergeret antequam terram occuparent Habebat namque classem uberiorem quam Rex Francorum unde maximam securitatem concepit hostibus resistendi What King John in point of prudence Policy Valour Warre Justice Conscience could have done more then he did to protect and defend the invaded Rights of his Crown Kingdom people Church of England against the manifold unparalleld Treasons Policies Stratagems Usurpations affronts unjust demands Interdict excomunication dijudication from his Crown and Kingdomes and intended invasions of this insolent Pope and his Agents his own perjured Trayterous Bishops Monks Clergy and their domestick confederats his French and other forraign enemies with admirable courage gallantry prudence success for 8. years space together transcends my understanding to define the times and circumstances duly considered for which he really deserved more honour thanks from the Crown Church Realm and people of England then all of his predecessors had he still persevered in his former unshaken magnanimous Resolutions and not been decoyed by Pandulphus must strangly to fail in his last actings his Army and Navy then raised through Gods assistance being able to have encountred all the forces raised against him and dissipated them like a mist before the Sun BOOK III. CHAP. II. Of King Johns most unworthy prostitution not only of the undoubted Rights and Privileges of his Crown but of Himself his Diadem Kingdoms of England and Ireland after so many years glorious Contests to the Tyrannical Vsurpations of Pope Innocent and his own Trayterous Bishops and Clergy Of his resignation of his Crown and Kingdoms by two several Charters to the Pope and his Successors and resuming of them as their Feudatory under an Annual Rent His Oath of Homage and Fealty to the Pope The Validity of these Charters Rents and their payment debated The present subsequent Oppositions against them His Oppositions to the Encroachments of his Treacherous Rebellious Bishops and Clergy who dealt most Treacherously with and stirred up the Barons Wars Rebellions against him when they had enforced him to resign his Crown and protested against his Vnkingly actions when accomplished by their own procurement and designs With other memorable particulars and Records relating to these Transactions and this Kings Charters proceedings in Ecclesiastical Elections Affairs as Supream Patron therein within his own Dominions HAving presented you with King Johns most heroick vigilant strenuous defence of his supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over all persons causes within his Realms and Dominions for 14. years space I shall in the next place inform you by what arts menaces fears terrours he was at last by the intoxications of the Pope and his Legate Pandulphus when he had raised such a puissant Army as might have secured him against all Foreign Invaders a small part of his Navy burning and sinking all the French Kings Fleet in Flanders soon after the surrender of his Crown suddenly emasculated and totally metamorphosed into a quite contrary person resolution and induced not only to part with most of the antient Ecclesiastical Prerogatives united to his Crown but with his very Crown Kingdoms themselves which he resigned to the Pope becoming his sworn Vassal Tenant for his own Kingdoms under an annual rent which rendred him a scorn derision to his Bishops Barons Subjects and all other Christian Kings with the Arguments and Policies by which the Pope and his Legates effected these their unjust designs You heard in the precedent Chapter what a puissant Army and Navy King John had provided to resist the Invasions of the French King and all his Confederates who conspired to deprive him of his Crown Kingdoms and what secret Agreements Articles Instructions the Pope had given to Pandulphus to communicate to K. John whereby he might purchase his peace at Rome if condescended to by him without any hesitation I shall now proceed to inform you out of Matthew Paris how Pandulphus proceeded to accomplish the Popes designs and decoy King John to submit to his most unworthy Proposals DUm autem Rex Anglorum cum innumera Armatorum copia circa maritima Regis Francorum prestolaretur adventum applicuerunt duo fratres de Militia templi apud Doveram venientes amicabiliter ad Regem dixerunt ei Missi sumus ad te O Rex potentissime ex parte Pandulphi subdiaconi ac Domini Papae familiaris qui pro utilitate vestra Regni vestri vobiscum petit habere colloquium proponet enim quandam tibi pacis formam qua poteris Deo Ecclesiae reconciliari licet in Curia Romana â— jure Regni Angliae abjudicatus fueris sententialiter condemnatus Rex vero cum Templariorum verba intellexisset misit Templarios memoratos propter Pandulphum quantocius transfretare Venit ergo Pandulphus ut dictum est invitatus ad Regem apud Doveram cum ipso loquutus est dicens Ecce Rex Francorum potentissimus in Ostio Sequanae fluminis cum innumera navium multitudine maximo militum equitum peditumque stipatus agmine ad hoc expectat ut majoribus adhuc vallatus catervis super vos Regnum vestrum hostiliter veniat quasi Domino summo Pontifici rebellem a Regno te violenter depellat atque authoritate sedis Apostolicae Regnum Angliae perpetuo jure possideat Veniunt cum illo omnes Episcopi dudum ab Anglia proscripti cum Clericis Laicis exultantibus ut ipso duce sedes Episcopales cum rebus aliis te invito recipiant obsequium vobis olim antecessoribus vestris exhibitum ipsi de caetero reverenter impendant Jactat se praeterea idem Rex Chartas habere omnium fere Angliae Magnatum de fidelitate subjectione unde plenam concepit securitatem ad finem optimum rem perducere inchoatam Consule ergo saltem nunc quasi in extremis agenti utilitati tuae ut ad poenitentiam redeas Dominum quem contra te ad vindictam provocasti gravissimam placere ne differas si enim sufficientem volueris praestare cautionem judicio Ecclesiae parendi humiliari pro ipso qui se pro te humiliavit poteris ex Clementia sedis Apostolicae Regnum recuperare a quo pro
due admonition a meer Nullity inconsistent with Monarchy or the Kings or kingdoms Rights To which reasons I shall subjoyn I. That this Charter was procured by the Popes own wrongs and Duresse against King Iohn I. By interdicting his whole kingdom 2ly Excommunicating him by name 3ly Absolving all his Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance and Fealty 4ly By depriving both him and his heirs of their kingdoms and giving them to the French King and his heirs 5ly By publishing a general Crossado for all Christian Barons Knights to assist the French King to deprive him of his kingdoms by force of arms In all which Antichristian proceedings the Pope being both Judge and Party K. John the only person injured these his own wrongs frauds force can give him no just Title by any Laws Frauds and circumventions being expresly a prohibited Christians in the Gospel especially towards one another It is an old teceived Maxim in all Laws b Fraus Dolus nemini patrocinantur whence Charters Dowers Remitters gained by fraud collusion circumvention force are meer Nullities That c Nemo in propria causa potest esse Judex especially if Judex Testis too Yea Pope Gregory the I. and a whole Council denouuced an Anathema against the Pope himself or any other that should presume to be a Judge in his own cause sive in rusticano sive in urbano praedio much more then in case of two kingdoms whence Bartholomeus Buxiensis Dr. John Thierry and other Canonists in their Glosses on Gratian caus 16. qu. 6. resolve downright Papa in sua causa Judex esse non debet yet Alvarus Pelagius De Planctu Eccles l. I. Artic 34 35. affirms the contrary upon this strong presumption and supposition Quod non debet aliquam causam a se remittere immo non potest licet suspectus quamdiu est Papa Papa enim aut sanctus est aut sanctus praesumitur non enim praesumendum est quod alias faciat Papa quam Christus vel Petrus cujus est Vicarius Successor Which presumption ceased in King Johns case neither of them being ever Judges in their own case but submitting to the Judgement and execution of the Civil Magistrate and never denouncing such Interdicts curses against any nor procuring such a surrender charter of temporal kingdoms to themselves as the Pope did here much lesse by such unchristian practises To which I shall adde that this is a Maxim frequently resolved in Law-books by all the Judges of the Realm That none can be judge in his own case who have further adjudged that d if an Act of Parl make any person Judge in his own case the very Act it self is voyd in Law being against the Law of Nature which ought not to be violated and all Judgements given thereon are voyd Since therefore all these Judgements of Interdict Excommunication Deposition transferring his Crown to the French this Agreement from Rome and oath to perform it were all made by the Pope himself both Judge Party chief Witnesse and his professed Enemy too and that upon his Legates and Bishops bare Informations and false Suggestions in Kings Iohns absence without Oath Summons or Liberry to purge himself before any Lawfull indifferent Judge Arbitrator or Tribunal thereupon the Charters on this Account are meer Nullities in Law to all intents and purposes 2ly If Pope Innocents deprivation of King John and his heirs and giving away his Crown to the King of France and his heirs were good in Law as he reputed them then King John after this Sentence and grant to the French King had no power to resign to or resume his Crown and Kingdoms from this Pope nor he to approate them to himself as St. Peters Patrimony against his grant to the King of France who by his own command was at so prodigal expence in raising an Army to take possession thereof And so this Resignation Charter voyd by his own Act. 3ly It is a received Maxime in the Lawes of a England seconded by sundry Statutes hundreds of Resolutions by all the learned Judges of the Realm from age to age That if the King be misinformed circumvented or mistaken in the considerations grounds motives of his Grants especially by the circumvention of those to whom they are made the Charters of grant in such cases are meerly voyd to all intents Therefore this Charter must be so above any I ever yet read For 1. it recites That King Iohn publikely acknowledged he had offended God and his holy mother the Church meaning the Pope and his Traiterous exiled Bishops in many things for which he much needed Gods mercy to wit in not admitting Stephen Langton unduly elected to be Archbishop by this Popes own practises force fraud against the just rights of his Crown and Liberties of the Church of England in not submitting to his impious Interdict but commanding all Bishops Priests to celebrate divine Service Sacraments notwithstanding it and punishing those who disobeyed in not subjecting himself to his Excommunications unreasonable demands seising the Temporalties goods of his Treacherous Bishops and refusing to restore them for interdicting his Realm and depriving him of his Crown c. When as this Pope and they on the contrary by these impious proceedings had more highly offended God his Church the King for which they more needed mercie and to make publike acknowledgement and satisfaction thereof to the King by some humble Addresse rather then to extort this Charter from him upon such a false surmise 2ly That he needed to humble himself and both his kingdoms for these his pretended personal sinnes whereof his kingdoms especially Ireland were not guilty and so needed not to be humbled for them 3ly That he had nothing fit or worthy to make satisfaction to God or his Church for these his surmised sins but the humbling of himself and his Kingdom so farr as this against all rules of Law Justice and without president in any precedent age whatsoever in sacred or prophane storie to resign both his Crown kingdoms to this Pope and his Successors resume them from his Legat as his Tributary under an annual rent and to swear homage and fealty to him and them when as God himself the King of Kings never required any such satisfaction from the worst of the Kings of Israel and Iudah and this satisfaction was neither actually made to God nor yet to his Church but meerly to Pope Innocent himself and his Successors who was then neither God nor his Church but a professed Enemy to both as his above six years continued Interdict and proceedings demonstrate Besides the Church offended by his proceedings if any was the Church only of England by the Archbishops Bishops and Monks of Canterburies confiscations and exile not the Church or Pope of Rome who had no Right to dispose of the See of Canterbury or any of the Bishops and Monks seised Temporalties Therfore the satisfaction and Charter should have been only made to the
Church of England and those Bishops Monks not to this Pope Nocent and his Successors 4ly The satisfaction that was made by the King to the Archbishop Bishops and Monks in admitting restoring them to their Temporalties goods confiscated and what ever unreasonable dammage they could pretend to though Arch Traitors Rebels Enemies to him deserving rather a Gibbet after so many successive Treasons and Practises against him was more then sufficient being then made and secured to the Church he had offended without this resignation or oblation of his kingdoms to this Pope by this charter and swearing homage to him And so the charter void upon this account 5ly That this Charter was made by the inspiration of the holy Ghost is as direct a lye and blasphemy against the holy Ghost as that of Ananias to St. Peter who lyed not only to men but to God For 1. The holy Ghost never instructed any King to resign up his Kingdoms without his Subjects consents to any who had not the least right or pretence thereto 2ly He never taught any Pope Prelate Apostle or Clergy-man to receive Crowns Scepters kingdoms or Oaths of Fealty Homage and subjection from Kings to them as their Vassals but expresly prohibits them to do it commanding them to live in subjection to them and not intangle themselves in tho affairs of this world as I have largely demonstrated 3ly The premised passages of Mat Paris Mat. Westminster and others assures us That Pope Innocent and his Legate Pandulphus inspired those motions into King John which induced him to make this Charter which were full of Antichristian menaces and untruths As that near all the Barons and Commons of England had by their Charters promised homage and fealty to the King of France and to assist him to seise his Crown and kingdoms by force of arms c. Now whether such an insolent Impostor as Pandulphus such an Antichristian Pope as this Innocent were in truth the holy Ghost or their false fraudulent menaces surmises infused into this King by the inspirations of the holy Ghost or can be so reputed without blasphemy let all sober Christians judge they really proceeding from the very father of Lyes the Devil 6ly This pretended holy Ghost inspired him to insert these 8. notorious Lyes and false Suggestions together into the very next words of the Charter 1. That he did it non vi inducti so the later Charter but the first non vi interdicti 2. Nec timore coacti 3. Sed nostra bona spontaneaque voluntate which 3. all the premised passages disprove 4. Ac Communi consilio Baronum nostrorum offerimus as the last or conferimus as the first Charter Contradicted by the Barons themselves King Henry the 3d. the whole Kingdom and their Proctors to the Popes face in the Council of Lyons King Edward the 3d. and his whole Parliament by our Historian yea the French King and all his Nobles as you have heard 5. Libere concedimus c. 6ly Deo Sanctis Apostolis Petro Paulo who neither required approved nor accepted this satisfaction nor to whom King John ever intended it 7ly Et Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae matri nostrae she being then his and our Churches stepmother enemy not mother all made stales to usher in this clause which hath the sole colour of truth Ac Domino nostro is added in the last not in the first charter Papae Innocentio ejusque Catholicis successoribus totum Regnum Angliae totum Regnum Hyber niae the word nostrum is omitted in both Charters and annexed to neither therefore void in Law cum omni jure pertinentiis suis 8ly For this pretended end Pro remissione omnium peccatorum meorum the only supposed delinquent totius generis nostri tam pro vivis quam pro defunctis the later whereof were no wayes privie to not guilty of his surmised offences against the Pope and Church Which Charter being against his Oath trust office duty and the Laws increased his Sins but could no wayes tend towards the remission of them as this Pope and Pandulphus untruly suggested 7ly It s Nullity in Law is most apparent from these 3. grand defects 1. King Johns surrender of his Crowns kingdoms to Pandulphus at least 5. dayes before was only by word of mouth not Patent or Charter and so voyd in Law 2ly Pandulphus had no special Letter of Attorny from the Pope either to receive this charter or surrender to the Popes use or regrant his kingdoms to King John under this special annual rent homage and other conditions 3ly Here is no reconveyance of them from the Pope or his Legat to King Iohn by any special Bull but only King Johns bare charter to the Pope Therefore all a meer void Pageantry passing just nothing 8ly The Tenure of King John in the last Charter quite subverts the Popes Title For whereas the first runs Et amodo illa ab eo to wit Pope Innocent the later is amodo illa A Deo Ecclesia Romana tanquam feodum the first is secundarius recipientes tenentes That the Kings of England hold their Crowns Kingdoms immediatly and only from God and King Iohn as well as his Predecessors not from the Pope or Church of Rome I have formerly evidenced Therfore he by this Charter holding and receiving it only from God not the Pope to whom he here granted it as concedimus Deo evidenceth by whom alone Kings reign receive their kingdoms the Pope being not mentioned in this clause and the Church of Rome no party to this Charter nor Proprietarie of our Realms nor exalted so as to out God himself of the Kings immediate Tenure of his Crown from him alone as his Soveraign Lord the Charter must needs be void 9ly Upon this account the Oath of Homage made and sworn by the King to Pope Innocent in the presence of his Legat Pandulphus seeing all the branches thereof relate only to him and his Successors not to God St. Peter St. Paul or the Church of Rome only inserted for a blind in the prologue not in any branches of the Oath must necessarily be void in Law and conscience else God the Supream Landlord and his Church alone commanding one thing and the Pope another contrary thereunto as oft he doth the King and his Successors by his Oath and Homage should be bound to obey the Pope before God or the Church under pain of forfeiting their right in the two kingdoms which were both irreligious and absurd 10ly The Clause whereby the King obligeth his heirs and successors to do homage to the Pope and his Successors and not to contradict any thing in this charter under pain of forfeiting his Right to these kingdoms is contrary to the Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown specially excepted out of this grant yea contrary to the coronation Oath and Laws of the Realm Therefore it makes the Charter Null to
Domini Papae Clerico vel ejus certo Nuncio has literas deferenti modis omnibus Liberetis de decima aute dicta nos eas in eadem decima volumus allocari In cujus c. Teste Rege apud sanctum Paulum London Vicesimo sexto die Julii REX Venerabilibus Patribus O. sancti Adriani Diacono Cardinali Apostolicae sedis Legato W. Eborum Archiepiscopo Angliae Primati discretis viris Magistris S. Cantuar. R. Cleiveland in Ecclesia Eborum Archidiaconis salutem Cum sanctissimo Patri Domino C Papae teneamur in septem Millibus Marcarum de Arreragiis annui Census mille Marcarum quas de nobis percipit ad scaccarium nostrum Quam quidem pecuniam de Decima nobis concessa in Hibernia persolvi volumus sine mora Uos rogamus quatinus predicta Septem Millia Marcarum eidem Domino Papae omnibus modis assignetis de Decima antedicta Et nos eas in eadem Decima faciemus allocari In Cujus c. After this for two years space and an half this Annuity remained unpayd and then the King at the Popes importunity Anno. 54. of his raign sent these Letters Patents to the Bishop and Dean of Lincoln to pay it without delay or difficulty to the Nuntio of the Sea Apostolick and Church of Rome out of the Tenthes of the Diocesse of Lincoln promising to allow it and allowing it on their Account by this Patent REX Episcopo Decano Lincolniae salutem Cum vos assignaverimus ad satisfaciendum Magistro Sinicio Apostolicae sedis Ecclesiae Romanae Nuncio et procuratori nomine ipsius Ecclesiae de Duabus Millibus Quadringentis et Uiginta et una Marcis quatuor solidis sex denariis et obolo in quibus eidem Ecclesiae tenemur pro Arreragiis Annui Census Mille Marcarum quas dicta Ecclesia de nobis percipit ad scaccarium nostrum quam quidem pecuniam de Summa nobiscum pro Decima Lincoln Dioc. conventa persolvi volumus sine mora vobis mandamus quatinus pecuniam predictam prefato magistro Sinicio vel ad ejus mandatum nomine predictae Ecclesiae sine dilatione vel difficultate aliqua modis omnibus vos vel alter vestrum plenarie liberetis de summa predicta Nos enim pecuniam ipsam quam eidem vel ad ejus mandatum solveritis unde liter as suas de Acquietancia penes vos habueritis vobis in Summa predicta nobiscum conventa volumus allocari per presentes Literas allocamus In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium Decimo die Novembris This is the last payment during King Henry the 3d. his reign who paid it with much reluctancy and unwillingnesse delaying it many years together and never issuing out Warrants to pay it but when he had extraordinary pressing occasions to make use of the Popes and Cardinals favour and assistance whereby he might reap far greater advantages then the damage of its payment now and then at his own pleasure amounted to King Henry the 3d. deceasing in the 57. year of his reign and King Edward the 1. succeeding him Pope Gregory the X. in the 3d. year of his reign sent this complemental Bull unto him the original whereof I found in the White Tower with sundry other Bulls of consequence long buried under dust and cob-webs humbly requiring and beseeching the King to assist and advise Nogerius his Chaplain in collecting the Tribute of the Church of Rome and Peter-pence in England Wales Scotland and Ireland to give him a safe conduct whenever desired and particularly to assign unto him freely and fully seven years arrears formerly due and that present years Annual Pension wherein he stood bound to the Church The Transcript whereof I shall here present you with GREGORIVS Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei Charissimo in Christo Filio Edwardo Regi Angliae Illustri salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Quod ad benevolentiam tibi favorabilem matrem tuam Romanam Ecclesiam reverentiam jugiter exhibens filialem non solum de juribus in quibus teneris eidem promptitudine sibi respondeas liberali immo etiam ubicunque de suis pertractandis Negotiis agitur fructuosus Adjutor propitius habearis firmam spem gerimus infallibilem fiduciam obtinemus Cum itaque dilectum filium Magistrum de Nogeriis Capellanum nostrum nobis fratribus nostris merito suae probitatis acceptum pro Censibus Colligendis et denario Beati Petri ac debitis praefatae Ecclesiae requirendis aliisque nostris et ipsius Ecclesiae Negotiis ad partes Angliae Walliae Scotiae Hyberniae jamdudum duxerimus transmittendum Celsitudinem Regiam requirimus attentius rogamus quatenus Capellanum ipsum benigne recipiens honeste per tractans Annuum Censum in quo Constat eidem Ecclesiae te teneri pro instanti et septem transactis annis in quibus non fuit Census hujusmodi persolutus Capellano ipsi nostro et Ecclesiae memoratae nomine Llberaliter facias et integre assignari dictum Capellanum praefata negotia promoventem habens circa illa pro nostra Apostolicae sedis reverentia propensius commendatum eidem super hiis ac etiam in securo conductu per Reginum tuum cum ab ipso fueris requisitus auxilium opportunum consilium impensurus Ita quod proinde serenitatem Regiam dignis laudrbus gratiarum actionibus prosequamur Dat. Lugduni viij Idus Novembris Pontificatus nostri Anno Tertio I cannot find in the Liberate or other Rolls that those arrears were ever satisfied by King Edward the 1. which incurred in his Father King Henry the 3d. his reign But by Pope Martin the 4th his Bull and his Nuncioes solemn acquittance to him declared by his agreement before Witnesses of quality and attested under their Seals it appears that King Edward the 1. after a Treaty about these 8. years arrears was contented and promised to pay 4000. Marks for 4. years incurred during his reign at the Feast of Michaelmas Anno 1277. by the hands of foreign Marchants there named the receipt whereof he acknowledged by his Bull in form following MARTINVS Episcopus servus servorum Dei Karissimo in Christo filio Edwardo Regi Angliae Illustri salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Exparte tua fuit propositum coram Nobit ut cum de Annuo Censu Mille Marcarum Argenti in quo Ecclesiae Romanae teneris pro Dctennio jam transacto in festo Beati Michaelis de mense Septembris tunc currente Anno Domini Milesimo Ducentesimo septuagesimo septimo terminato ipsi Romanae Ecclesiae fuerit pro parte tua per diversas solutiones integre satisfactum nec fueris de satisfactione hujusmodi a sede Apostolica opportunas quietationis literas assecutus Petebatur a nobis ut providere tibi in hac parte paterna diligentia curaremus Nos igitur Petitioni tuae utpote justae
dicetur voluntati Regiae paruissent Rex transhumbranas Provincias adiit Comitemque Albemarlensem Gulielmum qui ibidem sub Stephano Rex verior fuerat de re consimili eodemque cateros pondere authoritatis convenit Ille diu haesitans multumque aestuans tandemcorde saurius potestati succubuit et quaecunque ex Regio dominio pluribus jam annis possederat cum ingenti anxietate resignavit maxime famosum illud et nobile Castrum quod dicitur Scarcheburch quod idem Comes in Eboracensi provincia super rupis planiciem turrim Infantium augustius fabricavit In eadem ergo Piovincia Rebus ad votum gestis Rex ad superiora Angliae remeans solum Hugonem de Mortuo Mari virum fortem nobilem rebellem invenit Castrum Regium de Brugenorth retinendo Qui cum juberetur propriis esse contentus reddere quae de jure regio possidebat pertinacissime renuit se ad resistendum modis quibus potuit praeparavit Rex vero Exercitu celeriter congregato Brigiam obsedit post tempus modicum fortiter oppugnatum in deditionem recepit dicto Comiti cujus cor paulo ante quasi cor Leonis fuerat humiliato supplici veniam largitus est After which to compleat this resumption Item repetiit a Rege Scotorum Northumbriam Regi quoque Scotorum qui boriales Angliae regiones scilicet Northumbriam Cumberlandiam et Westmerlandiam nomine dictae Imperatricis et Haeredis ejus olim ad David Regem Scotorum adquisitas tanquam jus proprium possidebat mandare curavit regem Angliae non debere tanta regni sui parte fraudari justumque est reddi quod fuit suo nomine adquisitum Ille vero Rex Scotiae Regem Angliae in hac parte prudenter praevalere Considerans praenominatos fines cum integritate restituit repetenti et ab eo vicissim Comitatum Huntingdoniae prisco sibi Jure competentem recepit By his Example King Richard the First selling and demising much of his Crown-lands to raise monies towards his Voyage to the Holy Land upon his return thence Anno Dom. 1193. by perswasions and intreaties rather then force resumed and got surrenders of them again as void in Law and prejudicial to the Crown c Illi autem emptores mox Regio metu attoniti nulla habita quaestione de sorte non percepta omnia resignarunt Dunolmensis etiam Episcopus qui Comitatum Northumbriae gravi summa comparatum per aliquot annos possideret resignando desinens esse Comes in simplicem Episcopum rediit ut prius Nec in hac parte prae caeteris privilegium habuit Anno Dom 1224. All the Nobles and others of England who had any of King Henry the 3d. his Castles and Lands were enjoyned to surrender them up to him by the Pope and Bishops under pain of Excommunication Saluberrimo usi consilio venerunt apud Northamptonam ad Regem universi a Comite Cestrensi incipientes reddiderunt singuli Castella Municipia honores custodias Regi quae ad Coronam spectare videbantur So in 1 R. 2. rot Parl. n. 48. 10 R. 2. c. 1. 1 H 4. rot Parl. nu 100. 6 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 14. 8 H. 4. rot Parl. nu 29. 52. 1 H. 5. rot Parl. n. 9. 1 H. 5. c. 3. 26 H. 6. rot Parl. n. 54. 29 H. 6. n. 17. 31 H. 6. c. 7. 35 H. 6. n. 47. 4 E. 4. rot Parl. n. 39 40. 7 E. 4. rot Parl. n. 8. 8 E. 4. rot Parl. n. 26. 13 E. 4. rot Parl. n. 6. There are several resumptions and revocations made by Acts of Parliament of the Grants of our Kings of the Lands and Revenues of the Crown to the publique prejudice and restitution of them made to the Crown for the better support thereof and ease of the people in their publique Taxes as being not valid nor obligatory to those Kings who made them much lesse to their Successors especially when made by those who though Kings de facto had no just Title to the Crown Therefore King Johns Charters upon this account might more justly be declared void and repealed if ever valid then any others repealed by these Acts which conveyed not the whole Kingdoms of England and Ireland but only some parcels of the Crown Lands and Revenues still held of our Kings by rents and services as supreme Lords 3ly By this resolution of f Matthew Paris himself and the Lawyers of England Anno Dom. 1251. in the case of King Henry the 3d. his secret mortgage of his Realm to the Pope for monies borrowed of him in his Wars and disbursed therein by the Pope which they declared to be null void and blasted at least by Gods divine Judgement Ipso quoque tempore Rex secus quam deceret aut expediret se suumque Regnum sub poena exhaeredationis quod tamen facere nec potuit nec debuit Dom Papae obligavit ad solutionem totius the sauri quam in expeditione sui belli pro ipso Rege foret expositurus Unde Papa nulla gerens super Anglia viscera pietatis largè imo prodigaliter mutuo pecuniam ab Italicis Vsurariis quos Mercatores vocant accepit Quam ipsomet Papa extorquente mulgente a Rege Anglia ultimae servitutis pedissequa solvere cogeretur Sed justo Dei judicio tota illa innumerabilis pecunia rapta praedata penitus nullum vel Papae vel Regi commodum suscitavit If this King could not morgage his kingdom to the Pope for monies lent much lesse could King Iohn surrender his kingdoms of England and Ireland to the Pope and his Successors and resume them under an annual Rent without any consideration 4ly The 1 Title of the Crown and kingdom of France being devolved by meer right upon King Edward the 3d there grew some fears and jealousies in the Nobility and Commons of England that they should be put in subjection to the Crown and Realm of France against Law and their antient privileges to prevent which the King and Parliament in the 14 of Edward the 3d. Statute 4. passed a special Act printed in our Statutes at large declaring That the Realm of England never was nor ought to be in subjection nor in the obeysance of the Kings of France nor of the Realm of France And then Enacted That the King of England or his Heirs by colour of his or their Titles to the Crown Seal Arms and Title of the King of France should not in any time to come put the Realm of England or people of the same of what estate or condition soever they be in subjection or obeisance of him nor his heirs or successors AS KINGS OF FRANCE nor be subject nor obedient but shall be free and quit of all manner of subjection and obeysance as they were wont to be in the times of his Progenitors Kings of England FOR EUER If the Kings of England themselves could not
Charter or Bull of Priviledge surrendring up to the Emperor only his antient just right of Investitures to be null void and of no efficacy at all because extorted from the Pope by violence of the Emperor notwithstanding his confirmation of the irrepeleable efficacy thereof with an Anathema his and all his Bishops Cardinals and Clergyes approbations thereof prayers for the Emperor and great expressions of love and loyalty to him when and immediately after it was made but the very year before And if by Pope Boniface his resolution things done through force or fear ought not to stand in Law or be prejudicial to the Realm of Scotland All Popes and their Advocates unlesse strangely intoxicated or blinded with partiality must now at last acknowledge that King Johns Charter extorted from him with greater force violence fear then that from Pope Pascalis detestable to all the world dishonourable to the King destructive to the Crown and its Regalities prejudicial to the whole Kingdom and so frequently condemned abominated in all ages and the Annual Pension Oblation granted in it was originally null void unobligatory in it self both to King John his Successors and Kingdoms for all the premised reasons and Authorities I have thus largely insisted on the proof of this Charters nullity for 2. reasons 1. Because Popes and their Parasites have so much vaunted of and insisted on it in former and late times as intitling the Pope to the supreme Dominion and Soveraignty of England and Ireland and the Annual Pension of one Thousand Marks as the grandest evidence of our Kings and Kingdoms vassalage to the Church of Rome 2ly Because it was the principal ground occasion introduction to all subsequent intollerable Usurpations Enchroachments Exactions of Popes upon our Kings Kingdoms Churches Rights Priviledges Properties the subverting nulling whereof will null and invalid all other Usurpations founded on or springing from it Which considerations may justly excuse my prolixity in discussing its invalidity and dipressing somewhat therein from my Chronological order I now return to my Historical method from the time of this Charters sealing The Pope and his Legate Nicholas having by this Charter in a manner dethroned King John of his Regal Dignity Authority and made themselves more then Kings Lords both of England and Ireland in their own apprehensions began forthwith to play REX to shew themselves professed Tyrants usurping the soveraign Authority both in Church and State presenting to all Bishopricks Abbies Spiritual Promotions and Benefices then void without the Patrons consent by way of Provision and Collation which they oft attempted but never could effect till now to the prejudice of the Crown and inthralling of the Church of England not vouchsafing to consult either with the King himself the Archbishop or Bishops concerning their disposal Thus storied by Matthew Paris EOdem tempore Innocentius Papa Nicholao Apostolicae sedis Legato Literas sub hac forma direxit Cum non possit Ecclesiis Domini melius provideri quam si eis Pastores prâ—ficiantur idonei qui non tam praeessâ—â—â—piant quam prodesse fraternitati tuae de qua plenam fiduciam obtinemus per Apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus Episcopatus et Abbatias Angliae nunc vacantes facias cum tuo consilio de personis idoneis per electionem vel postulationem Canonicam ordinari qui non solum vita sed et scientia sint praeclari verum etiam Regi fideles et Regno utiles nec non ad auxilium et concilium efficaces assensu Regio requisito Now inserted only to court the King out of his right rather then to preserve it as the sequel proved Cum ergo vacantium Ecclesiarum Capitulis nostris Literis demus in mandatis ut tuo consilio adquiescant tu Dominum habens prae oculis consulas super his viros providos et honestos qui plene norint merita personarum ne te cujusquam astutia circumvenire contingat Si qui vero contradictores fuerint vel rebelles tu eos per Censuram Ecclesiasticam appellatione remota compellas Datum Laterani Calendis Novembris Pontificatus nostri Anno Decimo Sexto Legatus vero cum hujusmodi authenticum à Domino Papa accepisset factus de Rege Tyrannus spreto Archiepiscopi et Episcoporum Regni consilio â—um Clericis Regis et Ministris ad vacantes accedens Ecclesias ordinationes earum secundum antiquum Angliae abusum de personis minus idoneis celebrare praesumpsit Nonnullos vero diversi ordinis pro gravamine manifesto ad audientiam summi Pontificis appellantes sed suspensos ad Curiam Romanam destinavit Quibus adeo se inhumanum exhibuit quod de rebus propriis nec quidem denarium unum ad expensas itineris portare permisit Parochiales insuper Ecclesias in locis diversis vacantes Clericis suis distribuit Patronorum consensu minine requisito Vnde multorum indignationem et multorum maledictionem pro benedictione promeruit dum justiciam in injuriam judicium in praejudicium commutavit This was the very original of Popes Provisions and disposals of Bishopricks Abbies with all sorts of spiritual Promotions and Benefices in England formerly attempted resisted but not obtained till now no Pope presuming to conferre any Bishoprick Benefice or Prebendary in France or England Usque ad tempora Domini Innocentii â— qui primus assumpsit sibi jus istud in tempore suo as the French Agent remonstrated to Pope Innocent the 4th These Provisions after this Legate had thus once introduced with an high Tyrannical power by pretext of Pope Innocents Bull soon over-flowed the whole Church of England and France too like a general deluge for many succeeding ages notwithstanding all oppositions and bootlesse complaints against them Which the Archbishop Bishops fore-seeing though the chief instruments to dethrone their lawfull indulgent King and set up these Romish Tyrants in his Throne to obviate this intollerable Papal innovation and crush this Crocodile in the shell perceiving withall the Legate more ready to gratifie the King and his Clerks in the disposal of Bishopricks Ecclesiastical preferments then themselves or their Confederates meeting together at Dunstaple drew up an Appeal against his proceedings which he slighting and sending to Rome by Pandulphus together with K. Johns Charter so highly magnified the King and made such complaints to the Pope against the Archbishop and Bishops as frustrated their Appeal witness this relation DEinde post octavas Epiphaniae convenerunt apud Dunestapliam Stephanus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus cum suis Suffraganeis ut de negotiis Ecclesiae Anglicanae tractarent ibidem Molestè enim supra modum ferebant quod Legatus supradictus ut praediximus illis inconsultis Regiis favens voluntatibus in Ecclesiis vacantibus Praelatos minus sufficientes posuerat intrusione magis quam electione Canonica Tandem cum hinc inde varia sorte tractassent Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis duos Clericos apud Burtonam super
Elections would seldome elect any whom our Kings recommended unlesse upon some special reasons for their own emolument The Archbishop besides this general Charter obtained from the King this special Charter to him and his successors of the Advowson custody disposition of the Bishoprick and Temporalties of Rochester during the vacancy and that they should restore the Bishop of Rochester his Regalia and receive Fealty from him as Patron of this Bishoprick without his regal assent before or after the election reserving only a Fealty from the Bishop of Rochester as to his Prince but not for his Lands whereby he created the Archbishop a petty King and in some sort unkinged himself as to this Bishoprick giving away all the services due to him and his Heirs out of it to the Archbishop and his successors to reclaime him from his Treachery and Rebellion by this transcendent favour which he presently turned into treachery JOHANNES Dei gratia Rex Angliae c. Archiepiscopis c. Sciatis nos pro saluto animae nostrae antecessorum successorum nostrorum Regum Angliae de communi consilio Episcoporum Comitum Baronum aliorum fidelium nostrorum reddidisse concessisse Deo Ecclesiae Christi Cantuar. Venerabili Patri nostro S. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinali Patronatum Ecclesiae Episcopatus Roffensis cum omnibus pertinentiis dignitatibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Ita quod vacante illa sede Episcopali custodiam et ordinationem illius Ecclesiae idem Archiepiscopus et successores sui habeant libere et pacifice in perpetuum ut Patroni Ita quod in Ordinatione illius Ecclesiae de Episcopo et Episcopi electione nec ante nec post electionem Episcopi marcke it Regius requiretur assensus set totum ad Archiepiscopum quicunque fuerit pertinebit Episcopus autem vel electus loci illius temporalia quae prius vocabantur Regalia de manu praedicti Archiepiscopi et successorum suorum plenarie recipiet et fidelitatem ei faciet de feodis pertinentibus ad Ecclesiam illam Episcopalem tanquam Patrono ejusdem Episcopatus servitia autem quae nobis inde et Heraedibus nostris debentur Episcopus qui pro tempore ibi fuerit facerit predicto Archiepiscopo successoribus suis in perpetuum tanquam Dominis et Patronis et ipse Archiepiscopus et successores sui eadem servitia per manus suas nobis et successoribus nostris facient Faciet quoque Episcopus Roffensis nobis et Heredibus nostris fidelitatem tanquam Principi set non propter feodum Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus quod predictus Archiepiscopus et successores sui predictum Patronatum Episcopatus Roffensis cum custodia et ordinatione ejusdem cum vacaverit habeant et teneant libere et quiete pacifice integre et plenarie cum omnibus pertinentiis dignitatibus Libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus imperpetuum sicut praedictum est Prohibemus autem ex parte Dei omnipotentis et Beatae Mariae et omnium Sanctorum et nostra ne quis contra hanc piam et liberalem redditionem et concessionem nostram venire praesumat Quod si quis fecerit maledictionem Dei et Beatae Petri et omnium Sanctorum ac nostram incurrat Testibus Dominis W. Londonensi P. Wintoniensi R. Elyensi E. Herefordensi J. Bathoniensi Glast H. Hunting Episcopis R. Comite Cestriae W. Marr. Comite Pembroc W. Comite Arundell W. Comite Warren W. Comite de Ferrariis S. Comite Winton W. Briwerr Roberto filio Walteri Galfrido de Mandevill Richardo de Muntificher Thoma de Erdington Dat. per manum Magistri Richardi de Marisc Cancellarii nostri apud Novum Templum London xxij die Novembris Anno Regni nostri Sexto Decimo How well he requited the King by betraying Rochester Castle to the Barons soon after you shall hear more The Archbishop Bishops and Barons having by treachery fraud and force thus wrested all these Charters and confirmations from King John thereby in a manner totaly devested him of all his Ecclesiasticall and Civil Royal authority in Church and state deemed themselves the Church and Kingdom in a most happy secure flourishing prosperous condition for the future when God by his providence sodenly blasted all their hopes by alienating the Kings heart from them and by making use even of the Popes usurped power interest in England which they were the principal instruments to promote to dethrone their Lawful King the instrument to scourge excommunicate punish and revenge their Rebellions against the King and null most of the Charters wrested from him by his Bulls For King John with drawing and obscuring himself from his Bishops and Barons in the Isle of Wight sent messengers secretly to Rome to complain and appeal to the Pope against their Treasons rebellions and the Charters forcibly extorted from him whiles under the Popes protection who thereupon vacated the Charters thus recorded by Matthew Paris PER idem tempus steterunt Romae in praesentia Domini Papae nuncij Regis Anglorum allegantes coram eo rebelliones et Iniurias quas Barones Angliae by the Archbishops initigation excitaverant adversus Regem memoratum exigentes ab eo quasdam Leges et libertates iniquas quas dignitatem Regiam non decuit confirmare Et cum post motam inter eos discordiam Rex et Barones de pace tractaturi multoties convenissent idem Rex publice protestatus est coram eis Regnum Angliae ratione Dominii ad Romanam Ecclesiam specialiter pertinere which he only complementally affirmed but the Barons utterly denied it Vnde nec potuit nec debuit praeter conscientiam Domini Papae de novo aliquid statuere vel quicquam in ejus praejudicium in Regno immutare Quocirca cum interposita appellatione seipsum et omnia jnra regni sui sub protectione sedis Apostolicae supposuisset dicti Barones appellationi factae non deferentes civitatam Londoniarum quae caput regni sui est proditione sibi traditam occuparunt et adhuc detinent occupatam Quod cum factum fuisset ad equos convolantes et arma exegerunt a Rege libertates praescriptas sibi confirmari Ipseque eorum metuens impetum quod petebant non ausus est denegare Porrexerunt ergo nuncij memorati Domino Papae quaedam capitula de charta praedicta in scriptum redacta quae causae Regis magis videbantur congruere Quae cum diligenter inspexisset cum admiratione respondit rugis contractis indignationem testantibus Nunquid Barones Angliae Regem cruce signatum et sub protectione sedis Apostolicae constitutum a solio regni nituntur expellere et Dominium Romanae Ecclesiae ad alium transferre Per sanctum Petrum hanc injuriam non poterimus praeterire impunitam Tunc Papa habita deliberatione cum Cardinalibus chartam saepe
eorum Principe prius Convento Feoda vero terrae excommunicatorum in potestate Dominorum suorum consistant quousque injuriam passis Ecclesiae ab eisdem satisfactum fuerit competenter Item non compellantur inviti viduae vel alii per Principes ad Matrimonia contrahenda c. Attendentes autem devotionem obedientiam Charissimi nostri Johannis illustris Regis Angliae Domini Hiberniae Ducis Norman Aquit Comitis Andegaviae nolumus quod per haec statuta nostra vel alia quae fecerimus vice legationis in Regno Franciae aliquid juris sui vel Haeredum suorum depereat Sed potius jura sua volumus per omnia conservari Et in hujus rei testimonium haec Statuta nostra eidem Domino sigillo nostro signata habenda concessimus Ita scilicet quod non noceant sibi vel Haeredibus suis Besides the Pope to gratifie King John by putting a Feather in his Cap when he had wrested his Crown from his head and Scepter out of his hand granted him this pretended new priviledge exempting his Chappels from Episcopal Excommunication and Jurisdiction without the Popes special command which in truth were by the Laws of the Realm exempted from them long before by the Kings inherent Regal prerogative by which kind of grants of pretended priviledges the Pope came to challenge and enchroach new Jurisdictions in the Realm which they never exercised nor claimed before IN NOCENTIVS Episcopus servus servorum Dei Charissimo in Christo filio Johanni illustri Regi Anglorum salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Apostolicae sedis ampla benignitas sincere obsequentium vota fidelium favore benevolo prosequi consuevit illustrium virorum personas quas in devotione sua promptas invenerit ferventes quibusdam titulis decentius decorare Vt igitur ex speciali devotione quam ad Romanam Ecclesiam et personam nostram habere dignosceris Apostolicum tibi sentias accrevisse favorem statuimus ne a quoquam tua possit Excommunicari vel Interdici Capella sine mandato sedis Apostolicae speciali Tu ergo ne inde nascantur injuriae unde jura nascuntur talem te super hiis satagas exhibere ne per abusum quod absit privari ab hujusmodi beneficio merearis quia juxta Canonicas sanctiones privilegium mererur amittere qui permissa sibi abutitur potestate And had not this Pope by this rule forfeited all his pretended priviledges and right in England long before by his Interdict Excommunication and dis-inheriting of K. John and his Heirs for ever Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae constitutionis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contra ire si quis autem hoc attemptare praesumpserit indignationem Omnipotentis Dei et Beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum Dat. Romae apud Sanctum Petrum xviij die Kalend. Maii. Pontificatus nostri Anno xvij This priviledge was made the ground of exempting the Kings Free Chappels from the ordinary Taxes of the Clergy Provisions of the Pope Procurations Tenthes Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Visitations as will hereafter appear when as in truth the Common Law of England Prescription time out of mind and the Great Parliamentary Council of Clarendon gave them this exemption without the help of this Bull. The greatest and best advantage King John gained by the surrender of his Crown and most of his Regal Jurisdiction to the Pope was his real assistance of him against his Arch-enemy Stephen Archbishop of Canterbury and his Rebellious Barons rather to preserve his own usurped interest in England then King Johns In pursuance whereof he having formerly excommunicated all the Barons in general which they slighted as null proceeding still more obstinately in their Wars and Rebellions then before the Pope at the Kings request proceeded to excommunicate some of them by name with all others that should assist them or that should invade or enter the Realm to deprive him of his Crown he being the Church of Romes Vassal and the Realm of England belonging thereunto and Interdicted all the Barons Lands Circa dies istos fummus Pontifex Barones Angliae quos prius excommunicaverat in genere ad instantiam Regis Anglorum per subscriptas Literas excommunicavit nominatim in specie IN NOCENTIUS Episcopus c. Abbati de Albendune Archidiacono Pictaviensi Magistro Roberto Officiali Norwicensis Ecclesiae salutem Ad vestram volumus pervenire notitiam quod nos nuper in generali Concilio constituti excommunicavimus Anathematisavimus ex parte Omnipotentis Dei Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti authoritate quoque Beatorum Petri Pauli Apostolorum ejus ac nostra Barones Angliae cum adjutoribus fantoribus suis qui Johannem illustrem Regem Anglorum Cruce signatum Vassallum Romanae Ecclesiae persequâ—â—tuâ— molientes ci Regnum auferre quod ad Romanam Ecclesiam dignoseitur pertinere Insuper excommunicamus et Anathematisamus onnies illos qui ad occupandum vel invadendum Regnum ipsum aut impediendum euntes in ejusdem Regis succursum operam vel opem impenderunt et terras eorundem Baronum Ecclesiastico subjicimus Interdicto Aggravamus etiam in eosdem fortius manus nostras st nec sic a suo dessiterint iniquo proposito cum in hac parte pejores sint Saracenis decernentes ut si quis Clericus cujuscunque dignitatis aut ordinis praedictas excommunicationis aut Interdicti sententias violare praesumpserit Anathematis se sciat mucrone percussum et ni quantocius resipuerit ab omni officio et beneficio deponendum Quocirca discretioni vestrae per Apostolica scripta praecipiendo mandamus quatenus per totam Angliam publicari faciatis praescripta eademque faciatis authoritate nostra sublato cujuslibet conditionis et appellationis obstaculo inviolabiliter observari Volumus etiam nihilominus mandamus ut quosdam Barones Angliae quos Venerabilis Frater noster Wintoniensis Episcopus dilecti filii Abbas de Ridding Magister Pandulphus Subdiaconus familiaris noster delegati a nobis excommunicatos personaliter nominaverunt quia ipsos in praescriptis culpabiles invenerunt videlicet Cives illos Londinenses qui fuerunt Principales praenominatae perversitatis auctores Robertum filium Walteri S. Comitem Wintoniensem R. filium ejus G. de Mandevilla Willielmum fratrem ejus Comitem de Clare G. filium ejus H. Comitem de Hereford R. de Percy E. de Vesci J. Constabularium Cesâ—riae Willielmum de Mumbray Willielmum de Albineto W. fil um ejus R. de Ros W. filium ejus P. de Brus R. de Cressi Johannem filium ejus Ranulphum filium Roberti R. Comitem Bigod H. filium ejus R. de Ver Fulconem filium Warini W. Malet W. de Monte-acato W. filium Marescalli W. de Bello Campo S. de Kime R. de Monte Begonis Nicholaum
Obedience to him till conformable to his Papal pleasure and to dispence with the Kings own Oathes to his Barons and people 8ly A pretended supream Antichristian Papal authority actually to deprive the King and his Heirs of his very hereditary Crown Kingdoms and give them away to other foreign Princes 9ly To command foreign Kings and all Christian Nobles Knights Souldiers by force of armes to seize upon and expell him his Kingdoms and issue out Crossadoes to War against and dethrone him as if he were a meer Saracen and Turk 10ly A Jurisdiction to deprive suspend sequester excommunicate the Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Ecclesiastical and Temporal Peers and Cities of the Realm at his Papal pleasure and summon them to attend the Pope personally at Rome to undergo his Papal censures 11ly A liberty inserted into the Great Charter for all Bishops Clergymen Monks and others to depart out of the Realm resort to Rome or to the Kings Enemies without his Royal license first obtained and to return again at their pleasures 12ly A liberty for all Chapters Covents Monks Clergymen freely to elect whom they pleased to Bishopricks Monasteries Deaneries and other preferments in the Kings Donation and to reject whatever persons the King should specially recommend unto them though never so deserving so as the King could prefer no person to any elective Dignity within his Realms but whom the Chapters Covents Clergy should voluntarily elect and the Pope or his Legates actually confirm at their pleasures 13ly A power to sequester suspend deprive excommunicate and reduce to extream necessity all such Scholars Clergymen and Loyal Subjects who had so much loyalty and courage as to appear in defence of the King and his Cause against the Popes illegal injurious encroachments and to protect advance reward encourage all Traytors and Rebells against the King to advance the Popes Usurpations 14ly A power to sell Archbishopricks Bishopricks Monasteries and all other Ecclesiastical preferments Palls to those who would give most money for them to extort monies for Papal Benedictions Valedictions dismissions from attendance in General Councils or the See of Rome upon summons thither 15ly An over-awing authority over all the Bishops Clergy of England Ireland to obey the Popes most unjust treasonable commands against the expresse commands protestations of the King Barons Kingdoms to the Kings Realms and Churches prejudice 16ly A power to hear and determine by Appeal or otherwise all causes and controversies concerning elections unions or disunions of Churches or other Ecclesiastical Offices As to the Kings and Kingdoms Temporal Rights and Jurisdictions Pope Innocent made these unparalleld encroachments on them 1. An actual Interdiction of the whole Realm sundry years for a pretended personal contempt in the King alone and after that the like Interdict of the Londoners and Barons temporal Estates for their Rebellions and civil offences against the King 2ly An Antichristian power to dethrone dis-inherit the King and his Heirs of their hereditary right in the Crown Kingdoms of England and Ireland and to transfer them to foreign Kings and Enemies without the Kings or Kingdoms consent or any tryal hearing of the King or Kingdom 3ly A forcible wrested resignation from the King of his Crown Scepter Kingdoms to the Pope and his Successors without his Barons or Kingdoms consents by a void illegal extorted Charter 4ly A resuming of them by King John and his Heirs from the Pope and his Successors under an Annual Rent or Pension and extorting of an Oath of Homage and Fealty from the King as a meer Vassal and Tributary to the Pope and Church of Rome directly contrary to the Rights of the Crown and freedom Office Royaly of a King 5ly A power to confirm null repeal the Kings own Temporal Charters yea Great Charters of Liberties and the Forrest and judge of their validity or invalidity at his Papal pleasure 6ly A power to examine hear determine the Right and Title of King John and others to the Crown of England and decide them in the Court of Rome as the supream Judicature in such cases 7ly A Jurisdiction to hear and determine all civil controversies touching Priviledges Rights Franchises between the King and his Barons and excommunicate them for not submitting to his Papal Edicts therein 8ly A power to make Truces and prohibit Christian Kings to War upon each others Kingdoms under pain of Excommunication and Interdiction 9ly A pretended right to protect all Kings and Nobles who took up the Crosse from any civil proceedings Wars against each other during the Crossado and to recommend promote grant prescribe Taxes Tenths to maintain those Wars against the Turks but in truth to fill his Papal coffers 10ly A power to exempt Treacherous Rebellious Clergymen from being Out-lawed or Interdicted by the King and force the King by publike Patents to disclaim this his antient Prerogative with his power of detaining any Clerks in Prison for capital Crimes or Felonies if demanded to be delivered by and to their Ordinaries All these with some other Usurpations of lesse concernment reducible to these heads were introduced by Pope Innocent the 3d. during the reign of King John never practised in England before by any of his ambitious Predecessors and so fastned upon the necks of the King Kingdom by wholesale by means of King Johns forced resignation of his Crown to the Pope intestine Wars differences between the King his Bishops Barons this Pope and his Legates policies that his Successors for many years after though they frequently complained petitioned against them with much earnestnesse and regret yet were hardly able with all their power or policy to resist much lesse to shake them off but only by piece-meal and inches as they had strength and opportunity to do it I shall now proceed to his Sons and Successors long yet troublesome reign by like unhappy contests between the Crosâ—er and Scepter the King and his Barons upon pretext of publike Liberty and our Ecclesiastical affairs under him THE FOVRTH BOOK CHAP. I. K. Henry the 3d. his succession to K. John his Coronation necessitated Oath Homage Subjection to Transactions Complyance with the Pope and See of Rome against his own and the Nobles wills his and their Complaints Oppositions Prohibitions against the Popes Bishops Clergies Encroachments Exactions both in England and Ireland with the chief passages concerning the Ecclesiastical affairs in them during the first 20. years of his young troublesome reign KIng John being taken out of this world by poyson through the implacable malice of the Monks and Prelates having then many Enemies both of Earls Barons and more especially of the Popish Clergy Henry his eldest son was then but of the Age of 9. Years at which time most of the Lords of England adhering to Lewes the French Kings son whom they had sent for before in displeasure of King John to be their King and had sworn to him their Allegiance Thereupon William Earl Marshall a Noble man of great
de Amerciamentis colligendis tam de aliis feodis quam suis exceptis Thesauro murdro de quibus idem Episcopus nullam Libertatem vel Curiam habere potest sicut idem Episcopus cognovit placita illa debent praesentari ad Comitat. de omnibus Hundredis praedictis sicut de Hundredo Midford Inquisitione autem illa diligenter facta sicut praedictum est habere facias dicto Episcopo talem seisinam de Libertatibus praedictis qualem secundum eandem Inquisitionem inde habere debuerit praedicto modo Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium Decimo septimo die Februarii Anno c. Nono Per ipsum Dominum Regem Justic coram London Bathon Sarr Episcopis M. de Patesh aliis de Consilio Domini Regis Pope Honorius having formerly courted King Henry with a grant of a competent Subsidy from the Clergy to supply his necessities soon after discovered his design therein by dispatching Otto his Legate into England with Letters to the King for his own filthy lucre the King knowing their contents refused to give him any answer alone it concerning the whole Church and Kingdom of England but only in a Parliamentary Council of his Prelates and Nobles thus related by Matthew Paris EOdem Anno Magister Otto Domini Papae Nuncius in Angliam veniens pro magnis Ecclesiae Romanae negotiis Regi Literas praesentavit Sed Rex cognito Literarum tenore respondit quod solus non potuit diffinire nec debuit negotium quod omnes Clericos et Laicos generaliter totius Regni tangebat Tunc per consilium Stephani Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi datus est dies a Rege in octavis Epiphaniae ut convocatis omnibus Clericis et Laicis super praefato negotio tunc tractarent apud Westmonasterium et ibidem fieret quod justum singulis videretur In the mean time the Pope and his Legate bribed by Falcatius made intercession for him to the King for his return into England from whence he was judicially banished adjured and restitution to his Wife and what lands and goods he had lost EOdem tempore Magister Otto ex parte Domini Papae Regem Angliae humiliter rogavit ut Falcasio ◠bi reconciliato Vxorem cum terris omnibus rebus amissis ad integrum restitueret ipsum qui Patri suo sibi in guerra sua tam fideliter servierat pura ut decebat diligeret charitate Ad hoc quoque respondit Rex Quod propter proditionem manifestam ab omni Clero populo Regni per judicium Curiae suae ab Anglia fuerat in exilium pulsus licet Regni cura specialiter ad ipsum spectare videretur debet legis quidem bonas Regni consuetudines observare Haec autem cum audisset Magister Otto cessavit ulterius de Falcasio sollicitare Regem having gotten his money before hand And then like a Popes Legate sent to fleece the Clergy tunc idem Otto cepit ab omnibus Ecclesiis Angliae Conventualibus nomine Procuratoris duas Marcas Argenti Et sciendum est quod tempore quo Magister Otto venit in Angliam Dominus Papa misit Nuncios per orbem universum exactiones ubique indebitas exigens sicut inferius dicetur Not fishing with St. Peters net to catch souls the least of his care but to extort monies from the Clergy and Laity throughout the world by indirect and unapostolical means to maintain his Pomp Pride Wars and Antichristian designs When the Parliamentary Council assembled Otto read the Popes Letter and Proposals wherein the detestable Bribery Symoney Extortion Avarice Rapine of the Pope and Court of Rome are so clearly confessed discovered and such a remedy to prevent them for the future prescribed by the Pope and Cardinals as might justly induce all conscientious Christians Kings Kingdoms for ever to abominate both the Court and Prelates of Rome thus recorded by our Monkish Historians ANno Domini 1226. Venit terminus Concilii ad festum Sancti Hillarii apud Westmonasterium praefixus ubi Rex cum Clero Magnatibus Regni comparere debuerat ut Domini Papae mandatum audiret Multis igitur in loco praefato congregatis Episcopis cum aliis Praelatis Laicorum turbis Magister Otto Domini Papae Nuntius Literas apertè coram omnibus recitavit In quibus idem Papa allegavit scandalum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae et opprobrium vetustissimum notam scilicet concupiscentiae quae radix dicitur omnium malorum et in hoc praecipue quod nullus potest aliquod negotium in Romana Curia expedire nisi cum magna effusione pecuniae et donorum exhibitione Sed quoniam scandali hujus et infamiae Romana paupertas causa est debent matris inopiam sublevare ut filii naturales Quia nisi a vobis et aliis viris bonis et honestis dona reciperemus deficerent nobis necessaria vitae quod esset omnino Romanae incongruum dignitati Ad istud itaque scandalum penitus eradicandum per consilium fratrum nostrorum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalium quandam providimus formam cui si volueritis consentire a scandalo matrem vestram poteritis liberare et in Curia Romana sine donorum obsequio exhibitionem justitiae obtinere Forma autem provisa haec est Petimus in primis ab omnibus Ecclesiis Cathedralibus duas nobis praebendas exhiberi unam de portione Episcopi et alteram de Capitulo Et similiter de coenobiis ubi diversae sunt portiones Abbatis et Conventus a Conventibus quantum pertinet ad unum Monachum aequali facta distributione bonorum suorum et ab Abbate tantundem All these if granted must certainly be sold by the Pope to those who would give most money for them to him which was most notorious Symoney or else the Pope and his Successors must receive the Annual profits of them without performing any Divine Service to God or the Church for them contrary to all rules of Piety Equity Justice Beneficium propter Officium being the very dictate of Nature as well as Law HIs in hunc modum propositis persuasit ex parte Domini Papae Magister Otto ut consentirent Praelati allegans supradicta commoda quae in Literis continentur Haec autem omnia audientes Episcopi Ecclesiarum Praelati qui personaliter interfuerunt divertentes seorsum ad colloquendum cum super rebus propositis diutius deliberassent responsum suum in ore Magistri Johannis Bedefordensis Archidiaconi communiter posuerunt Qui veniens in praesentia Magistri Ottonis per haec verba respondit Domine ista quae nobis proponitis Regem Angliae specialiter tangunt generaliter vero omnes Ecclesiarum patronos Regni tangunt Archiepiscopos et eorum Suffraganeos nec non innumeros Angliae Praelatos Cum ergo Rex propter infirmitatem et
vel Regno providerent Item addiderunt quod si proportionaliter fieret bonorum distributio omnes in Curia fierent divites cum multo plus essent recepturi quam Rex proprius Et sic majores non solum divites sed et ditissimi fierent Cum igitur vermis divitum sit superbia majores vix causas audirent sed eas in immensum differrent minores scriberent inviti Cujus rei experimentum in evidenti est quia modo negotia protrahunt etiam post percepta obsequia securitate percipiendi sic periclitaretur justitia opporteret conquerentes mori in januis Romanorum tunc plenissime dominantium Item cum vix possibile sit fontem cupiditatis desiccari quod nunc faciunt per se tunc facerent per alios suis multo majora quam nunc dari munera procurarent modica enim nulla sunt in conspectu divitum cupidorum Item multae divitiae facerent Romanos insanire sic inter diversas parentelas tantae orirentur seditiones quod posset timeri totius excidium Civitatis cujus etiam modo penitus expers non est Item dixerunt quod licet se obligarent qui modo praesentes sunt id non susciperent eorum successores nec illam obligationem ratam haberent Novissime autem sic negotium concluserunt Domine moveat vos zelus universalis Ecclesiae et Sanctae sedis Romanae quia si omnium esset universalis oppressio posset timeri ne immineret generalis discessio quod Deus avertat His auditis respondit Legatus ut videbatur plurimum commotus in his omnibus se cum esset in Curia nunquam huic exactioni consensisse ipsum Literas accepisse postquam Galliam fuerat ingressus se multum super haec doluisse Addidit etiam super haec quicquid praecepit tali conditione licet tacita intellexisse si Imperium alia Regna consentirent Adjunxit insuper se nihil amplius super haec attentaturum donec per Regna alia Praelati consenserint quod credidit provenire non posse The greatest Votaries to the Pope Court and Church of Rome who shall seriously consider the premises must needs if they have any sparks of Christianity Ingenuity or common honesty remaining in their breasts abominate these Papal demands as most impious and scandalous to Christian Religion Whiles these things were acted in France Otto pursuing his rapines in England by exacting Procurations from the Clergy was by the Archbishops means suddenly recalled thence by the Pope to his great discontent and the prosecuting the Popes former proposals committed to his trust committed to the Archbishop thus related by our Historian EOdem Anno cum Magister Oâ—to Domini Papae Nuntius tempore quadragesimali ad Northanhumbriam profecturus procurationes desideratas exacturus Northamptonam usque pervenisset venerunt ad eum Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo procurante Literae Domini Papae in quibus continebatur expressum ut statim visis Literis Romam veniret ejus potestate penitus enervata Obliquo igitur oculo Literis inspectis demisso vultu eas projecet in ignem Atque illico proposito mutato clitellis vacuis ab Anglia recessit confusus injuncto Stephano Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo sicut erat in Literis Domini Papae expressum ut convocatis Rege et omnibus Angliae Praelatis responsum eorum super negotio pro quo idem Otto missus fuerat Domina Papae transmittere non omittat Magistro igitur Ottone Angliam a tergo salutante Stephanus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus vocatis ad Concilium cunctis apud Westmonasterium post Pascha quos negotium tangebat recitari fecit Literas supradictas de beneficiis Romanae Ecclesiae conferendis coram Rege Praelatis Angliae qui ad ejus vocationem plene convenerant Sed illis auditis ac diligenter intellectis singuli singulos ad visum monebant super concupiscentia Romanorum qui illud morale non intelligunt videlicet Quod virtus reddit non copia sufficientem Et non paupertas sed mentis hiatus egentem Tunc Rex convocatis seorsum Praelatis quibusdam Magnatibus hoc Archiepiscopo dedit responsum Ista quae suadet nobis Dominus Papa universam Christianitatis latitudinem respiciunt et quia nos quasi in extremis orbis constituti sumus partibus cum viderimus qualiter caetera Regna erga tales se habuerint exactiones Dominus Papa cum ab aliis Regnis habuerimus exemplum in obsequiis nos inveniet promptiores Et his dictis concessa est omnibus licentia recedendi This was the issue of this Papal design which miscarried both in England and elsewhere King Henry to prevent the Usurpations of the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland upon the rights of his Crown in conferring Prebendaries belonging to the King issued this Inhibition to them REX omnibus Archiepiscopis Episcopis in Hibernia constitutis salutem Mandamus vobis quod nihil attemptetis in praejudicium dignitatis nostrae circa collationes Praebendarum Ecclesiarum quae ad nos pertinent in Hibernia sedibus ibidem vacantibus Tantum inde facientes ne oporteat nos manum ad hoc apponere In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium Quarto die Julii In his Conge desliers to Deans and Chapters in Ireland to elect their Bishops he did by his supream Ecclesiastical Prerogative restrain them from electing any Irish they being for the most part treacherous to the King and injurious to the rights of his Crown but only Englishmen as this short Record demonstrates DEcanus Capitulum Clovens habent licentiam eligendi dum tamen talem eligant qui Anglicus sit Teste ipso R. apud Brugg xxxi die Augusti Anno c. Decimo This year Pope Honorius the 3d. sent this memorable Bull to Geoffry de Lizimaco the Kings sworn Vassal absolutely subverting all Papal dispensations with Subjects just Oathes to their Soveraigns HONORIUS Episcopus servus servorum Dei Dilecto filio nobili viro Galfrido de Lizimaco salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Fidelitatis vinculum quo vassallus tenetur Domino est adeo celebre apud omnes ut etiam religione Iuramenti qua vallari assolet circumscripta ipsum per se vinculum quasi pro sacro ubique terrarum et gentium habeatur nec extimetur levem notam incurrere quicunque aliis extiterit violator unde qui veteres revolvere volet istorias inveniet multos pro illo servando inhumanis cibis urgente obsidionis angustia esse usos et illis quoque deticientibus elegisse potius fame deficere quam ipsum fidelitatis vinculum violare How then can Popes dispense with such Oathes and absolve Subjects from them as Pope Innocent and others have done Tu vero sicut charissimo in Christo filio nostro Henrico illustri Rege Anglorum conquerente didicimus haec nequaquam prout te decuisset
dolor sedis Apostolica matris vestrae sic crudeliter toties deceptae in filio quem lactaverat in quem posuit in hoc facto spei suae fiduciam in quem tot beneficiorum abundantiam cumulavit Dissimulans interim ne occasione inventa se averteret a Terrae sanctae subsidio exilia Praesulum spoliationes captivitates injurias multiplices quas Ecclesiis viris religiosis clericis irrogavit obaudiens querelas multiplices pauperum populorum nobilium patrimonii Ecclesiae clamantium contra ipsum quas in aures Domini Sabaoth credimus introisse Et quamvis Ecclesiae Romana tueri debeat filium tanta diligentia educatum et magnificentia exaltatum nunc ipsum gemit sine Marte victum absque hoste prostratum et in suae confusionis opprobrium tam ignominiose deiectum Non minus gemit exterminium exercitus Christiani qui non inimicorum gladiis vel veritate defecit sed calamitate tam miserabili est consumptus Gemit etiam quod residua bellatorum exposita maris periculis fluctibus tempestatum absque duce praeceptore principe ducitur quo ignorat modicum profectura terrae sanctae utilitatibus Quibus debitae consolationis solitum opportunae subjectioni sauxilium impedientibus jam maris frementis procellis temporisque angustia juxta votum non possumus ministrare Gemit insuper excidium Terrae sanctae utilitatibus quibus debitae consolationis solatium opportunae subjectionis auxilium impedientibus jam maris frementis procellis temporisque angustia juxta votum non possumus ministrare Gemit insuper excidium Terrae Sanctae quam nunc eripi de manibus Paganorum sperabamus quam olim ut asseritur recuperasset Christianus exercitus per concambium Damiatae nisi semel eis iterum Imperialibus fuisset Literis Interdictum Qui etiam non fuisset in manibus Paganorum inclusus si galeiarum subsidium ut ex parte sua promissum fuerat fieri poterat subsecutum esset Nam Damiata quae ut astruitur suo tradita nuncio aquilis Imperialibus insignata eodem die crudeliter spoliata per suas deteriorata viliter ignominiose per ipsos fuit infidelibus restituta Recurrit etiam ad rediviva suspiria amissionem praescriptam recolens Damiatae tot laborum angustias tot expensarum dispendia tot mortes fidelium tot excursus temporum quae inutiliter affluxerunt subortis lachrymis flere non cessat nec est qui consoletur eam ex omnibus charis ejus nec abstergat lachrymas a maxillis Cum ergo vox ejus in Rama jam sonuerit Rachel non solum filios sed haec omnia irremediabili lamentatione deploret quis fidelium a gemitibus suspiriis continebit quis filiorum cernens aquarum profluvia de matris oculis prodeuntia lachrymas non effundet quis matris non compatietur angustiis nec immensis ejus doloribus condolebit quis fidelium propter haec non ardentius inflammabitur ad subsidium Terrae Sanctae ne Christiana juventus ex insperato casu penitus prostrata videatur ignominiose animo consternata Nonne viri cordati filii Jesu Christi debent ad subsidium Terrae Sanctae tanto fortius animari quanto ignominiam jam amplius resultare conspiciunt ex insperata ruina in patrem filium in redemptorem atque redemptos in Christum populum Christianum Nos igitur hoc negotium tanto ardentius resumere affectamus profundiori consilio lata intendimus remedia invenire quanto magis necessitas ex multis inflata doloribus nostram grandis angustia mentem pavit sic cum Dominus populo suo modicum ostendit se iratum de illius manu hoc tempore sacrificium non acceptans qui prudentiam non est imitatus illorum per quem salus in Israel consuevit Non tamen misericordiae Dei sunt consumptae nec ejus miserationes penitus defecerunt Sperantes namque in misericordia Dei nostri qui viam nobis ostendit per quam in hoc opere prospere gradiamur viros secundum cor suum destinabit qui praecedant in cordis puritate ac manuum munditia exercitum Christianum Ideoque fraternitatem vestram obsecramus in Domino per Apostolica scripta praecipiendo mandantes quatenus haec clero et populis vobis commissis fideliter exponentes ac inducentes eosdem ad haec exequenda suos studeant animos praeparare ipsos ad vindicandam injuriam Jesu Christi sedulis exhortationibus invitetis ut cum ipsos sedes Apostolica habito majori tractatu sollicitandos providerit promptos inveniat paratos Porro ne tanquam canes muti non valentes latrare videamur deferre homini contra Deum non sumentes ultionem de illo qui tantam injuriam populo procuravit Imperatorem videlicet Fredericum qui nec transfretavit in termino constituto nec illuc in taxatis passagiis praescriptam pecuniam destinavit nec mille duxit milites per biennium tenendos ad suum stipendium pro subsidio Terrae Sanctae ibidem sed in tribus articulis manifeste deficiens in his discriptae excommunicationis laqueum ultroneus se ingessit excommunicatum quanquam inviti publice nunciamus et mandamus ab omnibus arctius evitari contra ipsum si contumacia ejus exigerit gravius processuri Confidimus tamen adhuc in pii patris clementia qui neminem vult perire quod oculi mentis caligantes hoc Ecclesiastico delibuti collirio â—i non fuerit animo rebellis lumine poterunt illustrari ut suam aspiciat nuditatem ignominiam suam quam incurrit avertat Sicque recurrat ad medicum ad matrem Ecclesiam revertatur per humilitatem debitam satisfactionem congruam salutis remedia recepturus Non enim ejus salutem in Domino affectamus interire quem olim syncere dileximus in minori etiam officio constituti Data Laterani Pontificatus nostri Anno secundo The Emperour justly incensed with the publication of these libellous scandalous and fabulous Excommunications against him in England and all other Kingdoms Churches to his intollerable defamation endeavoured to vindicate himself and his innocency against the Popes calumnies by dispatching Letters into all parts and particularly into England thus recorded by Matthew Paris IMperator itaque Fredericus cum a referentibus se excommunicatum cognovisset perturbatus est valde sicut Papa per Literas suas in omnibus Christianorum finibus latam fecerat sententiam publicari ita dictus Imperator scripsit universis Regibus Principibus Christianis conquerens sententiam in eum fuisse injuriose latam Denunciavit etiam singulis universis se non frivolis excusationibus sicut ei Papa mendose imposuit a peregrinatione reversum inchoata sed maximae infirmitatis causa illius super hoc testimonium invocans qui est testisin coelo fidelis
exceptionibus Episcoporum Angliae tam contra electionem praefatam quam in personam electi per Venerabiles fratres nostros Coventrensem Roffensem Episcopos dilectum filium Archidiaconum Bedefordensem in audientâ—a nostra propositis examinationem circa electi praenominati personam Venerabilibus fratribus nostris Domino Albanensi Domino Thomae de Sancta Sabina Magistro â— Cardinalibus commisimus faciendam Cumque electus coram illis constitutus requisitus esset de descensu Domini ad inferos utrum in carne vel sine carne descenderit male respondit Item de confectione corporis Christi in altare male respondit Item requisitus de Rachele qualiter plorabat filios suos cum primo esset mortua male respondit Item requisitus de sententia excommunicationis contra juris ordinem lata male respondit Item requisitus de matrimonio si alter contrahentium infidelis decesserit male respondit Super his omnibus articulis diligenter examinatus est a Cardinalibus quem non solum dicimus minus bene respondisse sed pessime Cum igitur Nobilis sit Ecclesia Cantuariensis et nobilem habuisset Praelatum virum discretum modestum et de gremio Romanae Ecclesiae assumptum et iste modo electus quem non solum pronunciamus indignum imo si de rigore juris procederemus aliud dicere cogeremur ita insufficiens est quod ad tantum honorem non debet assumi electionem de ipsa faâ—tam omnino cassamus Provisionem nobis dictae Ecclesiae reservantes Here he gives Judgement for himself in the cloze of his Bull though against the elect Archbishop in the premises robbing both the King and Monks of their Rights and Priviledges CAssata sane in hunc modum electione praefata procuratores Regis Angliae Episcoporum Cantuariensis Ecclesiae Suffraganeorum Literas de rato eorundem tam Regis quam Episcoporum in Domini Papae praesentia exhibentes proposuerunt de Magistro Richardo Lincolniensis Ecclesiae Cancellario quod esset vir eminentis scientiae literaturae ac conversationis honestae quodque tam Ecclesiae Romanae quam et Regno Angliae esset non mediocriter fructuosus atque modis omnibus coram Domino Papa ejus personam commendantes Dominum Papam trahunt cum suis Cardinalibus ad consensum Sicque memorato Richardo non electo ad Archiepiscopum sed dato Dominus Papa Suffraganeis Cantuariensis Ecclesiae Literas in haec verba direxit GREGORIVS Episcopus c. Ex commissa nobis a Domino cura Pastoralis officii et concessa licet immeritis plenitudine Ecclesiasticae potestatis cogimur Ecclesiarum omnium per quotidianam instantiam sollicitudinem et curam gerere eisque cum necessitas ingruerit et ex justitiae debito et ex gratiae beneficio paterna diligentia providere Inter caeteras autem particulares Ecclesias metropoles universas ad Cantuariensem Ecclesiam tanquam ad nobilissimum sedis Apostolicae membrum in ejus opportunitatibus oculos considerationis expandimus quam mater Ecclesiarum Apostolica sedes tanto benigniori debet favore prosequi quantâ— eam inter alias divina dispositio in spiritualium plenitudine et temporalium ubertate gratia praetulit ampliori Hanc etenim velut paradisum voluptatis et hortum deliciarum ordinatione sua plantavit altissimus de qua producere valuit lignum scientiae boni et mali in institutione dignitatis metropolicae lignum vitae in ordine religionis Monasticae et regularis observantiae disciplina ligna pomifera in Suffraganeis quae per operationem Sanctam delectant in visu per fidelem Doctrinam delectant in gustu per opinionem bonam recreant in olfactu De eodem loco fluvius egreditur per quem gloriosissimi Thomae Martyris sanguis exprimitur qui dum vitam mortuis sanitatem aegrotis libertatem servis et audaciam timidis contulit inde progrediens in quatuor proculdubio capita derivatur Cujus miraculorum excellentium signa dum sollicita meditatione discutimus ratas insolitas divinae plantationis delicias invenimus Hujus itaque paradisi custodiae bonae memoriae Stephano quondam Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinali viro utique pereminentissime donis scientiae et munere gratiae supernis carismatibus delibuto et erepto de carnis ergastulo et ad paradisi coelestis jucunditatem et requiem sicut speramus et credimus evocato dilecti filii Cantuariensis conventus electionem celebratam ab eis de Waltero Monacho Cantuariensi nobis praesentare curarunt Qua primo electionis merita et examinata personae literatura justitia mediante cassata hominem culminis quem per vitam et scientiam intellectum pariter et affectum ad imaginem et similitudinem Dei conditum habentem per salutarem Doctrinam vitae spiraculum in paradiso ut operetur et custodiat illum duximus collocandum Magistrum Richardum Lincolniae Cancellarium quem tam ex fratrum nostrorum qui eum in scholis noverunt quam ex venerabilium fratrum nostrorum Roffensis et Coventrensis Episcoporum et aliorum plurium testimonio virum didicimus eminentis literaturae conversationis honestae famae integerrimae excellentissimae industriae Zelatorem animarum et Ecclesiasticae libertatis Cantuariensis Ecclesiae de fratrum nostrorum consilio praesentibus praefatis Episcopis praeficimus in Archiepiscopum et Pastorem Quapropter fraternitatem vestram monemus hortamur per Apostolica scripta mandantes quatenus tanquam charitatis filii devotionis ipsum ad honorem omnipotentis Dei Apostolicae sedis Cantuariensis Ecclesiae recipientes cum humilitate debita devotione sincera intendatis eidem tanquam Patri Pastori animarum vestrarum Metropolitano vestro obediatis humiliter devote Gaudere quidem debetis in Domino quod illius gratia principaliter cooperante qui inspirando praevenit et adjuvantem prosequitur provisum est laudabiliter Ecclesiae viduatae Data c. This is the first instrument and form I find in History or Record of a Popes Provision to a Bishoprick which you see is very specious lofty Pontifical rhetorical Though the Pope by reason of the differences between the King and Monks usurped by Provisions thus to fill the See of Canterbury in the case of Stephen Langhton before and this Richard his immediate Successor being of greatest concernment for the Popes interest on the one hand and the Kings Church of Englands on the other yet where the King gave his Royal assent to Bishops duly elected by his License where there was no competition the Pope interposed not as these two presidents in the self-same year attest EOdem Anno Eustachius Londinensis Episcopus diem clausit extremum In cujus loco Canonici elegerunt Magistrum Rogerum cognomento Nigrum virum in literatura profundi pectoris honestum ac per omnia laudabilem
