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
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
and Dignity 968. The Kings Writs to all Bayliffs of the Ports diligently to search inquire after all Italian Clerks Laymen and others who brought any of his Papal Bulls Letters prejudicial to the King kingdom and to arrest their persons Letters Bulls 968. The Kings congratulatory Letters to him for his advancement to the Papacy and his complemental Letters received from him 985 980 995 To absolve him from his Oath to observe the provisions of Oxford prejudicial to his Crown Kingdom His Letters to his Cardinals to promote it with other affairs of his Realm and to preserve the Rights of his Crown against the Barons and their Oxford provisions for which he constituted sent Proctors to Rome 985 986 990. The Appeal Complaint of the King kingdom Nobles against the Antimonarchical Constitutions of Archbishop Boniface and his Suffragans to the great prejudice and grievance of his Crown kingdom Proctors constituted to repeal them as grievances and provide remedies against them 983 989 990 995. The Kings prohibition to draw any of his subjects to the Court of Rome out of the Realm 995 996. His Letters to him in behalf of an Abbot elected approved by him to promote his affairs 996. The Kings suit to him to send a Legat into England to assist him against his Bishops Barons then in arms against him his safe conduct and Letters to the Legate how to proceed against them His Excommunications of proceedings against the Barons Bishops and their adherents 1014 1015 1016 1018 to 1026. He said he desired to live no longer then to subdue the English Barons against whom he was much incensed 1015. His Bull for dissolving all their Statutes Leagues Confederacies against the King directed to the Bishop of Norwich and Roger Abbot of St. Augustines his excommunications to be denounced against them with Bell Book Candle in all Conventual and other Churches on all Lords dayes and Holy-dayes 1015 1016 1018. His death before their execution successors pursuit of the premises 1020 1021. INDEX 11. Of the Popes Cardinals matters concerning them Letters to from and Negotiations with them by our Kings Nobles and Others CArdinals the nobler Members Pillars of the Roman Church 307. They claim the Papal power as devolved to residing in them during the vacancy of the See of Rome grant recall provisions p. 650 651. See Mat. Westminster An. 1243. p. 173. They elect the Pope 605 647 648 649 650 651 759. Their delayes schisms discords supplanting poysoning each other in electing Popes 647 to 651. 759. They Present to vacant Churches against right 516. 521 522. Some of them disliked opposed the proceedings of Popes and corruptions of the Roman Church 489 490 548 549 517 592 800 801. Imprisoned plundered by the Emperor Frederick for their Treasons Rebellions Schisms obstinacy in resorting to a Council by Sea to depose him against his acvice and prohibition 515 519 551 648 649 650 655 656 657 753. Counsell advise order causes sit in judgement joyn in censures Bulls subscriptions with the Pope who stiles them his Brethren 234 340 342 419 433 452 453 515 519 526 538 548 652 653 656 677 658 919 920 925 948 953 Appendix 24. Enforced Pope Innocent 4. to reverse his Decree for intestates goods as belonging to him for its scandal injustice 692. Pensions granted presents sent to several of them and their Nephews by our Kings to promote their affaires in the Court of Rome 314 315 442 5â—9 570 736 756 866 977 1031 1039 1048. Letters of the Emperor King Henry 3. our Nobles others to all the Cardinals in general concerning publike affairs grievances oppressions or for particular persons 307 308 491 517 519 531 581 582 670 671 679 680 689 870 915 916 241 943 944 948 961 962 963 964 986 987 988 1018 1030. Letters of King Henry 3. and the Nobles to some particular Cardinals concerning publike or private affairs 375 423 843 871 943 944 958 961 962 964 986 987 1031. They ought to oppose restrain Popes excesses 519. Their covetousnesse corruptions rapines Bribery Simony Injustice Pride Tyranny 925 951 953. See Index 13. Pope Gregory the 9. his Cardinals demand a share in the Annual rent for England and Ireland by King Johns Charter Letters concerning it 307 308. The names actions of the particular Cardinals in several ages herein mentioned 234 287 288 314 315 375 376 390 427 432 433 489 490. 525 545 549 551 552 553 to 569 581 583 605 647 648 649 651 652 655 656 657 728 738 753 871 920 961 1026 1027 1033 1039 1040 1048. Appendix 24. Pope Gregory disowneth John Columpna for a Cardinal for opposing his breach of the Truce with the Emperor Frederick who also disowned him for Pope 549. His Epistle concerning the rapines corruptions of the Pope Church of Rome revolt of the Greek Church c. 489 490 491. Taken detained in prison his Castles demolished by the Romans for seeming favourable to the Emperor 647 648. The richest greatest of all the Cardinals chief fomenter of the differences between the Pope Emperor his pride death 606. Robert Summercote and English Cardinal reprehends Simon a Norman for telling the Pope the King of England trusted Strangers because no English man was faithfull to him the eminentest of all the Cardinals like to be elected Pope poysoned during the election to prevent his choice 647 648 753. INDEX 12. Of Popes Legates Nuncioes real sophistical sent into England Scotland Ireland France other Kingdomes Countries their general and particular Names rapines avarice pomp pride frauds inventions to extort gain monyes kingdoms for Popes wealth promotions for themselves their Clerks Kinred by hook or crook by infamous Bulls provisions Procurations Croysadoes Disms Dispensations Excommunications Interdicts Appeals Citations to Rome Absolutions Exemptions Non-obstantes blank Bulls and other devices mentioned in this Tome POpes Legates with the Titles Ensigns of Legates others with the power of Legates or more without the Title badges sent successively into England Wales Iceland France elswhere to publish Popes Excommunications Interdicts Bulls Croysadoes Disms Suspentions Citations Mandates c. to and against Emperors Kings Princes Bishops Abbots Priors and all sorts of persons to exact collect monies pillage sacred Churches Monasteries Mansions founded by our devout simple Ancestors for relief of the poor strangers and sustentation of religious persons invade Empires Kingdoms which Popes ambitiously aspire after though base ignoble to enthrall them Emperors Kings Nobles all others to their Tyranny raise up wars seditions schisms in all places to reap where they never sowed casting the shame of the world and fear of God behind their backs but not to sow the seed of Gods word to gain souls to Christ 414 415 416. 490. The English Nobilities Commonalties Clergies general insurrections and petitions against them for their unsufferable rapines vexations oppressions disposing their Prebendaries Benefices to alicus by Papal provisions 436 437 438 616 619 620 663. Pope Gregory the 9. and Innocent 4. some of the
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
hath conusance of them 882 885. The Popes Bull to morgage them for 3. years for the holy war 449. Tithwite exemption from it 219. Toll exemption from it 229. exacted from Clerks 896. Transubstantiation subveâ—â—â— the foundation of St. Peters and Popes Universal Vicarship to Christ and Monarchy 10 11 15 97 98. proved by sundry Popish Miracles apparitions of Christ as an infant or blood in the consecrated Host all impostures or diabolical delusions 68 to 75. How stated asserted by their Treat Councils Doctors Canonists 15. 66 67 68. 71. 79. See 456. 504 707 1065. Not wrought nor proved by This is my body 77 78. Nor intended proved by Joh. 5 p. 79 10. Against Scripture Articles of our Faith sense reason experience 71 72 No Miracle 75 76. Invented asserted only to make their M 〈◊〉 a propitiatory sacrifice which else would be of no value See Mâ—sse Treasure trove not incident to Bishops Liberties 398. Treason for Bishops to resort appeal to Rome and own any for Pope without the Kings license 4. To Interdict the Realm excommunicate or depose the King by the Popes Bulls See H n. 3. and King John Index 3 4 10. They and all other Clergymen punisha le for it by Kings and Temporal Magistrates as well as Laymen 2. â— See Bishopâ— Clerks Banishment for it See â—â—â—â—shment Pâ—oâ—hâ—cying the Kings deposal by a day Trâ—aâ—â—â— 266 267. 268. To desert his service because excommunicated by the Pope 25â— 267. To betray the rightâ— of 〈◊〉 Crown 248. To detain the Kings Castles against him 3â—2 See Castles To imagin his death of betray him to his Enemies 265. Truce continued between England and France Popes interpâ—sing therein 4â—6 447 448. 244 945 With the Saracens broken by the Pope though 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the great scandal diâ—grace of Christians 4 8 Made by the Emperor with the Soldan upon honourable terms objected by the Pope as a crime 427. See Frederick and Gregory 9. V. VAcations of Bishopricks Abbyes the Custody of their Temporalties presentation to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to our Kings by their antient Prerogative of which some Prelates in England and Ireland endeavoured to 〈◊〉 them 2 3 236 237 2â—8 272 37â— 428 511 522 81â— 627 687 913 9â—8 993 96â— 963 955. 96â— 994 10â—4 6â—9 â—â—1 782 9â—â— 636. Appendix 18 See Index 3. 4. The Custody of the Temporalties of 〈◊〉 granted to the Archbishop and his Successors 339. 819 877 Oâ— Westminster Abby to the Monkes by spicial Charters 763 7â—4 The Archbishops Jurisdiction claimed over the Church of Lincola during the Vacancy 805 And of the Prior Monks of Canterbury over their Diocesans as Gardians of the Spiritualties of Canterbury during vacancies thereof 597 to 6â—0 Vexations by Ecclesiastical persons of the Kings Subjects complained of prohibited â— 4 699 704. 705. 706. 728. 830 832. 8â—3 884. 969. 970. 992. Vâ—cariges endowed by Kings directions 4â—7 Append. 29. Vâ—caâ—s of God and Christ on earth Christian Kings are such in over their own Realms Churches not Popes 1. 3 4. 872. 873. See King Popes pretences to be Christs and Gods Universal Vâ—â—ars upon earthâ— claiming all his regal Sâ—cerdoral Offices and Sâ—veraign Universal authority by that pretex yea a power to excommunicate depose all Christian Kings Emperors nuâ—â— all Laws c. p. 6. 7. 8. This their 〈◊〉 disproved by Scripture 9 10 11 Dâ—â—â—ed by the Gâ—â—el Church S 〈◊〉 Antioch and Greek Church by the Emperor Frederick and others 360. 513 154 533 538 539. 560. Pope Alexander the 4. desires prayers so to govern the Church aâ— to deserve to be called Gods Vâ—câ—â— and 〈◊〉 sâ—ccâ—ssâ—â— claimed expressed in their own Bulls as unworthy of it 407 449. 449. 81â— Vicats General of the King to take place of all Bishops and visit the Ecclesiastical state persons under him 3 4. Victuals to be sold to Jewes notwithstanding Bishops inhibitions 387. 475 476. not to Saracens 449. Villains soas not to enter into Religion without their Lords assent 4. Vi Laica amovenda to Sheriffs c. 6â—8 689 867. 1004. 1005. Virgini y consecrated by Mary 32 a great virtue 350. Virgins consecrated by Mary internally externally only by â—ishâ—ps 19. Visitations of the Ecclesiastical state persons a prerogative of the King by such as he shall appoint by Letters Patents 3 4 Kings may exempt persons places from Archiepiscopal or Episcopal Visitations and Jurisdiction their Free Chappels exempted from them 3 4 720. 721 721. 727. 729. 748. 757. 559. 982 923. 1047. Vexatious illegall proceedings and procurations in them together with coertion and administing enforcing Oathes prohibited in them by Popes Bulls Canonists Kings Writs 699 704 to 713. 728 743 744 760 892 907 969 970 What procurations fees are to be demanded taken in them 233 743 744. 79â— 791. Of Archbishop Boniface with the oppositions appeals against it 740 741 746 747 748 752 76â— 789 790 791. Of the Bishop of Lincoln and oppositions appeals against it 698 699 704 705 706 709. 754. 761 76â— 798 Of Monks by the Popes Visitors grievances and appeals against them 440 441 442. 789. By the Abbot of the Cistertians by the Kings license 601 789. By Bishops for Popes to get money from Monks to exempt them from it 798 799. The principal end to get mony not reform abuses 789 790 798. Exemptions of Abbots from Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Visitations for mony by Popes Bulls 384 791 79â— 798. App. 22 23. The Emperor excommunicated for not suffering an Archbishop to come to his See to visit 410. Pope Innocent 4. his Decree concerning Visitations procurations and preaching at them 743 744 790 791. Usurpation of Jurisdiction punished by our Kings restrained by their Writs 3. See Prohibitions Usurpers Charters neither do nor ought to prejudice the right heir to the Crown resumed 324. Usurers of Popes Caursini and other Italian Merchants countenanced by them against the Lawes of God Man Bishops Excommunications their detestable Usury bonds undermining of Jewes Popes remitting the Usury of Jewes not theirs to such as crossed themselves for the Holy Land with other matters concerning Popes Usurers Usury 350. 371. 426. 427. 437. 448. 460. 462. 467. 4â—8 469. 516. 522. 546. 560. 573. 654. 718. 753. 754. 802. 809. 845. 846. 848. 868. 869. 717. 821. 835. 859. 871. 877. 878. 1034 1035. Uâ—fâ—ngthees 428 873. U lawry of King John against exiled Bishops and Clergymen reversed by his Patent his declaration he had no power to outlaw Clerks 270 272. W. VVApentake 228. Waâ—peni exemption from it 229. Wards of body and lands of Tenants in Capite belong to the King 429 430. The Archbishop opposed this prerogative and complained to the Pope against it Ib. Granted maried to Aliens of mean fortune complained against as a grievance in Parliaments 444 721 991. Contribution out of Wardships to relieve the Holy Land 239. Warrants of Judges produced else coram non Judice 887. Warranty not in a suit between a Bastard and Mulier 474. Warre what a just cause
assensum prestetis set predictum Abbatem sancti Dogmaelis quantum poteritis adiuvando predicto G. Archidiacono in quantum poteritis resistatis Quicunque autem aliter fecerit manifestum erit ipsum nobis et dignitati nostrae adversari Teste meiplo apud Rupem Aurmall Decimo die Aprilis JOhannes Dei Gratiâ c. Omni Clero et Populo Angliae c. Universitatem vestram scimus non latere quod Custodiae Episcopatuum et Abbatiarum vacantium in Regno nostro in temporalibus omnibus Antecessoribus nostris et nobis hactenus ex diuturna et approbata consuetudine Regni nostri consueverunt competere Verum quia Galfridus Archidiaconus de Brichunon qui se gerit Electum Menevensem et â—uâ—us Electioni non consentimus nec unquam consensimus Custodiam temporalium Episcopatus Menevensis in damnum et dispendium dignitatis nostrae Coronae presumit usurpare quod nos nulla ratione salva dignitate nostra sustinere possumus vel debemus Vobis mandamus et firmiter precipimus ne quis vestrum predicto G. in temporalibus quae ad jam dictam Ecclesiam spectant respondere vel ipsum ad ea optinenda promovere aut manutenere presumat sicut nostram diligit fidelitatem et Coronae dignitatem Sciatis enim quod si quisquam vestrum in contrarium pro eodem G. aliquid attemptaret pro manifesto habebimus ipsum dignitati nostrae et Coronae inimicari Teste meipso apud Rothomag Decimo Septimo die Decembris Sub eadem forma scribitur Capitulo Menevensi This turbulent Arch-deacon notwithstanding all his pretended submission to the Arch-Bishop proceeding afresh in the Court of Rome most likely by the Popes encouragement to obtain his ends thereupon the King issued out this severe Proclamation against him as a publick enemy and disturber of the peace of his Kingdom REx c. Omnibus Baronibus fidelibus per Episcopatum Menevensem constitutis c. Quot et quantis Machinationibus nos et opprimere et dignitatem Coronae nostrae expugnares et regni nostri consuetudines ab antiquis temporibus in Electionibus Episcoporum optentas G. Archidiaconus de Brecnuno pro posse laboraverit extinguere tam in Curia Romana quam alibi satis norunt universi per eum enim non stetit quod pravis suggestionibus ejus et dilationibus maliciosis et venenosis non solum pax parcium vestrarum immo totius Regni nostri tranquilitas turbaretur maxime cum inimicis nostris nequiter communicando talia confixerit quae nobis et regno nostro manifestum importarent dispendium si iniquitas ejus prevaleret et pro voto praecessisset in actum unde non immerito ipsum inter inimicos nostros duximus numerandum vobis omnibus nos diligentibus mandantes et districte prohibentes ne ejus promotioni aliquo modo consentiatis immo ejus promotionem pro posse impediatis Non enim justum est quod ille fidelibus nostrâ—s diligatur vel promoveatur qui in damnum et dispendium dignitatis Regis et juris regni perturbationem anesat Teste meipso apud Tastnu Undecimo die Septembris This was the memorable vigilant prudent gallant opposition made by King John against the first provision of Pope Innocent who to eclipse the Kings prerogative first endeavoured to introduce them aswell in France as in Wales Ireland and England Pope Innocent the 3d. a man of a haughty Antichristian Spirit like Hildebrand his predecessor the better to invade the Rights of Christian Kings and their Subjects especially of England and France under a specious pious pretext set on foot by some of his preceding Pontifs of sending them and their Nobles out of their Realms to rescue the Holy Land out of the Saracens and Infidels hands and raising monies as well from the Laity as Clergy to maintain this holy Warr that so he and his Legates in their absence might usurp their Regal Authority and Supream Government both in Church State and impoverish them and their Subjects to enrich themselves with a great part of the moneys raised for this end in the 3d. year of King John sent forth this general Letter De Subventione facienda terrae Jerusolomitanae recorded at large by Hoveden INNOCENTIVS Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei Universis Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Praelatis ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Graves Orientalis terrae miserias necessitates urgentes jam potius peccatis exigentibus deflere cogimur quam referre c. Verum quia id quasi modicum immo vero modicum ad tot necessitates ipsius Provinciae sufficere nullatenus reputamus Universitati vestrae per Apostolica scripta Mandamus ex parte Dei omnipotentis in virtute Spiritus Sancti sub interminatione divini Judicii districte praecipimus quatenus singuli vestrum Quadragesimam partem omnium Ecclesiasi icorum reddituum proventuum suorum prius tamen deductis usuris quarum solutio vitari non possit in Subsidium Terrae sanctae convertunt Omnibus Clericis tam Subsidiis quam Praelatis qui Quadragesimam ipsam sponte ac fideliter solverint de Dei omnipotentis Misericordia beatorum Apostolorum Petri Pauli Authoritate confisi Quartam partem injunctae sibi poenitentiae relaxamus dummodo nulla fraus interveniat pia devotio suffragetur Scita autem se culpabiliter duriter et dure inculpabilem qui tantillum subsidium in tanta necessitate Creatori et Redemptori suo negaverit exhibere a quo Corpus animam universa bona quae habet accepit nos qui licet indigni vices ejus exercemus in terris hujus culpae duritiem nullatenus dissimulare possemus Nec aliquo modo credatis quod per hoc in dispendium vestrum legem vobis imponere intendamus ut a vobis in posterum quadragesima quasi debita et consuetudinaria requiratur immo nullum ex hoc vobis prejudicium volumus generari qui tantae necessitatis Articulum nobis et vobis supervenisse dolemus et quod simile de cetero non contingat optamus Volumus etiam nihilominus vobis precipiendo Mandamus quatinus vos fratres Archiepiscopi in Episcopis in Metropolitana Ecclesia vel si hoc ibi fieri propter hostilitatem vel aliud evidens impedimentum non poterit in duobus vel tribus locis provinciae vestrae sine dilatione convenire curetis inter vos juxta formam mandati Apostolici de ipsius terrae subventione tractare et post reversionem suam quilibet vestrum in sua diocesi Concilium convocet sine mora authorâ—tate nostra precipiens Abbatibus Prioribus tam exemptis quam aliis Archidiaconibus Decanis Universis omnino Clericis in ejus Diocaesi constitutis justa aestimatione proventus et redditus suos taxent et infra tres menses post factam eis
denuntiationem Quadragessimam partem valoris eorum sub ipsius Episcopi testimonio et aliquot Religiosorum virorum adhibitis nihilominus ad cautelam aliquibus fidelibus Laicis et discretis in locum idoneum ejusdem Diocaesis non differetur consignare Quod nos vobis fratres Archiepiscopis Episcopis sub eadem districte Mandamus Ab hac autem generalitate monachos Cistercienses c. excepimus Here this Pope takes upon him upon pretext of necessity for relief of the holy Land only to advise and recommend to all the Prelates of the holy Church the levying of the fortieth part of their Estates and Benefices and in what manner to levy it not absolutely to impose it to their prejudice Whence * Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster thus expresse it Ad instantiam Innocentiae Papae Data est quadragesima pars redditum omnium Ecclesiarum ad subsidium terrae promissionis Therefore a free Gift not an imposed Tax Neither would the King of England or France suffer it to be levyed in their Realms by the Popes Authority but only by their Royal Order grant and assent thereto as * Hoveden thus expresly relates PApa Innocentius misit unum Cardinalem ad Regem Franciae ad Regem Angliae postulans subsidium fieri de terris earum ad subventionem terrae Jerosolomitanae Ad cujus mandatum ipsi Reges concesserunt se daturos ad subventionem prefatae terrae Quadragesimam partem omnium reddituum suorum de uno Anno and no more they stinting the sums and duration of it Et Rex Angliae hoc ipsum mandavit fieri de redditibus et Ercaetis et Wardis suis Angliae et praecepit ut omnes laici terrarum suarum simili modo quadragessimam partem reddituum suorum darent in Eleemosynam ad subventionem terrae Ierosolomitanae Unde Galfridus filius Petri tunc temporis summus Justitiarius Angliae in hac forma scripsit Vicecomitibus Ballivis Angliae evidencing this Almes to be imposed granted not by the Popes or Kings meer absolute power but the free grant and advise of his Nobles and Peers as a meer Almes Gift and Benevolence GAlfridus filius Petri Comes Essex Universis Vicecomitibus Balliae suae salutem Sciatis quod dominus Rex Angliae ad instantiam praedicationem cujusdam Cardinalis a summo Pontifice missi in Franciam de consilio Magnatum suorum de partibus transmarinis concessit ad sanctae Ierusalem subsidium quadragessimam partem valoris omnium redituum et terrarum suarum unius Anni tam de Wardis quam de Excaetis in manu sua existentibus Quod etiam ipsi Magnates sui ultra mare voluntarie concesserunt Ad eorum etiam instantiam scripsit Dominus Rex omnibus Angliae Magnatibus per literas patentes rogans et inducens eos quatenus puro Corde et Charitatis intuitu idem illud de valore omnium reddituum et terrarum suarum unius Anni concederent quod quidem nec de debito nec de consuetudine nec de coactione nec de aliqua alia Authoritate Apostolica conceditur vel postulatur Unde precepit quod omnes Comites et Barones de qualibet Ballia in primis admoneantur inducantur diligenter quatenus pro se hanc collectam faciant in terris suis hoc modo scilicet ut quilibet quadragesimam partem valoris cujuslibet Villae suae sicut posset poni ad firmam per annum Et si in eadem Villa fuerint per servitium militare tenentes dent quadragesimam portionem modo praedicto si autem fuerint libere tenentes similirer dent eandem portionem modo praedicto computato reditu quem Dominis suis solverint per annum Hanc autem collectam colligi faciant per tam discretos legales qui ad hoc possint sciant sufficere qui eam recipiant tam de Comitibus quam de Baronibus praedictis Et postquam per manus eorum fuerit collecta receptores predictae collectae faciant in scriptum redigi distincte aperte quantum de quolibet receperint tam de Comitibus quam de Baronibus Militibus libere tenentibus nomina singulorum Villarum quantumcunque de singulis Villis quorum quaelibet sit imbreviari faciant Summam autem de Dominicis de Wardis excaeris redditibus Domini Regis faciant separatim imbreviari Si quis vero Clericus Laicum Feodum habuerit in Ballia aliqua vel homines tenentes Laicum Feodum in eorum terris fiat haec collecta per praedictos collectores modo praedicto De terris autem Cruce signatorum praedicta Collecta fiat modo praedicto Ita tamen quod eorum pecunia seperatim reponetur ab alia summa pecuniae nomina singulorum quorum ipsa pecunia fuerit subscribantur ut illi qui iter arripuerint pecuniam suam prompte recipiant Provideatur autem quod pecunia illa sit collecta ita quod unusquisque Vicecomes simul cum Collectoribus habeat eam apud Novum Templum Londoniae a die S. Hillarii in quindecim Dies imbreviamentum modo predicto ordinatum Viz de summa pecuniae nominibus eorum qui eam deberint nominibus Villarum de quibus data fuerit pecunia praedicta quantum de qualibet datum fuerit Si qui autem contradixerint huic collectae assensum praebere nomina eorum imbrevientur et coram nobis represententur apud Lundonium ad terminum praedictum hoc breve nomina collectorum ibidem habeantur Valete This therefore was but a voluntary precarious Almes and Collection left arbitrary by the Pope to the King who by advise of his Nobles and Barons beyond Seas reduced it to a certainty and recommended it to the Nobles and Barons of England by way of intreaty with directions how to levy it in the proportion he had fixed on as a thing not granted nor required by the King out of debt duty or custome or by any Apostolical authority but meerly as a voluntary Almes and Benevolence which other Nobles beyond Sea had voluntarily granted and the King at their request did by his Letters Patents intreat the English Nobles and Barons out of meer charity to imitate So as this is a most pregnant evidence against the Popes pretended Jurisdiction to impose any such Tax upon King Clergy or Subjects as some Popes and Pontificians would thence inferr from this Usurping Popes Letters whose Agent embezelled much of this coyn for the Popes own private Coffers as our Historians observe Indeed this Pope by his special Letter to all the Archbishops and Bishops of England commanded them to admonish all those who had formerly taken the Crosse upon them and afterwards laid it down to resume it and repair forthwith to the Earl of Flanders notwithstanding any Papal Dispensation fraudulently obtained to the contrary from his Predecessors or else after
noised it daily amongst the Commons of the Realm that Christ had twice appeared to this Prophet of theirs in shape of a Child between the Priests hands once at York another time at Pomfret and that he had breathed on him thrice saying Peace Peace Peace and teaching many things which hee anon after declared to the Bishops and bid the people amend their naughty living Being rapt also in spirit they said hee beheld the Joyes of Heaven and sorrowes of Hell For scant were there three saith the Chronicle among a thousand that lived Christianly This counterfeit soothsayer prophecyed of King John that he should raigne no longer then the Ascention day within the yeare of our Lord 1213. which was the 14th from his Coronation and this hee said hee had by Revelation Then was it of him demanded whether hee should be slaine or expelled or should of himself give over the Crown He answered hee could not tell but of this he was sure he said that neither hee nor any of his Stock or Linage should raigne that day once finished The King hearing of this laughed much at it and made but a scoffe thereof Tush saith hee it it is but an Ideot Knave and such a one as lacketh his right wits But when this foolish Prophet had so escaped the danger of the Kings displeasure and that he made no more of it he got him abroad and prated thereof at large as hee was a very idle vagabond and used to tatle and talk more then enough so that they which loved the King caused him a non after to bee apprehended as a Malefactor and to bee thrown into prison the King not knowing thereof Anon after the fame of this phantasticall Prophet went all the Realme over and his name was known every where as foolishnesse is much regarded of people where Wisdome is not in place specially because hee was then imprisoned for the matter the rumor was the larger their wonderings were the wantoner their practicing the foolisher their busie talks and other idle occupyings the greater continually from thence as the rude manner of people is old Gossips tales went abroad new tales were invented Fables were added to Fables and lies grew upon lies so that every day new slanders were raeised on the King and not one of them true Rumors arose blasphemyes were spread the enemyes rejoyced And treasons by the Preists were maintained and what likewise was surmised or other subtilty practised all then was Fathered upon this foolish Prophet As Thus saith Peter Wakefeild thus hath he Prophecyed and this shall come to passe yea many times when hee thought nothing lesse When the Ascension day was come which was Prophecyed of before King John Commanded his Regall Tent to be spread abroad in the open field passing that day with his Noble Councel and men of Honour in the greatest solemnity that ever hee did afore solacing himself with Musicall instruments and songs most in sight amongst his trusty friends When that day was past in all prosperity and mirth his enemies being confounded turned all to an Allegorical understanding to make the Prophecy good and said He is no longer King for the Pope raigneth and not hee yet hee raigned still and his son after him to proove that Prophet a lyer Then was the King by his Councel perswaded that this false Prophet had troubled all the Realm perverted the hearts of the people and raised the Commons against him For his words went over the Sea by the help of his Prelates and came to the French Kings ear and gave unto him a great encouragement to invade the Land he had not else done it so suddenly But hee was most fouly deceived as all they are and shall bee that put their trust in such Dark drowsie dreams of Hypocrites The King therefore commanded that he should be drawn and hanged like a Traitor When these false Prophecies would not work the King to comply with their ends the Pope at the Bishops petition having proceeded to the utmost extremity judically to depose him and to give his Crown to his enemie the King of France commanded him with force of armes to seise upon his Kingdom exciting all Souldiers and Warriers in divers Nations to take up armes against him under the self same Indulgences as those that visited the Holy land and fought against the Saracens in which Treasonable proceedings his English Bishops were imployed as principal actors thus related by Matthew Paris Circa hos denique dies Maugerus Bishop of Worcester one of the Rebellious Bishops dying in exile at Pontiniac ob libertatem Ecclesiae Anglicanae executionem Justitiae write our malicious partial Monks Stephanus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis Willielmus Londinensis Elias Eliensis Episcopi Romam profecti innuerunt Domino Papae multimodas rebelliones enormitates quas fecerat Rex Anglorum Johannes they should rather have remembred and repented of their own manifold Treasons and Rebellions against their King a tempore interdicti usque in presentem diem manus sâ—vitiae et crudelitatis contra Dominum sanctumque Ecclesiam infatigabiliter aggravando Unde humiliter Domino Papae supplicabant ut Anglicanae Ecclesiae â—am quasi in extremis laboranti dignareturi pie miserationis intuitu subvenire Tunc Papa gravi maerore propter desolationem regni Angliae confectus de consilio Cardinalium Episcoporum et aliorum virorum prudentium sententialiter definivit ut Rex Anglorum Johannes a solio regni deponeretur et alius Papa procurante succederet qui dignior haberetur Ad hujus quoque sententiae executionem scripsit Dominus Papa potentissimo Regi Francorum Phelippo quatenus in remissionem omnium suorum peccaminum hunc laborem assumeret ut Rege Anglorum a solio Regni expulso ipse et successores sui regnum Angliae jure perpetuo possiderent Scripsit insuper omnibus Magnatibus militibus aliisque bellatoribus per diversas nationes constitutis ut ad Regis Anglorum dejectionem sese cruce signarent Regemque Francorum in hac expeditione ducem sequentes vindicare injuriam Universalis Ecclesiae laborarent Statuit preterea ut quicunque ad expugnandum Regem illum contumacem opus impenderint vel auxilium sicut illi qui sepulchrum Domini visitant tam in rebus quam in personis et animarum suffragiis in pace Ecclesiae securi permaneant His ita gestis misit Dominus Papa a latere suo Pandulphum subdiaconum ad partes Gallicanas cum Archiepiscopo Episcopis supradictis ut in ipsius presentia ea quae superius digesta sunt exequatur Sed Pandulphus a Papa recedens remotis omnibus secretissima allocutione sciscitatus est of purpose to overreach and trepan both the Kings of England and France and work his own designs on both si forte in Rege Anglorum Fructum poenitentiae inveniret it a quod vellet satisfacere Domino Ecclesiae Romanae atque aliis omnibus illud negotium spectantibus quid
