Januarii 3. 1664. Imprimatur WILL. MORICE THE SECOND TOME OF AN EXACT CHRONOLOGICAL VINDICATION AND HISTORICAL DEMONSTRATION OF OUR British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Over all Prelates Persons Causes within their Kingdomes and Dominions From the First Year of the Reign of King John Anno Dom. 1199. till the Death of King Henry the III. in the year 1273. WHEREIN The several branches of our Kings Ecclesiastical Soveraignty are truly stated the Popes usurped Vniversal Monarchy subverted by their own Popish Assertions concerning the Virgin Mary Transubstantiation and Christs corporal presence on earth in every Hostia Popes Popish Prelates Intollerable USURPATIONS on Vnchristian Practises against the Persons antient undoubted ECCLESIASTICAL TEMPORAL PREROGATIVES JURISDICTIONS RIGHTS of these KINGS CROWNES PRIVILEGES the LIBERTIES PROPERTIES of the Churches Kingdomes Clergy Nobility Commonalty of ENGLAND and IRELAND By Legates Nuncioes Delegates Bulls Palls Exemptions Dispensations Non-obstantes Decretals Canons Appeals Citations Journeys to Rome Inhibitions Sequestrations Provisions Ratifying void vacating legal Elections Presentations to Ecclesiastical Dignities Benefices at their pleasures By Croysadoes Procurations Tenths Firstfruits illegal Oathes Extortions Rapines Excommunications Interdicts Absolutions from Oathes Vowes open Treasons Rebellions Wars to depose enslave our KINGS KINGDOMES and make them HOMAGERS VASSALLS TRIBUTARIES to the SEE OF ROME With their and our Parliaments Nobles Clergies Commons successive memorable Complaints Oppositions Letters Writs Prohibitions Proceedings against them in the height of Popery The principal Transactions of State between these Kings and the Popes Cardinals Legates Court of Rome with their unparallel'd Avarice Bribery Simony Treachery Tyranny Frauds Impieties Extortions Corruptions are impartially related out of the best Historians in or next that age and irrefragable rare Records in the Tower not formerly published With Vsefull Observations on from them And several Indexes to this Tome By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esquire a Bencher and Reader of the Honourable Society of LINCOLNES INNE Tit. 3. 1. Put them in minde to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work 2 Pet. 2. 14 15. An heart they have exercised with covetous practises cursed children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse LONDON Printed for the Author by Thomas Ratcliffe 1665. and are to be sold by Abel Roper at the Sun over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet Gabriel Bedell at the inner Temple Gate and Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britaine To the Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of CLARENDON Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND Chancellor of the Vniversity of OXFORD and one of His MAJESTIES most Honourable Privy Counsell MY LORD IT is the Institution of God and Nature that all things by a divine and natural right should terminate in their Original and revert to the Spring from which they issue Hence St. Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles and of our British Isle resolves that as all things in heaven and earth visible and invisible whether Thrones Dominions Principalities Powers or other Creatures were and are created By so likewise TO and FOR GOD their ALPHA and OMEGA Yea King Solomon long before him not only concluded in point of Divinity The Lord hath made all things FOR HIMSELF but thus demonstrates it by natural experimental Philosophy All rivers run into the Sea unto the place from whence the Rivers come THITHER THEY RETURN AGAIN This Contemplation hath excited yea obliged me in point of Right and Equity not only to return but dedicate this Large Chronological Vindication and Historical Demonstration to Your Lordship from whose unexpected Voluntary Motion and Subsequent Encouragements to collect publish it for the Honour of our Kings Nation Church Kingdome and benefit of Posterity it received its Original Conception Augmentation Production at vacant hours borrowed for the most part from my natural rest and repasts without the least neglect of my other distracting publick Imployments Which may justly excuse all Defects of Ornament Method Stile Substance any Curious Eyes shall discover therein or in my yet uncompleated Preceding or Succeeding Tomes of the same heroick subject not hitherto at large historically discussed by any Antiquary or Historian I have seen I have prefaced this Tome brought forth into the VVorld like Pharez before