ei ut cederet electus humiliter factae electioni renunciavit et licentiam petiit repatriandi Tunc Papa cujus sola voluntas vim legis habuit concessa licentia Monachis ipsis praecepit ut alium talem eligerent cui onus suum communicare et curam posset committere pastoralem Hereupon the Monks proceeded to a third Election Tertio itaque J. cognomento Blundus Clericus apud Oxon. in Theologia stuâ—ens ac legens in Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem electus est Qui à Rege susceptus cum Monachis quibusdam Cantuariensibus Romam profectus est ut electionem suam confirmariâ—a sede Apostolica impetraret But this third person though duly elected and approved by the King sped no better then the other two elected being cashiered by the Pope as our Historians thus relate PEr idem tempus cassatus est Magister Johannes Blundus Cantuariensis electus Divulgatum quidem erat Romae quod post electionem suam acceperat ex dono Petri Wintoniensis Episcopi Mille Marcas argenti praeter alias Mille Marcas quas eidem Johanni crediderat ut promoveretur unde constat manifestè quod magis ei nocuit quam profuit familiaritas Episcopi memorati Scripsit etiam idem Episcopus Imperatori ut suas partes interponeret circa promotionem praedicti Johannis versus Papam unde Papa perpendens notam Symoniae ambitionis dixit in corde â—uo illud Ovidianum Et stricto supplicat ense potens Unde cor Domini Papae non erat bene cum eo Praeterea confessus fuerat Romae idem Johannes ut dicitur quod duo habebat beneficia quibus cura annexa fuit animarum contra statuta Concilii generalis qua praesumptione quia carebat dispensatione creditur reprobatus licet allegatum fuerit contra quod ea possederat ante Concilium You see the reason of vacating these Elections in the Popes ensuing words Sed quoniam jam cassatis tribus Ecclesiae Cantuariensis electis praefata fuit diu Ecclesia a pastore viduata similis facta Sarae uxori Tobiae filiae Raguelis tot viris viduatae dedit Monachis qui cum electo cassato venerant potestatem eligendi Magistrum Edmundum Ecclesiae Sarisburiensis Canonicum which himself alone had pitched upon and recommended to them virum honestae conversationis bene literatum in Pastorem animarum suarum Cui etiam Pallium transmisit ne tanta sedes Metropolitana a Pastore diutius frustraretur Monachi Cantuarienses vero qui Roma fuerant nec ipsum Edmundum instante ne Papa quidem nec alium quemlibet nisi de consensu Regis et Conventus sui recipere decreverunt Papa enim tanquam ex taciturnitate Monachorum qui aperte contradicere non audebant electo transmisit Pallium quo ductus in absentem peregrinum et ignotum motu haud scimus ex historiis writes his Successor Matthew Parker but no doubt some golden or silver spring was the true cause of this extraordinary Papal favour and collating of him to this Archiepiscopal See without any further election by the Monks that I can finde About a year after he was consecrated at Canterbury most probably by the Kings consent he being present at his consecration thus related by our Historians EOdem anno 1234. 18. H. 3. in Ecclesia Christi Canturiae consecratus est Aedmundus ejusdem Ecclesiae electus a Rogere Londinensi Episcopo in Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem Dominica qua cantatur Laetare Hierusalem quae tunc fuit quarto Nonas Aprilis praesente Rege cum xiij Episcopis Et eodem die Missam cum pallio quod caute ei de curia Romana Simon de Legro ejus Ecclesiae monachus detulerat solemniter celebravit This See continued voyd above 3. years after Richards death by reason of this Popes vacating three successive due elections to it to make way for Edmund recommended to it by himself without the Kings or Monks consent who by the Popes vacating their 3. former elections without any right ground but his own Papal pleasure found it bootlesse to withstand his consecration after the Pope had nominated him Archbishop and sent him a Pall as an earnest of its fruition in despite of King or Covent Now I return to my Chronological method interrupted by these treble elections to make them more intelligible and intire Anno 1232. The King in a Parliament at Westminster demanding an Ayde to pay his debts incurred by his Wars Praelati Regi respondentes dixerunt quod Episcopi multi Abbates qui vocati erant non fuerunt praesentes sic petierunt inducias quousque ad diem certum possent omnes pariter convenire Praefixus est itaque dies a quindecim diebus post Pascha ut omnibus congregatis tunc fieret quod erat de jure faciendum They being backwards to supply the King though overcomplyant to the Popes exactions This Popes his Legates and Agents usurpations by exactions Provisions disposing Churches to aliens and other Innovations at this time became so intollerably oppressive tyrannical to all sorts of people in England that by several Letters of complaint dispersed against them there was stirred up a general commotion and opposition against them throughout England thus Recorded by Mat. Paris SUborta est hac tempestate in Anglia maxima rerum perturbatio immo ut verum fateamur indiscreta praesumptio propter Romanorum Insolentiam Clericorum quae tam nobiles Regni quam ignobiles ad temerariam compulit ultionem sicut in subscriptis expressum continetur Tali Episcopo tali Capitulo universitas eorum qui magis volunt mori quam a Romanis confundi salutem Qualiter circa nos et alias personas Ecclesiasticas Angliae hactenus se habuerint Romani et eorum Legati vestram non dubitamus latere discretionem beneficia regni suis secundum quod eis placet conferendo in vestrum et omnium aliorum regni intollerabile praejudicium et gravamen In vos etiam coepiscopos vestros aliasque personas Ecclesiasticas ad quos collatio beneficiorum pertinere dinoscitur quod magis dignum est pro confusione notari suspensionis sententias fulminando ne alicui de regno beneficia conferatis donec quinque Romanis nec dum proprio nomine nominatis imo nato Rumfridi et nato talis et talis in singulis Ecclesiis vestris per totam diocesin sit provisum unicuique eorum in redditu centum Librarum Alia etiam gravamina quam plurima tam laicis et magnatibus regni super advocationibus suis et eorum eleemosynis ab eis et antecessoribus suis datis in Pauperum regni sustentationem quam Clericis et aliis viris religiosis regni super rebus et beneficiis inferendo Nec praemissis contenti ad ultimum a clericis regni beneficia quae obtinent ut ea Romanis conferant non secundum quod decet sed sicut eis placet
confirmationis ejusdem Episcopo Londoniensi in dicto negotio excusato literatorie nos electionem ipsius Johannis in hunc modum confirmamus In nomine Patris Filij Spiritus Sancti Inquisitis secundum formam literarum Domini Papae quae circa personam Electi Sancti Albani fratris Johannis sunt inquirenda tum per testes juratos tum per propriae personae examinationem invenimus eum ad regimen dictae Abbatiae sufficientem Unde electionem tanquam de persona idonea de ipso factam authoritate Apostolica confirmamus In cujus rei testimonium his literis nostris Patentibus sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum Acta Anno Domini M. CC. XXXV die Lunae proxima post festum Sancti Laurentii apud Crucem Roisiae In crastino igitur scilicet Nativitatis beatae Virginis in Ecclesia Sancti Albani ad majus Altare in praesentia Episcopi London totius Conventus in Choro existentis idem Episcopus eidem electo munus impendit benedictionis Ubi apertae sunt literae inclusae bullatae Domini Papae quas oportuit Electum in Abbatem benedicendum profitendo palam legere sub hac forma Ego Johannes Monasterii Sancti Albani Abbas ab hac hora in antea fidelis et obediens ero Sancto Petro sanctaeque Apostolicae Romanae Ecclesiae et Domino meo Papae Gregorio ejusque Successoribus Canonice intrantibus Non ero in Cansilio aut consensu vel in facto ut vitam perdant aut membrum aut capiantur mala captione Consilium vero quod mihi credituri sunt per se aut per Nuntios suos sive per literas ad eorum damnum me sciente nemini pandam Papatum Romanum et Regalem sancti Petri Adjutor eis ero ad retinendum et defendendum salva ordine meo contra omnem hominem Not excepting the King himself as is usual in Homage and fealty to all other Lords Legatum Apostolicae sedis in eundo et redeundo honorifice tractabo et in suis necessitatibus adjuvabo Vocatus ad Synodum veniam nisi praepeditus fuero Canonica praepeditione Apostolorum limina singulis trienniis visitabo aut per me aut per Nuntium meum nisi absolvae Apostolica licentia Possestones vero ad Monasterium meum spectaiites non vendam neque donabo neque impignorabo neque de novo infeudabo vel aliquo modo alienabo inconsulto Romano Pontifice Sic me Deus adiuvet et haec sancta Evangelia This New Oath of allegiance and fealty to the Pope and See of Rome being the highest incroachment upon the Kings Rights and Prerogative making all who took it the Popes subjects vassals villains not the Kings was sealed up and concealed both from the King and Abbot elect till this very nick of his consecration and benediction for fear it should be opposed refused as the Historian observes and thus relates Haec cooperta fuerunt occulta et clausa sub bulla donec staret Pontificalibus ad Altare redimitus quando nullo modo poterat ab ista abligatione resilire Et cum rogasset Abbas ab Episcopo Londoniensi Rogero quid Romae faceret Episcopus sicut jocundus extitit jocose respondit sub ridens ait Amice ut offeras veritas in verbo latitavit Rex autem super praemissis certificatus Tenentibus de Sancto Albano scripsit in haec verba HENRICUS Dei gratia Rex Angliae c. Militibus liberis hominibus omnibus aliis Tenentibus de Abbatia de Sancto Albano salutem Sciatis quod electioni factae de fratre Johanne de Hertford in Abbatem S. Albani assensum Regium praebuimus favorem Et ideo vobis mandamus quod eidem sratri Johanni tanquam Domino vestro in omnibus quae ad praedictam Abbatiam pertinent intendentes sitis respondentes Incujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Augusti Anno Regni nostri Duodecimo EX tunc igitur Abbas plenarie constitutus cepit homagia Juramenta fidelitates omnium Abbatiae subditorum installatus in omnibus Abbas habitus firmatus Sed ut non lateat simpliciores qualiter se gessit dum Electus esset qualiter in posterum se gerere debet Electus praesentibus duximus inserendum In the beginning whereof he thus expresseth the New Abbots sence and detestation of this New Oath and yoak of bondage imposed by the Pope on this famous Monastery and on others by his ill president in submitting thereunto and of the Popes manifold superadded exactions ISte Johannes secundus Abbas Prior quando que de Hertford inde oriundus praeter opinionem omnium nutu Dei sublimatus in Abbatem Primo invitus et dolens Romanorum jugum subiit servitutis ut scilicet de triennio in triennium vel per se vel peralium limina adiret Apostolorum sicut in subdola professione ejusdem continetur in magnum Ecclesiae damnum et gravamen et insatiabilis Romanae Curiae emolumentum voluntarium et injuriosum Primus quidem fuit in Abbatem creatus post Concilium Laterense generale sub Papa Innocentio quarto celebratum in quo illud continetur cum aliis gravaminibus in Ecclesiae Sancti Albani quae a fundatione sui primitiva libera ingenua legitur extitisse praejudicium et si fas est dicere injuriam et jacturam Iste quoque Abbas in Novitate sua multis exactionibus fatigabatur et expensis sed prae omnibus Romanorum oppressionibus novis et inauditis coepit molestari Et quod obstantibus antiquis privilegiis quae non sine magna Sanctorum patrum injuria et Contemptu cassantur et spernuntur non permissa est tam Celebris Ecclesia suis libertatibus gratulari Id cujus rei triste praesagium paulo ante ejusdem Abbatis creationem cito post scilicet infra triennium bis supra Ecclesiam beati Albani visum est fulgur usque ad incendium cecidisse quod se meminit praevidisse nec audivit evenisse Et sicut non prodest sanctorum inniti Privilegiis aut indulgentiis sic non obstitit fulguri impressio Papalis Cerea in qua Agnus Dei figuratur quae in Summitate Turris nostrae collocatur quae ut dicitur contra tales procellas abigendas virtutem habet potestatem I have related these Passages at large to evidence the execrable Bribery Symony Rapine extortions and insufferable usurpations of this Pope on the Crown and Church of England recorded by Matthew Paris living in that age privy to all these Transactions being a Monk of St. Albans little redounding to the honour of the Pope Court or Church of Rome which though generally detested yet could not be resisted reformed in that age by the King Nobles or Clergy of England who only murmured and made some bootlesse
A. Prior Ordinis fratrum praedicat Eborum quod cum ipse quendam de articulis fidei male sentientem pessime respondentem invenisset eundem tanquam infidelem arrestari fecit et carceri mancipari Quia igitur praefatus Prior nullam habet Jurisdictionem secularia judicia excercendi nec aliquem arrestandi vel carceri mancipandi Praeceptum est Uicecomiti Eborum quod cum plures sint in partibus illis infideles et qui super Haeretica pravitate sicut Rex audivit possint convinci ad mandatum ejusdem infideles arrestari faciat et carceri mancipari nemini vel in divitiis abundanti vel alio aliquo favore deferens in hac parte Eosque salvo faciat custodiri quousque Rex aliud inde duxerit praecipiendum Teste Rege apud Wintoniam Nono die Januarii The Bishop of London prohibiting any Victuals or other things to be sold to the Iews this year as some other Bishops had done before under pain of Excommunication the King thereupon issued forth this 〈◊〉 rit of Countermand to this his Usurpation to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London REX Majori Vicecom London salutem Mandamus vobis quatenus in Civitate nostra London publice clamari faciatis et firmitet prohiberi ne victualia vel alia venditioni exposita quae Iudaei nostri London emere voluerint eis denegentur vendenda et si quis contra Prohibitionem nostram victualia vel alia denegaverit eis vendenda illud sine dilatione faciatis emendari dictos Iudeos nostros inde et aliunde manutenentes et protegentes Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium Sexto die Decembris Anno. c. Vicesimo I shall cloze up this Chapter with a most memorable Prohibition against the Popes and Spiritual Courts Usurpations on the Crown The Archbishop of Canterbury being sued by the Prior and Monks of Canterbury for certain Advousons of Churches Possessions Rents and Services in the Ecclesiastical Court by authority of the Popes Letters despising the remedy of the Kings Court where they ought to sue for them thereupon the King issued forth this Prohibition to the Archbishop prohibiting him upon his Faith and Allegiance to him not to answer them in that Court it being prejudicial to his Royal Crown and Dignity against which he should repute it a voluntary contempt in the Archbishop if he should wittingly and willingly disobey this his Prohibition by answering in that Court REX c. Venerabili in Christo Patri E. eadem gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo c. salutem Ad aures nostras nuper pervenit quod cum controversia mota sit inter Priorem Monachos Cantuariae ex parte una vos ex altera super advocationibus quarundam Ecclesiarum Possessionibus Xeniis Servitiis quibusdam Praedicti Prior et Monachi spreto Curiae nostrae remedio ad quam spectant hujusmodi placita super praedictis trahunt vos in placitum in Curia Christianitatis auctoritate Literarum Domini Papae Quia vero sine manifesto praejudicio Regiae dignitatis nullatenus sustinere possemus sicut et nec deberemus quod placita hujusmodi in Curia Christianitatis ventilentur vobis prohibemus firmiter injungentes in fide qua nobis tenemini et sub debito fidelitatis nobis factae quatenus cum ad dignitates et jura Regia conservanda sitis astricti super praemissis in foro Ecclesiastico nullatenus respondeatis pro certo scituri quod si hanc Prohibitionem nostram secus ageretis credere non possemus quin ex certa scientia contra Coronam et Dignitatem nostram id attemptaretis et sic in foro praedicto respondendo Regiae dignitati manifeste derogaretis Teste Rege apud Merewell Vicesimo quarto die Maii. Of which you shall have a further account in the following year and Chapter BOOK IV. CHAP. II. Conteining sundry Records Patents and Historical passages evidencing the Kings Supreme Jurisdiction in and over Ecclesiastical Persons Courts Affaires in England and Ireland The Intollerable Usurpations Extortions Oppressions Innovations Proceedings of Popes their Legates Agents Instruments to the prejudice of the Rights Priviledges of the King Church Kingdom Subjects in both these Realms with the severall Complaints and Oppositions against them The English and Irish Bishops Covents Courts Christians Encroachments upon the Kings Temporal Courts Rights Royal Dignity and Subjects Liberties Prohibitions and Oppositions against them with the principal Ecclesiastical Affaires and Transactions in relation to England and Ireland from the beginning of the 21. to the end of the 40. year of King Henry the 3d. his Reign I Have in the cloze of the preceding Chapter presented you with King Henry the 3d. his memorable Writ of Prohibition directed to Edmond Archbishop of Canterbury not to answer to a suit brought against him by the Prior and Monks of Trinity concerning Advousons of Churches Lands Services and gifts to his Church before the Popes Delegates authorized to hear the same to the prejudice of the Rights of his Crown and Royal Dignity I shall now begin this Chapter with this Kings Prohibition Attachment for disobeying his former Prohibitions issued against the Popes Delegates themselves being three Abbots and the Prior who sued him with other Prohibitions not to proceed therein under pain of seizing their Temporalties for citing the Archbishop to appear before the Pope out of the Realm or elsewhere upon this untrue suggestion to the Pope that such cases had been formerly handled in Ecclesiastical Courts in the time of his Ancestors without any Prohibition which the King and his Counsel deny sending special Messengers to the Popes Delegates together with Prohibitions to inhibit their proceedings as these Records attest REX Vicecomiti Kanc. salutem Pone per Vad. salvos Pleg de Boxle sanctae Radegund de Lesnes Abbates quod sint coram Iusticiariis nostris apud Westmonasterium in Octabis Sanctae Trinitatis ostensuri quare tenuerunt placitum in curia Christianitatis super advocationibus Ecclesiarum Maneriorum Prioris et Monachorum sanctae Trinitatis Cantuar. et super xeniis quae idem Archiepiscopus percipit de Maneriis ipsorum Prioris et Monachorum et super obedientiis domus sanctae Trinitatis Cantuar. contra Prohibitionem nostram cum placita de advocationibus Ecclesiarum alibi teneri non debeant nec consueverint in Regno nostro quam in Curia nostra Et praeterea cum vacante Archiepiscopatu Cantuar. ad nos et Haeredes nostros dictorum xeniorum perceptio et praedictarum obedientiarum dispositio pertineat Pone etiam per Vad. salvos Plegios praedictum Priorem quod tunc sit ibi ostensurus quare secutus est idem placitum in eadem Curia contra Prohibitionem nostram Et habeas ibi nomina plegiorum hoc breve Teste Rege apud Windles Quinto die Maii. Per W. de Raleg A Maur. de Sancto Amando Bertramus
as these Records inform us REX Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo salutem Mittimus ad vos dilectum Clericum nostrum Magistrum W. de Kilkenny Constituentes ipsum procuratorem nostrum ad assignandum quasdam causas contradictionis nostrae contra Electionem de Priore Norwic. celebratam contra ipsum Priorem Electores ipsius salvis nobis aliis Juris remediis competentibus ratum habituri quicquid idem Willielmus super praemissis fecerit Damus etiam eidem potestatem appellandi ad sedem Apostolicam si viderit expedire Hoc idem Priori Norwic. Monachis ejusdem lioci significamus In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium Undecimo die Novembris REX Domino Papae salutem Constituimus dilectum Clericum nostrum Magistrum Will. de Kilkenny procuratorem nostrum in Curia Romana ad prosequendum Causas contradictionis nostrae contra electionem Electum Electores Norwic. Ecclesiae damus etiam eidem Magistro Willo potestatem substituendi procuratorem in negotio memorato ratum habituri quicquid idem Magister VV. vel ab eo substitutus procurator fecerit in praemissis Idem praemissis electoribus Electo significamus Teste Rege apud VVestmonasterium 23. die Januarij What the issue was of this Election Matthew Westminsters and Matthew Paris thus relate INgressis itaque viam universae carnis piae memoriae Venerabilibus Patribus Wigorniensi Norwicensi Episcopis elegerunt Monachi Wigorniae Magistrum Walterum de Cantelupo filium Willielmi de Cantilupo viri potentis praeclari in Praesulem Pastorem animarum suarum quem sine difficultate Dominus Papa acceptavit et in Episcopum consecravit Norwicenses autem Priorem suum virum religiosum discretum in suum sibi Praesulem elegerunt cu us electio licet rite facta quia tamen Regi displicuit quibusdam ridiculosis rationibus vel exceptionibus contradicentium fuit diu in pendulo non sine peccatorum scrupulis impedita After near three years contests William de Raleigh was consecrated Bishop thereof and the Prior put by The deplorable servile irreligious condition of the Church and Realm of England at this time under the manifold tyrannical Usurpations Exactions Corruptions of the Pope and his Instruments bonis terra in Regni perniciem saginati is thus most emphatically remonstrated by an eye witnesse then living TEmporibus illis ingruentibus igniculus fidei coepit nimis refrigescere ut penè in cinerem redactus vix videretur scintillare Jam enim simonia sine rubore perpetrata usurarii manifeste diversis argumentis a popularibus minoribus pecuniam impudenter extorquebant Expiravit charitas libertas Ecclesiastica emarcuit religio viluit suppeditata facta est filia Syon quasi meretrix effrons non habens ruborem Quotidie vilissimae personae et illiteratae Bullis Romanis armatae in minas statim erumpentes redditus a piis Patribus in Uictus religiosorum et sustentationem pauperum et hospitalitatem peregrinorum collatos spretis privilegiis a Sanctis nostris antecessoribus indultis diripere non formidarunt fulgurâ—ntibus enim sententiis sine dilatione raptim postulata receperunt Quod si ad refugium appellationis vel privilegii recurrerent injuriam patientes spoliati statim suspendentes per aliquem alium Praelatum authentico Papae compellente fecerunt excommunicare Et sic non prece non canonice sed imperiosa exactione simplices spoliarunt Juxta illud Poeticum Armato supplicat ense potens Unde factum est quod ubi solebant nobiles dapsiles Clerici Ecclesiarum custodes patroni circumjacentis Patriae latitudinem sua opulentia nobilitare transeuntes suscipere pauperes recreare ibidem abjectae personae moribus vacui versutia pleni procuratores et firmarii Romanorum quicquid preciosum in terra fuit et utile abradentes Dominis suis in remotas terras deliciose expatrimonio Crucifixi viventibus et ex alieno superbientibus transmiserunt Erat igitur videre dolorem praecordialem genas Sanctorum irrigare querelas erumpere suspiria multiplicare dicentibus multis cum singultu cruentato Melius esset nobis mori quam videre mala gentis nostrae et Sanctorum Uae Angliae quae quondam Princeps provinciarum Domina gentium speculum Ecclesiae religionis exemplum nunc facta est sub tributo Conculcaverunt eam ignobiles et facta est in praedam degeneribus Sed haec Anglis flagella multiformes reatus procurarunt irato eo qui Regnare facit Hypocritam propter peccata populi Tyrannum dominari No wonder then that Temporibus eisdem Graecorum debacchante solita insolentia tam adversus Ecclesiam Romanam quam suum Dominum Imperatorem Constantinopolitanum who sided with the Pope Dominum Papam omnem Ecclesiam adeo exasperavit quod multorum erat sententia volunt as Cruce-signatorum exercitum super eos retorquere the Pope sending for some Souldiers to the Earl of Britain and making him his General by Land and Sea in this intended War against them for which he wanted monies The Pope upon the Kings request under pretext to rectifie some of these abuses against which there was a universal complaint sent Ottoâ—one his Legate into England who at first demeaned himself like a Woolf in Sheeps cloathing to take off the scandal odium prejudice of the people against the Pope See of Rome and Legates till by degrees he put off his Sheeps cloathing and proclaimed himself a raâ—ening Woolf as well as his Predecessors whose arrival in England and proceedings are thus recorded by Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster EOdem quoque anno nesciebatur ad quid circa festum Apostolorum Petri Pauli Dominus Otto Sancti Nicholai in carcere Tulliano Diaconus Cardinalis per mandatum Regis venit Legatus in Angliam nescientibus Regni Magnatibus Unde plures adversus Regem magnam conceperunt indignationem dicentes Omnia Rex pervertit jura fidem promissa in omnibus transgreditur Nunc enim Matrimonio se sine suorum amicorum hominum naturalium consilio alienigenae copulavit nunc Legatum Regni totius immutatorem clam vocavit nunc sua dat nunc data cupit revocare Sic sicque de die in diem juxta dictum Evangelicum in se divisum dissipatum Regnum est enormiter desolatum Dictum est autem quod Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis Aedmundus Regem talia facientem increpavit praecipue de vocatione Legati sciens inde in suae dignitatis praejudicium magnam Regno imminere jacturam Sed Rex spretâ—tam suo quam aliorum suorum consilio quod concepit animo nullatenus voluit propositum revocare Venit igitur in magno apparatu Legatus praenominatus potentia magna Et occurrerunt ei Episcopi Clerici famosi usque ad littus aliqui in naviculis navigando obviarunt ei applaudentes munera impreciabilia
nostri temporis potius jurant le calumnia committenda quam vitanda ideo melius esset quod istud juramentum ex toto tolleretur a judicio causa vitandi tot perjuria non obstante quod hoc juramentum sit inventum ob publicam utilitatem The corrupt depraved condition extraordinary Rapines Symony Covetousnesse Extortions of the Pope Court and Church of Rome in that age which gave general scandal to all conscientious Christians and some Cardinals themselves yea caused the Greek Church wholy to separate from the Latine deny the Supremacy of Rome and renounce all obedience to her is thus recorded by Matthew Paris out of a private Letter sent from Rome to the Popes Legate in England advising him to moderation to prevent a total rejection of the Pope and See of Rome EOdem quoque tempore circa dies Domini Natalitios quidam Romanae Ecclesiae potens ac specialis Consiliarius scilicet Dominus J. de Columna Cardinalis Legato in Anglia commoranti secretius scripsit in haec verba Frater fratri Levita Levitae dilecto dilectus in Christo salutem Si pagina exarata secretum valeret extraneis ob locorum distantiam non subjaceret discrimini multa calamo commendarentur quae lingua subticet nec pandit amico Veruntamen haec charitati vestrae celare non debeo quod nimis avide vel potius inconsulte se mater immersit fluctibus et in fauces luporum ultronea se jactavit duorum tantum fuit consilio tertio annuente quin verius gressu praecedente consilium et cocis praecedentibus cum tractatu Hinc est quod libertas abjicitur servitus inchoatur sanctuarii sydus effunditur ancillatur patrimonium superbia exaltatur tonantium carcer emitur honor contemnitur appetitur confusio armatur molestia tranquillitas effugatur non curatur de fratrum et exterorum scandalo irrisionibus irridetur caecus loco dividitur differuntur negocia instantes protracti sermonibus diutina expectantium lassitudine fatigantur Bene vobis accidit quod ab his tormentis abstracti abiistis ad Regionem long inquam ne videret is mala gentis vestrae sanctorum ne pulsaremini quotidianis ictibus crebris punctionibus lacerati Voluimus reformare statum ut saepe tentavimus ecce deformis destitutio subintravit Incassum traduntur consilia ubi voluntas non sistitur frâ—no prudentiae sed impetu agitata prosilit ad procliva nec patitur retardari Accedit quoque ad doloris cumulum nobilis illa Columna qua tam magnificè structuram Ecclesiae sustentabat recolendae videlicet memoriae Dominus Sabinensis subito subtractus de medio molestiae primum dolore percussus ac postmodum infirmitate lenta vexatus obiit in Domini potentias ingressurus ruinae casum occasionaliter matri relinquens cum gemitu moerore Redierunt fratres a regione dissidente cum Principe sed pacis impressa vestigia non apparuerunt quia non paruerunt pacis bajulis discordiae sectatores Antiochensis a societate distrahitur nec a redeuntibus commendatur Vellem quod breviori familia stiparetur amicus ne fieret aliis Oneri obtrectantium dentibus laceraretur Et quia invalescentibus fluctibus scandalorum plurium tempestatum necessarius estis matri vos ad reditum praeparate Datum Viterbii festo Sancti Lucae Hoc igitur similibus indiciis manifeste compertum est Ecclesiam Romanam Dei proh dolor indignationem incurrisse Ipsius enim Magist 〈◊〉 us et Rectores non populi devotionem sed marsupia plena quaerunt denariorum non animas Deo lucrifacere sed redditus rapere et pecuniam congregare religiosos opprimere poena usura simonia et aliis diversis argumentis sibi aliena impudenter usurpare Non curatur de justitia et honestate de simplicium informatione imo cum quocumque modo quis beneficio Ecclesiastico investitur de summa pecuniae quam inde sortiri possunt statim sciscitatur ultima vero vel nulla quaestio oritur de Sancto vel ejus nomine quo Ecclesia intitulatur hinc imprecatio murmur in populo suscitavit diatim ira Dei merito provocatur Visa igitur tanta malitia oppressione erigitur Graeca Ecclesia contra Romanam Imperatorem suum expellendo soli Archiepiscopo suo Constantinopolitano nomine Germano obediendo Qui procaciter Graecorum errores non tantum veteres imo novos adinventos defendens enormiter a religione Catholica delirat Eorum enim haec est desipientia Asserunt Spiritum Sanctum non à Filio sed à Patre solo procedere eo quod scriptum reperiatur Spiritus veritatis qui à Patre procedit Praeterea conficiunt de fermentato Et in multis Latinis contradicunt eos spernunt Ecclesiam Romanam in pluribus condemnantes magis tamen ejus facta quam dicta Constituit igitur sedem suam quasi alter Lucifer in Aquilone scilicet in Constantinopoli Graecorum Civitate Metropolitana filius scilicet degener Antipapa vocans Ecclesiam suam et asserens digniorem et Ecclesiam Romanam sororem ejus dicens esse non matrem eo quod Beatus Petrus Apostolorum Princeps quondam prius quam Romam venerat Antiochiae quae Imperio Graecorum adjacet pertinet sedem constituit Cathedralem Addens quod Antiochia omnem quem potuit Apostolo Christi sic Christo exhibuit honorem reverentiam propter quod Theophilis meruit appellari Roma vero eundem Apostolum Petrum Coapostolum ejus Paulum post probra contumelias mortis supplicio condemnavit Hinc honor reverentia illinc dedecus insolentia unde Graeci filii Romani vero privigni jure meruerunt appellari Veruntamen ut ex tenore suprascriptarum Epistolarum perpendi potest praedictus Germanus Archiepiscopus convocare desiderat Graecos suos Latinos scilicet Romanos ut propositis utrinque rationibus in unam sententiam conveniant quos fortius rationum authoritatum corroborat adminiculum ut universalis Ecclesia Deo militans una integra nuncupetur juxta Salvatoris decretum unus sit Pastor unum ovile per totius mundi latitud nem Scribit igitur idem Germanus Domino Papae in haec verba His two Epistles to Pope Gregory and the Cardinals of Rome concerning a brotherly union between the Greek and Latine Churches and Pope Gregories Epistles in answer to them wherein he justifies his pretended Primacy by misapplyed Scriptures being over-long and not so pertinent to my subject matter those who please may peruse in Matthew Paris Only I cannot pretermit this passage in Germanus his Epistle to the Cardinals touching the large extent of the then Greek Church Hoc solum addam verbo finem imponam quod videlicet multae magnae Gentes sunt quae nobiscum sapiunt nobiscum qui Graeci sumus conveniunt in omnibus Primi illi
qui in prima parte Orientis habitant Aethiopes deinde Syri alii qui graviores sunt magis virtuosi scilicet Hyberi Lazi Alani Gothi Chazari innumerabilis plebs Russiae Regnum magnae victoriae Bulgarorum Et hi omnes tanquam matri nostrae obediunt in antiqua Orthodoxia immobiles hactenus persistentes This year the Greek Churches with all these her members renounced all obedience to and communion with the Church of Rome upon this just occasion for which the Church and Realm of England might then more justly have rejected her iron yoak of bondage had they been able to accomplish it HOc schisma dissidium inter Romanam Ecclesiam Graecam tale sumpsit seminarium Quidam Archiepiscopus electus canonice ad quendam nobilem Archiepiscopatum in Graecia vel postulatus Romam adiit confirmandus nec potuit exaudiri nisi pro impetratione illa infinitum aurum promitteret At ipse detestans prostantis Curiae Simoniam infecto negotio recessit hoc toti Graecorum nobilitati nuntiavit Et alii qui Romam adierant testimonium de similibus aut deterioribus perhibebant Et sic omnes a subjectione Romanae Ecclestae tempore Gregorii istius recesserunt Indeed they never acknowledged any subjection to the Church of Rome before but only retained a brotherly Christian communion with her which they now renounced for her manifold corruptions The Pope and his Cardinals upon Germanus and the Greek Churches Letters to them endeavouring to prove St. Peters universal Supremacy over all Churches from Tu vocaberis Cephas quod interpretatur Petrus Pasce oves meas c. and answering their objections against it very unsatisfactorily resolved to reduce them to obedience by force of armes not argument or Scripture and published a Crossado against them as if they were worse then Infidels most unchristianly diverting the forces defigned to ayde the Holy Land against the Saracens to murder and destroy the Greek Churches especially that of Constantinople HIS autem salutaribus monitis auditis sed non exauditis non se Graeci Ecclesiae Romanae subdiderunt forte tyrannidem et avaritiam ejus pertimescentes vel erecti in contumaciam juxta dictum Evangelistae quod invitati ad coenam noluerunt venire se tamen excusantes humiles in excusatione superbi contumaces in operis executione Super quo Dominus Papa Cardinales tractatum habentes diligentem proposuerunt exercitum Cruce signatorum universalem super eos reflectere Et facta praedicatione signati sunt nonnulli super Gracos praecipue Constantinopolitanos profecturi For which purpose he sent Baldwin their deposed expelled Emperor with all the forces he could raise to War upon and subdue them who arrived in * England where he received some small supplyes of money EIsdem temporibus profectus est in partes Graeciae ad expugnandum sibi Ecclesiae Romanae rebelles Imperator Constantinopolitanus Baldewinus in manu robusta militia non minima quantam qualem omnes ejus amici consanguinei potuerunt administrare Qui etiam ut thesaurum accumularet adaugeret reliquias charissimas certissimas vendidit Regi Francorum necnon quaedam sibi charissima impignoravit Erat namque a Francorum Nobilibus ducens originem Cui etiam Papa in odium et gravamen aemuli sui Imperatoris Romanorum Prederici modis omnibus quibus scivit et potuit manum extendit auriliatricem Hereupon the Archbishop of Antioch and Germanus Archbishop of Constantinople were so far incensed against the Pope and Church of Rome that they excommunicated them asserting themselves and their Churches to be above the Pope and Church of Rome yea more antient and excellent then they even by Arguments drawn from St. Peter himself ANno quoque sub eodem ad tantam ausus est proterviam impetu temerario prorumpere Antiochenus Archiepiscopus consentiente Germano Constant inopolitano Archiepiscopo Grecorum advocato vices agente Antipapae quod Dominum Papam cum tota sua Romana Ecclesia et Curia inani authoritate excommunicavit Et blasphemando se suamque Ecclesiam solenniter praedicando tempore et dignitate Domino Papae et Romanae Ecclesiae praeposujt et esse et fuisse Romana Ecclesia excellentiorem eo quod beatus Petrus Apostolus primo Ecclesiam Antiochenam cum summo honore rexerat per septennium ibidem cum summa qua decuit receptus reverentia similiter honorifice incathedratus Rom. vero fuit multis injuriis convitiis multipliciter lacessitus tandemque sub imperatore Nerone passus cum Coapostolo suo Sancto Paulo speciali Graecorum dâ—ctore dirae mortis supplicium consummavit Unde merito clarior amabilior eidem esse tenetur ea Civitas Regio cum suis Civibus omnibus incolis quae eidem beato Petro Apostolo honorem reverentiam contulerunt quam quae dedecus tormenta inflixerunt Potestatemque ligandi solvendi liberaliter potius Ecclesiae Graecorum contulisse quam Romanae quam simoniae usurae avaritiae aliorum facinorum maculis constat jam sordere Hac aliis rationibus superticialibus suas in propriam perniciem cicatrices dictus Antipapa palliavit excusationes in peccatis excusavit Sed columna Ecclesiae Dominus Papa verus divi Petri successor etsi non plene imitator non movebatur omnem vindictam reservans in tempore retributionis Sending Baldwin with Armes to subdue them though with very ill successe as * Mat. Paris and Mat. Westminster relate SEd defuit divinus favor propositis Periit enim Francorum in ejus exercitu multitudo numerosa Ipsoque eodem tempore cum fugisset Imper. Constantin a persecutione Graecorum nec quicquam haberet in aerario ut bellum amplius continuaret Graecorum impetus continuos sustineret confugit ad consilium auxilium Imperatoris Romanorum Frederici Qui Graecis tum terribiliter comminando tum consultius postulando tandem treugas per annum unum impetravit Interim procuravit idem Imperator Fredericus ut filiam suam cuidam magno Principi Graecorum nomine Battacio matrimonio copulavit Quod Domino Papae simulque toti Curiae Romanae molestum videbatur grave quia per ipsum Battacium schisma ortum est inter Ecclesiam Romanam Graecam Unde ipsa Romana Ecclesia vocat eum schismaticum factum est obstinatius odium proinde inter Dominum Papam Imperatorem Fredericum This schisme of the Greek Church from and opposition against the Pope and Church of Rome made the Pope and his Court fear the like schisme and revolt in England occasioned by the Legates violent proceedings extortions and advancement of strangers to Benefices whereupon he intended to recall him thence to prevent these ill consequences but the Legate loth to depart prevailed with the King and others to solicite the Pope for his continuance in England upon pretence of publike good
tamen ad Cancellariam spectantibus Episcopo quasi Cancellario redditis assignatis Prosequens autem Rex conceptum impetum misit ad Curiam Romanam Simonem Normannum Alexandrum saecularem Legistas conductitios Qui multa data et promissa pecunia virum justum de jure suo privando et justum judicium subvertendo praedictam postulationem perperam cassaverunt Such was the Bribery and Injustice of the Court of Rome in this age These Appeals and contests about Elections as they brought much filthy lucre to the Pope his Court and Officers so they extraordinarily advanced and in a great measure confirmed his injurious Usurpations over the King Kingdoms Prelates Covents Chapters Churches of England and Ireland so as they could not for many years after retrench them with all their complaints diligence oppositions against them Soon after Electus Valentinus Gulielmus Romam adiit vocante eum Domino Papa ad quâ—m fama ipsius pervenerat quod vir crat in negotiis bellicis strenuus circumspectus an ill qualification for a Bishop in St. Pauls judgement procurante eodem Papa in Curia Romana postulatus est in electum Leodiensem nihilominus tamen ut electus Valentinus diceretur esset mutato solummodo nomine scilicet ut diceretur electus Leodiensis procurator Valentinus ut abusio vocabulorum vitaretur D monstruosa humanae caecitatis ambitio Adhuc et ad Winton non habito tamen respectu ad officium Pontificale sed emolumentum temporale Rege favente totis nisibus adspiravit Which Matthew Paris thus relates Tunc temporis vocatus est Willielmus electus Valentinus procurante Papa quia ut dicebatur proposuit eum habere ducem exercitus sui contra Imperatorem ad Episcopatum Leodiensem retenta procuratione Valentini Episcopatus quasi non esset notatus de perpetrato homicidio unde nec mirum si cum stupore admirarentur haec audientes quod adhuc tam anhelo spiritu and Episcopatum Wintoniae aspiravit Regemque Angliae diligentem ad hoc constituit procuratorem Heu heu quae numerosa pecunia Curiam Romanam adconsensum et permissionem inclinavit Circa idem tempus Rex vehementer oppressit Ecclesiam Wintoniensem quendam alienigenam contra voluntatem totius Conventus in eandem violenter intrusit ut praeesset Conventui because they opposed the election of this Bishop W. de Valentia Qui inordinate se gerens timore Dei postposito omnia subvertit omnes pervertit thesaurum Ecclesiae dilapidando foli Regi placere cupiebat Unde libera electio Monachorum dum idem Prior adulterinus fere medietatem stellarum secum cauda sua traxit periclitabatur multorum corda ad electionem Willielmi avunculi Reginae in Episcopum corrumpendo inclinavit Rex enim ad hoc summo nisu anhelabat But this William cum a Domino Papa impetrasset ut in Episcopum Leodiensem eligeretur Episcopatum Wintoniensem obtineret apud Viterbium potionatus ut dicitur diem clausit extremum die omnium Sanctorum procurante Magistro Laurentio Anglica sed postmodum eo rite purgato Quod cum Papa audisset doluit nimis quia proposuerat de ipso facere ducem militiae suae in bello suo contra Imperatorem et idcirco eundem quasi monstrum spirituale et belluam multorum capitum effecerat Noverat eum ad stragem strenuum ad caedem pronum ad incendia protervum Magistrum Regis Angliae amicum Regis Francorum sororium utriusque avunculum Reginarum fratrem Comitis Sabaudiae aliis multis vel affinitate vel consanguinitate confoederatum Sed haec mors inopinata omne hoc propositum transmutavit Rex autem cum hos lugubres rumores audivit non se prae dolore capiens scidit vestimenta sua ea projecit in ignem rugitum magnum emittens noluit alicujus admittere consolationem Regina quoque quam causa familiarior stimulavit funus avunculi deflevit tempore diuturno So much was the death of this warlike wicked unpreaching avaritious scandalous Prelate lamented especially by the Pope After his death Monachi Wintonienses a Romana Curia redeuntes a Domino Papa impetrarunt ut nullam alienigenam personam invisam universitati Regni per Regis acerbam instantiam vel imperiosas ejus preces in suarum animarum custodem Episcopum eligerent sed rite ut justum Canonicum est quemcunque viderent idoneum libere sine exactione in suum Antistitem sumerent Pastorem Quapropter Dominus Rex in vehementem iram excanduit quasi non potens invenire Angligenam illi Episcopatui sufficientem Et ex tunc Priorille quem Rex intruserat diligentem curam adhibuit ut constantiam Monachorum enervaret eorum qui pro Ecclesia hactenus viriliter steterunt concordem unitatem dissiparet Though K. Henry the 3d. was very obsequious to this Pope Gregory yet the Pope was so unchristianly malicious towards the Emperor Frederick who married his sister by this Popes solicitation that he grew extremely angry with K. Henry for sending some few English Souldiers and money to the Emperour to help subdue the Italians who rebelled against him and for writing an Epistle to him to deal more mildly with him so that he neglected all businesses especially such as related to the King and English for a season although his intended General the Bishop of Winchester cautelously passed over with Trublevile laden with monies and plate to assist the Pope Eodem anno statim post Pascha misit Dominus Rex Angliae militare praesidium ad Dominum Imperatorem juvandum contra rebelles suos in partes Italicâ—â— sub ducatu Henrici de Trubleville viri in re militari peritissimi Cum quo etiam misit J. Mansell Willielmum Hardel Clericum Civem Londinensem cum pecunia stipendiariis distribuenda Et strenue per totam aestatem exercitus Regis Imperatori militavit quarumdam Civitatum Cives volentes obstare vicerunt Imperio reddiderunt ubi strenue se dictus J. Mansell gessit Quod Papa nimis moleste tulit Et circa idem tempus direxit Rex elegantem Epistolam Papae petens ut mitius ageret cum Domino Imperatore Quod gravius accepit Papa secus respondens quam deceret et commotus est in tantam iram ut per aliquod tempus omnia negotia praecipue Anglicorum suspenderentur Cumque audiret electus Valentiae quod profecturus esset talis exercitus in Italiam caute quasi Dux eorum associavit se Domino Henrico de Trubleville cum eo transfretavit Sub illis quoque diebus electus Valentinus videns nulli placere moram suam in Anglia sponte vel invitus caute tamen quia clitellis suis refertis equis oneratis auro argento vasis Regalibus transfretavit These differences and Wars between the Emperor Pope King Italians
Thomas Beacon his Reliques of Rome and Mr. Calfhill his Book against Marshall fol. 91 92 93. who censure them as Superstitious and Papal Innovations Pope Gregory being informed that King Henry the 3d. by ill advice had alienated or given away and dissipated to sundry Bishops Churches and Noblemen divers Liberties Possessions Dignities and other things appertaining to the Right and State of the Crown of England to the great prejudice of the Church of Rome to which the Realm of England was well known to belong obliging himself by his Charters and Oathes not to revoke those Grants and Charters commanded the King to revoke them notwithstanding his Oathes by this Bull which I found extant under Seal in the White Tower GREGORIVS Episcopus servus servorum Dei Charissimo in Christo filio illustri Regi Angliae salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Gravi sumus turbatione commoti quod sicut audivimus quorundam minus discreto ductus consilio Libertates Possessiones Dignitates et alia quamplura quae ad jus et statum Coronae spectabant in grave praejudicium Ecclesiae Romanae ad quam Regnum Angliae pertinere dignoscitur et enormem laesionem ejusdem Regni in plures Praelatos Ecclesias et alios Magnates Angliae liberalitate improvida dispersisti et de non veniendo contra alienationem hujusmodi te Iuramentis necnon instrumentis publicis obligasti Attendentes igitur quod ex alienatione praedicta sedes Apostolica cui praejudicare minime pótuïsti non modicum laeditur et Regnum ipsum vir subsistere poterit cujus honor particularibus dimunitionibus enervatur Serenitati tuae praesentium authoritate mandamus quatenus Iuramentis et instrumentis praedictis nequaquam obstantibus alienata praedicta revocare procures Dat. Late an x. Calend. Martii Pontificatus nostri Anno Undecimo in sigill Gregorius Papa IX By colour of this Bull the King revoked many of his Grants as being invalid without the Popes consent as the forecited passage in Matthew Paris assures us relating to this Bull as I apprehend though he placeth his revocations a year or two before the date thereof since I find no other Bull preceding it nor any intimation thereof in this enjoyning him to violate his former Oathes or to recall his Grants of this nature Anno 1239. The Pope being informed by sundry frequent and almost daily complaints of the insatiable avarice and rapines of Otho his Legate in England resolved to recall him the second time in shew but by compact between the King and Legate still continued him at the Kings request to increase their oppressions exactions instead of redressing them Dominus Papa audiens per crebras admonitiones fere quotidianas scandalum jam in dies magis ac magis de Romanorum insatiabili cupiditate avaritia inextinguibili oriri in Anglia vocavit Dominum Ottonem Legatum suum ut cum omni festinatione Romam reverteretur Quod audiens Dominus Legatus convocavit omnes Episcopos Angliae ut Londinum die qua cantatur Laetare Hierusalem convenirent de reditu suo salvo conductu communiter tractaturi Dominus Rex vero cum hoc audisset timens sibi de Parliamento futuro in Octavis Paschae in quo adventum speraverat electi Valentini confidens de praesentia Domini Legati coepit nimis contristari timere ne Magnates aut Proceres terrae unanimiter insurgerent in eum propter varios crebros ejusdem excessus transgressiones contra suas proprias constitutiones toties promissas ac juratas Instantissime igitur procuravit Dominus Rex ut missis expeditissimis nuntiis ad Dominum Papam moraretur dictus Legatus in Anglia ut per eum imminens turbatio sedaretur Ipse vero Dominus Legatus Regem id petentem nolens contristari sustinuit expectando Legatus quoque ad Curiam Romanam maturando a Rege Archiepiscopis Episcopis Civibus quoque Londinensibus in sermone quem propter hoc specialiter fecit quasi irrediturus humiliter salutavit Equos nobiles sibi datos vendidit bonis conditionibus viles loco eorum comparavit sarcinas disposuit clitellas praeparavit Sed Rex credens eo absente expirare totis viribus elaboravit parumper adhuc ut moraretur Miserat enim ad Curiam Romanam unum Legistarum suorum quorum magnam catervam retinuit quasi venator canes venaticos super electores Praelatorum discopulandos videlicet Simonem Normannum ut impetraret a Papa ut daret in mandatis Legato quod adhuc in Anglia ut multis obviaret ibidem periculis remaneret Nec fefellit eum sua opinio Ecce enim omni supellectili Domini Legati cum aliis viaticis dispositis Simon Normannus venit ei offerens Literas secundum desiderium Regis impetratas Quibus Domino Legato obtemperante Rex prae gaudio saltitavit Quod comperientes nobiles qui Londini infecto negotio suo timentes Legati muscipulas venerant comperientes vulpina diverticula Regis recesserunt indignantes Regis verba sicut sophismata detestantes Soon after Vocavit Dominus Legatus omnes Episcopos Angliae ut in die qua cantatur Laetare Hierusalem convenirent Londini de negotiis Ecclesiae tractaturi Et debit ibidem cum diligenti deliberatione quaedam statuta Monachis Nigri ordinis sub succincta brevitate inviolabiliter observanda In quibus rigorem indiscretum in multis temperavit But this was only a specious popular Prologue to his design new exactions being demanded from the Prelates who took time to advise thereof till their next meeting in pursuit whereof Convenerunt omnes Episcopi Londinum pridie scilice Calendas Augusti de oppressionibus Ecclesiae Anglicanae tractaturi Exigebat enim Legatus post quotidianas Exactiones Procurationes Cui habito consilio responderunt Episcopi communiter quod toties bona Ecclesiae exhauserat Romana importunitas quod nullo modo amplius tolerarent exhibeat vos qui inconsulte vos vocavit Et sic non sine querulo murmure a Concilio recesserunt The Legate hereupon being defeated of his intended prey in England resolved to make a new attempt to enter into Scotland to make a prey of the Scotâ—ish Churches under pretext of reforming them where he met with great opposition from the King thus related Eisdem diebus Legatus in Scotiam intrare festinavit dispositisque rebus necessariis ducibus Anglicis qui viarum si forte pararentur infidias explorarent iter arripuit hospitia sumptuosa eligens in Abbatiis Ecclesiis Cathedralibus Et antequam Regnum Scotiae intrasset occurrit ei Rex Scotiae non acceptans ingressum suum Dixit enim quod nunquam aliquis Legatus excepto illo suo in Scotiam intravit Non enim ut asseruit opus erat Christianitas ibi floruit Ecclesia prospere se habebat Et cum sermones multiplicarentur et Rex
Propter quod dominus Papa eundem Helyam excommunicavit instead of refuting or reforming these injuries crimes and execrable abuses Soon after Richard Earl of Cornwall accompanied with many Nobles Knights and Soldiers according to their Oath departing out of England and travelling through France towards the holy land against the Popes Prohibition thereupon he sent them a new Inhibition Cum Comes R. ad S. Aegidium pervenisset venerunt ad eum unus Legatus Archiepiscopus Arelatensis authoritate Domini Papae consulentes inhibentes ne Comes transfretaret Quod cum Comes vehementer admirans redarguisset asserens se credidisse veritatis firmitatem inesse dictis Apostolicis suis quos misit Praedicatoribus moleste tulit nimis tales inhibitiones dixit Omnia mihi ad transitum praeparavi valedixi amicis praemisi thesaurum arma mea naves paravi jam meis victualibus oneratas nunc mutato verbo transfretare cum jam ad mare navem intraturus perveni prohibet Papa qui dicitur Successor et Uicarius Jesu Christi qui nunquam verbi sui transgressor fuisse perhibetur ne ad servitium Christi properem ad omnia jam accinctus Et cum viderent Legati illi quod transitum suum nequirent impedire coeperunt persuadere ut relicto portu Marsiliae intraret mare in portu qui dicitur Aquae mâ—rtuae Quod omnes de exerciâ—u abhorruerunt propter loci corruptionem infirmitatem disâ—uaderunt Comes igitur detestans Romanae Ecclesiae duplicitatem cum magna mentis amaritudine Marsiliam tenebat spretis Legatorum fallacibus et ambiguis sermociuationibus primo ad Rokam veniens ibi classem totam ordinavit oneravit Misit autem ad Imperatorem status sui notitiam significavit ei Papalem muscipulationem per Nuntios sibi speciales Robertum de Tuinge militem alios Et in septimana infra octavas beatae Mariae sese vasto mari navigandum commsit and arrived safely in the holy land where he was received with extraordinary joy processions pomp as well by the Prelates and Clergy as of the Nobles Soldiers and people notwithstanding the Popes Inhibitions which then grew very contemptible as well as his brutish Anathemaes Pope Gregory the ninth bearing an inveterat implacable malice against the Emperor Frederick the second notwithstanding his former seeming reconciliation to him intending to excommunicate and depose him from his Empire the second time caused sundry false Rumors as he had formerly done to be raised and scattered in all places to blast his Reputation as if he were rather an Atheist or Mahometan then a real Christian when as these Antichristian slanders and proceedings against the Emperor demonstrated this Pope to be more Atheistical and Ethnical then Frederick in the judgement of all unprejudiced persons Ejusdem temporis curriculo fama Imperatoris Frederici admodum est obfuscata maculata ab invidis inimicis aemulis suis Imponebatur enim ei quod vacillans etiam exorbitans in fide Catholica dixerit quaedam verba ex quibus elici suspicari potuit non tantum fidei Catholicae in eo imbecillitas quin imo quod gravius multo pejus est manifestae maximae Haeresis dirissimae blasphemiae enormitas detestanda omnibus fidelibus plane execranda Fertur enim eundem Fredericum Imperatorem dixisse licet non sit recitabile tres praestigiatores callide versute ut dominarentur in mundo totius populi sibi contemporanei universitatem seduxisse videlicet Moysen Jesum Mahometum Et de Sacratissima Eucharistia quaedam nefanda execrabilia deliramenta blasphemias impie protulisse Absit absit aliquem virum discretum nedum hominem Christianum in tam furibundam blasphemiam os linguam reserasse Dictum etiam fuit ab aemulis suis ipsum Fredericum Imperatorem plus consensisse credidisse in legem Mahometi quam Jesu Christi quasdam Meritriculas Saracenas fecisse concubinas Surrepsitque murmur in populum quod avertat Dominus a tanto Principe Saracenis a multo tempore ipsum fuisse confoederatum amicum fuisse plusquam Christianorum id indiciis multis probare conabantur ipsius aemuli qui famam suam conabantur obfuscare Si peccabant vel non novit ipse qui nihil ignorat Moreover this Pope fomented the Rebellions of the Millanois against the Emperor refusing to aid him in his just wars against them being much offended with the King of Englaend for sending both aid of men and monies to him whereupon the Emperour thus continually affronted by him marched into Italy seised upon the greatest part of Sardinia surrendred to him Anno 1239. as appertaining to the Empire for which and other pretences this Pope thundred out a new excommunication aganst him published in all Countries Churches with Bell book and Candle especially in England absolved all his Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance deposed him from his Empire and profered it to the French Kings Brother All which occasioned this Emperour for vindicating his own Innocency detecting this Popes Impiety rapines slanders and Antichristian practices to send abroad several Notable Letters and the Pope to scatter abroad scandalous Libels and answers to them which because for the most part writen but all of them sent to the King Bishops and Nobles of England and Popes Legate there residing recorded by Matthew Paris and pertinent to my general Theam I shall transcribe at large Ipso quoque anno dum in Italia dominus Imperator hyemaret redditae sunt ei opulentisâ—imae Insulae in mari Mediterraneo sitae Civitati Pisanae proximae scilicet Sardiniae pars maxima potissima Cujus Insulae jus ad Patrimonium Beati Petri specialiter pertinere perhibetur Imperator vero ipsam ad imperium spectare ab antiquo asseruit per occupationes alia ardua negotia Imperialia Imperatores ea amisisse ipsum ideo eam ad Corpus Imperii revocasse Ego vero juravi ait ut jam novit mundus dispersa Imperii revocare quod non segniter adimpleri procurabo Misit igitur dominus Imperator filium suum ut sibi oblatam reciperet praedictae Insulae contra prohibitionem Domini Papae portionem Quod cum summa indignatione Dominus Papa accepit ex tunc in manifestam consurgens ultionem jacturam enim magnam reputavit Est enim institorum refugium naufragorum solatium profugorum asylum Insula Sardiniae quatuor Principibus quos Judices vocant gubernata Jactura est gravis sed modus jacturae multo gravior injuria videbatur odium inter eos natum quasi vulnus inveteratum saniem generabat Eodem Anno in Quadragesima dominus Papa cum vidisset facta Imperator is nimis temeraria dicta sua peccata suum excusantia scilicet quod faventibus quibusdam Magnatibus Judicibus Sardinicis terram
construere proposuit benedixit assignando loca in quibus construenda sunt aedificia Canonicorum Tibi praecipimus firmiter injungentes in fide qua nobis teneris quod per totam Ballivam tuam clamari facias et firmiter supra vitam et membrum prohiberi ne aliqua persona Laica de operatione quam dictus Archid. construere proposuit in aliquo ligna vel lapides carriando vel aliquod auxilium vel consilium praestando sive operando se intromittat Et si aliquem Laicum contra hanc Prohibitionem nostram inveneris aliquid attemptantem corpus ipsius capias et in prisona nostra salvo custodias donec aliud inde tibi praeceperimus Taliter hoc praeceptum nostrum executurus ne si te in hac parte negligentem audierimus ad te nos graviter capere debeamus tanquam praecepti nostri contemptorem Teste Rege apud Clarendon xxiij die Novembris Per ipsum Regem Consilium suum The King out of favour to the Earl of Flanders writ to his Proctors at Rome to assist the Earls Proctors all they could and to dispence in his particular case with his Royal Priviledge of drawing no causes out of his Realm to Foreign Judicatures REX Drogoni de Barentin Willielmo Hardel aliis procuratoribus suis in Curia Romana agentibus falutem Cum ad commodum utilitatem dilecti avunculi fidelis nostri Th. Comit. Flandr tam per nos quam per nostros laborare disponamus vobis praesentium tenore injungimus mandantes districte quod ejus procuratoribus ad curiam accedentibus in hiis quae ad ipsum Comitem pertinere videbuntur totis viribus assistatis ejus negotia quatenus per vos fieri poterit promovere curetis Proviso quod occasione privilegii Anglicis concessi Ne ad partes transmarinas seu extra Regnum Angliae trahantur in causam nihil contra ipsum Comitem nomine nostro impetretur quo minus in causa quae inter nobilem virum P. quondam Comitem Britaniae S. de Monte-forti vertitur in partibus transmarinis coram judice suo procedatur Nos enim pro eo quod causa illa praefatum Comitem Flaundr velut eum cujus res agitur tangit magis eligimus quoad causam illam privilegio renunciare praedicto cum protestatione tamen quae ad ejus observationem in aliis causis videbitur necessaria quam Comitem praefatum in ipsius impedire processu Vos igitur in hac causa nihil contra ipsum impetretis nec quantum per vos fieri poterit impetrari permittatis Nolumus enim si super hoc nostro nomine aliquid fuerit impetratum quod eo ad impedimentum suae Causae aliquis utatur Teste apud Clarend 8. die Decembris The Popes Legat this year exacting the fift part of all outlandish Clerks Benefices and Rents in England to the Popes use as well from the Kings Clerks as others to their intolerable oppression the King thereupon issued this memorable Prohibition to him exempting certaine Clergy men therein named from this exaction though he connived at this extortion from others REX Domino Legato salutem Cum jam ex relatu quorundam receperimus fide dignorum quod de Clericis transmarinis tam nostris quam aliis in regno Angliae beneficia et redditus habentibus quintam partem suorum reddituum et bonorum ad opus Domini Papae authoritate quarundam literarum suarum certis ad hos executoribus ex parte vestra exhibitis nec saltem ipsorum indempnitate provisa districtius exigitis Nos attendentes in animo saepius revolventes quod hii qui nostris vacant obsequiis intolerabilibus juxta regni consuetudinem fatigantur expensis propter quod pensatis rerum circumstantiis ipsorum foret immunitati ratione multiplici providendum dilectionem vestram praesentium duximus tenore rogandam quatenus honori vestro qui satis Apostolicae sedi convenire creditur sic in hac parte prospicere curetis quod dilectos nobis magistrum Walterum de Dya Guydonem de Rascillum magistrum Johannem de Dya magistrum de Estoyland H. Archid. Wint. L. Archid. Surr. Johannem de la Herce Henr. de Berneval I. de Steyland Petrum Chaceport Bertardum de Valentia Emericum de Roches magistrum Willum le Brun. W. le Pless Selmo de Creft magistrum Atte Willum de Poypia Clericos nostros praestatione quintae memoratae conservetis immunes Cum enim Dominus Papa nobis super hoc prout praedecessorum nostrorum temporibus fieri consuevit hactenus scripserit non sustinebimus quod praefati Clerici nostri super exactione praedicta in aliquo graventur immo eisdem districtius inhibuimus ne de honis suis aut redditibus pro portione memorata alicui respondere praesumant Nam etsi id quod in hac parte apud alios agitur quasi dissimulando pertransimus istos tamen penitus esse volumus immunes Addici etiam petimus supplicationibus praemissis ut si quae compulsiones circa eosdem per executores praedictos in locis exercentur diversis ipsos penitus ad nostram faciatis petitionem relaxari Scituri pro certo quod sustinere nullo wodo volumus quod praefatae pecuniae Summa ab eisdem per aliquos extorqueatur Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium novemdecem die Februarii The Prior of Rupe by Authority from the Pope exacting from the Clerkes of the Churches in England the advowsons whereof belonged to the Monks of Clungy the tenth of their goods and rents for three years together the King thereupon issued this notable Prohibition to him inhibiting the Collection the eof or any other Tax to carry monyes out of the Realm REX Abbati Priori de Rupe salutem Accepimus ex relatu quorundam quod vos authoritate cujusdam concessionis Abbati Monachis de Cluniac per Dominum Papam factae a rectoribus Ecclesiarum de sua atque Prioratuum suorum advocatione existentium decimam bonorum et reddituum suorum de tribus annis proxime sequentibus exigitis ipsos Rectores ad solutionem decimae praedictae districte compellendo Quia vero id absque indebito multorum gravamine sustineri non posset veluti cum decedentium Rectorum Ecclesiae ad ipsos ultra tempus certum secundum diversarum partium constituta non pertingunt si pro tribus annis responderet Rector jam superstes ipso forte citra lapsum primi anni decedente pro successore suo videretur indebite gravari ex altera parte cum ipsi Priores quoad jura suorum Patronorum qui de nostra Jurisdictione consistunt quasi pro secularibus habeantur personis a nobis proculdubio in hiis debeant tueri Et praeterea cum a Domino Papa super hoc nequaquam fit erimus requisiti nec moris sit aut esse consueverit in Regno Angliae quod sine
Terram sanctam propter terrae liberationem unde c. Item binus actus inducit consuetudinem unde cum alias facta fuerit hujusmodi contributio si modo fieret verteretur in consuetudinem unde c. Item exhaeredatio Principis Angliae Magnatum terrae considerata potestate Imperatoris debilitate paupertate Regni Angliae ex contributione hujusmodi immineret manifesta unde contribuere non expedit nec debemus Item cum Rex Angliae Magnates tam in jure haereditario quam bona appropriata consuetudine habent jus patronatus Ecclesiarum Angliae rectores ad eorum praesentationem instituti nolunt sicut nec debent nec possunt in aliquam contributionem consentire inconsultis patronis quia sic possit ex Ecclesiis suis praejudicium generari cum eaedem Ecclesiae sint per eosdem patronos terrarum ac reddituum propter hoc specialiter collationibus dotatae aut ditatae ut rectores earum suscipiant hospites tam divitum quam pauâ—â—rum sustinentes hospitalitatem tam Laicorum quam Clericorum secundum suas â—â—cultates locorum exigente consuetudine a quibus si procedat talis exactio oportet cessare ita patroni suo jure intentione hac causa donandi fraudati erunt sic donata repetere vel saltem alia quaerent gravamina nec iterum Ecclesias de suis bonis fundabunt vel conferent beneficia Item Cum istud petatur contra talem qui foedus iniit cum Principe nostro praesertim per matrimonium non debemus eo inconsulto contra eum contribuere Item quod cum nuper alias in pristina contributione in casu consimili promissum esset praebentibus authoritate istius ejusdemque Papae quod de caetero non fieret huâ—usmodi exactio de dicto gravamine adhuc sentientes se gravatos non debent contribuere quia timent quod ex frequenti contributione in servilem inusitatam trahantur consuetudinem praesertim cum multi plerisque regionibus nec adhuc Franci non consentiant contributionem Nec est manifestum vel notorium aliquod emolumentum per hujusmodi extorsiones Ecclesiae contigisse utinam non ad detrimentum roborantur utique ditantur exinde hostes Ecclesiae ex validis fiunt validiores durum est nobis armis propriis perimi quare non est contribuendum Item cum omnes vel fere omnes voto Crucis sint astricti ad quae vota vel per se vel per alios competentes solvenda admonitionem Papalem receperunt huic tam arduo utili negotio simul semel etiam huic contributioni nequeunt satisfacere Item cum privilegio crucesignatorum sint muniti quibus fructus obventiones reddituum suorum sibi integre triennio conceduntur ad hoc non debent contribuere Item cum plures sint per literas Papales astricti ut de Decimis Ecclesiarum suarum quae ad jus patronatus Monachorum Cluniacensis Ordinis spectare noscuntur vel in quibus ipsi Monachi aliquod temporale vel spirituale jus habent usque ad termiuum eis respondeant unde non debent contribuere Item cum Dominus noster Rex Angliae undique habeat hostes capitales ei ut dicitur nocere praeparatos ac Regnum sit destitutum consilio auxilio proborum in brevi peregre proficisci disponentium maximam pecuniae summam qui secum deportabunt nec esset tutum in tantum depauperare Ecclesias regnum quod ad tuitionem Reipublicae non sufficeret timendum foret pro certo de irrestaurabili regni exterminio Item cum olim essenâ— ditiores Clerici Anglicana nationis quando videlicet omnes habuerant vel major pars habuerit plura beneficia sine dispensatione ac nunquam ab ipsis talis exactio fuit licet per Imperatores tyrannos tunc temporis multi Patres Sanctissimi exilio relegati in se in membris suis ac facultatibus Ecclesiae durissima paterentur unde non debemus contribuere Item in regno Franciae multae Decimae militibus ab Apostolicis Patribus concessae credantur ut ipsi Romanam Ecclesiam tueantur nec constat ab eis debitum suffragium esse negatum nec etiam constat eorum suffragium Exercitui Domini Papae fuisse adhuc contributum quare non debemus contribuere Legatus igitur sui complices comperientes constantiam eorum tot fultam validis rationibus nec se posse ipsos simul cohaerentes frangere cogitaverunt schisma inter eos divisiones procurare Adiit ergo Legatus Regem ipsum cito enervatum sibi inclinavit Adierunt complices ejus tam Episcopos quam eorum Archidiaconos praecipue tamen Magistrum Alanum de Becles Archidiaconum Sudburiae aliis prius constantiorem quosdam alios ambitiosos ad altiores dignitates aspirantes adjutorium eis efficax pollicentes ut dictae Universitati non consentirent sic divisis illis praevaluit pars adversa The Popes Legate extorting Procurations in money from the Monks of the Cistercian Order out of insatiable covetousnesse thereupon the Monks procured a kind of Prohibition from the Pope to inhibit such Procurations Ipsoque anno Legatus ut pecuniae plus emungeret apposuit manum ut a Monachis Cisterciensis ordinis suae avaritiae satisfaceret procurationes instanter erigendo Sed ipsi viriliter contradicendo Curiam Romanam privilegiis suis innitentes ut contra hanc improbitatem impetrarent adierunt Literas eidem Legato sub hac forma reportantes GREGORIUS Episcopus c. Legato Ottoni c. Licet tibi si bene meminimus nuper direxerimus scripta nostra ut liceat tibi de Monasteriis Cisterciensis ordinis procurationes exigere moderatas indulgentia concessa eidem ordini non obstante Quia tamen non est intentionis nostrae nec credimus esse tuae ut contra ipsorum indulgentiam procurationes ab 〈◊〉 s pecuniariae exigantur mandamus quatenus cibis regularibus contentus absque esu carnium cum eos accesseris prout in praedicta indulgentia continetur procurationes pecuniarias occasione Literarum hu usmodi non patiaris exigi ad eisdem Otto the Popes Legate having long oppressed pillaged the Realm and Church of England was sent for the third time to Rome by the Pope to be present in his intended Council against the Emperor to advise him in his straits whereupon the King not willing to detain him any longer in England to avoyd the just censure and displeasure of the Emperor who had married his sister Legatus Praelati Angliae summoned to the Council Papalibus mandatis obedientes licet cum magno periculo ad transalpinandum se instantibus diebus natalibus praeparabant Whereupon the King to ingratiate and oblige the Legate as well to promote his affaires at Rome as in England before his departure hence Knighted and conferred an Annual Pension on
Paternitatis etiam vestrae dilectionem attentè rogamus quotenus partes vestras velitis interponere diligenter ut iterati nuncii dictorum Magnatum à Domino Papa vobis possint taliter exaudiri quod praefatae Ecclesiae et nobis non videatur periculum imminere cui nos oporteat in perpetuum subjacere quod timetur non medicum ab universis et singulis regni nostri Teste meipso apud Westmonast Vigesimo octavo die Martii Anno Regni nostri Trigesimo Cum autem Dominut Rex supra praedictis oppressionibus quotidiè supervenientibus de quibus querelae multiplicabantur circumquaque accesserunt multi per Curiam Romanam enormiter laesi et damnificati sperantes Dominum Regem et suos in concepto proposito firmiter permansuros multas injurias sibi illatas ad recentem memoriam Regis et Regii consilii conquerendo suscitarunt Et quaedam quae priùs non recolebantur per querulos articulos articulis prioribus addebantur injuriae non minimum Regi et Regno derogantes In hunc modum Nuper etiam ab Apostolica sede emanarunt Literae non modicum Regis et Regni praejudicium continentes Videlicet quod aliqui Praelati decem Milites strenuos etiam aliqui quinque aliqui quindecim invenirent Domino Papae qui in servitio Ecclesiae Romanae starent per annum integrum Praelatorum stipendiis militarent cum equis armis sufficienter instructi ubi Dominus Papa duxerit providendum Quod servitium militare nulli nisi soli Regi et Regni Principibus debetur nec ab aliquo usque ad nostra tempora aliquo tempore exactum fuisse recolitur Et si summo Pontifici placuisset absque assensu Regio hujusmodi exactionem fecisse aut proea non modicam redemptionem recepisse nullatenus debuisset Praeterea ne Dominus Rex contra hoc sibi prospicere potuisset fraudulenter fuit à quibusdam Nunciis Ecclesiae provisum singulis Praelatis ab eisdem mandatum quod hujusmodi exactionem et pro ea gravem redemptionem receptam usque ad dimidium annum sub poena Excommuaicationis nulli omnino revelarent Item in universorum singulorum patronorum Ecclesiarum Angliae praejudicium non modicum gravamen his diebus Domino Cantuariensi concessum est ut obventiones sive fructus unius anni beneficiorum quae vacare contigerint in provincia Cantuariensi eidem Domino Cantuariensi conferantur Such were the daring insolencies and strange new encroachments of this usurping Warlike Pope upon the Church Clergy and Crown of England quite contrary to Christs doctrine Mat. 26. 51 52. Tit. 1. 7. 2 Tim. 2. 24 25. Gal. 6. 1. Ephes 6. 10 to 20. To which he superadded these avaritious demands Eisdemque diebus Dominus Papa videns in aliquorum Anglicorum ornamentis Ecclesiasticis utpote in capis choralibus infulis aurifrisia concupiscibilia interrogavit ubinam facta fuissent Cui responsum est in Anglia At ipse Uere hortus noster deliciarum est Anglia Uere puteus inexhaustus est et ubi multa abundant de multis multa possunt extorqueri Unde idem Dominus Papa concupiscentia illectus oculorum Literas suas Bullatas sacras misit ad omnes ferè Cisterciensis ordinis Abbates in Anglia commorantes quorum orationibus se nuper in Capitulo Cisterciensi commendaverat ut ipsi aurifrisia ac si pro nihilo ipsa possent adquirere mittere non differrent praeelecta ad planetas et capas suas chorales adornandas Quod mercenariis Londinensibus qui ea venalia habebant non displicuit ad placitum vendentibus unde multi manifestam avaritiam Romanae Eeclesiae detestabantur Eodemque tempore cum audisset Dominus Papa qualiter quidam in Anglia opulenti Clerici videlicet Magister Robertus de Hailes Archidiaconus Lincolniensis qui paucis elapsis annis obierat intestatus plura millia Marcarum cum vasis multis argenteis saeculo saecularibus infoeliciter dimiserat Archidiaconusque Bedefordiae Almaricus quod pecunia abundans maxima post se indecenter relicta obierat Nuper quoque Magister Johannes de Hotoff Archidiaconus Northamptoniensis morbo repentino correptus circiter quinque millia Marcarum cum triginta cuppis argenteis vel aureis infinitis jocalibus indecenter improvise objisset intestatus statutum super hoc novum et inauditum non sine nota manifestae cupiditatis suscitavit in Anglia promulgandum ut si Clericus ex tunc decederet intestatus ejusdem bona in usus Domini Papae converterentur Quod negotium Fratribus Praedicatoribus Minoribus praecepit diligenter exequendum Quod cum audisset Dominus Rex detestans Romanae Curiae argumentosam ac multiplicem et multiformem avaritiam hoc fieri prohibuit comperiens illud in damnum Regni et suum redundare praejudicium The Popes Agents notwithstanding the Kings Nobles Bishops Abbots and Commons Letters to the Pope and Inhibition forementioned presuming to levy a Tax for the Popes use upon the Clergy which the Bishop of London and other Prelates such was their Treachery to the King Kingdom and Church of England out of flattery servility to this usurping Pope or to gain future preferments promoted by their Warrants and Excommunications the King thereupon issued forth his Prohibitions to inhibite the collecting thereof thus related by Matthew Paris Dierum etiam ipsorum curriculis Dominus Rex Literas suas misit prohibitorias Praelatis Angliae ne Domino Papae tallagium contribuerent Domino etiam Abbati Sancti Albani sicut aliis scripsit in haec verba HENRICUS Dei gratiâ Rex Angliae c. Dilecto sibi in Christo Abbati de S. Albano salutem Audivimus quod Venerabilis in Christo Pater P. Londini Episcopus compellit vos ad tallagium ad opus Papae perselvendum Super quo miramur plurimum et movemur maxime cum in praedicta convocatione provisum fuerat communiter per dictos Praelatos et Magnates quod nihil fieret de tallagio illo ante reditum Nunciorum eorum a Curia Romana ad quam iidem Nuncii sunt sicut nostis pro specialibus totius Regni nostri negotiis destinati Quapropter vobis mandamus firmiter inhibentes quod nec ad mandatum praefati Episcopi nec alterius aliquid attemptetis contra Provisionem praedictam sicut Baroniam vestram quam de nobis tenetis diligitis pacifice possidere Quoniam attentationem hujusmodi non possumus nec volumus sustinere Teste meipso apud Westm primo die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri trigesimo Notwithstanding these unsatiable Roman Harpies proceeded boldly in their Rapines without shame or moderation Et ne miseranda afflictorum Anglorum cessaret tribulatio infra eosdem dies exegit Dominus Papa instantissimè non sub minima quantitate pecuniam ponens brachium confidentiae in auro
meando redeundo sibi pro se ac aliis quos secum duxerit in evectionibus corundem si aliquando eos contigerit ipsas habere necnon pro nunciis quos interdum duxerit destinandos liberaliter providentes ita quòà vestrae dilectionis affectum possimus exinde commendare Alioquin excommunicatos vos esse c. This Papal priviledge for this Harpyes protection and favourable reception by those he was sent to rob spoyle plunder was backed with this further Mandate to inquire of all alienations and dispositions of Lands or Churches and Simoniacal Contracts made by Ecclesiastical or Religious persons or other Patrons or his own real or pretended Nuncioes to ingrosse the sale and disposition of them by his Provisions into his owne hands whose Provisors agents unjust vexatious practises to gain Benefices or Pentions out of them are here fully expressed to the life INNOCENTIUS Episcopus Servus servorum c. Dilecto filio fratri Johanni Ordinis Minorum Nuncio nostro in Anglia salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Nostris est nuper auribus intimatum quod plerique Ecclesiarum Praelati regni Angliae non attendentes ad humanos usus non debere transferri quae juribus sunt ascripta divinis jure patronatus advocationis quae in aliquibus Ecclesiis obtinebant in personas laicas concessionis vel alienationis titulo seu alias pro suae voluntatis arbitrio transtulerunt Capitulorum suorum aliquando interveniente consensu Diocesanorum quod vix credimus accedente favore Nonnulli quoque Abbates Priores diversorum ordinum tà m exempti quà m non exempti regni praefati propris Commodis per modos illicitos inhiantes as this Pope and his agents really did in Ecclesiis Parochialibus jus Patronatus exemptionis titulo vel aliis perversis contractibus assequuntur Et sic easdem Ecclesias quandoque de suorum Diocesanorum consensu quandoque motu proprio non verentur suis vel membrorum suorum contra Deum Canonic as Sanctiones usibus applicare Quidam vero Executores super Clericorum Provisionibus dudum in eodem regno a sede Apostolica deputati cum aliqua beneficia Ecclesiastica de quibus eisdem Clericis provideri poterit vacare contigerit in alienis negotiis suae fidei confidenter commissis privata commoda infideliter prosequuntur dum Abbates et Priores aliosque Ecclesiarum Patronos ad quorum praesentationem noscuntur eadem beneficia pertinere excommunicant et suspendunt ipsosque taliter impeditos ad ordinationes Ecclesiarum suarum procedere non permittunt donec sibi ipsis vel aliis suis consanguineis vel amicis non autem illis quibus provideri mandavimus a patronis eisdem minis et dolis interdum inductis eadem beneficia seu provisiones Annuae assignentur Aliqui etiam executores hujusmodi se nuncios nostros in Regno Angliae asserentes quanquam alium praeter te in codem regno nos habere nuncium nesciamus mandati nostri praetextu quo eis in aliquibus Clericis in eodem regno de beneficiis Ecclesiasticis quae tanto tempore vacaverunt quod ad nos est collatio secundum Lateranensis statutum Concilii devoluta providere procurent dicuntur injunxisse religiosos viros super Ecclesiis qua sibi concessas in usus proprios per longissima tempora pacifice possiderunt infeffant nec ab eorum super hiis infestatione desistunt donec iidem religiosi aliqua summa pecuniae vel assignatione annuae pensionis vexationem suam redimere compellantur Cum igitur haec non sint sub dissimulationis silentio transâ—undae discretioni tuae in virtute obedientiae districtè praecipiendo mandamus quatenus per te ac alios seculares vel cujuscunque religionis vel professionis viros quos ad hoc in diversis locis ejusdem regni vice nostra quam tibi super hoc praesentium authoritate concedimus duxeris deputandos super praemissis diligentiùs veritate hujusmodi alienationes venditiones seu emptiones de patronatibus vel advocatiis Ecclesiarum quae cum spiritualibus sint annexae vendi vel emi taliter nequeunt à quibuscunque praesumptas vel in posterum praesumendas quas irritas esse decernimus denuncians nullas esse eas quicquid ex ipsis vel ob eas circa Ecclesiarum Parochialium statum inveneris temerè immutatum in statum debitum de plano absque judicii strepitu revocare procures Executores verò praedictos ad resignanda restituenda quaecunque ipsâ—s inveneris de praedictarum concussionum scelere percepisse authoritate nostra per te ac alios quos ad hoc ut praediximus deputabis qua convenit districtione compellas redditurus nos nihilominus de illis quos de hiis deliquisse compereris per tuas literas continentes meram plenam rerum seriem certiores ut circa eos prout culpae qualitas exegerit procedamus Contradictores per censuras Ecclesiae Apostolicae appellatione postposita compescendo non obstante si aliquibus sit ab Apostolica sede concessum quod excommunicari suspendi vel interdici non possint per literas Apostolicas non facientes plenam et expressam ac de verbo ad verbum de indulto hujusmodi mentionem seu quod ad susceptionem causarum vel executionum quae sibi authoritate sedis ejusdem committi contingit minime teneantur vel constitutione de duabus dietis edita in Concilio generali Datum Laterani quinto Idus Januarii Pontificatus nostri Anno undecimo This pretended reformer of these Simoniacal practices and former Nuncioes abuses rapines armed with so many Papal Bulls proved as bad yea worse an exactor and oppressor then any of his predecessors Whereupon Per idem tempus Dominus Rex comperiens Regnum suum enormiter periclitari jussit omnem totius Regni Nobilitatem convocari ut de statu ipsius tam manifeste periclitantis Oxonii die qua cantatur Quasi modo geniti diligenter contrectarent Praelatos autem maxime ad hoc Parliamentum vocavit arctius quia videbat eos Dominus Rex tam frequenter depauperari per Papales extorsiones et thesaurus Angliae tam frequenter asportabatur nullumque commodum inde provenit Ecclesiae imo multimodum incommodum generavit Vnde veraciter perpendebatur quod talis extorsio summo quamplurimum displicuit Creatori Sperebatur autem certissime aliquid salubre Ecclesiae et Regno ibidem statuendum quod tamen omnes hoc sperantes fefellit Nam cum antea aliqui Praelatorum praetactae contributioni praeposuissent contradicere ibidem omnes in contributionem undecim Millium Marcarum consenserunt exceptis Exemptis et tribus Clericis Ipsi igitur Clerici per hanc impetrationem toti regno se suspectos reddiderunt and that deservedly such was their sordid cowardice treachery to the King Kingdom Nobles Church of England and their own interest Pecunia autem