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
therefore the Court of Parliament upon a civil request obtained by the Kings Proctor General against a Decree made in favour of the Successors of Foelix of Nogaret to whom King Philip the fair 260. years before had given the Lands and Seigniory of Calvisson for his virtues and well deserving of the Common-weale whereby it was revoked unto the Council shewing thereby That Prescription hath no place when there is any question of the Revenues of the Crown And the Court of Parliament at Rovan by a sentence given the 14. February 1511. betwixt the Kings Proctor and the Religious of St. Omer adjudging the possession of certain goods unto the King allowing the Religious to relieve themselves by some other means and to prove it duely by way of Inquest and for cause which words and for cause are not to be understood for the poor subjects of the Country only but generally for all And oftentimes the Treaties made betwixt Princes have no other difficulties but for the preservation of the Revenues the which Princes cannot alienate to the prejudice of the publique Henry the 8. King of England in a Treaty made with the Pope and Potentates of Italy in the year 1527. caused this clause to be added That they might not give away any thing of the Crown of France for the redeeming of King Francis and upon this point the breach of the Treaty of Madrid was grounded for that the antient custome of this Realm conformable to the Edicts or Ordinances of other Nations requires the consent of the three Estates the which is observed in Poland by a Law made by Alexander King of Poland according to the disposition of the Common Law unlesse the sale were made at such time as the Enemy had invaded the Country and that the forme be observed from point to point as in the alienation of Pupils goods the Common-weale being alwayes regarded as a Pupil and if there be any thing omitted it is all of no force or at least it is subject to recission without restitution unto the Purchaser of the thing purchased Neither can the Prince challenge that unto himself which belongs unto the publique no more then a Husband can his Wives Dowry wherein the Prince hath lesse right for the Husband may abuse the fruits of his Wives Dowry at his pleasure but a Prince may well use but not abuse the fruits of a publique Dowry As the Citizens that were in society with the Athenians complained That the publique money was to be put in Apolloes Treasury and not to be wasted by the Athenians Our Kings have and do acknowledge that the propriety of the Crown Lands is not the Princes for King Charles the 5. and 7. would not have the Crown Lands pawned unlesse the Parliament at the instance of the Kings Proctor had so decreed as we may see in the antient Registers of the Court of Parliament and Chamber of Accounts And the reason is for that the Revenues belong unto the Common-weale as wise Princes have alwayes acknowledged And when as K. Lewis the 8. dyed having given much by his Testament to poor Widdows and Orphans he commanded all his Jewells and moveables to be sold to pâ—rform his Legacies least that any thing belonging to the Crown should be sold as having no Interest in it And for this cause Pertinax the Roman Emperor caused his name being written upon the publique Lands to be rased out saying That it was the very Inheritance of the Common-weale and not the Emperors although they enjoy the Rents for the maintenance of their houses and the Common-weale And we do also read that Antonius Pius lived of his own Inheritance applying nothing that belonged to the publique to his private use Whom K. Lewis the 12. called the Father of his Country doth seem to imitate who would not mingle his Patrimony and Revenues with that of the publique erecting the Chamber of Blois for his Lands at Blois Coussy and Monfort and yet many have erroneously confounded the publique with the Princes private Lands Neither is it lawfull for Soveraign Princes to abuse the fruits and Revenues of the Crown Lands although the Common-weale be in quiet and free from all trouble for that they have the use only and ought the Common-weale and their house being maintained to keep the surplusage for publique necessity Although that Pericles said to the Ambassadors of the Confederates That they had no Interest in the imployment of the Treasure so as they were maintained in peace for it was contained in the Treaty of Alliance that the money which should be raised in the time of peace should be guarded in Apolloes Temple and that it should not be imployed but by a common consent But there is great difference between the Treasury or Exchequer in a Monarchy and in popular States for a Prince may have a Treasury of his private Patrimony the which was called Fiscus by the Antients and that of the publique Revenues Aerarium the one being divided from the other by the antient Laws the which can have no place in a popular or Aristocratical Estate Yet there never wanted Flatterers to perswade Princes to sell their Revenues of the Crown to make a great benefit the which is a Tyrannical Opinion and the ruine of a Common-weale For it is well known that the publique Revenues consist chiefly in that which Dukes Marquesses Earles and Barons did sometimes possesse the which either by Succession Dowry or by Confiscation have come unto the State in Lordships Coppy-holds in Fees Alienations Sales Seisures Rents Amercements Rights Confiscations and other Regalities the which are not subject to Imposts and ordinary Charges and oftentimes are gotten by them which are free from all Charges Moreover Commissioners granted to sell the publique Revenues for the making of money speedily allow it to be sold for Ten Years purchase when as private Lands in Fee with Justice are sold for Thirty Years purchase and those that have Dignities at Fifty Years and more so as some with the purchase of the publique Lands reap in one year more profit by the Iurisdiction then they paid for the Land Others have paid nothing at all taking the Valuation of the Revenue by Extracts from the Chamber of Accounts given in by the receivers in Ten Years who oftentimes have not received any thing for that the profits of inferiour Iustice is made in the chief and Regal Court. As for Sales the purchaser hath more profit then the Interest of the money which they have paid can amount unto As also the receivers of the Revenues are not accustomed to give any account of Casualties but for a small part And in Farming out the Crown Lands the Farmers are liable to Subsidies and are charged according to their abilities There are infinite more abuses which the Common-wealth sustains by Sales of their Revenues but the greatest is that the money which is made is not put out to Rent like to those that think
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
thus put the Realm or all or any one of their English subjects in subjection and obeysance to the kingdom and Crown of France as they were Kings of France when rightfull Kings both of France and England as this Act declares and resolves much lesse then could King John without their assent subject both himself his Crown kingdoms of England and Ireland and all his Successors to the Pope under Homage and an Annual Tribute he having not the least colour of Title or Right to either and to whom they were not formerly subject as the English were to King Edward before the Crown of France descended to him being their lawfull King 5ly In the Parliament of 2 E 3. The excessive Dower of Queen Isabel the Kings Mother was by common consent of Parliament resumed into the Kings hands as prejudicial to the King kingdom and not setled by Parliament and she reduced to an annual pension of One thousand pounds by the year in lieu thereof or 3000. Marks as Henry de Knyghton stories No Joyntures of our Queens being irrevocable in Law unlesse confirmed by Parliament as most have been 6ly All the Commons of England in their Petition with the King Lords Commons and whole Parliament of 16 R. 2. in c. 5. of Praemunire declare and resolve That the Crown and Kingdom of England hath been so free at all times that it hath been in subjection to no Realm or forreign power but immediately subject to God and to none other Which by Popes Provisions and suites in the Court of Rome for Benefices and other particulars restrained in this Act under the penalty of a Praemunire should in all things touching the Regality thereof be submitted to the Bishop of Rome and the Lawes and Statutes of the Realm be by him defeated and frustrated at his will to the destruction of the King his Soveraignty Crown Regality and of all his Realm in defence whereof in all points they would live and die against the Popes usurpation theron restrained highly punished by this Law If then the Resolution of this whole Parliament King kingdom be true King Johns subjecting and resignation of his Crown kingdoms to the Pope and his successors and Homage to them as their Vassal and Feudary by this Charter must needs be voyd null as being most destructive to his Soveraignty Crown Regality and both Realms of England and Ireland and the ground of all Papal Encroachments complained of in this Statute of King Richard 7ly It is often adjudged resolved in our Law-Books Histories and the Statutes of 16 R. 2. c. 1. 4. 1 H 6. c. 5. 1 H. 6. rot Parl. n. 18. 21 R. 2. c. 9. 7 H. 4. 6. 25 H 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. 13. 35 H. 8. c. 1. 1 Mariae c. 1. Parl. 2. c. 1 2. 1 Eliz c. 13. 13 Eliz c. 1. 1 Jac. c. 1. That the Kings of England can neither by their Charters nor last Wills alter change entayl the hereditary discent and succession of the Crown of England or disinherit the heir thereof without the general consent of the whole Nation by special Acts of Parliament nor yet demise grant sell alien or pledge the antient Jewels goods lands rents revenues ships forts or ammunition of the kingdom without particular Acts of Parliament enabling them That all the Lands purchased by our Kings to them and their heirs either in Gavelkind Burrough English or other Tenure shall not descend to the Kings younger sons nor the Crown and Crown-lands where there are two daughters descend to or be divided between both as in cases of common persons but all Lands and possessions whereof the King is seised in Ius Coronae shall secundum jus Coronae attend upon and follow the Crown as all Wards presentations and debts to the Crown in the deceased Kings life-time do likewise follow and not go to the Kings Executors and shall all descend come to him or her alone to whom the Crown descends for the better support of the King kingdom and ease of the people from unnecessary Aydes As was resolved in the cases of Queen Mary Queen Iâ—ne and Queen Elizabeth against the Will of King Edward the sixth setling the Crown on Queen Iane contrary to the Common Law and two Acts of Parliament whereupon it was adjudged void though ratified under the Great Seal of England and by the subscription of all the Privy Council Nobles and Judges except Hales Therefore à fortiori our Lawes must null these Alienations of King Iohn and Pension to the Pope as void and illegal to all intents being never ratified by common consent in Parliament but oft protested against therein as invalid as the premises demonstrate 8ly It is declared adjudged by several Acts of Parliament and all our Law-books That Feofments or Obligations made by menaces force and Duresse are voydable and not obligatory in point of Law To instance in particulars of greatest publike concernment In the Grand Parliamentary Council about the year of Christ 536. under our famous British King Arthur wherein were sundry Kings Princes Dukes Earls Nobles Archbishops and Bishops present this King receiving a Letter from the Roman Senate and their Procurator Lucius Tiberius exacting the payment of the annual Tribute due to the Roman Senate and State from the Britons which the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar reserved and commanded them annually to pay to the Romans upon their conquest of them The Letter being read before the King and this Great Council they all unanimously adjudged That this Tribute was exacted exirrationabili causa because it was exacted by Julius Caesar who invited by the divisions of the old Britons arived in Britain and by force and violence subiected it to their power shaken with domestick commotions Now for that they obtained it in this manner by force Uectigal ex ea injuste ceperunt Nihil enim quod vi et violentia acquiritur juste ab ullo possidetur qui violentiam intulit Irrationabilem ergo causam praetendit quamvis Iure sibi tributarios arbitratur Whereupon they all peremptorily resolved not to pay id quod iniuâ—tum est being thus extorted by force The very case of the Rent Pension annual Tribute and Surrender of King John extorted from him both by force and fraud 2dly Upon this very ground King Harold receiving a Message from William the Conquerour before he actually invaded England That according to his covenant with and Oath made to him whiles in Normandy that the Realm of England should remain unto him after the death of Edward the Confessor he would deliver him the possession thereof to avoid effusion of Christian blood returned this answer to him That he made this Oath through force and fear of death whiles under his power in Normandy That a forced Oath is not to be kept For if an Oath which a Virgin had knowingly made concerning her body in her fathers house without her parents assent was revocable and void
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
salvos plegios praedictos H. Dublinensem T. Tuamensem Archiepiscopos T. Clokoren Episcopum quod sint coram vobis ad diem competentem prout videritis expedire ostensuri quare tenuerint placitum in curia Christianitatis de Laico feodo ipsius Comitis in Lagenia contra Prohibitionem nostram et poni similiter faciatis per vadium et salvos plegios praedictum Fernensem Episcopum quod sit coram vobis ad eundem diem ostensurus quare prosecutus est placitum illud in curia Christianitatis contra prohibitionem nostram Teste Com. apud Gloucestriam Vicesimo die Aprilis As these Archbishops usurped upon the Kings Crown in his Courts in Ireland so some Souldiers after the War ended seised some of the Bishops Castles and Lands in England contra Regis prohibitionem illorum voluntatem detinere praesumpserunt Inter quos Robertus de Gaugi post multas Regis admonitiones Castellum de Neuverk cum villa tota pertinenti is multis quae ad jus Hugonis Episcopi Lincolniensis spectabant ei reddere contradixit Whereupon the Protector being highly offended by the Kings command raised a great Army and marching thither in person with the King beseiged it till surrendered to the Bishop by composition he paying one hundred pounds to Gaugi for the victuals in the Castle without receiving any recompence for the Town which he burnt down before the seige In the 3d. year of King Henry the 3d. the Bishoprick of Leismore united formerly to the Bishoprick of Waterford by the Popes Legat in Ireland whiles the Bishop was in England at the consecration of the Bishop of Carlile Macrobius a Canon of Leismore procuring an election from the rest of the Canons pretending the See to be then voyd obtained the Legates and Kings royal assent to the election and restitution of the Temporalties whereof the Bishop of Waterford complaining to the King the King upon information of the fraud and circumvention nulled that election and commanded the Bishop to be put in possession of his Temporalties notwithstanding his former Writs REX Justic Hiberniae salutem Cum venerabilis in Christo Pater R. Waterford Episcopus de mandato Venerabilis Patris G. quondam Legati in Anglia ad partes boreales pro Consecrando Episcopo Carleolensi accessisset Magister R. de Bedeford cum Magistro Macrobio David Canonicis Lismor ad Domum P nunc Legatum in Anglia nos consilium nostrum advenisset protestans ostendens quasdem Literas quibus Capitulum Lismor eisdem M. D. Canonicis potestatem contulerat eligendi Pastorem ad Lismor Ecclesiam quam tunc nobis asserebant vacare Nos dictis eorum fidem adhibentes electioni de persona ipsius Magistri R. sic celebratae Regium praestantes assensum eo quod consona videbantur esse rationi quae fuerunt de eadem nobis proposita si veritate fuissent subnixa ipsum Magistrum R. in possessionem omnium bonorum ad Ecclesiam Lismor spectantium tanquam Electum praecepimus Sane cum postmodum reverteretur Episcopus ille Waterford Episcopus proponens nobis et Concilio nostro ipsum et praedecessores suos Lismor Ecclesiam cum suis pertinentiis tanquam partem Episcopatus Waterfordensis diutius tenuisse et possedisse exhibuit ipsi Domino Legato et concilio nostro literas Domini I. titulo Sancti Stephani in monte Celio Presbyter Cardinalis pridem in Hibernia Legato super Ordinatione eorundem Episcopatuum qui licet aliquando tempore Hiberniensi divisi extitissent ut dicebatur ostendit eos per ipsum Legatum coadunatos nec poterat sic aliquis in ejus praejudicium qui utrique praesedebat Ecclesiae in unam earum per falsi suggestionem ingressum fraudulenter promeruisse Nos igitur attendentes nunc ex ipsius relatione et operis exhibitione Majestatem nostram fallaciter per ipsum Magistrum R. esse circumventum qui Lismoriensem Ecclesiam nobis dixit esse vacantem et nos sic ejus electioni fecit tacita veritate consentire decrevimus ut cum mendax precator carere debeat impetratis nec ei praestare debeat patrocinium quod per fraudem et dolum nisus est a nobis et consilio nostro impetrasse memoratus Waterfordensis Episcopus in possessionem omnium bonorum praefatae Ecclesiae Lismoriensis inducat Quocirca Uobis Mandamus quatenus non obstantibus literis nostris quas ipse Magister R. de Bedeford suppressa veritate a nobis et Consilio nostro obtinuit quibus possessionem eorum quae ad Ecclesiam Lismoriensem pertinent est adeptus sine dilatione memorato Waterfordensi Episcopo plenam seisinam habere faciatis omnium possessionum quae ad ipsam Ecclesiam Lismoriensem noscuntur pertinere Teste H. de Burgo Justic apud Westmonasterium Septimo die Junii per Literas suas dominorum Winton Dunolm Episcoporum factas authoritate Domini Legati IDem in narratione mandatum est Archiepiscopo Cassel in fine mandatum est ei quod dictum Waterfordensem Episcopum Episcopatum Lismoriensem pacifice possidere permittat Teste ut supra Consimiles Literas habent Patentes direct eisdem A clear evidence of this Kings Supremacy in and over Bishops Bishopricks and Ecclesiastical persons causes within the Realm of England as also of the Popes Legates late Usurpations there to unite Bishopricks without the King The Bishop of Ely an inveterate Enemy both to King John and King Henry the 3d. going into France after Lewes his return thither reported King Henry to be dead and endeavoured to stir up a new Warre and rebellion against him whereupon the King Writ to the Pope to deprive him and bestow his Bishoprick by provision upon some other the Isle of Ely being a place of strength and receptacle of Lewes and the Barons heretofore in which Letter the King acknowledgeth the Popes great favours and assistance to him during his infancy puts himself and his Realm under the protection of his Wings and by way of complement stiles them the Patrimony of the Church of Rome to gaine the Popes readier Protection and assistance in his suits Wars SANCTISSIMO Patri ac Spirituali Domino suo H. Dei gratia summo Pontifici Devotus filius ejus H. sua post Deum gratia Rex Angliae c. recommendationem et devota osculapedum Incipiens respirare una cum regno nostro Majestatis vestrae nostrae et sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Patrimonio post tot Angustias et pressuras quae Clarae Memoriae Patrem meum et me postmodum invenerunt et ereptus per Dei gratiam et vestrae paternitatis sollicitudinem ab ipso laqueo venantium vitam meam cum tam aetas mea quam status et tranquillitas regni nostri in teneritate concordent nec ut ita dicam sunt in aetate perfecti sub tegmine Alarum vestrarum inenarrabili mihi clementia
Accessit praeterea ad majoris odii incentivum adventus nunciorum Regis quos Romam miserat qui Bullam Domini Papae Archiepiscopis Angliae et eorum Suffraganeis deferebant quae talem continebat sententiam videlicet quod Dominus Papa Regem Angliae plenae aetatis adjudicaverat quod ex tunc negotia Regni idem Rex principaliter cum suorum domesticorum consilio ordinaret Significavit etiam executoribus praelibatis Dominus Papa in Literis supradictis quatenus authoritate Apostolica denunciarunt Comitibus Baronibus Militibus et aliis uniâ—ersis qui custodias habebant Castrorum honorum et villarum quae ad Regis dominium speâ—tabant ut continuo visis Literis Regi illas redderent Contradictores autem per censuram Ecclesiasticam ad satisfactionem compellerent Unde pars maxima Comitum Baronum quorum corda concupiscentia possidebat hujusmodi praecepta indigne ferens bellumque suscitare disponens convenit in unum conspiratione absque follibus conflata supradictas occasiones praetendebat ut pacem Regni perturbaret Custodias autem jam dictas per admonitionem Archiepiscoporum et Episcoporum Regi reddere supersedit volens potius arma movere quam Regi satisfacere de praemissis Hereupon Anno Domini 1224. Rex Henricus ad natale tenuit Curiam suam apud Northamptonam praesente Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi cum suis Suffraganeis militia magna nimis Comes vero Cestrensis cum suis conspiratoribus apud Leicestriam tenuit festum suum tumens minas contra Regem Justitiarium intendens pro custodiis Castrorum ac terrarum quas idem Rex exigebat ab illo In crastino autem post Missarum solemnia Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis cum suis Suffraganeis Episcopis albis induti vestibus et candelis accensis excommunicaverunt omnes Regis et Regni perturbatores et Sanctae Ecclesiae et rerum Ecclesiasticarum invasores Deinde idem Archiepiscopus misit solemnes nuncios apud Leicestriam ad Comitem Cestriae et suos complices firmiter denuntians singulis et universis quod nisi in crastino resignarent in manus Regis omnia Castella et honores ad Coronam spectantia ipse et omnes Episcopi nominatim excommunicarent illos sicut a Domino Papa fuerat demandatum Tunc Comes Cestrensis ejus complices cum per exploratores edocti fuissent quod Rex majorem quam ipsi haberet numerum armatorum consternati sunt valde quia si facultas eis suppeteret in Regem propter Justitiarium potencer arma moverent Sed cum proprium conspexissent defectum verebantur dubium certamen mire et praeterea timuerunt Archiepiscopum et Episcopos ne forte illos excommunicarent nisi desisterent ab incoeptis Unde saluberimo usi consilio venerunt apud Northamptonam ad Regem universi et a Comite Cestrensi incipientes reddiderunt singuli Castella et municipia honores et custodias Regi quae ad Coronam spectare videbantur Thus the Popes Bulls and Bishops Excommunications which here accidentally produced the best effect I read of for want of power in the Barons to resist the Kings Temporal Sword Forces not this Ecclesiastical Thunderbolt were then made use of in most secular affairs and not only the Temporal Lords and Commons thereby subjected enthralled to the Popes and Prelates Jurisdictions but the King and Kingdom too upon meer politick and secular concernments and affairs The same year Falcatius de Brent seizing upon Henry de Braybroc one of the Kings Justices Itinerant for giving Judgement against and imposing Fines upon him in Assizes of Novel-disseisin for Lands and houses he had forcibly entred into in Luton and afterwards carrying him Prisoner to Bedford Castle The King Bishops and Barons then sitting in a Parliamentary Council at Northampton presently went and besieged the Castle Tunc Archiepiscopus Episcopi universi after a treble summons and admonition to surrender it withstood ipsum Falcatium omnes qui in Castelli praesidio erant candelis accensis excommunicationis mucrone percusserunt Which Excommunication they slighting and deriding manfully defended the Castle near 9. weeks space till taken by force Falcatius by judgement abjured the Realm for ever and lost all his goods After which Romanam Curiam adiit qui sciebat eam pro pecunia sibi de facili in quacunque causa propiciandam Sed machinatio sua non est a Deo permissa vel a sanctis quibus tot irrogavit injurias writes Matthew Westminster Yet Alexander de Savenesby sped better who was then consecrated Bishop of Chester Romae a Domino Papa Honorio die Paschae no doubt for current money King Henry to pacify and gratify the Archbishop of whose fidelity he formerly had cause to doubt writ this ensuing Letter to the Pope to give way for the return of his Brother Simon Langeton into England out of which it seems he was formerly banished as well as excommunicated and deprived of all his Ecclesiastical Benifices for adhering to Lewes and contemning the Popes excommunications DOmino Papae salutem Quod Venerabilis Pater S. Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus sirmiter fideliter nobis adhereat nos agenda nostra ea sollicitudine promovendo qua circa nos cuncta fuerint prospera cuncta tranquilla sicut paternitati vestrae notum fieri volumus tam praesentium attestatione Literarum quam nunciorum fidelium nostrorum viva voce Volentes igitur sicut debemus Sinceritate vestra digna vicissitudine respondere ad ea ex multiplici merito suo nitimur quae sibi grata fuerint accepta Verum quia placeret ei plurimum sicut humanum est Magistri Simonis fratris sui regressus in Terram nostram regressum ipsius moram libenter concederemus si ad hoc vester assensus preveniret quod ex multimoda affectione sicut decet exoramus quia in nostra multorum magnatum fidelium nostrorum praesentia constitutus idem Archiepiscopus promisit manucepit quod regressio ipsius sive mora nobis vel Regno nostro in nullo erit damnosa Beneplacitum igitur voluntatis vestrae quam circa hoc expectandum duximus recurrentibus sanctitatis vestrae Literis nobis petimus intimari Teste meipso apud North. xix die Decembris Coram H. de Burg. Justic Bathon Surr. Episcopis I cannot finde that the Pope consented to this request esteeming it very dangerous for this firebrand to return or continue in England in this juncture of Affaires What a Power the Pope then usurped in making and commanding Truces between England and France in which cases he frequently interposed his advice and Papal Authority upon request and sometimes by meer intrusion will in part appear by this Record REX Venerabilibus viris Amicis in Christo Charissimis Episcopo Senon Episcopo Silvanectenis salutem Paternitati vestrae referimus de hiis quae de Mandato Domini Papae nobis
nobis gratiam de Iuramentis praestandis coram Justiciariis nostris de praecepto nostro itinerantibus ab instanti Adventu Domini usque ad vigiliam sancti Thomae Apostoli a principio septuagesimae usque ad Dominicam qua Cantatur Isti sunt dies duntaxat in causis subscriptis videlicet in Assisis ultimae praesentationis de Morte Antecessoris Novae disseisinae de Magna Assisa Inquisitionibus quae de terris emergent coram eisdem Justiciariis nostris vel per Judicium vel de Consensu partium Ita quod haec concessio tantum hoc anno durabit usque ad diem Dominicam supradictam Nos per has Literas Patentes eis protestamur quod haec concessio nobis ad praesens facta usque ad diem dominicam praedictam non trahetur ad consequentiam post diem eundem In cujus rei Testimonium eidem Domino Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo dedimus has Literas nostras Patentes sigillo nostro signatas Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo Quarto die Novemb. Anno regni nostri Octavo This restraint continued unlesse specially dispensed with till abolished as to these Actions by the Statute of 3. Ed. 1. c. 48. or 50. as some distinguish it being a very high usurpation upon the Justice Rights Prerogative of the King and prejudicial to the subjects Our Kings by reason of their manifold affaires in the Court of Rome relating to their own transactions Warres Treaties Realms and Correspondences with the Pope and other forreign states usually constituted sometimes general othertimes special Proctors by their Letters Patents to implead and defend in their names and rights all matters there depending for or against them of which there are many different formes and praesidents in our Records take this the shortest of any for one DOmino Papae Salutem Dilectos fideles nostros Magistrum Stephanum de Lucy G. de Crancumb Militem Constituimus Procuratores in Curia vestra ad impetrandum et contradicendum In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras Patentes fieri fecimus duraturas usque ad festum sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno c. Octavo Teste meipso apud London Duodecimo die Decembris coram H. de Burg. Justiciario Bathonensi Saresburiensi Episcopis King John had granted a Pension of 50. Marks by the year to Stephen a Cardinal in Rome to promote his affairs there King Henry the 3d. withdrew it whereupon Pope Honorius sent this impotunate Bull to the King to continue this pension to him for the good service he had done his father and him and which he might do him for the future with menaces to crosse him in his designes and proceed rigorously against him if he refused to continue this salary By which we may clearly discern that our Kings could do nothing at Rome in their affairs but by granting pensions and mony both to the Pope and Cardinals HONORIVS Episcopus servus servorum Dei Charissimo in Christo filio Illustri Regi Anglorum salutem Apostolicam benedictionem Etsi beneficiorum collatio principaliter de gratia provenire habeat liberali gratia tamen in justitiam transeunte nequeunt revocari collata quin utraque manifeste ledatur Quare honori suo consulit liberalis cum donata munifice nulla patiens poenitudine deformari ea solvit hilariter libenter cum nonnunquam affectus effectui praeferatur Sane dilectus filius noster Stephanus sancti Adriani Diaconus Cardinalis exposuit coram nobis quod cum Clarae memoriae Pater tuus ei adhuc in minori officio constituto Annuum redditum Quinquaginta Marcarum contulerit tu eum sibi quod non decuit hactenus subtraxisti licet ut eum sibi exolveres te rogantes pluries moventes etiam per alium secerimus commoveri Nihil tamen nobis exinde respondere curasti Qui si beneficia quae faelicis recordationis Innocentius Papa praedecessor noster patruus ejus patri tuo contulit recoleres ut deceret attenderes grata obsequia quae tibi dictus Cardinalis impendit potèst impendere in futurum multo majora sibi deberes offerre ne dum quod debitum subtraheres requisitus quod sine turpatione gratiae praecedentis turbatione subsequentis Justitiae nec non absque offensa nostra non poteris retinere Ut igitur ex iteratione precum expressius agnoscas precantis affectum Serenitatem tuam rogamus monemus hortamur sicut iterum sic attentius quatenus prudenter advertens quod dona gratiae sine poenitentia debent esse dicto Cardinali subtractum redditum facias sine aliqua difficultate persolvi Ita quod de Justitia gratiam sibi faciens ipsum ad devotionem tuam reddas merito promptiorem nos tuam debemus munificentiam commendare alioquin praeter id quod ipsum a tua devotione perturbans rem amittes meritum nos qui eidem in suo jure deesse non possumus cui potius volumus gratiam impertiri aliter exinde contra te procedere compellemur potuissemus procedere Nisi nuntii tui nunc apud sedem Apostolicam existentes aliud suasissent Dat Latteran 4. Kal. Martii Pontificatus nostri Anno Octavo In dorso Scribendae quia redditu annuo Stephan de sancto Adriano The like Bull verbatim and of the same date he directed Dilectis filiis Nobilibus viris Huberto de Burgo Justiciario Willielmo Brigwer Consiliario illustris Regis Anglorum concluding it thus Quocirca Nobilitati vestrae per Apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus dictum Regem ad hoc moneatis attentius efficaciter inducere procuretis So importunatly eager were these Roman Harpyes to detain all pensions once granted by the King though determined by King Johns death who granted them not binding his successor in Law or conscience to continue them The Pope and See of Rome reaping much advantage by addresses from England the King of France putting some stop to the King of Englands Messengers free passage to Rome through his territories thereupon Honorius dispatched this Bull to his Legate in France to remove this obstuction as very prejudicial to his interest the originals both of the former and this Bull I found in the Tower HONORIVS Episcopus servus servorum dei Dilecto filio R. sancti Angeli Diacono Cardinali Apostolicae sedis Legato salutem Apostolicam benedictionem Cum hii qui ad Apostolicam sedem accedunt absque ipsius Injuria nequeant impediri discretioni tuae praesentium Authoritate mandamus quatinus provideas Efficaciter quod Nuncii Charissimi in Christo filii nostri Henrici Regis Anglorum Illustris ad nostram praesentiam venientes transitum habeant per Regnum Franciae veniendo ac redeundo securum habens super hoc cum Charissimo in Christo filio nostro Lodovico Rege Francorum illustri tractatum studens ita disponere cum eodem quod
Archiepiscopi nonnulli et Episcopi et alii Ecclesiarum Praelati sunt absentes in eorum absentia vobis respondere non possumus nec debemus quia si id facere praesumeremus in praejudicium omnium absentium fieret Praelatorum Et his dictis venit Johannes Mareschallus et alii nuntii Regis ad omnes Praelatos qui de Rege Baronias tenebant in capite destinati districte inhibentes ne Laicum feudum suum Romanae Ecclesiae obligarent unde a servitio sibi debito privaretur A just and prudent action in the King to preserve the old Rights of his Crown Kingdom against all Papal and Prelatical Usarpations Haec autem cum Magister Otto intellexisset statuit his qui aderant diem ibi in media quadragesima dum ipse procuraret Regis adventum absentium Praelatorum ut tunc negotium sortiretur effectum Sed illi absque Regis et aliorum qui absentes erant assensu praefixum diem admittere noluerunt unde singuli ad propria sunt reversi And so by delayes defeated this Papal design in England The like proposals the Pope by his Legate made to the King and Bishops of France at the same time thus related by Mat. Paris and pertinent to our History HOc eodem tempore venit Magister Romanus ad partes Gallicanas a Domino Papa missus ut ibi Legationis officio fungeretur Quo cum pervenisset fecit convocare Regem Francorum cum Archiepiscopis Episcopis Clero Gallicano ad Concilium cum Comite Tholosano pro quo specialiter ad partes illas missus fuerat sicut sequens relatio declarabit Convenerunt igitur ad Bituricam Civitatem ad Concilium Lugdunensis Remensis Rothomagensis Thuronensis Bithuricensis Anxianensis Archiepiscopi Burdegalensis vero Romae fuit Narbonensis Ecclesia vacabat Convenerunt igitur novem provinciarum Suffraganei circiter centum cum Abbatibus Prioribus singulorum procuratoribus Capitulorum mandatum summi Pontificis audituri Sed quoniam Lugdunensis Archiepiscopus vendicabat sibi primatiam super Archiepiscopum Senonensem Rothomagensis super Bithuricensem Anxianensem Narbonensem eorum Suffraganeos timebatur de discordia ideo non fuit sessum ut in Concilio sed quasi in Concilio Quibus sedentibus lectis in publico Legationis Literis to divert them from this businesse apparuerunt Comes Tholosanus ex una parte Simon de Monte forti ex altera qui petiit sibi restitui terram Reimundi Comitis Tholosani quam Dominus Papa Rex Francorum Philippus sibi Patri suo contulerunt exhibens supra donatione facta utriusque Papae scilicet Regis munimenta Cumque hinc inde fuisset plurimum altercatum about this private businesse praecepit Archiepiscopis singulis Legatus tunc praesentibus ut convocatis seorsum unusquisque Suffraganeis cum eis deliberarent super negotio praefato traderent Legato consilium suum redactum in scripto Quo facto Legatus excommunicavit omnes qui super hoc sua consilia revelarent dicens se ea velle Domino Papae significare Francorum Regiostendere POst haec Legatus dedit in dolo procuratoribus Capitulorum licentiam ad propria revertendi retentis tantum Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus simplicibus Praelatis Unde non immerito timuerunt ne procurata eorum absentia qui majoris prudentiae erant experientiae prae multitudine potentiores ad contradicendum aliquid statueretur in praejudicium absentium Praelatorum Quocirca dicti procuratores post deliberationem diutinam miserunt ad Legatum procuratores Metropolitanarum Ecclesiarum qui coram eo sic allegaverunt Domine audivimus quod habetis Literas speciales a Curia Romana de exhibendis praebendis in omnibus Ecclesiis Conventualibus sive Cathedralibus Quocirca multum miramur quod non in hoc Concilio proposuistis eas nobis audientibus quos specialiter tangunt Unde rogamus in Domino ne istud scandalum oriatur per vos in Ecclesia Gallicana scientes quod sine maximo scandalo et inaestimabili damno non posset hic ad effectum perduci Quia esto quod aliquis assentiret nullus esset ejus assensus in rebus quae omnes tangunt cum fere omnes majores et generaliter omnes subditi necnon et ipse Rex et omnes Principes parati sunt contradicere et resistere usque ad Capitis expositionem et omnis honoris privationem praesertim cum videatur imminere propter hoc scandalum subversio Regni et Ecclesiae generalis Ratio autem nostri timoris est quod cum caeteris Regnis non habuistis sermonem et quibusdam Episcopis praecepistis et Abbatibus ut cum praebendae vacaverint ad opus Domini Papae reservarent HIs auditis cum niteretur Legatus persuadere ut omnes consentirent ostendit tunc primo Domini Papae authenticum in quo exegit a singulis Ecclesiis Cathedralibus duas praedendas unam a Capitulo et alteram ab Episcopo Et in Coenobiis similiter ubi sunt diversae portiones Abbatis scilicet et Conventus duas exegit praebendas unam ab Abbate et aliam a Conventu aequali facta distributione bonorum suorum a Conventibus quantum pertinet ad unum Monachum sicut ipse interpretatus fuerat Legatus et ab Abbate tantundem Tunc allegavit commoda quae possent inde provenire illud videlicet quod amoveretur scandalum a Romana Ecclesia quae mater est omnium Ecclesiarum concupiscentia scilicet quae radir est omnium malorum cum nullus pro aliquo negotio in Curia Romana faciendo aliquid offerret vel aliquis oblata reciperet A very prevailing argument to redeem expiate one Symoney and Extortion by and with another To which this memorable answer was returned AD hoc respondit procurator Archiepiscopi Lugdunensis Domine nullo modo volumus esse sine amicis in Curia largitate donorum Alii aeque sua incommoda allegabant damna scilicet rerum consiliorum auxiliorum obsequiorum in hunc modum Erit enim in qualibet Diocaesi vel ad minus in provincia nuntius unus continuus procurator Romanus qui non vivet de proprio sed graves exactiones procurationes exiget ab Ecclesiis majoribus forte minoribus ut nullus remaneat impunitus nomenque procuratoris habens Legati officio fungetur Item dixerunt imminere turbationes Capitulorum forte enim demandaret Dominus Papa cum vellet procuratori suo vel alii ut vice sua interesset electionibus qui eas turbaret Et sic lapso tempore devolveretur electio ad Curiam Romanam quae in omnibus vel pluribus Ecclesiis Romanos poneret vel tales qui eis plurimum essent devoti Et sic nullae essent partes indigenarum Praelatorum vel Principum cum multi sint viri Ecclesiastici qui potius Curiae Romanae quam Regi
attendens fidelitatem qua ipse Regi tenebaris astrictus adhuc quoque teneris cum ab ea ut creditur te nequaquam absolveret nulla famis nulla obsidionis coactus angustia violasti contra Iuramentum quo te ad illam servandam astrixeras famae ac salutis tuae prodigus veniendo Cum igitur totiens pecces quotiens facis contra fidelitatis Iuramentum tuum dicto Regi nos qui ex debito Pastoralis officii tenemur Deo de anima tua reddere rationem tam manifestum ipsius animae tuae periculum fine nostro dissimulare periculo non valentes prudentiam tuam sollicitandam duximus et monendam per Apostolica tibi scripta firmiter injungendo mandantes quatenus famae tuae providens et saluti ad fidelitatem ipsius Regis occasione ac excusatione cessantibus redeas ut teneris servesque sibi inviolabiliter praestitum Iuramentum Iuramento contrario non obstante si quod forsitan praestitisti cum illicitum fuerit et ideo non servandum salubres monitiones nostras taliter auditurus quod reconciliatus terreno Coelesti quoque reconciliari Domino merearis Sciens nos Venerabilibus fratribus nostris Aquen Vacaten Episcopis dilecto filio Arc. Dec. Vasaten per nostras Literas mandavisse ut nisi curaveris infra mensem post receptionem praesentium nostrum in hoc adimplere Mandatum ipsi te ad id per censuram Ecclesiasticam sublato appellationis impedimento compellant Tuergo sicut vir providus potius eligas errorem tuum humiliter satisficiendo corrigere quam illi pertinaciter insistendo inducere temetipsum in ejus necessitatis articulum de quo non facile te valeas expedire Dat. Reat Quint. Idus Januarii Pontificatus nostri Anno Decimo The consideration of this Bull the original whereof I found buried in rubbish in the White Tower may for ever refute the impiety and presumption of Popes absolving Subjects from their Oath of allegiance to their Soveraigns and discovers the nullity impiety and absurdity of such absolutions The same year the Pope by his Legate and Instruments published a Crossado in France against the Earl of Tholouse and Albigenses contrary to all rules of Justice Equity Christianity thereupon inhibited the King of England to invade the French Kings Territories whiles imployed in this War Thus related by Matthew Paris PEr idem tempus facta est praedicatio in partibus Gallicanis a Legato Romano generaliter ut omnes qui possent arma movere se cruce signarent super Comitem â—holosanum populum ejus qui omnes Haeretica foeditate dicebantur infecti Ad ejus quoque praedicationem multitudo maxima Praelatorum Laicorum crucis signaculum susceperunt plus metu Regis Francorum vel favore Legati quam zelo justitiae inducti Uidebatur enim multis abusio ut hominem fidelem Christianum infestarent praecipue cum constaret cunctis eum in Concilio nuper apud Civitatem Bituricam habito multis precibus persuasisse Legato ut veniret ad singulas terrae suae Civitates inquirens a singulis articulos fidei et si quempiam contra fidem inveniret sentientem Catholicam ipse secundum judicium Sanctae Ecclesiae justitiae ex eis plenitudinem exhiberet Et si Civitatem aliquam inveniret Rebellem ipse pro posse suo eam cum habitatoribus suis ad satisfactionem compelleret Pro se ipso autem obtulit si in aliquo deliquit quod se fecisse non recoluit plenam Deo et Sanctae Ecclesiae satisfactionem ut fidelis Christianus et si Legatus vellet etiam fidei examen subiret Haec quoque omnia Legatus contempsit nec potuit Comes Catholicus gratiam invenire nisi pro se et Haeredibus suis Haereditatem suam deferens abjuraret Such was this Popes and his Legates Tyranny Injustice Cruelty in this age and case Rex vero Francorum ad ejusdem Legati exhortationem cruce signatus noluit expeditionem bellicam promovere nisi Literis prius a Domino Papa impetratis ad Regem Anglorum inhibitoriis ne sub poena excommunicationis Regem Francorum inquietaret vel arma contra eum moveret de aliqua terra quam in praesenti possidebat sive juste sive injuste dum idem Rex esset in servitio suo et Ecclesiae Romanae ad exterminandum Haereticos Albigenses et eorum fautorem et complicem Comitem Tholosanum sed eidem Regi ad exaltationem fidei consilium et auxilium impendere non tardaret Et his ita gestis Rex Francorum Lodovicus Legatus omnibus cruce signatis diem statuerunt peremptorium ut in Ascensione Domini apud Lugdunum cum equis armis sub poena excommunicationis venirent ipsos ad expeditionem propositam sequuturi In the mean time the Pope by his Tyrannical Usurped power sent prohibitory Letters to the King of England to stop his intended Military Voyage into France to recover his just Rights Whereupon REX Anglorum interea qui ardenti desiderio sitiebat ad partes transmarinas hostiliter transfretare Convocatis Consiliariis suis fecit recitari Literas sibi a Domino Papa transmissas quaerens ab eis consilium quid super tali inhibitione sibi foret agendum Placuit itaque Praelatis et Magnatibus universis ut differretur negotium desideratum donec constaret de Rege Francorum qui tam difficile opus et propositum habebat adeoque sumptuosum quem res esset exitum habitura Such an awfull power had the Pope then encroached over the King Bishops and Nobles of the Realm that they durst not incurre his displeasure by disobeying his Inhibition though never so illegal and unjust Richard de Marisco Bishop of Durham dying suddenly at Peterborough Abby as he was posting to London with a great Troop of Lawyers to prosecute his suits against the Monks of Durham thereupon they bestowed this Epitaph upon him worthy all ambitious Prelates consideration Culmina qui cupi tis laudes pompasque siti tis Est sedata si  si me pensare veli  Qui populos regi  memores super omnia si  Quod mors immi  non parcit honore poti  Vobis praeposi  similis fueram benè sci  Quod sum vos eri  ad me currendo veni  The Monks out of their malice to him and King John feigned this Monkish Vision concerning both their Torments in Hell for oppressing the Cistercians and taking their Wools from them by this Bishops advice which I shall here insert because it hath relation to King Johns death poysoned by a Monk of this Order DE hoc quoque Episcopo non credimus fore tacendum quod circa biennium ante mortem ejus Rex quondam Anglorum Johannes apparuit in visione nocturna cuidam Monacho de Sancto Albano apud Thinemuam tunc commoranti qui familiaris
of Bishopricks falling voyd in Ireland during their vacancy to satisfy a debt owing him by the King till his debt should be fully payd REX Justiciario Hiberniae salutem Sciatis quod conceffimus Uenerabili Patri H. Dublin Archiepiscopo Custodiam omnium Archiepiscopatuum et Episcopatuum quos de caetero vacare contigerit in Hibernia ad percipiendum fructus et exitus inde provenientes quamdiu vacaverint per manum Ueneravilis Patris I. Fernensis Episcopi et dilecti et fidelis nostri G. de Turrevil Archid. Dublin donec debitum quod eidem Archiepiscopo debemus de praedictis fructibus et exitibus ei plene solverimus Cum autem soluto debito inde quieti fuerint praedicti Episcopus et G. de Turrevil exitus et fructus ab hujusmodi Archiepiscopatibus et Episcopatibus vacantibus provenientes ad opus nostrum reservent inde ad Scaccarium nostrum Dublin respondeant quam diu nobis placuerit Et ideo vobis mandamus quod cum contigerit Archiepicopatus vel Episcopatus aliquos in Hibernia vacare permittatis praedictum Episcopum Fernensem et G. de Turrevil de fructibus et Exitibus inde provenientibus libere et sine impedimento disponere ad respondendum inde praedicto Archiepiscopo et nobis postquam debitum ipsius Archiepiscopi persolutum fuerit sicut praedictum est In cujus c. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Undecimo die Maii. By this Patent the Kings right to retain and dispose of the Temporalties and profits of all the Bishopricks in Ireland during their vacancy towardes the payment of debts or otherwise is most fully evidenced What power the Pope then obtained in promoting ratifying Truces made between the Kings of England and France when accorded and reduced by them into certainty this Record will intimate VEnerabili in Christo Patri R. Dei gratia titulo sancti Angeli diacono Cardinali Franc. Legato H. c. Rex Angliae c. salutem sinceram in Domino dilectionem Grates paternitati vestrae referimus super Literis vestris quas nuper per dilectum familiarem nostrum Abbatem de Cliva transmisistis de mandato quod idem Abbas ex parte vestra ore nobis exposuit Sane quamuis per eundem quondam illum ad vos misimus vestrae paternitati significassemus quandam pacis formam illustrem Regem Franciae nos ineundam idem reversus in nullo nos reddidit certiores de dicta forma a praedicto Rege Franciae approbata vel etiam an illi esset adhuc patefacta Et quoniam ad sedem apostolicam super tanto Negotio non expedit mittere sub incerto ad vos mittimus praedictum Abbatem dilectum fidelem nostrum Magistum W. de Cantilupo rogantes quatenus nos certificetis per eosdem quae forma certa pacis Regi placuerit memorato ut sic demum Nuncii certi Romam mittantur qui negotium illud sub certa forma procurent secundum quod a partibus providebitur melius eidem negotio convenire Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium sexto die Februarii That all elections to Bishopricks in Ireland ought to be made by the Kings precedent License to elect or else they were absolutly voyd will evidently appear by this memorable Patent though ratifying a special election for certaine causes made without it with some cautions REX Capitulo Lethlin Clero ejusdem Dioc. salutem Licet Electiones quae assensu nostro irrequisito celebratae fuerint in Eclesiiis Cathedralibus quae de nostra sunt advocatione nullius esse debeant momenti et pro nulla reputari et post transitum piae memoriae R. quondam Lethlin Episcopi non optenta prius licentia nostra ad eligendum vobis Pastorem processeritis propter quod merito quantum ad nos nulla debeat esse Electio vestra Uolentes tamen ad praesens de gratia nostra et pro honestate W. Archidiac Lethlin Electi vestri vobis parcere Electioni factae de ipso in Episcopum Lethin regium Assensum praebere duximus et favorem Ita tamen quod prius Literas vestras fieri faciatis patentes Iustic nostro Hiberniae porrigendas de petita a nobis eligendi licentia ne futuris temporibus nobis aut Haeredibus nostris in Electione consimili praejudicium valeat generari In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras Patentes vobis mittimus Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Decimo Quarto die Novembris Anno regni nostri Decimo Tertio This dispensation though qualified in this manner had this ill consequence that it encouraged many Chapters and Covents in Ireland to proceed to elections without any precedent License from the King and to procure a subsequent approbation or License afterwards as subsequent Records will evidence So dangerous is it for Kings to connive at or dispence with such Incroachments upon their prerogatives especially in case of ambitious covetous proud Prelates and self-willed refractory Clergymen It seems there arose a question in Ireland in the 14th year of King Henry the 3d. whether Tithes should be payd of Fish in Ponds especially such as belonged to the King who by his Ecclesiastical Soveraign power resolved and ordered they should be payd and so declared by this Patent MAndatum est Abbatibus Prioribus Comitibus Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burg is omnibus infra Archiepiscopatum Dublin quod non expectato mandato Regio vel assensu de Gurgitibus Piscariis Ecclesiis in quarum Parochiis sunt Praedicti Gurgites vel Piscariae decimas solvant quia Rex non vult in periculum animae suae hujusmodi decimas detineant Teste meipso apud Portesmue Decimo Nono die Aprilis Anno c. Decimo Quarto You heard the year before of the Popes malicious slanders and persecutions of the Emperour Frederick with excommunications fire and sword of his endeavours to exact monyes and Tenthes in all places especially in England to carry on the war against him and King Henryes Proctors promise to gratify him therein for promoting his Chancellour Richard to the Archbishoprick of Canterbury and vacating the Monks election which he put in vigorous execution this year publishing many libels aginst the Emperour to alien mens affections from him which our Historians thus relate VEnit eodem tempore in Angliam Magister Stephanus Domini Papae Capellanus nuncius ad Regem Angloruus missus ut colligeret decimas Domino Papae a nunciis ipsius Regis Romae promissas ad guerram suam sustinendam contra Imperatorem Romanorum susceptam Audierat enim idem Papa de Imperatore praefato multa detestanda quae faciebat contra legem Christianam quorum tenorem in scriptum redigens per diversas orbis partes literis Apostolicis publicare curavit Proposuit autem contra eum imprimis quod in die Annunciationis beatae Mariae cum esset excommunicatus intravit
vel post et inquisitionem quam inde faceretis nobis scire faciatis per Literas vestras Patentes Teste c. Of which more in due place As the King by his Ecclesiastical Prerogative and Laws determined those to be Bâ—stards who were born before Wedlock against the Popes and Bishops Canons who held them legitimate and inheritable so he by the same Prerogative commanded all common Whores and Concubines of Priests then much in use by reason of their vow of chastity and single life which made them and Schollars most unchaste to be imprisoned and banished out of the University of Oxford by his Temporal Officers unlesse they had Lands therein and by Oath and other security gave good assurance for their chaste and honest demeanour for the future and not to resort to Clerks lodgings as appears by this memorable Writ REX Majori Ballivis suis Oxoniae salutem Sciatis quod pietatis intuitu concessimus quod omnes publicae Meretrices Concubinae Clericorum quas coepistis in prisona nostra detinetis eo quod contra probisionem nostram inventae fuerint in Villa vestra Oxoniae deliberentur sub tali forma Quod publicae Meretrices statim post deliberationem suam Villam nostram exeant Concubinae vero Clericorum tenementa habentes in eadem Villa si juramentum vobis praestiterint securitatem sufficientem vobis fecerint quod de caetero honestae se gerent non habiturae accessum ad Clericos pro quibus sic captae sunt detentae post deliberationem suam libere sine impedimento stent in eadem Villa ibidem morentur aliae vero domos aut possessiones in eadem Villa non habentes Villam exeant ibidem ulterius non moraturae Et ideo vobis praecipimus quod tam publicas Meretrices quam Concubinas Clericorum in forma praedicta deliberetis Teste Rege apud Westm Decimo die Julii If a Clerk or Beneficed Person were indebted to the King or incurred his just displeasure the King by his Prerogative Royal commanded the Bishop of the Diocesse to sequester all his Ecclesiastical Benefices till his debt was satisfied his displeasure remitted and the sequestration discharged by special Writ as in this following Record REX Venerabili in Christo Patri T. Norwicensi Episcopo salutem Sciatis quod remisimus Richardo de Sancto Johanne Capellano indignationem nostram ipsum in gratiam nostram recepimus Et ideo vobis mandamus rogantes quatenus omnia beneficia sua Ecclesiastica quae habet in Diocesi vestra quae occasione debitorum quibus nobis tenebatur sequestrari fecistis eidem Richardo restitui faciatis cum omnibus bonis suis in eisdem beneficiis inventis proventibus inde perceptis Teste Rege apud Kenington sexto die Julii How imperiously the Pope intruded himself into the Truces between Christian Kings in general you heard before in the Popes Bull for a general Crossado how far into these between the Kings of England and France these two ensuing Records will inform us REX c. Abbati Westm salutem Sciatis quod assignavimus vobis socium Magistrum Iohannem Blundum quem ad vos mittimus ut ipse una vobiscum assistat Venerabilibus Patribus P. Wintoniensi W. Exoniensi Episcopis in tractatu quem de mandato Domini Papae habituri sunt cum Domino Rege Franciae de Treugis Pace Ita quod super praemissis omnis habeatur tractatus in praesentia vestra sicut idem Magister plenius vobis dicet ex parte nostra Et ideo vobis mandamus rogantes quatenus laborem praedictum ad commodum honorem nostrum pro nobis subire velitis ita quod grates speciales a nobis inde reportare debeatis Teste Rege apud Gloucest xxv die Maii. Per ipsum Dominum Regem praesentibus Domino Cantuariensi aliis Episcopis HENRICVS Dei gratia Rex Angliae c. Venerabili in Christo Patri P. Wintoniensi Episcopo salutem Mittimus ad vos fratrem Mauric Templarium profecturum ex parte vestra Domini Exon. cum Literis nostris de salvo conductu ad Dominum Senon Archiepiscopum Episcopum Parisiensem quibus etiam significamus quod parati sumus parere mandato Domini Papae super pace formanda vel Treugis prorogandis inter Dominum Regem Franciae et nos Et ideo mittimus ad opus vestrum Domini Exoniensis Episcopi ut salvo secure possitis ad partes transmarinas accedere si fuerit necesse Rogamus igitur vos quatenus una cum praedicto Episcopo collega vestro quod vestrum est quod praedictum negotium deposcere videritis diligenter exequi velitis ut de voluntate nostra vobis conster scire vos volumus quod placet nobis ut si praedictae Treugae prorogari non possint usque ad Triennium prorogentur ad terminum quem poteritis optinere Et quia consilium petebatis a latere nostro vobis adhiberi Vobis significamus quod dilectos fideles nostros Philip. de Albiniaco Radulphum filium Nicholai qui ad praesens profecti sunt in Marchiam pro negotiis nostris sicut ipsi scitis vel aliquos alios de nostris quando necesse fuerit secundum quod a vobis accipiemus die loco quos nobis significabitis ad vos mittemus Teste Rege apud Wodestock Decimo die Maii. Eodem modo scribitur W. Exon. Episcopo The Mandate of this Pope specified in these two Records I conceive was grounded upon his universal command to all Christian Kings and States to forbear all Wars upon this occasion This insatiable turbulent Pope to extort monies under a pretext of Charity and Piety to rescue the Holy Land even whiles there was a Truce with the Sarazens to exhaust all others purses to fill his own and raise forces to suppresse the Citizens of Rome with whom he had then great contests about their priviledges issued out such an Antichristian Imperious Bull into England and other Countries as trampled the Rights Crowns Liberties of all Christian Kings Kingdoms Cities Clergymen and Christians too under his Papal feet and gave every Monk imployed in this design authority for money to dispense with Oathes and Vows made by his own Papal command exhortation and menaces witnesse this relation DUm talia mundialis rota volvendo perturbaret in partibus vicinis in Regnis Orientalibus sicut in Occidentalibus consimilis imo molestior inter Christianos misera fuit perturbatio Dominus enim Papa occasionem sumens a praedicta Imperatoris persequutione argumentosas extorsiones praecipue in Anglia excogitans et multiplicans Legatos sub specie simplicium nuntiorum potestatem tamen habentes Legatorum undique destinavit qui multifariam exegerunt pecuniam nunc praedicando nunc supplicando nunc praecipiendo nunc comminando nunc excommunicando