and take his new devised Oathes against their wills the King thereupon issued out new Writs to the Sheriff of Lincoln to attach the Bishop and enforce him to put in good bayle and sureties to appear before the King to answer this contempt as these Records attest REX Vicecomiti Lincolniae salutem Pone per Uadium et salvos Plegios R. Lincoln Episcopum quod sit coram Nobis in Octab. Sanctae Trinitatis ubicunque tunc fuerimus in Anglia ostensurus quare fecit summoneri et per Censuram Ecclesiasticam distringi Laicos homines et Laicas foeminas ad comparendum coram eo et ad praestandum jucamentum pro voluntate sua ipsis invitis et in grave praejudicium Coronae nostrae et Regiae Dignitatis necnon et magnam laesionem Regni nostri Et habeas ibi nomina Plegiorum et hoc Breve Teste Rege apud Wistm. secundo die Maii. REX Vicecomiti Lincolniae salutem Pone per Uadium et salvos Plegios R. Lincoln Episcopum quod sit coram Nobis in Octab. Sanctae Trinitatis ubicunque c. ostensurus quare pro voluntate sua distringit Laicas personas suae Dioc. ad jurandum eis invitis in grave praejudicium Coronae et Dignitatis nostrae et contra Consuetudinem Regni nostri Et habeas c. Teste c. Anno 35 Henr. 3. The Bishop of Worcester by the Bishop of Lincolns encouragement in his Visitations and Consistories by himself and his Officers summoned Lay persons as well Villains as Freemen to take an Oath of Inquiry upon Articles at his own pleasure without the Kings special command against the Custom of the Realm and his Royal Dignity which Innovation caused great scandal and raised a schism among the people whereupon the King issued the like Writs to the Sheriffs of Gloucester and Worcester as he formerly did to the Sheriff of Lincoln and others An. 30 31 H. 3. REX Vic. Glouc. salutem Audivimus quod W. Wâ—gorniensis Episcopus transeundo per suam Dioc. vel Clericos suos specialiter destinando compellit tam Liberos quam Uillanos ad praestandum Sacramentum sine mandato nostro speciali super Inquisitione pro voluntate sua fac contra Consuetudinem et Regiae Dignitatis excellentiam Et quia ex hoc scandalum magnum et schisma in plebe generatur Tibi praecipimus quod nullum Laicum de caetero coram eodem Episcopo vel Clericis suis comparere permittas ob causam memoratam ita quod inde diligentia tua merito valeat commendari Teste Rege apud Westm. 14. die Augusti Per ipsum Regem Eodem modo mandatum est Uic Wygorn Teste c. The Bp. of Lincoln and his Officers notwithstanding the former Writs still vexing those of his Diocess as well Noble as Ignoble citing many poor Husbandmen from place to place and Excommunicating them for not appearing so as they could not attend their Husbandry and Temporal affaires to their great impoverishing vexation and likewise compelling them to inquire give testimony upon Oath of the private sins of others whereby many were defamed and might easily incurre the danger of perjury The King upon the general complaint of his Subjects against these grievances and Innovations An. 36 H. 3. sent this memorable Prohibition to the Bishop himself commanding him from thenceforth to desist from these Citations and Vexations newly invented against the long Custom of the Realm bringing a double dammage to his Subjects which he neither would nor could any longer endure without putting his Royal hands to redresse them and punish him for his contumacy REX Episcopo Lincoln salutem Ex querela multorum accepimus tam Magnatum de Diocaesi vestra quam aliorum per quosdam Clericos vestros et Decanos quosdam citari facitis passim et indifferenter pauperes homines de Diocaesi vestra et quosdam liberos homines cujuscunque sint homines et trahitis eos de locis variis ad loca varia et eos artari faciatis per poenam Excommunicationis ad comparendum coram praedictis Clericis et subditis vestris ad loca varia et eis honerosa dum vacare deberent agrorum culturâ— et aliis Temporalibus agendis suis necessariis per quod depauperantur indebite et enormiter vexantur Et insuper quod inauditum est eos jurare compellunt praedicti scrutatores vestri de privatis peccatis aliorum quae non sunt ut dicitur publica cohercione purganda pro quo multi Christiani forte praeter merita turpiter diffamantur Et quia hujusmodi vexationes contra longam Consuetudinem Regni nostri sunt excogitatae et duplex populo per eas imminet periculum tum propter laborum necessariorum amissionem tum propter Sacramentum praestitum super privatis factis aliorum in quibus homines decipiuntur per quod reatum perjurii de facili possunt incurrere Vobis prohibemus ne de caetero hujusmodi convocationes populi fieri faciatis in Diocaesi vestra contra Regni nostri Consuetudinem et usum longaevum Nec etiam audivimus quod Ecclesia consueverit aliquem ad testimonium perhibendum compellere nisi in certis causis et nisi quis se gratia odio vel timore subtraxerit a testimonio perhibendo Et sciatis quod nisi a praedictis inusitatis populi ac indebitis vexationibus desistatis nos sustinere non poterimus ulterius quin ad hoc manus Regias apponemus Teste Rege apud Windes 14. die Junii By these premised passages and Regal Writs of Prohibition it is most evident 1. That Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln by colour of a pretended Priviledge and Grant from the Pope not King was the first Introducer of Inquisitions upon Oath and Oathes in private causes into the Church Realm of England in the 30. year of King Henry the 3d. there being no warrant nor president for ought I can find upon my strictest search in Histories or Records of any such Inquisitions or Oathes used in England or elsewhere by Bishops or Ecclesiastical persons in their Visitations or Consistories And no wonder since Origen Athanasius Ambrose Jerome Chrysostome Hilary Epiphanius Cromatius Aquiliâ— Episcopus Euthymiâ—s Oecumenius Theophylactus and other Ancients collected by Sixtus Senensis from Mat. 5. 34 to 38. But I say unto you swear not at all c. but let your communication be Yea Yea and Nay Nay for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil and Jam. 5. 12. But above all things my Brethren swear not c. but let your Yea be Yea and your Nay Nay leâ—t you fall into condemnation and the Waldenses with sundry modern Commentators condemned the usual imposing of Oathes interdicted to Christians under the Gospel as dangerous and not to be enforced upon any unless in extraordinary cases of necessity for ending controversies
especially by or on Clergymen Whence the Author of the imperfect Work on Matthew attributed to St. Chrysostome thus admonished Clerks who tendred Oathes to others Audite Clerici qui exigentibus Evangelia Sancta porrigatis quomodo potestis ab illo Juramento esse securi qui occasionem perjurii datis Si erat benè jurare justum justè dicebatis Quia de dimus illis Evangelium ut jurent non ut perjurent nunc autem cum sciatis quia benè jurare peccatum est quomodo potestis esse liberi qui occasionem datis peccandi in Deum Haec de illis dicta sunt qui jurant per Deum eorum autem qui jurant per elementa execrabilior iniquitas est Those Fathers and Godly Bishops then who writ thus against the ordinary imposing of Oathes under the Gospel did never doubtless prescribe or enforce them on any in their Consistories or Visitations Besides it is most apparent that antient Councils and Popes were very carefull to inhibit the imposing of Oathes upon Clergymen or Laymen to prevent Perjury Hence the Council of Cavailon under the Emperor Charles the Great about the year 813. prohibited Bishops from exacting an Oath of Canonical obedience from Clergymen or any Oath from Laymen in cases of Tythes by these expresse Canons Can. 13. Dictū est de quibusdam Fratribus quod eos quos ordinaturi sunt jurare cogunt quod digni sint et contra Canones non sint facturi et obedientes sint Episcopo qui eos ordinat et Ecclesiae in qua ordinantur Quod juramentum quia periculosum est omnes una inhibendum statuimus And Can. 18. Qui verò Decimas post crebras admonitiones praedicationes Sacerdotum dare neglexerint Excommunicentur Iuramento vero eos constringi nolumus propter periculum perjurii And our Statutes of Magna Charta c. 28. of Marlbridge 51 H. 3. c. 22. 3 E. 1. c. 30. 2 E. 6. c. 13. prohibite Oathes of Parties and Champions upon the like account to prevent Perjury Pope Cornelius as Gratian attests affirmed in one of his Decrees Nos ab Episcopis Sacramentum nescimus oblatum therefore not then used in their Courts or Visitations nec unquam fieri debet nisi pro recta fide Yea Pope Honorius the 2. Pope Eugenius the 2. and the Council of Lateran under Pope Alexander the 3d. Anno 1180. expresly decreed and resolved according to former Canons and Justinians Laws Vt jurare Clerici omnino non audeant Dignum est ut totus Clericalis ordo à praestando juramento immunis esse proculdubio censeatur Nos itaque utriusque legis divinae humanae intentione servata decrevimus ut non Episcopus non Presbyter non cujuslibet Ordinis Clericus non Abbas non Monachus non Sanctimonialis in quacunque causa vel controversia sive criminali sive civili jusjurandum compellatur qualibet ratione subire Verum cum hac moderatione ut Episcopus inconsulto Romano Pontifice vel quilibet Praelatus inconsulto Praelato suo minime jurare audeat Et si quis in hanc constitutionem commiserit veniam sibi deinceps noverit denegari If then no Bishop Monk Clergyman may be compelled by Judges or Laymen to swear much lesse then should they compel Laymen or Clergymen to swear before themselves Moreover Pope Eugenius resolves Canones Juramentum calumniae nulli prorsus indicunt Sanè Romana Ecclesia in quibus causis de Decimis Ecclesiarum rebus spiritualibus tantum agitur Iuramentum calumniae nec dare nec recipere consuevit nor yet the Church of England till Otto the Popes Legate introduced it in a Council at London An. 1237. forecited p. 439. much lesse then did the Church of Rome or England use or enjoyn any such Visitation Inquisition or Ex Officio Oathes as these Writs prohibited Finally Pope Paschal the 2. and the whole Council of Rome An. 1112. with other Councils Popes since resolve That Oathes imposed by force and taken by constraint against mens wills are not only unlawfull but also void and unobliging Therefore the enforced Visitation other Oathes of Bishop Grosthead his Archdeacons Deans Officials were such and justly prohibited suppressed by the King and his Courts at their first introduction The Council of Friburge under Arnulphus the Emperor A◠893. c. 11. De querimonia inter Presbyterum Laicum resolves Laicus praejuramento si necesse sit constringatur Presbyter vero vice praejuramenti per sanctam consecrationem interrogetur quia Sacerdotes ex levi causa jurare non debent Manus enim per quam corpus sanguis Christi conficitur will not the self-same reason hold in a Laymans hand per quam corpus sanguis Christi recipitur juramento polluetur Absit cum Dominus in Evangelio Discipulus suis quorum vicem nos gerimus in Ecclesia dicat Nolite omnino jurare sit autem sermo vester Est Est Non Non quod autem his abundantius est à malo est Non dixit quod amplius est malum est sed à malo id est a mals homine de cujus incredulitate cogimur jurare And if those who presse others to swear be evil uncredulous men by this Councils and our Venerable Beda his Exposition on this Text then Bishop Grosthead his and all other Ecclesiastical Officers compelling Laymen to swear as aforesaid were evil uncredulous men and their Inquisitions Oathes most justly inhibited by the King his Courts Counsil and opposed by the Nobility Laity of his Diocesse and the whole Realm as a dangerous Innovation not formerly practised in our Church or Realm 2ly It is evident by the premises that both the Kings Nobles and Commonalty of England and France in that age magnanimously unanimously and strenuously oppugned the Usurpations Encroachments Innovations of the Pope Prelates Clergy upon the Rights Priviledges of the Crown and Liberties Consciences of the Subject against their extravagant Visitations Inquisitions Oathes Excommunications Canons and new Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions to preserve themselves from perjury slavery and unjust vexations 3ly That these Inquisitions Oathes and the enforcing of them by Ecclesiastical Censures on the Subjects by these Bishops and their Officers were generally frequently opposed and publickly complained against to the King as well by the Nobility as Commonalty and most strictly prohibited by special Writs of Prohibition successively issued by the King his Counsil Courts Judges who all resolved these Oathes and Inquisitions to be 1. New illegal grievances then first introduced contrary to the Custome and long-continued usage of this Realm 2ly Very prejudicial to the Kings Crown and Royal Dignity 3ly New devised intollerable vexations grievances oppressions to his Subjects and that in four respects 1. Because they tended to the enormous defamation and intollerable scandal of many of his Subjects of all ranks and of both sexes 2ly Because they occasioned great schisms
suos superaverat tum propter hoc quod in natali patria ad curam vocabatur ad dulcedinem originis suae quilibet naturaliter attrabitur tum ut miseros compatriotas suos sua praesentia consilio et auxilio consolaretur Cui etiam electioni Dominus Rex gratanter consensit et electum acceptavit non multum constituens super hoc difficultatis cum exilis fuerit Episcopatus King Henry the 3d. having thus presented to the Bishoprick of St. Davids as you heard before the Dean and Chapter of St. Asaph having obtained a License from the King to elect a new Bishop by their Letters Patents made this observable Protestation and acknowledgement of the Kings antient right to grant a Conge deslier or License upon their request to elect a Bishop for their See upon every avoidance before any election could be made and to assent to the person elected after his election UNiversis Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit Decanus Capitulum de Sancto Asaph salutem in Domino Consuetudini antiquae et dignitati quas Dominus Henricus illustris Rex Angliae et progenitores sui habuerunt in Ecclesia Anglicana de petenda licentia eligendi vacantibus Episcopatuum sedibus et de requirendo assensu Regio post factam electionem obviare nolentes protestamur et recognoscimus nos quociens Ecclesia nostra Pastore vacaverit ab illustri Domino Rege Angliae et Haeredibus suis debere reverenter petere licentiam eligendi et post electionem factam assensum eorum requirere Et ne super hoc futuris temporibus dubitetur praesenti Scripto Sigilla nostra fecimus apponi Act. apud Sanctum Asaph 1249. in crastino exaltationis Sanctae Crucis The Bishop elect of St. Asaph and his Chapter about the same time made the like Protestation and Recognition under their Seals thus entred in the Claufe Rolls OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos c. E. Dei gratiâ electus de S. Asaph ejusdem loci Capitulum salutem in Domino Consuetudini antiquae et dignitati quas illustris Rex habet et progenitores sui habuerunt in Ecclesia Anglicana de petenda licentia eligendi vacantibus Episcopatuum sedibus et de requirendo assensu Regio post factam electionem obviare nolentes protestamur et recognoscimus quociens Ecclesia nostra Pastore vacaverit ab illustri Domino Rege Angliae et Haeredibus suis debere reverenter petere licentiam eligendi et post electionem factam assensum eorum requirere Et ne super hoc futuris temporibus dubitetur praesenti Scripto Sigilla nostra fecimus apponi Act. c. The King having obtained the confirmation of an Immunity from Pope Innocent which he formerly enjoyed by his own Royal Prerogative exempting all his Free-Chappels Oratories and Canons in them from all Episcopal and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Censures and Impositions enjoyned all Archbishops and Bishops through England perpetually to observe the same without violation by this Writ REX Venerabilibus Patribus Archiepiscopis Episcopis per Regnum Angliae constitutis salutem Sciatis nos habere Literas Apostolicas in haec verba INNOCENTIUS Episcopus c. Charissimo in Christo filio Regi Angliae illustri salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Tanto libentius Celsitudinis tuae precibus benignum impartimur assensum quanto inter Reges et Principes Christianos te specialius in Domino reputamus dilectum filium et devotum This itaque supplicationibus inclinati districtius inhibemus ne aliquis Ordinarius aut etiam Delegatus vel Subdelegatus in Capellas Regias et Oratoria eorundem Ecclesiae Romanae immediate subjecta seu Canonicos vel Servitores eorundem contra tenorem Privilegiorum et Indulgentiarum Apostolicae sedis Excommunicationis vel Interdicti sententiam audeat promulgare seu aliquod ipsis onus imponere quod aliis exemptis Ecclesiis consuevit imponi absque mandato sedis Apostolicae speciali quod expressum faciat de inhibitione hujusmodi mentionem Nulli ergo hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae inhibitionis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire si quis autem hoc attemptare praesumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei et Beatorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli se noverit incursurum Dat. Lugduni 12. Calend. Augusti Pontificatus nostri anno secundo Volentes igitur Privilegium praedictum perpetuam firmitatem habere vos rogamus et hortamur attente quatenus illud inviolabiliter observetis et faciatis vestris subditis observari Et ne aliquis attemptet aliquid contra illud sedem Apostolicam appellamus Teste Rege apud Northt 5. die Augusti Anno Regni nostri 33. The King in pursuance of this Priviledge issued this Writ of Prohibition concerning his Free-Chappel of Pencrich REX Thomae de Wymundeham salutem Prohibemus tibi ne de caetero intres infra limites liberae Capellae nostrae de Pencrich exercendo ibidem aliquam Jurisdictionem contra Libertates et consuetudines temporibus nostris et Praedecessorum nostrorum usitatas super exemptione liberarum Capellarum nostrarum quas habemus in Anglia Teste Rege apud Clarendon nono die Junii The King as Patron of the Bishoprick of Durham and Supreme Governour of the Church of England declared That the Successor Bishop who resigned his Bishoprick ought not to pay the Debts of his Predecessors and thereupon prohibited any distresse to be made upon him by this Writ QVia Nicholaus quondam Dunelmensis Episcopus qui cessit Episcopatui suo non tenetur solvere debita Praedecessorum suorum quondam Dunelmensis Ecclesiae Episcoporum Mandatum Vicecom Eborum quod nullam districtionem super ipsum Episcopum faciat pro aliquibus debitis Praedecessorum suorum sed districtionem si quam propter hoc fecerit penitus remittat et averia sua ea occasione capta deliberari faciat Teste c. He likewise issued two forecited Writs to the Sheriff of Lincoln to summon the Bishop of Lincoln to appear before him Ubicunque tunc fuerimus in Anglia ostensurus quare fecit summoneri et per Censuram Ecclesiasticam distringi Laicos homines et Laicas foeminas ad comparendum coram eo et ad praestandum juramentum pro voluntate sua ipsis invitis in grave praejudicium Coronae et Regiae Dignitatis nostrae necnon et magnam laesionem et contra consuetudinem Regni nostri c. Teste Rege apud Westm. secundo die Maii. Sub eodem quoque annali curriculo 1248. obiit Magister Simon de Langetuna frater Stephani Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi ejusdim Ecclesiae Archidiaconus qui fratrissare negligens si Ecclesiae suae persecutor et perturbator extitisset non est mirandum quinimo Regna Francorum et Anglorum et eorundem Regnorum corda et status ex multiplici bello non mediocriter movit commovit et damnose perturbavit
Curia Romana eo quod crucesignati venduntur et absoluti pro pecunia absolvuntur et multiformiter retardantur gratiam tam Cleri quam populi diatim amisit Tota Christianita ex odio et discordia inter ipsum Papam et Fredericum exortis bellis suscitatis perturbatur et Ecclesia universalis periclitatur c. To omit the several prodigies and distempers of all the four Elements this year which he there musters up as sad Omens of Gods indignation for the Popes and Clergies unparallel'd sinnes and corruptions he subjoynes Obiit insuper stupor mundi Fredericus die sancto Luciae in Apulia being there once poysoned by the Popes instigation not dying presently thereof he endeavoured to poyson him the 2. time by Peter de Vineis his bosome friend had it not been discovered The manner whereof is thus recorded by Mat. Paris Eodem Anno 1250. Fredericus ut Dominum Papam invaderet rediit in Apuliam ut dicitur potionatus Qui cum graviter infirmaretur consilium habuit à suis Physicis ut purgationem medicinalem postea quoddam balneum ad hoc specialiter praeparatum acciperet Habuit autem magister Petrus de Vinea qui ipsius Frederici familiarissimus consilarius singulariis animae illius custos fuerat quendam Physicum secum qui ex praecepto Frederici quam ipsius Petri ad purgationem dictam necessaria praeparaturus subdolus accessit de consilio enim ipsius Petri venenum lethiferum efficax valdè potioni immiscuit balneo ut Dominum suum in ipsis perimerent confidentem Ecclesiae autem inimici dixerunt quod Dominus Papa ad hoc facinus cor Petri enervando muneribus et pollicitis maximis inclinarat Fredericus verò super hoc scelere per aliquem amicorum suorum in ipsa hora qua sumendus fuit potus ille praetaxatus secretiùs praemonitus pleniùs edoctus Physico potionem ostendenti Petro ait Amici confidit in vobis anima mea Caveatis supplico ne mihi in vobis confidenti virus pro medicina porrigatis Cui Petrus O Domine mi pluries dedit iste meus Physicus salutarem vobis potionem quare modò formidatis Fredericus autem ostendenti cyphum Physico dixit torvo tamen aspectu posita à tergo custodia ne evadere possent proditores Propina mihi potum dimidicando Physicus igitur obstupefactus sibi conscius de scelere simulans offendiculum pedibus lapsum fecisse corruit in faciem suam venenum effudit pro majori parte Minimam autem quae superaret partem damnatis quibusdam jussit extractis de careere dare statim miseras animas exhalarunt Certificatus igitur de proditione lethifera sibi praeparata jussit Physicum suspendi meritò Petrum exoculatum per multas Italiâ— Apuliae civitates fecit adduci ut in propatulo coram omnibus conceptum facinus confiteretur Tandem jussit idem F. ut Pisani qui ipsum Petrum inexorabiliter oderant praesentaretur perimendus Quod cum audiret Petrus ne arbitrio hostium moreretur quia ut dicit Seneca Arbitrio hostis mori est his mori ad columnam ad quam alligatus fuerat caput fortiter allidens seipsum excerebravit Fredericus igitur ad se reversus coepit inconsolabiliter dolere uberrimè atque â—â—arisâ—ime â—achrymari exitus aquarum deducebant oculi ejus Quod erat miserabile videre in homine tantae authoritatis aetatis lamentando contorquens digitos ait Vae mihi contra quem â—opria pugnant viscera Petrus quem petram credideram dimidium animae meae mihi mortis insidias praeparavit Ecce Dominus Papa quem Imperium sub magnificis antecessoribus meis de nullo creavit et ditavit illud molitur exterminare et in me ipsius Imperiititubantis rectorem interitum machinatur In quem confidam ubi tutus ubi laetus esse possum de caetero Et condoluerunt circumsedentes amici ejus usque ad suspiria et lachrimarum effusionem Et absorduit Domini Papae fama per hoc non mediocriter Veritatem tamen novit Deus secretorum perscrutator infallibilis The Kings of England France and most other Princes frequently urged the Pope to a Reconciliation with the Emperor who notwithstanding continued his implacable malice against him till his death refusing all reconciliation even when he lay upon his death-bed Hear this one testimony of his detestable implacablenesse and pride Eodemque tempore mortuus est quidam alius Frederici filius naturalis in Apulia Ipsemet jam Fredericus percussus est morbo qui dicitur Lupus vel Sacer ignis vnde tot oppressus adversitatibus inconsolabiliter doluit Unde humiliatus secundum illud Davidicâ—m Imple facies eorum ignominia querent nomentuum Domine obtulit honestam pacis formam Domino Papae Sed Papa laetificatus de adversitatibus suis noluit quae obtulit acceptare unde multorum incurrit indignationem et Francorum Nobilium qui coeperunt ipsum Fredericum consolari et eidem adhaerere et superbiam servi servourm Dei detestari And not satisfyed herewith Sub eorum quoque dierum curriculo Petrus Caboche Clericus Domini Papae et amicus praepotens missus est a Domino Papa in Apuliam Legatus magna armatus potentia ad remittenda peccata ut ipsum Fredericum contereret et Fredericales et multiplicatis viribus quas undique data pecunia et concessa plena peccatorum indulgentia collegerat eundem Fredericum damnificavit et multos Nobiles ab ejusdem Frederici imperio revocavit Such an Execrable Monster of inhumanity Treachery Impiety Sedition Malice Rapine Revenge was this most nocent Pope Innocent Upon all which considerations Matthew Paris thus concluded this Jubile year and his own Chronicle ending with it Haec autem mirabilia et novitates quae nec audita neque scripta repe riuntur a cunctis patrum nostrorum retroactis temporibus in hujus ultimae annorum quinquagenae tempore contigerunt Hic terminatur fratris Mathaei Parisiensis Monachi sancte Albani Chronica quae pro utilitate posteritatis subsecuturae Dei pro amore beati Albani Anglorum Protomartyris honore ne memoriam eventuum modernorum vetustas aut oblivio deleat literis commendavit I now proceed to the year 1251. the 35. of King Henry the 3d. his reign This year the King as Supream Governour of the Church of England without any authority or Bull from the Pope by these his Letters Patents enjoyned the Archbishop of Rohan and all Ministers Bishops Abbots Priors and other religious persons who had any Land or Rents in England during his life to keep an anniversary day for his deceased Mother Queen Isabel and to insert her name in their Martyrologie with Masses and Prayers for her himself Queen Elianor and their Children REX Archiepiscopo Rotom Ministris Episcopis
Free-Chappels and Houshold Clerks officiating in them to the Tax granted by the Pope to Archbishop Boniface against the premised Bulls of the Pope and Kings Prohibitions the King thereupon procured this new Inhibition and Exemption of them from Pope Innocent for preservation of his Prerogative INNOCENTIUS Episcopus servus servorum Dei Charissimo in Christo filio illustri Regi Angliae salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Vt tuis insistentes obsequiis Praerogativa favoris gratiae prosequamur tuae sinceritatis praecamina nos hortantur Cum igitur Venerabili fratri nostro Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi omnium vacaturorum Beneficiorum suae Provinciae primi anni proventus usque ad certi temporis spatium pro exoneratione debitorum Cantuar. Ecclesiae duximus concedendos Nos volentes tibi famulantibus tui consideratione specialem gratiam facere in hac parte tuis precibus inclinati Authoritate praesentium tibi indulgemus ut familiares Clerici tui ad exhibitionem proventuum hujusmodi nequeant coarctari sed ab eorum praestatione sint liberi penitus et immunes Nulli ergo hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae concessionis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire si quis autem contra haec attemptare praesumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei beatorum Petri Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum Dat. Lugduni 3 Non. Marcii Pontificatus nostri anno octavo Et ad hoc privilegium Regis exequendum constitutus est Magister Nicholaus de Plumpton coram Abbate Westmonasterii conservatore Regii hujus privilegii Et habet inde Literas Regis Patentes The Kings Prohibition issued this year to the Sheriffs of Gloucester Worcester and Bishop of Worcester against the Bishops citing Laymen to take an Oath before him and making Inquiry upon Articles in their Visitations without the Kings special Commission and Command I have already cited and shall referre you thereunto How much this Pope Innocents corruptions then infested not only the Church Prelates and Ecclesiastical but Civil Courts and proceedings of Justice in England Matthew Paris himself and the continuer of his History give us this special notice as fit to be recorded to posterity Ipsis quoque diebus dum placitum moveretur inter Episcopum Karleolensem Sylvestrum quendam Baronem super quodam Manerio quod idem Baro praedecessori dicti Episcopi Waltero vendiderat iterum illud voluit revocare ipse Episcopus Sylvester respondit per se prudenter adversarius enim ejus licet ejus praesentes essent procuratores tunc in partibus agebat transmarinis Impetravit igitur à Rege Literas protectionis Regiae dum absens erat Baro memoratus sic laetus repatriavit Pars autem adversa sub silentio commorans cum elongaretur Episcopus impetravit a Rege Literas ut non obstante priore litera negotium Baronis nullam caperet dilationem Quod factum fuisse non creditur sine muneris opitulatione the Popes Non obstantes being so obtained Sparsimque jam tales Literae in quibus inserta est haec detestabilis adjectio Non obstante priore mandato vel haec Non obstante antiqua libertate procedat negotium suscitabantur Praeterea sinistra interpretatio jam in Chartis facta subrepit ut scilicet si scribatur sic Concedimus hanc libertatem domui tali domus illa districtè nominetur sequatur sic omnibus Maneriis ejus si Maneria non expressè sigillatim nominentur nullius est vigoris adjectio Hoc autem rationi constat esse dissonum et omni justitiae imo contra Logicae regulam quae est investigatrix veritatis infallibilis Quod cum comperisset quidam vir discretus tunc Justitiarius scilicet Rogerus de Thurkeby ab alto ducens suspiria de praedictae adjectionis appositione dixit Heu heu hos ut quid dies expectavimus Ecce jam Civilis Curia exemplo Ecclesiasticae coinquinatur et a sulphureo fonte rivulus intoxicatur Which I could heartily wish all Judges who give too much countenance to such Non obstantes would seriously consider and all who grant them too Matthew Paris informs us that the year before the King had granted a Charter to the Abby of Westminster of certain Liberties to the prejudice of former Charters granted to St. Albans and another Charter for a liberty of a free Warren in the Land of St. Albans near the Town to one Galfridus Rufus educated in St. Albans and a tenant thereunto contra antiquas Ecclesiae illius libertates Chartas obtentas à piis pristinis Regibus continuè usitatas necnon contra Chartam Regis Henrici tunc praesentis Nec erubuit dictus Galfridus Rufus contra Ecclesiam Dominam suam quae ipsum educatum exaltaverat recalcitrare ut nota macularetur paternae sed non maternae proditionis Et cum frater Matthaeus Parisiensis Dominum Regem super his imperterritus redargueret ait Rex Nonne Papa facit similiter subjungens in Literis suis manifeste Non obstante aliquo privilegio vel indulgentia Veruntamen modestius loquens subjunxit Nunc nunc nos inde cogitabimus Sed dictorum ac promissorum memoria cum sonitu pertransivit In both which he was the Popes real but unhappy Schollar introducing Non obstantes to evade and null his own and Ancestors Charters whereby Popes evaded their own and their Predecessors Bulls and Indulgences which this King the whole Kingdom and Clergy of England particularly complained of to this Pope but three years before as a great grievance both to the Church and Realm of England whereby infinite persons in the Realm were grievously oppressed and afflicted Which induced Justice Thurkeby thus in open Court with great grief to cry out against both Papal and Regal Non obstantes which subverted publick Justice and then defiled intoxicated Civil as they had done Ecclesiastical Courts with their sulphureous source and filth Parcite paâ—corum diffundere crimen in omnes This year the Bishop of Durham moving the Pope to resume the 3. Mannors setled upon his Predecessor who resigned his Bishoprick for his better maintenance during his life received a repulse and check from him because it was done by the Bishops own and his and the Kings consent Tempore quoque sub eodem quidam adulatores pessimi cupientes placere Episcopo Dunelmensi Waltero Dominum Papam adierunt dicentes quod irrationabiliter facta fuit portio Episcopatus Dunelmensis Episcopo Nicholao cedenti quod ipse Nicholaus ferè tertiam partem Episcopatus habuerat unde petierunt Episcopatum vel redintegrari vel saltem minus damnificari Quibus Papa Miramur super his Nonne facta fuit distributio illa partitio per magnam deliberationem considerationem virorum peritorum consensum partium et res jam confirmata est per nos et Regem Angliae et per
instantis de praedicto debito ad liberationem nostram vestram satisfiat Et hoc pro nullo mandato nostro vobis directo vel dirigendo omittatis Ita vos habentes in hac parte ne per defectum iter dicti Episcopi retardetur ulterius per quod dictus Episcopus ad nos vacuus revertatur exinde irreparabile dispendium incurramus Et ut securius celerius istud negotium faciatis mittimus vobis super hoc Literas nostras Patentes Teste Rege apud Clarendon 8. die Julii It seems there issued an Attachment against the Bishop of Worcester for not absolving the Sheriff of Worcester and his Bayliffs upon the premised Prohibition whereupon the Bishop condescending to absolve them for a time the King superseded the Attachment by this Writ QUia W Wygorn concessit relaxare usque in quindenam Paschae proximo futuram sententias excommunicationis latas in quosdam Ballivos Vic. Wygorn occasione quarundam districtionum quas fecerunt in terris praedicti Episcopi ut dicitur Rex etiam concessit quod districtiones quae fiunt pro ipso Episcopo attachiando occasione praedicta relaxentur Et mandatum est Vic. praedicto quod districtiones quae fiunt pro Attachiamento praedicto interim faciat relaxari in forma praedicta Teste Rege apud Sanctum Albanum 25. die Februarii The Bishop of Hereford having been the original contriver of all the forged Obligations to the Pope for great sums of money wherein other Bishops Abbots Priors and Covents were obliged to the Popes Usurers in what vast sums he pleased without their privity and the Popes and Kings prime Instrument to levy the Dismes and other Exactions pretended to relieve the Holy Land like a cunning decoy caused himself and his Church to be obliged in the sum of 4000 Marks to the Popes Usurers to palliate his fraud but yet procured this special Writ from the King and Bull from Pope Alexander to reimburse these monies out of the Dismes he should collect in England and Ireland and to levy them with severity when as all other Bishops Abbots were enforced to pay their forged Obligations as just debts without any relief at all REX Magistro Laurentio de Somercote salutem Cum Venerabilis Pater P. Hereford Episcopus à Domino Papa existat ad colligendam pecuniam decimae nobis concessae etiam obventiones redemptionum votorum crucesignatorum in Hibernia Ac idem Episcopus in Curia Romana nuper de mandato Domini Papae et Cardinalium obligaverit se et Ecclesiam suam Heref. pro quatuor millibus Marc. quas mutuo recepit a Spilleto et Eymero Combii eorumque sociis Florent Civibus et Mercatoribus pro expeditione negotii Regni Siciliae Edm. nato nostro concessi Ac idem Dominus Papa indempnitati ipsius Episcopi et Ecclesiae suae Heref. prospicere volens in hac parte mandaverit eidem Episcopo quod decimas et obventiones redemptionum votorum in Hibernia et in Episcopatibus Wygorn Hereford et Coventr Civitat et Dioc. recipiat et retineat donec sibi et Ecclesiae suae praedictae usque ad summam praedictorum quatuor millium Marcarum plene fuerit satisfactum Nos mandatum Domini Papae pro exoneratione dicti Episcopi Ecclesiae suae in hac parte gratum habentes Vobis duximus significandum quod placet nobis quod eidem Episcopo de praedictis decima obventionibus usque ad summam praedictam juxta mandatum Apostolicum plenariè satisfiat In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Wodestock 13 die Februarii The Popes Bull for this purpose was hereunto subjoyned ALEXANDER Episcopus servus servorum Dei Venerabili fratri Episcopo Hereford salutem Apostolicam benedictionem Licâ—â— nos tibi per ahas nostras sub certa forma demus Literas in mandatis ut decimam omnium Ecclesiasticorum proventuum tà m Archiepiscopalium Episcopalium quà m etiam Cathedralium aliarum Ecclesiarum ac Monasteriorum exemptorum non exemptorum charissimo in Christo filio nostro illustri Regi Angliae usque ad certum tempus ab Apostolica sede possessam pro subsidio Terrae Sanctae necnon redemptiones votorum crucesignatorum postquam per deputatos ad hoc à sede Apostolica à vobis hujusmodi fuerint absoluti legata indistinctè ac obventiones ex quacunque causa hujusmodi provenientes subsidio in Hibernia Wigernia Hereford Coventr Civitatibus Dioc. per te vel per alium seu alios integrè colligere ac in aliquibus tutis locis deponere atque ad opus ipsius Regis conservare procures Quia tamen te et Ecclesiam tuam indempnes conservare volumus super summa quatuor millium Marcarum sterlingorum quam de nostro et fratrum nostrorum mandato pro expediendis quibusdam negotiis praedicti Regis a Spilleto et Eymero Combii eorumque sociis Florent Civibus et Mercatoribus mutuo recepisti te ipsis propter hoc praedictam Ecclesiam obligando prout in instrumento publico super hoc confecto plenius dicitur contineri fraternitati tuae retinendi tamdiu ea omnia quae de praedictis decima redemptionibus legatis obventionibus earundem Hibern Civitatum Dioc. percipere te continget donec tibi ac praefatae Ecclesiae de praedicta quatuor millia Marcarum summa damnis expensis quae propter hoc incurres ac etiam interesse pro parte Regis praedicti fueriy plenariè satisfactum Necnon contradictores super hoc per censuram Ecclesiasticam appellatione postposita compescendi plenam liberam concedimus authoritate praesentium potestatem Non obstante si personis aliquibus a sede Apostolica sit indultum quod interdici suspendi vel ercommunicari non possint per Literas Apostolicas plenam et expressam aut de verbo ad verbum non facientes de indulto hujusmodi mentionem Dat. Neapoli 7 Kal. Maiâ— Pontificatus nostri anno primo No wonder then if the continuer of Matthew Paris renders us this account of this Bishops imployment this year instead of preaching Gods word and discharging his Episcopal duty which he neither minded nor prosecuted Episcopus Herefordensis non considerans Reipublicae utilitatem sed quae sua esse possent investigans de licentia Papae Regis decimam sibi collegit in finibus Hiberniae partium conterminarum Videlicet non minimam pecuniae quantitatem quam pretium sui laboris reputavit et suae praemium proditionis fecitque ipsam sibi tam districte colligi ut pudor prohibuerat modum extorquendi recitare Et quia fraus metu carere non consuevit meticulosus armatis armatus vallatus incessit How diligently the Dismes profits of Benefices dispensations of Vows pretended to be granted for relief of the Holy Land were collected though diverted to other ends by the Popes and Kings commands for obtaining
Manfreds hands in which des gn God blasted both the Popes forces and Kings rapines to their perpetual infamy I shall close up this year and Chapter too with the words of Mat. Paris Transiit igitur annus ille Ecclesiae et Praelatis ultimae servitutis genitivus Regni Angliae praedativus Terrae Sanctae sterilis et potius nocivus BOOK IV. CHAP. III. Comprising sundry Evidences out of Law-books Histories and Records manifesting our Kings Soveraign Ecclesiastical as well as Temporal Authority over all Ecclesiastical Persons Courts Causes in England and Ireland The Popes and his Instruments intollerable Extortions Oppressions Innovations Enchroachments both upon the Kings Prerogative and Subjects Liberties Properties and their respective Oppositions Complaints against them Together with our Popish Prelates and Ecclesiastical Synods Courts illegal Usurpations upon the Kings Temporal Rights Courts Crown Dignity and Peoples Priviledges with the several Prohibitions Mandates issued to restrain them And some other Ecclesiastical affaires transactions between the King Pope and Court of Rome of most concernment from the end of the 40th year of King Henry the 3d till the expiration of his Reign Anno Domini 1272. I Have presented you in the precedent Chapters with many memorable Records Writs Prohibitions restraining the Popes and Prelates Usurpations upon the Rights Crown Courts of King Henry the 3d. and his Subjects Liberties till the 40. year of his Reign about which time or soon after Henry de Bracton a famous Judge under him learned both in the Civil Canon and Common Laws of the Realm published five most excellent Books De Legibus Consuetudinibus Angliae wherein he asserts the Kings Supremacy over all persons whatsoever as having no Peer at all much less any Superior within his Realm stiling him Dei Vicarius several times in sundry places already transcribed in my Second Book chap. 2. p. 30 31 32. concerning King Lucius which I shall not here repeat Which passages of his will well explain those clauses in him which seem to patronize the Popes Supremacy viz. Apud homines verò est differentia personarum quia hominum quidem sunt praecellentes Praelati aliis principantur Dominus Papa videlicet in rebus spiritualibus quae pertinent ad Sacerdotium sub eo Archiepiscopi Episcopi alii Praelati inseriores Item in temporalibus sunt Imperatores Reges et Principes in hiis quae pertinent ad Regnum sub eis Duces Comites Barones Magnates sive Vavasores Milites etiam liberi villani diversae potestates sub Rege constitutae Ad Papam et ad Sacerdotium quidem pertinent ea quae spiritualia sunt ad Regem vero et ad Regnum ea quae sunt temporalia juxta illud Coelum coeli Domino terram autem dedit filiis hominum Et unde ad Papam nihil pettinet ut de temporalibus disponat vel ordinet non magis quam Reges vel Principes de spiritualibus ne quis eorum falcem immittat in messem alienam Et sicut Papa potest ordinare in spiritualibus quoad ordines et dignitates ita potest Rex in temporalibus in haereditatibus dandis vel haeredibus constituendis secundum consuetudinem Regni sui Which passages as they absolutely refute the Popes Temporal Supremacy and Jurisdiction in England upon pretext of K. Johns Charter or the grant of Peter-pence so they admit the Popes Supremacy only in Spiritual things to wit in consecrating depriving Bishops Priests administring Sacraments inflicting Ecclesiastical censures exercising their Ministerial function but not in the sapream Ecclesiastical Government of the Church or Clergy of England vested only in the King not Pope as Gods Vicar to whom all the Archbishops Bishops and Prelates of the Realm were then immediately subject as to their Soveraign Lord and Patron not so unto the Pope who notwithstanding his encroachments on the Crown in King Johns Reign which were regained only by degrees in those bad times by his successors could make no Archbishop Bishop in England or Ireland nor call Synods nor enact Laws or Canons to bind the Church or Clergy of England or Ireland without the Kings Royal assent who by his Writs of Prohibition controlled both the Popes his Legates Delegates and Archbishops Bishops yea Synods Jurisdictions and extravagant proceedings beyond their legal bounds as Bracton himself informs us in his Treatise of Jurisdictions and Prohibitions pertinent to my Theam wherein you may most clearly discerne a combination between the Pope Bishops and Ecclesiastical Courts especially by Bulls and Delegations from the Pope totally to subvert the Jurisdiction of the Kings Temporal Courts in that age and to engrosse them into their own hands to the prejudice of the King his Crown and Dignity and subversion of the antient Laws Customs Rights Priviledges of the Kingdom and Kings Officers Subjects and their diligence vigilancy courage to prevent it by several Writs and forms of Prohibitions thus digested into a perspicuous method and recorded to posterity by Judge Bracton 1. Est etiam jurisdictio quaedam ordinaria quaedam delegata quae pertinet ad sacertium forum Ecclesiasticum sicut in causis spiritualibus spiritualitati annexis Est etiam alia jurisdictio ordinaria vel delegata quae pertinet ad Coronam dignitatem Regis ad Regnum in causis placitis rerum temporalium in foro seculari unde videndum cujus judicium forum actor adire debeat Et verum est quod sive Laicum sive Clericum velit quis convenire debet adire judicem sequi forum rei judicium habebit illum apud quem reushabet domicilium sive domicilium habuerit sub jurisdictione unius vel duorum 2. Et licet generaliter verum sit quod actor forum rei sequi debeat fallit tamen in casibus propter diversitatem jurisdictionum causarum de rebus spiritualibus temporalibus earum sequela sicut in causa matrimoniali rebus permissis ob causam matrimonii quae in foro Ecclesiastico terminari debent quia cujus juris i. jurisdictionis est principale ejusdem juris erit accessorium Et eodem modo sicut in foro seculari agatur de aliquo placito quod pertinet ad Coronam dignitatem Regis fides fuerit opposita in contractu non propter hoc pertinebit cognitio super principali ad judicem Ecclesiasticum 3. Item fallit in causa testamentaria aliis pluribus causis Ecclesiasticis Item ratione criminis convenitur quis ubi deliquit ut si quis crimen commiserit in terra aliena quia ubi deliquit ibi subjceat juri sicut videri poterit de Vtfangthef per exemplum Item ratione contractus quia conveniendus ubi contraxit Item ratione rei petitae ut si Clericus petat versus Clericum Laicum debitum quod non sit de Testamento vel de Matrimonio sequi debet
citius exoneravit Et tunc temporis indentae sunt mille marcae de denariis electi Wintoniensis quas ibidem deposuerat et datae sunt quatuor Militibus ad stipendia et viatica ut Romam adeuntes Papae causam Barnagii Angliae ex parte Regis et Magnatum sine morae dispendio et ambagibus disputationis breviter et compendiose nâ—â—tiarent monstrarentque per cedulas vacuas et Bullatas quas post mortem Magistri Berardi de Nimpha in ejus cista invenerant quam multis et multiformibus Romani student terram inquinare machinationibus Quas vero cedulas sicut inventae sunt secum portaverunt Bullatas The King on the Archbishop of Tuams Petition in Ireland preferred thereunto by the Popes Provision whereupon the King refused to grant him his Temporalties at last by the Popes mediation granted his Bayliffs and Officers license to till and manure the Temporalties of the Archbishoprick but to lay up and sequester all the profits thereof till he should personally come to the King and make his Oath of Fealty to him which he having done the King issued this Writ to his Chief Justice and Escheator in Ireland to restore him his Temporalties with the profits thereof REX Alano la Zouche Justic Hiberniae Williâ—lmâ— de Bakâ—puz Escaetori suo Hiberniae salutem Cum alias vobis nostris Literis dederimus in mandatis quod permitteretis Ballivos Magistri Walteri quondam Decaâ— Sancti Pauli London de quo Dominus Papa providit Ecclesiae Tuamensi inhabitare domos et ercolere terras ad Archiepiscopatum praedictum pertinentes et in excolendo eas profectum ipsius Archiepiscopi facere prout melius viderent expedire Ita quod exitus eorundem et redditus dicti Archiepiscopatus tam per vos et vestros quam per dictos Ballivos colligerentur et in certis locis infra eundem Archiepiscopatum deponerentur et salvo custodirentur sine diminutione aliqua donec idem Archiepiscopus ad nos venisset et fidelitatem nobis fecisset Et dictus Archiepiscopus jam ad nostram praesentiam personaliter accesserit et fidelitatem nobis feceret quam facete tenebatur Nos ipsum in favorem et gratiam nostram recipientes reddidimus ei Archiepiscopatum praedictum cum praedictis exitibus a tempore praedictarum Literarum nostrarum vobis transmissarum et omnibus possessionibus et temporalibus ad eundem Archiepiscopatum pertinentibus Et ideò vobis mandamus quod eidem Archiepiscopo de praedicto Archiepisco patu domibus redditibus exitibus praedictis omnibus aliis possessionibus temporalibus ad eundem Archiepiscopatum plenam seâ—sinam sine dilatione habere faciatis Teste Rege apud Westm 6. die Novembris The King having granted the Archbishop of Ardmach in Ireland license to go to Rome about his affaires where he was confirmed in his Archbishoprick did at the Popes special request grant him this extraordinary unaccustomed favour as to order his Chief Justice and Escheator in Ireland to restore his Temporalties to him before he came to him in person and had made his Fealty provided that they should sequester the profits thereof in some safe place till he came in person to the King and did his Fealty to him for his Archbishoprick REX dilecto fideli suo Alano la Zouche Justic Hiberniae Magistro Willielmo de Bakepuz Escaetori suo in Hibernia salutem Cum Magister Abraham quondam Archipresbyter in Ecclesia Armachana nunc praefectus in Archiepiscopum ejusdem Ecclesiae pro diversis Ecclesiae suae negotiis moram trahat in Curia Romana Ac Dominus Papa nobis scripserit deprecando quod temporalia ejusdem Archiepiscopatus in manu nostra existentia eidem velut Archiepiscopo Armachano restitui faciamus cum ab eodem Domino Papa beneficium confirmationis adeptus sit votentes in hac parte eidem gratiam facete specialem quta in negottis noâ—ris mustum nobis prodesse poterit et valere quainquam consuetum non fuerit testituere alicui Praelato terrae iostrae temporalia sua donec ad nos venerit personaliter et nobis fidelitatem fecerit debitam et consuetam Uobis mandamus quod permittatis Ballivos ejusdem Archiepiscopi inhabitare domes et excolere terras ad ipsum Archiepiscopatum pertinentes et in excolendo eas profectum ipsius facere prout melius viderint expedire Ita quod exitus eorundem terrarum et redditus ipsius Archiepiscopatus tam per vos et vestros quam per praedictus Ballivos colligantur et in certis locis infra eundem Archiepiscopatum deponantur et salvo custodiantur sine dilatione aliqua donec idem Archiepiscopus ad nos venerit personaliter et fidelitatem nobis fecerit quam facere tenetur ut tunc de restituendis sibi exitibus supradictis ei faciamus gratiam si nobis placuerit vel eos ad opus nostrum retineamus In cujus c. Teâ—ie meipso apud Westm 6. die Febrruaii Anno Regni nostri 42. Per Regem Consilium suum The King by his Counsils advice as supreme Patron and Governour of the Church of England made this Declaration of the Law of England concerning the Right of Patronage and Advousons belonging to Archbishops Bishops Barons and other Patrons REX Omnibus ad quos c. salutem Super jure patronatus et praesentationibus ad beneficia Ecclesiastica faciendis in Regno nostro Angliae et in Ecclesia Anglicana quaedam speciales consuetudines observantur inter quas et illa sibi vendicat locum si videlicet Manerium aliquod cum pertinentiis libertatibus suis cuiquam Laico vel Clerico seu mulieribus aut personis quibuslibet Ecclesiasticis vel secularibus quocunque modo sive scilicet ad tempus vel ad firmam vel ad sustentationem vel pro dotaliciis seu quibuscunque modis aliis assignetur jus praesentandi ad Ecclesiam in hujusmodi Manerio sitam per assignationem hujusmodi cum Manerio semper transit nisi specialiter fuerit in assignatione illa jus praesentandi reservatum vel exceptum In Maneriis vero Episcoporum ubi jus patronatus et jus instituendi habent jus patronatus cum Maneriis ipsis secundum consuetudinem supradictam semper transit unde vacantibus Episcopatibus et Abbatiis tam nos quam Magnates nostri ad quos custodia Maneriorum tempore vacationis pertinet jus praesentandi ad Ecclesias in ipsis Maneriis sitas obtinemus instituendi jure apud Metropolitanum vel alios ad quos devolvitur jus spirituale remanente licet enim Episcopi in suis Diocesibus aut etiam Abbates Pontificale jus habentes Ecclesias Maneriorum suortum conferant eo quod in ipsis jus patronatus jus instituendi convenient jus tamen patronatus habent ratione Maneriorum suorum vel Baroniarum suarum quae si ab ipsis evincantur aut si aliis
Et ideo vobis mandamus quod recepta ab eo hujusmodi cautione ipsum Eustachium à dicta prisona liberari mandetis Quod nisi feceritis Mandavimus Vic. nostro Norff. quod vos ex parte nostra moneat inducat quod dictum Eustachium in dicta forma deliberari faciatis alioquin cautionem illam ab eodem Eustachio extunc recipiat ipsum à prisona praedicta faciat deliberari Teste Rege apud Merleburb 15. die Septembris REX Vic. Norff. salutem Ostensum est nobis ex parte Eustachii de Kyneburl quem per Literas Norwic. Episcopi patentes secundum consuetudinem Angliae per corpus suum tanquam Claves Ecclesiae contempnentem praecepimus Justiciar quod licet eidem Episcopo frequenter se obtulerit stare mandatis Ecclesiae ut tenetur dictus tamen Episcopus cautionem legitimam ab eo admittere recusavit de quo miramur quamplurimum et movemur propter quod Mandavimus Episcopo praedicto quod recepta ab eodem Eustachio hujusmodi cautione ipsum à prisona praedicta mandet deliberari Quod nisi fecerit tu ipsum ex parte nostra moneas et inducas quod dictum Eustachium in forma praedicta deliberari faciat alioquin cautionem illam ab eodem Eustachio extunc recipias et ipsum a prisona praedicta facias deliberari Teste ut supra The King being supream Ordinary and Judge in such cases The Proctors of Griffolino the Nephew of Arlot an Italian being disturbed in their possession of the Church of Ouston the King issued this Writ to the chief Justice of England to secure him and his Proctors in the quiet possession thereof without harm or injury REX Hugoni le Bygod Justic suo Angliae salutem Cum vacante nuper Ecclesia de Ouston in Insula de Haxiholme per mortem Magistri Johannis de Essingwold quondam Rectoris ejusdem qui decessit London Johannes Mansell Thes Eborum contulerit Ecclesiam illam Griffolino Nepoti Magistri Arloti Notarii Domini Papae quendam hominem nomine ipsius Griffolini in eadem Ecclesia infra quartum diem post decessum praedicti Magistri Johannis posuerit postmodum quendam procuratorem ejusdem Griffolini in Corporalem possessionem dictae Ecclesiae fecerit induci ac Rogerus de Munbray secundum quod coram nobis vobis praefato Johanne Mansell nuper promisit London quosdam qui in praejudicium dicti Griffolini perturbationem possessionis suae praedictae in dictam Ecclesiam se intruserunt amoverit ab eadem eidem jam mandaverimus quod ipsos seu alios qui jam de novo ingressi sunt Ecclesiam illam domos ad eam spectantes se teneant in eisdem non permittentes dictum procuratorem aut alium nomine dicti Griffolini possessionem dictae Ecclesiae aut ad ipsam pertinentium obtinere sine dilatione aliqua amoveat ab cisdem procuratores ipsius Griffolini una cum illis qui eis ex parte dicti Johannis assistent in possessione dictae Ecclesiae pertinentium ad eandem manuteneat defendat Vobis mandamus firmiter injungentes quod nisi praefatus vel Ballivus summus Insulae praedictae id fecerit vos id fieri faciatis Ita quod Procuratores praefati Griffolini una cum illis qui ex parte praedicti Johannis assistant manuteneantur defendantur in possessione praedictae Ecclesiae pertinentium ad eandem Et quod nulla eis injuria aut molestia inferatur in hac parte Teste Rege apud Winton 25. die Augusti The King also issued the like Writ to the Sheriffe to put his Proctor into possession of the Church and to attach and imprison all those that should resist him CUm dilectus fidelis noster Johannes Mansell Thes Eborum authoritate Apostolica contulerit Griffolino Nepoti Magistri Arloti Domini Papae Notarii Ecclesiam de Ouston quae est de Patronatu Prioris Conventus de novo Burgo quendam hominem suum in eadem Ecclesia nomine ipsius Griffolini infra quartum diem post mortem Magistri Johannis de Esingwand quondam Rectoris ejusdem qui nuper decessit London posuerit postmodum Procuratorem ejusdem Griffolini in Corporalem possessionem ejusdem Ecclesiae fecerit induci Ac quidam manu armata jam ingressi sint Ecclesiam illam in ea se teneant non permittentes dictum Procuratorem vel alium possessionem dictae Ecclesiae nomine praefati Griffolini obtinere Tibi praecipimus quod in propria personatua sine dilatione accedas ad Ecclesiam supradictam Procuratorem praedicti Griffolini manuteneas defendas omnes illos quos resistentes inveneris attachies ita quod corpora eorum habeas coram nobis in crastino Sancti Jacobi Apostoli ubicunque tunc fuerimus in Angliae ad respondendum de transgressione praedicta habeas ibi hoc breve Teste Rege apud Westm 5. die Julii Per Justic Johannem Mansell in eadem forma fieri praecepit Eodem modo mandatum est Rogero de Munbray By this we may discern what Power Arlot and his Nephew had with the King and his Officers The Monks of St. Swithins at Winchester by reason of the afflictions and troubles of their house being disabled to abide there in quiet or to addict themselves to contemplation and devotion the King thereupon issued these Writs to several Abbots to entertaine some of them in their houses till their afflictions and troubles were ended REX Abbati Conventui Rammesey salutem Cum Prioratus Sancti Swithini Winton à praedecessoribus nostris Regibus Angliae fundatus diversis litigiis aliis afflictionibus adversantibus jamdiu extiterit adeo perturbatus praegravatus quod Monachi ejusdem domus contemplationi debitae juxta ordinis fui exigentiam nequeunt ibidem quietè intendere ut teneÌ„tur sicut satis nostis cupientes ad ipsorum tranquillitatem laborare dilectionem vestram affectuosè rogamus quatenus Robertum de Vrnilla Monachum dictae domus admittere velitis commorandum vobiscum ut divino Cultui quietius devotius vacare possit quousque de statu dicti Monasterii sui salubrius provideatur Tantum facientes in hac parte quod vobis exinde ad speciales teneamur gratiarum actiones Teste Rege apud Windes 11. die Augusti Eodem modo scribitur Abbati Conventui Petri Glouc. pro Johanne de Vâ—iâ—illâ— Monacho Winton Eodem modo scribitur Abbati Conventui de Malmysbâ— pro Willo de Sâ—nite Monacho Winton Lewellyn Prince of Wales having against his Truce and Oath entered into England and wasted Churches Monasteries with fire and sword taken detained divers Lands and Castles of the Kings and Earl of Glocesters the Archbishop of Canterbury thereupon issued this Mandate to the Bishop of Wales to excommunicate him and his complices and interdict their Lands till restitution and competent satisfaction given for those injuries
miseries which befell them and the whole Kingdome and Church by those Wars with the Kings extream want of monies and debts by reason thereof the necessity of supplying him for the better support and defence of his Kingdom the Churches and peoples liberties especially by the Clergy who had received such bountifull gifts and endowments from him and his Ancestors granted the Tenth part of the profits and rents of all Archbishopricks Bishopricks Monasteries and all Ecclesiastical persons and orders whatsoever as well exempt as not exempt within the Realm of England Wales and Ireland according to the true improved values notwithstanding all former Bulls and exemptions to the contrary authorizing Othobon his Legate to Collect it by all manner of Ecclesiastical Censures notwithstanding any Appeals and by assistance of the Secular arme where need required Whereupon this Legate having no leisure to Collect it himself issued Commissions to several other persons to collect this Disme according to the Popes Bull therein recited which being very memorable extant in no printed History I shall present you with a true Transcript thereof out of one Original Commission of Othobon which I found in the White Tower Chappel Magistro Waltero Scamell Archdiac Berks Magistro Radulpho de Higham Canonico Sarisburiens dated 18. Kal. Febr. agreeing verbatim with this recorded in a Cedule of the Charter Roll Anno 51 H. 3. but only in the Commissioners names and day of the date which recites the Popes Bull verbatim and worthy publication OTTO BONUS Miseratione divina sanctî Adriani Diaconus Cardinalis Apostolicae sedis Legatus Discretis viris Abbatis de Tynterne Archdiacono Hereford Haerefordens Laudavens Dioc. salutem in salutis Authore Amaro nimis recolens animo sanctissimus Pater Dominus Clemens Papa quartus Quantâ Regnum Angliae inclytum modernis fuerat temporibus turbatione concussum quantaque quassatum concussione guerrarum et eidem Regno tanquam sibi et Ecclesiae Romanae Charissimo piae compassionis affectu compatiens ac pressuras innumeras quas serenissimus Princeps Dominus H. Rex Angliae illustris ac Nobilis vir E. ejus primogenitus et Ecclesiae ac personae Ecclesiasticae et seculares Regni ejusdem iisdem pertulere temporibus lugubri mente considerans sollicitudine opportuna ut decet et prompta opportuniate ut expedit deliberavit statui Regno depresso graviter et inique gravato accommodis remediis providere Ac pro subventione Regi facienda praedicta decimam partem omnium Ecclesiasticorum reddituum Archiepiscoporum Episcoporum aliorumque Praelatorum nec non Ecclesiarum Cathedralium et aliarum Monasteriorum Domorum Prioratuum caeterorumque locorum Ecclesiasticorum Regularium ac secularium exemptorum non exemptorum Regni Angliae Hiberniae Walliae cujuscunque sint Religionis vel ordinis Militiae Templi Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusolomitan Sanctae Mariae Theotonicorum Cistercien Kartusien ordinis Sanctae Clarae domibus duntaxat exceptis per triennium de fratrum suorum consilio deputavit Dans nobis per suas literas in mandatis ut per nos vel alium aut alios viros providos et fideles quos ad hoc reputaremus idoneos dictam decimam quam secundum veram non secundum antiquam extimationem reddituum et proventuum praedictorum per quod hujusmodi extimatio frequenter pro varietate temporum variatur idem Dominus exigi vult et mandat in supradictis Regno et locis diligenter colligi faceremus ejusdem Regis et Regni utilitatibus profuturam prout in ejusdem Domini Papae Literis ad nos directis plenius continetur quarum tenor talis est Clemens Episcopus servus servorum Dei dilecto filio O. sancti Adriani Diac. Card. Apostolicae sedis Legato salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Quantâ Regnum Angliae inclytum fuerit hiis temporibus turbatione concussum quantaque sit guerrarum concussione quassatum amaro animo recolentes eidem tanquam nobis Ecclesiae Romanae Charissimo pio compatientes affectu compatimur ex intimis condolemus nec minus amaritudine multa percellimur dum pressuras innumeras quam Charissimus in Christo filius noster Rex Charissima in Christo filia nostra Regina Angliae illustres ac nobilis vir Edwardus ipsorum primogenitus Ecclesiae Ecclesiasticae personae Regni ejusdem iisdem pertulere temporibus recensemus Cujus enim pectus saxeum non anxio repeteret spiritu non lugubri mente recoleret qualiter memorati Rex primogenitus discriminibus bellorum expositi experti Carceres mortis frequenter patuêre periculis ab hiis hucusque solo Dei digito praeservati Qualiter eadem Regina praefatis Rege viro primogenito suis quasi orbâ—ta viventibus coacta est extra Regnum paupertatis nihilominus non levi pressa onere diutius exulare Qualiter easdem Ecclesias personas pro libito manus raptoris invasit ipsarum bona pro velle dirupuit consumpsit Ad hujus autem amaritudinis vehementis ardorem cujusdam etiam nostrae frequentis considerationis inspectio timoris verisimilis adjicit incentivum dum enim conspicimus attentè meditationis aspectu tà m grandis turbationis râ—liquias non omnino consumptas sed adhuc graviores quà m vellemus praedictis Regno Regi ac suis expediat superesse tantò amplius tranquillitatem ipsius prout desideramus nondum plenè firmatam in antiquae tempestatis angustias recidivare timemus quanto id eisdem Regno Regi ac aliis discriminibus guerrarum attritis bellorum vastitate confectis laborum diuturnitate lassatis exinanitis opibus oneroso debitorum onere praegravatis majori posset esse discrimini efficacioris ingerere pericula nocumenti cum esse proculdubio soleat recidenti deterius quà m cadenti propter quod sollicitudine opportuna ut decet prompta oportunitate ut expedit deliberavimus statui Regio depresso graviter iniquè gravato accommodis remediis providere ut plene sui Iudicii solio restituto ipse quo fortior sedebit in illo eo liberius suo intuitu dissipet omne malum eoque utilius regimini ejusdem Regni et Ecclesiarum ipsius possit defensioni vacare quo ipse ac sui relevato et gravibus quibus tenentur debitorum oneribus se suosque subditos et specialiter sibi asistentes in regimine ac defensione hujusmodi efficacius poterit in suis juribus confovere Attendentes itaque quanto idem Rex semper ad Ecclesias devotionis Zelo fervet quantoque studio ipsarum statum prosperum multo fervore zelatus ac divini cultus intendit augmentum quam largifluis munificentiis et munificis liberalitabibus ipse ac clarae memoriae sui progenitores inclyti earundem Ecclesiarum statum et substantias augmentarunt decens arbitramur et congruum eidem Regi de ipsarum Ecclesiarum bonis necessariae subventionis porrigere dexteram et
Patris Domini O. Sancti Adriani Diaconi Cardinalis Apostolicae sedis in Angliae tunc Legati de voluntate consensu dicti Domini Cardinalis pro bono pacis inter ipsum Dominum Archiepiscopum Cancellarium memorat alis mota perpetuò concorditer conquievit Ita quod Praebenda de Newband ad cujuscunque manus pervenerit in praestatione annua quadraginta Marcarum maneat onerata et Praebenda de Wetewang in praestatione sexaginta Marcarum ad quemcunque pervenerit oneratuâ— praefato Domino Cardinali quamdiu virerit solvend et omni dicti Card. petitione et vendicatione et per hoc omnis litis materia perpetuo sopiatur Nos igitur pro nobis et haeredibus nostris concedimus quosi supradictarum Praebendarum vel alterius earum collatio ad nos vel haeredes nostros per vacationem sedis vel alio modo aliquo tempore devolvatur in nullum nisi cum praedicto onere transferantur vel transferatur sed liceat praedicto Capitulo Praebendas vel Praebendam in suis manibus re tinere donec a substituendis Canonicis vel substituendo Canonico de dictis praestationibus statutis terminis solvendis eidem Capitulo idoneo caveatur Pro quibus praestationibus praedictum Capitulum se praedicto Cardinali ad instantiam Domini Arch. obligavit In quorum omnium robur Testimonium has literas fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Eboracum 15. die Septembris Anno Regni nostri quinquagesimo secundo Anno 1268. 9. Kal. Maii. Othobonus Legatus with the Kings consent apud Sanctum Paulum Londini magnum Concilium celebravit praesentibus Vniversis Praeiatis Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae in eadem as Matthew Westminster and others relate In which Council he thus complaines of the general corruption of our Church and Realm in that age there held by his Legatine authority making and publishing sundry Constitutions therein for the Regulation of the Clergy and Churches of England Scotland and Ireland quae inter jura hujus Regni Ecclesiastica etiamnum observantur writes Matthew Parker which I finde published at large by Johannis de Aton with his Glosses on them They are prefaced with an Elegant Prologue wherein the Legate complaines Sanè si antiqua remota pestis hujusmodi exterminia dolenda suscepimus amarius flendo modernum vulnus incumbens quod non modo auribus sed etiam oculis manibus se palam exhibet estimamus eo quod temporibus hujusmodi diei mali quantum à primis longanimitate discedant tanto duriori cervice in profundiora malorum contemptu damnabiliori descendunt dum juris semita directa divertitur in obliquum cedit potentiae veritas justitiam favor expellit et dum omnes quae sua sibi videntur exposcunt quae Christi sunt quae animarum profectibus consulunt quae Ecclesiarum decus erigunt non solum in negligentiae nebulis sed etiam in dispectus et ignorantiae latebris tenebrosis abscondunt And then subjoynes Nos igitur ad Regnum inclitum quod diebus prorimis a gloriae suae culmine in ohtensionem utriusque potestatis exciderat necnon ad Scotiae Hiberniae et Walliae partes de gremio sanctae matris Ecclesiae commisso nobis in ipsos plenae legationis officio destinati plantandi et evellendi atque edificandi sollicitudinem de manu sanctissimi patris Domini Clementis in ipsius Vniversalis Ecclesiae summi Pontisicis non ex affectu propriae voluntatis sed pro debitae obedientiae bono suscepto ut nostrum juxta doctrinam Apostoli Ministerium impleamus cum sacrorum Canonum instituta quorum imitationem Principum quoque secularium leges assumunt Constitutiones quoque bonae memoriae Otobonis Portuensis Episcopi tune Sancti Nichei in carcere Tulliano Diaconi Cardinalis in Regnis Angliae Scotiae Apostolicae sedis Legati necnon Provincialium Conciliorum Provisiones mores actus fidelium subditorum salubriter informantes quod harum aliqua â— nonnullis invenimus observari dignum duximus praesenti sacro approbante Concilio ad omnem sanctam et Dei placitam observationem certas Constitutiones facere atque jam promulgatis certa quaedam capitula necnon poenas adjicere quae auctore Deo profectum valeant inducere salutarem I shall recite only the Prologues and contents of some few of these Constitutions discovering the grosse Symony Covetousenesse Pride Pluralities Commendaes Nonresidence and other abuses of the Clergy in that age principally occasioned by the Symony Covetousenesse Provisions dispensations of Popes themselves and their instruments against all Laws and Canons and worthy our consideration to reforme the like abuses Ne pro Sacramentis Ecclesiasticis aliquid exigatur Quoniam caeca cupiditas ita ruit in praeceps ut operum terrenorum quaestu minimè contenta pro sacramentis etiam Divinis quae aestimationem non capiunt precium profana venalitate suscipiat Praefatus Legatus contra hoc statuit praecepit oleum sanctificatum chrisma à ministris Ecclesiae purè atque devotè qualibet exclusa cupiditatis labâ— conferri nulla difficultate in eis exhibendis adhibita praetextu alicujus consuetudinis quae dicatur ab eis qui ea recipiunt aliqua quibuslibet persolvenda c. De Cleric is arma portantibus and De habitu Clericorum he relates their abuses in both these at large * De residentia Archiepiscoporum et Episcoporum reâ— cites and defines Pastor bonus cognoseens gregem suum debet ipsum et mentis et corporis oculis jugiter intueri ne ipsum insidiosus lupus invadat sicut hostis persequendo invigilat sic Prelatus resistat continue defendendo Oportet igitur ut corporali presentia ipsum tueatur sollicite quia vadens pastor et veniens saepe non invenit quod reliquit eo quod illue adversarius non residens nec recedens neque dormiens asportavit Sane licet Episcopi ad personalem residentiam curâ— gregis Domini sibi commissi tam divinis quam Ecclesiasticis praeceptis noscantur astricti quia tamen in partibus nostrae Legationis nonulli sunt qui hoc attendere non videntur noâ— igitur praedicti Legati monitionem exhortationem super hoc ad Archiepiscopos Episcopos providenter emissam aemulationis condignae studio subsequentes ipsos hortamur in Domino in virtute sanctae obedientiae atque sub divini attestatione judicii monemus ut ad commissi gregis curam et ad dispensatarum sibi Ecclesiarum solatium praecipue diebus solemnibus quadragessimalibus et advehtus prâ—sentiam suam debitam exhibeant c. * De appropriationibus Ecclesiarum discovers their mischifes and inconveniences De Delegationibus causarum intimates that a judicial power intrusted in and appropriated to a particular person by divine or humane Lawes cannot be delegated by him to another person of inferior quality De Juramento Advocatorum shewes their corruption in
Charters yet this Pope as some of his Predecessors took upon him to be as it were the originall granter of them and of the Abbots Pontifical Robes Precedency before all other Abbots 2. That he reserved an ounce of Gold to be paid annually to him and his successors for this Bull of liberties granted them as Pope Caelestine had formerly done in high derogation of the Kings regall Perogative as King Henry the 2d declared to the Abbot upon sight of Pope Caelestines Bull. 3. That Abbots out of their Pride or ambition were the principal advancers of the Popes usurpations by petitioning for and purchasing such Bulls as these from Popes to exempt themselves from all Secular Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Jurisdiction which raised many contests between our Archbishops Bishops and Abbots to be only under the Power of the Pope himselfe and his Legates who inserted à salvo in omnibus Apostolicae sedis authoritate 4. That the Pope in this Bull gives Precedency to Popes and their Bulls before our Kings and their Charters which was not usuall in most preceeding Bullsof confirmation Matthew Paris in the life of John the next Abbot and others succeeding him 〈◊〉 complaines that notwithstanding all these priviledges and Popes Bulls very dearly purchased they were presently and frequently violated by Popes and their Agents or evaded by Non obstantes as meer insignificant Cyphers and pious Cheats to pick their purses Book 4. Chap. 1. p. 443. l. 13. before this year this passage and Writ should have been placed The Bishops in Ireland usurping upon the Kings Crown and Courts in presuming to hold Pleas of Advousons of Churches Chapples Chattels Layfee and Goods which were not given in mariage or by will against the Laws of England there established by him and his Father King John issued this general Writ or Proclamation to inhibitthem to hold Plea thereof REX Comitibus Baronibus Militibus liberis hominibus omnibus aliis de terra Hiberniae salutem Quia manifeste esse dignoscitur contra Coronam et dignitatem nostram et consuetudines et leges Regni nostri Angliae quas bonae memoriae Dominus Johannes Rex pater noster de communi omnium de Hibernia consensu teneri statuit in terra illa quod placita non teneantur in Curia Christianitatis de advocationibus Ecclesiarum et Capellarum vel de Laico feodo vel de Catallis quae non sunt de teflamento vel matrimonio Vobis mandamus prohibentes quatinus hujusmodi placita in Curia Christianitatis nullatenus sequi praesumatis in manifestum dignitatis et Coronae nostrae praejudicium Scituri pro certo quod si feceritis dedimus in mandato Iusticiario nostro Hyberniae ut juxta statuta Curiae nostrae in Anglia contra transgressiones hujus mandati nostri cum justitia procedat et quod nostrum est exequatur In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Winchcomb 28. die Octobris Anno Regni nostri 18. Et mandatum est Justiciario Hyberniae per literas Clausas quod praedictas literas patentes publice legi teneri faciat Book 3. Chap. 1. p. 436. l. 1. This should have been inserted Matthew Paris in the life of William Abbot of Saint Albans relates this story of an Italian who had been violently intruded by the Popes Provision against right into the Church of Herteburne for many years being troubled in his conscience for it resigned it up to the Abbot the only president of this kind in our Histories whereupon the Abbot reconferred it on him as right Patron thereof Ad titulos autem dignoscitur ipsius Abbatis Willielmi pertinere quod cum Magister Hugo natione Italicus Ecclesiam de Herteburna per intrusionem Romanae Curiae violenter obtinuisset cavens Conscientiae suae quam graviter â—aesam senserat venit ad Abbatem Gulielmum et dixit ei cum lachrymis Domine illegitimum ingressum habui ad Ecclesiam vestram quae ad donationem vestram pertinet unde fructus aegro animo plurimis annis heu mihi recepi temerarius Ipsam igitur Pater sancte in manibus vestris resigno Cui Abbas miseratus et misertus respondit non inveni tantam fidem in aliquo Transalpino et ego ipsam recipio Et post dimidium minus horae intervallum cum silentio ipse Abbas nullius praeterquam spiritus sancti fretus consilio recolens qualiter beatus Thomas Martyr Cantuariensem Archiepiscopatum in manus Papae quia ingressum habuit imperiosis praecibus Regis Henrici resignavit et iterum Canonice institui promeruit accito Hugone ait et ego tibi eam Charitative confero ut tua serenetur Conscientia Quam recipiens cum gratiarum actionibus multis annis vixit idem Hugo sanctissme Ouod audiens Papa cum suis Cardinalibus factum quamplurimum laudâ—vit sed similia facere recusavit Book 4. Chap. 2. p. 766. l. 1. This passage was omitted by the Printer How numerous rich insolent the Popes Italian usurers were who returned his extorted monies for him from England and furnished the King Prelates and others who wanted money upon good security at excessive rates both at Rome and in England to pay what was extorted from or given by them to purchase preferments provisions or bribe the Pope Cardinals officers of the Court of Rome what stately Houses they purchased and how they were questioned imprisoned both as Hereticks Traytors by the King till they purchased their peace with money is thus registred by Matthew Paris Temporibus sub eisdem Usurarii Transaâ—pini quos Caursinos appellamus adeò multiplicati sunt et ditati quod nobilissima Palatia Londini sibi comparantes stabilem sibi more Civium indigenarum mansionem statuerunt Nec sunt ausi Praelati obmutire quia se Mercatores Domini Papae extitisse affirmarunt nec audebant Cives obloqui quia Magnatum quorundam quorum ut dicebatur pecuniam ad multiplicandam seminabant exemplo Romanae Curiae favore defendebantur Veruntamen tunc temporis graviter in civili foro Domino Rege sic volente et caute procurante sunt accusati et in causam ante judicem tractati et sedente Londini pro Iudice ex parte Regis accusantis velut schismatici vel haeretici et Regiae laesae rei Majestatis vocati tenebantur tanquam incarcerandi et gravius puniendi pro eo nimirum quod se Christianos profitentes totum Regnum Angliae turpissimo quaestu faenoris macularunt Vnde Dominus Rex Christianissimus qui juravit Sancta instituta Ecclesiae conservare illaesa se conqueritur in Conscientia sua graviter sauciatum Quod cum non posset inficiari capti sunt eorum aliqui carcerali custodiae mancipandi alii vero in locis abditis latuerunt Quibus auditis gavisi sunt Judaei suae se habere jam participes servitutis Tandem interveniente haud minimae pecuniae quantitate aemuli Judaeorum
Provisions of the Pope 794. A prohibition to the Abbot not to hold Plea of Lay fee p. 885. A Writ to tax and collect their own Disms p. 1050. Contests between Abbot Alexander the Archbishop and Archdeacons of Canterbury concerning the Churches of Feversham Middleton c. Writs Excommunications Appeals concerning them â— Appendix p. 1 to 20. B. BArdenâ—y The Abbot and Monks excommunicated by the Archdeacon and Bishop of Lincoln after an Appeal for a Debt claimed from his predecessor and not delivering a Pontifical against Law for which the Monks of Canterbury excommunicate the Bishop and his Officers their contests fights about it p. 597 598. A prohibition to the Sheriff not to attach any of the Monks excommunicated after their appeal p. 599. To seâ—se their Ecclesiastical benefices as well as temporalties during the vacancy as belonging to the King allowing the Monks Estovers ibid. 600. The Abbot deprived by Nicholas the Popes Legate who puts another in his place Appendix p. 18. Bartholmew Lincoln Priory Convert Jews sent to it p. 838. 840. Bartholmew London Priory Resists the Archbishops Visitation the Fray insurrection contests about it p. 741 742. mediated p 747. A Jewish Convert sent to it p. 837. Bathe Priory Converted Jews sent to it p. 836 838 840. bound to the Pope in 400 Marks without their privity p. 845. Elect the Bishop with the Dean and Chapter of Wells p. 498. Begeham Bekeham Praemonstratensis Ordinis Abbas Greg 9. his Bull to him and others as his Visitors of other Religious Houses p. 441 44â— 789. Convert Jews sent to it 836 839 840. Beland Convert Jews sent to it p. 836 839. Bellalanda Abbey Convert Jews sent to it p. 836 839. De Bello the Abbot opposeth the Popes demands Usurpations p. 567. Convert Jews sent thither p. 837 838. De Bello Capite Ab Convert Jews sent to it p. 838 840. De Bello loco Abbot the Kings Proctor with others to the Pope and Cardinals against the Archbishop p. 246 247. A writ to be present at the Archbp of Yorks election by the Dean and Chapter p. 348 and at the Bishop of Winchesters p. 354. Of the Cistercian Order built by King John 366. made Bishop of Karliol the Kings Letter in his behalf p. 375. Benner Benver Priory Convert Jews sent to it p. 838 839. Beolton Prior professeth obedience to the Archbishop of Yorke saving his Liberties c. appeals to Rome p. 242. Berking a Writ to promote one to be Abbesse there p. 352. Bermundesey Prior Writs to seise all monies of the Abbot of Cluny therein p. 886 887. Founded by the Kings ancestors p. 968. Berncestre Prior a Judge in case of a mariage portion p. 882. Bernwell Priory Convert Jews sent to it p. 836 837 839. sequestred goods delivered by the Priors view 965. St. Bertins Abby in Flanders the banished Monks of Canterbury resort to it p. 248. Binham Priory of St. Benedicts Order a detestable Provision on its Church of Westle p. 746. Blithe Priors appeal against the Archbishop of York his Excommunication p. 242 Boccon Abbot a Commissioner to make Peace betwixt England and France p. 1001. Boleg Convertâ— sent to it p. 240. Bolinton Boyling Priories Converts sent to them p. 838 840. Bordel Abbot a Prohibition to him against his usurpations on the Kings Tenants p. 984 985. Bordest Abbot one of the Popes Delegates a Prohibition to him p. 381. Bosâ—grave Priory Converts sent to it p. 836 837 839. Boxele Boxlegg Abbot one of Pope Greg. the 9. his Visitors of Religious Houses 441 442. His severity Ib. 789. A Papal sequestration to him of the Priory of Winton and Kings Prohibition against it p. 832 833. Brethenhath Priory Converts sent to it p. 840. Bridlinton Prior his appeal against the Archbishop of York p. 242. Converts sent thither p. 839. Bruera Abby Converts sent to it p. 835 838. Brumer Converts sent thither p. 840. Buell Ab. Cicâ—strensis Ordinis p. 991. Bukenham Priory Converts sent to it p. 840. Buldewas Buleaâ—was Bildâ—was Converts sent thither p. 836 837 839. Of the Cistercian Order deny ayde to the King who expostulates with them p. 846 847. De Burgo A Writ to the Prior and Covent for the Kings Commissioners to be present at their Abbots election p. 348 Its Church dedicated p 504. Nigri Ordinis The Abbots illegal proceedings between the Abbot of Bardeney and Bishop of Lincoln 598. The Abbot summoned to the Council of Lyons there shamefully abused by the Pope for opposing his Provision to a Benefice p. 638. Accused for dilapidations resigns his place the Abby sequestred by the King p. 729. Burton Abbots election approved by the King p. 351 352. C. CErtesey Abbey Converts sent thither p. 836. Câ—yve the Abbot the Kings Proctor at Rome concerning a Peace with France p. 423. to oppose the Usurpations of the Bishops of Ireland on the Crown p. 428. Converts sent to it p. 840. Cogâ—shall Abby Converts sent thither p. 836 839. Coldingham Prior recommended to be elected to Rammesey p. 356. Colecester Abby Converts sent to it p. 8â—6 839. Coventry Prior and Covent the Kings Commissioners to be at their Bishops election p. 348. recommended to be elected at Ramesâ—y p. 356. They and the Canons of Lichfield to elect the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield by turns the Prior to have the first voyce p. 418. Their Elections of several Bishops refused nulled by the King and Pope p. 510 511. 624 625. A pension unduly granted to them out of St. Michaels Church nulled by the King p. 687 688 689. Crokesden Abby Converts sent to it p. 838 840. Croxton Abbot King Johns bodily and ghostly Physician p. 366. His Legacy to the Abby p. 367. Cumba Abby Converts sent thither p. 837. D. DEla Dale Ab. Converts sent to it p. 836 839. Daventre Priory Converts sent thither p. 838 840. Derbe Prior one of the Popes Delegates a prohibition to him p. 689. Derlege Abby Converts sent to it p. 838 840. St. Dionysius Odo Abbot of it bestows rich gifts on the Pope for which he made him Archbishop of â—â—oan p. 641 642. dyed suddenly by divine justice for his ambition p. 697. St. Dogmael Prior elected Bishop of St. Davids Writs for him p. 236 237. Dore Abbey Converts sent to it p. 836 837. Dunestable The Prior a Delegate to absolve the Monks of Canterbury p. 579. Converts sent thither p. 838 840. Christ crucified seen there in the ayre p. 699. Dunkwell Abby Converts sent to it p. 836 839. Dunolm Durham Priory A Writ to the Prior and Covent for the Kings Delegates to be present at their election p. 348. Their affronts to King John in electing a Bishop his Writs Appeals concerning it p. 352 to 356. 382 383. Contests between the Bishop and them Ib. 388 389. Between King H. 3. and them about a Bishops election 405 406. His License to elect a Bishop 483. their election nulled a new one made 565 566. Converts sent thither
Innovations suite before the Popes Delegates p. 476 478. Their old Charters Priviledges suspitious forged p. 495. Appendix 17 18. New Contests Appeals about elections 499 579 580. molested by Archbishop Edmund p. 509 564 579. Contests between them and the Bishop of Lincoln excommunicating each other 597 to 600. Oppress the Prior of St. Martins Dovor p. 1059. 1060. Trinity Ebor. Priory Freers predicants seise an Heretick p. 475. a Prohibition to the Prior and Covent not to invade the Cities Liberties p. 831. Converts sent to it p. 838 839. V. VAlle Dei Abby Converts sent to it p. 838 840. W. WAleden Abby Converts sent thither p. 838 839. Walsingham Priory St. Mary Converts sent to it p. 835 837. Waltham Wautham Abby St. Mary Consecrated p. 604. Abbot excused through age for not appearing at the Council of Lyons p. 638. A Delegate to reverse the Archbishops sentence against the Canons of Pauls London p. 745 762. He and other Abbots confederate against Archbishop Boniface his Visitation p. 761. Pope Innocents Bull to him to defend the Liberties of St. Augustines Canterbury against the Archbishops encroachments p. 793. Converts sent to it p. 835 838 839. Waredune of the Cistercian Order Abbot Adam chosen Bishop of Coventry p. 604. Falls into King Henry 3. his displeasure for denying him an Ayd his speech to revenge on him p. 846 847. Wastham Abbot the Legates deputy to depose the Abbot of Westminster p. 335. Waverly Abbot appeals against the Archbishop of Yorks sentence p. 242. Wenlocke Priory Converts sent to it p. 836 839. Westminster St. Peters Abby Ralph Arundle elected Abbot p. 229. deposed by the Popes Legate for dilapidations and incontinency another substituted p. 287 335. Appendix p. 18. The Abby exempt from the Visitation Procuâ—ations of the Bishop of London p 384 The Abbot an assistant in the Treaty for a Truce with France p. 446 An Appeal to the Pope made in his presence p. 587. a difference between him and the Bishop of Lincoln about Priviledges p. 595 596. acquitted from Hydage and Leets p. 632. appointed one of the Guardians of the Realm in the Kings absence p. 638. Richard de Crokesdale elected Abbot to please the King p. 685. Priviledges granted to it to the prejudice of St. Albans p. 760. A difference between the Abbot and Covent appeals to Rome about it settled by the King who was displeased with the Abbot p. 763 764. the Covent to have the custody of its Temporalties during the vacancy Ibid. The Kings Chapple a Prohibition to lend money to the Abbot p. 764. All the Londoners summoned to it to take up the Crosse p. 766. The Abbot appointed a Collector of the Croysado money p. 814 815 834 835. Monies assigned out of the Kings Treasury for its reparation p. 828. The Abbot complyes with the Popes Legate p. 850 for what ends p. 929. sets his and his Covents seal to a band of 2500. Marks for the Kings use p. 932. a Surety for like sums with other Abbots p. 934 1024 1025. A viol of Christs blood carried thither in solemn procession by K. H. 3. himself there adoâ—ed reserved a Fair granted to it to the prejudice of London and other places p. 711 to 716. Whiteby Converts sent to it p. 840. Wygorn Worcester Priory Converts sent to it p. 836 837 839. Wymundale a Convert sent thither p. 840. INDEX 3. Of all the Archbishopricks Bishopricks Archbishops Bishops of England and Wales with their Names Actions Elections Extravagances Schismes Usurpations Treasons and other matters relating to them in general and to every of them in particular mentioned in this Tome MAtter 's concerning them and the Clergy in general Commissioners for enquiry of damages for rapines of some of their goods appointed by the King in most of their Diocesses p. 279 280 281 999 1000 1006. Their hands seals unworthily set by the Popes command to the transcript of King Johns detestable Charter casually burnt 31. years after its making p. 300 301. They advise answer the Kings question demanded of them in Parliament concerning this Charter by themselves p. 301 302. They consult together cancerning the Churches Liberties invaded by the Pope and his Legates p. 330. What clauses they inserted into King Johns new Charter not extant in that of King Henry 1. to the prejudice of the Crown p. 335 336 340 341 344. The New Charter extorted from him concerning their freedom of Elections of Bishops Abbots and other Ecclesiastical Officers p. 337 338 922 923. Present at Beckets solemn Translation p. 380. Pope Honorius the 3. his Epistle to them to ayd King Henry 3. with their purses p. 396. Their Decrees concerning Priests Concubines p. 397. Otto his unreasonable Propositions to them with their answer p. 398 399 400. Pope Gregory the 9. his Injunction to them to Excommunicate the Emperor Frederick p. 409 410 413 414. To demand an Ayd and Dismes against him p. 424 425 428 447 to 450. 650 to 658. Their menaces to Interdict and Excommunicate King Henry 3. p. 443 444. Their Canons concerning Bastardy contrary to the Common Law over-ruled p. 472 473 474. A voluntary Ayd granted by them not to be drawn into consequence p. 475. Desire a dayes respite to consider of the Popes Legates proposals whether prejudicial to the Church of England p. 487. Their complaint in 30. Articles of King Henry 3. his oppressions violations of the Liberties of the Church against his Charters Oath by his ill Council and Popes Legate p. 544. Deny the Popes intollerâ—ble exactions to War against the Emperor without long deliberation p. 546. which at last they submit to p. â—63 Their answers to Peter Rubeo the Popes Nuncio's Exactions p. 567 568 569. Pope Innocent the 4. hie Letters to them for ayding the King and him and their proceedings thereon p. 609 610 612 613 614 615. Their summons to the Council of Lyons and excuses p. 637 638. The Kings Prohibition to them not to act any thing to the prejudice of his Crown p. 640. Canons for their Residence and against their Commendaes p. 1041 1043 1044. Most trayterously effeminately set all their seals to the Popes transcript of the detestable Charter of K. John whereby he made his Kingdoms Tributary to the Pope soon after its burning in the Popes Closet at Lyons and the Kings Kingdoms English Embassadors solemn protestations against it in the Council of Lyons as null and never assented to by them but protested against by Archbishop Langeton in all their names when signed to the enormous prejudice of the King Kingdom they likewise seal his injurious Excommunication of the Emperor Frederick p. 643 644 645 647. Their consultation concerning the Church of Englands desolation p. 648 Their Epistle to Pope Innocent the 4. against his exactions and grievances p 667 668. An Ayd exacted from them by the Pope instead of reforming them p. 672 673. Their answer to his demands p. 675 to 680. Oppose slander the King deny him Aydes excite the
Apostolick the Mother of Churches excelling all other Churches in power wealth the paradise of pleasure c. planted by God himself Popes grand affection to it 420 487. The Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England ought to have precedency of Yorke 487 570 684 772 899. The Patronage Custody Royalties of the Bishoprick of Rochester custody and restitution of its temporalties granted to the Archbishops of Canterbury by King Johns Charter 339 479 818 819. 877. See Rochester Augustin first Bishop of it 607. His Charter to the Monastery of St. Augustines sorged Appendix 17. Anselm his extravagant blasphemous Passages of the Virgin Maries Soveraign power Redemption Mediation Prayers to her c. His Oppositions Treason against King Henryes prerogatives 16 20 21 23 32 46 to 50 53. Canonized for them as a Roman Saint p. 64 226. Theobald the Bishop of St. Davids consecrated by made his profession of subjection to him Pope Eugenius his Letters Decree concerning it 235. Thomas Becket magnified canonized translated as a Roman Saint Martyr for the Church for his oppositions Treasons against K. H. Il. his royal Prerogatives and antient Liberties p. 226. 250. 380. 420. 431 563 564. 591. 785 787. 805 807 813 841 896. 926. Append. p. 9. The author introducer of our Ladies 7. Joyes 46 64. Christs pretended apparition speech to him 69. His Miracles 420. Archb. Edmund commends himself and cause to him 564 His name as a Saint Martyr used in our publike excommunications 796. Founder of St Thomas Hospital 785 787. The Bps resolve to be martyred like him S. Edmund p 563 564. 823 824. 896 926. yet flagg therein ibid. Hubert Crowned King John was Chancellor to him p. 227 229. His Charter to him concerning imprisoned Clerks and their purgation 230. Holds a Council and makes Canons against the Kings prohibition 232 233. Writs to the Justices to assist him to recover the rights of his Church 234. Disobâ—yes the Popes Citation of him to Rome opposed nulled his provision to the Bishoprick of S. Davids and revival as an Archbishoprick 235 236 237. See St. Davids A resignation of the Archdeaconry of Brecon to him made the pretended Bishop of St. Davids his Chaplain 236 237 238. His contests with excommunications of the Abbot Monks of Augustines Canterbury concerning the Church of Faversham other Churches the appeals and proceedings therein Appendix p. 3. to 18. Reginald Subprior of Canterbury after his death secretly elected at Midnight by the Monks to prevent the Kings nomination his Oath of Secrecy disclosed election opposed nulled by the Pope p. 242 243 246 244. John Gray Bishop of Norwich elected by the Kings license who approved thereof Writ for him yet rejected by the Pope because chosen before the others election nulled p. 243 244 245 246 247. Stephen Langeton an English Cardinal upon nulling the 2. former elections nominated to elected by the Monks then at Rome by Pope Innocents command without their fellowes or Kings consent consecrated Archbp by the Pope p. 247 248 421 770 his education learning p. 247 249 250 419 420 Pope Innocents Epistles presents to King John to admit him Archbp who refused it menaced the Pope and his Creatures seised the temporalties of the Archbp. banished him his Parents kinred and Monks of Cant. as Traytors p. 248 249 250 802. By his and his confederate Bishops Treachery the Kingdom was interdicted King excommunicated his subjects abso ved from their allegiance he and his deprived of the Crown given to the French King enforced to resign his Kingdoms to the Pope become his sworn Tributary Vassal Homager renounce the antient rights of his Crown receive him and his Confederats to favour restore them to their Bishopricks with the profits damages sustained by their exile before he could be absolved p. 251 to 291. 340 341 342 343. The Kings Nobles Letters Charters to him his arrival in England with the Kings humiliation Oath to him before he would absolve him 276 277 278 279. Instigates the Nobles against the King threatens to excommunicate him and revive the Interdict if he proceeded by arms against them 282 283 284 335. A witnesse to the Kings Charter of resignation of his Kingdoms annual pension and homage to the Pope 290. yet protested appealed against it though the occasion of it to render the King more odious p. 290 294 299 300 431 638 639. He opposed appealed against the Popes Legates Vâ—urpations Provisions in derogation of his See and Church of Englands rights for which he summoned a Synod of his Suffragans p. 330. What dammages from the King the Pope awarded him 331. Seisin of the ports of Sandwych Heth Romney awarded to him 334. His severity against the Clergymen who adhered faithfully to King John 334 335. Excites the Barons to take up arms against King John for their Liberties Extorts the Great Charter from him with new additional clauses 283 335 336 337 340 341. Wrests a new Charter for the freedom of elections of Bishops Abbots from him 336 337 338. and of the Patronage Royalâ—yes of the Bishoprick of Rochester as absolutely as the King enjoyed them p. 339 344 To require which he surrenders the Castle ammunition of Rochester to the Barons 344. refuseth to execute the Popes excommunication interdict against the Barons though oft pressed by the Legate and others p. 344 345 346 347. Accused suspended in the Council at Rome for confederating with the Barons against the King a just retaliation p. 347 348 351 361. His suspention taken off but he not to return into England till peace made between the King and his Barons 361. Crowned H. 3. at his second not first Cororâ—tion 379. Causeth his Trayterous predecessor Becket to be translated with great magnificence 380. The Popes delegate in the case of the Bishop of Lismor 382. An arbitrator between the Bishop of London and Abbot of Westminster concerning his exemption from the Bishops Jurisdiction 384. A Council held under him at Oxford wherein extorted Fees Pluralities and other abuses were condemned The Excommunications denounced in it the name of Christ and the Holy Ghost after God the Father omitted Maries and Saints inserted in their stead 385 386 54. Prohibited victuals to be sold to Jews 386 387. Demands a confirmation of the Great Charter from H. 3. p 387. His Conference with Lawes the French King 387 388. His Vsurpations on the Archdeaconries of Coventry during the vacancy prohibited 388. King H. 3. in policy commends his fidelity to him in Letters to the Pope Cardinals to procure their Letters to him to continue faithfull and assisting to him 389 390. He and his Suffragans denounce Excommunications against all invaders of the Church Church-goods disturbers of the King kingdom detainers of the Kings Lands Castles unlesse they surrendered them by a day p 391 392. He procures the Kings Letter to the Pope for his brothers return into England upon his engagement to do no prejudice to the King or kingdome â—b Grants a
them till heard by the King and Nobles a Bull and Legat sent about it p. 825 843 928 929 930 941 942. The Bps Answer to the Popes Lâ—gates demands deferred by reason of his absence beyond the Seas 823 824 849. His brothers ill successe in his Wars maintained by his rapine in England 848 849. Returns into England summons a Council that like the Martyr Thomas he might encounter the Enemies Rebels of the Church and be a wall of defence to it 890. The Kings prohibitions to him and the Bishops not to meet in this Council which they contemn 890 891. Their Treasonable Articles Canons made in that Council against the Kings Prerogative Ecclesiastical and Temporal his Temporal Judges Courts Lawes Prohibitions Writs Judgements exempting of themselves Clerks Officers Lands Goods from their secular Jurisdictions Judicatures decreeing Interdicts Excommunications against the King his Judge Officers Lands Castles Lay-Subjects for which Liberties they resolved to contend to death 890 to 912. The Archbishop forced by the King Barons to fly the kingdom for these Constitutions against which they complained appealed sent their Proctors to Rome Which Constitutions are yet printed in Lyndewode Aâ—on urged for the Canon Law of this Realm though nulled 911 912 983 989 990 991. Not permitted to return into England unlesse he would reverse his illegal Excommunications disturbing the kingdoms peace act nothing concerning the weighty affairs of the Church or Realm but by advice of the greater and sincerer part of his Suffragans and other discreet persons of the Realm engage that upon his return or during his stay in England neither he not any of his Clerks should bring any Messages Letters Mandates or other thing nor do or procure by themselves or others ought to the prejudice of the King kingdom nor carry or send any thing out of it but in cases of necessity by approbation of the Kings Counsil 997 998. A Writ to him for a Collection for the Church of Colen wherein the three Kings were interred 912 913. The Kings prohibition to him not to consecrate the Bishop elected by the Monks of Ely whom he disapproved his appeal against and Writ to examine it 922 923. nulled at Rome by the King him and a new Bishop elected Ibid. 924. His Official refuseth to admit the Kings Clerk whereupon another is commanded by Writ to do it in his default 955 956. A Writ to stay all proceedings at Law in his suit for return of Writs till heard by the King and Counsil 970. A prohibition to him and his Official not to cite any Clerk presented by the King by the Popes authority to appear out of the Realm 980 981. The Kings Writ to his Tenants to ayde him to pay the debts pretended he had contracted for his Churches Liberties 992 A Prohibition to him not to distrain the Kings Chaplains for Dismes 996. The Kings Writ to him to appoint some Bishop of England to consecrate the Bishop elect of Bath and Wells who could not come to him to be consecrated beyond Sea his refusal thereof with the Kings second Writ and displeasure thereon taxing him of ingratitude commanding his present return under pain of severe proceedings against him 998 999. The profits goods of his Archbishoprick forcibly seized on during the Barons Wars Writs of enquiry issued thereupon to protect and secure them 1000 1001 1004. Writs to him and his Official to constrain the Bishop of Hereford by Ecclesiastical censures to reside at his Church discharge his Episcopal Office to prevent seizure of his Temporalties and Kings proceedings 1011 1012. Canons for it 1041. A Writ to enquire what Lands had been alienated given by the King without the Archbishops consent or detained from his Church against the Priviledges thereof 1033. A Writ to the Collectors of the Dismes within his Diocesse to hasten their collection 1034. To repay monies out of the Disme borrowed of him by Prince Edward to repair Dover Castle 1036. A Writ concerning the account of the Dismes of his Diocesse 1052 1053. Writs to preserve the Archbishops right in the Priory of St. Martins Dover immediately subject to the Archbishop against the Prior and Covent of Canterbury's encroachments thereon 1060 1061. His ignominious wretched scandalous long Archiepiscopal life his death beyond the Seas the great inundations at Canterbury about that time 1061. William de Chilenden by the Kings license elected by the Monks not approved by the King but appealed against perswaded by Pope Urban to relinquish his election 1061 1062. whereupon the Pope conceiving the right of conferring the Archbishoprick to be devolved to him like his predecessors out of the plenitude of his power appointed Robert Kilwaraby Provincial of the Freers Minorites in England to be Archbishop upon which the Monks to preserve their right of Elections pro forma elected him Archbishop 1062. The Prior on the day of his consecration demanded 3000. Marks spent in the election of Chilenden the Pope promised he should pay who by threats made him abate 1300 l. Ibid. 1063. He refused to confirm consecrate Dr. More Bishop of Winchester elect because he had two Benefices contrary to the Canons of the Council of London 1063. Robert Kilwardby and his Successors John Peckham Walter Reynolds John Stratford Simon 〈◊〉 p William Courtney Thomas Arundel Thomas Bourgâ—hâ—r Joha Marton and others like Boniface exacted no Oath in their Visitations and Inquiries in them p. 711. according to Pope Innocent the 4. his Constitutions p. 743 744. Chester Coventry and Litchfield Bishoprick Bishops Commissioners for enquiry of damages suffered by the exiled Bishops within â— p. 280. William de Cornhull sent with King Johns offers to the Barons p 347. A recognition before him and other Bishops by the Bishop of Norwich p. â—81 A Writ prohibiting the Archbishops Officials Usurpations on the Kings rights rents during its vacancy after his death p. 388 Alexander de Savenesby consecrated at Rome p. 392. sent by the King to Rome with others to appeal against the Monks election of Walter to be Archbishop of Canterbury which the King disallowed and Pope vacated p. 418 419 420. rebuked openly in Parliament by King Henry 3. for having too much familiarity with the Earl Marshal and endeavouring to deprive him of his Crown his indignation and Excommunication denounced thereupon p. 443. joyner with Archbishop Edmund and others in reprehending menacing to Excommunicate the King p. 443 444. sent by the King with others into Wales to mediate Peace between the King Earl Marshal and Prince of Wales p. 445. The Popes message sent by him to the King for recalling Peter Bishop of Winchester his answer and Writ to him concerning it p. 457. William de Raele elected by the Monks and Canons of Litchfield too refused it being elected to Norwich about the same time p. 510 511. Nicholas Farnham thereupon elected by the Monks but the Dean of Litchfield by the Canons who at last consented to Farnhams election who peremptorily refused the Bishoprick p.
Ecclesiastical censures to their improverishiment vexation such proceedings prohibited as insufferable which the King would speedily redresse by advice of his Nobles in his default p. 969 970. A Writ of Inquiry who took away a Whale cast on shore in the Lands of the Bishop of Durham during the Temporalties in the Kings hands 982. E. Ebor. York Archbishoprick Archbishops COmmissioners in it for the damages of the exiled Bishops p. 28. William his elecâ—ion nulled by the Pope and Henry Murdac elected to it by his means p. 778. Geoffry â—lantagenet Opposeth a Tax to King John Excommunicates the Sheriff of York beats his servants for levying it 230 231. His goods temporalties seised he summoned for those contempts and others whereupon he submits to a fine absolves the Sheriff and his assistants is reconciled to the King Ibid. He excommunicates the Archdeacon of Richmond interdicts some of his Churches who complains thereof to the King Pope 231. The Kings protection to the Archdeacon and Popes Epistle to Geoffry to absolve him p. 231 232. His Contempt of the Popes authority and appeals to him 232. Confâ—rs the Church of Meleburn on the Archbishop of Messana Bishop of Karliol for his relief at the Popes request 241. The Kings protection to the Dean and Chapter of Yorke whom he prosecuted oppressed by force Writs to remove his force 241 242. Appeals of the Bishop of Durham sundry Abbots Priors before the King against his Excommunications Suspentions Interdicts his Patent concerning them 242. Contradicts a new ayd granted to the King paid by all others excommunicates all who should levy it in his Diccesse with all invaders of the Churches Liberties departs the Realm privately without license 242 243. His temporalties goods seised himself banished for this contempt He dies in exile 7. years after Ibid. Simon Langeton Archdeacon of Canterbury Archbishop Stephens Brother elected by his means against the Kings license and expresse prohibition rejected by the King Pope as an enemy to the King and kingdom p. 293 348 349 350. Pope Innocents Epistle to the Chapter against his Election to go to a new one who justifie Simons Ib. See Index 6. Walter Grey Bishop of worcester recommended by the King rejected at first after elected approved 349 350. Receives his Pall for which he was obliged in the Court of Rome in 10000 l. p. 350. A Prohibition to him not to admit a Clerk till the Title tryed in the Kings Court 388 389. Proctors appointed to prosecute the Kings appeal before him against the Bishop of Durhams election 497 565. His License demanded by the King for his Judges to take Oathes and try causes in prohibited times by the Canons 407. A Writ to him concerning the Church of Newcastle and Bishop of Carlislâ— 421. To inquire excommunicate those who broke open the Romans barns spoyled their goods and send them to Rome for absolution without any appeal 436 437. A Contest between him the Archbp of Canterbury for precedency in the Council at Lnodon pacified ruled against him 487. Sat on the Legates left hand placed in the Kings Throne on St. Edwards feast and the King on the right 570. A Writ to certifie how many Benefices were in his Diocesse with their values and how many provisions granted to aliens by the Pope his Legates or others with their names what moneyes were collected by the Popes agents what in arrear and to collect reserve it till further order 573. A Patent to him constituting a Proctor for the King in a Synod of the Bishops and Clergy at Oxford to appeal prohibit that they should not presume to act or ordain any thing against the Kings Crown and Dignity 578. A Writ to him and others not to permit the Prior and Covent of Trinity Cant. to act any thing new or unusual to disturbance of the Clergy or Realm 578 579 600. One of the Guardians of the Realm in the Kings absence A Writ to him and the Bishop of Carlisle in that capacity not to suffer any Monks of Bardeney excommunicated by the Bishop of Lincolne or his Officials after their appeal to be taken to seise all the benefices of the Abby of Bardeny for the Kings use during the vacancy thereof 599 600. To conferre benefices of the King that fell in England on Clerkes of the Chancery and those in his service beyond the Seas and on particular persons 601 602. To take security of Maâ—gery Sister of the Earl of Warwick who held of the King not to marry without his license 602. To prohibit an Archdeacon to exact an annual procurations not formerly paid 602. To assemble all the Cistercian Abbots to give an ayde to the King who refuse it p. 603. His Proctors in the Parliament at London 613. Consecrates Nicholas de Fernham Bishop of Durham at Glocester who made a formal profession of Obedience and Canonical subjection to him and his successors of Yorke by Charter to be reserved in his Treasury 623. The Kings license to him to dispose of his goods and corn sown on his Bishoprick by will without impediment of his Executors by the King or his heirs 636. Consults with other Bishops about the desolation of the Church the election of a Pope who appoint special prayers and fasts throughout England to supply the destitute Church of Rome with a fit Pastor 648. Present at the General Parliament at London complains of the Kings violation of the Churches Liberties and free Elections keeping Bishopticks and Abbies long vacant 721. A provisor for the Bishop of Durham when he resigned his Bishoprick and reserved 3. Mannors during liâ—e 724. A Writ to him to preach the Crosse and collect all monies arising thence for the Kings voyage and lay it up safely till further order from the Pope and others 767. A Writ to him to preach the Crosse and publish the priviledges granted to those who took it up who were to have speedy justice in all Courts as far forth as the Lawes permitted 769. Absent from the Parliament summoned to ayd the King 770 806. The Bishops deny to give an ayde during his and Canterburies absence who were their primates 772. A Prohibition to stay proceedings in case of wreck till his comming into England 783. Avoyded the Kings Counsils as much as might be came not to his Parliaments as remote and old 795. the election of a successor deferred long by the King after his death 817 962 963 964. who prefers John Mansell to the Treasurership of it during the vacancy 804 962. Sewall Dean of Yorke elected approved by the King 813. Collectors of the Disme in the Province of York named in Parliament 814. Writs to them 917. Sewal Interdicted vexed in the Court of Rome publikely excommunicated for opposing Jordan his fraudulent intrusion into the Deanery of York by a provision from Pope Alexander p. 850 851. 926 927. His election opposed by the King confirmed by the Pope consecrated by his dispensaon at York by his Suffragans obtained his
prime instrument to promote levy the Kings Popes exactions 860. Fraudulently obliged in 4000. marks to the Popes Usurers to draw on others which by the Popes Bull and Kings Patents he was to reimburse with the expenses use out of the Crosse money of England and Ireland which he rigorously collected 860 861. Impowered by the Pope to interdict suspend excommunicate all persons who opposed the Disme notwithstanding any appeal or exemption from it by former Bulls 861. A Writ to his Agents to spare no Templar Hospitaler or Cistercian from paying Dismes for their impropriations or parish Churches 863 864. One of the Kings Counsil subscribes his Patent by Oath and promise to perform the conditions required of the King and Edmund for the Popes grant of Sicily to him 866. Writs to the Collectors of the Crosse money Dismes in Hereford Bishoprick and elsewhere to expedite the collection payment of it to the Popes Usurers contrived made at his house in London by him the Popes Legate and others 917 918. Takes up more monies binds the King in more Obligations at Rome for Sicily then he expected called by Writ to give an account thereof and of all his receipts of Dismes Crosse money and expenses in the Court of Rome 943 956 958 His account thereof by the Dean of Hereford imperfect ordered by the Nobles to make a better to come personally into England to do it by a day else all his Temporalties goods to be seized 958 959. Summoned so shew cause why he admitted a Clerk to a Benefice before the title tryed against the Kings Prohibition 971. Taken by the Barons in his Cathedral imprisoned in Ordeley Castle plundered of his monies 1000. A Non-resident from taking no care of his Church or peoples souls the miserable desolation the King found in it his memorable Mandate to him to reside on his Bishoprick discharge his pastoral duty in person if able or else by Deputy under pain of seizing his Temporalties and Revenues given to support Gods service with Writs to the Archbishop and his Official to compell him by Ecclesiastical censures to residence and his duty wherein the negligence of Bishops their duty end of instituting endowing Bishopricks the Kings care of Gods service and his peoples souls are excellently expressed 1011 1012. a Canon for Archbishops and Bishops residence made thereupon 1041. Writs to his Official for collecting the Dismes in his Dâ—ocesse 1034. the account for the Dismes thereof and allowance of it 1053 1054. K. Karliol Carlisle Bishoprick Bishops ERected by King H. 1. who to augment its maintenance impropriated settled four Churches on it within the Bishoprick of Durbam by the Bishops consent their names 232 375 376 421 942 970 972. Some Priviledges granted to the Archdeacon of Richmond upon its erection to its prejudice 232. Richer then Rochester 766. The Archbishop of Ragusa forced to fly thence to save his life made Bishop of it by King John at the Popes request for his relief who held a living in Commenda with it 241. Hugh Abbot of Bâ—llâ—iu the Bishop of Waterford sent for out of Ireland by the Popes Legate to his consecration 373 374. his learning fidelity to the Pope King Kings Letter to the Pope on his behalf 375 376 The poverty desolation of it the Churches united to it by King H. 1. alienated desired to be reunited confirmed King H. 3. his Letters to the Pope Cardinals for that end Ibid. 377. Walter Malclerke intended to crosse the Sea at Dover without the Kings license cast out of the Ship with his Servants Goods by the Kings Officers ordered not to passe over without his license for which the Officers were Excommunicated by the Bishop of London who with other Bishops complained thereof to K. H. 3. resolving in the Kings presence to Excommunicate all the authors of it at which the King much murmured 439. Present in the Parliament at Merton and Lords resolution not to alter the Law of Bastardy 472. His lodging in London from whence the Scholars of Oxford were to go barefoot to the Popes Legates lodging at Durham house and humbly crave his pardon to be absolved for their force at Oxford 494. A Writ to him to enquire how many Benefices of what value and what Provisions to foreigners by and to whom granted were within his Diocesse 57â— A Writ to him and others not to permit the Prior and Covent of Trinity Canterbury to attempt any novelty or new power to the disturbance of the Clergy or Realm 579. One of the Guardians of the Realm in the Kings absence several Writs issued by him and them in that capacity 599 to 60â— See Eboâ— The Kings Patent for him and his Heirs confirming his Will made or to be made of his Corne in barns or on the ground Wards Farmes and all his moveables that he they and their Officers should not interrupt him or his Executors therein 636. meets with other Bishops and grave men to procure the long deferred election of a Pope prevent the desolation of the Church appoint fasting and prayers to be used through England and send Agents to the Emperor for this end 648. Summoned to St. Edwards Feast at Westminster and adoration of Christs blood there reserved â—15 Present in Parliament joynes with other Bishops in reproving the King for invading the Churches Liberties and keeping their Temporalties in his hands during vacancies against his Oath trust 721 Syâ—vester A suit between him and a Baron for a Mannor he had sold to his predecessor Walter the Kings protection to the Bishop against the Barons suit revoked in his absence with a Non obstante debated in Court 760. sent to the King with the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops to reprehend him for breaking his Oath in not suffering the Church to enjoy her Liberties especially in the freedom of Elections and to beseech him to reform it for the future The Kings sharp answer to him that he was an under-Clerk in Chancery where he long hankered that he had made him Bishop though unworthy preferring him before many learned Divines that he and the rest should give him and others good example by repenting and resigning their Bishopricks whereof they were unworthy lest they should be eternally damned that he would thereupon place and promote none but worthy persons for the future 795 796. Collectors of the Dismes in this Diocesse appointed in Parliament with York Provice 814. Writs to hasten the collection 917. Thomas Vipont transleted to Ely dyed within one year after 851. The Kings layes claim to the profits of the impropriate Churches belonging to it during the vacancy which the Bishop of Durham claimed Writs concerning them 942 970 972. Sequestred and layd up in safe custody during the two last vacancies in New Monastery the money made of them ordered at last to be payd to the Bishop of Durham 970. L. Landaff Bishoprick Bishops COmmissioners to enquire of damages done to the exiled Bishops in it 280. The Bishops antiently
subject to the Archbishop of St. Davids 234. John de Mâ—nmuth made Bishop of it by the Popes provision consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury after the Kings assent 558. The custody of the Bishoprick and all its Demesne Lands granted by King H. 3. to the Duke of Gloucester and his Wife for their lives reserving the fealty only of the Bishop when he should be made The Demesnes Temporalties after his fealty made by Writ to the Eaâ—l ordered to be restored to him notwithstanding this Patent to him 559 William struck with blindnesse his Bishoprick wasted by King H. 3. his Wars against the Rebellious Welsh 726. his Certificate that Mereduc Son of Gâ—ssiâ— was born in lawfull Matrimony allowed a Prohibition against proceedings by appeal against his Certificate before the Archbishops Official as illegal 782. A new Writ to the Bishop for another Certificate superseded Ibid. Collectors of the Dismes therein appointed in Parliament 814. his death 851. Writs to the Collectors to hasten the gathering of the Dismes there 91â— John Paschal Archbishop Boniface his Precept to him to excommunicate Lewellin Prince of Wales with his complices and Interdict their Lands for breaking the Truce wasting the Kings and his Subjects Lands with fire and sword against their Oaths and their Treacheries therein mentioned 976 977. Lincoln Bishoprick Bishops When and how removed from Dorchester to Lincoln 596 597. In Bishops deprived for Symony Ibid. Hugh Archdeacon of Wells the Kings Chancellor made Bishop by the King during the Interdict 257. having license to go to the Archbishop of Rhoan to be consecrated he trayterously went to Stephen Langeton Archbishop of Canterbury whom the King opposed being unduly made Bishop by Pope Innocent against his Regality did canonical obedience to received consecration from confederated with him against the King for which the King seized his Temporalties which he restored to him before 259. The Popes Excommunications Violence and Legates perswasions enforced King John to agree to receive him to favour restore him to his Bishoprick profits damages during his exile with the other Bishops his Patents Writs Letters Commissions concerning him and it 271 272 277 278 280 287 288 333 337 338. His return into England and reception by K. John 278 279. A witnesse to K. Johns infamous Charter of Resignation Homage and Fealty to the Pope 290. and to the Archbishop of the Patronage of Rochester Bishoprick 339. A Writ to remove all those who had intruded into any of his Lands and possessions during the differences between the King and him and put him into personal possession of them 334. The Popes Legates Mandate to him to suspend all Clergymen who adhered to the King received any Benefices celebrated Divine Service by his command or openly communicated with him during the Excommunication and Interdict till they personally went to Rome to be absolved the rigour used therein 334 335. dyed soon after canonized a Roman Saint by Pope Honorius for his Ingratitude Treasons 379 380. Prohibited any victuals to be sold to the Jews the King commands the contrary by his Writs under pain of imprisonment 387. The Kings Teste to a Writ in his presence to admit a Clerk 389. Robert Grossetest Grosthead A mandatory Writ to him to command the Archdeacon of Oxon. without delay to revoke his presumption in removing the Kings Administrator placed in the Hospital of St. Johns Oxon. of his Ancestors foundation and thrusting his Chaplain into it to the great prejudice of his Royal dignity 480. Churches dedicated by him according to the new Decrees of Otto the Popes Legate and Council of London 504. A cruel persecutor of the Monks and his own Canons who made him their Bishop 509. Resolved to visit the Dean and Canons of Lincoln never formerly done in the memory of man against which they appeal they at last submit to an arbitrement all Visitations in the mean time to cease 509. Contests about the word cease since he and his predecessors never visited nor began to visit before They refuse his Visitation repent of his Election tell him so publickly to his face openly declaim against him and his oppressions in their Sermons saying if they held their peace the very stones would speak at which words a great part of the Church fell down 509. Their appeals contests expences at Rome concerning his Visitation of them Ibid. The Popes agreement with the Romans to conferre all Benefices in England especially of Religious persons on them when they fell voyd his Letters to Grosthead and two Bishops more to provide 300 livings that next fell voyd in their Diocesses for Romans admired at by all 564 572. The King Writs thereupon to Grosthead and other Bishops to res turn him the number of all Benefices Prebendaries Ecclesiastical Dignities in his Diocesse their values and how many were conferred on aliens by the Pope his Legates or others by Provisions 573. He conjures and perswades Nicholas de Fernham to accept the Bishoprick of Durham to which he was elected though he formerly refused it 565 566. A prohibition to the Popes Delegates not to proceed in the cause between him the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln by the Popes authority concerning Visitations and Procurations to the prejudice of the Kings Crown dignity 577. He with two more Bishops sharply reprehended the King for his tyranny in persecuting the Bp of Winchester adding prayers to prayers yea menaces to menaces to interdict his Chapel forcing him to respit his proceedings till he heard from Rome 590 An high contest between the King and him concerning the Church of Thame his high Message to the King by his Archdeacons and menaces to excommunicate all the in fringers of the priviledges of his Church his contempt of the Popes provision and authority in this case which caused the Kings Clerk to desist 595 596. The Dean and Chapter forced by the Bishop to shew their antient Charters which gave the King a claim against both 596 597. The Bishop â—ash obstinate wills all the Archdeacons Bishops to joyne to oppresse the Abbot and Monks of Canterbury they excommunicate each other with Bell Book and Candle contemn each others excommunications interdicts celebrating notwithstanding them 598. The Popes Decree at Rome between him the Dean and Chapter concerning their Controversie 599 997. He excommunicates the Monks of Bardeney after their Appeal to the Pope the King Writ to the Gardians of England not to take them upon a Writ of Capias Excommunicatum 599 Not yet to permit the Prior and Monks of Canterbury during the Sees vacancy to attempt any Novelty or exercise any new power against the Bishop of Lincoln or other Suffragans to the disturbance of the Clergy Realme or prejudice of either Church and to supersede all proceedings till his comming into England to settle their differences by advice of his Bishops and Nobles 600. A Prohibition to his Archdeacon of Oxon exacting annual procurations against Law from the Kings Church of St. Cross 602. Causeth
Weseham Dean of Lincoln to be elected Bishop of Coventre and Lichfiâ—ld without the Kings license or consent in opposition to the King who was consecrated by the Pope at Lions against the Kings will He injuriously seised upon his Church of Aillesberry by whose opulency he thought the Dean took horns against him to humble and subject him to his will for which the King was highly offended 625 626 627. A person of an unquiet contentious spirit his hand being against every one and every ones almost against him 629. After many Letters and inestimable expence of monyes he purchased Pope Innocent the 4th his Decree against the Canons of Lincolne to visit the Dean Chapter Canons Clerks of the Quire Choristers Priests and Parishioners of the Churches belonging to them to correct their excesses reform their manners but freely without any procuration 629 630. He and other Bishops meet to consult about the desolation of the Church the election of a new Pope long deferred to send Messengers to the Emperor for that end prescribing fasts and prayers through England that God would provide for and relieve the Church of Rome being destitute of a Pastor 648. Published Pope Innocents Bull throughout England whereby he granted Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury the first years profits of all Benefices and livings which should fall voyd for 7. years within his Bishoprick Province till he should raise the summ of 10000 Marks to defray the pretended Debts of his Church at which the King at first was amazed and exceediog angry 683 684. After his purchased Priviledge at Rome to visit the Dean Chapter Canons of Lincolne and their Churches he his Deans Archdeacons Officials exceedingly oppressed vexed those of his Diocesse as well Noble as ignoble especially religious persons Monks under pretext of correcting reforming their manners enforcing them to make inquiries presentments and give in testimonyes upon Oath in their Visitations and Courts against their wills never practised before in England Which the King hearing of by many greivous complaints by advise of his Court and Counsil issued Writs of Prohibition to the Sheriffs of his Diocesse not to suffer that any Laymen in his Diocesse at the will of the Bishop or of his Archdeacons Officials or Rural Deans from thenceforth to assemble in any place to make any Recognitions Presentment or Attestation upon their Oaths except only in causes of Matrimony or Testament not of incontinency manners scandal which Grosthead hearing of asserted That the King followed the footsteps of those in France who had then newly broken forth into the like audacity to cast off the Popes and Prelats extravagant Oppressions Oaths Censures and entred into a Confederacy to assist each other 698 699 700 701 702 704 761 762. This obstinate Bishop and his Officers proceeding notwithstanding the King issued forth New Writs to the Sheriffs to prohibit all such Recognitions Inquiries and Attestations upon Oath 704. which he and his Officers obstinately persisting in the King issued several Writs to attach summon the Bishop himself by good sâ—ireties and safe pledges to appear before him wherever he should be in England to answer his contempt in causing Laymen and women to be cited and compelling them by Ecclesiastical censures to appear before him to take an Oath at his pleasure against their wills to the great prejudice of his Crown and Royal dignity and likewise to his grand dammage dishonour and against the Custom of this Realm Upon which the King issued forth this memorable Prohibition to the Bishop of Lincoln himself reciting We are informed by the complaints of many as well Great men of your Diocesse as others that you by your Clerks and Deans do every where cause certain poor men of your Diocesse and other Freemen whose men or tenants soever they were to be promiscuously cited and draw them from divers places to sundry other places and compell them by the power of excommunication to appear before your said Clerks Officers at divers places to their great burthen when they ought to attend their plowing husbandry and other necessary temporal affairs by which they are unduly impoverished and enormously vexed And moreover which was never heard of before the foresaid Inquisitors or Visitors compell them to swear concerning the private sinns of others which were not as is reported to be purged by publike coertion for which many Christians perchance without merit were shamefully defamed And because these Vexations are devised against the long custom of the Realm and a double danger hangs over the people by them as well for the losse of their necessary labors as by reason of the Oath taken upon the private facts of others wherein men are deceived by which they may easily incurr the guilt of perjury We therfore prohibit you that from henceforth you do not cause such assemblies of the people to be made in your Diocesse against the long-continued custom of our Realm Neither also have we heard That the Church hath used to compell any to give testimony but in certain causes and unlesse any through favour hatred or force shall withdraw himself from giving testimony And know ye that unlesse you shall desist from such unusual undue vexations of our people We cannot suffer them any longer but shall put to our Royal hands to redresse punish you and them Whereupon after 7. years contest between the King his Court Counsil Bps. by these several prohibitions this first introducer of Visitation Oaths Inquisitions Excommunications vexer of the Subjects by them was quelled and his Innovations prevented till Bonners time who revived them p. 705 706 to 711 761 762. His justification of the Forged Relique and Viol of Christs blood reserved shewed adored at Westminster Abby 711 712 713. Reprehends the King with other Prelates in the Parliament at London for violating the Liberties of the Church he was bound by his office Oath to protect to its great impoverishing and for his prodigal expences refuseth to grant the King an Ayde whereby the Parliament brake up in discontent so as the King was enforced to go a begging for money to particular Prelates and Abbots p. 721 722 723 724. The Kings writ to him for endeavouring to remove his Clerk out of a living to which he presented him by vacancy of the Archbishoprick of Canterbury according to the antient right of his Crown to put in the Popes Clerk by Provision by the Popes order to the manifest prejudice and enormous disinherison of the rights of his Crown prohibiting him upon his Oath of Fealty made to him not to attempt ought therein against his Clerk threatning to seise his Barony as became his Majesty if he desisted not 725. Published the Popes general Letters and others granted by the Pope to the Earl of Cornwall for the Collection of Dismes and redemption of Vowes of persons crossed commanding them to be diligently speedily effectually executed 731 732. An indefatigable injurer of Religious persons summons all of them to appear before
and others advice 228. William de Marisco one of Pope Innocents Delegates to hear the difference and appeal between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Abbot Monks of St. Augustines Cant. concerning Faversham Appendix p. 13 14 15. One of his Delegates to admonish King John to receive Stephen Langeton as Archbishop or else to Interdict the Realm his conference with the King the Kings high answer Writs to him concerning it 250 251 252. Interdicts the Realm Excommunicates the Kings Officers departs the Kingdom for which his goods temporalties are seised he and his relations banished by the King 253 254. Caused the Pope to excommunicate the King his Orders to publish the Excommunication every Lords day in all Conventual Churches throughout England disobeyed by the Bishops and Clergy therein slighted by the Nobility 257 258 259. King Johns victories successes notwithstanding it 260 261. The King upon the Popes messages offers to restore him to his Bishoprick but not to the profits which offer is rejected 261 262 263. Caused the Pope to absolve all the Kings Subjects from their Allegiance who must not eat or drink with him to deprive him and his Heirs of the Realm and give it to the French King which sentence he publisheth endeavouring to execute in France stirring up the French King to raise forces to dethrone him and seise his Kingdom 264 265 267 to 272. The King thereby and the Popes Legates perswasion enforced to be reconciled to him restore his Bishoprick with the profits damages to engage by Patents Oathes of himself and Nobles to effect it dishonouably to resign his Crown Kingdoms swear Homage to become the Popes Vassal Tributary 271 to 286 288 289 290. what monies he received of the King before his return 272 333. what after 288 331 333. His return and reception by the King 277 278 279. Commissioners to enquire of his damages 279 280. His commission to suspend all Clergymen who adherd to communicated with received Livings from the King or officiated during the Interdict till they went to Rome for absolution 334 335. A Witnesse to the Kings infamous Charter Homage Fealty to the Pope 290. To his Charter of the Patronage and Custody of Rochester Bishoprick to Archbp Langeton 339. King Johns Patent to him that none should enter into or detain his Fees by gift sale morgage or grant without his assent 380. resigned his Bishoprick 384. Eustace de Fauconbridge succeeded him 384. King H. 3. his Writ of Proclamation to the Sheriff of Middlesex that none should enter into or detain any lands of his by gift sale morgage grant without his assent to remove and fine all who should do contrary 380 381. One of the Kings Council 381. His contest with the Abbot of Westminster where he was consecrated to visit receive procurations processions exercise Episcopal Jurisdiction over the Abby referred to arbitrators awarded against him 384. A Writ concerning the Bishop of Elies Liberties issued by the King in his presence as one of his Counsil 398. His death 421. Roger Niger elected approved by the King consecrated his praise 421. Consecrated Archbishop Edmund at Canterbury 434. Solemnly excommunicated all such who bâ—cke open the Romans barns threshed out their coin and those who laid violent hands on Cincius a Canon of Pauls 436. Accused for assenting to those who thus spoiled the Romans forced to Rome about it to his great â—â—xation expence and to take up money of the Popes Vsurers whom he endeavoured to expell the City who laughing at him by the Popes favour after much pains put him to silence 437 469 902. Reprehends King Henry for pulling Hubert de Burgo accused of High Treason out of a Chapel of his Diocesse threatned to excommunicate all who offered this violence unlesse he were restored to it which to prevent the King was enforced against his will to do 438 439. Excommunicates the Kings officers at Dover for staying the Bishop of Carlisâ—e taking him and his goods out of a ship by the Kings command endeavouring to go out of the Realm without his license Repairs to the King at Hereford with his army complains of this violence to the Bishop excommunicates all actors authors of it in the Kings presence though out of his Diocesse in both with other Bishops the King much murmuring at and prohibiting it 439. The Popes Commissioner to examine the canonicalnesse of the Abbot of St. Alâ—â—â—s election tender him his new prescribed Oath of homage fâ—alty to the Popes and See of Rome his execution thereof 459 460 463 464 465. Present in the Parliament at Melton and setling of Bastardy according to common Law against the Canons 472. Prohibits any to sell victuals to the Jewes under pain of Excommunication the Kings Mandate to the contrary 475 476. Helps consecrate the Bishop of Rochester 499. Consecrates Pauls Church 566. A writ to certifie the number value of all Benefices in his Diocesse all provisions to aliens and by whom granted 572 573. The Prince of â—ales subjects himself to his and two other English Bishops Ecclesiastical censuies if he violated his Charter and Oath to the King 609. Fulco Basset his prayses elected against the Kings will by the Canons 623. Seals the Pope transcript of King Johâ—s most detestable Charter of his Realms surrender subjection to the Pope when burnt contrary to the Kings kingdoms protestations against it last of all the Bishops against his conscience p. 300. Constituted by the Pope to execute his exaction of the 3d. part of all residents and half of nonresidents benefices through England with severe penalties 676. Present at St. Edwards Feast Fair at Westminster to adore the blood of Christ there resaâ—ved 7â—0 One of the Bishop of Du hams provisors of his three reserved mannors upon his resignation by the Popes appointment 724. The Kings Prohibition to him not to remove his Clerk out of possession of Enesord Church to which he presented him by his ancient prerogative to vacant benefices of the Archbishoprick whiles in his hands not to put the Popes Clerk by provision in derogation of his prerogative by the Popes Decree and Mandate under pain of violating his Oath of Fealâ—y to him and seisure of his Barony if he proceeded therein 725. A prohibition to the Inhabitants of Pencrich not to permit him to exercise any Jurisdiction within the Kings free Chappel there 728 796. nor in any other Free Chappel within his Diocesse 734 735. He resists the Archbishops Visitation at Pauls St. Bartholmews and London for which the Archbishop excommunicated him 741 742. He appeals prays ayd by Letters against it 742 743. Fearfull to offend the Archbishop by reason of his power agrees with him 744 751 752. The Excommunication declared null by the Pope and his Delegates 744 745 746 751 752. He agreed with Grosâ—head in opposing the Trieâ—â—ial Disme granted by the Pope to the King 771. His Letter to the Bishop of Norwich to publish Pope Innocents Decree concerning procurations and against exactions in
visitations 7â—1 Joynes in the publike excommunication of all infringers of the Churches Liberties and Great Charter 796 797. Opposed Rustands demands exactions in the Council at London professing He would lose his head before he would submit to so great an injury and slavery of the Church which encouraged the rest 823. Complained on for it by Rustand to the King Pope who threatning punishment he stoutly answered they might take away bit Miter being stronger then be but not his head-peece 824. A Writ to the Archbishops official to prohibite his intended excommunication of the Abbot of Glaston by the Bishop of Wells instigation pending in his Temporal Court after an Appeal Writ seeing it touched his Crown Dignity and was against his prerogative 851 852. Ordered by the Antimonarchical Council under Archb. Boniface that he his successors in the vacancy of the Archbishoprick as Dean of the Bishops with two Bishops more should admonish the King to recall his processe against Clerks summoned to appear in his temporal Courts or else to interdict his Castles Towns Lands and excommunicate his Judges Officers if they desisted not 901 902. Died of the Plague 954. The Bishop of Ely his will produced under his Seal 965. Henry de Wengham Chancellor of England recommended by the King elected though unlearned insufficient 954. His Patent to hold all his former Promotions benefices in commenda before consecration 954 955 984. A prohibition to him and his Officials not to draw any of the Kings Subjects into plea without the Realm 980 981. A Commissioner to hear and determine the Complaints of such Clergymen whose goods were spoyled substracted during the Troubles and give them recompence against the Trespassers 1000 to 1007. A Writ to excommunicate the Earl of Gloucester and others for staying in England and not going over into Ireland according to their Oathes 1013 1014. Joynes with the Barons against King H. 3. for which he was by name excommunicated by the Popes Legate suspended from his office and benefice and commanded within 3. moneths to appear before the Pope where he appeared expecting his doom 1018. The Rebels in the Isle of Ely commend him blame the Popes Legate for banishing him the Realm and seising the profits of his Bishoprick 1020 1021 1023. The City of London interdicted by the Legat 1025. Collectors of the Disme appointed in his Diocesse and Writs to hasten the collection 1033 1034. Bonner the first reviver of Visitation Oaths and Inquisitions introduced by Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln after their suppression by King H. 3. his prohibitions p. 710. N. Norwich Bishoprick Bishops TRinity Church the antiquity and Kings care of it 1016 1017. John de Oxenford present at the ejection of the Abbesse Nuns of Ambresbury for their whoredom and introduction of others in their places 228. A Writ of King John to him to revoke and to the Justices to assist him in the revocation of all Lands Tenements possessions unjustly alienated from his Church in times of his predecessors 230. John de Gray recommended by King John to be Archbishop of Canterbury unanimously elected by the Monks approved by the King yet unjustly rejected by the Pope and Stephen Langeton obtruded 244 245 246 247. brought 500. Foot and many Horse out of Ireland to assist the King against Lewis invasion to deprive him 269. joynes with others and the King in writing to the rebellious exiled Bishops to return and enjoy their Bishopricks according to agreement with the Legate and Oath of the Nobles and for the restoring of their damages 277 331. recommended by the King and Pope to the Monks of Durham for their Bishop but rejected by them 353 354. His Official during the vacancy one of the Popes Delegates to excommunicate the Barons 359. Pandulfus the Popes Legate Bishop elect thereof 378 381 382. Excommunicated the Earl of Albemarl for with-holding and seizing the Kings Castles 378 379 421. His recognition before the Kings Counsil that he never put the Prior and Covent of St. Fritswith Oxon. in possession of the Church of Acleya 381. See Index 12. Thomas de Blundevil A Writ to him to restore the Benefices in his Diocesse to a Clerk sequestred who had made his peace with the King 446. his death 483. Simon Prior of Norwich elected by the Monks disallowed by the King who appointed a Proctor to appeal against him 483. delayed excepted against his election nulled by the Pope because it displeased the King 484 924. William de Raele unanimously elected Bishop thereof approved consecrated 484 510 511. elected Bishop of Winton by the Monks approved by the Pope refused by the King 581 to 591. See Winton Walter consecrated the Church of Waltham 604. joynes with other Bishops in appointing publick fasts prayers and a message to the Emperor for electing a new Pope after a long vacancy 648. Appointed by the Popes Bull an Executor of his Tax imposed on the English Clergy his proceedings therein notwithstanding the Kings Nobles Prelates provision in Parliament and Kings special Writ of Prohibition against it 672 673. Spends above 4000. marks in gifts and entertainments on the Popes Legate 697. said Masse and preached at Westminster when the viol of Christs blood brought from Jerusalem was carried thither by King Henry in solemn procession and given to that Church for a sacred Relique justified it to be Christs real blood granted 6. years and 140. dayes pardon to those who should come thither to adore it by the consent of the other Prelates 711 712. A Prohibition to him not to collect the First-fruits of Benifices granted by the Pope to Archbishop Boniface which the Nobles in Parliament opposed 718. Present at the Parliament at London wherein the Bishops blamed the King for invading the Liberties of the Church and denyed him an ayd 721 722. The Kings Letter to the Pope to appoint him one of the auditors of the account concerning the monies levyed for redemption of the Crosse 758. A Writ to him to appoint Freers Predicants and others to preach the Crosse and collect the monies raised by it 767 807 917. A Writ to sequester the goods of a creditor to the King 782. his publication of Pope Innocent the 4. his Decree concerning Visitations and Procurations 791 Present in Parliament and joynes in the general Excommunication of all infringers of the Churches Liberties and Great Charter 796. A Collector appointed for the Dismes granted to the King by the Pope in England and Ireland 814 815 816. A Writ to him to respite the collecting of it from Priors and Rectors of poor Hospitals from those of Winton and others in particular 834 835. Simon de Wanton elected by the Monks dispatched swift messengers presently to Rome where with expence of vast sums of money he obtained confirmation and a license to hold all his former rents livings for four years though his Bishoprick was sufficient 925. meets at Oxford with three other Bishops convenes all the exempt Abbots and other Religious persons
Church of Rome 312 313. This Index with those in the other Tomes when finished will adde a considerable Supplement to the defects and rectifie some mistakes in Francis Godwin his Catalogue of the Bishops of England INDEX 4. Of the Archbishopricks Bishopricks Archbishops Bishops Clergy of the Kingdom of Ireland in general and particular and all matters concerning them mentioned in this Tome which will adde some Supplement to James Ware his Book De Praesulibus Hyberniae MAtter 's in general A Writ to the Chief Justice of Ireland that no Benefice or Ecclesiastical living belonging to the King in Ireland shall be conferred without his privity and assent to the prejudice of his Crown as was lately practised in his and his Fathers dayes to the derogation of his Prerogative p. 378. A Writ to all the Archbishops and Bishops in Ireland to attempt nothing to the prejudice of the Crown in conferring Prebendaries belonging to the King during the vacancies of their Sees 402. Writs to all the Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors to levy the 15th part of their goods granted the King by the Pope for his relief 406 407. To the Archbishops of Ireland to admit no Bishops or others to any Dignities belonging to Cathedrals within their Provinces unlesse they first have the Kings special Letters Patents to elect and afterwards his assent to their elections 407. The King to have the custody of all Bishopricks in Ireland during their vacancies and that their Tenants ought to sue in his Courts for Justice of which antient Prerogatives the Irish Bishops endeavoured to deprive him his Letters to the Pope and his Proctors against this attempt 428. See Limeric Prohibitions that no election should be made in any voyd Cathedral in Ireland without the Kings special license first had since it tended to the disinheriting of him and his Heirs 481. The Kings Writ to all Chapters of the Freers Minorites in Ireland that no Freer of their Order should be elected an Archbishop or Bishop in Ireland nor consecrated though elected which the King assented to 632 633. To the Chief Justice not to suffer J. de Frussyn the Popes Nuncio to exercise any other Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Ireland but to collect the Dismes for relief of the Holy Land and absolve those who layd violent hands on Clerks although the Prelates would suffer it 634. A Writ to the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland summoned to the Council of Lyons not to assent to any thing to the Kings or Kingdoms prejudice 640 641. A Writ of King H. 3 for a Cup to be provided to keep the Eucharist in for every Cathedral in Ireland by his Chief Justice 798. To the Archbishops and Bishops to certifie who and what number of persons had there taken up the Crosse for the Holy Land 807 808. Writs to all Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Archdeacons Officials Deans and other Prelates in Ireland to assist the Collectors of the Dismes there for relief of the Holy Land 815. and satisfaction of the Queen and Pope 1049 1054. A Writ to Prince Edward to redresse several grievances and oppressions complained of by the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland to the prejudice of their Liberties by advice of the Chief Justice and others of the Kings Counsil 827 828. Pope Alexanders Bull for that purpose upon complaint of the Archbishop of Tuam and his Suffragans to excommunicate the Kings Justices Bayliffs as well as others for their proceedings at Law against their Clerks and Tenants notwithstanding the Kings Prohibitions with the Kings Proctors protestations against it and the Bishops holding Plea of Advousons in Ireland as derogatory to the Kings Prerogative which they endeavoured to procure from the Pope 857 858 859. A Prohibition for Archbishops Bishops and Ecclesiastical Judges in Ireland to hold Plea in their Ecclesiastical Courts of Advousons of Churches Chapples Lay-see or Goods not given in Marriage or Testament Appendix p. 24 25. A. Aladen Alleden Aland Bishoprick Bishops THe Bishops complaint to the King against his Justices oppression of him and his Tenants in citing them out of their Counties and Provinces in hindring the Irish to make Wills take up the Crosse and distraining them to make suit in causes which concerned them not 827 828. The Popes Bull upon his and other Bishops complaints to redresse their grievances excommunicate the Kings Justices Bayliffs and Kings Proctors appeal against their Excommunication of them for executing their Offices as against his Crown and Dignity whereupon the Excommunication was agreed to be suspended as to the Justices 857 858 859. Ardacen Bishoprick Bishops An Appeal against this and other Bishops electing an Archbishop of Ardmach without the Kings license against his Right and Dignity 240. Ardmach Archbishoprick Archbishops It s Suffragans their actings against the Kings Right and Dignity by electing Eugenius Archbishop without his privity orlicense his appeal Writs against it A Prohibition issued to all Archbishops Bishops others of his Diocesse not to receive or own him as Archbishop 240 241. A Writ to the Archbishop to collect the 15th part of all Ecclesiastical and Religious persons goods in his Province granted by the Pope to the King for his ayde 406 407. A second Writ to that purpose to proceed therein with all diligence without delay 422 423. Cuneren Bishoprick subject to it 604. A Prohibition to the Archbishop not to cite any out of the Realm not proceed in his Ecclesiastical Court in a case of the Prior of Lanton for Advousons or Lands belonging to the Kings Temporal Court which he would by no means suffer since thereby he might utterly cast down and enervate his Crown and Dignity which he ought by no means to will if there were loyalty in him 628. Power granted by the King to the Chief Justice of Ireland to grant a license to the Dean and Chapter to chuse an Archbishop and consent to his election so as it might not be drawn into example because the Pope endeavoured to deprive him of this antient right 690. Letters to the Archbishop to publish a Croysado and raise monies for the Kings voyage to the Holy Land 735. St. Patrick Archbishop of Ardmach Christs apparition gifts to him and his Purgatory p. 69. D. Archbishop of it The Kings Writ to him to admit and consecrate a Bishop to whose election he had given his Royal assent for that time though elected only by his Chief Justice license without his own first craved and obtained which ought to have been 474. The Archbishop complained against by the Bishop of Clocor for grievances spoliations of Lands Churches of him and his Tenants imprisoning his men as excommunicated by the Kings Letters since the Archbishop circumvented the King therein by his Proctors he and his Tenants being then in truth excommunicated as the King was certified by other Bishops to whom the cause was referred to be examined Writs to the Chief Justice to right him and them according to Law 482. Audelmus of Colen consecrated at
belonged gave way to reduce it to its pristine state the Archbishop petitioned for the Kings favor and assent thereto whereupon a Writ of Inquiry issued to the Chief Justice concerning it p. 783 784. See Tuam I. Imelic Bishoprick and Bishops A Suffragan to the Archbishop of Cassel 623. John Ocolingba pretending himself Bishop elect of Imelic the King appealing against his election the Pope appointed the Archbishop of Cassel Bishop of Fern and Archdeacon of Dublin to hear and determine it before whom the King constituted a special Proctor to defend his right p. 422. C. A Writ to the Chief Justice of Ireland not to intermeddle if the Archbishop of Casel questioned him and other his Suffragans conterning their Spiritualties but not to permit him to trouble or sue them for their Lands and Temporalties belonging to the Kings Crown and Dignity 602 603. Christinus Bishop of Imelic sued an Assise of Novel disseisin against the Bp of Clon for a Tenement in Kâ—lcomyâ— of which he injuriously disseised him The Bishop of Clon threatning to excommunicate the Chief Justice who for fear thereof delayed to give judgement against him and dammages or possession thereof to the Bishop of Imelic according to the Lawes and custom of Ireland for which the King by special Writ checks and commands him to proceed to judgement notwithstanding his threatned Excommunication or any other cause and to imprison the Bishop of Clon and those Judges who held plea of it in the Ecclesiastical Court against his Prohibition Crown and Dignity p. 635 See Clon L. Lanensis Laon Bishop D. Bishop thereof a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Cassel prohibited to molest or sue him for his Lands and Temporalties held of the King but only concerning Spirituties p. 603. Laon The Bishop one of the Popes Delegates in a case of the Election of the Bishop of Meden The Kings prohibition and menace if he unduly proceeded therein p 816 817. Lethlin Bishops R. his decease p. 424. W. Archdeacon of Lethlin elected Bishop thereof after him without the Kings precedent license required his election declared null in Law yet the King out of special grace by reason of the honesty of the person afforded him his favour royal assent thereto though his election were deservedly void Upon condition that the Chapter and Clergy of Lethlin should first make Letters Patents to the Justice of Ireland of a license craved from him lest it should prejudice him and his heirs in a like election in future time p. 423 424. Limeric Limbrick Bishoprick and Bishops Suffragan to the Archbishop of Cassel p. 629. The Bishops of Ireland contending to deprive the King of the Liberty he and his predecessors usually enjoyed to have the Custody of their Bishopricks during the vacancies and that their Tenants from thenceforth should not require Justice from the Kings Court and Pleas which were used to bee brought in determined by his Writs to the prejudice and hurt of his Royal Dignity specially sent or intended to send the Bishop of Limeric to the Popes Court to obtain these designes whereupon King Henry the 3. sent a special Letter to the Pope not to permit any thing to be obtained or granted by any ones suggestion against him that might hurt his rights or deprive him of his accustomed power in this behalf but remain safe under the wings of his protection against the machinations of his Enemies Commanding 4. Proctors manfully to resist those who would obtaine those things in the Court of Rome so as thereby he might have cause to commend their discretion and fidelity p. 428. H. A Prohibition that the Archbishop of Cassal should not molest nor implead him for his Lands and Temporalties held of the King but only for Spiritualties p. 602 603. A Prohibition to the Archbishop of Cassel not to confirm a Bishop if canonically elected in the Church of Limerick notwithstanding the Kings royal assâ—nt was not required thereto and to revoke whatever he had done to the Kings prejudice without delay 756 757. See Cassall Lismore Bishoprick and Bishops Suffragans to the Archbishop of Cassal p. 603. R. de Bedeford by Letters patents from the Chapter of Lismore to 2. Canons thereof was elected Bishop of Lismor to which election the King gave his royal assent they affirming the Church to be then voyd the King issued a Writ to put him in possession thereof whiles R. Bishop of Waterford to whose Bishoprick it was annexed was sent into England by the Popes Legates command to help consecrate the Bishop of Carlisle The Bishop upon his return compained of this surprise to the King and Counsil producing before them the instrument of J. the Popes Legat for the union of both Bishopricks and alleged that he could not be justly put out of either of them without hearing or summons whiles absent and thus united by a false and fraudulent suggestion whereupon the King decreed that the lying informer who circumvented him should not obtain his suit that his fraud and guile should not patronize him thereupon he by Writ commanded the Chief Justice of Ireland to put the Bishop of Waterford in full and speedy seisin of all possessions and goods belonging to the Bishoprick of Lismor or Waterford The like Writ â—â—â—â—ed to the Archbishop of Cassel 373 374. After which the Pope referred the examination of this cause to his Legat then Bishop elect of Norwich the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Winchester who by their definitive sentence adjudged Râ—de Bedeford his election and possession to be good legal and that he ought to enjoy the Bishoprick whereupon there issued a Writ to the Chief Justice of Ireland by advice of the Counsil to put the Bishop of Lismor into the possession thereof and of all its profits without delay p. 381 382. Griffin gaining possession of the Bishoprick by pretending to the King he was elected and confirmed so deceiving the King being not confirmed the King by Writ commandded his Chief Justice upon sight thereof to seise into and keep safely in his hands the Bishoprick then in Griffins possession with all the appurtenances lands goods rents possessions belonging to it till further order p. 422. A Writ that the Archbishop of Cassel should not molest nor sue the Bishop for any Lands or Temporalties belonging to the Crown but only for Spiritualties 602 603. The Kings presentation of VV. de Kylkenny to the Church of Dungarvan directed to the Bishop of Lismor by the King 756. M. Meden Midensis Midden Bishoprick Bishops THe Bishop one of the Popes delegates to release the interdict of the Archbishop of Cassel against the Kings lands and Tenants in Ireland if he refused to do it in 15. dayes p. 384. T. appointed one of the Kings Collectors by the Pope to collect the Dismes granted him in Ireland for relief of the holy Land 559 560. Hugo Bishop thereof having obtained confirmation and the spiritualties and temporalties of the Bishoprick Galsridus de Cusack pretending
Nicoâ—ienâ—is Bishop p. 531. P. PAnormitensis Archbishop p. 520 521 522 523 536 537. Parisiensis Bishop p. 446. Parmensis Bishop p. 520. Patracensis Archbishop Stephen his oration to Pope Leo 10. in the Council of Lateran concerning Constantines Donation and the Popes superlative power above all Powers in Heaven and Earth p. 8 9. Petrinensis Archbishop p. 530. Pictavensis Bishop 384. Pranestensis Bishop p. 530 536 556 557. Prumensis Bishop p. 530. R. REginensis Bishop p. 530. Rhemensis Archbishop p 400 651. Rothomagensis Archbishops Summoned by the Popes Legate to the Council of Biturica p. 400. Petrus de Colle Medio elected Archbishop by the Dean and Chapter of Rhoan King H. 3. for his fidelity and special friendship to him gave his Royal assent thereto being confirmed by the Pope he petitioned he might swear Fealty to the King by his Proctor on his soul in his behalf which the King granting ordered the restitution of his Temporalties in England to his Proctor p. 482 483. Bestows rich presents on Pope Innocent 4. whereby he brought his Church much in debt 641 642. The Pope makes him a Cardinal in the Council of Lyons for his presents Ibid. Odo Abbot of St. Denis an English man who presented the Pope with many thousand pounds exacted out of England ambitiously affecting to succeed him was made Archbishop by the Popes Provision yet dyed soon after by divine retaliation for it p. 641 642 697. One of the Popes Agents to publish execute his Excommunication against the Emperor Frederick Ibid. The King seised his Temporalties for not coming into England to swear Fealty after his creation upon which he constituted a Proctor to make it in his stead desiring the King to accept thereof p. 686. His Successor a Freer and French man came personally into England swore Fealty to the King prayed and received restitution of his Temporalties and returned 729. The Kings Patent Command to him and all Bishops Ministers Religious persons under him to keep an Anniversary for the soul of his Mother Queen Isabel in their Maâ—tyâ—ology 755 756. The Archbishop in case of difference made joyned a Commissioner with others to settle the differences between King H. 3. and his Barons p. 1002. S. SAbinensis Bishop p. 523. Sagiensis Bishop The Canons present the Names of four persons to King John petitioning him for one of them who by advice of his Council elected Herbert Fitz Ralph as fittest commanding him to be consecrated and obeyed as Bishop p. 234. Sardis Bishop p. 515. Senonensis Archbishop p. 392 400 446. Silvanectenis Bishop p. 392. Squilatensis Bishoprick p. 516. T. TAretacensis Archbishop a principal Proctor Agent for King H. 3. in the businesse of Apulia and Sicily p. 944 to 948 957 958 977 1034. Thuronensis Archbishop p. 234. Tyrus Archbishop p. 770. V. VAcatensis Bishop p. 403. Vercellensis Bishop p. 520. W. WOrmes Bishop p. 520. X. Xancton Bishop King H. 3. his Letter to the Pope to command him to excommunicate H. de Leximaco son of the Earl of March unlesse he restored his Sister and Castles upon the Popes Mandate p. 377. His Letter for that purpose to him 384. INDEX 6. Of English Irish other Archdeaconries Dianeries Chapters Canons Archdeacons Deans mentioned in generall or particular in this Toâ—e ARchdeacons Deans their Officials and Apparators to exact no Fees Tallages Procurations from Priests Clerks nor money for Institutions Inductions Instalments into Prebendaries or Benefices p. 233 910. Present at St. Albans at a great Assembly about a divorce 435. Under Bishops know the values of Benefices better then they 567. Day given them to appear with the Bishops to return answer to the Popes Legate concerning the Tax demanded by him 567 569. All Archdeacons of Bishops or Monasteries exempt and their Officials throughout all Diocesses summoned to appear before the Popes Nuncio about the redemption of Vows for the Crosse 731 732. Claimed the custody of Churches during their vacancy Appendix p. 2 12. used to collect Dismes 310 1048 1051 1052. A. Sr. Albans Archdeacons p. 579 692 693 745 762. B. BAion Rich. de Clemangiis p. 229. Bedeford John p. 399 419. Bâ—lâ—ghatensis in Ireland Florentius p. 393. Berks Walterus Scamell p. 1027 1034. Brâ—cun in Wales Gilardus p. 234 to 238. C. Canterbury Henry de Stanford Everardus his Official Excommunicates the Monks of Canterbury for then â—oâ—ce in the Church of Faver sham with the Abbot all their Clerks of Churches Tenants Parishionere Familiars after their Appeal to the Pope complaints appeals concerning it Appendix p. 2 to 14. breaks the Altars burns the Palls in the Church of Faver sham wherein the Monks had celebrated after their Excommunication Appendix p. 6. Simon Langeton Chancellor to King Lewes whiles in England 362. made Archdeacon by his brother Archbishop Stephen his sawey answer to King John touching his brothers restitution 252. Acts against the King Kingdom joynes with Lewes the French King appeals against the Legates Excommunication of him excepted out of the Pacification between King H. 3. and Lewes banished petitions the Pope for his return into England upon his brothers engagement not to act any thing against the King or Kingdoms peace a firebrand mover of sedition in England and France his election to the Archbishoprick of York nulled by the King Pope the Kings license to elect prohibiting his election causeth the Pope to null Ralphs election to Canterbury for his fidelity to the King Kingdom opposed Boniface his Visitation and Kings Letters his death p. 252 293 294 299 300 310 330 348 349 362 371 372 392 431 579 728. E. a Writ of Prohibition against his building a Church of Canons at Mâ—ydeneston to the disinherison and prejudice of the Crown 560 560. A Writ to certifie the number value of all Benefices Provisions to Aliens within the Diocesse and by whom granted 573. To cause Prayers to be made for the King Queen his prosperous successe in his voyage and safe return throughout his Archdeaconry 577. Stephen his account of the Dismes of Canterbury Diocesse 1052 Cleveland â—â— to pay money to the Popes Agent out of the Dismes collected by him p. 310. Coâ—ecestre Fulco Lovel his account of Dismes p. 1048. Coventre p. 388. â— a Prohibition to him 689. â—illus de Kiâ—keny one of the Custodes Regni 806. D. DErby his petition for Clerks imprisoned to be delivered to him a Wrâ—t to the Sheâ—â—fâ— thereupon p. 577. Dublin Ireland Gide Turâ—evil p. 422 423. Dume Ireland p. 941. E. EBor Thâ— Ludâ—am p 1029 1039. Irelandâ— p 635. Eâ—y Nicholas A Commission to him to appeal for the King p 726. The Kings Chancellor 981 982. Essex Theobald his Tenants amerced p. 820. F. FInabarun Ireland p. 857 858 859. G. GLocester A Prohibition to him not to compell any by Ecclesiastical censures or the Popes Nuncio's precept to contribute to the Pope p. 574. H. HErâ—ford â—illiam Excommunicated Interdicted by the Pope for oâ— osing King John p. 360 His account of the