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
vel in alium de Ballivis nostris ferenda ad judicium inde proferendum sine dilatione procedatis dissesitorem praedictum amercientes secundum modum et qualitatem transgressionis disseisito seisinam restitui faciatis cum damnis suis ei inde adjudicatis Iudices vero qui spreta Prohibitione nostra in foro Ecclesiastico super dicto tenemento processerunt et hoc in Curia nostra recognoverunt et dictum Episcopum Clon contra Coronam nostram placitum illud et dignitatem nostram prosequendo capi et in prisona nostra salvo custodiri faciatis donec super tanto contemptu et tam enormi transgressione plenam et condignam nobis fecerint emendam In casibus consimilibus cum evenerint in fide qua nobis tenemini eodem modo vos habentes et processum observantes ita quod de jure nostro nihil per defectum vestrum nobis depereat Teste meipso apud Windes Anno Regni nostri xxix King Henry having the Patronage of the Priory of Lewes by reason of a Wardship issued this memorable Inhibition to the subprior and Covent not to permit any person whatsoever to present to any Church belongining to the Priory which was or should be voyd during the vacancy of the Priory upon pain to forfeit all they had REX Subpriori Conventui de Lewes salutem Quia ex certa Relatione fide dignorum intellexerimus quod existente domo vestra sine Priore sicut nunc est W. quondam Com. Warren fuit in possessione praesentandi ad Ecclesias de patronatu vestro quas in hujusmodi vacationibus vacare contingebat Idem jus modo residet penes nos ratione Custodiae Haeredis praefati Com. in manu nostra existenti Vobis firmiter inhibemus quod sicut omnia bona veâ—â—â—a quae in vestra tenetis potestate diligitis ad Ecclesias quâ— vacaverint postquam fuistis Acephali vel quas vacare continget ad instantiam cujuscunque nullatenus praesentare praesumatis Teste Rege apud Gudeford 27 die Januarii The Archbishops and Bishops of the Realm in this age could not make their last Wills and Testaments nor devise any of the Corne sowen or stocke or goods on their Bishoprickes nor their moveable or immoveable goods without the Kings special Patent grant and license authorizing them to do it and ratifying their wills against himself his heirs and successors as these two memorable Patents intimate The first of them to the Archbishop of York REX omnibus c. salutem Sciatis quod concessimus W. Eborum Archiepiscopo quod quandocunque voluerit libere licenter condere possit testamentum suum pro voluntate sua ordinare tam de bladis seminatis in terris Episcopatus sui Ecclesiae suae quam de omnibus aliis mobilibus suis similiter immobilibus personam suam ratione Ecclesiae suae seu ratione sui ipsius contingentibus Ita quod si de eo humanitus contingat quod nollemus executores Testamenti sui liberam habeant administrationem omnium praedictorum ad executionem Testamenti sui faciendam prout inde ordinaverit sine impedimento nostri Haeredum nostrorum Ballivorum nostrorum In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Woodstock 22 die Maii. The second is to the Bishop of Karlisle REX omnibus c. salutem Sciatis quod Testamentum quod W. Karl Episcopus condidit vel conditurus est quocunque tempore quacunque hora tam de bladis in terra quam de Wardis firmis omnibus suis mobilibus pro nobis haeredibus nostris gratum habemus acceptum illud concedimus confirmamus prohibentes ne aliquis Ballivus noster vel Haeredum nostrorum quae idem Episcopus reliquerit ad executionem Testamenti sui faciendam manum mittat vel in aliquo se inde intromittat vel aliquo modo Testamentum illud impediat quia tam Testamentum suum quam executores Testamenti sui cepimus in protectionem defensionem nostram haeredum nostrorum In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Windes 5. die Julii Pope Innocent the 4. was one of the first Popes who presumed to summon a General Council by his own Papal Authority without and against the Emperor and that purposely out of malice to excommunicate and depose him against all Laws of God and man for which end he sent abrode his Nuncio's and Letters as to other Kings and Prelates so particularly to the King of England and all Archbishops Bishops and other Prelates to summon them to a General Councel to be held by him at Lyons in France Anno eodem circa medium Quadragesimae venerunt Nuntij Domini Papae in Angliam de convocando Concilio generali tale mandatum Papale bajulantes INNOCENTIUS Episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis Abbatibus Prioribus per Angliam constitutis salutem Apostolicam benedictionem Dei virtus Dei sapientia cujus ineffabili subjecta sunt omnia Majestati a fundationis initio splendore virtutum suam illustravit Ecclesiam Et sic insignem reddidit singularis privilegio potestatis ut per ejus ministerium suum justitia consequatur effectum sedato bellorum turbine mundo possit tranquillitas provenire Hujusmodi enim praeeminentiam dignitatis dum nos reverenter attendimus quiregimini generalis Ecclesiae licet immeriti Divina providentia praesidemus reddimur corde solliciti quod tempestatis horror qua ipsa turbatur Ecclesia et religio Christiana conâ—utitur per nostrae provisionis auxilium caelesti pietate propitia propulsetur Hinc est quod nos ut ipsa Ecclesia perfidelium salubre consilium auxilium fructuosum status debiti possit habere decorem ac deplorando Terrae sanctae discrimini afflicto Romano Imperio propere valeat subveniri ac invenire remedium contra Tartaros alios contemptores fidei ac persecutores populi Christiani nec non pro negotio quod inter Ecclesiam et Principem vertitur Reges torrae Praelatos Ecclesiarum alios mundi Principes duximus advocandos Rogamus etiam devotionem vestram hortamur attente per Apostolica vobis scripta praecipiendo mandantes quatenus ad praesentiam nostram omni prorsus occasione postposita usque ad proximum festum sancti Johannis Baptistae personalâ—â—er venire curetis Ut ipsa Ecclesia ex vestra visitationis honore spirituale gaudium ex nostra industria consilium percipiat prosuturum Scituri quod nos dictum Principem in praedicatione nostra citavimus ut per se vel per suos nuntios in Concilio celebrando compareat responsurus nobis et aliis qui aliquid contra ipsum durerint proponendum et satisfactionem idoneam praestiturus De personarum autem evectionum moderato numero illam cum veniritis providentiam habeatis quod vestris Ecclesiis nimis non sitis onerosi
si quis Clericus multis et opimis redditibus abundans in Episcopum forte eligeretur ex indulgentia Papali intermeantiâ—us intercessoribus et muneribus tam redditus prius obtentos quam Episcopatum licenter cupiditatis brachiis amplexetur quod in electo Valentino Willielmo constat fuisse propalatum Necnon et alia nova sunt suâ—orta in Curia memorata quorum memoria Sanctorum corda lachrymabiliter cruentarunt for which neither this Pope nor his successors were ever once so much pricked at their stony hearts as to endeavour to reform them continuing their avowed shamefull practice till this very day notwithstanding many successive complaints against them Amongst other practices he made use of Croysadoes against the Saracens and Tartars published and promoted principally by the Friers Preachers and Minorites to pick the peoples purses to maintain Wars against the Emperor Frederick Whereupon Eo tempore Fredericus comperiens Papam abundare Anglico numismate posuit custodias insidias transitibus pontibus portubus ne quis aemulo suo Andegravio à Papa subsidium transportaret whom this Pope caused to be elected Emperor the Archbishop of Colen et cum eo multi Praelati et aliqui Laici muneribus Ecclesiae prodigaliter imo potius prodigialiter saginati qui partem Papalem conâ—ovebant adhering to him Fecit igitur Papa per Praedicatores Minores mutato habitu tum scripta consolatoria quà m alia juvamenta ad Andegravium transvehi For which other services he and Pope Gregory bestowed many large Priledges upon these Freers recorded at large by Mat. Paris where you may peruse them And notwithstanding the Tartars then invaded Hungary with a puissant Army forcing the King of Hungary and his Subjects to leave the frontiers and retire into fenced Cities and Castels who writ to the Pope for ayd against them ut sollicitè sibi totique Christianitati de tam formidabili peste provideret sed nec sic tamen aversus est Papalis impetus infrunitus quin pecuniae colligendae totis rictibus inhiaret especially in England and France not to War against the Tartars or Saracens but only against the Emperor whom he had Excommunicated Deposed against all Laws of God and man setting up an Intruder in his Imperial Throne Hereupon Anno sub eodem ortum est bellum multiforme in partibus Alemanniae ejus confiniis between the Emperor and Pontifician Party To maintain which War as he formerly published the forecited Decree Quod bona intestatoruÌ„ in usus ejus cederent and this hypocritical Decree made by him in the Council of Lyons De reparatione Terrae Sanctae negotio Crucis Afflicti corde pro deplorandis Terrae Sanctae periculis sed pro istis praecipuè quae constitutis in ipsa fidelibus noscuntur noviter accidisse ad liberandam ipsam Deo propitio de manibus impiorum totis affectibus aspiramus diffinientes sacro approbante Concilio ut ita Crucesignati se praeparent quod opportuno tempore universis insinuando fidelibus per Praedicatores nostrosque Nuncios speciales omnes qui disposuerunt transfretare in locis idoneis ad hoc conveniant de quibus in ejusdem Terrae Sanctae subsidium cum divina Apostolica benedictione procedant Sacerdotes autem alii Clerici qui fuerint in exercitu Christiano tam subditi quà m Praelati orationi ac exhortationi diligenter insistant docentes eos verbo pariter exemplo ut timorem amorem Domini semper habeant ante oculos ne quid dicant aut faciant quod aeterni Regis Majestatem offendat Et si aliquando lapsi fuerint in peccatum per veram poenitentiam mox resurgant gerentes humilitatem cordis corporis tam in victu quà m in vestitu mediocritatem servantes dissentiones aemulationes omnino vitando rancore ac livore à se penitùs relegatis ut sic spiritualibus materialibus armis muniti adversus hostes fidei securiùs praelientur non de sua praesumentes potentia sed divina virtute sperantes Nobiles quidam potentes exercitus ac omnes divitiis opibus abundantes piis Praelatorum monitis exhortationibus inducantur ut intuitu Crucifixi pro quo Crucis signaculum assumpserunt ab expensis inutilibus superfluis sed ab illis praecipuè quae fiunt in commessationibus conviviis nimiis sumptuosis abstinentes eas convertant in personarum illarum subsidium per quas Dei negotium valeat prosperari eis propter hoc juxta Praelatorum ipsorum providentiam peccatorum suorum indulgentia tribuatur Praedictis autem Clericis indulgemus ut beneficia sua integrè percipiant per triennium ac si essent in Ecclesiis residentes Et si necesse fuerit ea per idem tempus pignori valeant obligare Ne igitur hoc sanctum propositum impediri vel retardari contingat universis Ecclesiarum Praelatis districtè praecipimus ut siguli per loca sua illos qui signum Crucis deposuerunt resumere ac tà m ipsos quà m alios Crucesignatos quos adhuc signari contigerit ad reddendum Domino vota sua diligenter moneant ac inducant et si necesse fuerit per Excommunicationis in personas et Interdicti sententias in terras ipsorum omni tergiversatione cessante compellant Ad hoc ne quid in negotio Domini nostri Jesu Christi de contingentibus omittatur volumus mandamus ut Patriarchae Archiepiscopi Episcopi Abbates alii qui curam obtinent animarum studiose proponant commissis sibi populis verbum Crucis obsecrantes per Patrem Filium Spiritum Sanctum unum solum verum aeternum Deum Reges Duces Principes Marchiones Comites Barones aliosque Magnates necnon communia Civitatum Villarum oppidorum ut qui personaliter non accesserunt in subsidium Terrae Sanctae competentem conferant numerum bellatorum cum expensis ad triennium necessariis secundum proprias facultates in remissionem suorum peccaminum prout in generalibus Literis quas pridem per orbem terrae miserimus est expressum ad majorem cautelam inferius exprimetur He likewise sent his Agents who were Freers to raise monies for the pretended ayd of the Emperor of Constantinople by these new devises Eodem anno postquam Dominus Papa ad hoc Fratres Praedicatores diligenter exequendum constituisset Literas illud ministro Fratrum Minorum in Anglia direxit ut tam Fratres Minores quà m Praedicatores à via humilitatis paupertatis voluntariae quam se sectatores sunt professi avertens suos constitueret procuratores Literas districtum praeceptum Papale cum diversis articulis continentes Quorum unus tenor est ut ipse vel fratres sui inquirant de usurariis vivis eorum per usurariam pravitatem malè adquisitis ipsa colligant ad opus Imperii
Iusticiar quod accipiat a praedicto Capitulo per literas suas patentes cautelam quod alias non cedet in praejudicium Regis Et huc significatum est eidem Capitulo ut ab ipso licentiam petant eligendi I shall conclude the History of this year Anno 30 H. 3. 1246. with Matthew Paris his observation Transit igitur annus ille Terrae Sanctae suspectus Ecclesiae nocivus universali adversarius Imperio Regnis quoque Francorum et Anglorum depraedator Romanae Curiae infamis et turbulentus by reason of Pope Innocents intollerable Insolencies Rapines Oppressions Innovations Treasons which he prosecuted with greater vigor the next year Anno 1247. quiest annus Regni Domini Henrici 3. Regis 31. as the same Historian thus informs us Eodemque tempore urgente mandato Papali redivivo de importabili contributione praetacta ad quam Episcopi in generali Concilio clerum infoeliciter obligarunt fecit Dominus Rex Magnates suos necnon Angliae Archidiaconos per scripta sua Regia Londinum convocari Quo cùm pervenissent die praefixo Episcopi omnes such was their Treachery Timidity and Servility to the Pope whose interest they preferred before the Kings Kingdoms Churches and their own common liberty and publike safety sese gratis absentarunt ne viderentur propriis factis eminus adversari Sciebant enim corda omnium usque ad animae amaritudinem non immerito sauciari The Parliaments and Clergies Letters to the Pope and proceedings therein are formerly related Notwithstanding which Letters Pope Innocent sent several Freers Minorites and other Harpies with the power authority but not the Name of Legates into England Scotland Ireland and France to exact and levy monies to carry on his Wars against the Emperor which were generally opposed in most places thus related by Matthew Paris and others Dum fortuna praestigiosa mundo talibus illuderet fallaciis duo Fratres de ordine Minorum Johannes Alexander natione Anglici potestatem a Domino Papa obtinentes extorquendi pecuniam ad opus Domini Papae in Angliam ab ipso Papa destinantur Qui multis Bullatis Literis Papalibus armati sub ovino vellere lupinam rapacitatem palliantes post ad Regem simplici intuitu vultu demisso sermone blando pervenientes per Regnum vagandi postulabant auxilium ad opus Domini Papae charitatem petituri nullam se coertionem facturos asserentes Ex licentia igitur Domini Regis nihil sinistri super his meditantis dicti fratres à Curia Regis jam Legati sophistici donis Clericorum regalium superbientes Nobiles mannos obsidentes sellis deauratis falerati preciocissimis vestibus adornati calceamentisque militaribus quae vulgariter Heuses dicuntur saeculariter imo potius prodigaliter calceati calcarati in laesionem et opprobrium ordinis et professionis suae profecti sunt officio et tyrannide fungentes Legatorum et procurationes exigentes et extorquentes 20. solidos pro procuratione parum reputarunt Adeuntes igitur primo praecellentiores Angliae Praelatos pecuniam ad opus Domini Papae sub poena formidabili procaciter exigunt terminum responsionis vel solutionis nimis abbreviantes Literas Papales fulminantes ostendendo quas quasi cornua minacia protuletunt Et cum ad Episcopum Lincolniensem pervenissent qui semper ordinis eorum aemulator amator singularis adeo ut ad ordinem eorum propositum habuerat convolandi extiterat obstupuit vehementer videns talem fratrum Minorum monstruosam in habitu gestu necnon officio transformationem non enim de facili deprehendi potuit cujusnam ordinis jam essent vel conditionis Et cum sacros apices Papalis mandati eminus dejurantes praecipuè de credentia pecuniae nam parvam quantitatem sex millia videlicet Marcarum ex Episcopatu suo instanter exigebant Cui Episcopus non sine magno cordis stupore dolore respondit Frater haec exactio salva Papali auctoritate inexaudibilis et inhonesta est quia ad implendum impossibilis est nec me solum contingens imo totius Cleri et populi necnon et Regni universitatem Arbitror igitur temerarium et absurdum tibi certum super hoc inconsulta Regni communitate praecipitanter dando responsum tam arduo consilio ex negotio diffiniendo consentire Et he inde recedentes ad Ecclesiam Sancti Albani falerati transformati ut praedictum est pervenerunt non curantes ad solitum fratrum Minorum hospitium quod infra portam Curiae honestissimè cum omnibus pertinentiis aedificatum est ad opus specialiter Praedicatorum Minorum venire vel descendere in hospitio solenniori ubi scilicet Episcopi honorabiles viri declinant sunt recepti reverenter Et ecce sicut ab Episcopo memorato sex Marcarum millia exigebant ita quadragintas Marcas ab dicto Abbate ad opus Domini Papae instantissime sub magna poena et in brevi termino nisi ipsi ordinando providerent persolvendas postulabant Quibus cum Abbas eodem modo quo praedictus Episcopus respondit humiliter respondisset ipsi Fratres habitum cum gestu saecularem induentes equos suos nobiles ascendentes cum minaci murmure recesserunt Eisdemque diebus Dominus Papa apices suos authenticos per solennes Nuncios Praedicatores Minores misit ad omnes Franciae Praelatos sigillatim supplicans ut unusquisque juxta suam possibilitatem sibi unam quantitatem pecuniae accommodaret Et ipse proculdubio cùm respiraret quod cuilibet competeret redderet indubitanter Quod cum Regi Francorum innotuisset suspectam habens Romanae Curiae avaritiam prohibuit ne quis Praelatus Regni sui sub poena amissionis omnium bonorum suorum taliter terram suam depauperaret Et sic cum sibilo et derisione omnium Papales Legati sophistici quorum humeris hoc officium incumbebat inanes et vacui a Regno recesserunt memorato Et dum ima summis rota fortunalis sic commutaret Dominus Papa non credens sufficere ad pecuniam argumentose vindemiandam jam missos diversos numismatis collectores in Angliam Magistrum Marinum alterum Martinum Capellanum suum qui ex nominis sui impositione in hoc mundano mari piscatorem non hominum sed eorum possessionum prudenter elegerat destinavit ut aliis venantibus iste piscando miseros Anglos vel puniendo eminus inescaret vel fallendo cautius irretiret Nic igitur quamvis insigniis Legati non polleret potestate tamen Legati ut sic Domini Regis privilegio illuderetur fortius armabatur Illis quoque diebus missus est à Domino Papa Godefridus filius praefecti Romae electus Bethlimitanus Legatus in Scotiam nescitur ad quid cum ibidem fides Catholica vigeat incontaminata pax tam Cleri quà m populi
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
excepto quod Literas Domini Papae quas Walterus Mansell ei defert post ipsarum publicationem deponi fac penes Praedicatores Cassal Item consimiliter scribitur Ardmachan Archiepiscopo Priori fratrum Praedicatorum Ministro fratrum Minorum Provincialibus Hyberniae excepto quod de depositione Literae Papalis eis transmissae non fit mentio What great extortions oppressions the Laity and Clergy underwent not only in England but also in France by vertue of the Popes Bulls to raise monies to carry on Wars against the Saracens and Emperor too though a Christian Matthew Paris thus relates Et si aliae pecuniarum extorsiones per Regnum Francorum factae irrecitabiles dignae aeterno sint silentio unum tamen exemplum huic paginae duximus inserendum Notum est quod Dominus Francorum Rex ex permissione Romanae Ecclesiae per triennium decimam ab Ecclesia Regni Francorum emunxit tali conditione ut Papa tantundem in posterum ab eadem extorqueret ut Fredericum potentius expugnaret Cui tamen post primam triennii collectam scilicet suam Rex Francorum praemonitus volenti suam vindemiare multiformis emunctoris ars ut artem falleret in faciem contradixit hanc pretendens rationem quod nullo modo toleraret Ecclesiam sui Regni depauperare ad etpugnandum Christianos ad expugnandum vero incredulos aequanimius tolerari potuit et potius a laico quam sacerdote Preterea si alio proximo triennio depraedaretur irrestaurabili praedae quod tamen non curaret pateret Extorsit igitur pecuniam memoratam per quosdam Papae Ministrales ut efficacius ipsam exigeret et ut certius sciretur ad quantum pars Papalis ascenderet colligenda Vnde multorum corda dolore praecordiali cruentabantur maledicentium et imprecantium ut Prophetae Isaiae imo Dei vereficaretur sententia qui odio semper hactenus habuit rapinam in holocausto Vtinam haec rationis libra perpenderent Dominus Anglorum Rex frater ejus Comes Richardus alii Principes crucesignati turpibus emolumentis incumbentes Quamvis enim pium constat esse actum sanctae peregrinationis viatica tamen turpiter adquisita piae actionis coinquinat executionem Haec enim causa licet aliae forte non desint creditur fuisse jam descriptae confusionis Harum quoque in Franciae factarum extorsionum unam quia turpissimum duximus memorandum Contigit ut memoratus Papalis exactor obvium haberet unum Clericulum de Villa venientem aquam in vasculo cum aspersorio frustra panis data sibi pro aspersione â—quae benedictae bajulantem Cui Romanus insidiator ait ad quantum precium ascendit beneficium hoc tibi ab Ecclesia concessum per annum Cui clericus loquearum ignarus Romanorum respondit Ad viginti ut aestimo solidorum Cui Romanus jam se manifestans ait Hic ergo assurgunt ad fisci commodum per annum Viginti quatuor denarii scilicet duo solidi Et suffocavit ipsum pauperem ostiatim mendicantem dieens Redde Domino Regi quod debes Unde pro illa substantiola persolvenda cogebatur ille pauperculus multis diebus scholas exercens venditis in parvisio libellis vitam famelicam Codrinam protelare The sad effects of these impious Rapins and Croysadoes ending in the totall overthrow and destruction of the French army the Captivity of their King the mischief and confusion of the whole Kingdom yea in blasphemies against God and Christ himself Apostacy from the Christian Religion and detestation of these Papal Extortions Cheats are at large recorded by the same historian thus Epitomised by him Haec igitur lugubria postquam per aliquos ob Orientialibus partibus redeuntes ad audientiam Dominae Blanchiae Magnatum Franciae pervenissent c. tota Franciae dolorem induit confusionem tam Ecclesiastici viri quà m militares maerore querulo contabuerunt nolentes recipere consolationem Ubique enim patres matres suos filios pupilli orphani genitores consanguinei consanguineos amici amicos cecidisse conqueruntur Immutata est mulierum speciositas serta de floribus projecta sunt Cantilenae suspenduntur Instrumenta musica prohibentur Omne quoque genus laetitiae in luctum lamenta commutatur Et quod pejus est Dominum de injustitia redarguentes in verba Blasphemiae quae Apostasiam vel haeresim sapere videbantur prae mentis amaritudine et doloris immanitate sapientes prorumpunt Et multorum caepit fides vacillare Venetia quoque Civitas Nobilissima et multae Civitates Italiae quas inhabitant semi-Christiani in Apostasiam prolapsi essent nisi Episroporum et Sanctorum virorum religio sorum consolatione roborarentur Qui veraciter affirmabant ipsos occâ—sos jam regnare Martyres in Caelestibus nec modo velle pro totius mundi auro in hujus mundi valle tenebrosa degere Et sic vir quievit aliquorum non tamen omnium indign atio He addes Coeperunt igitur multi quos firma fides non roboraverat tà m desperatione blasphemiis quà m fame contabescere Et fides heu heu multorum coepit vacillare dicentium ad invicem Vt quid dereliquit nos Christus pro quo cui hactenus militavimus I am multoties nostris diebus victi confundimur hostes nostri imò Christi de nostro sanguine spoliis gloriantur triumphantes Primò apud Damiatam Civitatem istam quando Nili fluentis circundati compulsi fuimus Damiatam tanto sanguine adquisitam resignare Iterum non procul ab Antiochia Templi inclyta militia signifero detruncato victa confundebatur Iterum à Saracenis paucis annis avolutis apud Gazaram occubuimus à Comite Richardo quodam Anglico post redempti Posteà verò à Chorosminis ferè tota Christianorum universitas in Terra Sancta trucidabatur qui loca omnia quae dicuntur sancta polluentes destruxerunt Modo verò quod omnibus gravius est Rex noster Christianissimus miraculose suscitatus à mortuis cum tota Franciae Nobilitate ignominioso patet discrimini factus est nobis Dominus velut inimicus Et qui solet Dominus dici exercituum nunc proh dolor à suis hostibus tanquam multoties superatus aspernatur Quid nobis nostra devotio religiosorum orationes amicorum nostrorum prosunt cleâ—mosynae Nunquid melior est lex Machometi lege Christi Et sic deliramenta verborum ex fide titubante resonabant dies Quadragesimales plus poenales quà m poenitentiales deducebant Tales igitur fructus parturiunt rapinae depraedationes quas faciunt Magnates pauperibus multimodas injurias patientibus ut eorum marsupia repleantur permittente imo docente Ecclesia Romana quoties peregrinaturi ut Deo militent proficiscuntur Patet ergo luce clarius ex praemissis quantum Deo displicet quaestus talis qui de pauperum surgit
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
venerabilis vir Magister albertus Notarius vester nos ex parte vestra curiosè sollicitaret quod ipsius fratris nostri negotio circa praedictum Regnum adquirendum consilium auxilium impenderemus non immemores omnium bonorum gratiarum specialium quae multociens ab Ecclesia Romana suscepimus ut filii grati devoti acceptamus quod a Clero Regni nostri praefato Com. vel Haeredi suo negotium adquisitionis ejusdem Regni prosequenti competens auxilium impertiatur Salva nobis per omnia gratia vestra concessa et si placet concedenda ad negotium crucis quod assumpsimus exequend Teste Rege apud Westm 23. die Januarii Bishop Grosthead being suspended his Bishoprick this year by the Pope for opposing his provisions and trampling them under his feet as you heard before caused his Clerks to make a diligent inquiry to what an annual summe they amounted to who found them to exceed about 70. thousand Marks and treble the summs of the King ordinary revenues wherewith he inriched his kindred and attendants three times more then any his predecessors had done Ipso quoque Anno in tantum permissa est Romanorum avaritia et in tantum adeo ascendisse quod Episcopus Rob. Lincolniensis super hoc stupefactus fecit a suis Clericis diligenter computari et considerari alienorum proventus in Anglia per istum Papam scilicet Innocentium promotorum et inventum est et veraciter compertum quod nunquam aliquis praedecessorum suorum in triplo aliquos sui generis vel patriae tot ditaverit et quod iste Papa praesens videlicet Innocentius quartus plus Ecclesiam Universalem depauperaverat quam * omnes praedecessores a tempore Papatus primitivi prout manifeste patet in lugubri querimonia quam posuerunt Franci coram Papa pro suis intolerabilibus oppressionibus quae reducta est in scriptum Epistolae admodum prolixae As Matthew Paris addes in his Historia minori Redditusque Clericorum per ipsum in Anglia alienorum quos Ecclesia Romana ditaverat ad plusquam â—0 Millia Marcarum ascendit Bedditus Regis merus non ad ejus partem tertiam computatur As this Pope multiplyed his Provisions in England more then all his predecessors so did he likewise in France as the French agent told him to his face this year in the name of the whole Realm who by a pubilck letter and remonstrance thus protested against his intollerable innovations oppressions which they neither would nor could tollerate any longer Dicturus quod injunctum est mihi certè non multum temporis elapsum est ex quo Dominus Papa Alexander persecutionis cogente incommodo venit in Franciam confugiens ad subsidium inclytae recordationis Regis Ludovici patris Regis Philippi à quo benignè susceptus est stetit ibi diu fortè vivunt aliqui qui viderunt â—um ipse tamen in nullo gravavit Ecclesiam Gallicanam ut nec unam solam praebendam aut aliud beneficium ipse Papa dederit ibi sed nec aliquis praedecessor suus nec multi etiam de successoribus dederunt in sua Auctoritate beneficium aliquod usque ad tempora Domini Innocentii 3. qui primus aâ—sumpsit sibi jus istud in tempore suo Revera dedit multas praebendas et similiter post ipsum Dominus Honorius et Dominus Gregorius simili modo fecerunt sed omnes praedecessores vestri ut publice dicitur non dederunt tot beneficia ut vos solus dedistis c. as well in England as in France Wâ—â—â— therefore might Matthew Paris thus conclude this year in relation to England * Anglia vero ab alienigenis conculcata et multis Dominis inclinata suâ—que Regis sincera dilectione viduata extremis quoque subjacens conditionibus inconsolabiliter contabuit desperata Et quod gravissimum est diatim inter Ecclesiam et populum odium venenosum suscipit incrementum And here before I proceed further â— shall present you with the opinion oâ— our learned judicious Antiquary Sr. Roger Twysdâ—n of the Originall progresse of Papall provisions in England After his Relation of the deprivations of Anselme and William elected Archbishops of Canterbury and York by the Pope upon appeals An. 1136. and between 1142. and 1152. the two first Elections nulled by Papall authority in England he subjoynes Here I may observe that at first when even the Pope made void an Election he did not take upon him to appoint another in the place vacant but either sent to the Clergy of the same Church to chuse another as those to whom it appertained so did Eugeâ—us to York when Henry Murdac was chosen Innocentius 3d. when Stephen Langton or else the Bishoprick lay vacant as London after Anseline from 1139. to 1141. But Elections being with much strugling setled wholy in the Clergy and Innocentius 3. having by definitive sentence excluded the English Bishops from having any part in that of the Archbishop of Canterbury they becoming wholy appropriated to the Chapters and Cathedrals the Pope began to creep in ex concessa plenitudine Ecclesiasticae potestatis as hâ—speaâ—â— without aeny formality of choice to conferre not only Bishopricks but other Ecclesiastical promotions within the precincts of Dioceses by that meanes to fill the fat benefices of the Nation The first Archbishop of Canterbury promoted by this absolute power of the Church of Rome seemes to have been Richard Anno 1229. non electo sed dato ad Archiepiscopatum The French Agent in his Remonstrance to Innocent 4. attributes the beginning of these Collations to Innocent the 3. whose words forecited he recites at large with those of Matthew Paris By which it appears that great liberty the Pope took in conferring Ecâ—lesiastical preferments within the Diocesses of others took its rise from Pope Innocent 3. and as it seems to me not at the beginning of his time for Anno 1199. Gelardus Archbishop of St. Davids comming from Rome quia idem G. Menevensis Ecclesiae in Curia Romana se dicebat electum hoc ipsum cassavit Archiepiscopus alium sacravit Canonice electum though he afterwards bestowed on him a Church of 25. marks and this in a case the Pope had so earnestly estoused as he writes to the Bishops of Durham Lincoln and Ely si Archiepiscopus saepè dictum Gelardum consecrare differret ipsi Apostolica authoritate freti illum consecrare non differrent which yet the Archbishop as against the English Liberty did not doubt to oppose and disanull But this it continued not long for Honorius the immâ—diate successor to Innocentius showing such as served the Apostolick See and resided with it were worthy congruis beneficiis honorari and were therefore possessed of divers both in England and other parts which they did administer with so great care quod non minus