511 688 689. Lincolne Differences suits appeals between Grosshead the Bishop the Dean and Canons about his visitation of them 509 510 576 577 596 597 598. Roger de Wâ—sâ—ham Dean elected Bishop of Coventre the Bshop seiseth on the Church of Aâ—leâ—hury endeavouring to sâ—ver it perpetually from the Deanery p 625. The Popes sentence against the Dean and Chapter that the Bishop should visit them without procurations p. 629 630 698 699 Henry de Lixinton Dean elected Bishop p. 805. Their Petition to the King for enlarging the Cathedral to the walls of the City a Quod damnum thereupon 855. The Dean Assigned to collect the Disâ—â— of Lincoln Diocesse 1051 1052 1055. M. ST Martins London L. Capell Dean p. 422. The Kings free Chapel exempt from Episcopal Visitation Jurisdiction a Prohibition for them 496. and against the Popes Provision to a Prebendaâ—â— in it p. 557. Claim the amercements of their Tenants in all places p. 828 The Kings protection to them 835. H. Wengham Dean thereof made Bishop of London held it in Commenda 954 955. William de Chanent Dean Kings Proctor at Rome 10â—0 Mont. St. Andrew in Savoy 808. O. OSsarten Collector of the Dismes in Ireland 1055 P. ST Patric Dublin F. de Chaddeworth Dean deputed to collect the Disms in Ireland 560. Pauls London Hugo de Pateshull Chancellor of London elected Bishop of Coventree p 511. A prohibition to them to install a Prebend by the Popes provision during the Sees vacancy against the Kings prerogative to whom it belonged 575. A Writ to the Sheriffs of London to seise all their beasts chattels p 720. Henry the Dean a 〈◊〉 Canons excommunicated by Archbp Boniface appeal to Rome 741 742 745. their excommunication nulled by the Popes Bull 745 746 747 762. He visited the Canons at last with moderation 799. The Dean sent to Rome by all the Clergy to oppose the Popes Legates demands 841. Walter made Archbishop of Tuam 913 939. A Prohibition to them to hold plea of goods and chattels not of Testament or marriage 968. S. SArum Pope Alexanders Bull of thanks for a Prebendary bestowed on his Nephew and reservation of it by way of provision 952. Compound for the Disms thereof 1036. Suwerâ— Suthwerk Dean pronounced an excommunication by the Archbishop null p. 786. 787. T. TOttenhall Deanery in Coventry and Litchfield Diocesse 954 955. Tuum a License to elect a Bishop granted them upon petition p. 735. W. WAterford Ireland Philip made Bishop of it p. 784. a license to elect granted them upon petition 817 818. Wâ—lâ—s Johannes Saracenus A prohibition to him as Popes Delegate not to draw a Clerk in suit out of the Realm p. 718. The Popes Chaplain Delegate for the Collection of Dismes and redemption of Vows granted by the Pope to Richard Earl of Cornwall 731. A Prohibition to him to grant a Preâ—end by the Popes provision belonging to the King 736. An inhibition to him not to meddle with the goods of the Bishop of Ely deceased 965. Their certificat of the Bishops election to the Archbishop 998. Edward de la Cuâ—ll Dean sent to the King and Queen of France 1014 1015. The Dean and Chapter Compound for the Disms of the Bishoprick granted to the King for a fine 1036 10â—7 Wâ—lverhampton the Kings free Chapel exempt from Episcopal Jurisdiction Giles de Erdington Dean p. 982. INDEX 7. English and o her Earls Dukes Nobles Matters done by or relating to them with a brief quotation sometimes only of the pages where to find them A ALbemarle Earl william besieged fortified detained the Kings Castles against him excommunicated all prohibiten to affist him 324 378 379. joyns in a Letter to the Pope Card nals against their exactions 669 670 671. Prohibited to assist the Bishop of 〈◊〉 or Archbishop of Cant in their quarrel against each other p 788. Subscribes the Letter to the Pope in the name of the Commonalty of England 950 951. And gavâ—e an Arbitrator between H. 3. and his Barons p. 100â— Angulâ—â—me confederates with other French Earls Nobles against the Popes Prelates Usurpations on their Liberties and exetavagant censures 700 701. Arundle â—illiam subscribed King Johes Charter Writes to the exiled Bishops is his surety to them 229. 251 274 276 277 278 331 339 Faithfull to the King 390 Hath a sentence at Rome and dammages against Archbishop Edmund 499. Atribacensis Earl 754. Atteranensis Earl his Epistle to the Emperor of Pope Gregory the 9. his treacheries against him 416. B. Bâ—vâ—â—ia Duke a devoted friend to the Church of Rome 658 Bononiae Bullen Reginaldus a Witnesse to K. Johns Charter of resignation joynes in a Letter for the exiled Bishops return p. 272 274 276 277. Britain his injuries to King H. 3. p. 455 456 Joyned in confederacy against the Pope and Bishops usurpations with other Nobles of France 700. Burgoine Confederates with others against the Popes and French Bishops Usurpations 700. C. CHester Cestriae Ranulphus subscribes King Johns Letters and is his security for the exâ—led Bishops saâ—e return subscribes his Charter to the Pope and Archbishop Langeton p. 251 276 277 190 331 338 339. The Archbishop threatens to excommunicate him if he surrendred not the Kings Castles Manors to him which he doth thereupon 314 391. Sâ—outly opposeth the Popes Vsurpations Texes 427 Peâ—sâ—ades the King to countermand his precept to the 〈◊〉 forcibly to take Hubert de Burgo out of sanctuary 4. 8. Is present in the Parliament at Merton and vote concerning Bastardy 472. Clare R. Excommunicated by the Pope p. 251 359. Gâ—â—hert dyes his Casiles Wardship contests for it between the King and Archbishop Langeton 429 430. Cornwall and Poâ—ctou Pâ—ctaviae Richard A witnesse to the contract between the Emperor and Isabella his Neece 453. 455. Present in the Parâ— at Merton and vote concerning Bastardy 472. King Henry ruled much by his Counsil 486. Sets his seal to a Letter to the Pope that his Legats stay was for the profit of the King kingdom and Church of England 493 Joynes with the Nobility against the Legate for his exactions 497 498. The Popes answers to his and their Complaints 507 508. Swears a Voyage to the Holy Land at the high altar with many others yet prohibited to proceed when on his voyage thither 513 514. The Emperors Letters to him concerning his excommunication p. 517 518 527. Takes his leave of England for the Holy Land begins his journey towards it 546. Vowes dispensed with for mony towards his Voyage as was pretended 571 572. Joynes with the other Nobles in a Letter against the Popes exactions threatning to cast off their subjection to him if not redressed 669 670. Teâ—rifies King H. with his threats from persisting in his resolution manfully to oppose the Pope 675 who grants him a Croysado and Dismes for his Voyage to the Holy Land 698 729 730 731 732 808. Present at St. Edwards feast in honor of Christs blood 715. Present in Parliament joynes with others
in reprehending the King for his misgovernment 721 722. The King respites the seising the Bishop of Worcesters temporalties for suing against his prohibitions at his request 752. Extraordinary rich The Pope offers him the Realm of Sicily which he refuseth being only to exhaust his Treasure 776 777. Excepted out of Archbishop Boniface his general Excommunication 786 788. Present in Parliament at the general excommunication of the infringers of the Churches Liberties and Great Charter 796. Guardian of the Realm with Queen Elianor in King H. 3. his absence 806 to 824 refuseth Sicily or to lend the King or Edmund monies to gain it the Popes Letters for that purpose 808 8â—2 The Jewes sold to him by King H. 3. Append. 27. Elected Emperor and why App. 27 28. D. DErby VVilliam de Ferâ—ariis 757. E. ESsex Galfridus Geoffry Fitz-Peter 231. Chief Justice See more Index 8. Chief Justices of England G. de Mandevil Earl of Glocester and Essex 338 435. H. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex 669 951. F. FLanders Philip refused to invade England p. 276. Ferrers de Ferrariis â—illiam 271. matters relating to him 257 271 274 276 277 290 331 338 339 472 721. G. GLocester G. de Mandeville p. 338. Gilbert de Clare his actions 558 559 721 788. Richard de Clare his actions for and against the King 931 935 950 967 977 1001 1002 1013 1014 1021 1024 1025 1032. H. HAssia and Turing Lantgrave Henry elected Emperor by the Popes means in opposition to Frederick 2. slain 680 753. Heresord Humsry de Bohun Marshal excommunicated p. 359 390. His acts and matters concerning him 452 472 715 721 788 796 862 951. Holland William set up and chosen Emperor against the Emperor Frederick the 2. by the Pope routed slain and his whole army defeated Appendix 27. K. KAncia Kent Hubert de Burgo his Negotiations troubles acts p. 452 453 472 485 498. See Chief Justices L. LEycester R p. 229. Simon de Montefort Monfort 400 472. Gave ill Counsell to King H. 3. against the publick 486. Guarded the Popes Legate with his arms to the Council at Pauls 488. Goes with a vast summe of mony to Rome thereby to prevent a divorce from his unlawfull mariage against his wives vow of virginity made before the Archbishop which the Pope confirmed 498 500. Yet being checked for it by the King he departs the Court with infamy goes beyond Sea with his wife Ibid. Sollicits the Prelates Abbots Priors Clergy to grant an ayde to the King at his and the Popes request by Letters to them which they deny 610. Joynes with the other Nobles in a Letter against Popes Extortions Innovations Oppressions of the Church of England 669 670. Joynes with the Bishops and other Lords in a sharp reprehension of the King in a Parliament which dissolved in discontents and denial of an ayde 721 721. Appointed an Ambassador to the Pope with others about the Priviledge sent K. H. 3. for the kingdom of Sicily thereby given him 914. Several Writs Letters Procurations concerning that his Imployment 915 to 920. Called by William de Valentia an old Traytor in Parliament before the King and Nobles His indignation reply thereto 931. He and other Nobles confederate together come with horse and arms to the Parliament at Oxford force the Poictovins to deliver up the Castles they had got possession of under pain of losing their heads and to depart the Realm 935 936 937 938. Letters by his and other Nobles advice to the Pope concerning Sicily 943 to 951 reputed to be crowned with Martyrdom 980. His Precepts during the Wars net to pillage or rob Churches or Churchyards ineffectuall 991 1000. He joyns in the Instrument of submitting the Articles of Oxon and other Differences between King Henry and his Barons to the King of France Popes Legat and others 1001 1002. His presentation under the Great Seal to the Treasurership of Yorke during the Kings imprisonment under him revoked after his enlargement 1010. A Writ to excommunicate the Welshmen Earl of Gâ—ocester and other opposites to him procured and signed by him in the Kings name 1013 1014. Absolved from his sinnes encouraged by some Bishops in all his Wars against the King slain in Rebellion the tempest at his death 1021 1022. Lincolne John matters concerning him p. 472 486 487 488. M. MAndevill 389 390. See Essex March Henry de Lizimaco matters concerning him p. 377 385 384 Hugo de Brune p. 750. Melun Viscont his confession of Lewes his intention to banish the English Barons who elected and made him King as Traytors when he conquered King John 366. N. NOrfolke and Suffolke Roger Bâ—god and Hugh de Bâ—god acts concerning them p. 280 299 359 390. 638 639 644 669 715 721 796 843. O OXon Albericus de Veer p. 251 261. R. de Veer 472. 669 721 796. Matters concerning them Ibid. P. ST Paul Pol against the Pope p. 700. Pembroc William Marescallus his Teste to K. H. 3. his write Charters Letters Oath to the exiled Bishops p. 230 274 276 277 280 290 33â— 338 339. The Kings Writ to him concerning the release of the interdict 332 appeals by him against the disturbets of the kingdomes peace 346. Sets up crowns assists H. 3. after K. Johns death 369 370 389 390. Richard Earl Marshall certain Bishops accused by the King in Parliament of overmuch familiarity with him 443. Bishops sent to treat a peace between the King and him 445. Gilbert swears to maintain the contract of marriage between King H. 3. and the Emperor 452. Present in the Parliament of Merton and Lords resolution not to alter the Law of Bastardy 472. Went armed to the Council at Pauls to guard Otto the Popes Legat 488. Takes up the Crosse and vowes to go to the Holy Land with Earl Richard 513. A Writ to him not to intermeddle in the quarrel between Archbishop Boniface and the Bishop of Winton 788. Perron confederates against the Popes and Prelates usurpations extravagances 700. Poictou taken prisoner by the Saracens 755. Provence King H. 3. maries his daughter 455. Is taken prisoner by the Saracens 755. P. RAinoldus a Forraign Earl 410. Richmond Peter of Britain 457. of Savoy p. 723. Rogerus a Forraign Eatl 410. S. SAbaudia Savoy 502. Thomas imprisoned 848 849. Sarum Salisbury William his actions p. 251 265 271 274 290 389. Swartzemburge 753. T. THolose Reymund The Pope and his Legates interdict excommunicate and grant a Croysado against him though an Orthodox Christian for favouring the Albigenses refusing to abjure the Earldom for him and his heirs and become the Popes vassals like King John p. 400 403 404 414. W. WArren William matters concerning him p. 271 274 276 277 338 339 346 389 372 494 721. John 836 943. Warwick H. 390. F. 472. John de Placeto 936 951. Winton S. acts matters concerning him p. 251 274 290 331 338 339 359. R. 669 721. INDEX 8. Of the Names of the Chancellors and other Great Officers of
to him to provide furniture and Books for the Kings Chappel at Windsor 752. De Westham Roger 851. De Weston John 1008. Wiger William 971. De Wigorn William 1010 1011. De Wikeman Robert Clerk 820. De Winton Peter Clerk of the Wardrobe 914. imployed about the dismes 1050 to 1056. Richard a Clerk 955. Witham William Miles 436. De Witwell Thomas a Monk 483. De Wulward G. Clerk Kings agent 601. Wybertus de Kantia 719. De VVymundeham Thomas a prohibition to him 728. Y. DE Yating VVilliam Kings Messenger 1008. Z. LE Zouche Alanus Miles A Commissioner chosen sworn in Parliament to draw Articles of Peace between H. 3. and the disinherited persons in arms 1019. The Names of Convert Jews sent to sundry Monasteries not here inserted you may read at leisure p. 835 to 841. INDEX 10. Alphabetical Of the Popes of Rome their actions intollerable Antimonarchical Vsurpations Tyrannies Treasons Rebellions atheistical irreligious Bulls Letters Nuncioes avaritious Practises Frauds Crimes Corruptions Extortions transactions between them our Kings Prelates Nobles Kingdoms with other particulars conteined in this Tome which will make some considerable Addition to Platina Onuphrius Balaeus Dr. Barnes others who have writ the Lives of Popes A. ADrian 4 his priviledge to St. Albans Appendix 21. His Epistles priviledges waived in Papal obligations 468. Alexander 3. The Lands of Ambresbiry transferred to the Nunnes of Founteveroit upon his Mandate for the whoredom of the former Abâ—esse and Nunns by King H. 2. with advice of his Bishops and Nobles p. 228. He decreed in the Council of Laâ—eraâ— children born before matrimony to be hereditable to their parents if they maried afterwards which the King Nobles of England contradicted refusing to alter the Law therein at the Bishops importunity 471 472 473 474 479. See Bastardy Index 14. Encouraged Archbishop Becket in his Oppositions Treasons against King H. 2. avenged his death canonized him as a Saint Martyr for the Church 563. See Becket Index 3. He resigned his Archbishoprick into his hands as unlawfully received from the King by investiture receiving it canonically from him again in opposition to the King Append. 25. Fled from Rome into France where the King received him Grieved not the French Church gave no Benesice nor Prebendary in it 777 778 654. Exempted Clergymen from taking or being enforced to take any Oath 707. His Bulls Decrees for the Monks of Canterbury against the Archbishop proved to be forged Appendix 16 17. Alexander 4. His election his humble Letters to all prelates to pray for him that God would give him power grace to rule the Church so as to deserve to be called Gods Vicar and Peters successor His hypocrisie speedy apostacy from it 813 818. Revived the warrs raised by his predecessor against the Emperor Fredericks party and Mansred invests Edmund K. H. 3d. his sonne by a ring in the kingdome of Sicily Apulia cheats him of vast summes of money upon this account 813 c. 834. 868 869 to 872. 917 to 924 931 9â—8 He followes the Bishop of Heresords device to oblige all the Bishops Abbots Priors of England to his Vsurers in vast summes of money against their wills without their privities pursued with fraud and violence 820 821 822 823 824 833 844 845 846. Sends Rustand his Legate into England Scotland and Ireland to collect a Disme to his and the Kings use to carry on his Warrs against Manfred 821 to 826. 841. See Rustand Index 12. Writes Letters to Richard Earl of Cornwall to lend monies toward it who refused to do it 8â—2 The English Prelates durst not so much as mutter against him 841 to 850. The Great Charter of King John and for the freedom of elections sent to Rome to be confirmed by him which he refused to do least he should displease the King 841 842. avoyded all his own and his predecessors Bulls priviledges by clauses of Non-obstante Ibid. 846. His Bull to Rustand to pay monyes to his Merchants upon forged forced obligations of Bishops Abbots Priors with their form 844 845 846 c. His Letters to the King on behaâ—f of the Cistercians to exempt them from paying the sum required 847 848. The King oppresseth them notwithstanding Ibid. His moderation of provisions upon the Prelates and Nobles complaints 848 849. His detestable hypocrisie discovered by his actions which made the love of many towards him to wax cold 848. His consolatory Letters to the King Queen concerning the captivity of the Duke of Savoy by his subjects 849. His bribery injustice corruption 850. Intrudes a Dean into York by provision fraud and vexed excommunicated Archbishop Sewall for opposing it 850 851. 926 927. Confirms Sewald Archbishop of York whether the King would or not 852 853. His Bull to confirm the intruded Prior of Winton by Simony against right justice 850 852 855. His Bull to excommunicate the Kings Justices Sheriffs Bayliffs in Ireland upon the Archbishop of Tuams and his Suffragans complaints against them and their proceedings by imprisonments indictment prohibitions to the oppression of the Clergy and invasion of the Churches Liberties the Kings Proctors protestation at Rome against these clauses as prejudicial to the Kings prerogative 857 858 859. Suits before his delegates in England superseded by the Kings Writs 859 860. His Bull to reimburse the Bishop of Hereford the moneyes lent him upon his bonâ—â— made to decoy the other Bishops and Abbots 860 861. His Agents Clerks Merchants imployed in collecting receiving the dismes granted The Kings Embassadors Proctors Agents Letters Procurations to him concerning the dismes the businesse of Sicily Apulia The intollerable impossible exactions conditions he imposed on him and his sonne forcing them to take an Oath to perform them of which he desired respite mitigation yet could hardly or not at all obtain 862 to 872. 914 to 936. 942 to 949. 961. His grant of the first years fruits of vacant Benefices in Ireland for 2. years to the Archbp of Tuam granted before to the King contests between him and the King concerning them 913. The King proffers to quit Sicily so as he would repay the monies received for it being unable to satisfie his vast summes demanded 919 920 921 941. His Letters Proctors to him not to confirm the Bishop of Elyes and Abbot of St. Edmunds elections whom he confirmed in despite of the King against his will 922 923 924. His New Statute that all exempt Abbots should repaire immediately to Rome for confirmation and benediction after their elections to fill his own purse exhaust theirs 925. 952. His imperious provision to the Abbot of St. Albans 926. Archbishop Sewals Letters Speeches concerning his tyranny vexations corruption his deriding his wholsom advice 926 927. Rustand recalled by accused before him 927 930. The Archbishop of Messana sent as his Legate into England 928. His Letter to King H. 3. concerning Archbishop Boniface his Oppressions of the Bishop of Rochester which he summoned him to answer before him at Rome
by King H. 3. his Proctors to null Heveshams election and promote Richard to the Archbishoprick of Canterbury which he did thereupon 307 308 419 420. The Kings Letters to him and his Cardinals to assist him in his extraordinary affairs his payment of the arrears of the annual rent on that account 308 309. He nulls the election of the Bishop of Durham by the Monks rejects the person recommended by the King and promotes another 406. Grants an Ayd to the King from the Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Clergy in England and Ireland 406 407 422. Pronounces a general Excommunication against all who hindred any to passe to or repasse from Rome his Bull to that purpose to the French Bishops King not to hinder the King of Englands Nuncioes or Subjects from going thither or returning thence 408. Presseth a Croysado by his Balls privately intended against the Emperor Frederick 408 409. He injuriously Excommunicates the Emperor Frederick Interdicts his Territories without hearing or conviction in all Countries places for not going personally to the Holy Land when hindred by sicknesle inevitable weighty affaires of the Empire and the Civil Wars he raised against him He most unchristianly hired employed John de Brennes to seise on and deprive him of his Empire during his absence in the Holy Wars against the Saracens for which treachery the Emperor stirred up a great sedition against him seising upon the Churches pretended Patrimony Cities Castles antiently belonging to the Empire caused the Romans to expell him out of Rome pursue him to Viterbium and from thence to Perusium he having no other means to revenge himself but to excommunicate his persecutors His Bull of the Emperors Excommunication 409 410 411 412 414 415 416 417. The Emperors Letters of vindication against it to the King of England and all other Christian Kings shewing how this Pope Gregory inflamed with apparent covetousnesse lust not satisfied with Ecclesiastical goods revenues attempted without fear to disinherit Emperors Kings Princes and make them Tributaries as his predecessor Innocent 3. did King John and the Earl of Tholouse keeping them so long under Excommunications and Interdicts till he reduced them under his Vassallage His and the Roman Courts Churches execiable Symonies various new Exactions never formerly heard of their manifest and secret Usuries towards the Clergy hitherto unknown wherewith they infected the whole world their manifold snares to illaqueate all and every person cheat them of their monies liberties rights disturbe their peaceable lives being meer ravenous Wolves in Sheeps cloathing with his serious exhortation to all Princes throughout the world to provide against so great avarice iniquity Antimonarchical designs 414 415. He sent his Legates abroad into all places only to excommunicate suspend punish those who were potent extort monies pillage Churches and rashly to invade others Empires Kingdoms though he and they were base unworthy persons whose learning and ambition made them mad 414 415. He against the Law of Christ decreed to conquer the Emperor with the Material when as he could not cast him down by the Spiritual Sword with what consideration or conscience the Emperors Friends Clergy admired 416 417. He daily proforma excommunicated robbers incendiaries tormenâ—ors of Christians yet gave consent yea authority to such to invade and War against the Emperor 417. He caused the Prelates Clergy in Jerusalem not to say Masse in the City nor to communicate with the Emperor whiles in it when he recovered it from the Saracens because he had injuriously Excommunicated him yea suboâ—ned the Templars and Hospitalers to betray him to the Soldan after his conquest of the Saracens He dispersed scandalous Letters to defame him as an Apostate c. and most greedly raised monies forces in all places to dethrone him 418 419 424 425. He reputed all the Emperor did in the Holy Land as nothing moved War against him asserting it was just necessary for the Christian faith that so strong a persecutor of the Roman Church his Mother should be deposed from the Imperial dignity 425. He exacted a Disme from England Ireland Wales and all other Sons of the Church to carry on his begun War against the Emperor to depose him because the wealth of the See Apostolick was not sufficient lest if the Church of Rome miscarried in this design her Members should seem to be vanquished with their head 425 426. King H. 3. his Letter to him concerning the Emperors Excommunication and reconciliation to him 415 416. He continues his Excommunication notwithstanding his actual voyage to the Holy Land 416. Maligns the Emperors victories over the Saracens in the Holy Land stirs up the Templars and Hospitalers against him 418. His Decree concerning the Monks of Coventry and Canons of Litchfields electing the Bishop by turns 418. The Kings and Bishops Letters to him against Heveshams election to the Archbishoprick of Canterbury 419. Prefers Richard to it at the Kings and Bishops requests not by election but provision and donation 419. His Bull concerning it his love to prayses of Canterbury Church Becket Langeton 420. He introduced the first Papal Provisions in History or Record 420 778 779. He sent the Archbishop of Armenia into England with Letters of recommendation to the Prelates and Religious persons 421. His dispensation with some of the Kings Clerks to hold Pluralities 422. Constitutes Delegates upon the Kings appeal against the Bishop of Imelic his election 422. Interposed in the Truce between France and England which he was to confirm when they had agreed on the Articles 423. Sends his Legate into England to collect a Disme for him against the Emperor Frederick whom he defamed by his Letters in all places 424 425. His Bull for this Disme wherein he stiles Rome the Mother of all Churches who were bound to assist her it is levyed with greatest rigour by Ecclesiastical censures according to the full value of Ecclesiastical livings and money of full weight 426 427. Invades the Emperors Dominions Cities by John de Brennes the second time whiles absent in the Holy Wars whom he fed with money the Emperor on his return defeating him recovered his Territories marched to Rome with his Army forcing this Pope to absolve him and restore the rights of the Empire he had invaded 427 428. He and the Emperor reconciled he feasted the Emperor Cardinals Nobles three dayes together in his Palace at Rome Ibid. King H. 3. appeals to him against the encroachments of the Irish Bishops on the rights of his Crown 428. His Letter to King H. 3. to bestow a pension of 40 Marks a year on one of his Italian Brokers 428 429. Richard Archbishop of Canterbury complains to him against the King and Hubert his Chief Justice for maintaining the Kings Prerogative in a case of Wardship wherein he sided with the Archbishop against the King granting whatever he desired 430 He endeavoured to wrest the power of electing confirming the Archbishop of Canterbury by the Kings license out of his hands to
conferre it on whom he pleased nulls the election of Ralph the Kings Chancellor by the Monks approved by the King without alledging any cause but his own Papal pleasure commanding the Monks to make a new election by clauses prejudicial to his Prerogative 431. The Kings Inhibition thereupon to the Monks to do nothing therein to the prejudice of his Crown nor go to a new election without his special license 432. Nulls their Priors new election by the Kings license because old too simple to govern that Church nulled their third election of Blundus approved by the King because he held two Benefices without his license 433. Commanded the Monks at Rome to elect Edmund to whom he sent a Pall who refused to do it without the Kings license they and the King at last enforced to accept of him for Archbishop without any election 433 434. The corn goods of his foreign Clerks by provisions publickly threshed out and sold by a general insurrection against them 434 435 436. The Pope very angry at the tidings thereof writes biting Letters to the King for not punishing the offendors contrary to his Coronation Oath threatens to Excommunicate him if he did not exemplarily punish them to deterre others commanding some Bishops and Abbots to Excommunicate all they found guilty thereof till absolved by himself Whereupon sundry found guilty by inquisition were imprisoned others forced to fly 436 437 438 c. Hubert de Burgo his Mannors sequestred to give them satisfaction he removed from his Chief Justiceship for conniving at confederating with these Rioters and not punishing them 438. His Bull for visiting all Religious Orders Houses in all places for their vices corruptions by his special visitors their severe proceedings therein appeals against them 440 441 442. His Letters on behalf of Hugh de Burgo 443. King Henry submits himself at his command to prolong the Truce with France for three years to ayd the Holy Land 446 447. His abusive Bulls to all Christians for the ayd of the Holy Land only to extort monies upon that pretext levyed by and payd to his own Agents to be imployed against the Emperor Frederick promoted by Freers without the names of Nuncioes yet having their power and authority to absolve men from their Vows for money when crossed and to compell them to pay their monies by Excommunications Interdicts the Indulgences therein contained 447 to 451 466 367 He propounds a marriage between Isabella King Henries Sister and the Emperor his Letters concerning it the Kings answer to him and submitting himself to the Jurisdiction censures of the Pope and Roman Church in case he failed to pay the marriage portion promised 450 to 455. King Henry 3. sends Proctors to him concerning his own Marriage-Treaty to be ratified by his Papal authority dispensation which he prayed 454. Humbly relorted to him for counsil refuge upon all emergent occasions his over-submissive Procurations Letters to that purpose 454 455. His remonstrance to him of grievances by Philip Earl of Britain in seising his Castles Lands and revolting from his Allegiance and prayer to compell him to give him satisfaction who instead thereof imployed him in his Wars 455 456. His Letter to the King for receiving the Bishop of Winton into England who fled out of it was sent for by him to Rome to supply him with monies and ayd him in his Wars being a better Souldier then Preacher which he is content to do at the Popes request 456 457. His Legate prohibited to enter into Ireland without the Kings command 458. His encroachments upon the elections and confirmations of Abbots his new Oath of Fealty exacted from the Abbot of St. Albans to the prejudice of the Crown Churches Abbots Priviledges his Bulls and his Delegates proceedings therein 458 to 467. Published new compendious Decretals to get monies and usurp a legislative power over the world 457. He set up countenanced Usurers called Caursini in all places especially in England to whom most Prelates Abbots were bound in strange Obligatlons to raise monies for his use protected by him against the Bishop of London whose threats to excommunicate and banish them the City they derided 467 to 470. The insolency cruelty secular imployment of the Freers Minorites against their Orders by his countenancing them 469 470. King H. 3. by his Bull endeavours to revoke sundry of his grants as if unable to make them without his consent 470 486. His frequent abuse of Croysadoes and new wayes to raise money by dispencing with Vows and perverting it to his own use to the gâ—eat scandal of many discovered declamed against 470 471. Confirmed the Archbishop of Rhoaâ—s election which the King approved 482. His license to hold Pluralities to such of the Kings Clerks as he should appoint 483. I he miserable estate of England by his Agents Bulls Provisions to unlearned vitious Foreigners extortions symony abuse of Ecclesiastical censures being made a common prey by his Hypocrisie Tyranny 484. The Greek Church rejects his pretended authority over them separated from the Church of Rome for his and her avarice symony corruptions and claims superiority over it against whom he grants a Croysado and sends Souldiers to reduce them 484 489 to 494. He sends Otto at the Kings request into England under pretext to reform abuses who proved a ravenous wolfe 485 c. See Index 12. Opposed by Archbishop Edmund as prejudicial to his Archiepiscopal authority Ibid. The Nobles refuse to grant King H. 3. an Ayd publickly reprehend him in Parliament for saying publickly and secretly he could dispose exchange or alien nothing in his Kingdom without the Popes or Legates consent as if he were not King but the Popes Feudatory Vassal as many stiled him 470 485 486 504 5â—5 He Decrees St. Edwards Feast to be publickly observed His Canonization of Francis and Dâ—mâ—ick for Saints published and that his Legates Decrees in Councils should be valid after his Legateship ended 488. Recalls his Legate Otto from England by reason of the commotions against him for his rapines the Kings supplication for his stay notwithstanding them 49â— 493 505. Gives sentence for the Monks of Rochester and Earl of Arandel at Rome against Archbishop Edmund awarding them costs of suit yet granted him a priviledge to the prejudice of the Monks of Canterbury whom he oppressed by it 498 499. His unjust sentence by bribery against the Canons in the cause of Alienor married to the Earl of Leycester against her vew of chastity and in case of the Monks and Bishop elect of Winton upon appeals to him 498 500 to 504. His Statutes concerning the reformation of the black Monks and proceedings on them 503 504. His sharp Letter Bull to King H. 3. for giving alienating the Lands of the Crown to Bishops Abbots Nobles others to the prejudice of the See Apostolick to whom the Realm of England belonged and command to resume them notwithstanding his improvident Charters Oath 504 505. His Legate not permitted to enter
Scotland by the Scots King 486 506. Sir Robert Twâ—ng his complaint to the King Nobles in Parliament of his oppression fraud in depriving him of his presentation to his only Church by a Provision their Letters to the Pope on his behalf 437 506 507. His insatiable avarice depriving â—f Laymen Ecclesiastical and Religious persons of their presentations by Provisions conferring them on strangers and other grievances complained against by all the Nobles in Parliament their Letters to him to reform them with his answer thereto 506 507 508. His Letter to his Legate concerning moderation of Provisions not to grant advowsons of Lay Patrons by the Popes authority without their assents 508 778 779. Peter 8 aracen his Agent in England taken imprisoued by the Emperor till ransomed He refused to pay his ransom writ to moved King H. 3. to pay it his discontent thereat 508 509. The Dean and Chapter of Lincoln appeal to him against their Bishops Visication of them 509. The Monks of St. Albans offer a sum of money at his feet which he gratefully received to confirm their Priors election They bribe his Cardinals Agents of all sorts who would do nothing for the Kings or others Letters without great gifts for which they would not so much as invite them to a small dinner 462 463. He prohibited the ordination preferment of Bastards Pluralities c. only to gain monies for dispensations in such cases by the See Apostolick which alone must grant them 467 753. The Grecians set up Germanus Patriarch of Constantinople as an Antipope against him who denyed his Supremacy renounced him and the Church of Rome for their detestable symonies and corruptions 490 491 512 513 643 752. The Emperor opposed against him Helias chief of the â—reeâ—s Minors a most famous preacher who absolved all this Pope had bound with an Anathema who had rendred the Church of Rome infamous by symony usury various rapines and became a step-father to her sons thirsting only after money which he extorted by sundly devices not caring at all for prayers masses exhortations which used to free oppressed ones from persecutions fradulently and privately disposing in his own Chamber the money collected for relief of the Holy Land without the Cardinals consent imploying it and the forces raised against the Saracens against the Emperor and Greek Church better Christians then himself prohibiting them to go to the Holy Land against their vows when ready yea marching towards it to imploy them against the Emperor against whom he was raging mad to destroy the rights of the Empire and trample him under feet He sealed many blank Bulls and sent them to his Legates to write whâ—â— they pleased in them for his or their advantage 408 409 512 513 514 753. He excommunicated Helias for reprehending instead of reforming these his execrable crimes His words double dealing breach of faith generally declamed against by the Crucesignati Ibid. He more desired the encrease of gold and silver then of the Christian faith 517. He perswades commands all who had taken up the Crosse for the Holy Land not to proceed but return home again when they were in their journey towards it by his Pulls Nuncioes who thereupon exclaimed against his double dealing and were like to mutiny against his Nuncio had not the Prelates pacified them 512 513 514. Richard Earl of Cornwall proceeds in his voyage notwithstanding this Prohibition Ibid. The Emperor Frederick according to his Oath resuming the Isles Territories belonging to the Empire notwithstanding this Popes Inhibition he thereupon studying revenge fomented the Rebellion of the Citizens of Millâ—ia against him excommunicated deprived him of the Empire without any hearing or conviction excited all he could against him under pretence he had raised sedition against him in Rome intending to exâ—ell him and his Cardinals thence against the priviledge dignity of the See Apostolick and to tread the Liberties of the Church under seet against his Oaths His scandalous Excommunications Letters successively published in England and elsewhere to defame him with his memorable Letters replyes thereto shewing his Rebellion against the Emperor slanders of and unchristian deportment towards him to his great infamy his endeavours to depose him 514 515 to 550 649 752 753. Verses found in his Chamber that Rome should cease to be the Head of the World which he and the Emperor applyed to each other 520. His extreme avarice abuse of money collected for the Holy Land exacting monie by several other means to War against the Emperor His stirring up his Subjects of Millâ—â—in other Cities to rebell against him who were defeated punished destroyed for their Rebellions notwithstanding his Panal assistance and benediction 532 539 541 to 550 604 605 649. His execrable infamous contradictory slanders published against the Emperor in all places as inclined to Mahumetism Athtism to exhort exasperate all Christians unanimously to rise up against him as an open enemy of Christ and his Church against which the French people justified him as more pious religious lesse oppressive then himself his impiety dishonesty being so notorious execrable to all that his authority was regarded by none or very few his Letters actions so scandalous that his fame and authority suffered great detriment ruine in all places so as wise and holy men feared greatly the total losse of the Roman Churches Popes Clergies honour and that God in justice would smite them with an incurable wound 539 540 544. He caused another Emperor to be elected who peremptorily refused it two others elected blasted by God 540 753. The French Kings and Nobles notable answer to his Letters and Nuncio 544 555 The Emperors Letters countenancing those who contemned his Excommunications 656 657. The English Bishops complaints against his oppressions injuries contrary to the Kings Oath Charters Priviledges their Excommunication of their infringers King H. 3. neither would nor durst contradict his exactions though against his Priviledges and Subjects Liberties 545 546 548. He exacts the fifth part of the Clergies goods for which the Emperor expostulated with the King Archbishop Edmund others opposed but yielded to it at last 546 547 563. The Romans and Cardinals consult together to oppose his Papal violence to the danger of Christianity 548. Having gained money enough in France to wage War with the Emperor for a whole year he perfidiously brake his Truce sends for the Cardinals who procured made the Truce with him from thenceforth to defie and denounce War boldly against him to his face which John de Columpna one of them disswading him from and contradicting as savouring of inconstancy he told him He would not from thenceforth account him for a Cardinal To which he replyed Nor I thee for a Pope Upon which the King of France detained all the money there collected for him till he saw the issue 549. He summoned the Duke of Venice and other enemies of the Emperor to a Council engaged the King and Prelates of England to exhaust the Kingdoms Treasure
to depose the Emperor by force 550 551. He endeavoured to subject the Emperor and all Christian Kings to his Papal Dominion and make them his Vassals taking example boldnesse from his predecessors trampling the King and Kingdom of England under his feet The Emperors resistance of him the only means to secure the Rights Crowns of all other Christian Kings though they deserted or engaged against him and their own interest by ayding this Pope with monies extorted by his Nuncioes 544 552 553 554. The Emperor contradicts his summons of a General Council designed to excommunicate and depose him prohibited all Legates Bishops summoned to it to repair thither under pain of imprisonment who presuming to repair to it upon this Popes Letters great naval forces to transport them by Sea Gods owning of the Popes Churches cause and disowning of the Emperors as accursed excommunicated by him were all intercepted spoyled some of them slain drowned by the Emperors naval forces the Popes Fleet scattered his Legates Cardinals Prelates long detained in prison the Popes designs Council frustrated to his grief infamy 552 to 556 655 656 657. A Carâ—busian Monk at Cambridge brought before his Legate and others affirmed to their faces That Gregory was not Pope nor bead of the Church That he was the Devil broke loose an Heretick who pâ—llâ—â—â—d the Church yea World That he had not power to biâ—â—e oâ— loose souls nor was St. Peters Vicar nor had his power on earth being a Simoniack Usurer and perhaps involved in greater crimes following not Christs footsteps virtues as St. Peter did At which the Legate blushed and all were silenced 560. He conferred the Bishoprick of Landaff by his Papal provision which the King assented to 558 559. Granted K. H. a Dism in Ireland for relief of the Holy land 559 560. He grants the Tenths of all profits of Benefices to the Abbot and Monks of Cluny belonging to any houses of their Order in England without the Kings privity against his prerogative and custom of the Realm for which the King issued Writs to prohibit the collecting of them 562. Grants a priviledge to Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury that he and other Archbishops in their Provinces should present to all Bishopricks Abbots Priories continuing voyd in the Kings hand after 6. moneths space which he afterwards nulled as contrary to the Kings prerogative at his instance 563. He intends to bestow all the benefices in England upon the sonnes kinred of Romans to incourage them unanimously to rise up against the Emperor writing for 300 of the next benefices that fell voyd only in 3. Bishopricks to be conferd on them by provision 564. He sent Peter Rubeus to demand an intollerable Tax of the English Clergy proposed privatly to each of them under an Oath of secrecy not to discover it which the Prelats and inferior Clergy generally Cistercians manfully withstood 566 to 570. Recalls Otto from Engl. to Rome who burnt his letters to advise assist him in a Council against the Emperor 401 402. 570. The insatiable shameles covetousnesse corruption Simony of him and the Court of Rome exposing all things to sale reputing Usury a small sinne but Simony none at all 571. His two Agents intollerable exactions in England by Procurations and new devised extortions 572. Writs to all Bishops to inquire of the number value of the Benefices granted by him and his Legates by provision to aliens 572 573. The King by writs exempts all his own Clerks and Freechappels from his Legates procurations taxes exactions provisions 573 574. A Prohibition against his Legates compelling any person by Ecclesiastical censures to contribute any thing to him and against his provision of a Prebendary in Pauls belonging to the Kings presentation 574 575. The Kings appeal Proctors to him against the Bishop of Wintons election His Nuncioes and their Treasure seised by the Emperor 605 606. His death Sees vacancy and schisms after it 605 647 648 650 651. His Bull for relief of the Holy Land transcribed verbatim by Pope Innocent the 4th 660. His Statutes Letters whereby Archbishop Boniface would visit the Monks of Canteabury resisted and revoked by his Successor 793 794. The Kings Letters of Complaint against his Provisions His death concealed by his agents til they could collect transport their rapins 608. Gregory the 10. His Complemental Letter to King Edward the 1. for a safe Conduct to his Agent to collect Peter-pence and desiring the payment of 7. years arreaâ—s of the annual rent then due for England and Ireland by King Johns Charter 311 312. According to his predecessors practise he rejected the Monks election of Chillenden to the Archbishoprick of Canterbury opposed by the King made Robert Archbishop by his Papal provision which the Monks not daring to oppose elected him proforma to preserve their right of election 1061 1062 1063. H. HOnorius 2. his Decree against Priests taking an Oath or being compelled to swear in criminal or other causes unlesse by their Bishops special license 707. Honorius 3. Young King Henry 3. his Complemental Epistles to him and his Legates for their tender care of him and his Realm during his minority professing himself his creature subject desiring him not to confirm the election of the Bishop of Ely a professed enemy to him and his father adhering to the French King against them the Isle being a place of strength and to provide a fitter Bishop for it 374 375. His Epistle to him touching the Bishop Bishoprick of Karlisle and resetling the impropriations thereon granted to it by H. â— then alienated from it 375 376. touching the restoring of his Sisteâ— Jone detained from him by H. de Lizimaco and his excommunication if he refused to do it 377 378. His canonizing Hugh Bishop of Lincoln for a Saint 379 380. The Kings appeal to him touching the Church of Aeley 381. His Bull to two Bishops in England to examine the abuses vices excesses of the Bishop of Dâ—â—â—â—m upon the Monks complaints against him and certifie their proceedings to him 382 383. One of the first introducers of Papal provisions 337 778. His Letter to the Earl of March and his wife upon K. H. 3. his complaint to restore his Castles unjustly seised by him by a day with dammages under pain of excommunication and interdict of their lands formerly released by him which he endeavoured to elude by craft and contempt 384 385. The Kings Letters of thanks to him for former favours requesting him to write to several Bishops and Nobles therein named to assist and continue faithfull to him and restrain all who should rebell against him or detain his Castles Lands by the spiritual sword and censures 389 390. Excommunications thereupon denounced against the detainers of them by the Archbishop and his Suffragans 391. Commanded King Henry to prolong the Truce with France for 3. years 392. At his request the King give his royal assent to the election of the Archbishop of Cassâ—l The King prohibits an appeal to
him from any of Ireland in a case of Bastardy pending in his temporal Court 393 394 Constitutes a Proctor at Rome 395. His Letter to the King to continue an annuity granted by King John to a Romesh Cardinal afterwards revoked 395. His Bull to the French King to permit the King of Englandâ— Nuncioes freely to passe and repasse through his territories to his presence And to the Bishops Abbots Priors and Clergy of England to grant a competent Ayde to King H. 3. to be imployed by common consent for the benefit of the Realm and not drawn into consequence 396 To the Archbishop of Dablin to excommunicate those who refused to surrender the Kings Castles to him without any appeal 397. Sent Legates into all parts of the world to exact undue exactions in all places Otto his Nuncio sent into England with Letters to the King demanding two Prebendaries to be granted him in every Cathedral and the allowance of 2. Monks in every Monastery where the Abbot Covent had distinct interests to prevent the old scandal of avarice bribery Simony râ—pine of the Church and Court of Rome occasioned through her poverty extortions delayes of Justice which the King Clergy opposed as prejudicial to the Crown Church kingdom 397 398 400 4001. The like proposals by his Legat in France with the French Bishops answer thereto as destructive to the Church and Realm 400 His Legates procurations rapines 398 401 402. His Letters to Geoffry de Lizimaco reprehending him for the breach of his Oath of Fealty and Allegeance to K. H. 3. which ought not to be violated or discharged by any contrary Oath commanding him inviolably to observe it under pain of excommunication without any appeal 402 403. Granted published a Croysado against the Earl of Tholouse and Albigenses He prohibited the King of England and his Nobles to invade France during that Kings wars against the Albigenses 403 404. Grants an ayde to the King from the Clergy and Religious of England and Ireland which they were compelled to pay by Ecclesiastical censures without any appeal on which this Pope refused to relieve them 406 407. His Bull against granting procurations to aliens and Italians in England after the death of those aliens who then enjoyed them leaving them to their Patrons free disposal 778 779. His large Bull of old priviledges confirmed re-granted to the Abbot and Monastery of St. Albans an annual rent of one Ounce of gold reserved for it to him and his successors in derogation of the Kings prerogative Appendix 20 to 25. The Emperor Fredericks Oath to him to defend the rights and possessions of the Church of Rome to his power 656. Honorius 4. demanded of Edward 1. the arrears of 3. years rent granted by King John for England and Ireland who refused or neglected to pay it 313. 1. INnocent 3. persecuted the Emperor Otho 5. excommunicated deposed vanquished him in barrel set up Fred. 2. 259 260 539 753. displeased with King John in the beginning of his reign for his divorce from his Wife by his Norman Prelates against the Canons obligation and for detaining the Bishop of Belvoir in prison notwithstanding his frequent Letters for his inlargement still he paid a great ransom and took an Oath of him never after to bear arms 227. His Letter to King John to protect the Archdeacon of Richmond against the Archbishop of Yorks oppressions 231. To Archbishop Geoffry to absolve the Archdeacon excommunicated by him after his appeal to Rome else others to absolve him in his default Taxed Geoffry with rebelling against the See of Rome whose authority he still contemned 232. He endeavours to make St. Davids an Archbishoprick as formerly grants it to Gilardus Archdeacon of Brechin by his provision authorized the Bishops of Durham Lincoln Ely to consecrate him if Archbishop Hubert refused which he refusing to do the King by Writs prohibited all of his Diocesse upon their allegeance not to own receive Gilardus as Bishop but oppose him to their power declared him a publike enemy to his prerogative a disturber of the publike peace the Archbishop nulled his election forced him to resign his Archdeaconry to him to become his Chaplain the King nominated and Archbishop consecrated another Bishop in his stead commanding all to aid receive assist him against Gilardus and so quite nulled this Popes first Provision 334 to 338. The first introducer of Papal provisions 377 378 777 778. His decision of a Controversie between the Bishops of Dole and Turon 334. Of a turbulent haughty spirit like Hildebrand Grants a Croysado Ayde for releif of the Holy Land His Bulls Letters concerning its taxing collecting in France and England those Kings Nobles consents to proceedings therein 238 to 241. King Johns appeal to his Legate in Ireland against the Suffragan Bishops of Ardmach endeavouring to elect consecrate an Archbishop without his precedent license or confirmation 240 241. His Letter to King John to bestow the Bishoprick of Carlisle on the Archbishop of Ragusa who at his request conferred it on him and a living granted him by the Archbp of Yorke 241. He nulls the clandestine election of the Monks of Canterbury of their Subprior without the Kings precedent license His exhortatory Epistle to them for unity nulls their second election by the Kings license though approved by him enforced the Monks at Rome to elect Stephen Langton a Cardinal without the Kings license against his consent or their fellow Monks in England there presently consecrated him Archbishop writ Letters sent rings and precious stones to the King to perswade him to receive and admit him Archbishop 244 to 249. The King for this high affront by armed force expelled the Prior Monks of Canterbury putting others in their places sent a menacing Letter to this Pope for his unjust refusal of the Archbishop duly elected approved confirmed by him and consecrating Langeton his enemy publikely conversing with his enemies of France without his royal assent or the Monks due election to the derogation of the rights of his Crowne and dignity which he admired at he not considering how England had been and was more beneficial to the See of Rome then all the kingdomes on this side the Alpes That he would stand for the rights of his Crown and defend his Clerks due election to the Archbishoprick to death threatning he would suffer none to passe out or through his Territories to Rome nor any of his Bishops or Prelates to go thither for justice unlesse he granted his requests The Popes insolent Letter in answer thereunto his Letters to 3. English Bishops earnestly to perswade admonish him to receive Langeton for Archbishop else to interdict the whole Realm till his submission to it their proceedings therein and interdicting the whole Realm 250 to 255. He deprives the white Monks of the Liberty granted to others for officiating during the interdict at the Kings command 255 256. He excommunicated King John for contemning his Interdict banishing the Bishops and their
Interdict of all the Kings Officers and others who by his command offered violence to the Monks of Cant. and shed their blood in the Church of Faversham to which the King and Monks laid Title the Kings Prohibitions Writs sent to his Delegates not to execute it as being derogatory to his Crown the Popes contrary Letters to proceed therein with the issue of it Appendix 6 to 16. Sends Otto into England and other Nuncioes into all parts of the world to exact undue exactions from them 398. Innocent the 4. His election after a long vacancy 605 651. Being confirmed he ratified the Excommunication denounced against the Emp. Fredoric stirred up the Citizens of Viterbium against him caused sundry to revolt from him in Germany soon after his election 651 652. He refused all offers of peace cautions tendred by the Emperor for performance thereof raised new discords wars against him to the great danger of Christendome and Christianity then invaded by the Turks Saracens Tartars whereupon the Emperor stopped all passages to Rome 652 755 758. His unsatiable thirst after money 652. He flies from Rome with his Cardinals to Lyons secretly in a disguise The King and Nobles consult whether they should receive him as conceiving him prejudicial to the King and kingdom they refuse to admit him into France or Rhemes whose Archbishoprick was then void 653 654. Their Letter to him denying his entrance into lower France 654. He desires K Henry that he might come into England wherein he had a special right to honour it with his presence but is denied he spoyling defiling it by his Extortions Simony Usurers though nor personally present the stink of his Papal Court and infamy ascended to the clouds 654. He endeavoured to deprive the Emperor 653. 753. The Kings appeal to him against the Bishop of Winton being neither duly elected nor presented to him for his confirmation to the prejudice of his Royal right and dignity The Bishop gives the Pope 8000 Marks to procure his peace and free him from a contempt against the King 589 590 591 592. His Decree between the Monks of Canterbury and Bishop of Lincolne during the vacancy 599. He desires the prayers of the Cistercians in their General Chapter for the state of the wavering Church 604. His Legates rapines provisions Extortions in England 605. The Kings Letters of Complaint against them 606. Endeavours to subject Wales to himself under an annual Tribute absolves the Prince of Wales from his subjection and allegiance to K. H. 3. against his Charter Oath encouraging him in his rebellion against him 609. His Letters to all the Prelates of England in general and each of them in particular purchased with the effusion of much money to grant a competent ayde to the King highly applauded in them 609 610. The Prelates unanimously opposed them being conjoyned and complain of the Popes rapine provisions by his agents 610 611 612. His Letters to the English Prelates for a supply of his own and the Church of Romes necessities which they and the Emperors agents in England contradict 612 613 614 615. His Nuncioes rapines extortions Ibid. 619. His daily Bulls sent into England to extort monies prohibited to be imported searched after in Dover and other Ports by publike order and their importers imprisoned 617. A prohibition to tax collect or pay any Tax to this Pope or his agents in England or Ireland 618 His Nuncio chased out of England at which this Pope extraordinarily raged 619 620 resolved to make peace with the Emperor whom he stiled the Dragon that so he might trample the petty Kings and Serpents of England and other Countries under foot which incensed the hearts of many against him 620. The King of Scots Charter of League with K. H. 3. sent to him to confirm he and his Nobles subjecting themselves and their heirs thereby to his Jurisdiction and Ecclesiastical censures in case they violated it 620 621. He absolved David Prince of Wales from his Oath Homage Charters made to King H 3. exciting him to rebell against him by putting himself and all his Land under the Popes protection to be held of him under an annual rent of 500 markes His Bull for that purpose notwithstanding which K. H. 3. wasted Wales with fire and sword reducing it to extream misery desolation 621 622 623 624. William the elect Bishop of Coventry voluntarily resigned his Bishoprick into his hands being opposed by the King 624 625. The Bishops of England made advanced by him more addicted to him then to the kingdom or King 626 627. He granted Archbishop Boniface for money an unheard of priviledge of the first years fruits of all vacant benefices in his Province for seven years till he levyed ten thousand Marks thereby under pretext to defray the debts of his Church Which his Suffragan Bishops opposed but were inforced to submit to by Excommunications and Ecclesiastical censures published in all Churches against those who should speak against detract from it or fraudulently substract any of the firstfruits 626 683 684 689 718 719. He consecrated Boniface Archbishop and Richard de Withz Bishop of Cicester Roger de Wesâ—ham Bishop of Coventry elected against the Kings will and appealed against at Lions to his great affront and the kingdomes prejudice for which he confiscated their goods seised detained their temporalties and kept them out of their Cities for a long time 625 626 627. He granted Philip Ball a Souldier employed as his General in the wars for a great summe of money to hold by Commenda all his â—ents in England the profits of the Bishoprick of Valentia Archbishoprick of Lions and other Churches in Flanders England France who took no care at all of the peoples souls nor to exercise his Episcopal office 626 627 642. Summoned celebrated a General Council at Lions 623 c. 753. He granted the Bishop of Lincoln after an infinite expence of mony and great gifts a priviledge against the Canons to visit the Dean and Chapter of Lincolne to correct their manners without taking an Oath of Canonical obedience or manual subscription His Bull and definitive sentence therein 629 630. A prohibition and appeal by the King against his drawing any of his Subjects in suiâ— before him out of the Realm 628. What arrears of the annual Tribute were paid him by King H. 3. and upon what occasion 311. His Dispensation for some of the Kings Clerks to hold pluralities 632. Freers Predicants and Minors the executors of his Papal extortions advanced enriched by his means 633. The King prohibited the Abbots Priors and Ecclesiastical persons to grant this Pope any aide or to meet about it without his royal assent 634. His summons of a General Council at Lyons by Bulls and Nuncioes sent into England and elsewhere 636 637. The King complains of his nulling Canonical elections to Bishopricks duly made and approved by him out of malice or upon feigned or frivolous pretences for advancing Bishops without his royal assent
contrary to his antient approved right in all former ages praying redresse thereof by a special Proctor 637. His Epistle to the King excusing the appearance of some Bishops and Abbots at the Council by reason they were Gardians of the Realm in his absence others undone by wars others aged or sick 638 643. He shamefully abused and cast out of his Palace the Abbot of Burgh for opposing his provision to a Church which he gave to one of his kinred so as he died of shame grief 638. The King sent soleâ—n Embassadors to this Council in his own and the kingdoms name to complain against his insatiable covetousnes execrable â—apines extortions provisions of Churches and other corruptions of the Court of Rome against King Johns Charter Tribute the Letters protestations of the whole kingdom against them the proceedings therein to which the Pope deferred his answer 299 300 638 636 644 645 646 647. The Kings Patents commanding all his Bishops Abbots in that Council upon their allegiance to use all diligence to acquire conserve and defend all the rights of his Crowne kingdom invaded by the Pope and not to attempt procure or assent to any thing therein to his or the kingdomes prejudice or of the rights his predecessors and he had used by antient approved custome that none of his Bishops should be translated by the Pope and Council but by consent of his Ambassadors and Proctor St. Martin for the benefit of the Realm 640. He set his study on fire before the Council wherein King Johns detestable Charter was burt on purpose to extort monies from the Bishops repairing to the Council 300 641. Sundry Abbots Bishops present him with vast sums of money and rich presents to the prejudice of their Churches whom he advanced to Archbishopricks by his Papal power 641 642. The Canons of Lions strenuously opposed his provisions swearing they would drown his provisors in the Rhene if they durst appear there whereupon they desisted 642. The hand of his Porter cut off by a Citizen of Lyons of which he complained desiring reparations which was done superficially in some sort to save his Papal honour 642. The Greek Church not only refuse to obey but opposed him the Church of Rome for their Simony claiming Primacy from St. Peters first residence at Antioch to which he could give no answer 643 352. He defers the Canonization of Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury canonized at last by him 643 644 685. He scornfully rejects the proffers of the Emperor by his Advocates to satisfie the Church and Prelates injured and defend the Christians against the Tartâ—s Turks Saracens incensed the whole Council against him except the King of Englands Ambassadors and Proctors 644 651 652. His sentence of Excommunication and deposition denounced against the Emperor in the Council sent into England and other places to be published to his infamie wherein he challenged a Soveraigne superintendency over all Christians as Christs Vicar and Peters successor the Top of Apostolical dignity power to advance censure punish depresse anathematize whom he pleased excommunicating him for breach of his Oathes invading the rights and possessions of the Church imprisoning sundry Cardinals Bishops when summoned to a Council to depose him imposing taxes upon the Clergy conventing them before secular Judges for criminal and civil causes which did not touch their fees imprisoning and executing some of them to the confusion and disgrace of their Clerical Order though for treason and rebellion against him contemning Pope Gregories former sentence of Excommunication against him marying his daughter to Bottacius an enemy to the Roman Church making a Peace with the Soldan of Babylon invading the Realm of Sicily the Special Patrimony of St. Peter and absolving the Inhabitants thereof and other places from their allegiance to the Church of Rome Chargeth him therein with heresie apostacy inclination to Mahometism other forged crimes absolving all his subjects from their former Oathes of allegiance to him and excommunicating all who should obey favour counsel or converse with him from thenceforth as Emperor or King which Excommunication was contrary to his own Canons made in that Council 652. to 660 757. Moved for a Croysado to raise monies forces against the Emperor which was publickly opposed to his face by the English because of his former manifold cheats abufes therein 660 666 753. The Emperours Notable speech Epistles against Popes insolencies usurpations and his abuse of his Papal power in deposing him charging him and Prelates with pride ingratitude avarice ambition contempt to Emperors Kings their advancers and the danger of such a president to all Christian Kings kingdoms sets his Crown on his head with his own hands professeth himself absolved from all obligations to him and free to oppose him for his tyranny 660 661 662. 753. Popes intollerable insolencies though of base birth ignominiously to insult over depose trample under feet all Emperors Kings Princes Prelates though innocent after Fredericks final deprivation as not so potent to resist them 662. His Papal Mandate to the General Chapter of the Cistercians justifying his excommunication and deposing of the Emperor for and in which he was prepared to stand fight unto death exhorting all of them and other his brethren immutably to stand sight for this cause of God and his Church together with him even to death 662 663. His priviledges promised to the English in the Council of Lyons To grant provisions and dispensations for pluralities of Livings to well deserving Englishmen of Noble families That the Clergy and Lay-patrons should freely present fit persons to their Ecclesiastical benefices as they fell void without contradiction That one Italian should not succeed another That all Crossed for the Holy Land should not be exempt from the usual customes of the Realm though from other things That all English Prelates newly advanced should â—or some few years hold all their former promotions by commendaes After which he other Popes nulled violated them all by Non obstante's oppressed the English more then ever 666. He refusing to give competent satisfaction to the English Ambassadors demands in the Counsil they departed thence in discontent swearing they would never hereafter pay or suffer to be payd the detestable Tribute granted by King John to the Roman avarice which the King likewise swore nor permit any rents of English Churches especially such whereof Noblemen were Patrons to be extorted from them which he with patience and silence passed by till a fitter time to revenge it 663. The English Bishops at his command most cowardly set their hands seals to the transcript of King Johns Charter then newly burnt to make it valid and subscribed published his excommunication against the Emperor 309 663. Upon which he expressing his former concealed causlesse rancor against the King kingdom Nobles for daring to demand their rights and liberties most insolently threatned that if he could tame Frederick he would then trample under feet the insolent pride of the petty
King of England his Vassal and the disobedient English whom he would not permit so much as to lament or mutter against the oppressions or Tribute they complained against in the Council exciting perswading the French King in a conference with him at Cluny to revenge this great injury by rising up and warring against the Petty King of England even to his disinheriting or so as to inforce him nolens volens to submit himself to the will of the Court of Rome in all things promising that the Church and he with all his Papal power would assist him therein which the King of France refused to do because of the consanguinity truce then between them and prevalency of the Pagans against the Christians in the Holy Land who expected his ayde 309 663 664. He oppressed pillaged the English more then ever before by sophistical Legates and Freers having the power but not name of Legates to evade the antient Priviledge of the King that no Legat should come into his Realm unlesse he first desired him seised upon the goods of all dying intestate against Law and former custom injuriously usurped the Lands of David Prince of Wales the Kings Nephew Vassal who was to hold it under him for 500 marks a year Tribute cited the King to satisfie David for certain pretended injuries done him to the hissing and derision of many To oppose redresse these insupportable grievances which the King kingdom could no longer tolerate without infamy and imminent ruine the King summoned a Parliament wherein he the Nobles and Prelates drew up 7. several Articles against his exactions grievances oppressions provisions Non-obstantes impleading the Subjects out of the Realm Taxes without the Kings assent and against his appeals provisions to Italians who neither preached nor resided on their benefices succeeded each other by frauds suffered their houses Churches to fall to ruine sent them by their Messengers to the Pope with 4. notable Epistles the 1. from the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Suffragans the 2. from all the Abbots Priors Covents of England the 3. from all the Nobility and Commonalty The 4. from the King with another to the Cardinals relating the Nobles peoples weeping clamors against them urging him speedily to redresse these grievances which else the Nobles threatned to do themselves with such perill dammage of the Church of Rome as could not easily be repaired 664 to 671. Who insteed of redressing those grievances in contempt of them and their Letters sent several Letters to divers Prelates to send or finde several men with horse and arms for half a year or more for his service which they were to do secretly and reveal to none under pain of excommunication to the prejudice of the kingdom King Knights service being only due to the King Nobles nor formerly exacted by Popes in any age He exacted golden Jewels and other ornaments made in England published an unheard of Statute that all Clergymens goods dying intestate should be converted to the Popes use which the Freers Minors were to execute Exacted by a New Bull a Subsidy of 60000 Marks from the Bishops Clergy of England to be divided between them and paid in with all speed notwithstanding any appeal priviledge constitution or Decree of a General Council Against which Taxes the King by provision made in Parliament issued several Prohibitions to Bishop not to collect or pay it because against his royal dignity which he neither would nor could by any means suffer 664 671 672 673 674 681 682. Shewed no moderation towards the King or his Ambassadors neither in words nor gestures concerning their grievances complaints against him but said the King Frederized he hath his Counsil and I have mine which I will pursue would scarce look on any English man but repelled reviled all of them as Schismaticks slighting all the Kings and Nobles Epistles sent to his Court whereat they were very angry The King prohibits by Writ that no Prelate or Clerk in any County should consent to or send any money to ayde him or obey his commands therein whereat he being much incensed sent a second Letter to all English Prelates to pay the ayde demanded under pain of Excommunication threatning to interdict the Realm if refused whereupon the King by perswasions of Earl Richard some ambitious Clergymen and Papal Bishops whereof Worcester was chief terrified with his Papal threats so that he trembled at them desisted from his former manly resolutions sent Messengers to pacifie and tell him he would comply with his desires whereof he was very joyfull 675 676. He stiled England an unexhausted pit where many things abounding he might thence extort much 671. The English like Bâ—laams Asse beaten with his spurs and clubs were necessitated lamentably to cry out 670 671 672 676. He observing the Cowardise division of the English Clergy oppressed them daily more and more imperiously demanded the moity of all Non-residents and 3d part of all Residents Livings under hard conditions by detestable Non obstantes which the King specially prohibiting the English Clergy denyed to grant as impossible for sundry reasons they drew up against it 676 677 678. England ground as by two Milstones between the King and this Pope The Archdeacons and other Clergy in a Parliament summoned lamentably complain of their intollerable exactions to the desolation of the Church Realm whereupon they resolved to present their Grievances in order by Messengers and Letters to this Pope and his Cardinals in the name of all the Clergy people of the Realm at which Letters the Pope and Court of Rome murmured because their avarice was so reproved restrained and to prevent the danger of a revolt from them reduced the 60000 to 11000 Marks which the Bishops to avoyd the Popes displeasure assented to against the Kings Nobles Letters and inferiour Clergies wills 678 679 680. His grants of Commendaes for money to engage the Bishops to whom they were granted to side with him 680. His politick Innovation when Wars were between two Princes to excommunicate at the request of one of them who fled to him for assistance the opposite party to suppresse him and absolve assist the other to oblige him perpetually to him 680. He imployed the Freers Minors and Predicants to collect monies to War against the Emperor whiles the Tartars and Saracens over-run the Christians to whom he would send no ayd to resist them 643 649 650 652 664 680. He stirs up Wars in Germany against the Emperor Frederick causing them to elect the Landegrave Emperor who refused it 651 680 681 753. The Emperor layes wait to seise all monies coming from England to the Pope or his corrivals 680 681. His hypocritical Statutes concerning the pretended relief of the Holy Land and Letters to the Freers Minors to collect it to enquire of the goods of all persons dying intestate of all Usurers and others goods ill gotten of goods left upon Testament undevised or to be distributed to pious uses according
the Kings great enormous disinheriting he sent his Proctor to him to plead his right and prohibited his Delegates upon their allegiance not to attempt any thing to his or his Clerks prejudice under pain of seising their Baronies 725 726. His detestable infamous avarice symony usuries abuse of Croysadoes and promoting them by Freers which scandals rendred him and his Papelins odious and made the devotion of many to wax cold 728 729. His infamous Priviledge to the Bishop of Norwich to extort monies and mouse-traps to catch such who took up the Crosse 729. His grant of a Croysado to the French King upon condition to give him power afterwards to extort as much thence against the Emperor Frederick the horrid crying extortions used therein Gods curse upon those rapines by the total overthrow of the French Army and taking their King Captive by the Saracens which caused many Christians to apostatize utter blasphemies and almost ruined France 733 734. The Kings Prohibition to put a Dean into St. Carantoc by his Provision belonging to his presentation by the vacancy of the Bishoprick of Exon 736. The Templars and others appeals to him against Bishop Grosthead who by money given to the Pope purchased his favour and exemption from the Bishop to his shame who cryed out thereupon O money money how potent art thou in the Court of Rome the Popes indignation thereupon 737 740. His Letters to Grosthead upon the Kings complaint to absolve the Kings Sheriff and Officers from an Excommunication against them for executing the Kings Writs 738. He favoured Archbishop Boniface in his rapines and oppressions 740 741. His new Decretal concerning Archbishops and Bishops Visitations Procurations against exactions Visitation Oaths and coactions by which Archbishop Boniface intended to visit his Province 743 744. His Letters for nulling and reversing the Archbishops sentence of Excommunication against the Chapter of Pauls and Bishop of London upon an appeal against it 745 746. His detestable Provision to a Bastard and illiterate Foreigner against right and piety to the Church of Westele decreeing all acts attempted against it voyd to put his Proctor into and keep him in possession of it removing all others excommunicating all opposers without any appeal 746. His request to King H. 3. to remove to Burdeaux and from thence to passe into England to fleece corrupt it in person worse then his Usurers or Nuncioes He for money hindred those who had taken the Crosse to ayd the French King absolved them from their peregrination sold them to Earl Richard and other Nobles as the Jews used to sell Oxen and Doves in the Temple whereat the English were highly offended with him 746 747. Archbishop Boniface goes to his Court in person to fortifie himself against his Suffragans and their Appeals by his Papal authority he and the Court of Rome being shaken like a reed with winds hither and thither by money intervening 747 748. His provision to and vexation of the Abbot of St. Albans 842 843 844 846 847. He courtenanced the Bishop of Winton against the King for which he obliged his Bishoprick to him in unestimable debts 748. He confirms Eâ—bâ—lmar though unfit in the Bishoprick of Winton for money gifts licensing him and other Bishops for money to retain all their former benefices rents promotions together with their Bishopricks 749 750 751 752. He preferred by Provisions any unfit scandalous illiterate persons covetous Romans and others contemners of souls to Bishopricks benefices for money for which he was by Gods justice deservedly expelled from Rome forced like Cain to wander from place to place he trampled England more vilely under his feet where Religion most flourished oppressed spoyled it more then any other Nation when no English men had any preferment in Italy or other Realms whence they prayed the God of vengeance to whet his sword against him and his Nuncioes provisions and make it drunk in their blood 750. He oppressed the Church of God more then all his predecessors not considering the scourge of God upon him 753. His unchristian practises and Innovations in setting up and openly protecting Usurers in England against the Old and New Testament condemning Usury suffering them to dwell amongst Christians in conferring Benefices by Provisions for money on barbarous Romans who never came into England nor took care of the peoples souls in erecting many Orders of Freers and imploying them to promote collect his rapines taxes Croysadoes armed with many Papal powers and licensing them to purchase great possessions against their Vows Orders yea disturbing all Christendome with Wars out of malice and hatred against the Emperor to the danger of the Universal Church and Christianity 753 754. He induced Peter de Vinea by great bribes promises to poyson destroy the Emperor Frederick who most confided in and imployed him his exclamation against the Pope for his treachery and persecutions at his death 754 755. By Pope Innocent 3 Gregory 9. and his Excommunications Wars persecutions depositions of the Emperors Otho and Frederick the Imperial Soveraignty withered away 753. His implacable malice to the Emperor 755. His exemption of the Kings Houshold Clerks from payment of First-fruits granted by him to Archbishop Boniface 758. His Non-obstantes made presidents for King Henry to avoyd his Charters 760. The more potent he was the more grievous to oppresse 761. His Papal Balls Provisions frequently contradicted by Bishop Grosthead who said he should Satanize if he obeyed them 762. He summoned the Dean and Chapter of Pauls to appear before him at Archbishop Boniface his suit from whose sentence he had absolved them 762. The Abbot of Westminster his Chaplain attends long in his Court bound in great debts for him to quell the Monks who were backed by the King whose foundation it was 763 764. Prelates and Religious persons reduced to extreme servitude by him all their former priviledges subverted by his detestable Non-obstantes 765. His strange Provision of Foreigners to St. Albans he became a stepfather and the Church of Rome a step-mother to England alienating their hearts from them by intollerable contempts injuries oppressions persecutions 765. He granted King H. 3. a Disme for three years towards his voyage to the Holy Land only to spoyle well-affected Christians of their monies by this pretext which the Prelates oppose 766 767 768 770 771 772 773 774. His Indulgences granted to those who took up the Crosse 768. The Pope and King assist each other in their rapines oppressions tyranny exactions which exasperated most mens hearts stirred them up generally against the Church of Rome extinguished the fire of devotion towards and caused a defection of their hearts from her 772 773. Many Schoolmasters for great sums of money got licenses from him not to reside upon their benefices or take Orders under pretext of teaching School which Grosthead oppugned 574. His Bull for augmentation of small Vicaredges out of Religious houses impropriations 774 775. He sent Albert his Nuncio to prohibit King H.