de Regno Siciliae contentarum tempus reservationis juris praefato filio nostro super dicto Regno per idem privilegium adquisiti authoritate vestra pro reformatione negotii Regni praedicti usque ad Kalendas Septembris proximas prorogavit asserens se potestatem non habere prorogandi ulterius terminum supradictum Et quia propter hoc alia agenda nostra Nuncios nostros ad vestram praesentiam ex parte nostra et Magnatum nostrorum in proximo transmittemus Sanctitati vestrae duximus supplicandum quatenus terminum illum usque adventum Nunciorum nostrorum praedictorum favorabiliter dignemini prorogare ut nobis munificentiae vestrae gratiam sentiamus more solito fructuosam Teste Rege apud Westm 27. die Julii In eadem forma scribitur Venerabili Cetui Cardinalium rogando quod favorabiliter annuere et erga Dominum Papam diligenter procurare dignentur ut prorogatio termini quam praefatus Magister Arlotus fecit in hac parte usque adventum Nunciorum Regis praedictorum ad Curiam prorogetur Ita quod Rex inde eis fortius astringatur ad merita gratiarum Teste ut supra The King having imployed the Bishop of Hereford to Rome in his businesse concerning the Realm of Sicily and authorized him to take up monies from Merchants in those parts and engage the King for it to prosecute that affair and he expending more monies and binding the King in more Obligations then he expected to foreign Merchants who dayly demanded monies from him he thereupon by advice of his Counsil sent this Writ to give him a speedy account of all monies and Obligations concerning that affair REX P. Herefordensi Episcopo salutem Cum dudum nobis agentibus in Wasconia mitteremus vos ad Curiam Romanam pro negotio Regni Siciliae et naremus vobis potestatem per Literas nostras ad pecuniam a Mercatoribus mutuo recipiendam pro expeditione negotii praedicti et pro expensis vestris multas vobis perdonationes debitorum quae nobis debuistis fecerimus Ac insuper quandam summam pecuâ—iae vobis commiserimus in Iocalibus in Barderoba nostra pro expensis vestris vos nihilominus ut intelleximus obligaftis nos diversis Mercatoribus in magna pecuniae quantitate pro expensis praedictis Et cum in adventu vestro in Angliam a Curia praedicta per multum tempus receperitis omnes exitus provenientes de pecunia Crucis et Decimae tam in Hiberniae quam in Diocesibus Hereford Wigorn. Coventr et Litchf pro expensis vestris factis in Curia praedicta per quod credebamus a praedictis Mercatoribus liberari et multi Mercatores ad nos venientes cum Literis nostris et vestris institerint penes nos pro pecunia habenda quam vobis mutuo tradiderunt de quo non modicum admiramur volentes super receptis et obligationibus vestris in hac parte plenius certioriari Vobis mandamus ex parte nostra mandatum de Consilio nostro firmiter injungentes in fide qua nobis tenemini sicut honorem vestrum omnia quae in Regno nostro habetis diligitis sitis in propria persona vestra ad nos London in quindena Sancti Michaelis instantis compotum vestrum reddituri de obligationibus et receptis vestris praedictis vel talem et tam sufficientem loco vestri mittatis qui vices vestras supplere et pro vobis sufficienter respondere valeat in hac parte ut audita computatione praedicta sciamus utrum per nos auâ— per vos satisfieri debeat Mercatoribus praedictis Scituri pro certo quod nisi hoc feceritis nos de bonis et catallis vestris in Anglia satisfactionem illam fieri faciemus Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium 28. die Julii The Pope for his own advantage to engage the King of England in his businesse and Wars for wresting the Kingdom of Sicily and Apulia from Manfred and the rightfull owners which his differences and Wars with the King of France obstructed pressed the King to and mediated a Peace between France and England of which the King gave him this account desiring his assistance for the compleating and ratification of the Treaty and League began between them by sending a special Legate into France for that purpose such as his Agents should nominate MEmorandum quod omnes istae Literae subscriptae tà m Clausae quà m Patentes de negotiis Romanae Curiae confectae fuerunt per Magistrum Rostandum qui illas secum portavit ad Curiam hoc totum factum ést de Consilio M. Comitis Leycestria R. Comitis Marescalli P. de Subaudia J. Comitis Warr. Johannis Mansell Thesaurarii Eborum Johannis filii Galfridi Petri de Monte forti aliorum de Consilio Regis REX P. Sancti Georgii ad Velum Aureum Diacono Cardinali salutem Cum pro arduis negotiis quae Regnum nostrum nos respiciunt venerabiles Patres Ebredun Taretas Archiepiscopos discretum virum Magistrum Rostandum Domini Papae Capellanum ad Romanam Curiam destinemus dilectionem vestram rogamus affectu quo possumus ampliori quatenus dictis Nunciis super hiis quae ex parte nostra vobis exponent fidem indubitatam adhibere velitis ipsos solita benevolentia in promovendis nostris negotiis adjuvantes Teste Rege apud Westm. primo die Augusti Consimiles Literae diriguntur unicuique Cardinali per se singulis procuratoribus caeteris amicis Regis in Curia Romana Et istae Literae sunt Clausae VEnerabilibus Patribus sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalibus Henricus Rex Angliae salutem cum omni reverentia honore Scimus multis infallibilibus documentis quod sacrosancta Romanae Ecclesia piissima mater nostra vigilanti studio propensiore cura considerat ea quae incolumitatem respiciunt Regni nostri quod ostendit evidentissime hiis diebus nam nuper per Religiosum virum fratrem Mansuetum Domini Papae Poenitentiarium Capellanum sedes Apostolica de quiete nostra sollicita nos multipliciter monuit induxit ut cum illustri Rege Franc. pacis foedera iniremus Nos igitur attendentes quod ex parte ista toti Christianitati nonnulla commoda per Dei gratiam poterunt provenire una cum dicto fratre Nuncios nostros sollempnes in Franc. curavimus destinare qui post tractatus varios certam formam pacis cum saepedicto Rege Franc. ordinarunt In qua licet in quibusdam nostra conditio aggravetur tamen ratum habemus et gratum quod est super hoc ordinatum Cum igitur toto mentis desiderio affectemus ut per providentiam sedis Apostolicae tractatus hujusmodi compleatur Sinceritati vestrae omni affectu quo possumus supplicamus quatenus quod circa tractatum pacis tam pie tam laudabiliter inchoastis feliciter consummare
die Maii. Ista Litera tradita fuit Willielmo Bonquer deportanda est Litera duplicata DOmino Papae salutem cum reverentia honore Super gratiis multimodis nobis Edmundo nato nostro maximè de Regno Siciliae aliis nos honorem nostrum contingentibus à vestrae Sanctitatis Clementia favorabiliter impensis vobis ad gratiarum actiones assurgimus cum devotione speciali vestrae Paternitati significantes quod pax inter Regem Franciae illustrem nos aliquantulum cepit dilationem à qua magna pars subsidii praedicti Regni Siciliae dependebat Super quo Sanctitati vestrae attentius supplicamus quatenus ob causam praedictam alias quas dilectus fidelis noster W. Bonquer Miles Marescallus noster vobis ore tenus ex parte nostra plenius exponat memoratam gratiam vestram apud nos praedictum natum nostrum tam egregiè liberaliter inchoatam necnon benignè continuatam fine piissimo consummare dignemini eidem super negotio Siciliae facto Winton ad ea pertinentibus necnon aliis negotiis nostris Regni nostri plenam fidem adhibere velitis Teste meipso apud Westm 20. die Maii Anno Regni nostri 43. REX Venerabili Patri P. Sancti Georgii ad Volum Aurcum Diacono Cardinali◠salutem sincerae dilectionis affectum Ex veridica tà m dilecti Militis nostri Willielmi Bonquer quà m aliorum Nunciorum nostrorum relatione didicimus quod vos negotia nostra Regni nostri sincero animo amplectantes ipsa non minus quam vestra totis studuistis viribus promovere unde Paternitati vestrae quas possumus etsi non quas debemus gratiarum referimus actiones rogantes quatenus quid voluntati vestrae placuerit quod per nos valeat expediri nobis significari velitis Scituri quod si in aliquibus vobis responderemus ad votum nobis gratum esset plurimum acceptum Negotia verò nostra tà m Regni Argliae quà m Regni Siciliae alia pro quibus ad Curiam Romanam praefatum Willielmum destinavimus vobis recommendamus supplicantes attentè quatenus negotia illa solita benignitate promovere dignemini Et hiis quae vobis ex parte nostra dicet fidem adhibere velitis Teste ut supra Eodem modo scribitur Cardinalibus videlicet Albo Cardinali Johanni Geyton Ottobono Octomano H. de Senithier R. Hanniball SAnctissimo in Christo Patri Domino Alexandro Dei gratia Summo Pontifici Henricus eadem gratia Rex Angliae c. salutem cum reverentia honore Noverit Paternitas vestra quod Venerabiles Patres Ebredunen Tarentas Archiepiscopos Magistrum Rustandum Subdiaconum Capellanum vestrum Willielmum Bonquer Militem nostrum Magistrum Johannem Clarell nostros constituimus Procuratores ad petendum Legatum in Angliam destinandum pro negotiis Regni Siciliae aliis negotiis in Anglia expediendis prout eis injunximus nobis viderint expedire Ratum habituri gratum quicquid ipsi vel aliqui ex ipsis qui praesentes fuerint super praemissis duxerint faciendum In cujus c. Teste Rege a pud Westm 20. die Maii. Eodem modo scribitur Cetui Cardinalium per eadem verba sine ratihabitione Teste c. Item duo paria Literarum tradita fuerunt Willielmo Bonquer VEnerabili Cetui Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalium Rex Angliae salutem sincerae dilectionis affectum Quia de quibusdam negotiis inter Regem illustrem Regem Franciae praelocutus Rex plenius certiorari volebat priusquam Domino Papae super hiis quae per Magistrum Petrum Lemovicen Anselmum de Belencr Clericos Nuncios Venerabilium Patrum Ebredunen Tarentas Archiepiscoporum dilecti Clerici Regis Magistri Rustandi ejusdem Domini Papae Capellani super facto Siciliae aliis tà m Literis quà m vivâ voce Regis significat certum Rex daret responsum propter quod etiam quosdam de majoribus Regni consilii Regis in Franciam Rex transmisit Rex praedictos Clericos retinuit usque ad redditum dictorum Nunciorum Regis In quorum reversione absque mora ulteriori per eosdem Clericos vel per alios Nuncios Regis solemnes Domino Papae eis super praemissis certum responsum suum Rex significavit maximè de negotio Siciliae cum effectu prosequendo vel penitus dimittendo Unde eos attentius Rex rogat quatenus apud Summum Pontificem diligenter instare velint ne hanc moram modici temporis gravem habeat vel molestam Et quod super facto Siciliae vel aliis Regem seu Regnum Regis tangentibus nihil interim immutetur Teste Rege apud Windes 16 die Martii The King having demanded an account of the Bishop of Hereford the year before of the monies received by him in England and Ireland for the Disme granted him by the Pope and of the several Obligations and Debts he had obliged him and several Abbyes to foreign Merchants in great sums of money and how they were expended and receiving an imperfect account thereof from his Procurator enjoyned him to make an exact account thereof and to come in person into England for that end by a certain day under pain of seising all his Temporalties and Goods in England REX P. Herefordensi Episcopo salutem Cum nuper vobis mandaverimus quod personaliter vel per certum Procuratorem in Angliam veniretis ad certificandum nos super variis et immensis obligationibus quibus nos et Regnum nostrum necnon et quamplures domos Religiosos Regni diversis Mercatoribus in Curia Romana pro facto Siciliae multipliciter astrinxistis et ad quorum manus pecunia de praedictis obligationibus devenit et ad cujusmodi negotia expedienda fuerit apposita et ad reddendum compotum de tota pecunia quam recepistis in partibus transmarinis et cismarinis et etiam de tota pecunia per vos collecta et recepta de Decima et negotio Crucis tam in Hibernia quam in Dioc. Coventr Wigorn. et Hereford vos per infirmitatem impotentiam corporis vestri super adventu vestro in Angliam excusastis promittentes vos tales Procuratores loco vestro missuros qui nobis in praemissis sufficienter respondeant Et cum Decanus vester Hereford nuper venisset coram nobis Consilio nostro apud London offerens se pro vobis de praedicta pecunia Crucis Decimae compotum redditurum ipse tantum reddidit compotum de pecunia Crucis Decimae ad opus vestrum recepta in Hibernia in Dioc. praedictis asserens se de obligationibus per vos factis in Curia Romana non posse ita distincte sicut petivimus respondere unde nobis supplicavit quod aliquem diem diffusum vobis super hoc praengere
aliis ad eandem villam spectantibus capiend in manum nostram salvo custodiend prout sua discretio melius noverit expedire eis plenius injuximus viva voce Et ideò vobis mandamus quod eis Hugoni Galfrido Radulpho in praemissis intendentes sitis respondentes consulentes auxiliantes prout ipsi vobis scire facient ex parte nostra Et hoc nullo modo omittatis Teste ut supra He likewise issued this Writ to the Bayliffs of Colechester to apprehend all Citizens of Norwich in or passing by those parts and to seise all their goods and Merchandise in whose hands soever and detain them till further order REX Ballivis suis de Colecestria salutem Cum occasione Contentionis discordiae inter Priorem Conventum de Norwico Burgenses nostros ac Communitatem villae nostrae de Norwico subortae capi fecerimus in manum nostram eandem Villam de Norwico donec aliud inde ordinaverimus Vobis mandamus firmiter injungentes quod si aliquos de Burgensibus ejusdem Villae de Norwico in partibus vestris inveniri contigerit vel per partes vestras transitum faciant ipsos arrestetis eorum bona Catalla mercimonia in quorumcunque manibus inventa fuerint sine dilatione capiatis in manum nostram ea una cum corporibus ipsorum salvo custodiatis donec aliud indè praeceperimus Diligenter etiam inquiri scrutari faciatis si aliquis de Balliva vestra praedictos Burgenses seu eorum mercimonia vel alia bona receptaverit seu ea penes se detineat ea omnia quae in hac parte inveneritis feceritis distinctè apertè conscribi faciatis Ita quod nos certiorare nos inde respondere possitis ad mandatum nostrum ita viriliter diligenter vos habeatis in hac parte quod fidelitatem diligentiam vestram merito commendare debeamus Et ne pro defectu vestri in hac parte dampnum incurramus propter quod ad vos omnia bona vestra graviter capere debeamus Teste ut supra Mr. John Fox Relates that this controversie between the Monks and Citizens of Norwich fell out about certain Tallages and Liberties that after much altercation and wrangling words the furious rage of the Citizens so much increased and prevailed that so little was the fear of God before their eyes that altogether they set upon the Abbey and Priory and burned both the Church and Bishops palace When this thing was heard abroade the people were very sorry to hear of so bold and naughty an enterprise and much discommended the same At the last King Henry calling for certain of his Lords and Barons sent them to the City of Norwich that they might punish and see Execution done on the chiefest malefactors insomuch as some of them were condemned and burnt and some were drawn by the heèls with horses through the Streets of the City and after in much misery ended their wretched lives The Continuer of Matthew Paris and John Speed inform us that King Henry as soon as he could having in his Company the Bishop of Rochester and the Earle of Gloucester followed his Justice Thomas Trivet to Norwich where beholding the deformed ruines of the burned Church totally consumed he could hardly refrain from tears The Bishop having therefore excommunicated all who consented to this wickednesse and the Judge executed the nocent Next the King condemned the Town in three thousand Marks of silver to be paid by a day towards the reparation of the Church so burnt and also to pay one hundred pound in silver towards the repair of a Cup arising to twenty pounds in Gold Cum Rex Henricus condignam ultionem Norwicensibus dedisset sacrilegis this publick Act of Zeal to Religion and Justice being the last act which he did as a King he returning thence towards London fell grievously sick at the Abbey of St. Edmunds in Suffolke where after he had in a religious manner prepared his soul by acknowledging his fins he rendred up the same to his Redeemer when he had reigned almost an old mans age and more years then ever any King of England reigned either before or since to wit fifty si◠years and twenty dayes A Prince writes Speed whose devotion was greater then his discretioni as we see in permitting the depredation of himself and his whole Kingdome by Papal overswayings the error of whose Government concurring with the tumultuous Treasons of his Nobles did precipitate him into many mischiefes out of which God Almighty did strangely deliver him for if he had not been divinely protected there is no cause for a reasonable man to doubt but that his end had proved as headlong as some of his own and his Barons actions seemed to threaten I must acknowledge that this King Henry in the beginning and latter end of his raign not out of any devotion to the Pope but meer Policy and pure necessity did more comply with and connive at the incroaching innovations Usurpations exactions of the Popes and Court of Rome then all his progenitors or successots upon these several accounts 1. By reason of the deplorable and almost desperate condition wherein his Father King John left him and the whole Realm at the time of his death for the Roman Pontifs having but 3 years before by Menaces Wars Censures interdicts rebellions of his Prelates and Nobles enforced him to enthrall himself and his Realms to their vassallage left him an infant but nine years of age under the general disgust hatred disaffection of most of the English Nobles and Clergy the hostile Power of the French intruder Lewes before called in with a potent Army Crowned King of England by the Barons John being but * Regis Imago as his Epitaph stiled him Papae Vassallus for that little part of the Realm he had possession of having no Treasure at all and scarce any revenue to support himself to raise sorces or renumerate such persons as should engage their lives fortunes in his quarrell In respect of all which concurrent difficulties he had no other probable meanes left to expell the French reduce the revolted Bishops Nobles to obedience and recover the actuall possession of the City of London orother Garisons of his Kingdome but by the Popes assistance which he and his Legats readily afforded him for preservation of his own usurped interest therein wrested from his Father by force fraud treachery rather then out of any affection to this young King 2. The frequent conspiracies rebellions of his Bishops Barons against him their obstinate refusals to grant him ayds or subsidies in Paliaments in a legal way when his and the Kingdoms necessities required them or upon dishonorable termes which severall times enforced him not only to overstrain his regal Perogative but likewise to make use of the Popes Usurped Authority Legates Agents to excommunicate the Barons and other
Newson Abbey a Jewish Convert sent to it p. 839. Nicholas Exon a Convert sent thither p. 840. Notle Abby a Convert sent to it p. 840. Norwich Prior and Covent The King disallows appeals against their Bishops elections p. 483 497 924. The Priors diligence to excommunicate those who opposed the Popes provisions p. 651. Converts sent to it p. 836 839. Burnt spoyled by the Citizens who are severely punished for it p. 1065 to 1068. Novo Burgo Newburgh Prior his Appeal against the Archbishop of Yorks proceedings p. 242. Novus locus super Acolne Converts sent to it p. 840. Novum Monasterium The profits of the Benefices of the Bishoprick of Karliol there sequestred till the difference ended concerning them p. 970. O. OSonâ—eston Abbey Converts sent to it p. 836 839. Osencey Ossenâ—y Abby A fray there between the Popes Legates servants and Oxford Scholars p. 493 494 to 558. The Kings Writ to Abbot Adams successor for his Cup and Palfrey due to him by Custom after each Abbots death p. 834. St. Oswald its Priors appeal against the Archbishop of Yorks proceedings p. 242. A Convert sent to it p. 836 837 839 840. Oâ—burne Woburne Abby Converts sent to it p. 838. P. PArco Lude Abby Converts sent to it p. 836 839. Persore Abby its Church dedicated p. 504. Writs directed to the Abbor as Popes delegate p. 634. Peterburgh The Bishop of Duâ—ham dyes suddenly at it p. 404 Peters Glocester consecrated p. 504. A Writ to the Abbot and Covent to receive a Monk of Winchester p. 976. Pipewell Abby Converts sent to it 836 837 839. Pontiniac Abbot the Popes Legate a prohibition to him p. 628. R. RAdegund Abbot an Attachment against him for proceeding as Popes Delegate against the Kings prohibition p. 477. Rading Reding The Abbot one of the Popes Delegates to excommunicate the Barons and their adherents p. 344 359. Converts sent to it 836 839. He refuseth to give or lend monyes to K. H. 3. p. 934. Ramesey Rammesey Abby a license to elect an Abbot in the presence of others p. 348. Three recommended to the Prior and Covent by the King p. 356. the Church dedicated p. 504. Nigri ordinis His unjust sentence p. 598. Barrows and lends money to the King in his distresse p. 723 734. Converts sent to it p. 836 838 839. A Monk of Winton sent to it by Writ p. 975. his Barony and Temporalties seised for not sending horse and arms to the King upon summons p. 1008. The Abbot deprived and a new substituted by the Popes Legat Append. p. 18. Ravinstone founded and a Prior appointed by K. H. 3. p. 831 Reversham Abbey visited by Archbishop Boniface p. 741. Riveal Rivaus Its Abbots appeal against the Archbishop of Yorks proceedings p 242. Converts sent to it p. 8â—6 839. Roches or de Rupe its Abbots appeal against the Archbishop of Yorks proceedings p. 242. A Prohibition to the Abbot and Prior to levy a Disme of the Monks of Cluny p. 562. Converts sent to it p. 837 838 839. Rossen Rochester Prior and Covent the Popes sentence for them against the Archbâ—shop touching their Bishops election p. 498 499 Elect such a Bishop as would please the King p. 748. Conveâ—ts sent to it p. 837 838 839. Ruchford Rufford A Writ to the Abbot not to prejudice the Archbishop of Yorks rights p. 223. appeals against the Archbishops proceedings 242. Converts sent to it p. 840. De Rufore of the Cistercâ—â—n Order oppressed by H. 3. p. 847. S. SAcford Prioresse a Convert sent to it p. 839. Abbot de Salvinaco licensed to send an Abbot or two Monks to visit the Cisterciâ—ns in England p 601. Sautre Abbey a Convert sent to it p. 838 840 Seleby Abbot appeals against the Archbishop of Yorks proceedings p. 242. Sent by the Ring to entertain the Popes Legate 287. appointed to be present at the election of several Bishops Abbots and give the Royal assent to them 348 354. his goods seised for the King after his death 820. Seleburne Prior a prohibition to him not to hinder the Kings Chauntry at Basing p. 1038. Seleford Priory Converts sent to it p. 836 838 839. Stafford a Prohibition to the Abbots sequestration of the profits of the Priory of winton by the Popes order p. 832. Stanlegg Stanley in Wiltes a prohibition to the Abbot as Popes Legat p. 381. Converts sent to it p. 836 837 and to Stanley in Arden p. 838 839. Surgeston Priory Converts sent to it p. 838 839. Swinesheved Swinstyed Abby King John poysoned by a Monk of it p. 366. Converts sent to it p. 836 839. St. Swithins Winton Oppose King H. 3. in the election of a Bishop their election opposed vacated appeals high contests about it p. 501 502 583 to 597. 748 749 850. A royal Fish on its Lands seised by the Kings Officers who are excommunicated for it a Writ to absolve them p. 738 739. The Prior Monks oppressed thrust out by the King Bishop New put in p. 502 831 832 833 852 853 854. sent to other Monasteries 975 976. Converts sent to it p. 835 837 838. T. THeukesbery Tukebery Totebyr the Church dedicated 504. a Convert sent to it p. 837 840. Thinemue Tinmuth a Writ for their Prior against the Bishop of Durhams oppressions p. 715 716. Converts sent to it 838 840. A provision by the Pope to an appropriation belonging to it prohibited 842. St. Thomas de Acon London Colechurch presented to by the King during the vacancy p. 782. St. Thomas Dublins Abby stones for its repair in England seised restored by Writ 758. Abbot William his election confirmed and temporalties restored p. 784. Thornton Priory Converts sent to it p. 836 837 839. Thorney Abby a Writ to preserve their rights from Popes provisions p. 736. Thurgarton Prior a prohibition to him as a Delegate p. 689. Tichfeld Abbot an appeal in his presence 587. Tiletey Abbey Converts sent to it p. 836 839. Tinterne Abby an attachment for holding plea against them contrary to a prohibition p. 720. Converts sent to it p. 840. The Abbot the Popes Commissioner to levy a Dism 1027. Topham Abbey Converts sent thither p. 838 840. Tâ—ent Priory Converts sent to it p. 838. Trepa the Abbot recommended to a Bishoprick p. 234. Trinity Prior and Covent of Canterbury The Monks secret election of their Prior without King Johns license his Oath opposed contests about it their election vacated their 2d election to please the King nulled enforced to elect Stephen Langton by the Pope at Rome for which they are banished by force as Traytors p. 243 to 249. Their Temporalties seised p. 252. The injured King at last enforced by the Pope to restore them with dammages 261 to 284 Elect a Bishop by the Kings license whom he rejects joynes the Suffragans with them in the election which they oppose p. 418 419. Two of their elections nulled by the Pope who obtrudes one without election p. 434 to 443. A Prohibition to their
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
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
consecrated Bishop of Worcester 484. A Writ to him and the Bishop of Carliste to sequester the impropriations of the Monks of Bardenay 599 600. One of the Guardians of the Realm in the Kings absence Ibid. 601 602. Sent by the King with others to the Prelates and Clergy to induce them to assent to the Popes grant of an Ayd for the King 610. Miles 638. De Cantuar. Robert a Clerk 806. De Capua Peter 523. De Castro Bernardi Guido an Executor to the Bishop of Ely 966 967. Cecily Wife of Elias Fisher 718. Cementarius Alexander Abbot of the Benedictines defends King John against the Popes proceedings advanced to many Benefices by the King deprived of all by the Pope for his loyalty forced to beg his bread at last 258 259 335. His Disputes Books against the Pope Ibid. De Cernton William Commissioner for the exiled Bishops damages 280. De Cestreton Adam Clerk 962. De Chaceport Peter Clerk exempted from the Disme 562. enabled to hold a Plurality 632. His Teste to a Patent 756. A Provision for 200 l. in Benefices for him by the year 806. De Chamleng Robert Tenant in Capite the Wardship of his Heir and Lands committed to Arlot the Popes Nuncio's Nephew 991. De Chaunent William Clerk Dean of St. Martins Kings Agent to the Pope 995 1020. De Chisehull John Kings Proctor to the Pope 833. De Clapam William 229. Clarell John the Kings Proctor at Rome in several appeals 735 854. The King to defray his expenses without which he would not go 916 940 941 946. Clerk Clericus William 787. De Clifford Roger Walter Letters to them from the Pope desired by the King to assist and continue loyal to him 390. Walter Commissioner for the Bishops damages 280. William a Clerk a Writ to him to install the Treasurer in York Cathedral upon the Deans and Prebends refusal 1011. sent to the Popes Legate to pawn the Kings Jewels 1026. Clon Cornelius a Knight his Vision of the name Jesus in fleshy letters in the Eucharist 73. Coit John 1013. De Coleville William and R. his Son excommunicated for opposing King John 360. De Commovill Gilbert the Archbishop of Rhoans Proctor to swear his Fealty to the King 482 483. De Coquinato Umbertus 977. De Corbolio D. King Lewes Proctor 362. De Cornubia Cornhelle Henry expels the Monks of Canterbury by force by King Johns command 248. William an Archdeacon 255. De Cotton Alfridus his Case 883. John Miles the Kings Officer in Ireland pressed to be excommunicated 858 859. De Crancumbe Croucumbe Godefridus Miles the Kings Proctor in Rome against an election c. 347 389 390 395 452 453. De Creft Selmo a Clerk exempt from Dismes 562. De Creke Bartholmew a precept to him not to alien any Lands to Religious persons 759. De Crekhale I. Kings Treasurer 965. De Crepping Robert Guardian of the Temporalties of Rhoan 686. Crespyn Theobald held Castles of the King 456. De Cressi R. and John his Son excommunicate for opposing King John 359. De Crioil Crioll Bertram sent with a Prohibition to the Popes Delegates 478. William Miles Commissioner for plundred Clerks 1000. De Croinden Stephen Clerk 787. De Crâ—k Henry Clerk a Prohibition to him 689. De Croyland Walterus of Lincoln 1013. De Curcun Robert preached against the Popes Usurers 802. Curiall â— Baron in the Parliament of Merton 472. De Curtenay Martil a safe conduct to him 333. Curtin Emericus a Clerk 921. De Cygainy Eugelardus his Case 882. D. DAlemaigne Henry Miles an arbitrator between the King and Barons in armes 1019. Dandre Roger a Prohibition to him 388. De Darbuton John 857. David Prince of Wales Excommunicated Warred on 604. His Charter Oath to the King absolved from his Oath and Allegiance by the Pope 608 609 610. Excommunicated for it 621 622. Warred on his Country wasted for his Treachery Ibid. his death 623. De Dedling William 942. De Dena Aufridus the Kings Proctor at Rome 246. De Dereby Hugo Clerk 577. De Derham Elias a Canon his death 616. Dernazati James 1035. Dispensator Hugh a Baron in the Parliament at Merton 472 1001. De Divisis William a Freer 833. Doget Henry Appendix p. 4. Dosset Robert a Clerk 283. De Drouhedale William an Advocate 624. De Dungan Ralph the Kings Clerk 806. De St. Dunstan Godefridus Collector of Dismes 1048. De Dya John Walter the Kings Clerks 562. E. DE St. Earmund Hermite William a Pictavin Excommunicated by the Archbishop 787. banished 937. De St. Edmund Hugh to publish the Groysado 807. De Egga alba James Queens Treasurer 835. De Erdington Thomas 339. De Essingwold John Clerk 974 975. De Estlegg Thomas Commissioner for Bishops damages 280. De Estoyland Clerk 562. De Estwode John the Bishop of Rochesters surety 941. De Everdon Silvester Clerk 478. Eustace a Monk 371. De Ewla W. 229. De Exon. John Chancellor of York 963. De Eyvil John Custos Pacis in York-shire 999. F. DE Faite William a Canon of Pauls 745. De Farnham Nicholas Clerk 497. De Felda Nicholas his suit in Ireland 393. De la Felle Richard 393. De Fereby J. Excommunicated for opposing King John 360. De Fering Geoffry Official to the Bishop of Winton 590. A Prohibition to him not to disturbe the Kings Clerks 964. De Ferrariis William a Noble 453. De Ferun Th. the Archbishop of Rhoans Proctor to swear his Fealty 756. De Feynes M. had Lands in England and France 631. Finatus the Popes Archdeacon Kings Proctor at Rome 858 859 866 869 963. De Finham Nicholas 56. Fitz Alan Osburn Excommunicated for opposing King John 360. Fitz Geoffry John Miles of the Kings Counsil 855 943 951. sent with others Embassidor to the Council of Lyoâ—s against the Popes grievances and King Johns Charter 299. sent to the Bishops to prohibite them to act any thing against the Kings Crown 487 sent by the King to induce the Prelates to assent to the Popes grant of an Ayd 610 638 639 640. Fitz Gerold Warin a Baron 274 338 Maurice Miles imployed in Ireland 768. One of the Irish Nobles 818. Bishops complaint against him 858 859. Fitz Griffin L. 1009. Fitz Herebert Peter a Baron 274 276 277. King Johns Counsellor against the Pope 265. M a witnesse to King Johns Homage to the Pope 290. Fitz Hugh John a Judge 202. R. a Baron in Parliament at Merton 472. Fitz John Philip Excommunicated for opposing King John 360. John a Baron 1001. Fitz Machute H. in Parliament at Merton 472. Fitz Michael R in Parliament at Merton 472. Fitz Nicholas Ralph Miles sent to Admiralius 284. to the Council of Lyons 299. his other imployments 452 453 610 638 639 640. Fitz Ralph Henry assaults the Bishop of Durham 827. Fitz Ranulf Gilbert a Baron 276 277. Fitz Reimbert Osburn Appendix p. 4. Fitz Robert Ranulph Excommunicated for opposing King John 359. Fitz Reger R. a person of honour 251. Fitz Roscelin William Commissioner
928 929. He spoyles England of all its money by his Taxes exactions sends Arlot to excoriate it and Mansuetus soon after 930 931 945. The Nobles opposition against them in Parliament lb. He cheated circumvented the King by successive Agents 932. His blank Bulls to Berard de Nympha to raise monies in England 939. Mediates a Peace between France and England to carry on his Wars in Sicily Letters Procurations concerning it 943 944 961. The Parliament Nobles resolutions concerning Sicily and his unjust demands from the King 931 945 946 947 948 949. The Kings Letters to him to ratifie the Nobles Ordinances of Oxford to gain monies from them 947. He secretly absolved the King from his Oath to observe them 948 988 989. He is scorned contemned by Manfred who created Archbishops Bishops in Sicily without him was obeyed as King by all against his Prohibition for which he and his Court at Rome grew odious despicable 948. King H. 3. expostulates with him for cheating him in that affair Ibid. A notable Epistle of the Parliament Nobles of England to him concerning the affairs of Apulia and Sicily their proceedings against the Bishop of Winchester whose restitution they declared against and the Kings Oath to the Provisions of Oxford 948 949 950 951. His Bull of thanks to the Dean and Chapter of Sarum reserving the perpetual Provision of a Prebendary in that Church which they bestowed on his Nephew 951 952. His Bull to King Henry for a pension for Arlots Nephew 952 953. Some Abbots resist the fraudulent Obligations made in their names without their privity Philip Abbot of Westminster refuseth to go to Rome for his confirmation according to his Decree which would not be dispensed with but for vast sums of money 953. He consecrates Godfrey Archbishop of York at Rome to his vast expence 953 954. The Kings Letters to him concerning John Mansell and the Treasurership of York belonging to him conferred by his Provision on a Cardinals Nephew which the King opposed as contrary to his antient right and prerogative 962 963 964. The Kings Letters to the Barons of Dover and other Ports to search for all Papal Bulls or Letters brought from him by Italians Clerks Laymen or others prejudicial to him and his Realm to permit none to bring them into the Realm 968. not to suffer any to passe out of the Realm to the Court of Rome unlesse they first swore not to request any thing there contrary to the Popes Ordinance made for Sicily or against the Kings Crown and Dignity 865. The strange forme of the Kings Obligations to his Merchants Usurers for monies borrowed of them and strange penalties in them if infringed 1034 1035. The Kings Letter to him to confirm the Bishop of Burdeaux 971. The Romans rose up against him contemn his Excommunication as exempted from it â—orced him to fly from Rome to humble himself to them and Brancaleo their Senator Appendix p. 28. He cheats King H. 3. of infinite sums of money yet expostulated with him for deceiving the Church threatned to Interdict the Realm and Excommunicate the King for it who thereupon payd him 5000 Marks to pacifie his anger Appendix p. 28 29. His death successor 948. Alexander 5. his approbation of the blasphemous Book of St Francis his conformities and Christs wounds imprinted on him p. 64. Alexander 6 approved ratified Bernardinus de Busti his blasphemous Book entituled Mariale dedicated to him p. 34. B. BEnedict 11. his confirmation of Boniface his Bull of fourscore and two thousand years pardon for saying one prayer only at our Saviours sepulchre in Venice p. 15. Benedict 12. his approbation of the Book of St. Francis conformities and wounds p. 64. Boniface 8. his Bull of eighty two thousand years pardon for every recital of a short prayer at Christs sepulchre in Venice p. 15. A passage in his Bull to King Edw. 1. concerning his right to the Crown of Scotland 328. C. CAlixtus 2. his Bull of Priviledge to St. Albans Appendix p. 21. Coelestine 3. his Bull to St. Albans and reservation therein of an annual rent of an ounce of gold from it to the prejudice of the Crown and Kings Prerogative Appendix p. 21 24. Coelestine 4. dyes within 16. dayes after his election great schisms after it p. 605 648. Clement 1. his Priviledge granted to St. Denis to be Apostle over the Western Nations by which the French pretended a right to elect a Pope p. 650. Clement 5. endeavoured to break the elections of Bishops by Deans Chapters and Covents 779 his endeavour to suppresse the Barons and Bishops Rebellion against King H. 3. who slighted his Bulls Excommunications 1019. The Kings Proctor Procurations sent to him for his and his Kingdoms benefit honour 1020. Ottobon his Legate sent into England his proceedings against the Bishops Barons others in Armes against the King draws Articles of pacification between them 1020 to 1030. His Legates Excommunications slâ—ghed by them 1024 1025 1026. His memorable Bull to Ottobon his Legate reciting all the Rebellions against King H 3. his necessities by reason of them exhorting the Prelates Clergy to a liberal contribution to him from whose person ancestors they had received all their endowments preferments His grant of the tenth part of the improved yearly values of their Benefices to him to be levyed by Ecclesiastical censures from all without any appeal or priviledge 1026 1027 1028 1029 1048 to 1056 For which the King payd him 7000 Marks arrears of the annual rent due for England and Ireland out of this Disme 310. The Kings gratulatory Epistles Procurations to him and his Cardinals concerning it and other affairs of the Realm 1030 to 1036. His Legates Council and Constitutiens 1040 1041. See Ottobon Index 12. He exempted his Clerks Agents Benefices in England from Dismes imposed on all others 1048. His death near three years vacancy of the Roman See after it 1061. Cornelius his Decree that Bishops never made Oath not ought to give any but in case of right faith 707. E. EUgenius 2. his Decree that Clergymen ought not to swear or take an Oath in any case at least without the Popes or Bishops special license p. 707. Eugenius 3. his proceedings against Murdac Archbishop of York 778. His Decree concerning the Bishop of St. Davids subjection profession to the See of Canterbury and against its re-erection to an Archbishoprick 235. His Bull of Pilviledge to St. Albans Appendix p. 21. G. GRegory 1. Ordered the Virgin Mories picture drawn by St Luke to be carried in procession in Rome to stay the plague which as they fable chased it thence p. 41. Gregory 7. his Epistles claim to several Kingdoms in them p 9. Gregory 9. his election 408 He vacated the election of Ralph Bishop of Chichester to the Archbishoprick of Canterbury upon Simon Langetons information he would oppose King Johns Charter Tribute if confirmed Archbishop 293 294 431. This Tribute payd and a Disme promised him in England and Ireland
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
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
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
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
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
to the Executors discretion and levy them by Ecclesiastical censures for his use to compound for monies with Excommunicated persons and those who had taken up the Crosse 681 682. He granted a priviledge for a vast sum of money to Lambert de Muleton not to be excommunicated for any offence by any person but by the Popes special command 682. His sophistical delusory priviledge to King Henry that he would grant no provision of Ecclesiastical Benefices in England to any Italian Cardinal or Kinsman unlesse he or his Cardinals should intreat the King with importunity to assent to the Provision 682 683. The Kings Writs that all bringers of this Popes Bulls of Provisions to Benefices or for collections of monies to the impoverishing of the Realm should be seised on imprisoned and the Ports kept that none should be brought in 684. His priviledge granted to the new Abbot of Westminster at the Kings request to celebrate Masse Pontifically and give the benediction solemnly to the people when Agnus Dei was sung 686. His Bull to the Abbot of Cluny who brought his house in debt by the great gifts bestowed on him to collect one years Disme from all of his Order on this side the Alpes notwithstanding the contradiction of any Ordinary whereof he was to receive 3000 Marks to his own use and the Abbot the residue King Henry by Writ seised all the money thus collected in England 686 687. A Prohibition to his Delegates not to molest the Kings Clerk 688 689. His Provisions odious in England yet the King approved of one at the instance of two of his Clerks 690. His intollerable depredations in France and England Ibid. He sends Freers Minors into England armed with terrible Bulls to extort monies from the English Prelates and Clergy under severe penalties which they concealed from the King who demanded no lesse then 6000 Marks out of the Bishoprick of Lincoln and 40 Marks from the Abby of St. Albans for the Popes use which the Abbot refusing was enforced to pay and expend upon Appeals above 300 Marks besides other daily extortions which the King summoned a Parliament to prevent from which the Bishops cowardly absented themselves 690 691 693 694. He sent likewise Freers Minors severally to all the Bishops of France to beg and borrow monies of them which the King prohibited them to grant under pain of forfeiting all their goods whereupon his sophistical Legates departed thence with hissing and derision 691. He dispersed several Legates into Scotland and Ireland to collect monies 692. His Cardinals compelled him to revoke his Decree of Intestates goods by reason of its general scandal and the damage it did to many against Law 692. An unsatiable Carybdis 694. He authorized his Freers by Bulls and their Delegates to interdict excommunicate Archbishops Bishops without any appeal notwithstanding any priviledge if they opposed their exactions or refused to contribute to him according to their faculties 694 695. He attempted by all means to ordain the Archbishop of Ardmach which the King endeavoured to prevent by authorizing his Chief Justice to give his Royal assent to the election for that time 690. He sent Martin his Chaplain into England with the power not title ensigns of a Legate to elude the Kings priviledge and fish for mens goods possessions not souls 691 692. He taught Princes Laymen the way to mutilate and revoke the possessions they had given to the Church by Non-obstantes 693. Excommunicated those Prelates Abbots and others who refused to provide liberally for his Nuncioes whom he impowred to enquire of vexations of Provisors all alienations of Lands Churches and Symoniacal Contracts made by Prelates Clergymen or Religious persons to revoke them without judgement or noyse and notifie them to him that he might proceed against them according to the quality of their offences to get money and to excommunicate suspend interdict all opposers notwithstanding any priviledge or appeal 695 696. The King summons another Parliament to advise how to redresse these manifold and frequent extortions exhausting the Kingdoms Treasure bringing no good but much detriment to the Church and very displeasing to God summoning the Bishops specially to it frequently impoverished by them who all most basely condescended to a Contribution of 11000 Marks to the Pope which some of them before resolved to oppose being so frequently worried tyred with the Popes Agents vexations when they opposed them which act rendred all the Clergy suspected to the Kingdom 696. He sent a Cardinal Legate to crown and anoint Haco King of Norway Denmark and Sweden in whose entertainment the Bishop of Norwich spent 4000 Marks besides other presents For this Coronation the Pope received 15000 Marks sterling besides rich presents to the Legate and 500 Marks extorted by him from the Churches of that Kingdom 697. He sold Bishopricks and Canonizations of Saints for money 698. Granted Croysadoes Dismes to Richard Earl of Cornwall and William Longespee whereby vast sums of money were collected by rapines injustice by his Nuncioes wherein he shared He suspended Patrons from presenting to their Benefices never heard of before to preferre Romans to them or satisfie his avarice filled Germany with Wars preyed upon France and England whereby he and the Court of Rome became infamous 698 716 720 to 736 753 755. The French Peers King conspire and enter into a confederacy against his and the Prelates Exactions Excommunications Encroachments on their Rights and Liberties 699 to 704. His Citation of the Abbot of Abbendon to Rome for his contempt in denying to present a Roman his Provisor to a Benefice of the Abby and presenting another by the Kings command for which though old and infirm he was forced to go to Rome and after much vexation expence to give the Roman a pension of 50 Marks a year to the great prejudice of his Church 716 717. He vacated the Monks election of the Abbot of St. Edmunds without just cause to insnare him in the net of his unmercifull mercy and then to content the grieved Monks out of his meer grace confirmed him their Abbot so as he entred into bond to pay 800 Marks to his designed Merchant which he forced to do dyed of grief in his return thence which oppressions made the Court of Rome infamous and drew the Plague and Gods wrath upon it 717. He commanded the Bishop of Clon elected without the Kings license to be consecrated without his assent contrary to his Royal Prerogative 719. His Bull to exempt the Kings Free Chappels from Episcopal Jurisdiction and Excommunications 720 721 727. Thrusts his Clerk by a Provision into the Church of Eneford belonging to the Kings presentation by vacancy of the Archbishoprick of Canterbury to which the King presenting his Clerk he took the examination of the cause into his own hands giving judgement against the Kings Clerk not considering the Kings right commanding his Delegates to eject him and put in his Provisor which tending to the hurt of the Crown and
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
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
10 12. His Letters to Popes to remove two Bishops of Ely and put another in their place by reason of their manifold Treasons against his Father himself and consequence of the Isle of Ely to the Realm 374 922 1022 to 1026. His gratulatory Letter to a Cardinal for the Popes and Church of Romes assistance in delivering him from protecting supporting him in his troubles and craving his assistance to protect the English from the French who had crossed themselves against the Albigenses 375. To Pope Honorius and his Cardinals concerning the appropriations settled on the Bishoprick of Carlisle and the Bishop thereof promoted by the Popes Legate 375 376. He constitutes a general Proctor in the Court of Rome for him and his in all matters for or against them 377 378. He writes to the Pope and Cardinals to order some French Bishops to compell the Earl of March his Son to marry his Sister according to his Oath or restore her to him both which he had refused 377. The detainers of his Castles upon his complaint excommunicated by the Popes Legate till restored 378 379 384 385. Crowned the second time at Westminster by the Archbishop of Canterbury 379. under the Guardianship of the Bishop of Winton Ibid. Present at Beâ—kets solemn Translation as a Martyr and Saint 380. Prohibits any to detain the Bishop of Londons Lands by gift sale mortgage or grant without the Bishops consent and to put the Bishop in possession of them 380 381. His Writs Patents Procurations Appeals contests concerning the election and confirmation of Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Archdeacons Clergy Dismes and Church-affairs of England Wales Ireland Normandy See Index 3 4 5 6 10 12. His appeal to the Pope in case of the Church of Acley before the Popes Legate and others 381. His Patent to the Chief Justice and others in Ireland to receive and assist the Popes Legate sent thither 382. His Writ to sell Victuals and other necessaries to the Jews notwithstanding the Archbishops Inhibition 387. His answer to the Archbishop and Nobles in a Parliament at London requiring the confirmation of the Great Charter of Liberties and other Customs ratified by Oath notwithstanding their extortion by violence 387. His demand of Normandy from Lewes the French King according to his Oath with his answer thereto 387 388. His Prohibition to the Archdeacons Official to invade his rights and rents and to the Bishop of Durhams Officers not to hold any Plea use any Writ Liberty in right of the Bishoprick not formerly used in time of his ancestors 388. His Letters of thanks to the Pope and his Legate Gualo for their former assistance imploring their Letters to some Bishops Nobles whose activity or fidelity he suspected to assist adhere to him in his affairs gain restitution of his Castles Lands detained by the Spiritual Sword to lay aside all prejudice against him and his Chief Justice with his recommendation of some of their Loyalties 389 390. The Popes Letters adjudging him of full age able to govern the Realm by advice of his Counsil requiring all Nobles Souldiers others to restore his Castles Honours Lands in their custodies in England and Ireland and compell the refusers to it by Ecclesiastical censures which most refusing to do the Archbishop and his Suffragans excommunicated them whereupon the Earl of Chester and all others by his example restored them to him 391 392 397. His and his Parliaments Bishops proceedings against Falcatius de Brent for seising and close imprisoning one of his Justices Itinerant in Bedford Castle and holding it by force against him till taken by siege 392. His Letter to the Pope for Simon Langetons return into England upon the Archbishops security that his return should not be hurtfull to him or his Realm 392. The Popes Letters to him concerning a Truce with France 292 442 446. His royal assent to a Bishops election Writ concerning a certificate of Bastardy in Ireland and against an Appeal to the Pope therein 393 394. His obtaining license from the Pope and Archbishops to hold Pleas and Juries in Advent and other prohibited times in certain causes 393 407. His Patents constituting several general and special Proctors in the Courts of Rome France and elsewhere for his affaires there with the Pope Cardinals French King and others 395 432 446 452 453 454 455 483 497 558 561 578 589 590 634 637 667 672 735 785 807 808 835 857 858 859 864 to 873 913 to 922 942 to 948 957 to 962 367 968 983 984 985 986 to 990. 1002 1006 1011 1020 1030 to 1034 1062. His Pensions gifts to Cardinals others for expediting his affairs there Popes Letters to him for their continuance 395 432 496 509 756 785 855 974 975 977 991. Popes Bulls for his Messengers free passage to him through the King of Francâ—s tertitories notwithstanding their differences 396 408. His Letters to Popes their Bulls for Ayds Disms Collections for him from the Prelates Clergy of England and Ireland for publick defence necessary supplies voyages to the holy Land with the Prelates Churches Nobles answers oppositions against them disposing the moneys only as the Pope and his Legates appointed 396 406 422 490 500 609 610 732 733 768 to 776 814 to 817. 821 822 862 to 973 922 923 9â—4 1006 1007 1008 1033 1034 to 1098 1048. His Inquisition concerning the Liberties of the Bishop of Ely 398. He refuseth to hear or answer the Popes Letters demands by Otto his Nuncio but in a Parliament of the Clergy and Nobles with his and their answer thereto 398 to 403. He refuseth to restore Falcatius to his favour and lands at the Legates motion being condemned by the Clergy and Nobles in Parliament 398. His Writ to the Archbishops Bishops of Ireland to attempt nothing to the prejudice of his Crown 402. Pope Honorius Letters to the Earl of March Geoffry de Lizimaco and others to restore his Sister Castles and return to their allegiance to him according to their Oath under pain of Excommunication 384 385. 402 403. He refuseth to go into France by advice of his Nobles to recover his rights against the French King while crossed imployed in the Popes wars against the Earl of Tholouse and Albigenses upon his inhibition to him 404. His contest with the Monks of Durham about their Bishops election 405 406. He extorts a fifteenth from the Prelates Clergy of England and Ireland by the Popes assistance and censures without appeal or relief 406 407. The Emperors notable Epistle to him for suffering the Popes scandalous Excommunication of him and absolution of his Subjects from their allegeance to be published openly in England to subject him and the Empire to the See of Rome and make them his Vassals Tributaries as he did King John his father and England and timely to look to the Popes avarice iniquity ambition since his dangerous president concerned him and all other Christian Kings 414 415. His particular Letter thereupon to the Pope that
it and enter into a New Oath to observe it upon concestion whereof they would grant him an Ayde 610 611. He condescends that the Bishops in every Diocesse should publish a sentence of excommunication against him and all who went against the great Charter of Liberties in any Article They grant him an Ayde to marry his daughter 20 s. out of every Knights fee held in Capite and repeating what aydes they had granted him and how much moneyes he had extorted from them from time to time 613 614. His prohibition to all Bishops Abbots others who field Baronies of him in Capite to oblige their Lay-fee to the Church of Rome whereby he might be deprived of his due service 614. His Prohibition to Martin the Popes Legate declaring that no Popes Legate ought to come into the Realm unlesse specially requested by him from the See Apostolick That the Legates so requested did never pervert the Popes Mandate nor endeavour to subvert the rights of the King and his Great Noble of which nature Bishops and Abbots were justly reputed who held Baromes of him like other Nobles whom he needed to protect as well as Laymen if he would preserve his Realm who were reacy to mutinie against him by reason of his provisions to their livings which neither he nor they could or would any longer patiently endure to the subversion of the Realm threatning to put a bridle to this his insolence injury and to complain thereof to the Pope and Cardinals if he carried not himself more modestly without intrenching upon his or his Nobles rights who proceeded notwithstanding 615 616. His Writs to inquire in all Counties the annual sum of the Romans Italians rents wherewith the Court of Rome had fraudulently violently enriched them in England found to amount to 60000 marks in rents besides other profits to the 3. part of which all the Kings standing revenue amounted not 616 617 620. His Writs to all Ports to intercept all Popes Letters Bulls to levy moneyes brought by Clergy-men Monks or other of what degree soever whethee aliens or denizens and imprison the importers 617. To prohibit all Taxes to the Pope in England or Ireland 618. His Speech and malediction to Martyn desiring of his shelter against the Nobles fury who threatned to hew him in pieces and safe conduct to him in his timerous flight out of England 619 620. The Pope grinds his teeth at him for that he would not accept of his comming into England when the Kings of Aragon and France sâ—â—bad him entrance into their Realms and so reproachfully cast out his Nuncio and Clerk out of England with an execration wishing the Devil to carry him to hell saying in a great rage with a murmuring voyce rolling his eyes and shriveling his nose It is expedient for us to compound with the Emperor that we may break in pieces these rebellious Petty Kings for the Dragon being qualified or pacified the Little Serpents will quickly â—â— trodden under foot which Speech divulged ingendred grand offence and indignation in the hearts of many 620. Alexander King of Scots his Charter of Peace and Fealty to him ratified by his and his Nobles Oathes and subjection of him and his heirs to the Popes Jurisdiction censures in case he violated it to compel him to satisfaction 620 621. He commands the Bishop of Worcester to excommunicate David Prince of Northwales his Vassal interdict it for breach of his Charter Homage Fealty Oath by his rebellions according to his submission by his Charter who by bribes procured an absolution from them all of Pope Ianocent the 4. who injuriously usurped his Land to hold it under the yearly Tribute of 500 marks He is summoned to appear before the Pope concerning the Contents of Prince Davids Charter and answer certain injuries done by him as he said to David His and his Nobles indignation detestation of this avarice of the Pope They perswade him not to regard these injurious Papal mandates and invade Wales to represse this new insolence of ingratefull David He wastes Wales with fire and sword which the Pope winks at and passeth over in silence 621 622 623 624. His oppositions contests against the elections of the Bishops of London Durbam Coventry together with a Writ to the Mayor of Cicester not to permit the Bishop elect or any of his to enter the City gates his seising detaining the temporalties of Bps. elected against his will 623 to 628 637. His Writs care to preserve his royal Jurisdiction rights of his Crown against the Vsurpations of the Bishops in Ireland 628. His Writs to inquire what lands tenements rents Archbishops Bishops Priors aliens or any Normans had in England 630 631. The Councils and Parliaments held under him See Councils Parliaments He dispenseth with the Bishop of Durhams attendance in Parliament by reason of danger from the Scots 632. His Liberties granted to the Abby of Westminster 632. His Patent that no Freer Minor should be a Bishop in Ireland 632 633. His Writs prohibiting any ayde to the Archbishop or Pope without his assent 634. His License for a Popes Legate to go into Ireland only to absolve such who laid violent hands on Clerks and collect Dismes without exercising any other Jurisdiction till his further order 634. His Writ to his Chief Justice in Ireland to proceed to give judgement in an Assise notwithstanding any menaced excommunication and attach imprison Bishops and others for holding plea of Layfee in the Ecclesiastical Court to the prejudice of his Crown and dignity 635. His Licenses to Bishops to make wills and their executors to execute them without him or his heirs interruption 636. He sends Proctors to the Pope to complain of redresle the injuries done to him for creating divers Bishops without his assent for nulling due elections confirmed by him upon false forged frivolous malicious pretences against his antient and approved right used in former ages to the great detriment of the Church and Realm 637. His Letters to the Pope to excuse some of his Bishops and Abbots summoned to the Council of Lions from appearing in it by reason of age sicknesse poverty their imployments in the Custody of the Realm and other publike services with his answer assent thereto except only to one of them 638. He sends solemne Embassadors to the Council of Lions to complain of the daily grievances done to the Realm of England by the Court of Rome and against the Tribute Charter extorted from K. John in time of War to which the Nobles never assented nor would assent and which the Archbishop protested against and to present the Nobles Letters against Papal grievances and extortions their proceedings therein 299 638 639 644 645 646 647 663. His Writs to all his Bishops Abbots of England and Ireland resorting to this Council according to their Oathes to defend the rights and royal dignity of the King in all things to use all fidelety and diligence therein to preserve defend the rights of