first Popes who sent abroad Legates Nuncioes Letters to summon General Councils the antient prerogative of Emperors that to excommunicate deprive the Emperor who prohibited their meeting 652 653 753 755. The King of France and Richard Earl of Cornwall imployed them to raise moneyes and Dismes for the Holy Land the extortions exactions therein and sad issue of them to the irreparable dammage of France England and scandall of Christianity 733 734. The antient Priviledge of the Kings of England and Scotland that no Legat à latere should come into any of their Dominions by the Popes mission unlesse at the Kings special instant request to the Pope who eluded this Priviledge by sending Nuncioes Chaplains Clerks Freers Minors or Predicants into their Realms with the full power not Titles or Ensigns of Legates 485 486 469 492 493 615 671 690 692 693 960 1014. Some Irish Bishops without the Kings privity endeavouring to procure a Legate to be sent thither the King upon notice there of by his Chief Justice and others writes to the Pope to send no Legate thither against his will 458. Pope Gregory the 9th his Legare imprisoned for stirring up sedition in Lombardy against the Emperor 513 516. Three Legates with sundry Archbishops Bishops taken by the Emperors Galleys going to a Council upon Pope Gregory the 9th his summons Letters of encouragement against the Emperors advice and inhibition to depose him confiding in the strength of their conductors the Popes authority and Emperors disability to hurt them being excommunicated 553 to 557. A ALbertus Innocent the 4 his Notary prohibits King Henry to infest any of the French Kings lands however possessed whiles crossed imployed in his Holy Wars 723. 776. Profers the kingdom of Apulia Sicily and Calabria to Richard Earl of Cornwall to drain his treasure reports his answer refusal of it to the Pope 776 777 788. acquires many benefices in England then returns 777. P. Albinensis sent to the Emperor Frederick by Pope Honorius to take his engagement to go to the Holy Land and denounce him excommunicated if he went not 412. Alexander a Freer Minor armed with many formidable Papal Bulls covering his wolvish rapine with a sheeps skin his and his Companions rapines pride insolency 690 691. See John Archbishop of Messana a Freer Predicant sent into England by Pope Alexander with great Pomp and many attendants at the Bishop of Rochesters sollicitation to relieve him against Archbishop Boniface his oppressions and about the businesse of Sicily returned with rich rewards 928 932. Ardritius Primicerius Pope Martin the 4th his Chaplain and Nuncio in England to receive his Arrears of the annual Tribute 312 313. Arlot or Herlot Pope Alexander 3. his Nuncio in England sent for by King Henry 3. to excoriate it with new Papal Taxes the Popes Notary and special Clerk wanting the name not dignity power of a Legate his Pomp and attendants 930 931. Demands an infinite summe of money of the King for Apulia for which the Pope was obliged to his Merchants 931 932 942 943. The Kings and Parliaments answer to the Pope concerning Arlots proposals 942 944 945. The King bestowes an annuity on his Nephew which the Pope writes to him to continue for Arlots good affection to and service for him 952 953. His Nephew preferred to Ouston Church The Kings Writs to keep him in quiet possession of it 974 975. The Custody of sundry Wards and their Lands granted to another of his Nephews 991. B. BEraldus Albanensis a Cardinal sends his Chaplain to collect Procurations in Ireland where he seems to have been Legate the Kings Writ to his Justice Officers to assist him therein 559. Berardus de Nympha comes armed into England with Pope Innocent the 4th his Bulls to collect money from the Cruce signati for Earl Richard his rapines injustice therein 730 731 732 932 933. Popes blank Bulls found in his Chest after his death containing manifold machinations of the Romans to debase and oppresse England 939. B. Presbyter Cardinal Tit. Sanct. Johannis Pauli Popes Legat in France King Henry the 3d. his complemental Letter to him to prohibit any injury to be done by the Crucesignati against the Albigenses to any of his Subjects 375. C. CIncius a Roman Clerk Canon of Paul taken imprisoned by the Barons and people making an insurrection against them and the Popes agents for their intollerable oppressions of the English 434 435 436. D. DUrandus a Templar sent with Pandulphus by Innocent 3. to reconcile the exiled Bishops to King John their insolent speeches deportment toward King John See Pandulph 261 to 265. G. GOdefridus Gifridus de Vezanâ— a Clerk of Pope Martin the 4. his Chamber his Nuntio to King Edward 1. to demand receive the arrears of the annual Tribute granted by King John 312 313 314. Sent Legate into Scotland by Innocent 4. only to attract money thence 692. Gualo or Walo a Presbyter Cardinal of S. Martins His arrival in England Joyfully received by King John excommunicates Lewes and all his adherents with Bells and Candles at Gloucester and Simon de Langeton who appealed against it as null 362. King John placed his chief hope of resisting his enemies in him ibid. Is very active in setting up crowning King H. 3. after his fathers death causing him to do homage to the Church of Rome and Pope Innocent for England and Ireland and to swear faithfully to pay the annual rent for them which his father had granted so long as he enjoyed those Realms 306 360 369 370. Caused Lewes to be solemnly excommunicated every holyday Lords day with ringing Bells and Candles till he made Peace with King Henry and departed the Realm 362 370 371. Vpon what conditions he absolved him Ibid. He deprived Simon Langeton Archdeacon of Canterbury and Gervase de Hobrâ—gge who obstinately adhered to Lewes and the Barons and celebrated divine service mysteries to them and the Londoners after their excommunication of their benefices for which they were compelled likewise to go to Rome 362 371. He sent Inquisitors through all provinces of England suspending depriving them of their benefices for the smallest faults adhering to the Barons bestowing their Livings on his own Creatures Clerks enriched with others spoyls Received 1000 Marks from Hugh Bishop of Lincoln and vast sums from other Bishops and religious persons Canons exhausting their purses and reaping where he did not sow to make one grand heap out of many portions which the King then an Infant was forced to connive at 371 372. He bare sway in King H. 3. his Counsils who sealed some Writs Patents with his Seal before his own Seal mades and usurped on his Crown during his minority without opposition 372. Sent for the Bishop of Waterford into England to help consecrate the Bishop of Carlisle 373. His Ordinance concerning restoring the alienated Impropriations to the Bishoprick of Kâ—rliol at the Kings request 421. 376. Sent into France by Pope Innocent to
prohibit the French Kings invasion of England after King Johns surrender of his Crown to the Pope as St. Peters Patrimony who denyed it and sent Lewes into England notwithstanding his menaces of excommunication 257 258. The Kings Letters to him at Rome after his return rendring him thanks for setling the peace of the Realm and craving his assistance to the Pope to encourage those who were faithfull to and excommunicate such who rebelled against or detained his Castles Lands which was effected accordingly 389 to 392. Guido Cardinal Bishop of St. Sabien sent by Pope â—rban the 4. to the Emperor to take his obligation for his voyage to the Holy Land denounced an excommunication against him if he went not 412. arrived in England at the Kings request to excommunicate the Barons and others then in arms against him the king safe conduct to him and his 1014. An Arbitrator with the King of France between the King and Barons concerning the reformation of the State of the Realm of England 1002 1006. The King sent Simon de Montsort to him concerning that affair desiring his safe conduct in going to and returning from him 1006. The King sends to him to proceed by way of Clemency rather then rigor 1014 1015. He dares nor enter England for fear of the Barons Cites some of the English Bishops to Ambian first then to Bullen he denounced a sentence of excommunication against the English Barons in arms the City of London to be pronounced with sounding Bells and Candles which he committed to some Bishops and other Nobles present to execute The Barons Londoners appeal against it as unjust to the Pope to better times to a General Council and to God the supreme Judge which Appeal was afterward ratified executed in England by the Bishops and Clergy in the Council of Reading 1015. His interdict of them intercepted at Dover by the Citizens taken from the Bishops torn in peeces and cast into the Sea in contempt ibid. He dissolved the Barons Statutes Leagues Confederacies against the King absolving all from the bond of the Oath taken to observe them 1015 1016. He returned to Rome after his excommunication and interdict denounced 1018. Sent Popes Legâ—t to the Kings of Denmark Sweden and Norway to crown and anoint him received many gifts procurations from Bishops Abbots Priors in passing through England thither staying here 3. moneths without resuming the covetousnesse of the Romans cost the Bishop of Norwich alone 4000 marks in gifts and entertainments received 15000 marks sterling for the Pope from the Kings of Denmark Norway and Sweden many rich gifts for himself and extorted 500 Marks from the Churches of that Realm 697. I. IAmes Bishop of Bononia specially sent into England by Pope Alexander the 4. to invest Edmund in the kingdom of Sicily with a ring 822 826 870 932. The Kings oath and obligation taken before him to perform the hard conditions upon which the Pope granted Sicily to his Sonne Edmund Ibid. His obligation to him in 4000 l. Turon and Writ to pay it out of the Crosse-money 867. James the Popes Chaplain and Penitentiary the Kings Patent to his Justice Nobles and others in Ireland to receive him with the honor and reverence due to the Popes Legat to advise assist him require his Counsil and advise if any new things hapned there touching the King or State of the kingdom 382. John de Diva an English Freer 932 an hypocritical sophistical Legate armed with many Papal Bulls to extort moneyes from the English for Pope Innocent the 4th under dreadfull penalties and fulminations he exacts 6000 marks only out of Lincoln Diocesse Grostheads answer to him 690 691 692. His exactions at St. Albans appealed against who demanded 300 marks notwithstanding the appeal to be paid within 8 dayes under pain of excommunication and interdict which the Pope upon an appeal caused them to pay His extraordinary extortions violent proceedings notwithstanding all priviledges exemptions cluded by Non obstantes and new powers from the Pope 692 693 694 695. The Popes Pull to him to inquire of all Lands alienated from Churches Monasteries vexations by Provisors all Simoniacal contracts for livings to seise them to the Popes use and excommunicate interdict all opposers without appeal 695 696. his depredations extortions ibid. 698. John Ferentinus Pope Innocent 3. his Legate in England holds a Council at Redings exacts much money and then returns to Rome 245. John de Frussyn Popes Clerk Nuncio into Ireland to collect money for the Holy Land and absolve such who laid violent hands on Clerks the Kings Writ to the chief Justice to receive him yet commanding to suffer him to exercise no other Legatine power till further Order 634. John de Kancia Pope Urban the 4. his Nuncio into England to receive the arrears of the 1000 Marks rent 310. John Ruffin or Rufus sent by Martin and Pope Innocent 4. into Ireland to collect monies there without the title ensign but power of a Legat he extorts 6000 Marks from the Clergy there notwithstanding the Kings prohibition 618 690. John Sarracenus Dean of Wells Popes Collector of Disms and dispenser of his provisions 718 731 736. John a Cardinal Priest of St. Stephens in Mount Caelius Popes Legat in Ireland unites the Bishoprick of Lismore to Watersord p. 373. The Kings appeal to him against the Suffragans of Ardmachs attempts to deprive him of his antient prerogative of granting Licenses to elect their Archbishop and confirm him when elected 240. M. MAnsuetus Pope Innocent 4. his Chaplain and Penitentiary sent to K. H. about the League with France the Kings applause of his meeknesse diligence 944. Marinus Pope Innocent 4. his Chaplain another Martin sent into England to fish for mens goods not souls in the Sea of this world having the power not Title of a Legate to deceive the King 691. Martin Pope Innocent the 4 his Sophistical Legate without that Name Ensign but with an infinite large poâ—er sent into England to extort moneyes armed with Bulls to excommunicate suspend and by manifold ways to punish all as well Bishops Abbots as others who opposed his extortions rapines provisions of Benefices rents to the use of the Popes Clerks and kinsmen 605 615. He ravenously writ for extorted gifts garments palfreys from them suspending those who refused though upon reasonable excuses till satisfaction 605 606 615. seised upon and bestowed the Treasurership rents of Sarum on his little Nephew by the Popes provision in despite of the Bishop Dean Chapter to the cordial grief of many 606 615. 616. His intollerable rapines provisions excited the King Nobles against him who write Letters to the Pope to redresse them 607 608 613. He twice summoned the English Bishops and Clergy for a contribution to the Pope and their mother the Church of Rome against the Emperor their answer to him and Kings prohibtion to them not to grant him any ayde under pain of forfeiting their Baronies 614 615 632. His intollerable
extortions and suspending all to present to benefices of 30 marks value or upward till his and the Popes covetousness was satisfied the English men bore heavier burdens under him then the Israelites susteined in Egypt 615. The Kings memorable prohibitions to him against his intolerable provisions rapines who perseveres in them with a stony heart notwithstanding 616. The Cinqueports garded to interrupt the Popes Bulls Provisions sent to him by many execrable means his Messenger imprisoned in Dover Castle but released upon his complaint by the King 617. The Kings prohibitions by advise of his Nobles to all the Bishops in England and Chief Justice in Ireland not to suffer him or any other Nuncio to collect any moneys for the Pope or conferr any benefices without his privity and consent 618 619. The Nobles Message to him in behalfe of the whole kingdome to depart the Realm within 3. dayes else they would hew him and all his in peeces The Kings answer to him thereon wishing the Devil to take him demanding his protection against the Nobles fury His speedy timorous flight and shamefull retreat out of England 619 620. His complaint to the Pope against the English for casting his Nuncio so ignominiously out of England whence he and the Romans extorted no lesse then 60000 Marks a year by provisions and other exactions 620. He accuseth the Abbot of Burgh in the Council of Lyons to Pope Innocent 4. for opposing a provision for which he was disgracefully cast out of the Popes palace and dyed of grief 638. The Complaint of the Nobles and Vniversality of England against him in their Letter sent to the Pope in that Council as having exercising greater power then ever any Legat had or used before without the Name of a Legat and of his new unreasonable suspentions of presentations provisions rapines 646 692. N. NIcholas Bishop of Tusculum a Cardinal Legate à latere from Innocent 3. into England at King Johns request to reconcile the Crown and Miter curbe the power rebellion of Stephen Archbishop of Canterbury and the Barons rising against him King Johns Writ Messengers sent to meet and entertain him his Pompous reception entertainment with Processions Psalms in all Cities Churches 287. The speedy increase of his horse from 7. to 50 besides his other family His penance enjoyned the Townsmen of Oxford for hanging 2. Clerks by the Kings command 287. He deprives the Abbot of Westminster and two more for dilapidations and incontinency placing others in their rooms 287 Appendix 18. His Treaty with King John and award of dammages to the exiled Bishops 287 288. King Johns infamous Charter of resignation of his Kingdoms annual rent homage fealty to the Pope extorted by delivered to him before the release of the Interdict 288 289 290. Pope Innocents Letter to him concerning the filling of vacant Churches with worthe persons canonically elected faithfull to the King profitable to the kingdom with the Kings consent his filling them and all vacant benefices with unworthy persons his own Clerks without the Archbishops Bishops Patrons assents suspending Clerks at his pleasure summoning them to appear before the Pope to their intolerable grievance expence his tyranny therein 329 330. Holds a great Council at Pauls concerning the Bishops damages releaseth the interdict by the Popes Letters for that purpose 331 333. The King grants him the Custody of the Abby of St Edmunds except escheats and vacancies of Churches and a protection against disturbance therein 333. Grants a safe conduct to an Italian at his request to come into England upon security given that no hurt should accrue to the King or kingdom by him or any who came with him 333. His answer to Abbots and others not mentioned in the Popes Bull who required dammages during the Interdict 334. A Writ to him to deal mercifully with such Clergy-men who lesse offended in communicating with obeying or receiving any benefice from the King during his excommunication interdict and not to inforce all of them being so great a multitude to go personally to the Pope for absolution 334 335 The Kings Letter to him to confirm Si places the Abbot of Burâ—on duly elected and approved by the King 351 352. He confirmed the election of the Dean of Sarum to the Bishoprick of Durham without and against the Kings or Popes assent out of zeal without knowledge 353 354. The Kings Writ to him as Popes delegate concerning the union of the Abby of Glastonbury to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells 357 358. Mr. de Nogeriis Pope Gregory the 10. his Chaplain Nuncio to King Edw. 1. to collect Peter-pence demand the annual Tribute and for other affaires of the Church in the parts of England Wales Scotland and Ireland 311 312. O. Mr. OTto Pope Honorius 3. his Nuncio to King H. 3. his arrival Letters demands from the Pope for which the King summoned a General Council of the Clergy and Laity 398. He mediates a reconciliation between the King Falcatius de Brent and his Wife judicially banished for Treason demands two Marks by way of Procuration from all Conventual Churches of England 398 402. His demands of two dignities and two Monks portions in all Cathedrals Monasteries to free the Church Popes of Rome from the old great infamy usual scandal of Covetousness great expence of money delay of justice bribery occasioned by the poverty of the Church of Rome with the Kings Bishops Nobles indignation at and denyal of it 398 399 400 401. Suddenly recalled by the Pope through the Archbishops means whiles collecting Procurations He with a dejected countenance burns the Popes Letters to recall him and departs England 401 402. Otto Cardinal Deacon of St. Nicholus in Carcere Tulliano Pope Gregory the 9th his Legate sent for into England by the King without the Nobles privity Their great indignation against him for it and Archbishops dislike thereof as prejudicial to his Metropolitical authority 485. His pompous reception with processions ringing of Bells his great authority receiving of gifts disposing of vacant Benefices to all who came with him whether worthy or unworthy 485. His moderation endeavours at first to reconcile differences to appease the indignation conceived against him 485 486. The King wholly swayed by his and the Popes Counsils he almost did nothing without him and adored his footsteps The Nobles indignation speeches against him for it 485 486. Present in the Parliament at York to mediate a Peace between the Kings of England and Scotland the Charter of Peace between them sworn to and ratified in his presence He desires leave of the King of Scots to enter as a Legate into Scotland to regulate Ecclesiastical affairs there as in England who answered That neither in his Fathers time nor of any his ancestors any Legate had entrance into Scotland neither would he permit it whiles he was in his right sences But if he entred at his own perill he must expect violence from his rude Subjects from which he was unable to
protect him yet he Knighted and bestowed some Lands on his Nephew 486 621. The Bishop of Winton presented him with 50 fat Oxen 100 Quarters of the best Wheat and 8 Tun of the strongest Wine for his Table Others presented him with handsome Palfiyes rich Vessels Furs Vestments and sundry other provisions of meat and drink 486. He kept close to the Kings side to avoyd danger holds a Council at St. Pauls in great Pontifical state reconciles the difference for precedency between the Archbishops some Nobles and the Kings Proctor sent thither to command and see they acted nothing to the prejudice of the King and Kingdom the Canons against Pluralities therein propounded opposed respited those for consecrating Churches Oath of Calumny then introduced c. passed in it 486 to 490. The rapines frauds corruptions of the Church Court of Rome expressed in Cardinal John Columna his private Letter to him which caused the Greek Church to depart from the Roman 489 490 491 492. Pope Gregories Letter to recall him from England because of the great tumults raised against him and prevent Englands revolt from Rome The King importunes the Pope for his stay as beneficial to him and his Kingdom issued Writs for his sale conduct and honourable entertainment to all his Officers Subjects 492 493 505 506. The great fray at Oxford occasioned by his Porters insolence assaulted by the Scholars at Oâ—ney Abby stiled a Usurer Simoniack ravisher of mens rents thirster after money a perverter of the King and subverter of the Kingdom forced to fly secretly from thence his and the Kings severe proceedings against the Scholars for it by Ecclesiastical censures Excommunications penances imprisonments almost to the ruine of the University 493 to 498 558. The Scholars humble submission and penance ere they could obtain absolution and liberty to return to Oxford Ibid. lodged at Conterbury in the Archbishops Palace 499. The Popes order to him to give sentence against the Canons in the case of Simon Montefort his marriage contract 500. He cited all the Abbots of the Black Order to appear before him to hear the Popes new Command for their regulation 503. Churches consecrated according to his new Constitutions 504. He summons the Bishops again to London who refuse to pay his Procurations Exactions bidding him demand them of the King who sent for him without their privity 506. Refused entrance into Scotland by the King thereof the second time His writing under his hand and seal to the Scots King that his admission into Scotland should not be drawn into consequence who took it away with him upon his private recesse He there collected the 13th part of all Prelates â—eneficed Clerks goods and sent it to the Pope 506. The Nobles Letters of complaint to the Pope against his conferring Benefices by Provision upon Aliens and other grievances which were like to drown the Ship of the Church 506 507 508. His answer to them with some reformation of Provisions as to Lay Patrons to prevent the English Nations total departure from Rome His Letters to this Legate restraining his Provisions to the Churches of Lay Patrons not of Ecclesiastical and poor Religious persons unable to resist his power 507 508. King H. 3. exceeding angry with him swears he repented that ever he called him into England for endangering his whole Realm dissipating the wealth thereof confounding right and wrong and caring for nothing but how to keep what he had unjustly gotten refusing to part with any thing for Peter Saracen his own Messenger taken prisoner by the Emperor imploring the King to pay his demanded ransome 509. Published Pope Gâ—egories Excommunication of the Emperor Frederick his Subjects absolution from their allegiance and seandalous traducing Letters to defame him at Pauls Church St. Albans and other places throughout England declaring him an open enemy of God and the Church to his great defamation and grief against which he vindicated his innocency by several Letters Answers 524 to 552. He prohibited the Crucesignati by the Popes command to repair to the Holy Land when they had prepared for their journey for which the vulgar sort of people mutinied and murmured much against him 512 513. The Emperor incensed against the King for this Legates collecting of monies in England imployed in Wars against him demands his present expulsion out of England as the Emperors and Kingdoms enemy 544. His impudent demand of Procurations for himself from the Clergy not exceeding the sum of 4. Marks for any Procuration His shamelesse exactions and diâ—â—gent scraping money together for the Popes use to the Kingdoms impoverishing 544 545. His publication of the Popes Bull in all Diocesses to compell those who had taken the Crosse on them and were unable or unwilling to go to the Holy Land to redeem their Vows by accesse to him without going to the Popes presence for so much money as they should have expended in the Voyage which gave great scandal to Christian people complaining of these Roman Mouse-traps to insnare the simple and wrest gold and silver from them 545 546. His exacting the 5th part of the goods of Aliens beneficed in England and of the Prelates Abbots Clergies goods to repulse the pretended injuries of the Emperor Frederick done to the Church the Prelates refuse to pay it as an unsupportable burden the desolation of the Church State of England made a prey like a Vineyard without an Hedge by every Roman passenger 546. The Emperors Letter to the King of England against his rapines who answered he durst not contradict the Popes will 547 548. He summons the Clergy to London by the Popes authority who deserted by the King becoming like Sheep delivered up to the bloody jaws of Wolves yielded to his intollerable exactions though resolved to appeal against and withstand them 549. He exhausted most of the Treasure of England engaged the King and English Prelates against the Emperor to conquer and depose him 551 553. His exempting the Benefices of the Popes Clerks Agents from Dismes payd by others 1048. The Kings Prohibition to him against holding Plea of a Pischary belonging to his Temporal Court Crown Dignity 558. Put to blush and silence by one convened before him denying Gregory to be Pope or Head of the Church or to have the power of St. Peter being a Symoniack Usurer Heretick and involved in sundry other crimes 560. The Kings Prohibition to him to exact the 5th or any other part of the Benefices of his Clerks attending on his service which he could by no means endure 561 562. The Monks of Canterbury claim their priviledge before him at Pauls in the presence of the Archbishop Bishops and many Nobles 565 Simon a Norman the chief cause of this Legates stay in England deprived of his Archdeaconry by the Pope 566. He is present at the consecration of Pauls Church and confirms the Indulgence of 14. years granted by the Bishop of London to all devoutly resorting to it to pray 566. Joynes with
415 421 424 436 470 476 490 492 506 507 512 513 539 540 546 611 to 621 639 to 649 664 665 to 687 690 to 699 716 717 730 to 736 746 747 752 753 754 766 768 776 to 781 799 801 802 803 822 823 824 825 841 843 to 853 861 to 872 918 to 922 925 to 935 944 945 961 to 965 968 980 1015 1016 1023 1024 1025 1026 to 1027. Appendix 25 26. See Index 10 12. and King Henry 3. King John Rome Popes not peremptorily imposed but only recommended desired Aydes from it at first granted imposed assented to only by the King Nobles who proportioned ordered the times manner of levying them 238 239 240 Pope Innocent 4. stiled it an unexhausted pit whence he might extort much 671. Often hurt provoked by the injuries of that Pope who yet in a rage threatned to Interdict it encouraged by the Kings and their effeminate fear for which he was reprehended admonished by John an Englishman a Cistercian Monk and Cardinal for beating it like Balaams Asse with his spurs rod and yet not suffering them so much as to mutter against him 676. English thoâ— miserablest of all men by biting devouring each other 737. F. FErdinand 1. Emperor Cassander his Consultation dedicated to approved by him 22. Flanders invaded by the French King when prohibited to invade England 275. France Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. An Ayde granted collected therein by the Kings assent upon the Popes Bull and Legate sent thither for relief of the Holy Land 238 239 240. Kings of France ought not to alien their Crown Lands or Territories to others their alienation of them voyd 319 to 324. The Realm of England never was in subjection to France Its descent to King Edward 3. his Law concerning it 325. No Pope presumed to conferre any Prebendary Benefice by Provision therein till Pope Innocent 3. 330 777 778. The French invade England excommunicated by the Popes Legate 361 362. See Lewes The French Peers Courts proceedings and condemnation of King John to death for murdering his Nephew Arthur the Popes exceptions against it as voyd 363 364. Pope Honorius and Pope Gregories Bulls to the French King for the English to passe and repasse freely to Rome through France without impediment 396 408. The Popes Legate calls a Council therein against the Earl of Tholouse exacts two Prebendaries and two Monks portions in every Cathedral Monastery there to avoyd the old infamy of avarice symony bribery and delay of justice in the Court of Rome with the French Bishops Clergies answers oppositions against it 401 402 403. A Croysado published in it against the Earl of Tholouse and Albigenses the French King crosseth himself against them the Pope prohibites the King of England to invade France during his imployment in this War against these good Christians 403 404. Wars between England and France 406 408. A Truce propounded between them 446. King H. 3. his invasion of it the Earl of Britains revolt from him to the King of France against his Oath and Obligations 455 456. A Croysado published in it to defraud the people and pick their purses 470 512. The Kings and Popes Agents rigour in extorting it his and his Armies great defeat slaughter the King taken prisoner by the Saracens soon after to his Kingdoms great desolation reputed a just judgement 717 733 734 753 754 776. The French Kings Peers confederacâ— and memorable protestation against the Popes Bishops Ecclesiastical Officers encroachments upon their Rights Liberties by new Constitutions holding Pleas of Temporal causes abuse of Excommunications Oaths c. 699 to 760. France reduced to poverty by Pope Innocent 4. conspired against the Pope and Cardinals 676 698. Many Frenchmen slain in ayding Baldwin in his expedition against the Grecians 492. The French crossed for the Holy Wars prohibited to go by the Pope when prepared their speeches mutiny thereupon 512 513. The French Kings and his Nobles Counsils detestation of speeches against Pope Gregories depriving the Emperor Frederick Robert the Kings brothers refusal of the Empire tendred to him by the Pope the dignity of its Kings by lineal descent 540 541. The French alwayes envy the English traduce the Kings of England for banishing Becket and Edmund of Canterbury his leaving England in discontent 591. The long feud controversie between France and England which destroyed innumerable people prayed by King H. 3. to be composed by the Popes mediation 944 945 956 957. a Peace at last concluded 961. King Henries advice to Prince Edward by reason of his sicknesse to hasten his return with the French King from the Holy Wars 1058. King Francis 1. of France declares his Articles under hand and seal ratified by his Oath to consign the Dutchy of Burgundy to the Emperor for his ransome to be voyd because against his Coronation Oath and Laws of France not to alien the Crown Lands 319 320. King Francis 2. of France his complaint of the alienation and mortgaging the Crown Lands thereof 323. Frederick the 2. whiles King of Sicily persecuted by Otho the Emperor for seising some Castles of the Empire during the vacancy 260. Made Emperor by Pope Innocent 3. out of meer malice to Otho 5. interdicted excommunicated deposed by him only for seising and restoring to the Empire according to his Coronation Oath the antient Possessions thereof which Popes had injuriously usurped on purpose to persecute Otho to death by force of Armes 539. He by a just retaliation is soon after excommunicated by Bulls published in all places interdicted defamed by Pope Gregory the 9th for not going to Jerusalem against the Saracens according to his Oath though hindred by sicknesse necessary emergent affairs of the Empire and Civil Wars raised against him in Sicily by this Popes instigation and for contemning the Popes and St. Peters Keyes All prohibited to celebrate divine service to him till he submitted himself to the Church to be proceeded against as an Heretick if he presumed to be present at divine service all his Subjects absolved from their allegiance deprived of his Empire for endeavoring to recover the antient rights possessions of it from the Popes Churches Usurpations 409 to 414. His notable Letters to the King of England and all Christian Princes setting forth Popes designs by Excommunications Interdict to wrest their Kingdoms Lands out of their hands make them their Vassals Tributaries trample them under feet like King John and the Earl of Tholouse pick all their Subjects purses swallow up their wealth by unsatiable blood-suckers Legates Wolves in Sheeps cloathing their symonies rapines extortions unheard of in former ages 414 415. King H. 3. his Letter to him not to revolt from his obedience to the Church of Rome but humbly to obey and submit to the Pope 415 416 He goes to the Holy Land to avoyd the scandals raised of him and his Excommunication for not going which the Pope continued at his arrival at Acon none of the people or Clergy would kiss
Writs to the Chief Justice of Ireland concerning it and other affairs 471 to 476. His Patent not to draw an Escuage granted him by the Clergy into consequence 475 His Writ for a resting and imprisoning all Hereticks of what sort soever till his further order 475. His Patent to poll all Clerks of his houshold who wore long hair 479. His Writ prohibiting Monks to buy and sell wool skins or other Merchandâ—ze under pain of forfeiting the goods and monye 480. His Writ to the Chief Justice of Ireland to do speedy Justice between two â—ishops according to the Law and Custome of Ireland notwithstanding any former Letters To receive the Archbishop of Rhoans Oath of Fealty by his Proctor and restore his temporalties 482 483. The deplorable sad slavish condition of the Church Realm of England under him by the Simony provisions extortions rapines depredations excommunications usurpations of ambitious avaritious Popes and their instruments 484 506 507 546 566 567 570 571 572 573 574 605 606 607 608 615 to 618 663 to 684 690 to 699 717 718 750 777 824 825 841 to 850. 868 to 872. 918. to 935 953 959 960 963 664 1020 1024 1069 1070. Appendix 26 to 29. He sends for Otto the Popes Legate into England to the Nobles Prelates Clergies great discontent Concludes a Peace with the King of Scots in a Parliament at Yorke 485 486. He sends his Proctors to the Councils held at Panls by the Popes Legat and at Oxford not to act or attempt any thing against his Crown and Dignity 487 578 807. His Writs severe proceedings against the Oxford Scholars for assaulting the Legat at Osney Abbey 494 496 558. He disposed not of the Taxes granted levyed but by the Legates advice 496. Opposed deserted by most of the Nobles because swayed by the Popes Legate who came with horse and arms to the Parliament admonished him of his errors whereupon he swears to submit to their provisions by an instrument sealed with his and the Legats Seal 497 498. His Speeech against Simon Monteforts mariage notwithstanding the Popes confirmation thereof 500. He oppresseth the Church Monks Prior of Winton about the Bishops election 502 580 to 595. He so farr displeased Pope Gregory the 9. for sending ayde of men and money to the Emperor Frederick his brother-in-law and desiring him to deal more mildly with him that he suspended all Englishmens businesses for a time 502 503. He stayes Otho in England after the Popes Letters to recall him sends Messengers Letters to the Pope for that end skipt for joy that he obtained his request therein 505. which he soon repents of by reason of his â—apines and impudent demands 508 509. He takes away his Seal from his faithfull discreet Chancellor about an election which he after repents of he refused to re-accept it 510. The Bishop of London and Canons of Pauls by excommunicating the Mayor and interdicting the City enforce him to release one of their Canons imprisoned by his command in the Tower in chainâ— 512. The Emperor Frederick his Letters to him and Earl Richard against Pope Gregories unjust Excommunication and Defamations published by his Legare in England against the Lawes of God and Justice with his recriminations of him to the Archbishop of Conterbury to be every where published to his infamy with the Emperors reply whose execrable Papal actions to the destruction of the world trampling justice under feet stirring up rebellions against him and attempts to deprive him of his life Empire he sadly recommends to King Henryes consideration as highly concerned in it 527 to 545. His eyes are opened to see the Popes extortions he prohibits his Usurers to stay in England who for money continued there notwithstanding 546. The Emperors sharp Letters to him for suffering the Popes agents wittingly and willingly in his hearing to publish scandalous Letters Excommunications and extort monies by Taxes rapines against him throughout his Dominions to his great infâ—my injury prejudice for foolishly obeying his Capital enemy thirsting after his honor blood against the Lawes of consanguinity God Nature in this businesse which concerned his own and all other Kings persons crowns safety as much as his That it was all one to fight against him with moneyes as with arms That the Pope to his own infamy gloried in nothing so much as that he had the power of a Lâ—â—ge Lord over him That his insatiable ambition determined to subject all Christian kingdomes and the Emperor most of all to his Dominion taking an example from the Crown of England trodden under foot He expected an answer therein that he might certainly know whom to trust or bewaâ—e of who returned this unkingly answer He neither would nor durst contradict the Popes will wondered his Sister was not yet solemnly Crowned Empress 546 547 548 555 His Letters to him concerning the taking of Faventia and the Popes Legates Prelates going by Sea to the Council against his advice 555 556. His prohibition against the Popes Legats provision to a Praebendary in his Free Chappel 557 775. His Consent to a provision to the Bishoprick of Landaffe and revocation of his grant of the temporalties thereof 558 559. His Patents to the Chief Justice of Ireland to assist the Cardinals agent to collect their Procurations and Dismes there 559 560. His Prohibition to build a Church and houses for Canons at Maydeston 561. To the Legat not to exact the 5th part or other Taxes from his Clerks 561 562. To the Prior of Rupe not to collect a Disme from the Monks of Cluny in England granted by the Pope without his assent against the right of his Crown nor any other Tax till he advised with his Prelates and Nobles in Parliament 562. His sharp answer to the Abbots who complained against Peter Rubeus the Popes Agenâ— his intollerable Tax upon them for their Baronies held of him instead of assisting them to their great discouragement 567 573 574. The Clergy of Perkshire oppose it amongst other reasons that they ought not to contribute against the Emperor as an heretick being neither condemned nor convicted by the Judgement of the Church though excommunicated 568. He feasted placed the Popes Legate in his Royal Throne at dinner Knighted and gave his Nephew a pension at his departure from England after 3. years irreparable damage to the Church by his stay here not leaving so much money in England as he extorted 570. His Writs to inquire of the number values of all Benefices and provisions to forraigners in England by what Popes Legates and to whom granted what monies had been collected for the Pope what was arrear in every Diocesse 572 573. His Writs to apprehend Apostate Monks and remove dead corps from one Monastery to another according to the parties will 575. His Patents for Archbishops Bishops executors to execute their wills and administer their goods on the Temporalties 576 636. His Writs reciting that God had constituted him by reason of his Government as King
Gods word nor the usefull ornaments of the Churches nor cure of souls nor divine services in the Churches were performed as they ought to be and according to the custom of the Country That their houses walls fell down together with their roofs and were dilapidated To which other complaints to the King and Parliament against the Court of Rome were superadded which they sent to the Pope by their respective Messengers with five several Letters two from the King to the Pope and his Cardinals a third from all the Archbishops Bishops a 4th from all the Abbots Priorâ— the 5th from all the Earls and Temporal Lords speedily to reform all these their grievances to prevent unavoydable mischiefs to the King Pope and Church of Rome and their revolt from subjection to them 666 to 672. They complained the Pope demanded Knight-service due only to the King Lords from their Tenants from Prelates Clergymen to find him so many Horse or Foot for half a year or pay a great ransome in lieu of it under pain of Excommunication which they must reveal to no man That he granted one years fruits of all Benefices that fell voyd within the Province of Canterbury to Archbishop Boniface That he by sealed Bulls required the Abbots of the Cistercian Order in England to send him golden Jewels to adorn his Planets and Copes as if they might be got for nothing That he published this new unheard of Statute in England not without the brand of covetousnesse That if any Clerk should from thenceforth dye intestate his goods should be converted to the use of the Pope which he commanded the Freers Preachers and Minors diligently to execute seising on the money plate and goods of three rich Archdeacons which the King hearing of prohibited detesting the multiplied and manifold cunning avarice of the Court of Rome and by the common advice of his Prelates and Nobles in Parliament issued several successive Prohibitions to the Abbot of St. Albans and others not to pay any Tallage to the Pope or his Agents before the return of their Messengers sent to Rome against these grievances under pain of seising his Barony and to the Bishops not to exact or levy any such Tax for any Clerk Religious person or Layman to the prejudice of his Royal dignity against his and his Nobles Provisions in Parliament which he neither would nor could endure 671 672 673 674. The Pope placing his confidence in gold and silver contemned the zealous Letters and memorable complaints of the King and whole Kingdom against his exactions requiring the Bishop of Norwich and others to levy a subsidie for him at which all were amazed they receiving such a new grievance instead of the relief expected the Kings wrath and indignation thereat and new memorable Prohibitions against it the English Church thereby ground as it were between two Mill-stones and placed between Sylla and Carybdis the King by the general advice and assistance of his Nobles endeavouring the salvation and instauration of the Realm on the one side and the Pope endeavouring its impoverishing on the other Many Prelates fearing the instability and effeminacy of the King and his Counsils resolutions fomented the Papal part though they never had seen that the Church received any happy encrease but rather incurred unhappy detriment by such effusions of their money 673 674. He summons a new Parliament at winton concerning the manifold dissolutions of the whole Realm and especially of the Church wherein the Messengers sent to the Court of Rome reported That they could discerne no humility nor moderation in the Popes gestures or words concerning the oppressions wherein the Realm Church of England were grieved and complained That when they expected a pleasing answer the Pope told them The King of England who now kicks the heel and Frederizeth hath his Counsil and I have mine which I will pursue That from that time scarce any Englishman could dispatch any businesse in Court yea they were all repelled and reviled as Schismaticks so as so many and such Epistles of the King and Universality both of the Nobles and Prelates of the Realm had no efficiency at all At which report the King and Nobles being much grieved exasperated at the repulse of their just petitions by the Court of Rome to which they had so often freely contributed the King by their advice commanded proclamations to be made through all Counties Cities Boroughs and Villages of the Realm That no Prelate Câ—â—rk oâ— other person throughout the Realm should consent to any Contribution to the Pope or transmit any money toward his ayd or in any wise obey his Papal command in contributing aydes which was accordingly done The Pope hearing thereof fell into a vehement anger writ to the English Prelates more sharply then before under pain of Excommunication and suspension to pay in the ayd he demanded to his Nuncio in the New Temple before the Feast of Assumption which the King resolving manfully to resist as he had begun for the freeing of the Realm and Church from Papal extortions by the threats of Earl Richard his brother to whom the Pope granted a Croysado and the whisperings of certain ambitious Clergy-men and Papal Bishops his Counsellors whereof the Bishop of Worcester was principal to whom he granted a power of interdicting the Realm was so inclined by their counsils more then was just that his constancy was enervated with the same levity it was conceived being so terrified with the Popes menaces that he trembled for fear where no fear was yea womanishly relinquished what he had manfully undertaken submitting to him as conquered affrighted whereupon the whole endeavour as well of the Nobles as Bishops and the hope of freeing the English Church and Realm miserably withered and came to nought not without the bleeding grief of many hearts all this resistance vanishing like a cloud before the shining Sun the Clergy satisfying the gapings of the Roman avatice with this Contribution without resistance the richest Prelates Clergymen who had greatest revenues which they over-heartily loved fearing to lose them by the Popes indignation complying with his designs and those who resolved to resist through the Noblemens encouragement the Kings eyes being averted and his ears closed against them by the Court Prelates being forced to comply and pay 6000 Marks to the Pope to the great impoverishing of the Realm which was transported by the Popes Nuncioes and Merchants to ayd the Landegrave against the Emperor Frederick part whereof he intercepting grievously reprehended the effeminacy of the English and Earl Richard complaining much of it before his fellow Souldiers who seemed to have consented to the Popes party to the destruction of the Realm of England and detriment of the Empire because he gathered much treasure together out of the assistance of the Crucesignati by the Popes permission whereby the audacious rapines of the Romans were infinitely encreased by how much they found no contradiction in them flying from those who chased
them and pursuing such who fled from them so as all the hope and consolation of relieving the English expired whose enemies were their Judges 674 675 676. Pope Innocent 4. informed by his Nuncioes of the Kings and English fear intended to interdict the Realm had they not payd his 6000 Marks Tax and the King by his Nuncioes signified his complyance to it notwithstanding Cardinal John an Englishmans sharp reprehension of his indiscreet anger and violence by which the Holy Land was endangered the Greek Church departed from them the Emperor the greatest powerfullest of all Princes an adversary to them he and his Cardinals the top of the Roman Church expelled Italy Hungary and its confines exterminated by the Tartars Germany shaken with Civil Wars Spain raging mad against them to the cutting out of Bishops tongues France reduced to poverty conspiring against them and England so frequently hurt by their injuries like Balaams Asse beaten with spurs and clubs at last enforced to speak and revile them complaining she was over-intollerably wearied and irreparably damnified so that like Ismael they were now odious to all and provoked all to anger Yet the Pope took so much boldnesse from what was past more imperiously then before to trample upon the miserable English most of them being troden down dissipated effeminated he demanding that all resident beneficed persons in England should pay the third part and all Non-residents the moity of their Benefices to him The Prelates opposed this Tax as impossible and the Kings Proctors strictly prohibited all the Clergy of England not to assent to so execrable a demand of the Pope or consent to this Contribution to the Kingdoms desolation which they obeyed appealing against it as intollerable impossible which they had more effectually contradicted if they had had any confidence in the Kings wavering words and promises The Clergies answer thereunto and appeal to Jesus Christ and the next general Council against it Their complaint against it to the King and Parliament with their Nuncioes and Epistles to the Pope and his Cardinals in behalf of the whole Clergy of England against his unsupportable exaction 676 677 678 679 680. The Court of Romes indignation against their Letters as well reprehending as restraining their avarice who thereupon reduced their demands to 11000 Marks subsidie excluding all the exempt Abbots of England cut of this sum to be more perilously exposed to the Roman rapacity 679 680. The Popes delusory grant to him that whereas he before indifferently granted provisoes of Ecclesiastical Benefices in England to Italians to its intollerable grievance he would from thenceforth by Gods grace when he granted any such provisions to any of his or his Cardinals Nephews importunately intreat the King that he would be pleased to condescend to such a provision whereby they more strictly ensnared him this being but a baited hook to enrich the Popes Secretaries by such rhetorical Epistles from the Pope to the King on their behalf 682 683. His indignation exclamation prohibition against the Popes grant of the first years fruits of all vacant Benefices within the province of Canterbury for 7. years to Archbishop Boniface till he should raise the sum of 10000 Marks to be levyed by this Apostolical authority without any appeal His effeminacy in condescending to it afterwards and not standing for the defence of the Realm and honour of the Archbishops of Canterbury against the debts of that Church as he ought the Suffragan Bishops being compelled by the Popes authority excommunicating all who durst speak against it to submit thereto not daring nor being able to oppose or contradict it 682 683. He commanded the keepers of the Ports by his Writs to prohibit the importation of any Bulls for provisions or exacting monies from the Church of England by the Popes authority to impoverish the Realm or suffer any to wander with them by land to the Prelates and if any such were found to apprehend and imprison the bearers of them 684. He prescribes a special Masse to be said upon the Canonization of St. Edmund 685. He augments the dignity of the Abbot of Westminster that celebrating Masse in his Pontificalibus he should give the benediction solemnly to the people when Agnus Dei was sung 686. He seiseth the Temporalties of the Archbishop of Rhoan for not coming personally into England to swear his Fealty for them 686. He prohibits the collection of one years Disme in England from the Monks of the Order of Cluny granted to the Abbot by the Popes authority who was to have part thereof without his Royal assent and seiseth all the monies collected thereby 686 687. He restores the Temporalties of the Bisho prick of Coventry long detained in his hands out of his meer grace to Roger de Wâ—seham made Bishop thereof by the Pope to the prejudice of his Prerogative 687. His high resentment of Bishops excommunicating his Officers for executing his Writs in removing a force out of a Church to the prejudice of his Royal dignity and authority and making a fraudulent appropriation to his and the Churches prejudice 688 689. His license for the Pope to grant a provision though odious at two of his Clerks requests so as this his license were not drawn into consequence 690. His care to prevent the Popes provision to the Archbishoprick of Ardmach 690. He summoned a Parliament at London to oppose an importable Contribution to the Pope to which the Bishops had unhappily obliged the Clergy in a General Council who thereupon absented themselves lest they should seem to oppose their own facts far off wherewith they knew the hearts of all men were not undeservedly wounded even to the bitternesse of soul 690. Another Parliament of all the Nobles convened by him at Oxford to which the Bishops were strictly summoned to prevent the manifold exorbitant exactions of the Pope and his sophistical Legates to the apparent danger of the Realm impoverishing of the Prelates by Papal extortions and frequent exportations of the Treasure of the Realm without any benefit to the Church yea to its great disadvantage and Gods displeasure where all the Prelates consented to a grant of 11000 Marks to the Pope which some of them before resolved to oppose besides the exempted Abbots exposed to the Popes arbitrary demands which rendred the Bishops and Clergy suspected to the whole Realm 696. The Pope and King suspected to comply together to force exactions from the Church and State by turns the Pope writing to the Nobles to grant the King an Ayde and the King conniving at or assenting to his Papal exactions from the Clergy ground between the Pope and King as between two Mill-stones 696 716 717. He refused to license the Bishop of Sabine a Cardinal Legate to enter England in his passage to Haco King of Denmark Norway and Sweden till he had first taken an Oath upon his soul That he came into England for no detriment of the King or Kingdom or Church but only to
a manifest departure although not of bodies yet of hearts from the Church of Rome and a general exasperation against her extinguishing as it were the fire of mens devotion to her 773. He resolved to send for a Legar which should compell the Bishops by the Popes authority to pay the contribution demanded although an heavy Tribute and new intollerable servitude to the Church 774. He extorts gold from the Londoners against their Charters as if slaves of the basest condition 773. He oppressed exacted great sums of monies from several religious houses the world being then so addicted to spoyls and rapines that whoever could extort any thing from â—eligious houses thought he rather merited then demerited 775 He gave away his escheats vacant rents Churches to unworthy illiterate scurrillous Foreigners in contempt and revenge to the English committing and causing to be committed many thousands of souls to such aliens as were altogether unlearned unworthy obscene and knew not the English tongue to provoke the anger hatred of those English who were worthy and learned against him 775. His Speech Oath against the pride insolency of the Prelates Religious persons Templars Hospitalers occasioned by their Liberties Charters and great superfluous possessions which made them mad and ought to be prudently advisedly resumed as they were imprudently and unadvisedly dispersed by Kings That as the Pope sometimes yea very often revoked nulled his former Bulls Acts by Non-Obstantes so he might likewise revoke all Charters he and his ancestors had unadvisedly granted them Whereto the Master of the Hospital of Jerusalem answering What is this you say my Lord the King God forbid such a displeasing and absurd word should fall from your mouth So long as you observe Justice you may be a King and so soon as you shall infringe it you cease to be a King To which he replyed too uncircumspectly O you Englishmen what means this will you precipitate me from the kingdom as you did my father and kill me being deposed 776 The Pope by Albertus his Nuncio prohibits him to invade the King of France his Lands whiles imployed in the holy war proffers the Realm of Sicily to his brother Richard who refused it The Kings Letter of thanks to the Pope for this proffer of Sicily to his Brother and all other favours received from the Church of Rome requiring that a competent ayde might be given his brother by the Clergy to gain it yet with a saving the ayde he had granted himself for the Holy Land 776 777. Pope Innocent by his connivance granted more provisions and more oppressed the Church of England during his Papacy then all his predecessors the rents of the Romans besides other revenues amounting annually to above 70000 marks his own regal rents not to the 3d. part thereof 777. England trodden under foot by aliens subject to many Lords deprived of his sincere love languished without consolation to despair enthralled in extreme conditions whereby which was most grievous the venemous hatred between the Church and people daily encreased 778 His Writs against Bishops for contempts to admit his Clerks upon presentations 781. He prohibits Bakers by proclamation to imprint the signe of the crossâ— Agnus Dei or name of Jesus on any bread put to sale 783. His Writs to sundry Noble men not to foment the difference between Archbishop Boniface and the Bishop of Winton nor take part with or bear armes or make tumults for either of them 788. He summons a new Parliament at London demands an ayde of money The Archbishop and two Bishops sent to him to perswade him according to his Oath to permit the Church to enjoy her Liberties especially in elections not to intrude persons into them by regal power to the destruction of the Prelates Subjects and great damage of the Church to correct these and other his Errors according to his Oath and the Great Charter which done they would yield to his request His sharp satyrical reply to all 3. Bishops promoted by his meer grace though unworthy wishing them first to repent resign their Bishopricks as unfiâ— for them to give him good example who would thereupon elect fiâ—ter for the future They grant him an ayde upon condition to confirm the Great Charter though frequently violated by him and his Father K. John against their Oathes for which they got infinite sums of money He confirmes the Great Charter A solemn excommunication denounced against all infringers of it and the Churches Liberties by the Archbishop and Bishops in Westminster hall in presence of the King and Nobles His Promise Oath to observe all Articles of the Charter as he was a man a Christian a Knight a Crowned and anointed King 795 796 797. When he had a lighted Taper put into his hand whiles the excommunication was read he delivered it to a Bishop to hold saying he was no Priest holding his hand upon his breast with a serene and chearfull countenance ibid. His Letters to the Pope on behalf of the Bishop of Chichester and his Chaplains for provisions for them 797. to excite all Christian Princes to joyn with him in ayding the Holy Land 798. He gives one Cup to put the Eucharist in of 4. marks price to every Archbishops and of 3. Marks to every Bishops Cathedral in Ireland the sum of 100 marks to be distributed to the Hospital of St. Johns Freers Minorites and others in Ireland as his Chief Justice should deem meet 798. Pope Innocent 4. in a great passion against Bishop Grosthead said of K. H. 3. with a proud minde Is not the King of England our Vassal and that I may say more our Bondsâ—ave who can at our beck imprison and enthral him to ignominy 800. His Writs to Earl Richard Guardians of the Realm in his absence to bestow livings on particular Clerks which next fell void in his gift of such and such values by the year 806. His Writs to promote the Croysado and certify the number of those who crossed themselves in Ireland 807 808. His protection from suites to the Archbishop of Ardmach during his journey to Rome 808. His Writ to celebrate the Masse of St. Edward every day in his Chappel during his absence in foreign parts 808. The Pope offers him and his Sonne Edmund the kingdome of Sicily and Apulia which his brother Earl Richard refused he indiscreetly accepts thereof binds himself by Oath and Covenant to perform the hard conditions comprised in the Popes Priviledge whereby he granted it obligeth himself by Letters Writs under his seal in vast sums of money debts to the Pope and his Merchants under pain of interdict disinheritance spends a world of Treasure about it yet never got possession thereof being cheated of all his money and it at lasâ— The Writs Procurations transactions between him the Pope Cardinals and Parliament concerning it 807 821 834 859 860 865 866 87â— 914 915 916. See Apulia Sicily Index 13. His Nobles Parliaments opposition against it 930 931 932. His
for him to the Popes Merchants and the Debts of the Bishop of Hereford bound only to decoy the other Bishops 859 860 861. His Writs to the Wardens of the Cinque-ports to permit no Clerk to passe beyond Sea unlesse he would first swear if he went to the Court of Rome he would impetrate nothing against the King concerning Sicily or the ordinance made thereon by the Pope nor other things against the Crown and dignity of the King of England 865. His Writ to Rustand to collect and deposite the money of the Disme in a safe place and to dispose of none of it untill he knew the Popes pleasure concerning it 865. Obliged not to go in person or send a Captain to Sicily till he had first paid the Pope and his Merchants 133540 marks by a short day which involving him in great difficulties he craved longer time for payment by Letters to the Pope and Cardinals 868 869 870 871. How much he had then actually paid for it 871 872. Judge Bâ—actons passages concerning his Royal Jurisdiction Prohibitions to Ecclesiastical Courts and Popes Delegates 872 to 880. He summons the Abbots of the Cistercian Order by his Writs to London demanded a great ayde of money from them which they unanimously denyed to pay for which he and his officers molested them but the Bishops gave him an ayde of 4000 marks to the irrepelable losse and dammage of the Church to conquer Sicily and Apulia 889 890 621. The chief end they gave it was to induce him to grant 50. Articles they had drawn up much like those for which the glorious Martyr Becket contended to death for which they resolved to fight if denyed Archbishop Boniface summoned a Council to confirm these Articles the King by his Writs prohibited him and the Bishops to meet therein which yet they did in contempt of his Royal authority The Articles Canons they drew up and confirmed in it to the subversion of the Kings Civil Officers Judges Ecclesiastical and Civil Prerogatives his Nobles Commons Liberties Properties his Laws and Courts of Justice subjecting them all to their Ecclesiastical Censures Jurisdictions Interdicts Excommunications for acting ought against them and wholly exempting the Clergy from the Kings Temporal Jurisdiction 890 to 913. The Kings and Nobles Appeals Proctors sent to Rome to complain against repeal these their Antimonarchical Constitutions as grievances highly prejudicial to the Crown Liberties Laws Customs of the Kingdom 983 986 990 991. The Archbishop forced to fly the Realm thereupon not permitted by the King and Nobles to return but upon condition to reverse all his Excommunications denounced against any man by these Constitutions and by reason of the late troubles to act nothing for the future in matters concerning the affairs of the Church or Realm but by the major and discreeter part of his Suffragans and other discreet men of the Realm And that he or the Clerks coming with him should bring with them nothing in Letters Messages Mandates nor do or procure any thing else whiles they continued in the Realm whereby any damage peril or prejudice might come to the King or any of the Kingdom 997 998. See Index 3. Archbishop Boniface His Writs concerning the sequestration of and monies raised by the profits of vacant Bishopricks to be reserved under lock and key in his Treasury of the New Temple London 912 913. He refuseth the Bishop elect of Ely made against his Letters for another and in indignation fells the Woods impoverished the Tenants damnified the Monks by John Valeran to whom he committed the custody of it and exposed that Church to extreme servitude depredations contemning the fear of God and reverence of Saints 913. His prohibition to the Archbishop not to consecrate him and Letters to the Pope Cardinals not to confirm him his election tending to disinherit him of his antient Prerogative in ordaining Bishops in Cathedrals yet they at last confirmed him to his great dishonour 922 923 924. His Procurations granted to renounce his and his Sons interest in the Realm of Sicily if expedient for the good of the Church of Rome 914 915 916 917 918 919 920. His Letter to Pope Alexander concerning Sicily and Apulia so to dispose of that affair that he his Heirs and whole Realm of England might alwayes obey the Church of Rome with accustomed devotion and that by occasion of that affair from whence he received no fruit he might incurre no further damage That he would consider if he had obliged himself to the prosecution of that affair under divers penalties to wit that if he did not pay the Pope the monies promised or not send or go in person to Sicily it should be in the Popes power alone to null and make voyd his grant thereof yet notwithstanding he as King should be excommunicated the Realm of England interdicted forfeited He desired these penalties might be remitted other propositions he proposed therein accepted of submitting the whole businesse to the meer mercy will of the Pope and his Cardinals to order and dispose thereof as they should think meet for the honour of God of the Church of Rome of himself and his Son Edmund whom they called King of Sicily protesting he undertook this affair not for any temporal respect but out of that sincere affection and devotion he alwayes had to the Church of Rome and See Apostolick in whom he had singular confidence having alwayes stood by him in his adversities and by whom when infested as well by his own Subjects as Foreigners not supported by the help of any other he evaded the subtilties of his enemies and triumphed laudably over them 918 919 920. He seals 20 blank white papers and schedules with his own great seal 8. with the seal of Prince Edward and 10. blanks more with the golden seal of Edmund his Son to be sent to Rome concerning Apulia and Sicily 920. He brought his Son Edmund into the Parliament with an Apulian habit commends him prays their counsil or an effectual ayde for his assistance affirming that by the counsil and loving favour of the Pope and Church of England to acquire the Realm of Sicily he had obliged himself under pain of losing his Realm to pay one hundred and forty thousand Marks to the Pope besides use money which daily encreased That he had obtained the Tenths of all the Clergy for 5. years according to the new Taxations without any expences deducted the first years fruits of all vacant Benefices from the Pope which made all mens ears to tingle and hearts to bleed That his debts and expences after he became a dilapidator of the Realm amounted to nine hundred thousand and fifty thousand Marks which was horrible to think of 921. Pope Alexanders earnest Letter to him to right the Bishop of Rochester against the oppressions of Archbishop Boniface which he had neglected to do after frequent complaints to his defamation and dishonour in foreign parts being obliged by the Great Charter he
the Pope wherein he reprehended him for nulling Groyes legal Election approved by him and presuming to confirm Langeton a Person unknown to him conversing very long amongst his publick Enemies in the Realm of France without either demanding or receiving his or the Monks assent to his Election to the prejudice and subversion of the Liberties and Rights belonging to his Crown At which he could not sulficiently admire for that as well the Pope as whole Court of Rome did not call to memory how much his love had hitherto been necessary to the See of Rome and that they received plentifuller Fruits from his Realm of England than from all other Countryes on this side the Alpes Adding that if need should be he would stand for the Liberties of his Crown even unto death immutably affirming that he could not be removed from his Election and promotion of the Bishop of Norwich who was so beneficial unto him Concluding that if the Pope would not right him in the Prâ—mises he would stop all passages by Sea to those who would go to Rome lest his Land being any longer enervated should be lesse able to repulse Enemies from it That since the Archbishops Bishops and other Prelates of Churches as well in England as other his Territories sufficiently abounded in the fulness of all Sciences if necessity shall compell he would not seek begg for Justice or Judgement from Foreigners out of his own Lands 248 249. The Popes insolent Letter in answer to him that he needed not his assent to Langetons Election the See Apostolick not using to wait for Princes consents to Bishops Elections That he had his implyed assent thereto that if he received not Langeton he would involve himself in inextricable difficulties Since he to whom the kneâ—s of all things in Heaven Earth and under the Earth did how whose Vicar he was though unworthy would overcome That he should not listen to their advise who loved to fish in troubled waters but submit himself to his Masters will and pleasure for his prayse and honour Because it could not be safe for him to resist in this Cause of God and his Church for which Becket had so lately shed his Blood and his Father and Brother Richard had abjured 249 250. He peremptorily refusing to receive Langeton for the Popes Flatteries or Menaces the Pope writ Letters to the Bishops of London Ely and Worcester earnestly to solicite the King to accept of him and if he persisted contumacious and rebellious therein then to Interdict the whole Realm by his Apostolical Authority Adding if he still persisted in his obstinacy he would then aggravate his hand upon him since he must of necessity conquer who for the safety of the holy Church had conquered the Devil and his Angels and spoyled Hells Cloysters 250 251. Upon this intimation admonition by the Bishops he was so highly incensed that he swore if they or any other should rashly Interdict his Lands he would forthwith banish all the Prelates Clerks and Persons in Orders out of England send them to the Pope and confiscate all their Goods That wherever he found any Romans within any of his Dominions he would send them to Rome with their Eyes pulled out and their Noses cut off that by these marks they might be distinguished from other Nations Conmanding the Bishops to depart speedily out of his sight if they would avoid the danger and scandal of their own Bodies Having formerly told them He was ready to do what should be reasonable by the advice of his Loyal Subjects saving to himself and his Heirs in all things their Right Dignities and Liberties 251. He gave the like Answer to Simon Langeton who returned him this peremptory Reply That he would do nothing therein unless the King would wholly put himself into his hand 250. The Bishops notwithstanding put all England under the Popes Interdict whereupon all Church doors throughout England were shut up no Divine Service Masses Prayers Preaching Sacraments celebrated in them for above six years space the Bodies of all Christians deceasing were buried like Doggs in High ways and Corners without Christian burial onely Baptism of â—nfants Confession and Sacraments administration in private to Persons deceasing were permitted by the Popes special Indulgence that by alienating the Subjects hearts from the King by this antichristian Interdict he might subject both the King and Kingdom to himself The Bishops Temporalties Goods are hereupon seised who to save their Persons fled beyond Sea excommunicating all the Kings Officers who seised their Goods and Temporalties Wherupon the King bâ—niâ—hed them their Kinsfolk with Archbishop Langetons Parents and Kinred cut of the Realm sequestred the Lands Benefices Goods of all Bishops Abbots Priests and Religious Persons who submitted to the Interdict and refused to celebrate Divine Service particularly the Abbot of St. Albans restoring their Lands Goods who celebrated and disobeyed the Interdict 253 354 255. The wâ—ite Monks are punished by the Pope for celebrating by the Kings command Cemâ—ntarius Abbot of the Benedictins deprived of all his Preferments Goods and forced to begg his Bread for pleading his Cause against the Pope by Disputations Writing and affirming the Pope had no Legal power to interdict Kings Kingdoms or meddle with their Temporal Government 256 258 â—59 335. He disposeth of vacant Bishopricks punâ—sheth Priors for delapidations Executed a Clerk at Oxford for Murder for which the Clerks and Scholars desert the University 244 245. The Contests between him and the Monks of Canterbury about a Presentation to the Church of Faversham Appendix p. 2 to 14. His Writs to the Monks concerning it he refuseth their Money Gifts prohibits them to disturb his Presentation by Writs Which they disobey and put force in the Church His Writ to the Sheriff to remove the force threatning to burn the Church and the Monks in it The violence or the Sheriff against the Monks the Scusfles Excommunications Interdicts thereupon Pope Innocents Bulls to Delegates to examine the force to the reproach contempt of his Regal Dignity his memorable Prohibitions thereupon in opposition contempt of the Popes Authority He seiseth all the Monks Temporalties for their contempt against his Writs Ibid. 7 8 9 10 11. He is pacified at last upon their Submission 11 to 14. He requires Hostages of all the Nobles whose fidelity he suspected to revoke them to their obedience if the Pope should absolve them from it The Answer of William de Brause and his Wife thereupon with their flight apprehension in Ireland imprisonment sufferings for it being starved to death in Windsor Castle 256 260. He kept the Abby of Ramsey seven years in his hands because the Monks refused to chuse the Abbot he recommended to them by his Precept Appendix 18. His Charter to St. Albans Appendix 21. He loseth Normandy by his sluggishness and many other Lands beyond the Seas 752. After two years general Interdict of England the Pope by advice of his Cardinals commands the exiled Bishops