his Crown kingdom and not to act or assent to any thing contrary or prejudicial thereunto 640 641. He denyes Pope Innocent the 4. his request to come into England wherein he had a special right by reason of the prejudice that would arise to it and infamy of the Popes Court whose stink ascended to heaven 654. The Emperors notable Letter to him against the ingratitude pride insolency treachery of Popes Prelates Clerks against Emperors Kings others from whom they received their endowments oppressing the Sons of their Donors by whose almes they were fatted enriched forgetting their native condition being the Sons of their poor Subjects yet neither reverencing fearing Emperor or King when made Popes or Prelates The injustice tyranny of Pope Innocent 4. in denouncing a sentence of Excommunication and deprivation against him without any ciration hearing conviction of any fraud or pravity to the enormous prejudice of all Kings who might justly expect the like proceedings if he a Christian Emperor lawfully unanimously elected approved by the Church whiles the Clergy flourished in Faith and Religion owned Emperor by God and magnificently governing other Kingdoms was thus dethroned who had nought to do with him in temporal matters if peccant in them That he was not the first neither should he be the last who was thus infested by the abuse of Papal authority since their ambition sought to swallow down Jordan and all earthly powers though the turpitude of the Court of Rome was such as all might execrate and honesty shame prohibited to recite That their plentifull rents revenues wherewith they were enriched to the impoverishing of most Realms made them mad That the more they received the more they coveted insnaring dethroning their Pations advancers That he intended to reduce all Clerks especially the greatest to their primitive humility state condition in the Apostles age when they were famous for piety miracles conquering Kings Princes by their Apostolical lives humility sanctity not aâ—mes That those now being addicted to the world drunken with delights cast God behind their backs all their Religion being suffocated by the affluence of riches and wealth That it was a work of charity for him and all Christian Kings to substract their hurtfull riches wherewith they were damnably burdened and that they should serve God in doing it exhorting him to joyn therein 661 662. His extraordinary anger against the English Bishops for setting their hands and seals out of effeminate fear to the transcript of King Johns detestable Charter burnt at Lyons at the Popes command after his and the Nobles protestation against it therein and resolution never to pay or suffer the Tribute therein mentioned to be payd His Oath after the Nobles protestation Thâ—â— although the Bishops were dishonestly incurvated yet he would firm'y stand for the liberty of the Realm neither would he whiles he lived pay the church of Rome the annual reat under the name of Tribute 300 663. The Popes secret rancour and great anger against him and the Realm for daring to bewaile or mutter against his manifold injuries his vaunting speeches That if he could tame Frederick he would easily tread under feet the insolent pride of the English who complained of the oppressions of the Roman Court especially of the Tribute in the Council instigating the King of France in a secret conference at Glungy to wage War upon the King of England for so great an injury till he had disiaherited or so enormously buâ—t him that he should wholly submit to the will of the Roman Court volens â—olens which he refused because he was King Henries Kinsman and their Queens Sisters because he had no manifest right to the Crown of England because there was a Truce between him and the King of England which he would rather Prolong that so he might relieve the Holy Land because much Christian blood would be shed before the Realm of England would yield to France because the Christians in the Holy Land were now oppressed besieged by the Pagans who expected his relief and because he had a stronger and more hurtfull enemy to the Chruch of Rome to be first conquered to wit Frederick 663 664. His priviledge that no Legate should come into his Realm unlesse requested fraudulently abused by the Popes sending certain sophistical Legates having greater power to excort rents money and were more insolent then Legates in all things although they had not the ensigns of Legates being Clerks or Freers Minors or Preachers who made them his Beadles and Tax-masters to the scandal and detriment of their Order 664 690 691 692. He summons a Parliament at London by reason of the Popes indignation against him and all his Nobles oppressing them with many daily intollerable grievances and divers new devices to extort monies more then before their complaints against his grievances which they could no longer tolerate without the brand of sluggishnesse and imminent ruine being done in contempt and spight his Papal indignation so swelling against the miserable English for that they durst complain against their daily injaries and oppressions in the Council which he so multiplied without intermission that the English were more vile in his eyes Court then any other even of the remotest Nations Insolently saying It is expediens for us to compound with the Emperor Frederick that we may trample the little King of England our Vassal under feet who now kicks with the beel against us 664 665. The King Archbishops Bishops Abbots and Nobles draw up 7. Articles in Parliament against the Popes grievances and oppressions 1. In extorting collecting several sums of money by general Taxes and Assesses without the Kings assent or consent against the antient Customs Liberties and Rights of the Realm and against the Appeal and contradiction of the Proctors of the King and Kingdom made in a General Council 2. In hindring Patrons to present their Clerks to vacant Livings and bestowing them by Provisoes on other Roman Clerks utterly ignorant of the English tongue to the peril of the peoples souls and impoverishing of the Realm beyond measure by transporting money out of it 3 In granting pensions out of Livings by Provision and more Provisions of Benefices then he promised after his Bull against them 4. That one Italian succeeded another 5. That Subjects causes were drawn out of the Realm by the Popes authority against the Custome of the Realm against the written Laws that men ought not to be condemned amongst their enemies and against Indulgences granted by his predecessors to the Kings and Realm of England 6. The frequent mention of that infamous word Non-obstante in his Bulls by which the Religion of an Oath antient customes vigor of writings the established authority of Charters Laws Priviledges were debilitated vanished away and his not carrying himself courteously towards the Realm in revoking the plenitude of his power as he promised 7. That in the Benefices of Italians neither their rights nor sustentation of the poor nor hospitality nor preaching of
might receive the amends for it 736. His indignation against Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln for excommunicating the Sheriff of Roteland for not apprehending a Clerk excommunicated by him after 40. dayes and Popes Letter he procured concerning it 738. His Prerogative to have all Royal Fishes wherever they arrive and Writ concerning it 738 739. His notable Writ to Bishop Grosthead to appear and answer his contempt before him for endeavouring to deprive him of his ancient Prerogative to attach Clerks in his Diocesse for contempts in proceeding against his Writs of Prohibition in the Ecclesiastical Court which exorbitant injury and contempt he neither would nor ought patiently to endure with his special Mandate to his Justices of the Kings Bench to keep him in possession of this liberty not permitting any thing of this his right to be diminished 739 740. He refuseth to hear or redresse the complaints of the Prior of St. Bartholmews and Canons of Pauls against Archbishop Boniface for beating wounding him and his Canons and tearing his Miter when he came to visit them he excusing and justifying himself before him His Proclamation throughout London that none under pain of losse of life or member should presume to intermeddle in that quarrel to prevent a sedition the Londoners resolving to ring their common bell and hew the Archbishop in peices if they found him for this fray and riot who backed by the King and Queen excommunicated the Canons afresh in his Chapple at Lambeth 742. Pope Innocent 4. desires his license to repair to Burdeaux in Gascoign the King of France his brothers charging the Pope that his covetousnesse in prohibiting the voyage of the Crucesignati and dispensing with their vows for money was the cause of the French Kings overthrow soliciting King Henry to joyn with the Emperor and hasten his voyage to the Holy Land according to his vow as he tendred the honour of Christ which put the King to a great Dilemma either to displease the Pope or the Emperor and French King 746 747. He used all diligence to procure the Monks of Winton to elect his brother Aethelmar Bishop of Winton though a foreigner youth unlearned His Letters speech to them to induce them to chuse him Bishop and menace to confound all the Monks if he found them rebellious to his perswasions who despairing of any assistance from the Pope by appeal where any thing might be obtained by gifts they unanimously elected him out of fear against their consciences The Kings Letters Messengers to the Pope for his confirmation which he obtained by great gifts and by a provision of 500 Marks a year rent which the Pope exacted for the Duke of Burgundies young son 748 749. He commands the Woods of the Bishoprick of Winton to be cut down sold and the money brought into his Treasury but distracted not the goods thereof because his brother Aethelmar was to enjoy them 751. He enricheth his brethren and Queens kinred with Ecclesiastical Livings writes on their and Boniface his behalf to the Pope against his Suffragans 752. Prescribes an anniversary obsequy for his Mother Qu. Isabell and prayers to be made for himself his Queen and Children 755 756. He refused to assent to a Disme granted by the Popes Letters to his brother Geoffry in the province of Burdeaux because he should suffer damage thereby yet consents to his grant of a Disme in the province of Dublin to Stephen Longespe 757. His Letters to the Pope to appoint auditors named by him to take the account of the Bishop of Worcester of the Disme he granted him for the Holy Land and not to hearken to his complaint for seising his Barony for excommunicating the Sheriff of Roteland against his prohibition to the prejudice of his royal dignity 738. His license to transport stones from Bristol Castle to Ireland to build a Church in Dublin 758. He seiseth the Liberties and attacheth the Bayliffâ— and 12. Burgesses of Rochester for thrusting a condemned person into the Church to prevent execution 759. The Massing furniture he provided for his Chappel in Windsor Castle 759. His Patents Temporal Courts defiled with Non-obstantes like the Popes by whose Non-obstantes he justified his 760. He sides with the Covent of Westminster against the Abbot grants them the Custody of the temporalties of the Abby and goods thereof during the vacancies His prohibition to foreign Merchants Usurers to lend any monies to the Abbot or Covent thereof without his Royal and both their joynt assents thereto 763 764. He Feasts with his brother the new Bishop of Winton upon his return from Rome 764 His injuries grievances to the Church of St. Alban spoyling Prelates and religious persons by the Popes command reducing them to extreme servitude 765. His hydropical thirst after gold silver jewels which he extorted from Jewes and Christians 766. The Pope animates him to go to the Holy Land to ayde the King of Francâ— he takes on him the Crosse and summons all the Londoners to Westminster to crosse themselves for the Holy Land only to gain money 766 767 771 772. His Writs to the Archbishops Bishops of England and Ireland to promote the preaching of the Crosse to raise monies by Freers Predicants and others and to publish the Popes indulgences to such who crossed themselves 766 767 768. Several Writs concerning it and his voyage to the Holy Land His Letters to the Queen of France for restoring the lands taken from him in France which would be a great encouragement for him and his Nobles to relieve the distressed Christians and King Lewis 769 770. He summons a Parliament reads the Popes Bull to the Prelates to grant him an ayde which the Bishops opposed lest it should be drawn into custome by a double act They promise him an ayde conditionally to confirm the Great Charter of their Liberties so often agreed to promised to swear anew inviolably to observe it for the future and so as the money might be faithfully collected reserved in safe hands for his use till he actually went to the Holy Land and not prodigally spent to the prejudice of the Realm and his faithfull subjects and advantage of his enemies like former aydes whereupon he swore horribly in a great rage that he would never whiles he lived inthrall himself to such a servitude Their further debates concerning it his discourse with the Bishop of Ely with his stout answer refusal to ayde him to the impoverishment and servitude of the Church in imitation of Tho Becket and Edmund of Canterbury who were martyred His indignation against his brother Bishop of Winchester for his ingratitude in opposing his ayde he committing him to the living Devil at his departure The Parliaments dissolution in great discontent without ayding him they telling him he was born only to extort money and empty their purses 770 to 775 He and the Pope favoured furthered each other in their tyranny exactions which provoked the anger and internal hatred of all against them yea
like Castles 1064. His grant of the Jews School in London to the Freers Poenitentiaries whom they disturbed in their Masse with their howlings with a license to the Jews to erect another School elsewhere 1065. His zeal to punish and revenge the Citizens of Norwich tumult in spoyling burning the Priory and Cathedral there upon a fray between the Monks and them about certain Taxes and Liberties His Writs proceedings therein seising the Citizens liberties goods persons hanging some fining others and going thither in person to see Justice executed 1065 1066 1067. His prohibition of the antient manner of tryal of Felons Theeves by judgement of fire and water and appointing other penalties by advice of his Counsil Appendix 20. He convened the Popes Usurers in Londâ—n before him accusing them as Schismaticks Hereticks and of High Treason for that they professing themselves Christians had defiled the whole Realm of England with the most filthy gain of Usury for which he being a most Christian King who had sworn inviolably to preserve the Holy Institutions of the Church complained he felt himself much wounded in his conscience which fact when they could not deny some of them were taken and imprisoned others hid themselves in corners Yet at last purchasing their peace for a good sum of money they were dismissed in peace and would thereupon have left the Realm but that they had purchased sumptuous houses in London Appendix 26. His great oppression and exactions of monies from the Jews at several times who proffered to leave all their wealth behind them so as he would grant them liberty to depart the Realm to get a livelihood elsewhere he being another Titus and Vâ—spasian selling them to his brother Richard to tear out their bowels after he had pulled off their skins Appendix 26 27. His excuse of his oppression and rapines by the vastnesse of his Debts and smalnesse of his Estate which necessitated him to extort money by any means Ibid. He repents his receipt of 500 Marks from the Covent of Abendon for a license to elect a new Abbot without disturbance upon the death of their Abbot then sick of the palsie dying within 15. dayes after because else he might have made 1000 Marks or more by sale of the Woods besides other profits Appendix 27. The Pope threatens to excommunicate and interdict the Realm and proceed rigorously against him for not performing his covenants and promise with him touching Sicily and Apulia to which he had willingly obliged himself under these pains and losse of his Realm Whereupon being confounded in his minde to delay publishing this sentence for a time and allay his anger he payd the Pope 5000 Marks the Realm being impoverished and utterly spoyled of its treasure all his hopes of obtaining that Realm vanished Appendix 28 29. His license and direction to make an Impropriation and endow a Vicaridge Appendix 29. His devotion in frequent hearing of Masses but indiscretion in permitting himself the Church Realm to be preyed upon by Popes and their Instruments which his Obligations to them for ayding him against Lewis at first against the Barons Rebellious Prelates at last and cheating specious proffers grants to Edmund of Apulia Calabria Sicily were the greatest inducements 1067 1068 1069. His sicknesse and pious death after 56 years and 20 dayes reign 1067. King Henry 8. of England his clause in a Treaty with the Pope and Potentates of Italy that they might not give away any part of the Crown of France for redeeming of King Francis 321. King Henry 2. of France his request to the States of Lucerne denyed as illegal 320. Holy Land See Jerusalem Aydes Croysadoes Hungary Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. The Kings Oath not to alienate the Crown Lands 320. No Bishops would or could come out of it to the General Council of Lyons being for the most part wasted by the Tartars and by reason of the great distance from it 643. Invaded by the Tartars the King thereof forced to leave the Frontiers retire to fenced Castles Cities craves ayde from the Pope who denyed to send any levying monies forces in the mean time against Frederick the Emperor to depose him and hindring him to releive them 681. Hyberi subject to the Greek Church 491. I. QUeen Jane King Edw. 6. his devise of the Crown to her voyd in Law 326. Jerusalem and Holy Land Popes Titles to it 9 291. Popes Bulls and Croysadoes to raise monies forces for its relief defence against the Saracens for the most part meer impious cheats of Popes to pick peoples purses abuse Christian Kings Princes invade their Rights Prerogatives Territories whiles absent in it and maintain Popes Wars against the Emperor Greek Church and all who opposed their Usurpations the miserable defeats of the French Kings Forces and others at it and sad effects thereof with other particulars relating to Jerusalem and the Holy Land p. 238 340 342 343 403 404 410 to 414 423 424 425 447 448 467 469 470 471 512 513 516 523 to 550 680 681 754 767 770 to 775 821 to 826 1025 1049 1050 Appendix 26 27. See Aydes Croysadoes Index 14 part 2. Frederick 2. King Henry 3. King John Pope Gregory 9. Innocent 3 4. Index 10 1â— King Iâ—â— his grant of Peter-pence 292. Indies and New World Popes pretended Title thereto 9. John Comnenus Emperor of Constantinople attributes his Victories over the Bulgarians and others to the Virgin Mary whose Image he carrieth in a triumphant Chariot into Constantinople going before it in person 41. John Zemisca Emperor of Constantinople doth the like Ibid. King John of England accused and condemned of Treason against his Brother King Richard made King after his death not by succession but election Appendix 18. and p. 297 298. His Coronation Oath Homages to him Appendix 18 19. and p 227. Incurrs Pope Innocent 3. his displeasure by his divorce against the Canons by his Norman Bishops and not releasing the Bishop of Belvoire upon his Letters till he paid a Ransom and took an Oath never to bear Arms during his life 227. His resolute opposition of the Popes Bishops Usurpations and contempt of their displeasures menaces during his 14 years reign 225 226 227. His Charter of Ambresbury to the Nuns of Founteveroit the former Abbesse and Nuns being ejected for their Whoredoms 228 229. To the Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver Criminal Clerks imprisoned to him upon demand to make their Purgations 230. His Prerogative to grant Licenses to elect and confirm when elected all Abbots Bishops of his Patronage in England France elsewhere a prohibition to elect any without his License and Assent 229 230. His readiness to defend the Churches Rights but with the preservation of his own Ibid. His Writ for the Bishop of Norwich to make use of his Court and Judges to recover the Lands of his Church formerly alienated 290. He seiseth the Temporalties confiscates the Goods of Geoffry his base Brother Archbishop of York and imprisoned his
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
to suppresse the Popes seditions raised against him in and force him out of Italy 503 513 523 524 528 530 to 550. Pope Innocent and his Cardinals driven banished out of it by the Emperor Frederick 676. Julian the Apostate slain by the Virgin Maries appointment upon St. Basils appeal to her 24. Juliâ—â— Caesar his conquest of Britain and rent reserved by force denyed to be payd by King Arthur 326 327. L. LAzi subject to the Greek Church 461. Lewes Son to King Philip of France invades King John 292. Confederates with the Barons against him swears to assist them his speech to the Popes Legate commanding and his Father disswading him not to invade K. John being the Popes Vassal and crossed for the Holy War He chose rather to be excommunicated then violate his Oath to the Barons 297 298. He and his Father deny that King John could give away his Crown Kingdom or make it Tributary to the Pope without his Barons consent who opposed it That by his resignation of it to the Pope it presently became voyd therefore being voyd he could not dispose thereof without his Barons That if he had any Title to it he had forfeited it by his surrender by his Treason against King Richard the 1. in his life time and murder of his Nephew Arthur for which he was condemned to dye by the French Peers That he had a better Title to it then King John by descent and by the Barons electing him for their King and rejecting John 297 298. Appendix 18 19. His Advocates allegation amplification of these Objections before the Pope himself with his answers and their replyes thereto 298 362 to 367. His Letter to Alexander Abbot of St. Augustines of Canterbury to the same effect to incline him to his party and hinder his publishing the Legates Excommunication against him Appendix 18 19 20. His arrival in England with an Army the Barons and Londoners reception crowning him for their King their Oath of Homage and Fealty to him and his Oath to them to restore them their good Laws and lost inheritances 362. Gualo the Pope Legate follows him into England he with some Bishops Abbots and Clerks publickly excommunicates him and all his adherents with Bells and Candles commanding him to be excommunicated on all Lords-dayes and Holy-dayes throughout all England 362. He is likewise boldly excommunicated by Alexander Abbot of St. Augustines by the Legates command notwithstanding all his threats and menaces for which his followers plundered some of his goods Tenants in the Isle of Thonet where he landed Appendix 19 20. Simon Langeton his Chancellor and Gervose de Hobrugge Praecentor of Pauls appeal against his Excommunication in his behalf as null and voyd in Law efficiate to and communicate with him notwithstanding He the Barons and Londoners slight controul their Excommunications and Interdict though reiterated with their particular names exclame against the Pope as having no power from God or St. Peter to meddle with Kingdoms or Temporal affairs 359 360 361 362. He took a secret Oath with 16. more of his chief Earls and Barons to extirpate all the Englâ—sh Barons adhering to him and their posterity as execrable Traytors to their Soveraign King John whom he could not trust if peaceably setled in the Throne which being revealed to them by Vicount Melun they sued to King John for reconciliation 366. His total defeat at Lincoln by King Henry 3. his forces after King Johns death 370 371. His new supplyes sent from France and Eustace his Admiral taken at Sea by King Henries Navy whereupon he is necessitated to sue for peace The Articles of peace between him and King H. 3. out of which the English Clergy adhering to him were excepted and left to the Popes and Legates â—apine His departure from England never to return into it more 371 372. The Archbishop and three Bishops more their Embassy to him in Normandy when King of France demanding the restitution of Normandy and other Lands in France according to his Oath at his departure who retorts only King Henries breach of his Oath in violating the Great Charter swoâ—n to by all without any other answer 387 388. King Lewes 8 of France devised his Jewels and Goods to be sold to satisfie his Legacies lest any thing belonging to the Crown wherein he had no disposing Interest should be sold 321. King Lewes 12. the Father of his Country would not meddle with the Crown Lands disposal 321. Lombardy the Pope by his Nuncio stirred them up to rebell against the Emperor Frederick for which he is imprisoned Lombardy invaded wasted put to a fine and ransome by him and forced to obedience 522 to 527 529 551 611. Loraign Dukedom Popes pretences to it 9. Lucerne State cannot pawn nor sell their Lands 320. Lyons imaginary Kingdom Popes Title thereto 9. M. MAcedo Emperor of Constant nople resumed what Michael the Emperor gave 319. Majorca and Minorca Popes pretended Title to them 9. Manfred King of Sicily King H. 3. his proposals to the Pope for a Marriage-Treaty or War with him holding or quitting Sicily 920. Contemned hated by the Pope crowned King of Apulia by the Nobles who do him Homage Fealty deliver him possession of the Cities Castles without any mention of Edmund he created Archbishops and Bishops without the Pope against his assent who more obeyed him then the Pope 948. He assist Brancaleo the Roman Senator against the Pope Appendix 28. Marchia 522. Marocco Murmelius King thereof 284. Qu. Mary of England her Title to the Crown 326. Maximilian 1. Emperor George Cassander his Consultation written by his command 22. N. NAples Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. Navarre Popes pretended Title thereto 9 291. Nigella Popes pretended Title to it 9. Normandy Bishops thereof divorce King John 227. Dean and Canons ought not to elect Bishops there without the Kings special license and assent 229 230. King John Fore judged thereof by the Barons of France for the murder of his Nephew Arthur in the French Kings Court The judgement held unjust by the English and Pope 363 364. Appendix 18. King H. 3. demands possession thereof from Lewes according to his Oath who denyes to give it 387 388. King John lost it by ill Counsel and losing his Subjects hearts 444. Norway Popes pretended Title to it 291. See Haco O. KIng Ossa Founder of and Priviledge to St. Albans Monastery 716. Appendix 21. Grants and payes Peter-pence to the English School at Rome 292. Otho 5. Emperor excommunicated interdicted deposed by Pope Innocent 3 only for resuming the Lands of the Empire which he had usurped according to his Oath 259 260. King Johns League with him 261. He held the Donation of the Lands of the Empire to the Pope voyd 316. Frederick made Emperor by the Pope out of hatred to persecute and depose him 539. Rebelled against the Pope persecuted hated excommunicated deprived ruined by him and the Empires Soveraignty by his and Fredericks deposing reputed an
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