to excommunicate him every Lords day and Holy day in all Conventual Churches throughout England that all should strictly avoid his Company which they signified to the Bishops of England who through fear or favour became as dumb Doggs not daring but refusing to publish it yet by secret Whisperings it became common in all places mouths 257 258 259. He apprehended imprisoned Geoffry Archdeacon of Norwich for deserting his Imployment in the Exchequer and saying to his Companions It was not safe for beneficed Persons to continue longer in the service of an excommunicated King and a few days after put him to death by a heavy Cap of Lead set on his Head and want of Food 258 267. He seiseth the Bishoprick of Lincoln converted the Profits thereof to his own use and removed Hugh his Chancellour from his Chancellourship whom he made Bishop thereof for his Treachery and Ingratitude in going to Archbishop Langeton making Canonical obedience to him and receiving his Consecration from him instead of receiving it from the Archbishop of Rhoan for which he obtained the Kings special License to go beyond Sea 259. Most of the Nobles communicate with him notwithstanding his Excommunication secretly divulged to all he punished those who did the contrary 259. The Popes excommunication of the Emperour Otho about the same time for maintaining the Rights of the Empire according to his Oath exasperated the wrath and hatred of King John against him 260. His glorious Victories Successes in Wales Scotland and Ireland during his Interdict Excommunication opposition against the Pope His Voyage into Ireland above twenty petty Kings thereof out of fear submit swear homage and fealty to him He establisheth the Laws Government of England in it by Sheriffs and other Officers He subdues his Enemies there and returns thence with Triumph 260. He summons all the Prelates Clergy Religious Persons Orders Templars Hospitals and Abbots of Cluny to London Exacts receives 100000 pounds sterling from them and 40000 pound thereof from the White Monks whether they would or not nulling their Priviledges 260 261 262. He enters into League with the Emperour Otho forceth the King of Scots to a Peace to put in Hostages for his Loyalty not to receive his fugitive Subjects and pay him 10000 Marks Forced all the Kings Nobles in Wales to repair to him to Woodstock never heard in former Ages to submit do him Homage and put in Pledges for their Loyalty 261. The Popes two Nuncioes after his Victories sent to make Peace between him Canterbury and the exiled Bishops His condescention that they should return home in peace and enjoy their Bishopricks but not the mean Profits forfeited to him Which they insisting on returned unsatisfied Their insolent demands speeches to him before the Nobles in the Parliament of Northampton They excommunicate him publickly with all his Nobles Subjects who from thenceforth communicated with him absolving them from their Allegiance to him appointing several Bishops in England Scotland Wales and other parts of the World to publish his Excommunication in all places prohibiting him and his Heirs from thenceforth to be Crowned which the Pope seconded ratified after their return His indignation at this their Insolency answer to them commanding condemned Prisoners to be executed before them and one Clerk whom the King delivered to Pandulph to avoid his Excommunication with Bell Book and Candle which he threatned presently to denounce if he executed him 261 to â—66 His Chief Counsellours and Adherents of the Clergy and Laity against the Pope 265. The Welshmen excited to rebel by the Pope and exiles he marched against them to Chester with a potent Army which he dismisseth being terrified by sundry Letters that his Nobles absolved from their Allegiance by the Pope would either stay or betray him to his Enemies 265. Eustace de Vesci and Robert Fitz Walter accused to him of Treason fly the Realm 265. Peter the Hermit suborned by the Bishops to prophecy and preach publickly that by Ascention day next and from thenceforth he should not be King that thereon the Crown should be transferred to another The Kings conference with him his answer to him he is close imprisoned till the time to see the event which proves false The Kings mirth triumph on that day His evasion to make good the Prophecy That the Pope reigned not the King His Execution for his treasonable false Prophecy 265 266 267. The Pope deâ—oseth him at his exiled Bishops instance gives his Kingdom to Philip King of France excites him and all Nobles Souldiers in France and other Nations to cross themselves follow the King of France to vanquish and depose him granting them the same priviledges indulgencies protection in this unchristian unholy War as those who warred against the Saracens in the Holy Land which his Legate Pandulph Archbishop and English Bishops publish and promote in France 267 268. Pope Innocents secret Instructions to Pandulph to agree with the King if he would satisfie him the Church of Rome Bishops others concerned in this Affair and subscribe the Articles of Peace which he had drawn 267. His Writs to Sheriffs to seise all the Benefices Lands Rents the Archbishop exiled Bishops or Prior of Canterbury had given in England during their exise and banish those who had received them His Writs to all Bayliffs of Ports to list and furnish all Ships which could carry six Horses by a set day to resist the French Kings invasion by Sea and sommons of all who were bound or able to bear Arms by Land to meet at certain places to oppose him by Land The great Forces thereby raised able to resist any Prince under Heaven if unanimous and faithful 268 269 Pandulfus his repair to him terrifying him with inward and outward dangers losse of Soul Life Kingdom by the potency of his Foes and treachery infidelity of his own Subjects absolved fallen from their Allegiance to the French unless he assented to the Popes Proposals cast himself and his Realm into his Arms and Protection his unworthy condescention thereupon to restore the exiled Bishops Archbishop and their Adherents with all their dammages notwithstanding their successive Rebellions Treasons against him to revoke null all his Outlawries remit all his indignation against them to give them safe conduct to return ratified with his Charters Nobles Oath Letters to renounce his Jurisdiction over the Clergy surrender his Crown Kingdoms of England and Ireland to the Pope to hold them of him and his Successor under 1000 Marks Annual Rent and swear Homage and Fealty to him 226 269 to 296. The manner of his unworthy resigning his Crown Regal Ensigns to Pandulph and his insolent reception of them 273. His detestable deplorable Charter of Resignation Homage and Fealty to the Pope and his Successors whereby he made his Kingdom tributary and himself a Vassal to them That in the Charter Rolls differs in some memorable particulars from that in Matthew Paris 273 274 289 290 300 693 752. That he never made but
many Ministers refused to publish in or near London for which the whole City was Interdicted 344 345 346 348 to 36â— Their appeal against these Excommunications Interdicts as not warranted by any power from God and Saint Peter to the next General Council and to Christs Tribunal celebrating Divine Offices notwithstanding their revilings against the Pope 360 361 362. His Licenses to elect the Archbishop of York other Bishops Abbots Priors in the presence onely of certain Commissioners nominated who were to assent thereto without whose concurrence he would not confirm them 348. His Appeal Patent Prohibitions to the Chapter of York not to elect their Dean or any other Person whose Loyalty the King suspected recommending to them his Chancellour Walter Gâ—â—y whom they rejecting elected Simon Langeton Archbishop whose Election was nulled because contrary to the Kings Popes inhibition his own promise to the Pope dangerous to the Realm that the Power of it and of the Church should be in two Brothers hands and Gâ—â—y thereupon made Archbishop 349 350. The King commands the Archbishops suspension to be published at St. Albans and throughout England â—aisâ—th two Armies against the Barons and rebellious Clergy whom they plundered abused in all places 351. His licenses for electing approving Abbots Abbesses Deans Bishopâ— recommendations of persons to be elected and prohibitions delayes to elect others refuseth to confirm persons elected against his will 351 353 to 357. His Letters concerning the union and against the severing of Glaston Abby from the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells 356 357. The Popes Legates care to preserve his and his Heirs rights in France from suffering prejudice by his new Canons there made in a Council 357 â—58 His Bull exempting his Free-Chappels from Excommunications and all Episcopal Jurisdiction 358 359. The Barons Londoners slight the Popes Excommunications Interdicts Bulls Legares authority reject King John call in elect crown Lewes for their King swear Homage Fealty to him as their Soveraign who swore to ayde them and restore their Lands Liberties The Popes Legate â—alo assembling some Bishops Abbots Clerks to him excommunicated him with all his ayders and assistants especially Simon Langeton with Bells and Candles commanding all Bishops and others to publish it every Lords-day and Holy-day throughout all England Simon Langeton appeals against it as voyd in the behalf of Lewes 362. Lewes his Advocates Objections against King Johns Title to the Crown his condemnation to dye by the Peers of France for the murder of his Nephew Arthur Pope Innocents answer to all their Objections on King Jobas behalf and the lawfulnesse of his War against him The Realm of England being his own and he in actual possession of it by reason of King Johns Charter Oath of Feaâ—ty and annual rent payd for it who was now his Vassal and therefore might not be Warred upon without complaint first made to him his Superior Lord to whom the King of England is Subject as his Vassal with their replyes thereto 362 to 367. King Lewes his notable Letter against his Title to the Crown to the Abbot of St. Augustines to stay his Excommunication against him who proceeds notwithstanding Appendix 18 19 20. King Lewes his Oath with 16. more of his Barons to banish all the English Barons who adhered to him against their native Soveraign King John as Traytors and extirpate all their kinted if ever the Crown of England were peaceably setled on him 366. His sicknesse poysoning by a Monk pious death at Swinestead Abby forgiving his enemies causing his Son Henry to do the like and swearing all present to do Fealty to him as next Heir to the Crown 366. The Monks scandals raised of his Adulteâ—y Tyranny Cruelty c. during his life and damnation after his death 256 284 285 286 366 367. His piety and good deeds 366 367. He possessed no Land peaceably at his death whence he was stiled John the exiled 366 752. stiled the Image of a King and Popes Vassal 1068. What encroachments Pope Innocent and his Legates made upon his Ecclesiastical and Temporal Prerogatives and Jurisdiction 229 230 367 368. Pope Innocent kept him so long excommunicated interdicted till he brought him and his Kingdoms under Tribute encouraging his Barons by his Bulls Letters to rise up against him as an obstinate enemy of the Church till he had enormously humbled and made him effeminately to enthral both himself and his Realms to the Roman Church but after the Pope postponing the shame of the world and fear of God exposed the same Barons after the manner of Rome whom he at first supported excited to death and miserable disinherison that he might swallow up the fattest of them and by the unsatiable avarice of the Romans this Prince of Provinces was brought under Tribute King Johns president made a pattern for Popes to disinherit other Emperors Kings Princes and keep their Kingdoms Territories Persons so long under Interdicts and Excommunications till they reduced them under the like Tribute and bondage 414. His detestable Charter burnt in Pope Innocentâ— his Study at Lyons 31. years after Its transcript subscribed sealed out of fear by the English Bishops at the Popes command to the enormous prejudice of the King and Kingdom 300 663. The Pope Pandulph and others disdainfully stiled him his Vassaâ— in Letters Discourses 292 295 296 297 359 362 365. John King of Jerusalem 411. John King of Scots his League with King John 261. Ireland Popes pretended Title to it 9 291 292. Its Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Chief Justices acts actions in it See Index 4 6 8. Legates in it and their acts See Index 13. Conquered and the English Laws Government setled in it by King John 260 261. Souldiers brought thence to assist King John against the French 269. King Johns surrender of and granting an annual rent of 3000 Marks out of it to the Pope besides Peter-pence and Fealty to the Pope for it 274 275 289 290 291 292 300. St. Patricks Purgatory and Christs gifts to him in it 69. The Popes grant of an Ayde to the King in it 406 407. King Henry sent for ayde of men the Chief Justice and some Nobles out of it to Gascoign whereat the disaffected Irish rejoycing the King commanded the Chief Justice to stay there to prevent danger and borrow monies from the Popes Collector if there were cause 818. How Bastardy was there to be judged proceeded in 393 394 474. Grievances complaints of the Archbishop of Tuam and his Suffragans to the King and Pope against his Justice and Officers oppressions there 827 828 857 858 859. Isabella King Johns Queen divorced from imprisoned by him for adultery and some put to death as over-familiar with her 227 256 285. An Anniversary for her 755 756. Queen Isabellaes Dower mother to King Edward 3. resumed 325. Italy Popes pretended Title to it 9 291 316 321. The grant of it to the Pope may be resumed 316. The Emperors march Armies sent into it
admirable innovation and prodigy of that age 752 753. The miracle of the consecrated Hosts leaping out of the Priests hands through a hole opened in his side into his body he not daring to take it with his mouth by reason of vomiting 74. Otho Son of Arthurs Sister 364 365. P. PElagius King of Asturians slain by the Virgin Maries ayde 41. Pertinax Roman Emperor resumes the gifts of Commodus 319. Philip King of France King Johns Crown Realm of England given to him and his Heirs by Pope Bnnocent 3. enjoyned by him upon remission of his sins to invade depose him all Nobles Warriors enjoyned to assist him therein the same Indulgences granted them for it as to those who went to the Holy Land against the Saracens his preparations by Sea and Land for that service 267 268. The Earl of Flanders refused to joyn with him in this unjust invasion whose Lands he invaded detained 267. Countermanded by the Popes Legate after all his expence in raising forces to invade England upon King Johns surrender of his Crown Charter and Fealty to the Pope his indignation thereupon to be so cheated 275 276. The false prophesie of Peter the Hermite much encouraged him to invade England 266. His great preparations by Land and Sea for England he boasted he had Charters of Fealty and Allegiance from most of the Nobles of England under hand and seal who would assist him against King John which much encouraged him All the exiled Bishops Archbishops and other exiles joyned with him 271. His Navy defeated taken by King Johns 276. He and his Nobles joyntly assert That England never was is nor shall be St. Peters Patrimony That King John was never true King thereof That neither he nor any other King Prince could give away his Realm without assent of his Barons who were bound by Oath to defend it That he could not make it Tributary or his Nobles Servants for which they would stand unto death That King John was justly condemned for murder in his Court and for Treason against his brother King Richard That he was ever devout faithfull to the Pope and Church of Rome would do nothing to their prejudice yet would not hinder his Son from pursuing his right to the Crown of England upon the Popes command 297 298. See Lewes His supplyes by Sea to Lewes taken by King Henries forces with Eustachius his Admiral whose head was cut off for his Piracies to the English 371. Philip the Fair of France his grant of a Seigniory to a well-deserving person resumed 260. years after 320. Pictavia the English Nobles refuse to follow King John thither till absolved from his Excommunication and Interdict 282. King Henries Castles in it detained 377 384 385. Poland Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. The King cannot give nor alien the Crown Lands his grants resumed 319 320. Portugal Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. King Ptolomy his great knowledge learning exceeded by the Virgin Mary 17. R. RAmirus King of Arragon his donations rescinded his fidelity constancy wisdom and treasure 319. Appendix 27. Recesuinthus King of Spain the Council of Toledo its Decree under him concerning Crown Lands 316. Richard Earl of Cornwall elected Emperor and King of Romans Appendix 27 28 29. See Index 7. King Richard 1. detains the Bishop of Belvoire taken in Armes against him prisoner notwithstanding the Popes Letters to release him 227. An excellent Souldier 457. Earl John his brother condemned for Treason against him in detaining his Castles 297. Appendix 18. Abjured the right of Investitures and assent to Bishops elections if we believe the Pope 324. King Richard 2. his Acts of Parliament against Provisions for the freedom of the Crown of England from any superior power but God alone and concerning Crown Lands and goods 326. Romania the Nobles and Great men of it hired for money and the Churches Lands by Pope Gregory 9. to rebell against the Emperor Frederick 531. Rome Popes pretended Title to the City and Empire 9. The Head of the World and the Emperor of Rome 8 9 417. Constantines resignation of it to Pope Sylvester in Christs right a fable 8 9 13 292 316 317. Besieged the Pope forced to fly and banished thence by the Emperor Frederick by Brancaleo and the Romans forced to reside elsewhere in Italy and France 552 553 554 776. Appendix 28. Roman See Church Court The execrable insatiable Avarice Pride Insolency Tyranny Usurpations Idolatry Blasphemy Bribery Symony Injustice Hypocrisie Sacriledge Fraud Treachery Impiety Provisions Dispensations Extortions Exactions Oppressions Non-obstantes Violations of all Priviledges Bulls Oathes Corruptions abuse of Croysadoes Excommunications Interdicts slanderous Bulls of the Popes Court Cardinals Legates Church See of Rome which rendred them infamous odious scandalous and alienated most mens hearts and affections from them in England France elsewhere and stirred up many publick complaints oppositions disturbances against them both in and out of our Parliaments 5 6 7 8 9 to 80 249 250 253 263 264 267 273 274 275 309 340 360 361 365 398 to 404 414 415 434 435 436 484 490 491 498 499 502 506 to 519 522 523 538 539 543 to 5â—6 644 to 647 661 to 683 692 to 702 717 746 752 to 756 773 774 798 to 805 823 824 825 850 851 868 to 872 918 919 920 921 923 924 925 926 927 to 935 953 956 957 962 963 964 980 1020 1021 1022 1023 1069 1070. Appendix 26 27 28 29. See Index 10 12. throughout 14. King Henry 3. King John Frederick Exactions Excommunications Interdicts Non-obstanteâ— Pope Provisions The Nobles in Parliament feared their manifold Cavil Treasons in the businesse of Apulia since they poysoned their kinsmen and nearest relations very frequently 931. They fled from thâ—se who manfully opposed chased pursuèd them but chased oppressed those who feared and fled from them being encouraged by their effeminacy 619 620 675 to 680. See Innocent 3 and Gregory 9. Index 10. Roman Court the fountain oâ— all detestable enormities instead of the fountain of Justice 746. Hath a power and custome like Hell to swallow up the rents of all men and almost all things that either Bishops or Abbots possesse money is there most powerfull above all other places 737 850. It s scandal in absolving the Dean and Chapter of Pauls from their Excommunication by the Popes command and yet commanding them to be excommunicated again upon another reason by the Popes mandate at their adversaries prosecuting which made them ridiculous even to Lay-men 762. The English generally departed from the Church of Rome at least in their hearts though not bodies for their manifold vexations injurious oppressions contempts injuries that the Son of Iniquity might be revealed their Father the Pope becoming an unkind step-father and their Mother the Church of Rome a raging persecuting step-mother trampling it under feet subjecting it to extreme conditions causing the venomous hatred between the Church and people to encrease daily more and more 763
773 778 824. It s grosse corruption in granting licenses for Non-residency for money upon any subtle pretence and to shake off Christs yoak 774. The discords and contentions of the English concerning Elections and Jurisdiction added fuel food and annual revenues to the Popes and Court of Rome 852. Their exorbitant Tyranny over English Abbots Prelates notwithstanding their Priviledges 926 927 928. Their domineering over the Laity and Clergy of England and bestowing their vacant Benefices by Provisions at their pleasures to Aliens excommunicating all Bishops Abbots Priors who durst to contradict them through the Kings folly and sloathfulnesse the Nobles disdaining this their pride although late rose up to provide a remedy compelling most Aliens to fly the Realm commanding all Religious persons who farmed the Romans Benefices to pay their rents to the Barons Proctors at a time and place they assigned under pain of burning their Houses and inflicting on their persons what they provided the Romans should suffer if they did otherwise commanding the Bishops that no man should intermeddle with their rents under the foresaid penalty By which Provision England was free from the Roman exactions near three years till Simon Montefort was slain in battle 980. Their provisions of Benefices for Aliens intollerable rapines extortions abuses for Apulia the principal occasion of the Wars between the King and his Barons begun carried on fomented by the Bishops instigations to secure their purses and money from the Roman Harpyes 1020 1021 1022. Gualther Mapes his memorable Verses of the grosse bribery injustice corruption of the Pope Court of Rome and all sorts of Officers therein whereof he was an eye-witnesse 1069 1070. Their Merchants Usurers defiled all England with usurâ— and were worse then the Jews who were supplanted by them Appendix 26. Falling away from the Pope and Roman Church long since predicted for their corruption 401 799 800 801. The Greek Church deserted separated from excommunicated them upon this account See Greek Church Romans Their Senator Citizens insurrection against Popes chasing them from Rome contemning their menaces Excommunications as exempted from them by priviledge 415. Appendix 28. See Index 10. Gregory 9. Innocent 4. and 14. Fredericks 2. The Pope agrees to conferre all vacant Benefices in England especially of Religious persons on Romans writes for 300 Benefices to be provided for them in three Diocesses the number values of their Benefices Provisions inquired after by Writ amount to above 60000 Marks annual rent besides other profits being near three times more then the Kings ordinary revenue 564 572 573 777. The Romans Corn threshed out spoyled by the English who are excommunicated imprisoned severely punished for it 434 to 439 1000 to 1006. Russia Popes pretended Title to it 9. Russians subject to the Greek Church 391. S. SAracens Croysadoes Wars against them they rejoyce at the Emperors and Popes discords Wars 517 521 573 643 649 650 651 652 679 739 754. Sardinia Popes pretended Title to it 9. The Emperor Frederick according to his Oath seised on it as a part of the Empire usurped by Popes for which Pope Gregory 9. excommunicated him 515 516 537 538. Saxons seised the Isle of Ely when they invaded England 922. Scotland Scots their submission Hostages to King John and League with him 260 261. King H. 2. resumes Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland from the Scots King formerly granted to David by the Empresse in his name he being not to be defrauded of so great a part of his Realm upon restitution whereof he gave him the County of Huntingdon belonging to him of antient right 324. The Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. Eustace de Vesci accused of Treason flyes into it 265. King Edw. 1 his Soveraign Dominion over it and Pope Boniface his Letter concerning it 328. A peace between the King of Scots and King H. 3 to whom he did Homage and swore Fealty in the Legates presence He refused to admit the Popes Legate into Scotland telling him â—e needed him not That no Legate ever entred it in his or his Fathers or any of his ancestors dayes neither would he suffer any to enter whiles he was compas mentis That if he entred the Scots were rude persons from whose violence he could not protect him whereupon the Legate changed his covetous mind of entring Scotland 486. Another Popes Legate desiring to enter Scotland is met and opposed by the King who told him never Legate entred it before him that they had no need of him that Christianity there flourished and the Church was prosperous After many discourses by mediation of the Nobles of both Realms when the King was about to deny his entrance he procured a writing lest he should return confounded into England That his present coming thither should never be drawn into consequence in time to come Whereupon he called the Bishops and others of Scotland unto good Cities beyond the Sea collected the 13th part of their goods and sent it to the Pope departing secretly without the Kings license and carrying the writing away with him 506. The Scots Kings and Nobles Charter of Peace League Fealty and submission to King H. 3. ratified by their Oaths and submission to the Popes Jurisdiction and Censures if infringed 620 621. Godefry sent thither as Popes Legates to collect money that Church having no need of a Legate 692. Scythia infected with the Collyridian heresie 58. Sicilia the Popes pretended Title to it claiming it as the Churches Patrimony 9 291. Frederick King of it persecuted by Otho the Emperor for seising some Castles of the Empire whiles vacant for which he was excommunicated deposed by Pope Innocent 260. Pope Gregory stirs up the Sicilians to rebell against the Emperor Frederick King thereof when crossed for the Holy Land 415 417. Excommunicated by the Pope for oppressing some Churches in it and keeping them vacant with his refutation thereof 516 523 524 528 529 530. Pope Innocent 4. stiled it St. Peters Patrimony 658. Proffered by the Pope to Richard Earl of Cornwall to drain his Treasure and engage him in his Wars against the Emperor and Conrade his refusal of it bestowed upon King H. 3. for Edmund his Son whom his Legate invested in poffession of it by a Ring upon certain Articles and Covenants which he swore to impossible to perform by which he cheated the King and obliged him in vast sums of money without ever gaining possession No Clerk to go to the Court of Rome unlesse he first took an Oath to procure nothing from thence to the prejudice of the King concerning Sicily with the Procurations transactions concerning it between King H. 3. Edmund Pope Alexander and his Successor 865 to 872 945 to 950 956 to 962 1049. Appendix 28 29. Prince Edmund stiles it his Realm writes a Letter to all the Bishops Abbots Nobles people of it to receive him as their King promising to maintain all and every their Liberties advance their honour and prosecute that affair with all his
particulars and with saving the rights lands of the Empire 651 652. Of the Bishop of Winton from his Excommunication by the Popes Legate at the point of death upon his professed repentance for favouring Simon Monteforts party against the King 1018. Absolution of England from the impious Interdict after 6 years 3 moneths 14 dayes continuance 331 332 333 340 414. See Interdict Of Abbots from visiting the Popes pallace every 3. years for money 465. Of Subjects from their Allegiance Oaths of Fealty Homage obedience to their Kings Emperors by usurped Papal authority in the cases of Otho 5. Frederick 2. King John and Henry 3. 260 263 264 265 410 516 524 439 540 619 621 622 664. contrary to the Law of God Nature Nations and some Popes Bulls and Bishops resolutions 341 343 402 403 456 849. Of Kings by Popes from Oaths inviolably to observe the Great Charter and other Ordinances made by their Lords in Parliaments 336 337 340 to 345 934 936 946 988 989 1015 1016 1021. Of the Cruce-signati from their Oathes Vowes to go to Jerusalem against the Saracens taken by Popes Bulls instigations soon after only to gain money for Popes to the great scandall of Christians and Christianity though they excommunicated the Emperor Frederick and others for not going at the time prefixed when hindred by sicknesse and other grand affairs 411 412 413 449 452 470 471 512 513 514 545 547 571 728 729 746 747 754 766 767 822 814 825 1049 1050 1056. Of all sinnes by Bishops to rebels before battles against their Kings to encourage them to fight manfully 1021 1022. To others by Popes Legates 370 371 448. Popish penances injoyned by Legates before absolutions from excommunications 287 494 495. Adam seduced by Eve and the Serpent 61. He Eve their posterity and mankinde saved by the Virgin Mary as Papists assert 26 31 to 36. Administration of intestates goods indebted to the King prohibited Ordinaries till the Kings debt satisfied 782 89â— See Intestates Admiral of Genâ—â— Fleet 652. Of the French taken beheaded 371. Admittendo Clerico to Bishops to admit Clerks or shew cause why they do it not by a day 781. Adoration due only to God of Angels the Virgin Mary Saints Hostia Idolatry prohibited by God 56 57. 60 61 62. Of Mary more then God by the Church of Rome and Papists See Mary Prayer to Saints Adultery of King John his Queen imprisoned by him and those suspected to defile her put to death for it 256. Punishable by Kings 2. Advocate a good ones properties 43 44 45. All of them found in the Virgin Mary whom the Church of Rome and Romanists stile make invoke magnify as their best chiefest compassionatest eloquentest most sollicitous prevailing Advocate to Christs dishonor our only Advocate by Gods appointment relying on her Advocation more then on Christs 30 to 40. 43 to 50 55 56 63. St. Dominick and St. Francis made Advocates in Heaven equivalent to or more prevalent then Christ 64 65. Advocates delaying marriage Contracts by frivolous exceptions excommunicated 386. The Emperor Fredericks in the Council of Lyons 655. King Hen. 3. his Advocate therein 299 638 639 644. The Clergies Advocate against Popes exactions 841. Of the Court of Rome King Henry the 3. his Letter to ample reward promised him 1031. Advowsons of Churches Patrons cheated of them by Papal provisions complaints against it 444 506 507. See Provisions Prohibitions against suits concerning them in Ecclesiastical Courts or out of the Realm See Prohibitions Patrons Presentations Agnus Dei a vain Charm against thunder tempests 466. Sung in Churches 686. Prohibited to be impressed by Bakers on sale-bread 783. Christs pretended appearing in Popish Hostiaes under that form 71 72. Alienation of Capite Lands in mortmain or otherwise prohibited 597. A License to alien such lands upon a Voyage to the Holy Land 1056. Of Lands belonging to Archbishopricks Bishopricks Abbyes or Chauntries prohibited recovered resumed by the Kings writs 3 4 230 233 372 to 378. 380 381 1004 1033. Prohibited Abbots Bishops by new Oaths to the Pope without his license 465. who yet may alien all the Churches lands against his Oath 5. Aliens Poictovins Italians Romans others promoted to Bishopricles Ecclesiastical preferments benefices in England by King Joha Henry 3. and Popes provisions though illiterate scandalous ignorant of the English tongue to the prejudice of the English Church Scholars Complaints by the Nobles against this abuse still continued notwithstanding promises of reformation 243 310 435 442 446 456 457 501 502 550 579 580 626 627 748 749 751 764 765 777 1020 1323. Alienated the Kings heart from incensed him against the English consumed his Treasure domineered over the Natives married the English Nobles oft complained against the King sharply reprehended for it by the English Nobles in Parliament 443 444 445 721 775 949 to 952. The chief cause of the Barons rebellion against King H. 3. 1020 1023. Their Corn threshed out goods houses plundered by the English who are excommunicated imprisoned for it Inquisitions after their Lands plundered goods 434 to 439 630 631 1000 to 1006. The Nobles rise up in arms against banish force them several times out of the Realm seise their moneyes goods oppose their return as firebrands of sedition 443 444 445 450 930 to 938 949 950 966 967 1020. Alien Priors and Normans Lands rents in England enquired after seised by the King 630 631. Alien Usurers introducei protected by the Pope excommunicated imprisoned till they made their peace 437 469 651 652 754 802. Append. 26. Altars of and to the Virgin Mary 51 52. Christs corporal apparition on them in Popish Hostiaes 72 73. Appeal made at the High Altar against King Johns Charter by the Archbishop 293 294 300 431. Archbishops after their elections carried to the high Altar 242 243 247. Priests flying to their â—horns for sanctuary pulled thence 786 787. Hubert pulled from before it with his Crucifix in his hand to which he fled 439. Broken in pieces because persons excommunicated celebrated Mass on them Appendix 6. King H. 3. his Oath upon the Altar at Westminster to observe the great Charter and reform all his former errors 935. Christs body offered on them 504. Angels their several Orders all subject to the Virgin Mary their Queen Empresse attending on her at her death Assumption 16 20 to 25 28 34 43 48 68. Shew Christ on the Altar to Plegilis 71 72. Not to be adored 60 61. Americaments of Clergymen 337. Of their Tenants 828. Antichrist The Pope Court of Rome reputed so by Alexander Cementarius Grosthead the Greek Church others for their antichristian practises corruptions 259 760 765 773 778 799 to 806 824. See Index 10 12 Apparitions of Christ in Popish Hostiaes delusions 74. Apparators Beadles their exactions prohibited 910. Apostacy of Convert Jewes others punished with death 385 634. Of Christians by reason of the Saracens victories over them and their ill successes in the Holy Warre 734. Apostate
against his Oath for having neither a Chancellour Treasurer nor Chief Justice elected by the Common counsil of the whole Realm who promised to reform all things with great but feigned humility they believe him not because of his frequent breach of such promises till they saw a real Reformation thereupon the Parliament adjourns and â—t last broke up in discontent by the Kings sharp answer to and denying of their Demands 721 722. The King displeased with his Counsellors for losing their hearts who put him to hard un-kingly shifts to begg and extort Moneys 722 723 724. prohibited by the Pope at the Kings request to go to the Holy Land when prepared and by the Kings Writs not permitted to go out of the Realm against his will as they resolved 731. They advise the King to seise the Barony of the Bishop of Worcester for excommunicating the Sheriff thereof against his prohibition in contempt of his Crown and Dignity 758. Summonned to a Parliament to grant the King an Ayde of Money and Men for the Holy Land which they refuse whispering secretly that the King was no Souldier never versed in war that they could not expect he could vanquish the Saracens who took the Martial King of France Prisoner that he rashly undertook to gain others Lands beyond Sea by power who was unable to keep his own reprehending him with great indignation as born onely to cheat his Subjects of mony and empty their purses and return home in discontent The King conceiving these speeches and actions proceeded from a malignant spirit and hatred against him resolved to send for a Legate to compell the Bishops to a Contribution who then durst not say him nay 770 773 774 775 776. In another Parliament after a sharp reproof of the King for violating the Great Charter and liberties of the Church they granted him an Ayde upon condition to ratifie them in all the Articles thereof bona fide without any evasions which he and his Father had frequently violated against their Oaths and cause a general Excommunication to be denounced against all Iufringers thereof in Westminster Hall which he did 795 796 910 911 797. They deny the King an Ayde for Apulia and Sicily because undertaken without their counsil and consent by the whisperings of the Pope and his Italiaus and because not all summoned and present according to Magna Charta 822. They compassionated neither the Church nor Prelatet 821. Compelled Bishops Clergy-men and Religious Persons to make suit at their Courts 895 900. They animated the cowardly divied Bishops in their Convocation at London to give nothing out of their Baronies to the King oâ— Popes Legate 841. The King and Nobles often solicited in vain by the Bishops to redresse Grievances against their pretended priviledges they thereupon resolved to redresse them themselves and by their own new exorbitant Constitutions subjected the King his Judges Officers Barons to new Excommunications Interdicts Censures for opposing their pretended Churches privileges 897 to 912. Against which the King by their advice appealed in his own and Kingdoms behalf 983 990 991. Their proceedings and Ordinances in the Parliaments at Oxford London against the intoerable rapines insolencies of the Popes Agents Poictovines and other Foreigners whom they banished England to preserve the Kingdom from utter desolation by the subtilties of the Church of Rome and King 930. They animated the cowardly Prelates reprehend the King for his folly and uncircumspection in embracing the Popes proffers of Apulia to him without their counsil or advice which involved him in infinite Debts and not refusing it as his Brother Richard did deny to grant him any Ayde towards it or Debts contracted for it telling him they neither could nor would endure such Extortions whose President all the Abbots but one followed 931 932 933. They sharply reprehend the King for breach of the Great Charter against his Oath Excommunications denounced against the Infringers promoting all manner of Alien contemning opposing his English Nobles Subjects exhausting the Kingdoms Treasure reducing himself to extream poverty contempt whereupon he did humbly acknowledge his errors and frequent bewitching by ill counsel promised by solelmn Oath on the High Altar and St. Edwards Coffin to amend all his former errors fully and plainly which they not crediting by reason of former violations of this kinde adjourned the Parliament to a further day to Oxford provide Horse and Arms for their own defence against the Poictovins treacheries exact the confirmation of the Great Charter with other particulars for the Kingdoms peace ease wealth swore solemnly to each other to prosecute and not give over their resolution for the losse of Money or Lands nor yet for the life of them and theirs caused the King and Prince Edward to swear to obey pursue their counsel in all things swearing they would not leave one foot of Land in England to such Nobles who refused to take the like Oath 935 936. They pursue the Poictovines from Oxford to Winton force them to fly and hanish them out of England seise their Monies in all places where found and forced Herlot the Popes Nuncio to fly secretly out of England for fear till quieter times 937 938 939. They forced the King to swear involably to observe their provisions made at Oxford who privately procured an absolution from them the Pope nulling his Oath and their provisions 948. They send a notable Letter to the Pope concerning the businesse of Apulia as undertaken without their advice without whom the King ought not to undertake it complaining against the Bishop of Winchesters his Brothers and Officers opposing of their Ordinances for the Kingdoms settlement the intollerable rapines oppressions of his Officials his refusal to stand to a legal Tryal who was so detestable to the Commonalty of England that they would by no means permit his return into England though the King and Nobles desired it and that it was the fixed resolution of all and every of them that they would never suffer this Author of Schifm discord and scandal to live among them representing other his tyrannical and detestable facts to the Pope together with their Letter by four eloquent Knights they sent with it left he should corrupt the Pope and Cardinals with money to consecrate him Bishop which Messengers were to return with all expedition without any disputation or discourse 948 to 952. which the King seconded with his Letters and Proctor 966 967. They compelled all Foreigners to fly the Realm commanded all the Farmers of the Roman Churches not to pay their rents to them but to those they appointed to receive them under pain of firing their Houses and such personal penalties as they intended to inflict on the Romans commanding the Bishops under the like penalty not to permit any Romans to meddle with their Rents whereby England continued three years free from their Exactions 980. They endeavoured to have their Constitutions at Oxford ratified at Rome opposing the Kings nulling of
them who yet prevented them 986 987 988. Their Articles of Agreement concerning the Archbishops return into England upon certain conditions 997 998. See Index 3. Boniface Their Provisions touching the spoyls and plunders of Ecclesiastical Persons Goods during the Troubles Inquisitions after them and for their safe custody 999 to 1006. The Kings Letters to the Bishop of London and other Bishops to excommunicate some Barons for breaking their Oaths and Agreement with him seising his Castles wasting his Lands in an hostile manner and drawing Prince Edward to rebel against him 1013 1014. The King sends for a Legate into England to assist him and excommunicate the Bishops Barons in arms against him who not daring to enter into England sends for some Bishops into France and there Excommunicates and Interdicts them They by advice of some Bishops and their Officials appeal against it to the Pope himself to better times and a General Council also to the Supream Judge for certain causes and convenient reasons afterwards ratified by the Bishops and Clergy in a Council at Reding the Inhabitants of Dovor tear the Interdict which they seised on and cast it into the Sea 1014 1015 1016 1018. Roger Abbot of Canterbury published the Popes Bull of Excommunication against them there nulling their provisions and League at Oxford absolving the King and all others from their Oath to observe them from which the Bishop of Worcester and other Clerks adhering to the Barons asserted and preached publickly the Pope had no power nor authority to absolve them being made and sworn to by common consent 1015 1016. Ottobon the Popes Legate soon after coming into England in his red Cardinals Robes excommunicates all the Bishops Clergy adhering to Simon Monteford against the King in a Council at Northampton suspended them from their Office and Benefices and then excommunicated all the Barons and others adhering to him encouraged in their Rebellion by the Bishops and Clergy 1018 1019. Their overthrow at the battle of Evesham the award and accord made between the King and them in the Parliament at Kenelworth 1019. Matthew Westminsters recapitulation and censure of their provisions of Oxford proceedings war arms aginnst the King and Bishops encouragement of them 1020 1021 1022. The disinherited Barons lurk in the Isle of Ely their high and sharp answer to the Legates Proposals sent to them which much incensed him and the King against them 1022 1023. He summoned all the Archbishops Bishops Barons and others that hold by Knight service to assemble with Horse and Arms to subdue them The Bishops and Abbots assembled in Parliament resuse to ayde him with their Armes protesting they held their Baronies onely in Francalmoign not by Knight-service that they were obliged to assist him onely with their Spiritual armes prayers tears not with the material Sword and were bound by their Benefices to maintain peace not war c. 1024 1025. The Earl of Glocester refuseth to send Armes to assist against them yet sent Letters Patents under his hand he would never bear Arms against the King or Prince Edward to avoid the Note or Treason He besieged the Legate in the Tower prohibits any Victuals to be carried to him Those in the Isle of Ely sallying out plunder'd all the Kings Jewels at Westminster so distressed him for want of Mony thath pawned his Jewels the precious Stones golden Images in Westminster Abby to Merchants to raise a little Money for the present which he afterwards redeemed restored The Legate excommunicated all the disturbers of the kingdoms peace and Interdicted all the Churches in and near London 1025 1026. The Popes Bull setting forth the Kings sad oppressions persecutions by his Barons wars the great losse he sustained debts he incurred and miseries he and the Realm sustained thereby exhorting the Archbishops and Bishops to a liberal supply and payment of 7. years Disme which he granted to him that he might the better defend the Church Realm maintain their Liberties Rights and promote Gods service with greater zeal 1027 1088. They discharge King Henry from his Oath and Voyage to the Holy Land for the kingdoms safety which might be endangered by his and Prince Edwards absence out of it at one time 1049 1050. See more in Hen. 3. King John Barons of the Cinqu ports their priviledge 887. Barons of the Exchequer the treasurers valediction to them being made a Bishop 511. agreeing with the Collection St. Matthew St. James and St. Andrews Holy-days A Writ to them for repairing Westminster Abby 820. Barons of France Summoned by King Philip to invade England and depose King John 267 268. They and their King affirm that no King could give his kingdom without the general assent of his Barons who were bound to defend it for by his voluntary act make it Tributary else his Nobles might be made Servants 298 319 320. Their Baronies derived from escheated to and held of the Crown 322 323. Adjudge King John to death and to forfeit his Dominions in France for the murther of his Nephew Arthur 363 364 365. Appen 18 19. Their notable confederacy against the Popes Prelates usurpations on their Liberties by their Canons Excommunications 699 to 705. Borens of Scotland their Oaths and ratification of their Kings League with Henry 3. 620. 621. Saint Basils Appeal to the Virgin Mary against Julian 24. Bastards disabled to enjoy Benefices without the Popes special Dispensation to gain Mony 467. born before Matrimony made legitimate hereditable by subsequent marriage by Canon not Common-law which the Lords would not alter at the Bishops request 445 471 472 704 878 879. Bastardy no Appeal to be mitted to Rome or elsewhere against a Certificate thereof by the Ordinary when returned into the Kings Court 393 324 472 473 782. In what form Certificates of it are to be made by the agreement of the Barons and Bishops in Parliament in England certified to Ireland 472 473 782 878 879. No second Certificate to be made to the Judges after the first retorned in Court 782. Bastardy noâ— tryable in the Ecclesiastical Court prohibitions against such Tryals there 471 472 477 782 878 879. Bayle Pledges Manucaptors given in cases of Misdemeanors 372 884. or danger from Persons suspected 256 265 392 446 495 705 941 942. For Women who held in capite not to marry without the Kings License 602. Bayliffs of the King summoned to account their Exactions enquired after redressed 281 282. Of Bishops to give an account to their Executors of Rents received 576. Complaints of Canons against their proceedings by the Prelates Clergy of England and Ireland as contrary to the Churches Liberties 827 828 857 858 891 898 to 1010. See Sheriffs Prohibitions Those of Ireland complained of to the Pope for hindering their Servants to make Wills or take up the Crosse Ibid. redeem their Vowes when crossed 828. Bedâ—ls exactions 910. Benefices appropriated the mischiefs thereby 1041. License to mortgage their Profits for three years for the Holy Land
Cathedrals and Monasteries 607. St. Briget her Canonization Revelations 50. and passages of the Virgin Mary See Index 7. St. Briget Bulls of Popes to the Kings or Kingdoms prejudice their importers arrested hanged 605 617. See Arrests Contemned burnt by some of our Archbishops 232 791. Contradict Null Repeal each other by detestable Non-obstâ—ntes in them See Non-obstante The Pope authorized the Abbot Monks of St. Albans or any of them to tear his or his Legates Letters if they contained any thing contrary to his â—ull of Priviledges granted to them for moderating Provisions 781. which yet he soon after violated 803 881. Burials Christian prohibited during Interdicts 253. Appendix 4. Interdicts Priests Whores and Concubines deprived of it 397. C. CAnoâ—s of Cathedral Churches See Index 6. 13. Pauls and Prebends Canon Law Canons Constitutions Decretals made by Popes Popish Prelates Councils the principal engines to batter down undermine subvert trample under feet the Ecclesiastical and Civil Prerogatives Rights Crowns of Christian Kings Emperors Kingdoms Prelates Churches by Excommunications Interdicts absolutions from Oaths and other Canonical Innovations null all Civil Laws Regal Magistratical authority ascribe a transcendent power to Popes above all Powers in Heaven and Earth divine humane Law exempt all Clergymen and their very Harlots too as such from their Jurisdiction Censures and make them meer cyphers at Popes and Prelates pleasures 3 5 6 7 8 9 232 250 251 253 255 259 261 262 263 264 265 267 273 274 278 279 289 290 329 330 331 337 338 385 386 394 398 407 409 to 416 515 to 560 553 582 to 596 643 to 647 654 to 664 699 to 712 753 754 757 758 830 831 854 880 881 899 to 913 969 970 983 990 991 1021 1022 1024 1025 1035. Appendix 6 to 18 20 22. The Canon Law prohibited Books thereof torne Canonists and Professors of it the grand supporters enlargers of Popes Universal absolute Monarchy silenced 3 5 6 7 8 None binding nor to be made but by common consent in Parliament not by the Prelates Clergy alone in Councils and for what things 2 3 471 472 473 799 to 812 899 to 913 983 990 991 998. Appendix 20 22. All contrary to the Common Law the Kings Prerogative Custom of the Realm and Subjects Liberties voyd Ibid. 393 394 467 757 782. 983. 900. Constitutions printed in Anon Lyndewode cryed up for the Canon Law of England though revoked in Parliament appealed against made in a Convocation against the Kings Prohibition repugnant to his Rights and unsufferable grievances to the King Kingdom 897 to 913 983 990 991 997 998. The strange Antimonarchical Positions of Popish Canons and Canonists 5 6 7 8 Canons purposely made only for Popes and their Secretaries to get money by Dispensations 5 433. 467 498 500 531 925 953 See Dispensations Exemptions Pluralities Commendaes Marriages Concerning Excommunications 385 386. against Priests Concubines 397. Canonical Elections See Elections Cap 487. Canonical Obedience 235 623. to be made by subscription only without Oath 259 623 629 630 707. See Oath Of the Bishops of St. Davids and other Sees to Canterbury 235. York Of the Bishop of Durham to York 623 See Index 3. Canonical Censures 898 to 912. See Excommunications Interdicts Canonization of Romish Saints by Popes for blasphemy in advancing the Popes Soveraignty adoration of Mary oppositions Treasons against our Kings 49 56 64 226 379 380 420. of Ansâ—lm Becket Edmund Archbishops of Canterbury and Hugh of Lincoln See Index 3. Of Bernard Bernardinus Senensis Briget Bonaventura Catharine of Senis Dominick Francis Yldephonsus 49 50 64 488. For monies 697 698. Other Saints not canonized because they opposed the Popes Usurpations 805. Canterbury See its Jurisdiction over St. Davids and Welsh Bishops when how introduced 234 235 236 237. See more of Canterbury Index 2 3 6 13. Canton Swissers 320. Cappa Choralis of the Popes Legare furred 487 741. Cardinals of Rome Popes Counsellors 420 647. Pomp 287 485 487 697. See Index 11. Carvage denyed by the Archbishop of York 230. Castâ—es the Kings and his Ancestors interest in them 962 963 Of exiled Rebellious Bishops pulled down 288. Resumed detainers of them from against our Kings in England Ireland forced to surrender them by Popes Bishops Excommunications security from those who held them in Capite repairing guarding of and other matters concerning them 14 324 332 343 372 373 378 379 384 385 386 389 390 391 392 397 402 403 429 430 455 456 602 607 700 75â— 8â—8 Interdicted by Popes and our Prelates for not obeying their admonitions commands 6 898 901 to 906. To be seised by the Barons if the King violated the Great Charter 336. Prisoners murdered in them 360 364. Of the Pope re-seised by the Emperor 425 515. To be built in Ireland 783 784 828. Pope Gregorius new Castle built with the Croysado money taken demolished and all therein hanged by the Emperor which broke his heart 647. Not to be built nor houses embattled but by the Kings special license 1064. particular Castles See Index 13. Cathedral and Conventual Churches by whom and why erected endowed 2 607 799. 1011. See Abbots Bishopricks Index 2 3 4 5. p. 911. The Emperor excommunicated for spoyling and keeping some of them voyd 516. 5â—1 522. Consecrated 489 502. Their elections to be free 336 337. See Elections Cato seised all publick Revenues aliened 320. Caursinâ— Popes Usurers See Usuries Cautione admittenda a Writ Its form when Bishops deny it 884 974. Canons concerning Caution 659. Caution only pignâ—â—oâ—y not by Oath de stando or parendo mandatis Ecclesiae 3 830 831. yet such Oath extorted from Emperors Kings by Papal and Prelatical Tyranny ere absolved 272 279 283 287 384 401 651 652 655 656 752 883 884. See Absolutâ—oâ— Excommunication Juratory or Literatory given by exiled Bishops ere restored not to attempt any thing by themselves or others against the Kings Crown salvo â—oâ—â—re Dei Ecclesiae 272. Celleraâ—ius of St. Albaâ—â— 255. Cephas Popes claim to his place in the Church 409. Chalices for the Kings Chapple 759. to keep the Host in 798. 1065. Chancellors of England See Index 8. Thomas Becket when elected Archbishop 431. Barons complaint of their selfseeking not being chosen in Parliament with the Kings answer 721 722. Chancery the Bishops and Clergies complaints of new Writs issuing out of it against the Ecclesiastical Law Law of the Land and Custome of the Realm without the Nobles and Prelates assent of the Realm 895. Of the Barons for the Kings staying Writs out of Chancery against his half Brothers 635. Clerks thereof to be provided Benefices in the Kings gift 601. Chantrieâ— the Kings Prerogative to erect them in all his Demesne Lands 1038 Chaplains of the King attending on him See Index 9. exempted by him from Dismes payd by others 562 573 574 1007. Provisions of Benefices and Prebends for them before others 601 806 836 891. Licenses for Pluralities to such of them as
earth in every consecrate Host Chalice Pix in millions of places at once 15 66 67 68 69 70. His three actual descentions from Heaven to Earth since his ascention at the Death Funeral Assumption of the Virgin Mary 20 to 27 68. To other Popish Saints and Catharine of Senis with whom he daily conversed imprinted his wounds on and exchanged hearts with her gave her the Hostia with his own hands 69 70. His frequent corporal apparitions in their Hostiaes in form of a little Infant Lamb raw flâ—sh blood asserted in Popish Legends to evidence the truth of their Transubstantiation though meer Fables Diabolical delusions or Priests impious frauds 71 to 76. Of blood miraculously issuing out of his Images Crucifixes broken pierced 14. Reliques of his blood shewed adored in several places 14 711 to 780. All his Soveraignty Kingly power Offices of Advocate Mediator Intercessor Redeemer Saviour of Adam Eve mankind with divine worship attributed transferred by Romanists to the Virgin Mary 16 to 64. Made wholly subject obedient subservient to her motherly commands will in all things in Heaven 20 to 24 27 28 39 40 46 53 55. Papists appeals from his Justice anger to her mercy 16 24 25 53. Papists easier ascend into Heaven by Maries white then his red Ladder 31 36 37 48 49. See Mary Christ a counterfeit one put to death 383. Church Kings Oath duty care right to protect the Churches in their Realms their Rights Liberties reform all corruptions in them their Prelates Members to make Laws Canons concerning all Church-affairs erect Churches for Gods worship and build divide unite Churches c. as supreme Patrons Governors of them 2 3 4 5 227 228 230 231 233 304 305 516 522 575 596 607 637 688 721 748 890 896 899 968 995 to 1007 1011 1012 1016 1017 1027 1028 1033. See more Bishops Great Charter Emperor Kings and Index 2 3 4 5 6 10 12. Church who what it is not yet agreed on by Popes and Romanists 305 306 307 308. Church of Rome its Popes Papists detestable Blasphemies Errors Idolatry in Adorations Masses Matens Crowns Hours Letanies Magnificats Rosaries Mariales Idolâ—zing Deifying the Virgin Mary advancing her above entitling her to all the powers attributes of God Offices of Christ adoring invoking relying on her more then God or Christ corrupting altering Scriptures for that end 13 to 64. See Mary More heretical idolatrous therein and other Saints invocation then the Collyridians 56 to 63. Then Pagans 56 57. Then bruit beasts 56. Their monstrous absurdities of hers and other Saints seeing Prayers in their new-found Looking-glasse of the Trinity 57 58. Of their Doctrine of an invisible standing universal daily contradictory Miracle of Transubstantiation and pretended Miracles to confirm it 15 66 to 80. Of Crucifixes dropping blood 14. Of their Images and Pourtraâ—ctures of Christ as yet an Infant in her armes or still hanging on his Cross and the Virgin Mary as a crowned Queen sitting on a Throne with a Scepter ruling and commanding him 15 16 22 23 24. In saying not only Aves Prayers but Pater Nosters to her her Images and frequent repetitions of them together with Salve Mariaes direct Prayers for her as if not yet saved 51 52 53. In blotting the Second Commandement out of all their Howrs Psalters Primers Missals Rosaries Breviaries Litanies of our Ladies late Catechisms because incompatible with their Images benedictions adorations of her 62 63. Their Legends blasphemies of St. Catharine of Senis Dominick Francis 64 65 69 70. Of Dominican Freers hid under her large Mâ—ntle and Robes in Heaven 5â— Concerning Popes transcendent Soveraign Universal power Monarchy over all Churches Kingdoms Emperors Kings Prelates Councils 5 6 7 8 9. Their detestable avarice rapines oppressions bribery symony injustice corruptions Rebellions Treasons against Kings and other impious atheistical practises See Index 10 11 12. throughout and 14. Rome Popes Frederick King Henry 3. King John All just grounds for the Church of Englands and others separation from and never to aposâ—aâ—ize to her 62 80. as the Greek Church did long since who excommunicated her 490 491 492. See Greek Church The Churches accusation against Pope Innocent 4. before Christs Tribunal for making her a slave a Table of Money changers destroying her faith manners justice truth 812. See Christ Popes Churches not to be divided 489. Their priviledge 881. See Sanctuary Church-yards their priviledge 881. See Sanctuary Cinqueports their Jurisdiction 887. See Index 13. Cistercian Monks their priviledges wool prayers desired deny Procurations to Popes Legates Aydes to the King who denyed them license to go to their general Chapter oppressed them for it Popes Letters for conferences with them Visitations of them Writs against their Merchandizing and other matters concerning them 261 262 297 404 405 569 570 603 604 622 626 828 829 846 847 848 889 993. See Monks Citations by the Pope from all Realms 5. Of Bishops Officials Officers for oppressions vexations complaints Writs against them 489 699 700 701 704 705 706 830 831 910 949 950 969 970. To Rome and out of the Realm prohibited See Prohibitions disobeyed 235 929 930. obeyed 717. Cities Jurisdictions not to answer or be sued out of them 887. Clerks Clergymen Priests all subject to Kings coertion correction secular power government for Ecclesiastical Temporal affairs crimes 2 3 4 230 253 to 259 264 267 268 272 273 351 512 577 827 828 860 878 892 893 900 904 905 1011 1012 See Arrests Popes Popish Prelates Canonists exemptions of their persons estates from all Kings Princes Laymens Jurisdictions for all crimes 5 6 7 8 515 516 536 537 538 656 657 811 812 827 828 857 858 859 878 890 to 912 All secular Laws Customs Prescriptions Aydes Taxes imposed on them against their pretended Priviledges voyd by Popes Canons and Canon Law Ib. Greater then Kings subject only to Gods Jurisdiction exempted by taking Orders from Civil Jurisdictions Courts for all crimes formerly committed cannot be accused witnessed against judged by Lay-men by Canonists assertions Popes and their own Constitutions nor yet their Whores Concubines 6 7 8 272 429 512 516 521 890 to 912. Appendix 4 to 16. See Canon Law Prohibitions Clerks imprisoned for crimes to be delivered over to their Ordinaries upon demand to make their Purgations 230 272 283 351 577 892 893 903 904 910. Not to bear or wear Armes 227 1024 1041. To contribute to Taâ—es Armes for publick defence as Bishops should appoint 994 1006 1007 1008 1024 1025. See Armes Aydes They all desert Oxford because the King executed two Clerks imprisoned for murder the Town interdicted the Executioners put to penance for it by the Popes Legate 257 287. Their goods seised livings sequestred for obeying the Popes Interdict and not officiating upon the Kings Writs and Proclamations 254 255. Those who obeyed communicated with received livings from him or defended his rights suspended deprived forced to Rome by the Bishops and Popes Legate 258 259 334 335. To
Appeals Councils Archbishops Bishops Clergymen excommunicated suspended from their Offices Bishoprick Benefices for not publishing or not submitting to them or officiating to conversing with or receiving any promotion from Kings or others excommunicated 334 335 345 346 347 348 359 36â— 371 372 385 410. Threatned by the Pope to King H 3. if he did not strictly inquire after and exemplarily punish according to his Coronation Oath those who threshed out and took away the Romans corn yea send them personally to him to Rome to be absolved for it 536 437. Absolutions from them denyed by Popes their Legates instruments to Emperors Kings others till they extorted an Oath from them to stand to and obey the Popes or Churches Judgements Commands though an illegal Oath and Usurpation See Absolution Popes Excommunications in temporal matters and in their own causes where Judges parties and professed Enemies reputed null and void by the Emperor Frederick 424 2â—5 513 to 533 536 543 544 548. 648 657 658 660 661 662. By Conrad 810 811 812. By Brancaleo and the Romans who pleaded Exemptions from it Appendix 28. By our English Archbishops Bishops Clergymâ—n 345 346 347 348 361 362 371 598. 1020 to 1024. By our King John and his Nobles against whom no Bishops in England durst publish the Popes excommunication but only whisper it privately 257 258 259. By the English Barons and Citizens of London Lewes and his adherents in King Johns reign 345 360 361 362 367. Appendix 18 19 20. By the Barons in King H. 3. his reign 1015 1020 1021 1022. King Johns victorious glorious Successes in England Ireland Scotland Wales during the Popes excommunication and Interdict of him and his Realm 260 261. The Emperor Fredericks victories successes whiles excommunicated by Pope Gregory and Innocent 4. whom he chased from Rome and fled like Cain before him from place to place 415 427 428 548 554 to 557. See Frederick and Index 10. Gregory and Innocent 4. Popes general excommunications of the Barons and others in arms without reciting their particular names held null voyd thereupon their particular names were inserted in renewed Excommunications interdicts 345 359. 360. The Kings Chappels not to be excommunicated but by Popes special command 358 720 721. See Free Chappels The Popes new policy custom when war arose between Kings or King Nobles to assist that party which made addresses to him by excommunicating the other and countenancing the weaker against the stronger party that when they recovered their power they might be perpetually obliged to him and become his Vassals 680. An exemption from excommunication for any crimes or offence but by the Popes special command granted for money 682 The Freach Nobles engagement against Popes Prelates Papal Excommunications and other encroachments on their Liberties 699 700 701 702. The Emperor Fredericks Letters to the Romans and Cardinals for suffering him to be excommunicated by the Popes in Rome it self against their duties allegeance and to K. H. 3. for suffering his excommunications to be published in England against the bonds of amity affinity common interest of Kings 515. to 533. 544 546 547 548 648 649. Helias a Monk by the Emperors command absolves those the Pope excommunicated 513 514. The Emperor apprehended and long detained Otho the Popes Legat in prison for publishing the Popes Excommunication against him in England 648 Popes Canons concerning Excommunications abuses and absolutions from them not observed by them 659 660. Tenants of Lords continuing excommunicate 40 dayes absolved from their fealty to them their Lands forfeited to the Supream Lord till submission to the Church by Popes Legates Constitutions 358. Excommunications nulled revoked by Popes revived against the same parties in the same cause for money upon other pretences to the great scandal of the Clergy 762. After Appeals to Popes nulled by his Bulls Legates if not revoked by those who denounced them 232 242. Excommunications threatned denounced by our Archbishops and Bishops against our Kings and those who adhered to them 263 268. 444. Against the King and all other infringers of the Churches Liberties Great Charter of Liberties and of the Forest and good Lawes of the Realm 385 391 444 499 544 611 613. 796 797. 910 911 919 935. Of all the infringers of the Barons Provisions made and sworn to at Oxford 1021 1023. Of all infringers of the publike Peace of the Realm 386 391. Of all Traytors to the King and kingdome 443 444. Of-Sheriffs Bayliffs other the Kings Officers and Judges for executing the Kings Writs Mandates discharging their Trusts distraining Bishops and their Tenants for publike Taxes sesing their Temporalties for contempts apprehending imprisoning executing Clergymen for Murder Felony Criminal affairs in affront of the Kings Soveraign authority 326 7 230 231 238 249 253. 254 387. 386 787. 430 438 439. 512 584 586 587 to 596. 655 657 688 689. 701 702 703 704 735 738 739 758 784. 829 830 857 858 859 860. 874 878 885 to 913. Appendix 5. 6. Archbishops Bishops banished their Temporalties seised persons attached proceedings prohibited they forced to absolve the Kings Officers and cry peccavi for such excommunications of them being against the Law and destructive to the Kings Soveraign power Ibid. 983. 990. 991. 997 998. See Arrests and Prohibitions Of such who violate sequestrations of Church-living 386. Of such who take malefactors goods or distrain in Churches Church-yards or Sanctuaries or kept victuals from persons flying to them 386 387 438 439 516 892 893 906. Of malitious false accusers witnesses and their suborners 386. Of Sheriffs Officers refusing to apprehend excommunicate persons or releasing them before satisfaction to the Church or conversing with them 386 883 884 891 892 903 904 906. Of Theeves Robbers Pyrats their receivers countenancers 386 449. Of such Virgins Widdows who marry against their Vow of Chastity though not professed by the Canons dispensed with by the Pope 500. Of defrauders detainers of any sort of Tithes to whom they are due 386 499 500. Of intruders into Churches to defraud Patrons of their rights 386. Of Advocates delaying the execution of marriage contracts through malice or frivolous cavils 386. Of persons serving or selling victuals to Jewes against Bishops inhibitions countermanded by the Kings Writs 386 387. 475. 894. 905 906. Of Priests Concubines 397. Of unjust takers distrainers of the goods of Bishops Priests or their Tenants or offerers of violence to their persons 230. 242. 243. 384. 386. 425. 515. 516. 536. 537. 538. 656. 657. 796. 797. 811. 830. 831. 841. 898. 903. 904. 906. See Arrests Of Lords and Bayliffs hindring Tenants to make prove Wills before Ordinaries 909 910. Of persons refusing to take Oathes not in cases of Matrimony and Testament or to present accuse or give testimony upon Oath in Bishops Visitations Courts against the Kings prerogative Lawes Custome of the Realm prohibitions in such cases 699. 704. to 711. 728. 764. 892 907 969 970. See Prohibitions Oath Of Judges others who
as the most easie safe to ascend by into Heaven 34. 35. 36. 64. 65. Franchises of Rochester and Norwich Cities seised on by the King as forfeited by the Citizens misdemeanours 779 1066 1067. Franchalmoign Lands given to Monasteries and Bishops to hold by this Tenure 228. Those who held by it bound to pray not to finde Armes or fight with the material but spiritual sword 1024. 1025. What Cases concerning it belong to the Civil what to the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction 881 882 889. Fraud and Circumvention null Grants of the King none ought to take advantage of his own Fraud 373. 374. Impious frauds circumventions of Popes Ibid. 809. 813. 824. 825. 844. 845. Appendix 28 29. See Croysadoes Aydes Gregory 9. Innocent 3. 4. Sicily and Index 12. Of Irish Bishops and Archbishops 482. 489. See Index 4. Free-Chappels of the King exempt from all Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Jurisdiction from Popes Dismes Procurations Provisions Taxes several Writs of Prohibition and Bulls concerning them to that effect 2. 358. 557. 720. 721. 727. 729. 748. 759. 982. 983. 1047. Fremtha exemption from it 229. G GAlyes of Jenoa taken by the Emperor 556. See Jenoa Gelds exemption from them 248. God onely to be adored invocated prayed to 56. 57. 58. 60. 61. 62. The propagation defence protection of his true Worship Faith Gospel Church Ministers People the principal duty office care of Christian Kings his Vicars upon earth 1. 2. 3. See Kings Our only ayde hope help deliverer Comforter Redeemer Saviour 36. All these other his Attributes and divine worship attributed to the Virgin Mary by the Church of Rome 16 to 60. sparsim Papists Blaphemies that the Virgin Mary hath done more for God than God hath done for her or all Mankinde 54. 55. That God hath bequeathed all his Mercy unto her to dispence reserving his Justice only to himself 25 c. That God his subject to her will and commanded by her 21. 22. 27. 28. 39. 40. 49. 53. The Virgin Mary adored by Papists as and more than God 12. 16 to 55. Made a Looking-glass for Saints to see Prayers in though invisible He doth not see but hears prayers 57. 58. Goddess the Virgin Mary made stiled a Goddess yea Goddess of Goddesses by Popish Cardinals Writers 16. 26. 56. See Mary The Gospâ—l usuâ—lly read in Councils 487. Grace Mary the mother fountain sole dispenser of it 25. 26. 37. 38. 48. She is most gracious to Sinners when Christ is most displeased with and hides his face from them 16. Great Charter Sâ—e Charter Greek Church Patriarch excommunicated the Pope and Roman Church separate from them and absolve those the Pope excommunicated 490. 491 511. See Greek Church Index 14. part 1. H HAir long of Priests cut by Kings Writs 479. Harlots See Nunnes Oxford Whores Hauking and Hunting restrained by King John 256. Heresie punished suppressed by Kings 2. 3. 550. 551. 650. Not to believe the Popes usurped Sâ—premacy nor submit to his Kâ—ys Excommunications Heresit 6. 410. 558. 656. 560. 657. 658. Of the Collyridians exceeded by Papists 58. to 62. All Heresies destroyed by the Virgin Mary 19. The Emperour Frederick falsly slandered therewith by Popes his vindication from it 410. 514. 515. 540. 541. Popes Bishops to take an oath of Purgation onely in case of Heresie 707. Hereticks arrested imprisoned proceeded against by Kings Writs 2. 3. 385. 403. 40â— 475. 560. Albigenses how persecuted 375. 403 404. Of Millain protected by the Pope against the Emperour See Frederick 2. Hâ—rnâ—gâ—ld 228. Hester a Type of the Virgin Mary 18. 20. 25. 45. Hidâ—ge exemption from it 228. Hypocrisie of Popes desiring Prayers to be made for them in all places the more boldly to prey upon and pick Christians purses 824. 848. Holy Ghosts inspiration inâ—â—rted into King Johns Charter a direct lye against the Holy Ghost 273. 289. 304. 305. Homage of King John to the Pope and Church of Rome for England and Ireland 273. 274. 279. 289. 299s See King John and Innocent 3. Of King Henâ—y 3 to the Pope of his Nobles Bishops to him at his Coronation 370. Of the Emperour to the Pope 400. Of the Irish and Welsh to King John 260. 261. Hoâ—pitals that were poor exempted from Dismes by the Kings Writs 862. See Poor and Index 13. Hospâ—tallâ—s forced to pay Taxes to King John 260. 261. Their Goods Lands seised by the Emperour for their Tâ—â—aâ—on against him 418 416. Their Lands given them by Usurpers and bought without the Emperours License in Sicily resumed by him by the Custom of the Realm 521. Their great pride wealth priviledges made them mad 776. See Templars Hostages required from Nobles whose Loyalty was suspected when absolved by Popes from their Allegiance 256. 265. Hanged at Nottingham Ibid. Given by the Welsh King Nobles to King John 261. Hundred-Court Hundredespeni exemptions from them 228. 229. I JAcoh and Isaac delivered by Gods love to the Virgin Mary 31. Idolatry punishable suppressed by Kings 2. 3. Of the Church of Rome in adoring the Hostia Virgin Mary Saints and praying unto them worse than that of Heathens and the Collyridians 56 to 68. and 16 to 56. See Mary Jesus his Name seen in fleshly Letters in a Popish Hostia 73. Prohibited by H. 3. his Proclamation to be imprinted on Bakers sale bread 783. Reputed one of the great Impostures by Fredericks the 2d a grosse slander of Popes to engage all Christians to rise up against him as a publick Enemy of Christ 514. 539. See Frederick 2. Jesuites assertions of the Popes Universal Monarchy 5. 8. Of the Virgin Maries association into the power of the Deity 38. 54. Censure of Christs miraculous apparitions in the Hostia 74. See Index 1. the Jesuites there quoted Jews converted by Crucifixes and Christs Images pierced by them dropping blood 14. Delivered from the Babylonish Captivity by the Virgin Mary 31. Kings Writs to sell Victuals and other necessaries to them notwithstanding Bishops Constitutions to prohibit communion with them and excommunications against them under pain of Imprisonment 387. 475. 476. 906. 907. A House erected by H. 3. for converted Jews 442. The Names of several converted Jews Males Females sent by Kings Writs to several Abbies Priories Monasteries to receive and allow them Corodies who were unwilling to it 835 to 841. Dower of a Jews wife denied because she turned not Christian with her Husband 44â— Forced by Popes excommunications and Secular power to remit all Usury to such who crossed themselves for the Holy Land to restore their Pledges and to respite the payment of Debts by Christians unable to pay them 448. 449. A Writ to apprehend and imprison an Apostate Jew 634. See Apostates King Johns great extortions of money from them which made them weary of their lives willing to quit the Realm and leave all they had behind them to get a livelyhood elsewhere sold by him like Titus and Vespatian to his Brother Earl Richard to tear out their howels when he had flead
Of the Barons and Churches of London by the Pope and his Legate without any remedy by Appeal for contemning his Excommunications of them and taking up armes against King John to defend the Great Charter of Liberties after his nulling it as extorted by force and prohibition to maintain it under pain of Excommunication 359 â—â—0 361 362. Their slighting derâ—ding exclâ—ming against it as null having no power â—reâ—â—dent from Saint Peter or Scripture Appeal against it to the next General Council and to Christ officiate notwithstanding it Ibid. King Henry 3. â—njoyned by the Pope under pain of Excommunication and Interdict to inquire of and punish such who broke open the Romans barns and took away their Corn against the Liberties of the Church and his Coronation Oath whereupon he issued out Inquisitions against them 436 437. Against all Harbourers of Pyrates or such who send any Victuals Arms Ships or hold Commerce with Saracens to the prejudice of the Holy Land and against all Christian Kings Princes who made not peace with each other or invaded one anothers Territories during four years space to the hinderance of the Holy War This to be solemnly and publickly denounced in all Cities and Port-Towns on all Lords-dayes and Holy-dayes 449. 450. A General one ordered by the Archbishop of Cassal in Ireland of the Kings Tenants by his Authority against the Decree of Pope Honorius to be reversed within 15 days 384. Of the Cathedral and whole City of Winton by the Bishop elected consecrated against the Kings will for keeping him out of the City by the Kings special Writ to the Maior 584. 586. Of such as having layd down the Crosse refused to take it up or redeem it for Monys 681. Of those who opposed Pope Innocents grant of the First-fruits of all Benefices for seven years without any benefit of Appeal 583. Of the Monastery of Saint Albans for 15 days by the Popes Exactors of a Tax notwithstanding all their privileges evaded by a Non obstante during which their Bells Masses ceased onely they said their Canonical Howres with a low voyce 846. Of Sewald Archbishop of York for opposing the clandestine intrusion enstallment of an Alien into the Deanery of York by the Popes provision 850. 851. 926. 927. Of the Kings Castles Cities Towns Lands and also of the Kings Officers Judges Sheriffs Nobles Lay-mens Castles Lands by the Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London or other Bishops â—or summoning Bishops or Clergymen to appear in secular Courts for any Causes civil or criminal or distraining or attaching them for their contempts in not appearing 900. 901. 902. For refusing to take imprison excommunicate Persons or releasing conversing with them whiles excommunicated by the Kings Writs or otherwise before satisfaction given to the Church 903 904. For out-lawing Clerks in Criminal or Capital causes for not appearing to answer their Crimes in the Kings Courts 904. 905. For suing out Prohibitions or Attachments on them against Bishops and Ordinaries for suing men for breach of Faith and Oaths in Civil contracts 905. Of Jews by Interdict of all Commerce with them 905. 906. For hindering Prelates by Prohibitions and Attachments to compel persons to take Oaths in Criminal causes or testifie the truth or inquire of mens offences in their Courts and Visitations 907. For Abbots not entring into Bonds to the Popes Merchant for the King in such summes as the Popes Agents and the King demanded from them 933 934. Of the whole City of York by the Archbishop for a long time 954. Of King Henry 3. subjecting himself to excommunication and his Realm to the Popes Interdict by his Patent and Articles if he paid not Moneys to him c. for Sicily at certain dayes 919. Of the Bishop of Bangor of a Chappel in Wales for a laye Cause prohibited and ordered to be released by the Kings Writ 1009. By the Popes Legate of the City of London the Cinqueports and all the Barons in armes against King Henry the 3d. 1015. 1016. His Interdict brought by the Bishops out of France into England taken by the Inhabitants of Dover torn thrown into the Sea in contempt and not executed Ibid. Appeals against it to a General Council or to the Supream Judge 1025. See Excommunications Intestates Goods claimed seised on by a Papal Statute in England and elsewhere for the Pope forced at last by the Cardinals to null his constitution therein for its scandal and injustice 664. 671. 672. 681. 682. 692. 921. 922. Investitures of Bishops Abbots by a Pastoral Staff and Ring the antient approved right of our Kings and Christian Emperors wrested from them by the treachery perjury rebellion of Popes and popish Prelates after many years contests yet still their undoubted right by their own Canons Bulls 2. 226. 250. 328. Invocation of Mery and Saints by Papists See Mary Prayers Joseph of Aramathea his burial of Christ reserving the Water and Blood wherein he washed his dead Body for a Relique a Viol thereof sent into England attested to be his very blood 1200 years after there adored 712. 713. The fable of his long life 421. Is in This Is my body predicated onely significatively representatively not identically proved by sundry other Scriptures daily common instances 78. 79. Never signified nor produced a transubstantiation made by it when uttered in Scripture or Story Ibid. Judges Popes others not to be Judges and Parties or Judges in their own Cases by Popes own Doctrine 303. 343. Yet they were so in all cases between Kings Emperors and themselves 303. Enemies not to be Judges yet Popes both Enemies and Judges See Enemies Judges bound to defend the Kings Prerogative yet complained of by Archbishops Bishops Popes and ordered by their Constitutions to be excommunicated Interdicted for maintaining it and the Subjects Liberties against their usurpations and granting Prohibitions to that end 429. 430. 499. 704. 705. 706. 710. 827. 828. 857. 858. 859. 872 to 913. 964. 965. 969. 970. 972. Chief Justices of England and Ireland See Index 8. Judges Delegates and Subdeligates to which of them Prohibitions are to be directed 879. 880. Jurisdiction of Kings in and over all Ecclesiastical religious affairs Persons Churches 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. See Bishops Election Prerogative Prohibitions and Index 2. 3. 4. Opposed denied by Popes popish Prelates Canons Canonists 5. 6. 7. 8. 89. 874 to 912. 983. 990. 991. None coercive in Popes Bishops by Divine right but only by grace grants of Kings to be exercised in their names stile authority by their Commissions as their Substitutes 2. 3. 4. 5. What matters causes of right belong to Ecclesiastical Persons Courts Jurisdiction by the Lawes Customes of the Realm of England and Ireland What not and what to the Kings Temporal Courts See Bishops Canon Prerogative Prohibitions Excommunications Index 3. 4. 5. 6. p. 1 to 9. 272. 872 to 913. Bractons Discourse of Jurisdictions his distinction of Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Kings and Popes according to the
all dead things to life 32. Strength of the weak 33. Our Surety 54. Our Sweetnesse fountain of all Sweetnesse of all who contemplate of Angels Men 20 33. The Holy Tabernacle 34. Temple of God of pitty and mercy 53. Terrour of Devils 32. Throne of God of the King eternal 26 32. Treasurer of the most high and all his graces 25 34. Tree of Life 32. Triumph of the Imperial Heaven 34. Veine of all Mercy and of our Salvation 34 37. Supreme Virtue of all Virtues 34. Voyce of the Prophets 37. Wall of the besieged 32 33. Way of the erring 33 37. Way by which sinners come to God and pardon to sinners 47. Window of Heaven 26. Wine-sellar of God and the Holy Ghost of whose fulnesse all participate 27. The Church of Rome and her Proselyres in these particulars greater Hereticks more sottish Idolatrous then the Heathens or Collyridians gave just cause to our Church others to sever from them and for all others now to do the like 55 to 63 80. They canonized those for Saints who were most blasphemous in this kind 49 50. They attribute all their victories successes deliverances principally to her and give her the glory of them 41. They averre the Virgin Mary hath done more to and for God then God hath done for her and all Mankind in sundry respects 54 55. That none can be saved but by her 32. That she was conceived born without original lived without any actual or venial sin and needed no Saviour 45 46 54 55. That her Advocation is so prevalent that although the whole Trinity had sworn by Christs wounds to shew no mercy to a sinner yet she would obtain it for him That the use of her Rosary will deliver souls out of Purgatory and save Reprobates 47. The World created out of Gods love to her 21. Her power over Devils Hell 19 24 32 38. Over Purgatory 19 26. She hath all the properties of a good King and Queen 29. Her New Bonaventures Creed whosoever will be saved before all things he must needs hold this firm faith of our Lady which belief unlesse every one shall hold firm and inviolate he cannot be saved Bonaventures Ladies Psalter and Fox Acts and Monuments Vol. 3. p. 276. which should have come in p. 53. l. 44. Their new Te Deam Mariam Laudamus sung to her honour instead of the old Te Deum 53 54. Their Religious Orders Vows in her name 50. Their special blasphemous Letanies said to her every Saturday in the year and on other solemn annual Festivals dedicated to her publick worship 51 54. Their Whores refrain Whoredom on Saturdayes out of reverence to her many Romanists fear reverence her more then Christ himself 49 51. She is prepoâ—ed in many of their Prayers Books Dedications Prayses before Christ her Son 53. They say Pater Nosters as well as Ave Maries to her before her Altars Images 52. They pray to her to convert the Realm of England and all in it from the cruelty of Hereticks 54. They attribute Christs Regal Prophetical Sacerdotal Offices to her and quite undermine them 13 c. 29 c. 55 56 62. She had the self same wounds imprinted on her soul as Christ had on his body to make her a Mediator for Mankinds redemption and Christs consort therein 42. St. Francis St. Dominick and their Orders her special Chaplains taken into her special protection to reconcile the World to her Son 50. They assert it is her Sons desire she should be reverenced honoured more then himself 28. That she being the Lady of all Creatures all the Angels Earth and as many Creatures serve worship her as serve and worship the Trinity and that all of them reverence how the knee to her as they do to Christ 23 24 27 53 54. That she hath the chief care of all the Churches as their Mother the plenitude of all Ecclesiastical power Orders of binding loosing perpetually residing in her by her ordinary inherent Imperial Regal authority in greater perfection then any Pope Bishops Priests who have but a delegated power and exercise of the Keyes and that confined 18 19. That she had most exquisite knowledge in all Arts Sciences Laws Canons the sacred Scriptures Contemplative and School Divinity as far as humane nature was capable 17 18 19. The gift of Miracles healing discerning of Spirits Ibid. That during Christs three dayes lying in the grave the Christian Faith Church resided only in her 16 17. Not assumed into Heaven with Christ her Son lest the Angels and Court of Heaven should doubt which to meet first the Mother or the Son 20. The title of Roman Catholicks more Marians then Christians and more her Subjects Servants then Christs 33 51 to 56 64. Her first greatest Champions in England the greatest oppugners of our Kings Prerogatives 63. Freer Tecel his impious scurrilous vaunt of the Popes pardons If a man had lâ—yen with and gotten the Virgin Mary with Childe yet the Popes pardon was able to absolve him from that offence 51. Her sole merits Intercession exceed all Angels Saints conjoyned who are all silent and prevail not if she hold her peace 47 48. Cassander Ludovicus Vives Espencaeus their censures of the ill consequences of these Romish Doctrines Practices Their confessions that Papists adore Mary and other Saints in the self same manner as they do God and deem him lesse placable and exorable then they relying more on their merits intercession then on Christs 49 5â— 54 55. She rescued a Parrot out of an Hawks talons for crying Ave Mary 41. Above 30 times more Churches Chappels Monasteries dedicated to her then to Christ 29â— Monasteries Hospitals dedicated to her in England and Wales besides Parish Churches Speeds Catalogue p. 1059 to 1100. See St. Dominick St. Francis Eve Images Ave Maries Collyridians Prayer Masse God reconciled to the whole world by one Masse of St. Francis 64 Undervalued by King John 286. Suspended for sundry years by Popes Interdicts 264. See Interdicts Of St. Edward prescribed every day in King H. 3. his Chappel whiles absent in his Wars in France 808. Said on Ship-board by a Freer Predicant an innovation 697. Permitted to be said in religious Houses only with a low voyce without ringing Bells during the Interdict of London by the Popes Cardinal 1025. Ap. 22. K. H. 3. his blind devotion in hearing 3. Masses every day desiring to hear more but neglecting Sermons 1069. Altars broken Corporals burnt used at Masses during Churches Interdicts Appendix 6. Said with a Pall by Archbishop Edmund 434. Pontificalia Ornaments used by Popes Bishops Mitred Abbots at Masses 487. Appendix 22. Said by a Cardinal Appendix 10. Refused to be said in Jerusalem whiles the Emperor Frederick 2 being excommunicate was in it 427. This Emperor and Conrade after him deposed amongst their principal crimes for going to Masse whiles excommunicated and interdicted out of conscience to serve God Masses and Gods service must all be laid
any by antient Canons 707. First introduced by Otto the Popes Legat an 1237. against the Law and Custom of the Realm 489. Cause of much perjury and of no esteem by those who take it Ibid. No new Oath can or ought to be imposed on the Subjects unlesse made ratified by common consent in Parliament and the Kings royal assent to it nor administred when made but by Commission in the Act or under the Kings Great Seal All Oaths to the contrary null void punishable 3. 708 709 710. The Fathers ancient Bishops Popes Councils our Lawes very tender in case of Oathes to prevent perjurie 706 707 708 489. Ecclesiastical persons Courts prohibited by our Lawes and Kings Writs to administer Oaths in any cases but only of Matrimony and Testament 3 699. 701 704 705 706 874 907. Oaths of inquiry to answer articles de Veritate dicenda in Visitations Consistories by Bishops Officials Deans other Officers first introduced by Bishop Grosthead complained against by the Nobles people memorable prohibitions against them by the King and his Council as against his Crown dignity the Lawes and Custom of the Realm dangerous to mens souls tending to perjury the defamatioÌ„ of many causing discontent among the people 699 700 704 to 711 728. 760. 810 818 838. 892 896 9â—7 Prohibited by Pope Innocent 4. his Bull for Bishops Visitations prescribed to be without Oath or Coaction 743 744. Not used by Boniface or any other Archbishop or Bishop from Grosthead till Bonner introduced it under Queen Many 704 to 712. 892. A custom confirmed by a private Oath not to install a Prebend by Proctor against Law and the Kings prerogative not binding 854. Bishops to take no Oath but in cases of right faith to purge themselves from accusations of Heresie 707. Of Parties Champions prohibited by our Lawes to prevent perjury Ibid. Canons against Clergymens being compelled to swear in any Criminal Civil or other cause much lesse in any slight cause nor without the Popes or Bishops special license 707. Papists Oath of professed fealty and obedience to the Virgin Mary as their only Soveraign Lady 28 29. Oath of purgation by Clerks and Ecclesiastical Officers for suing against Prohibitions 385. 886. 894. Of persons divorced not to cohabit dispensed with for mony by Popes 531. Of Ecclesiastical Judges Proctors 489. Inquisitions upon Oath by Kings Commissioners after Tithes goods of Clerks violently taken away during insurrections 1000 to 1007. Writs to the Archbp of Canterbury and others to excommunicate David Prince of Wales the Barons others for breach of Oathes 976 977 1013 1014. The Prelates Oathes at Coventre to assist the King by all means they could equivocally evaded that they meant it only of Spiritual ayde and Counsil not of monyes or arms though principally intended 10â—5 The Poâ—ctovines Oathes by Christs death wounds never to swear to the Provisions of Oxford or deliver up the Kings Castles for which they were forced out of the Realm 936. Prohibitions to Ecclesiastical Courts suing for breach of Oath for temporal Contracts that concern not Marriage or Testaments which cannot give away the Kings Jurisdiction noâ— transfer it to them 701. 704. 880. 884. See Prohibitions Oath before hand to elect such a person Archbishop held illegal by Popes 246. No Clerks permitted to passe the Sea by the Kings Writs till they swore to impetrate nothing from Rome prejudicial to the King kingdom or Sicily 865. Of Popes Legates ere admitted to enter England to bring act nothing to the prejudice of the King kingdom or Church of England the reason of it 697. Oaths in temporal Courts to be judged by the Canon Law by Canonists doctrine 8. Oaths of purgation 894 902. Obedience to the Pope in suffering for his unjust commands against Kings merits salvation 517 255. Popes obeyed by Bishops Clergymen more then our Kings when their commands interests came in competition Ibid. 247 253 300 465 627 628 663 833 834 672 673 675. Append. 7. 8. 9. 10. See Index 3. 10. 12. Oblations of Papists to the Virgin Mary and her Images farr exceed the Collyridians 50 59. Obligations to Popes Merchants Usurers their forme and strange conditions put into them renouncing all benefit of Law appeals priviledges against them or exception to any Jurisdiction where ever they sued seconded with Oaths to that effect 46â— 468 845 846 981 986 1034 1035. Of Abbots without their Convents or Kings consent as Patron prohibited by Kings Writs 764. 833. By Popes Bulls without the Popes consent though for the King 933 934. Of any Abbots to the Pope for advancing monies to the Pope 932 933 953. Officials of Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons Their vexatious Citations Exactions Oathes to answer Articleâ— and make Inquiries against the Lawes Custom of the Realm and Excommunications to enforce them to take them complained of Prohibitions Writs of the King against them 699 702 703 704 705 706 880 to 888. 969 970. Appendix 19. Theeves and plunderers every where preying upon the people lying in wait for the simple encouraging the impious oppressing innocents rejoycing in worst times exceeding glad when people have done ill eating up the sins of the people in the tears of widdowes nakednesse of Oâ—phans and oppressions of their subjects 949 950. Prohibitions other Writs directed to them injuries things done by and matters concerning them 359 397 573 586 587 628 674 702 703 729 730 738 739 760 785 817 874 890 819. 955 956 966. 978 980 981 1012 1021 1034 See Prohibitions and Index 9. Ordaltam or Trial by fire and water prohibited Appendix 20. Orders Consecrations of Bishops Clerks commanded by our Kings and their Writs to Bishops 2. See Index 3. 4 5. How many degrees of them in the Church of Rome The Virgin Mary had the plenitude of Power dignity of every of them and of the Pope himself in a farr more eminent manner then any Pope Prelates Priests by their own assertions 18 19. How conferred Ibid. A Sacrament in the Church of Rome yet inconsistent with and nulling their Sacrament of Marriage which yet is consistent with Harlots whoredoms 473. See Mariage Ordinaries excommunicating out of malice Writs to them Probate of Wills before them 88â— 884 909. Original Sinne Christs prerogative to be exempted from it attributed by Papists to the Virgin Mary 45 46. P. PAll not essential to an Archbishop 19 Archbishops of St. Davids exercising Archiepiscopal authority without a Pall after St. Davids Pall was carried to Dole from thence by Samson neglecting to fetch or unable through poverty to purchase one from Rome 234. Dole Bishops using St. Davids Pall contemned the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Turon Ibid. Richard Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated without it 421. Edmund had a Pall sent him by the Pope before his election and said Masse in it the day he was consecrated 433 434. Walter Gray of York obliged in 10000 l. for his Pall in the Court of Rome 350. Papists absurd blasphemous passages Errors
extravagances perverting changing Scripture Texts concerning the Virgin Mary St. Dominicâ— Francis St. Catharin of Senis Miraculous apparitions of Christ Saints seeing Prayers in the Looking-glasse of the Trinity Popes Supremacy Transubstantiation See all these Titles More Marians then Christians 33. 39 Their Declamations Passages against the unparalleld exectable avaâ—ice â—apines ambition usurpation symony apostacy oppression injustice of the Popes Court Cardinals Legates Popish Prelates Clergy Monks and their detestable Apostacy from Christ and St. Peters Doctrin practise See Index 10 12. throughout and Antichrist Rome Croysadoes Monks Popes Frederick 2 Index 14. part 1. Paralitiques usually not alwayes live long Appendix p. 27. Pardons Popes pardons for Eighty two thousand years for saying a short Prayer at Christs Sepulcher in Venice tottes quoties 15. For saying every Ave Mary in our Ladies Crown consisting of 63 Aves 288 dayes pardon of all sins and every holy Mary in it 40 dayes pardon and for saying the whole Crown of 63 Aves and 12. Pater-nosters by several Popes Indulgences two hundred seventy three thousand seven hundred fifty eight dayes of pardon And by Pope Sixtus 4. his â—ull 12000 years pardon for every time any person in the state of Grace shall say this prayer Hayle most holy Mary mother of God Queen of heaven Gate of Paradise Lady of the world singular and pure thou art a Virgin thou hast conceived Christ without sinne Thou hast brought forth the Creator and Saviour of the world in whom I doubt not Deâ—iver me from all evill and pray for my sins Amen Bernardinus de Busti Mariale Pars 12. Sermo 1. pars 3. L. M. which should have come in p. 52. l. 12. after Holy Ghost but was omitted by the Printer For going or contributing to the Holy Land against the Saracens 448. To such who crossed themselves against King John when deposed by the Pope or contributed towards his conquest 267. To such who fought against Lewâ—s at Lincoln with a full assurance and reward of eternal life besides 371. Freer Tekel his blasphemous passages concerning the power of Popes pardons 51. See Mary Parliaments and Great Councâ—ls of State summoned by our Kings John and Henry 3 on several occasions the proceedings in them between the King Barons Prelates Popes Popes Legates foreign States and concerning Aydes Oppressions Grievances Confirmation of the Great Charter and other particulars fully expressed in the precedent Tables At St. Albans 282. Ebor. 486. St. Edmunds 335. Kenâ—lworth 1019 1020. London sondry times upon various occasions 282. 283. 287. 288. 289. 294. 296. 332. 333. 334. 387. 485. 486. 498. 499. 500. 544. 622 632. 663. 664. 665. to 670. 673. 674 678. 679 690. 721. to 725. 770. to 775. 795 796. 797. 814. 822 823. 814. 841. 842. 931. 933. 935 936. 1013. 1014. 1024. Merton 445 446. See Bastardy Northampton 262. 263. 264. 391. 392. Oxoâ— 696. 935. 936. 947. 948. 949. 985 to 990 930. to 940. 1001 1002. Reding 288 546. Westmiaster several times 398 399 402. 425. 426 4â—4 445 485 486. 609 to 613. 721. 722 1006 1007 1009. Wnllingford 288. Winton 674. 675. 930 See Barons Quod omnis tangit ab omnibus debet approbari 546. 549. The King refused to hear or answer the Legates Letters which concerned the publike but with his Prelates and Nobles in Parliament 398 399 400 402. Passage Exemption from the duties for it 229. Out of the Realm made free by new clauses in the Great Charter to all when formerly prohibited without the Kings license specially to Rome 336 249. Of Clerks to Rome restrained without taking a special Oath 865. See Oath Of Bishops Câ—ucesignati and others prohibited 439 850 865. 603. See â—over and Cinquepoâ—ts Index 13. Patrons of Churches King John obliged all the right of Patronage he had to Churches in England to make good his Articles to the Pope and exiled Bishops 272. Patronage of the Bishoprick of Rochester granted by Charter to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors 339. Prohibited to intrude Clerks into benefices without authority of the Diocesan not antiently required 386. Persons excommunicated who maliciously procure a Jure patronatus to defraud true Patrons of their right 386. Concerned in the Popes demands of 2. Prebends in every Cathedral and one or two Monks allowances in every Monastery â—99 Deprived of their rights suspended from presenting to their Benefices by Popes provisions and Bulls complaints Letters against it to the Pope and some redresse therein as to Lay Patrons 506 507 508 509 69â— 750. The King Nobles and others Patrons of the. Churches in England No tax charge may or ought to be imposed on Churches but by their assents and advise 568 569. A Constitution concerning the Right of Patronage and presentations to particular Churches appendant to Mannors Baronies of Bishops and Abbots 940. when an Indicavit and Prohibition lies for them 874 875 876 877 878 893. St. Paul equal to stiled our beloved brother by St. Peter 12. Disclaimed all Dominion Lordship over others 11 12. V. Mary illuminated more then he 17. Men go more easily to Christ by St. Dominick then by him 65 Joined with St. Peter as his equal in King Johns Charter to Pope Innocent but omitted in his Oath of Fealty 273 274 289 290 305. The Bp of London commits himself to his Patronage 469. Peters fellow Apostle suffered both together under Nero 492. Conjoyned in Excommunications as equal in authority authoritate Petri Pauli by Popes and all our English Prelates And in Popes Bulls 344 515 516 745 796. His and St. Peters reliques kept together at Rom 544. Pope Innocent 4. prophanely swears by S. Peter S. Paul joyntly 800. Placed on the right hand of the Crosse in the Popes own Bulls and St. Peter on the lefâ— in coequal power and glory with Peter by the Popes Cardinals resolution 485. His direct Texts against St. Peters Popes pretended Soveraign Monarchical power 11 12 13. See Peter The Apostle of the Gentiles and of our Isle Epist Ded. Admiralius Murmelius his applause of his Epistles 284. Peace disturbers of it excommunicated punished 386 1025. See Excommunication banished and not permitted to return 392 391 728 936 937. 949 9â—0 966 967. Arrested imprisoned 436 437 438 493 494 495 558 826 823 1065 1067. See Arrests Setled for 4. years between Christian Princes by the Pope to relieve the holy Land against Saracens His Excommunication of those who refused to submit to it 6. 449 450. See more Index 10. 14. Popes agency in procuring peace between England and France 392 393. See H. 3. and Truce Writs to the Keepers of the Peace to protect the persons goods of Ecclesiastical persons from violence 999. 1000 See Protections Bishops and Clergymen have their Lands Benefices to maintain Peace not War 1024. Popes the grand disturbers of the Peace of all Christian Empires Kingdoms See Index 10 12. 14. King John Frederick Innocent 3. 4. and War Pâ—â—â—â— See Barons Nobles and Index 7
8 9. to be tried by their Peers in the Kings Courts 256 282 341 343 346. Penances Popish enjoyned by Legates Priests 287. Pensions of our Kings to Roman Cardinals and Popes Officers for better dispatch of their affairs in the Court of Rome 314 315. 756 785. 977. 1048. Peâ—jâ—ry oaths prohibited in sundry cases by Fathers Councils Canons Statutes to prevent it 706 707. Breach of Oaths upon Civil Contracts not punishable in Ecclesiastical Courts though submitted to by the parties 880 881. Excommunications submitted to for it See Excommunications Persecution oppression for Kings Emperors to resume demand their rights Lands Castles usurped by Popes or Prelats 255 260 262 410 516 to 528. St. Peter his own professed disclaimer texts against his own since pretended Soveraign Monarchical Ecclesiastical Temporal power which Pope and their Parasites ascribe to and derive from him to themselves The Texts produced for impertinent subvert it 9 10 11 12. Was equal to and had not the least Monarchical or superintendent Jurisdiction over the other Apostles Ibid. Not Christs Sole Vicar Successor in his Regal or Sacerdotal Offices upon his ascention into heaven 11 12 13. Inferior to the Virgin Mary left Mistresse Chief Comforter instructer Governor of the Apostles Church yea Lady Empres1e of the world by Christ and successor in his Soveraign Kingly authority in his stead by Popish Saints and Doctors resolutions authorized by Popes 16 17 18 19 20 c. Sate first at Antioch and gave that Church precedency if any not Rome 10 490 491 492 643. No certain proof that ever he sate Bishop at â—ome the Scripture story contradicts it 10. Placed on the left hand and Paul on the right hand of the Crosse in Popes Bulls 487. His forged Wooden Chair at Rome lately consecrated with an annual Festival An. 1557. to which Popes infallibility is affixed 5. Neither Christ nor Peter ever made Popes their sole Vicars or Successors 10. He neither had nor claimed any temporalties or temporal Jurisdiction much lesse over Kings or kingdomes 10 11 12 258 259. 360 538 539. Christ persecuted in Peter his Vicar and Kings 1019. Popes succeed him not either in merit or workes usurp his office are most unlike him so have not his power 10. 12. 264 360 639 654. 531 532 560 799 to 805. 654 699. 700 544. Most prophanely swear by St. Peter 350 800. In King Johns Charters though the surrender was joynt to God St. Peter and Paul yet the Fealty for England and Ireland is done only to God and St. Peter without St. Paul and Popes yet stile them and other their Dominions St. Peters Patrimony not Gods or St. Pauls when as Peter had neither silver nor gold nor any earthly patrimony nor yet St. Paul 74 273 274 275 289 290 297 305. 360. Popes temporalties are St. Peters Spiritual patrimony 658. The annual rent for England not granted to God St. Peter Paul or Popes but to the Roman Church 306. England denyed by the French ever to have been be or shall be St. Peters Patrimony 297. Popes stile themselves Peters Successors Vicars yea St. Peter 78. 465. Sardinia stiled St. Popes Spiritual Patrimony by Popes 9 78. 515 658. 710. Peters pallace S Petri limina 78 465. Abbots Bishops take an Oath of fealty to St. Peter to preserve St. Peters Royalties to wit Popes own not Peters 465. The foundations of St. Peters and Popes Vniversal Monarchy Vicarship overturned by Popes principles practises authorized Devotions and Articles of their Roman faith 10 11 23 c. 29 63 66 67 68 c. 75 80. His Sword Keyes power to binde and loose claimed by Popes in their Excommunications of the Emperor and his name Cephas 409 538. Prayers used only for his delivery out of prison which Popes neglected not Soldiers or Croysadoes 513. The Care of the Church only belonged to him not the Dominion or property which Christ reserved to himself Not what he or Popes exact on earth is bound in heaven 568. Christ and he menaced bent their Bow against the Pope and Church of Rome 608. The Pope challengeth his power to binde loose depose Emperors as delegated to him and his Successors of Rome against Christs and St. Peters expresse Doctrine 656 658. St. Peters net was to catch and bring souls to heaven to promote the salvation peace and happinesse of the World not to catch money lands or Crowns by war rapines 360 994. Forsook all for Christ 1019. The Pope must be presumed to do nothing though never so bad but what Christ and St. Peter would have done whose Vicar Successor he is 303. See Paul Peter-pence granted by Ina and Offa to the English School at Rome not St. Peter called Peter-pence because payable on St. Peters day not to Peter or Popes 3 78. excepted in King Johns Charter demanded by Popes 273 289 306. 311 312. 649. 666 668. Granted to St. Albans Abby by King Off confirmed by Popes Bulls since 25. Abrogated 5 Pictures of Christ and the Virgin Mary See Christ Mary 14 15 16. Pilgrimages to the Virgin Maries Images in sundry places to pray offer to them 51 58. Pledges 881 882 885. See Baile Plague chased away at Rome by the Virgin Maries picture carryed in procession She the Papists Chief protector from and spell against it 41. A great one in Wales 231. The Bishop of London died thereof 954. and Monks 565. Pluralities Canons Councils Oaths against them their scandal mischiefs inconvenience to the Church and peoples soul proceeding from covetousnesse quite opposite to the Apostles institution of many Bishops Ministers in one Church not one over many 48â— 489 492 502 1009 1042 1043 1044 1045 1065 1066. yet connived at dispensed with for money by Popes against their own Constitutions to gratifie Noblemens sonnes avarice Kings Chaplains whose interest was preferred before the peoples souls 422. 467 488 489 492 493 502 506 569 632 764 765 954 955 984 1042 1043 1044 1045 1048. Bestowed on Alexander Cementarius by King John for defending his right against the Pope who deprived him of all and reduced him to beggery 258 259. The Archbp of Yorks election vacated by the Pope because he had a plurality of benefices 1009 1010. The Bp of Winchesters nulled by the Archbishop of Canterbury because a Pluralist 1063 1064. Cause of Gods wrath plagues upon the Realms 1042. 1043 Pontagium Exemption from it 229. Poor Hospitals exempted from Dismes to the Holy Land 862 834 835. Poor Bishops in Wales relieved else where the Bishopricks being wasted with Wars 728 638. Excused from going to General Councils upon Popes summons 638. Poor people feasted by King Henry 3 at Westminster at St. Edwards feast 876. Have no audience at Rome with the Pope or his Officers for want of money 1069 1070. Popes Their transcendent pretended asserted Soveraign Jurisdiction and Universal Monarchy in Spirituals Temporals over all Councils Patriarchs Emperors Kings kingdomes Nations in the world whether Christian or Pagan 5 6 7 8.
preaching and peoples souls the grand cause of Gods wrath and judgement upon this Kingdom 1042. 1043. Cardinal Sâ—bine the Popes Legate preached often to the people to palliate all things under the shew of Holinesse 607. Prebends constituted by the Virgin Mary but conferred by Bishops 19. Our Kings present to them during vacancies of Bishopricks contests about them and Popes provisions to them 845. 891 962 963. 964. 9â—2 402. 606. 629. No assise of Darraâ—gn presentment lyes of them 445. Pluralities Commendaes of them granted to Popes Legates Italians others 570 654. Belonging to Deaneries 954. Claimed by the Archbishop during Bishops vacancies 805. Of St. Martins and other Churches See Index 6. Provisions Precedency of Bishops Archbishops ordered by our Kings 2. 422. 607. 570. Contests for i between our Arch bishops 487. Of the Abbot of Saint Albans before all other Abbots 582. Appendix 22. Praemunire incurred 5. 326. Praerogative Ecclesiastical of the Kings of England in what particulars it principally consists 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. His and his Crowns unsubjection to the Pope or any other person power but immediately to God as his chief Vicar Viceroy within the Realm having the Supreme care of the Church Ibid. 284. 297. 302. 305. 325. 326. 575. 576. 586. 592. 748. 997. 1003. 1005. 1011. 1012. His Praerogative in the election translation union division of Churches Bishopricks election confirmation refusal of Abbots and Bishops when elected in punishing them and all sorts of Clerks and Religious persons for their offences See Abbots Bishopricks Bishops Clerks Arrests Elections Prohibition and Index 2. 3. 4. 5. His Prerogative over the Advoâ—sons Temporalties of Abbyes Bishopricks during their vacancies or when seised for contempts See Advowsons Presentations Prohibitions Free-chappels Churches Vacancies Woods In prohibiting Alienations in Mortmain of Bishops Lands Abbots Covents Bonds to bring their Houses in debt in hindering Appeals Citations to Popes at Rome Popes Bulls Legates Agents sent from Rome issuing Prohibitions to them restraining their Extortions Procurations Provisions Corruptions See Alienations Appeals Citations Popes Prohibitions and Index 3. 4. â—0 11. 12. throughout In restraining all encroachments on their Crowns Jurisdictions Laws Subjects Liberties Consciences by Popes their Legates Nuncioes Ecclesiastical Courts Officers Persons and their extravagant Excommunications Interdicts Proceedings Constitutions in calling prohibiting proroging dissolving Councils Convocations Parliaments and making confirming nulling Ecclesiastical Lawes and Canons See Canons Councils Excommunications Oaths Parliaments Prohibitions In summoning Armies Navies granting Protections Safe-conducts demanding Pledges from Persons suspected prohibiting Marriages of Tenants of Castles in seiâ—ing demolishing licensing the building of Castles in Wardships Whales See all these respective Titles In commanding the Clergy to officiate during Interdicts sesing their livings if they obey such Interdicts 254. 255. Their great vigilance care zeal in defending the Rights Prerogatives of their Crowns against all Papal Prelatical and other encroachments on them according to their Oath which they neither would could nor ought to suffer expressed in several memorable Letters Prohibitions Writs and other Records the Kings irrevocable resolution to defend them in all Courts worthy observation 229. 230. 236. 237. 240. 241. 248 249 251. 253. 254. 255. 257. 258. 262. 264. 268. 269. 299. 301. 302. 326. 402. 476. 477. 478. 481. 582. 583. 584. 585. 586. 587. 590. 592. 593. 594. 601. 602. 603. 616. 617 628. 639. 640. 633. 666. 667. 670. 672. 673. 676 684. 688. 689. 725. 739. 740. 742. 817. 829. 830. 831. 853. 962 to 965. 1007. 989. 1009. 1011. 1012. Appendix 14. 15. Saved with a Salvo Jure c in Appeals and other Writings See Salvo Praescription none against the Popes or Clergies pretended priviledges and exemptions 6. What required in it by the Canon-law 317. Praesentations to Churches See Adâ—owsons Patrons Provisions Vacations 520. 522. 526 606. Priests Popish their Office to make Christs body 19. 707. Not to be forced to take an Oath 707. Cannot be degraded by the Temporal Judge but by the Bishop 886. 887. See more Clerk Concubines Canons Protections Prisoners of War released on both parts upon peace concluded 371. Murdered in Castles 256. 260. Not to go out of the Realm or wander abroad 336. Prisons one or two for every Bishop by their Constitutions to keep criminal Clergy men in 910 See 230. 383. 887. Clerks incorrigible deserving death to be perpetually imprisoned in them 910. The King hath no prison for thâ—se he cannot judge 887. See Arrest Clerks Priviledges granted by Kingâ— Charters and Popes Bulls nulled by Popes Non obstantees See Non obstante Lost forfeited by the â—busâ— 727. 546. Of London other Cities and the Cinqueports in respect of Suits 887. Of the Cistertians Hospitallers Templars See those Titles Of Religious Persons and St. Albans 8â—0 881. Appendix 21 to 24. See Index 2. Procession with the Virgin Maries Picture to drive away the Plague in Rome 41. 59 Dating the Interdict to receive the Popes Legate 287 Aâ— a Council held at Pauls by the Pope Legate 487 Oâ— King Henry 3. his Nobles Prelates from Pauls to Vestminster with a Viâ—l of Christs pretended Blood brought from Jerusalem in honour and adoration of that Relique 711. 712. Procession of the Londâ—ners and the Pâ—â—ishioners of St. Margarets to it by Writs from the King 826. Of the Papists conâ—ecrated Host 66. 67. To Bovibiles Asse to adore it 74 Proctors sent by Abbots Bishops to Councils with Procutations to excuse their absence through age or sickness 486. 487 63â— 64â— Of our Kings to Rome Frince Councils elsewhere upon sundry occasions with their respective Patents or Procurations 395. 423. 454. 455 458. 483. 497. 627 639. 640. 805. 807. 80â— 833. 834 85â— 914. 915. 916. 944. 945. 946. 947 957. 958. 961 967. 983. 984 to 993. 1031. 1034. 1062. See Index 9. of the Clergy in general to Rome 841 Oâ— Abbots and others to the Pope upon their occasions 458. 462. 463. Installments by Proctor 854. 846. Oath of Fealty by Proctor to the King for Archbishops 482 48â— 686. Marriage by a Proctor 451 to 454. Procurations exacted by Popes Legates Agents 368. 398. 402. 545. 559. 572. 615. 616. 697. Denyed them 506. 569. 570. None to Archdeacons 233. Of Bishops demanded in Visitations opposed Moderate only to be taken by Archbishops Bishops in their Visitations 231. 233. 742. 743. 791. 792. See Visitations Prohibitions sent by our Kings their Council Courts Judges to Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons Officials and other Ecclefiastical Persons Against Admitting Clerks to Benefices Prebendaries till the Title tryed in the Kings Courts 388. 386. 900. 901. 671. Against holding Plea of Advowsons of Chappels Churches Prebendaries or determining the Rights of Patronages to Churches Prebendaries Chappels in Ecclesiastical Courts or before Popes Delegates 382 477. 478. 718. 725. 726. 858. 859. 875. 876. 877. 883. 884. 893. Appendix 24 25. Against Alienations of Lands in Capite in Mortmain or otherwise 602. Against granting Administrations of In estates Goods Debters or Accomptants
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Antonii de Rosellis Monarchia and others * Mat. 6 7 8 9 10. * Zeph. 1. 8. 1 Pet. 3. 3. a See Bishop Jewels Defence of the Apology of the Church of England part 1. ch 2 divis 3. part 6 ch 11. 12 13 14 15 16. Queen Elizabeths Injunctions Articles of Religion An. 1562. Artic. 36. confirmed by the Stature of 13 Eliz. ch 12. Articles of Ireland n. 57 58. Bâ— Ushers Speech in the Castle-Chamber at Dublin 22 Nov. An. 1628. Concerning the Oath of Supremacy Lond. 1634. b See Bishop Jewel Bishop Usher in a Sir Roger Twisden his Historical Vindication of the Church of England chap. 5. A learned pithy Treatise to this purpose * See 37 H. 8. c. 17. 1 E 6. ch 2. Sir John Davis his Irish Reports p. 96 97 98. * See the Statutes and Customes of Clarendon Tome 1. Book 2. ch 12. p. 611 612 to 616. Tome 2. Book 4. ch 2. p. 799. * 26 H. 8. c 3. 28 H. 8. c. 10. 31 H. 8. c. 1â— 36 H. 8. c. 17. 1 Edw. 6. c. 2. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 8 Eliz. c. 1. II. a Ribadeniera Les
Fabricius Destructorium Vitiorum pars 4. c. 38. Michael Lochmair Hildephonsus Augustinus Leonissa others de Assumpt B. M. Bernardinus Senensis ser 51. 61. o Bernardinus de Busti Mariale Pars 12. Serm 1. pars 1. p Bernardin de Busti Mariale pars 2. Sermo 1. De pars 3. quae dicitur significationis T. q Officium beatae Mariae secundum usum Sarum 1509. f. 41. r Baronius Spondanus An. Christi 48. who largely discourse hereof Ribadenierâ— in Festo Asssumptionis Mariae Bernardini de Basti Mariale Pars 11. pars 6 Michael Lochmaii Sermo 74 75. S. Brigittae Revelat l. 4. c. 23. l. 6. c. 71 72. Bernardini de Busti Mariale Pars 11. Sermo 1. De Assumptione Mariae Pars. 3. quae dicitur Causationis 9. Michael Lochmair Sermo 74. S. Brigittae Sermo Angelica De Virginis Excellentia Sermo 2 3 4. Revelat. l. 1. c. 8 9 10. s Maria post Assumptionem docebat Apostolos Tho. Waldensiâ— Doctrinnalis Fidei l. 2. Artic. 3. c. 73. p. 374. t Bernardinus de Busti Mariale Pars 4. Serâ—o â—1 Pars 3. H. Albertus there cited * specialibus * Pars 4. Sermo 11. * Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 4. Sermo 9. D. â— to Z. Gratiis Mariae * Sermo 51. De festivitate D. Mariae Artic 3. c. 4. * Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 12. Sermo 2. pars â— H. * Bernardin de Busti Mariale Pars 11. De Assumptione Mariae Serm. 1. pars 3. * De Excellentia B. Virginis c. 7. †Mariale pars 11. Sermo 1. De Assumptione Mariae pars 3. quae dicitur Consolationis M. Sebastianus Barradius Jesuita Concord Evang. l. 6. c. 11. a St. Bernardus Sermones deAssumptione beatae Mariae Bernardinus deBusti Mariale pars 11. Sermo 2. DeAssumptione Mariae pars 3 4 5 7. pars 3. Sermo 3. De 3 4 5. Excellentia Nominis Virginalis Anselmus Cantuar. DeAssumptione Mariae De Excellent Mariae S. Brigittae Sermo 1 2 3 4. Divinitus Revelata De Excellentia B. Virginis Revelationum l. 1. c. 8. Michael Lochmair Sermo 6 75 76. Bernardinus Senensis Sermo 51. b Bernardinuâ— de Busti Mariale pars 12. Sermo 1 2. c Sermo Hieronymo aâ—tril â—â— Michael Lochmair Sermo 76 DeAssumptione Mariae P. Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 11. Sermo 1. pars 6. D. and sundry orbers in their Postils and Sermons of her Assumption dâ—Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 11. Sermo 2. De Assumptione pars â— P Q. R. See Yldephonsus Anselmus Cantuar De Assumptione Mariae a Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 12. Sermo 1. prologue pars 1. Anselmus Cantuar DeAssumptionâ— Excellentiâ— Mariae b Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 1 2. Ser mo 2. pars 1 Z pars 3. Sermo 1 3. The Primer of our Lady in Latin and English Parisiiâ— 1538. f. 88 89. Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 3. Sermo 1. pars 3. I. K. Q. pars 10. Sermo 2. pars 7. Breviarium Romanorum Rothom 1600. p. 480 482. See Bishop Jewels Defence of the Apology of the Church of England 3. part ch 18. p. 360. 6. part ch 7. divis 2. p. 682. ch 17. divis 2. p. 771. Dr. Boyes his Postils p. 145. c Sermo 1. De Nativitate B. Mariae d Corona B. Virginis Operum Tom. 6. Edit Romae Anno 1588. Bishop Ushers Answer to the Jesuits Challenge p. 487 489. e Operum Parifiis 1616. p. 970 971. f Historia Chr. August Commemoratio Virginis Mariae See Dr. John White his way to the True Church Epistle to the Reader g Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 1 Officium Conceptione Mariae pars 3. Sermo 2. pars 3. quae dicitur Interpretationis D. E. * See Fox Acts Monuments Vol. 3. p. 276. Bishop Ushers Answer to the Jesuits Challenge p. 492. * De Excellentia B. Virginis Mariae * It seems it is only a watry not fiery Purgatory as they fancy it h Bernardinus de Busti pars 3. Sermo 2. pars 3. E. See Vega Jesuita in Apoc. 12. Fect 2. nu 3. i De Arcaniâ— Catholicae Veritatis Dr John White qua supra k Bernardinuâ— de Busti Ibid. l Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 1 2 Sermo 2. pars 1 O. m Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 3. Sermo 3. S. T. V. De 3. 4. Excellentia Virginis Nominis quae dicitur Regina Imperatrix n See Baronius Spondanus An. 363. nu 13 14. o See Gabriei Biel Epositio Canonis Missae Lectio 80. Dâ— Reynolds De Idololatria Romanae Eccles l. 1. c. 1. Dr. Boyes his Postils p. 145. * Seâ—mo 76. p 2 Cor. 1. 3. c. â— 8. â— Pet. 5. 10. q Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 3. Sermo 2. pars 2. Derivationis â— and throughout his Mariale Officium beatae Mariae secundum usum Sarum f. 42 43. and in all other their Offices Breviaries Rosaries Primers and Books of Devotion r Mariale pars 3. Sermo 5. De Prima Praerogativa incipiente ab M scilicet quod beata Virgo est Mater Miseâ—icordiae S. Brigittae Revelationes Sermo Angelicus * Bernardinus de Busti Mariale Pars 12. Sermo 2. Pars 1. L n * Bernardin de Busti Mariale Pars 3. Sermo 3. De quinta Excellentia Nominis Virginalls quae dicitur Augustalis X. Psalterium Bonaventurae o Ibid. Pars 3. Serm. 3. de 1 2. Excellentia quae dicitur Augustalis p Bernardinus de Busti Mariale pars 2. Sermo 1. De Nativitate Mariae pars quae dicitur Jocunditatis T. q Ibid. pars 2. Sermo 2. U Z. r Bernardinus de Busti Mariale Pars 3. Sermo 1. Pars 2. quae dicitur Figurationis Å¿ Idem Pars 3. Sermo 2. De beatissimae Virginis Nominatione t De Festivitatibus B. Mariae Virginis Sermo 51. cap. 3. u Bernardus de Busti Maâ—iale Pars 3. Sermo 2. pars 3. Interpretationes G H. a Mariale pars 12. Sermo 2. pars 1. S. b Tractatus de Laudibus Virginis c Comment in Apoc. 12. sect 2. nu 3. Ludovicus Lucius Hist Jesuitica l. 2. c. 4. p. 218. * Mariale pars 11. Serm. 1. pars 6 E. pars 7. Y. * Bernardini de Busti Mariale Pars 12. Sermo 2. de Coronatione Mariae pars 3. quae dicitur Recordationis O. * Bernardini de Busti Mariale Pars 12. Serm. â— de Coronatione Mariae pars 1. C. * Sermo 61. Artic. 1. cap. â— See Bishop Ushers Answer to the Jesuites Challenge p. 480 481 Bernardin de Busti Mariale Pars 3. Serm. 3. pars 3. pars 12. Serm. 2. pars 12. Serm. 1 2. †Baronius Spondanus An. 1056. n. 2. 1095. n. 6. * Sermo 1. De Nativitate B. Mariae Tom. â— Socii Sept. â— * Isay 42. 8 c 48. 11. y Mariale Pars 3. Serm. 1. pars 3. quae dicitur significationis H. c. z Sermo in Apoc. 2. De Assumptione B. Mariae
cap. Quia p. 652. Beda in 1 Cor. 10. c Chrysost in Mat. 26. Hom. 83. * Ibid. Hom. 24. in 1 Cor. 10 a De Eucharistia l. 2. c. 24. c. Maldonet Pererius Tolletus Medina Ribera in Joan. c. 6. a Hom. 7 9. super Levit. â— Enar. in Ps 98. 5 Tractat. 25 26. in Joan. De Doctrina Christiana l. 3. c. 16. Ep 17. ad Dardanum b Bibliothec. Sanctae lib. 5. Annot. 120. l. 6. Annotat. 196 198. c Maldonet in Joan. 6. c. 53. d As is evident by Joh. 6. 1. c. 7 2. to 45. c. 11. 47 to 57 c. 10 12 c. e Mat. 26. 20 26 27. Mat. 14. 18. c. Lu. 22. 14 c. Joh 13. 21 c. f ver 32 33 34 35 41 47 48 50 51 58. g Ver. 29. 35 40 47 63 64. Amesius Bellarminus Enervatus Tom. 3. p. 102 103 104. h John 17. 20 to 24. Gal. 2. 20. Eph. 3. 17. i See Bishop Morton his Instit of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Boo. 5. ch 3 to 8. k Suarez Jesuit Tom. 3. qu. 79. Disp 64. secr 3. p. 882. An. Dom. 1199 a Hist Angl. p. 190. Holinshed Speed Daniel b Annalium pars posterior p. 793. c Ymagines Historiari col 706. Mat. Paris Mat. West Hoveden Henry de Knyghton Holinshed Daniel Grafton Speed in Johan Annis 1199 1200. d Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 191. Hoveden Annal pars posterior p. 793 770 771 768. Neubrigensis Hist Angl. l. 5. c. 21. Mat. Westm Anno 1196. p. 71. Antiqu. Eccles Brit. p. 140. Holinshed p 150 151. Annalium pars posterior Francofurti 1601. p. 1601. p. 560 561. Monast Angl. pars 1. p. 191. Cartae An. 1. Johannis Reg. nu 103. Cartae Antiquae lit B. nu 8. Monasticon Anglicanum Vol. 1. p. 191. Vol. 2. p. 868. g Gualt Mapes Cambdens Britania in Glostershire Berkley Castle h De Corrupto Ecclesiae statu c. 23. De imimpudita vita conversatione Monialum quae fuerant ex Monasteriis Prostituta ex puella velata Scortum publilicum Lugdun 1613. p. 22. i Onus Ecclesiae cap. 21 22 23. k De Vanitate Scientiarum c. 63. l De Continentia l. 4. c. 11. l. 5. c. 7 8. l. 6. c. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. See my Histriomastix p. 214 445 880 881 882. m De Planctu Ecclesiae l. 2. Artic. 3. 28 n Radulphus de Diceto Ymagines Histor col 708. Anno Dom. 1200. Cartae 2 Johannis Regis m. 19. dorso Cartae 2 Johannis Regis m. 33. dorso Chartae Anno 2. Johannis Regis memb 27. Dorso a Hoveden Annal pars posterior p. 811 817. Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 1â—6 157. 194. Holinsh p. 143 147 163 170. Godwin in his Life p. 517 518. b Hoveden Annal pars posterior p. 817 c Chartae 2. Johannis Regis m. 12. dorso â— Hoveden Annal pars posterior p. 817 818 823 824 825 826. Hoveden p. 825 a Hoveden Annal pars posterior p. 817 818. * An Historical Vindication of the Church of England in point of Schism p. 28 to 40. b Hoveden Annal pars posterior p. 806 807 808. c See Octoboni Constitutiones apud Johan de Aton f. 88 89. De procurationibus non exigendis * Here p. 230 231. Pat. 3. Johan Regis m. 25 Pat. 3. Johan Regis m. 5. n. 24. Pat. 3. Johan Regis in 4. n. 20. An. Dom. 1201 Pat. 3. Johan Regis m. 3. intus * Annal. pars posterior p. â—97 798 799. * See Giraldus Cambrensis Itin. Cambriae l. 2. c. 1. * Recorded at large by Hoveden Annalium pars posterior p. 797. Mat. Paris p. 191. * Therefore a Pall from the Pope was not necessary to the creating or essence of an Archbishop d Therefore it was then the Kings not Popes Prerogative to put down create Archbishops Bishopricks enlarge divide or unite their Provinces and Diocesses e Praerogativam had been truer fitter f O the little truth and faith of this ambitious Prelates Allegation g Acta Pontificum Cantuar. col 1682. Pat. 3. Johan Regis m. 7. n. 18. Pat. 3. Johan Regis m. 2. * To wit by Pope Innocents procuration Pat. 3. Johannis Regis m 7. intus n. 28. Pat. 5. Johannis m. 7. intus * Additamenta Mat. Paris Mâ— f. 135. Sir Roger Twisdens historical vindication of the Church of England p. 58. 59. * See Mr. William Tyndaâ—s practice of Popish Prelates * Annal. pars posterior p. 799 800. Anno 1201. p. 199. Mat. Westm p. 77. Annal paâ—s posteâ—ior p. 828. 829. An Intreaty only not perempto y command * Note this memorable clause * Hoveden Annal pars posterior p. 819 820. An. Dom. 1202 Pat. 4. Johan Regis m. 10. Pat. 5. Johan Regis m. 10. n. 21. Pat. 5. Johan Regis m. 4. n. 11. Pat. 5. Johan Regis m. 2. intus * Mat. Paris Hist Angl. 1204. p. 204. Mat. Westm p. 81. Godwin in his Life p. 173. Anno Domini 1205. Pat. 6. Johan Regis m. 3. * The Bishop of Durham being formerly Exempted by Pope Clements Bull from obedience to him to whom Pope Celestine with a Non obstante by another Bull commanded him to submit Chron. Johannis Brompton Col. 1224. * Mat. Westm An. 1207. Mat. Paris An. 1207. p. 212. Thomas Stubs Actus Pontif. Ebor. col 1724. Holinshed p. 163 170. Godwins Catalogue of Bishops p. 587 588. * They had forgotten Rom. 13. 6 7 8. * Hist Angl. An. 1213. p. 224. Mat. Westm p. 92. Anno Domini 1205. a Henry de Knyghton de eventibus Angliae l. 2. col 2414 to 2424 Antiqu. Eccles Brit. and Godwin in the Life of Stephen Langhton Mr. Fox Acts and Monuments Edit 1640. vol. 1. p. 3â—0 to 333. the fullest of all others Fabian Holinshed Caxton Crâ—fton Daniel Speed Stow Baker and others in the life of King John b Mat. Paris Anno 1205. p. 204 205. Mat. Westm p. 82. * Noâ— is omitted in the printed Copies of Mat. Paris Mat. Paris Hist p. 204. * This Pope much forgot these Laws himself in this affair * The King had then good cause to make choise of such a one Anno D 1206. e Mat. Paris p. 205. Mat. Westminster p. 82. 83. f Mat. Paris p. 206. g Mat. Paris p. 206. 207. * That custom was then very new see Bernard de consideratione ad Eugenium Papam l 3. Pat. 8. Johan m. 2. intus Pat. Johan Regi m. 4. Historiae Angliae p. 212. 213. Mat. West 84. 85. * Mat. Paris p. 213. Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 213. 214. Mat. Westm p. 85. 86. Mat. Parker on the life of Stephen Langton * This Pope could produce no Preâ—ident to prove this pretended custom Mat. Paris p. 214. 215. * Munera quidem magna misit sed misit in hamo * Mat. Paris p. 214. * Mat Paris p 215 216. Mat. Westm p. 86. Nota. a Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 215 216. b See Fox Acts
* Historiae Edit Lond. p. 752. Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 790. Discordia inter Abbatem Conventum Westmonaster Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 793. Adventus Abbatis Westmonasterii à Curia Romana Mat. Paris p. 814 815. Privilegium Regis Conventui Westmonasteriensi concessum * Pat. 36 H. 3. m. 3. intus Charta Regis Angliae pro Priore Conventu Westm Mat. Paris Hist p. 814 815. Regis furor in Abbatem WestmonasterienseÌ„ Claus 36H 3 m. 14. dorso De Monasterio Westmonaster Mat. Paris p. 794. Adventus electi Wintoniensis in Angliam à Curia Romanâ— * Anno 1251 P. 249. Mat. Paris Hist p. 791. Indignae Literae Papales Nota. 2 Thes 2. * Hist p. 802 Annalis Conclusio Anno 1252. Mat. Paris p. 804. Episcopus Roffensis colligit quintam partem reddituum suorum subjectorum Mat. Paris Hist p. 80â— Papa animat Regem Angliae ad Peregrinandum Mat. Paris Hist p. 807. Rex Angliae jurat peregrinaturum in Terram Sanctam * As the event demonstrated Claus 36 H. 3. m. 16. dors Archiepiscopo Cantuar pro. Rege Claus 36 H. 3. m. 15. dors De praedicatione Crucis Claus 36 H. 3. m. 17. dorso Hibern * Claus 36 H. 3. m. 17. dors De gratia Domino Regi concessa per Dominum Papam Claus 36 H. 3. m. 22. dorso Claus 36 H. 3. m. 11. dorso Pro crucesignatus Pat. 36 H. 3. m. 7. dorso De crucesignatione Regis Pat. 36 H. 3. m. 7. dorso Pat. 36 H. 3. m. 6. dorso Pat. 36 H. 3. m. 6. dorso Item de negotio Crucis Pat. 36 H. 3. m. 6. dorso Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 821 822 823. Magnum Parliamentum Londâ—ni habitum See Matthew Parker Holinshed Grafton Speed Daniel * Ubi Rex auxilium pecuniare postulat Episcopus autem Lincolniae Ro bertus primo contradixit postea alii animati per eum restiterunt Mat. Westm p. 250. Rex Angliae iratus à suis aulicis mitigatur Respondent Praelati blandâ— petitioni Regis Rex proposito persister * See here p. 767 768. Mat. Paris Hist p. 823 824. Rex digreditur ad materiam Rex noâ—â—â— rationi acquiescere Mat. Paris Hist p. 824. 825. Constantia Wint Clericorum Lond. solvunt viginti Marcas Regi Mat. Paris Hist p. 804. 2 Thes â— * Tractatio de rebus Gasconiae Mat. Paris Hist p. 825 826. Solvitur Concilium cum Regis indignatione Exitus Concilii Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 806. Beneficiati renuunt ad Sacerdotium promoveri Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 813. Episcopus Lincolniensis potestatem impetrat à Papa vicarios ordinandi Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 812. Periculum imminens Ecclesiae Sancti Aedmundi Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 834. Jactura infamia Ecclesiae Sancti Mariae Eboraci Mat. Paris Hist p. 823 824. Rex reditus vacantes distribuit indignis Mat. Paris Hist p. 826 827. Verba Magistri Hospitalis cum Rege habita Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 829. Albertus Papae Notarius venit in Angliam * Anno 1252. p. 150 151. Claus 37 H. 3. m. 18. dorso De Literis directis Domino Papae * Here p. 761 762. Mat. Paris Hist p. 832. Mat Westm p. 251. Episcopus Lincolniensis facit computare redditus alienorum in Anglia * Here p. 753. * See Sir Roger Twysdens historical vindication p. 59. 60. * Additamentorum Mat. Paris f. 135. Hist An. 1252. p. 287. Sir Roger Twisden his historical vindication p. 59. 60. Annalis Conclusio a An historical vindication of the Church of England c. 3. sect 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. b â—oh Hagulst coâ— 276. 8. c Mat. Paâ—â—s An. 1207. p. 222. 40. d Diceto col 507 53. 508. 20. e Mat. Paris An. 1206. â— 214. 44 f Bulla Gregorii 9. apud Mat. Paris Aâ— 1229 p. 355 46. g Mat. Paris p. 335 44. h Additamenta Mat Paris MS. in Bibliotheca Cotton f. 133. cui initium Dicturus quod injunctum est mihi i Here p. 777. k Roger Hoveden â— 453. b. 30. 454. b. 2. Geâ—val Doâ—obern col 1682. 27. in Vita Huberti l Sâ—â— here Book 3. ch 2. p 234 to 238. m In antiquo MS Bullarum Romanorum Pontificum Archiepise Cant. Bulla 6 Honor. 3. 26 Febr. 1221 n In eodem MS. Greg. 9. Bulla 3. o April 17. An. 1230. p Mat. Paris 1371. q Mat. Paris An. 1241. p 549. 18. 22. r Idem Anno 1240. p. 532. 43. Å¿ Mat. Paris p. 666. t Mat. Paris Anno 1246. p. 699. 9. u Cardinal Ossat Epist 296. Dat. Rom. 1601. Decemâ— 22. x Rot. Par l. â— R. 2. n. 37. Mat. Paris Hist Edit Londini p. 846. Literae Papales aliquantulum mitâ—gatoriae seu relaxativae * Mat Pariensiâ— Additamenta p. 184 185. * Pontificum had been truer Claus 36 H. 3. m. 20. dorso Claus 36 H. 3. m. 21. dorso Pro Johanne Capellano de Coventria Claus 36 H. 3. m. 22. dorso Claus 36 H. 3. m. 8. dorso Claus 36 H. 3. m 23. dorso W. Norwicen Episcopo pro Rege * See here p. 471 to 474. Claus 36 H. 3. m. 23. dors De Bastard Claus 36 H. 3. m. 32. dors Pro Mereduc filio Griffini Claus 36 H. 3. m. 24 dorso Pro hominibus de Heth. Claus 26. H. 3 m. 18. intus Claus 36. H. 3. m. â—6 doâ—s De prohibitione facta Pistoribus Claus 36 H. 3. m. 7. dorso Claus 36 H. 3. m. 16. dors Claus 36 H. 3. m. 15. intus Hibern Claus 36 H. 3. m. 15. dorso De assensu electionis Hibern * Here p. 756. Liberat. 36 H. 3. m. 12. intus Lib pro magistro Bocc Camerario Domini Papae Idem intus m. 16. De procuratore constituto in Curia Romana * Here p. 740 to 746. Mat. Paris Hist p. 830 831. Discordia inter Archiepiscopum Winton electum Factum praesumptuosum electi Winton Querimonia factâ— Archiepâ—copo Archiepiscopus venit ad Oxon. Sententia promulgatur Oxonii Matthaei Paris Additamenta p. 187 188. Claus 37 H. 3. m. 25. dorso De prohibitione facta pro Archiepiscopo Cantuar. Winton electo * See here p. 6â—9 704 705 706 c. 737 740 to 744. to 761 762. * See p. 744. Mat. Paris Hist p. 794 Advenit Abbas Cluniacensis in Angliam Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 799. Visitatio apud sanctam Albanum facta * p. 169. to 179. where you may peruse them Mat. Paris Hist p. 829. Mat. Parker Antiq. Eccles Brit. and Godwin in Bonifacio Sollicitudo procuratoris Episcoporum Angliae Mat. Paris Hist Jâ—â—d p 820. 830 Archiepiscopi adventus in Angliam Mat. Paris Hist p. 835 836. Moderatio de visitationibus Mathaei Paris Additamenta p. 182. 183. * Jurisdictionem Mathaei Paris Additamenta p. 186. Matthaei Paris Additamenta p. 188. De procurationibus Ecclesiarum Parochialium Mat. Paris Hist Angl. p. 851. Privilegium domus Sancti Augustini Cantuar * Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Antiquae col
obediens usque ad mortem ut eos suae resurrectionis tribueret esse participes haereditatis precio sui sanguinis acquisitè consortes comminaturi eis qui contra denunciationem istam secus praesumpserint attemptare Quod si signum salvationis erubuerint frontibus suis imprimere frustra salvatoris debebunt auxilium implorare cum privilegium dignitatis mereatur amittere qui concessa sibi abuti detegitur dignitate No penalty is inflicted on Clerks for not obeying this Constitution 18. De carcere Episcoporum habendo qui Clerici perpetuo carceri sunt committendi ITem speciali praecepto statuimus quod quilibet Episcopus in Episcopatu suo prout competentius et securius provideri viderit unum vel duos carceres habeat pro Clericis flagitiosis in crimine vel convictis juxta censuram Canonicam detinendis Statuimus etiam quod Clericus aliquis qui adeo malitiae suae incorrigibilis fuerit consuetus ad flagitia committenda quod si Laicus esset secundum leges seculi ultimum deberet pati supplicium talis Clericus perpetuo carceri adjiciatur In illis autem qui non ex voluntate proposito sed casu fortuito autiracundia aut fortè insania committerent antiqua jura servari volumus praedicta denique remedia tà m ad praesentia quà m ad futura gravamina se extendunt praesertim †cum sententiae Excommunicationis de consensu Regis Magnatum Regni Londoniis per Praelatos solenniter sint promulgatae in transgressores Chartae omnium libertatum Archiepiscopi Episcopi de consensu approbatione inferiorum Praelatorum Capitulorum Cathedralium Conventualium necnon universitas totius Cleri Angliae pro reformatione status Ecclesiae Anglicanae et reparationis libertatis hâ—c praedicta concorditer et communiter ordinaderunt retenta sibi potestate addendi mutandi et corrigendi prout viderint expedire Datum apud Westmonasterium in solenni Convocatione Cleri Ecclesiae Anglicanae 6. Idus Junii Anno Domini 1261. Anno Pontificatus Alexandri Papae 4. septimo Anno Regni illustris Regis Henrici quarto Per Bonifacium Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum In most of these Constitutions of Archbishop Boniface and all our English Bishops and Clergy in this Convocation specially contrived as I apprehend against Judge Bractons forecited Treatise of Prohibitions written about that time other Prohibitions forecited I cannot but take notice of these particulars worthy special observation 1. Their high contempt and daring presumption in holding this Convocation upon Archbishop Boniface his own summons not only without the Kings special Writ against Law and former presidents but also against his express forementioned Prohibitions issued to him and them not to hold or resort thereto under pain of seising or forfeiting their Temporalties 2ly In presuming to make such Constitutions as these not only without the privity or consent of the King Lords and Commons of the Realm very highly concerned in them in their Liberties Properties Consciences but in direct avowed opposition against them having refused from time to time upon their Petitions to grant what they here decreed as themselves attest in their prologue and that upon just grounds of law prudence policy right conscience 3ly In exempting their persons lands goods from all secular persons and Courts Jurisdictions by these Constitutions whereto they prohibited any Clergyman to submit under severest Ecclesiastical censures 4ly In subjecting not only the persons of all the Nobility Commonalty to their Ecclesiastical Excommunications with bell book and candle and their Mannors Lands Goods to their Interdicts but even the King himself to their admonitions and his Lands Castels Cities Mannors Subjects to their arbitrary Interdicts in several cases for opposing their transcendent if not treasonable encroachments upon the Ecclesiastical Civil Rights Prerogatives of the Crown the Laws and antient Customs of the Realm his Temporal Judges Justices Sheriffs Bayliffs Lay-Subjects Liberties all prostituted to their exorbitant censures arbitrary pleasures 5ly In inflicting severe penalties on all inferiour Clergy-men who should not pursue or violate these their Constitutions by sequestrations deprivations disabilities to receive or enjoy any Ecclesiastical Benefices or Dignities whatsoever inflicting penalties on all such Bishops as should neglect or refuse to put them in execution 6ly In their most execrable abuse of Excommunications Interdicts of whole Cities Parishes Villages from all sacred Ordinaries upon every trivial occasion and conceived neglect or disobedience of some particular persons only in not executing or opposing these their Constitutions yea for the Kings his Courts Judges granting and not recalling their legal Writs of Prohibition Judgements for defence of the Rights of the Crown Laws or Subjects Liberties against their Papal Encroachments on them and the Jurisdiction of all his Temporal Courts in cases of Advousons of Churches Lay-fees Chattels Contracts not properly belonging to Ecclesiastical cognisance all which they endeavoured to engrosse into their own hands Courts 7ly That though all the Bishops Clergy Prelates Priors formerly opposed Archbishop Boniface his Visitations and Encroachments on themselves and publickly declaimed against him for his rapines covetousnesse violence non-residence neglect of his Pastoral duty oppression and other vices yet here they cryed him up for another St. Thomas of Becket and canonized him as a kind of Saint before his death for these his Antimonarchical Constitutions in defence and advancement of the Prelates Churches Clergies pretended Liberties and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction for which they would contest even to death under this their Martial General 8ly That though these Constitutions were kept secret and not publickly divulged at first as Mat. Paris intimates with a clause of adding to or substracting from them to avoid the just censure of the King and Kingdom upon the makers of them for their high contempts and treasonable designs against the Kings Crown Dignity the antient Laws Customs Government of the Kingdom which they would totally subvert upon which account Joha Peckham Archbishop of Canterbury was complained against in Parliament and enforced by the King and Lords to revoke sundry of his Constitutions made in the Council at a Radyng under him Anno 7 E. 1. with a deleatur et pro non pronunciata habeatur illa clausula in prima sententia Excommunicationis quae facit mentionem impetrantibus Literas Regias ad impediendum processus in causis quae per sacros Canones ad forum Ecclesiasticum pertinent c. relating to these Constitutions of Boniface then first divulged as I conceive whose Canons were not altogether so high as these of Boniface yet their ambitious successors and some bold Doctors of the Canon and Civil Law as b Johannes de Aton and c William Lindewode presumed to publish them with their expunged revoked Clauses and Glosses on them some ages after endeavouring to make them obligatory both to the English Clergy Church Kings Subjects to create
every Archbishop Bishop Archdeacon of England a Pope and make the Kings Nobles Judges Civil Officers Courts of Justice and Commonalty of England little less then their slaves and vassals Which Constitutions though never submitted to nor approved but revoked nulled by them yet some aspiring Prelates and bold ignorant Canonists of late times have cryed them up to be and executed them as the Ecclesiastical Laws of England though never received nor ratified as such but alwayes opposed in such manner as I have related yea totally neglected or seldome put in use in times of Popery by their makers as Lindewode himself acknowledgeth in his Epistle to Henry Archbishop of Canterbury before his Provinciale You may judge of these trees by their fruits Ex cauda draconem Praemoniti praemuniti I now proceed to Records of this year The Bishop of Durham having sequestred all Benefices of the Bishop of Karleol within the Diocesse of Durham and the Gardian of the Bishoprick of Karleol intending to sue out an Inhibition to take off the sequestration the King issued this Writ to the Gardian to let all things continue at present in the state they then were till the day he had appointed to hear and determin the businesse REX Waltero de Rudham Custodi Episcopatus Karl salutem Quia diem prâ—fiximus Venerabili Patri Dunelm Episcopo usque ad Crastinum animarum prox futur super sequestris Ecclesiarum ad Episcopum Karl spectantium quae sunt infra Dioc. dicti Dunolm Episcopi Ita quod sequestra illa interim in eodem statu in omnibus in quo nunc sunt remaneat sine aliqua immutatione facienda vel sine aliquo de praedictis sequestris hinc inde recipiendo Vobis mandamus quod sequestrum dictarum Ecclesiarum in statu in quo prius extitit esse permittatis in omnibus absque aliqua injunctione inde facienda usque ad praefatum terminum sicut praedictum est Teste meipso apud Wodestock 16 die Julii Anno regni nostri 41. Eodem modo mandatum est Vic. Northumbriae He likewise made this Letter of procuration concerning his right to this Church of Karliol during the vacancy REX Omnibus c. Noverit universitas vestra quod nos dilectum Clericum nostrum Walterum de Rudham Johannem de Beleshall nostros constituimus Procuratores ad assidendum petendum recipiendum nomine nostro decimas redditus seu pensiones nobis debitas ratione Episcopatus Karl vacantis in manu nostra existentis sive sint in Archiepiscopatu Eborum sive Cicestrensi sive Dunelm Episcopatibus Dante 's eisdem vel eorum alteri potestatem speciale mandatum pro statu nostro suo Appellandi appellationem prosequendi coram quibuscunque Judicibus ordinariis seu Delegatis in cujus c. Teste ut supra The Church of Colen wherein the three Kings were buried being burnt the King issued this Writ to the Archbiship and Bishops to give way and furtherance for a Collection toward the repair thereof and not to hinder it Cum Ecclesia Coloniensis in qua Corpora trium Regum beatorum requiescunt per incendium inopinabili ac miserabili casu sit consumpta Rex ad petitionem Conradi Archiepiscopi Colon. scribit Archiepiscopo Cantuar. et aliis Praelatis ac fide libus totius Angliae quod nuncios ipsius Fabricae cum pro petenoâ— Subsidio ad ipsos venerint benigne recipiant et quod nullum eis inferant molestiam c. Pope Alexander being very prodigal of what he had no right to grant and to grant the same thing to several persons after he had granted King Henry the fruits of vacant Benefices and Ecclesiastical dignities in England and Ireland for five years towards the Holy Wars granted the Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland formerly Dean of London the profits of all Benefices before he was Archbishop for two years not excepting his former grant to the King whereupon the King issued this Writ to the Archbishops Proctors not to gather the said profits for the Archbp. threatning to call them to an account and make them return what they had or should receive thereof REX Procuratoribus Archiepiscopi Tuam quondam Decani London salutem Cum Dominus Papa de fructibus dignitatum et aliorum Beneficiorum vacantium per annum habendis ad prosecutionem voti nostri usque ad quinquennium nobis gratiam fecerit specialem ac sicut intellexinius idem Dominus Papa praefato Archiepiscopo fructus Beneficiorum suorum per biennium sibi concesserat nulla de privilegio super dictis fructibus nobis concessis facta peuitus mentione vobis districtius inhibemus ne ad fructus Decanatus et Praebendi London aliorumque Beneficiorum quae in Regno nostro ante suam promotionem in Archiepiscopum obtinebat praesumatis extendere manus vestras Scituri quod si secus praesumpseritis nobis respondebitis de eisdem Teste Rege apud Windes 23. die Junii The King this year commanded all the monies raised or to be raised out of the vacancies of Bishopricks in his hands to be paid to his Treasurer at the New Temple towards the satisfaction of his debts by these Letters Patents REX Thesaurario Novi Templi London salutem Quia omnes exitus de Episcopatibus aliis custodiis in manu nostra existentibus provenientes in certo loco volumus reservari in solutionem quarundam debitorum nostrorum convertendos nos de fidelitate promptitudine vestra specialiter confidentes Vobis mandamus rogantes quod totam pecuniam quam Willielmus le Bretun Johannes Blundell custodes Episcopatus Norwicen vacantis in manu nostra existentis vel alii custodes vel Ballivi nostri vobis sub sigillis clavibus suis liberaverint ad opus nostrum reservandam salvo custodiatis in praedicta domo vestra sub sigillis clavibus eorundem donec aliud à nobis super hoc habueritis in mandatis In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Wodest 6. die Julii Et mandatum est Willielmo le Bretun Johanni Blundell custodibus Episcopatus Norwicen quod totam pecuniam per eos receptam recipiendam de exitibus ejusdem Episcopatus dum Episcopatus ille vacans fuerit in custodia sua liberent praefato Thesaurario cui Rex mandavit quod pecuniam illam recipiat salvo custodiat donec Rex aliud eis super hoc dederit in mandatis Teste ut supra sunt clausae What wasts and spoiles were then committed in vacant Bishopricks to raise monies you may conjecture by this relation Eodem tempore cum Monachi Elyenses suum Subpriorem virum idoneum irreprehensibilem ritè in suarum pastorem animarum ad officium Praesulatus Elyensis elegissent Domini Regis qui pro alio Literis suis Nunciis solemnibus instanter postulaverat voluntati non obsecundantes Rex iratus valde