some few deny 256 263 271. The French King boasted he had most of their Charters of fealty and subjection to him 271 305. Sixteen of the potentest Earls and Barons swear to perform King Johns agreement with Pandulf touching the Bishops exile 271 273. The assent consent of them all inserted into King Johns detestable Charter of resignation of his Crowne Kingdoms of England and Ireland unto the Pope and 11. of their Names subscribed to it in whose presence he did his homage and swore fealty 273 â—74 289 290. when as the Nobles not only generally murmured at but protested against the Kings grant thereof as made without their assents 294 295 296 298 299 301 302 305 327. Appendix 19. They refuse to follow King John into France till absolved from his excommunication 276. They pretend poverty and want of monies to be the cause 282. Twelve of their Letters to the exiled Bishops for their safe return and Kings performance of his agreement with the Legate for their restitution and dammages 276 277. Meet at St. Albans force the King to observe the Lawes of King Henry the 1. reform all ill Lawes extortions He intends to raise an army to subdue those Barons who seemed to desert him from which he desists through the Archbishops menaces and promise they should submit themselves to a legal trial in his Court 282. They enter into a secret Oath and confederacy by the Archbishops instigation to revive and maintain the good Lawes of King Edward and Hen. 1. for which they would fight even to death in time convenient 282 283. He sends to the Pope to whom he had resigned his Crown Realm for a Legate to excommunicate the Archbishop and Barons 287. They meet in 2. Parliaments at London and Reding about the Bishops dammages to whom they adhered more then to the King 287 288. Some of them connived at King Johns sealing his Charter to render him more odious and take occasion from thence to oppose contest with rebell against him 294 295 296. Crown Lands Charters alienated to them resumed revoked by our Kings 324 325. King Johns Letters to them concerning the Popes release of the Interdict craving their effectual ayde advice for their and his honor and reformation of the State of the Realm 332. Their meeting in Parliament thereupon with the Legate Bishops agreeing the summe of the Bishops dammages and for the release of the long continued Wars Interdicts 332 333. Their demand of the confirmation of the Great Charter of Liberties and Lawes from King John by the Archbishops instigation menaces to raise war against and withdraw their allegiance from him if denyed providing of horse arms to force him to it they seise upon London raise a great army whereby through fear the King granted them the Great Charter of Liberties and of the Forest with many new clauses inserted by the Bishops consented to 25. conservators of them whom all swore to obey ratified them by his Great Seal Oath and more readily to incline the Prelates hearts to him granted a New Charter to them for the freedom of elections and ratified them by the Popes Bull 335 to 341. His appeal Letters to the Pope against these Charers as extorted from him by the Barons by force fear without the Popes privity who had the Dominion of England he and it being then under his protection without whose knowledge he ought to do nothing and he crossed for the Holy Land The Popes Bull nulling these Charters admonitions Letters to the Barons to honor please obey him as their King and to him to treat them favourably grant all their just petitions and checking them for taking arms against him being his vassals 327 340 341 342. He prohibits them or their Complices to exact these Charters and nulls all obligations cautions to observe them His Bulls to the Barons to that purpose 342 343. They more fiercely rebell against him thereupon the Archbishop trayterously surrenders Rochester astle to them the Barons excommunicated for their rebellion all enjoyned to assist the King against them under pain of excommunication 344 345 The Archbishop suspended for refusing to publish their Excommunication as gained by misinformation and for favouring siding with them 345 347 348 351. It is yet published every Lords-day against them by the Bishop of Winton and Pandulphus the Popes Legate 345. The Barons except against it as null because general and none of them named in it 345 346. They refuse contemn King Johns offer to grant all their petitions which the Pope by the plenitude of his power should deem just to grant hinder his voyage to the Holy Land by their insurrections whereof he complained to the Pope 346 346. Upon which they and their complices are excommunicated interdicted a fresh by name at the Kings request 359 360. Their excommunication interdict published through all England except London where the Barons Citizens contemn them as Null deny the Popes authority in temporal matters revile scorn him appeal against and officiate notwithstanding 360 361 364. They renounce King John send for receive Lewis of France Crown him King swear Homage fealty to him 361 362. Appendix 18 19. His Oath to them to restore good Laws and their lost possessions which he violated by detaining their Castles whereupon many revolt from him to King John and for Lewes and 16 of his Chief Barons taking a private Oath to exile all the English who adhered to them against King John as Traytoys not to be trusted 362 366. The Pope excited them by his Bulls to rise up against King John 〈◊〉 an obstinate Enemy to the Church at first to enslave him and his Realm yet after he had effeminately surrendred his kingdom to him he excommunicated disinherited them and gave away their Estates according to the Roman mode agreeing with the King to trample them under feet 287 367 368 414 415. Many of them revolt from Lewes to King Henry 3. 269 370. his Oath in the Agreement with Lewes to render to them and all others of the Realm all their Rights Inheritances Liberties formerly demanded forwhich the discord arose between King John and them and to secure them from all harm and reproach for their former actings 371. Requests the Popes Letters to command those Barons whose fidelity he suspected faithfully to assist and adhere to him and to compell those who were rebellious by Ecclesiastical censures without any appeal to surrender his Castles which they at first resusing were forced thereto by the Archbishops and Bishops Excommunications 389 390 391 392. They advise the King to obey the Popes Inhibition not to invade France 404. The custody of their Heirs Castles Land belong to the King 430. They expostulate with him for impoverishing the Kingdom and following the advice of the Popes Legate and Strangers when he demanded an ayde in Parliament 485. In the Parliament of Merton will not change the Law of England concerning Bastardy which they settled 471 472 473. Summoned to a Parliament
papal Divinity Law in that age 872. 873 to 890. No particular person can wave alter decline the Jurisdictions of the Kings Courts by his Contract oath nor give a Jurisdiction to Ecclesiastical Courts in Temporal matters contracts nor yet the Pope by his Bulls 872 to 890. Popes and popish Usurers endeavoured to do it by clauses in their Instruments priviledges contracts with our Kings 452. 453. 454 767. 768. 846 919. 931. 1001. 1002. and the Bishops by their Constitutions 998 to 913. See Prohibitions Popes Popish Canonists Prelates by their Constitutions exempted themselves Clerks Lands Goods Churches from all Emperours Laymens Jurisdiction Judicature Courts Laws Taxes for publick defence as subject onely to Gods judgement and their own and their very Concubines Harlots too 5. 6 7. 8. 874. 878. 886 897. 898 to 9â—2 Popes have no Jurisdiction in Temporal things or affairs 258. 259. 260. 278. 279. 360. 361. 473. 478. 872 882. When how Jurisdictions may be altered transferred and how to be excepted against 887. 888. Encroachments of Jurisdiction by Popes their Legates Delegates Archbishops Bishops Ecclesiastical persons Courts restrained by Kings Prohibitions 872 to 913. Appendix 8 9. See Prohibitions Jus Patronatus 971. Justices Itinerant licensed by Archbishops to give Oathes and impanel Juries in times prohibited by Canons at the Xings petition 394 407. K. KIngs particularly Kings of England Gods Vicars upon Earth chief Governors Patrons Protectors of the Church Christian Religion Gods Worship 1 2 3 4 5 872 873. Their Ecclesiastical Supremacy over all Prelates Priests persons causes within their Dominions in what particulars it principally consists Ibid. Popes claims and pretended Soveraign Monarchy Jurisdiction over them and their Kingdoms 5 6 7 8. Popes Popish Canonists exempt all Prelates Clergy-men their Lands Goods yea Concubines from their Jurisdiction Laws Taxes Judicatures for civil criminal matters as well as Ecclesiastical and make them meer cyphers 5 6 7 8 9. Excommunicate Interdict depose them absolve their Subjects from their Allegiance dispose of their Crowns Kingdoms at their pleasure See Frederick 2. Otho King John Henry 3. Index 10 12 14. Absolution Excommunication Interdicts Oaths Their Papal Titles to all their Kingdoms Territories 9 291 292. Our Kings Soveraign Authority Jurisdiction in Ecclesiastical as well as Civil things derived only from God not Popes 1 2 3 4 229 305 323 324 325 326 571 576 582 583 592 688 720 721. Their care duty zeal Writs endeavours to preserve defend the antient just Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown Kingdom against all Papal and Prelatical Usurpations in England Ireland France 227 228 230 232 233 236 237 239 240 to 273 300 301 302 303 323 324 326 338 356 586 592 593 to 598 640 641 644 645 663 710 727 739 740 962 963 964. Appendix 7 to 12 24 25. See Prerogative Prohibitions and Index 3 4 5 10 12. Right in Bishops elections dispensed with it out of special grace in some cases of Elections in Ireland See Index 4. and Elections Excepted out of Archbishops general Excommunications See Excommunications His Grants Acts by misinformation or circumvention nulled 304 373 374 482. They cannot alien their Crowns Kingdoms Crown-Lands without their Barons Subjects consents being against their Oaths trusts duty and Trustees of them only for the publick safety benefit of their Subjects 273 274 275 289. 290 291 316 to 329. Such alienations resumed Ibid. See Alienation Resumption Their care duty Oath Writs to preserve defend protect the just Rights Liberties of the Church Prelates Clergy in their persons possessions whereof God hath made them Defenders without prejudice to their Crowns and Royal Prerogatives See Index 2 3 4 5 6 10 12. p. 227 229 230 2â—3 234 242 251 252 279 323 324 334 335 336 380 381 571 57â— 575 576 58â— 592 593 6â—6 637 666 667 668 670 to 675 678 680 688 689 716 748 749 928 929 968 995 to 1007 1016 1017 1027 1028 1033. Obliged to protect foster the Rights Liberties of their Lay-Subjects against Popes and Prelates Usurpations 507 666 667 670 671 672. Kings desire declaration to govern by Law not power â—88 to do Justice to all great and small according to Law in all his Courts 989. Kings remain such whiles just cease to be Kings when they prove unjust 776. The King declared of full age by the Pope resumes the custody of his Castles 391 392. What virtues are requisite in Kings and by what precious stones represented 247 248. The King of England the most Christian of all Christiaâ— Kings where Faith Holiness hath more flourished then in any Kingdom throughout the World 712. His Coronation Oath See Oath Adorned with Armes Laws 588. Appealed to for Justice by Foreign Princes 588. The Kings Counsil Writs issued subscribed by them and their advice Acts done in their presence 265 277 278 381 389 390 394 1007 1008. See Index 8 9. and Writs His ill Counsellors especially Aliens complained against removed banished by the Barons 300. See Aliens Barons Pope obeyed by Bishops Abbots more then the King 300 933 934. Append. 9 10. See more in Prerogative Prohibitions Knights made at solemn Festivals the Popes Legates Nephew Knighted by King H. 3. with others 570 711. L. LApse after 6. months 389. None against the King by his Prerogative 481 482 563. Laws Popes usurped power to limit null dispense against the Law of God and the Apostles to take away all positive Laws without a cause and null all Princes Lay-mens Laws 5 6. No Princes Laws can binde Bishops or Clergymen though for their benefit unlesse ratified by the Pope 6. The making and interpreting of Laws in the Virgin Mary who knew both the Civil Canon Laws and Decretals 19. Laws of England setled in Ireland See Ireland Of King Edward the Confessor and King H. 1. sworn to be observed by our Kings evil Laws to be abolished 279 282 283 336 370. See Charter of Liberties Students of the Canon Law in the Universities of Oxford and Paris advised with in Appeals by the King 588. The Bishops learned in the Canon Laws much insisted on them to advance their own Jurisdiction exempt themselves and all the Clergy from Kings and secular Courts Jurisdiction 249 251 253 874 to 913. See Canons Canon Law Index 3. Judge Bractons learned Treatise of the Laws and Customs of England in the reign of King Henry 3. 872 to 888. Laymen though Emperors Kings Judges uncapable by Popes Popish Prelates Canons of any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over Ecclesiastical persons causes things or over Priests Concubines not to be witnesses against Clergymen 5 6 7 8 874 890 to 913. Their ill esteem of them and their authority though Emperors Kings Ibid. and Index 3 10 12. Lay-patrons Benefices exempted by order of Parliament and Popes Bulls from First-fruits and Popes Provisions by the Barons stout oppositions against them 507 508 718. Excommunicated Interdicted for arresting criminal Clerks or their Concubines suing Clergymen in the Kings secular Courts 6
whoredom uncleannesse in other parts Ibid. Enabled to marry by our Kings 4. A Nun ravished by an Archbishop elect of Canterbury who begat many children on her 418. O. OAth the sacred bond thereof and infamy in violating it among all Nations 402 403 343 849. Popes not bound by any Oathes but may break all by the Canonists doctrine 5. Brake the League with the Saracens ratified by Oath to the scandal prejudice of Christians 408. Absolve Subjects Crucesignati from their Oaths for money against the Law of God Nature See Absolution Croysadoes enforce the Jewes by excommunications to remit to the Crucesignati their use-money which they had taken an Oath to pay and to release their Oathes 448. Popes prophane Oathes by St. Peter 340 800. Violate null their own Charter of Investituâ—es ratified by Oath and the Sacrament as extorted by force 328. Bishops prophane Oathes 382 383. Coronation Oath of the Emperors Otho Frederick others to resume the dispersed invaded rights of the Empire for observing whereof by resuming the Lands usurped by Popes they were excommunicated deposed Popes cannot absolve them from it nor their Oath to the Pope to maintain the Churches Liberties 259 260. 316 317 318 515 516. Of King John 227. Append. 19. Of King H. 3. 370. Of King John and his Barons on his Soul to perform Articles for the Bishops safe return restitution to their Bishopricks and damages 271 272 276 277 279 287 288. His Oath of Fealty to the Pope and his successors upon passing his detestable Charter 274 279 290 341. King H. 3. his Oath of Fealty to the Pope and to pay the annual rent granted by King Johns Chatter 370 551. the Emperor Frederick his Oath of Fealty to the Pope 655 656 65â— no discharge of his Coronation Oath to resume the rights of the Empire 316 318 657. King John his Oath to observe the Lawes of King Henry the 1. Edward Confessor and Great Charter of Liberties 279 283 333 936. His violation of and absolution from it soon after by the Pope 340 341 342. Append. 19 King Henry the 3d his Oaths to maintain the Liberties of the Church and Great Charter his frequent violations of them notwithstanding complained of objected against him in Parliaments his renewing thereof by new Charters Oathes Excommunications 370 371 â—87 388 444 544 611 613 614. 796 797 896 928 929 935 936 939. The Oath of aâ— Barons and all others to them for the Great Charters and the Common Lawes inviolable observation and to force the King to keep them if violated 283 335 336 371 387 444 544. His Oath and his Nobles upon his Soul for his Sisters marrying the Emperor to observe the Mariage contract with him for his Sisters portion and the Emperors to marry her 451 452 453 454. His and his Son Edmunds Oath to the Pope to perform their Articles and payment of monies to him for Sicily 866. His Prince Edwards and the Barons Oathes for observing the Provisions of Oxford two Popes absolution of them from it as forced and derogatory to the Crown 934 936 948 988 989 1015 1016 1021 1022. Lewes of France his Oath to the Barons and the Barons Londoners to him upon his Coronation 362. To King Henry 3. when he departed England 371. Alexander King of Scots his League Oath and Fealty to King H. 3. and penalty if violated 620 621. David Prince of Wales his Charter Oath of Homage Fealty to H. 3. and excommunication for violating it notwithstanding the Popes absolving him from it 609 621 622 623 976 977. Of the Emperor Frederick to go to the Holy Land under pain of Excommunication his Excommunication for violating it 409 410 412 4â—3 See Frederick 2. The Earl of Britain his Oath on the Sacrament as Christs very body to K. H. 3. violated and his Excommunication by the Pope desired for it who yet entertained him for his General 456. Upon the Altar and St. Edwards Cossia by K. H. 3. yet not credited by reason of former violations 935. Or Prince David up in the Bishops Crosse 609. Resumption of Crown-lands by the Popes Bull notwithstanding an Oath to ratifie them 470 504 505 The Barons Oathes of Homage and Fealty to King H. 3. at â—iâ— Coronation 370. Archbishops Bishops Oathes of Fealty to our Kings due of right in England Ireland France before their Temporalties restored and at their Coronations their obligations to maintain the rights and prerogatives of the Crown thereby which yet they often violated charged upon them in several Writs 3 343 370 381 559 482 640 641 686 688. 729 784 798. 808 818 832. 939 940 941 991 992. Infringed by suing or answering in Ecclesiastical Courts for Lay fee belonging to the Kings Courts 758 832. Fealty sworn by a Proctor upon the Archbishops Soul by the Kings grace in case of sicknesse or inability to attend him in person 482 483 686. Oath of Fealty to Kings ought to be inviolably observed 237 341 343 364 4â—2 403 849 988. Arthur executed as a Traytor by King Joha for violating it 364. Yet Subjects were absolved from it by Popes against their own Doctrine to serve their own ends 5â—6 260 263 264 265 516 524 539 5â—0 See Absolution Popes new Oath of Fealty obedience to visit his Palace keep his secrets come to his Synods nor morgage nor alien their Lands without his License c. imposed on the Abbot of St. Albans and other Abbots in a forcible fraudulent manner his grief for taking it 464 465 466. Oath by Proxie in aâ—mam Regis Domini 271 337 451 452 453 482 483 650 653 686 946. Oath not to reveal an election violated and thereupon a new election made 243 244 Not to reveal the Popes or Legates secrets 400 465 566 567. Of the Bishop of Belvoir taken in arms never to beat arms more during his life upon his enlargement 227. Of Whores and Priests Concubines in Oxford never to return thither or cohabit with them upon their release 445 446. Extorted by force menaces fear reputed declared void by Popes others prohibited by Canons Writs 235 327 328 342 343 622. 705 706 707 708 9â—4 936 946 988 989 1015 1016 1021 1022. Oath not to revive or prosecute the revival of the Archbishoprick of St Davidâ— prohibited by the Pope as against the Canons 295 Oathes of Canonical Obedience prohibited as dangerous illegal by Councils Popes such obedience to be only subscribed not sworn unto 235 623. 629 630 699 707. Of the Bishop of Durbam to the Archbishop of York by a writing signed with the Crosse without Oath 623. Prohibited in cases of Tithes 727. Cautionary De stando et parendo mandatis Papae or Ecclesiae against the antient Law Custom of the Realm 3. 830 831. yet extorted by force from Kings Emperors others interdicted excommunicated by Popes ere absolved 271 272 279 287 288 384 311. Refused by the Emperor till he knew the particular conditions required 651 652. Of Calumny not enjoyned to
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
against any Christians In the year 1177. no lesse then 30. Nuns of the Monastery of Ambresbery were accused and convicted at one time for their Vnclean Lives to the dissolution and infamy of their Order whereof they had been publickly defamed Whereupon Rex King Henry the 2d by power of his Regal Prerogative expulsis Sanctimonialibus de Abbatia de Ambresberie propter Incontinentiam per alios domos Religiosos in arctiore custodia distributis expelling the Nuns from this Abby for their Incontinency distributed them throughout other Religious houses in stricter custody by way of pennance and gave it to the Abbesse and Nuns of Fount-Everoit for a perpetual possession who sending a Covent of Nuns thither from Fount-Everoit Richard Archbishop of Canterbury inducted them into the Abby of Ambresbery on the 1. of the Kalends of June being the Lords day King Henry the Father Bartholomew Bishop of Exeter John Bishop of Norwich and many other of the Clergy and people being then present as Roger de Hoveden relates in precise termes And by his Charter Anno 1179. confirmed the Lands of this Abby to them with many Liberties and that by advice and consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury and many other Bishops Great men and Barons of the Realm King John in the first year of his Reign by his Charter reciting all the premises in the Prologue confirmed this Charter of his Father ratified these Nuns Deprivations and Imprisonments in other Monasteries for their Incontinency by his Father with consent of his Bishops Nobles and request of Pope Alexander transferring this Abby and all Lands thereto belonging from one rank of Nuns to another takes both these Nuns Persons Lands into his Royal protection as if they were his own demesnes grants them several Tithes Churches large Priviledges and prohibits BY HIS REGAL AUTHORITY GRANTED TO HIM FROM GOD that none of his Officers or Subjects should disturbe them therein nor implead them but in the presence of himself and his Heirs The Charter it self runs in these words JOhannes Dei gratia rex Angliae dominus Hiberniae c. Sciatis Moniales de Ambresburia circiter xxx propter vitae suae turpiditudinem ordinis sui dissolutionem infamiam quae divulgabatur publicè mandato domini papae Alexandri voluntate etiam domini regis Henerici patris nostri consilio quoque prudentia Richardi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi apostolicae sedis legati Joselini Sarum Bartholomei Exoniensis Rogeri Wigornensis G. Londonensis aliorum plurimorum Episcoporum Magnatum Baronum nostrorum a monasterio suo fuisse amotas in aliis monasteriis collocatas moniales de ordine Fontis Ebrardi ibidem ad serviendum Deo introductas Quamobrem concedimus presenti cartâ confirmamus ordini religioni Fontis Ebrardi pro salute animae regis Henerici patris mei religionis honestate pro salute nostra omnium antecessorum nostrorum donationem quam dominus rex Henricus pater noster fecit ecclesiae prefatae Fontis Ebrardi scilicet ecclesiam sanctae Mariae sancti Melori de Ambresbery cum omnibus rebus quae ad eam pertinent tam in ecclesiasticis quam in mundanis possessionibus ut ordo instituta ecclesiae Fontis Ebrardi ibidem quiete conserventur conventus monialium multo major quam fuerat sub custodia Priorissae secundum ordinem praefatae ecclesiae Deo famuletur Hanc ecclesiam cum omnibus rebus quae ad eam pertinent omnes possessiones Fontis Ebrardi sciatis nos velle manutenere defendere liberas quietas esse ab omni seculari servitio exactione gravamine accepisse in manu nostra defensione protectione contra omnes homines sicut propriam nostram domini regis Henerici patris nostri antecessorum nostrorum elemosinam c. with sundry other Lands Quare volumus firmiter praecipimus quod praedictae moniales earum ministri servientes omnes possessiones suas elemosinas habeant teneant cum sacha socha Tol Theam Infangenethef Utfangenethef cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus quietantiis suis in bosco plano in pascuis pratis pasturis in aquis molendinis in viis semitis in stagnis vivariis in mariscis piscariis in grangiis vergultis infra burgum extra in omnibus rebus solutas liberas quietas de siris hundredis de placitis querelis de pecunia pro murdris latrociniis de Hamscka de Forstall de Wapentake Hidagiis Geldis Denegeldis Hornegeldis Fornageldis assartis factis ante confirmationem domini Regis patris nostri factam anno scilicet incarnationis Domini MCLXXIX de assisis donis Scotis auxiliis operationibus castellorum domorum wallorum parcorum vivariorum pontium fossarum flegwita hengewita flemanfremtha summagio warpeni averpeni Theingpeny hunderedespeni de Mischening blodewite â—ithwite Et sint in perpetuum quietae pertotam terram nostram citra mare ultra mare tam per terram quam per aquam de theoloneo passagio pontagio tallagio lestagio stallagio de omni consuetudine omnibus occasionibus quae ad nos vel ad haeredes nostros vel successores nostros pertinent vel pertinere possunt excepta sola justitia mortis membrorum Prohibemus etiam regia authoritate a Deo nobis concessa ne aliquis hominum sive minister noster sive alius in tota terra nostra praeâ—ato monasterio vel ullis rebus ad ipsum pertinentibus molestiam sive in juriam sive contumeliam inferat nec res vel jura sua nec nativos vel fugitivos suos vel catalla earum pro consuetudine aliqua vel servitio aut exactione pro aliqua causa disturbet de rebus suis quas homines earum affidare poterunt suas esse proprias nec de aliqua possessione sua in placitum ponatur nisi in praesentia nostra vel haeredum nostrorum sicut carta domini regis Henrici patris nostri regis Richardi fratris nostri testantur Testibus Willeilmo comite Arundelliae R. comite Leicestriae W. de Stagno B. camerario W. de Clapam W. de Cantilupo R. de Wanci W. de Ewla R. de Montebegun Dat-per manus Huberti Cantuariensis archiepiscopi cancellarii nostri xxx die Augusti apud Rupem Andel. Anno regni nostri primo This Patent of King John is recited and confirmed by an Inspeximus Pat. 22. H. 6. pars 1. m. 14. wherein I shall desire all Romish Votaries to consider the notorious incontinency of these professed Virgin-Nuns in this age no lesse then 30. of them in one Abby were notoriously defamed condemned thrust out of their Abby and sent Prisoners to other Houses by Pope
Alexander the third his direction King Henry the second the Archbishop and Bishops his Nobles and Barons joynt assents ratified by and related in 3. Charters under the Great Seal of England in three Kings Reigns Henry 2. King John and Henry 6. as well as related by Roger de Hoveden therefore no fiction but an undoubted truth for which the King Bishops and most of his Peers gave their judgement against them as King Edward the Confessor formerly did in a like case against the Abbesse and Nuns of Berkley Neither were or are the Nunneries and Nuns in foreign parts more chaste then these were as Nicholaus de Clemangiis Archdeacon of Baion Anno Dom. 1417. attests in these words Restant nunc solae Moniales De his autem plura dicere verecundia prohibet ne non de caetu Virginum sed magis de Lupanaribus de dolis procaâ—â—a Meretricum de stupris incestuosis operibus dandum sermonem prolixe trahamus Nam quid obsercro aliud sunt hoc tempore puellarum Monasteria nisi quedam non dico Dei Sanctuaria sed veneris execranda prostibula Sed lascivorum et impudicorum juvenum ad libidines explendas receptacula ut idem hodie sit puellam velare quod et publice ad scortandum exponere The like is affirmed attested by Episcopus Chemnensis Cornelius Agrippa Claudius Espencaeus Alvarus Pelagius with sundry other Romanists as well as by our learned John Bale Bishop of Ossery for England in his Acts of English Votaries But of this enough The same first year of his Reign the Abbot of Westminster dying the Monks by King Iohns license elected Ralph Arundel Prior of Harle for their Abbot after which electioni facto Dominus Rex qui praesens aderat assensum praebuit Whereupon he was consecrated Abbot No Bishops Abbots Priors or other Ecclesiastical persons being elected to any Dignities but by the Kings previous license and subsequent assent to the person elected who might approve or reject him at his Royal pleasure In the second year of his Reign the Dean and Chapter of Lexoven within this Kings Hereditary Dominions in France presuming to elect a Bishop without his consent he sent this memorable Prohibition to them to preserve this antient right of the Crown descended to him from his Ancestors JOhannes Rex c. W. Decano Capitulo Lexovi Satis novit discretio vestra quid juris dignitatis antecessores nostri Nos similiter in ordinandis Ecclesiis Cathedralibus vacantibus in potestate nostra constitutis huc usque optinuimus quod praedictis Ecclesiis cum eis vacare contigerit non nisi de voluntate et assensu nostro potest nec debet in Pastoribus provideri Verum cum jam Lexov vacet Ecclesia illius ordinatio de nostro velut de sui Principis ex antiqua consuetudine ratione multiplici voluntate pendeat assensu volentes jus suum in omnibus conservare illaesum ne quid per aliquorum malitiam in hac parte de iure nostro depereat aut quicquam in praeiudicium iuris nostri et despendium dignitatis nostrae ab aliquo statuatur ad Dominum Papam solemniter appellavimus per praesentes literas earum latores Appellationem illam innovamus Mandantes vobis et firmiter prohibentes ne aliquatinus in Pastorem Ecclesiae vestrae aliquem nisi de voluntate et assensu nostro eligere praesumatis quod Nos nullo modo posse fieri permitteremus Verum cum Clerici fideles nostri sitis vobis mandamus quatinus sic iuris et dignitatis nostrae indempnitati prospiciatis sicut volueritis quod juri Dignitati Ecclesiae vestrae prospiciamus ad quod Deo teste salvo iure nostro promptam pronam gerimus voluntatem Teste G. Filio Petri c. apud Nottingham decimo octavo die Novembris This Kings appeal to the Pope mentioned in this Prohibition was not to make him Judge of his Right but meerly to preserve it from the Popes and others invasions on it by any clandestine machinations or extraordinary means that might be used to interrupt or defraud him of it The same year this King by his Charter commanded all Clerks then imprisoned for offences throughout England to be delivered to Hubert Archbp. of Canterbury upon his demand of them the original ground and warrant as I apprehend of all Bishops demanding Clerks imprisoned arraigned for Felony and criminal offences to be delivered to them to make their Purgations before which Charter they had no power to demand nor others to deliver them to their Ordinaries when demanded as their Clerks A pregnant evidence of the Kings Supremacy over all Ecclesiastical persons Clerks REX c. Omnibus c. Sciatis nos concessisse venerabili Patri nostro H. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo Custodiam omnium Clericorum Captivorum pro quocunque forisfacto fuerint capti vel detenti unde vobis firmiter precipimus quod eidem Archiepiscopo reddatis omnes Clericos quos in custodia vestra habeatis si quos in custodia habebitis vel quos vos pro aliquo forisfacto quodcumque sit contigerit habere Et prohibemus ne quis aliquem Clericum pro quocunque forisfacto detinere praesumat postquam praefatus Archiepiscopus ipsum requisiverit Teste Willielmo Maresc apud Argentem sexto die Junii This King as Supream Patron of the Bishoprick of Norwch granted the Bishop this memorable Charter to recover all Lands and Tenements thereto belonging unjustly alienated by his Predecessors REX Justiciariis Vicecomitibus omnibus Ballivis Ministris suis salutem Sciatis Nos concessisse Venerabili Patri nostro in Christo J. Norwicensi Episcopo quod omnes Terras Tenementa Possessiones tempore praedecessorum suorum ab Ecclesia sua injuste alienatas juste possit revocare Et si in illis revocandis consilio Curiae nostrae indiguerit Volumus concedimus quod idem Episcopus si voluerit Curiam suam in Curia nostra ponat ut loquelae suae quas ibi posuerit per Judicium Curiae nostrae consuetudinem Regni terminenter Teste W. Briwer apud Esseleg decimo quarto die Octobris In the second year of his Reign Ieoffery Plantaginet Archbishop of York King Iohns base Brother opposed obstructed the levying of Carvage demanded and granted to the King by common consent paid by all others on the demesne Lands of his Church or Tenants beating the Sheriff of Yorks Servants excommunicating the Sheriff himself by name with all his Ayders and interdicted his whole Province of York for attempting to levy it Whereupon the King much incensed for these intollerable affronts summoned him to answer these high contempts his not going over with him into Normandy when summoned and also to pay him 3000. marks due to his Brother King Richard and by his Writs commanded all the Archbishops Servants