its elder brother with a brief necessary Introduction to supply the want of my Larger Introduction comprised in the First Book of the First Tome not yet compleated over-large to be annexed to this as I at first designed Wherein I have truly stated that antient Soveraign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction claimed exercised as there was occasion by our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings which I have historically vindicated in Fact and Right in this and my other intended Tomes Whereunto I have subjoyned a short Synopsis of Roman Popes and their Parasites impudent Claims to a Vniversal Antimonarchical if not Antichristian Soveraign Monarchy over all Churches Empires Kingdomes Nations Emperors Kings Prelates Priests persons throughout the world as well in Temporals as Spirituals under their own forged Titles of Christs Vniversal Vicars His and St. Peters Successors which Supremacy they have for sundry ages attempted to exercise and enlarge upon all advantages by scandalous Bulls Excommunications Interdicts Treasons Rebellions Absolutions of Subjects from their Oathes Allegeance deposals of Christian Emperors Kings wresting their Crownes Regal Authority and Kingdomes out of their hands by force and fraud to the grand disturbance of all Christian Realms to which they have forged Titles The sandy foundations of this their pretended Papal Monarchy I have utterly subverted in a new way by the avowed practises of their own Popes Church and Articles of their Romish Faith concerning the Vniversal Empire yea Deification of the Virgin Mary whom they have not only seated Soul and body in the very Throne of the sacred Trinity in heaven but elevated above God the Father and Christ her Sonne intituling her to all their Soveraign Power over all creatures in heaven earth hell to all their Divine Attributes Titles Offices Worship invoking adoring her in their publike private authorized Devotions more then them yea ascribing to her a commanding power over them in heaven it self And by their Doctrine of Transubstantiation or Christs real presence both in his human body soul Deity in every consecrated Host adoring it as God Christ himself seconded with their Legends of his frequent corporeal real visible apparitions on earth which infallibly overturn the foundations whereon they build St. Peters and their own Supremacy Upon which occasion I have briefly and I hope irrefragably refuted by new Topicks not hitherto used or not fully pressed by Protestant Divines their idolatrous Invocations Adorations of the Virgin Mary and other Saints wherein they not only imitate but farr exceed the antient
Obedience to him till conformable to his Papal pleasure and to dispence with the Kings own Oathes to his Barons and people 8ly A pretended supream Antichristian Papal authority actually to deprive the King and his Heirs of his very hereditary Crown Kingdoms and give them away to other foreign Princes 9ly To command foreign Kings and all Christian Nobles Knights Souldiers by force of armes to seize upon and expell him his Kingdoms and issue out Crossadoes to War against and dethrone him as if he were a meer Saracen and Turk 10ly A Jurisdiction to deprive suspend sequester excommunicate the Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Ecclesiastical and Temporal Peers and Cities of the Realm at his Papal pleasure and summon them to attend the Pope personally at Rome to undergo his Papal censures 11ly A liberty inserted into the Great Charter for all Bishops Clergymen Monks and others to depart out of the Realm resort to Rome or to the Kings Enemies without his Royal license first obtained and to return again at their pleasures 12ly A liberty for all Chapters Covents Monks Clergymen freely to elect whom they pleased to Bishopricks Monasteries Deaneries and other preferments in the Kings Donation and to reject whatever persons the King should specially recommend unto them though never so deserving so as the King could prefer no person to any elective Dignity within his Realms but whom the Chapters Covents Clergy should voluntarily elect and the Pope or his Legates actually confirm at their pleasures 13ly A power to sequester suspend deprive excommunicate and reduce to extream necessity all such Scholars Clergymen and Loyal Subjects who had so much loyalty and courage as to appear in defence of the King and his Cause against the Popes illegal injurious encroachments and to protect advance reward encourage all Traytors and Rebells against the King to advance the Popes Usurpations 14ly A power to sell Archbishopricks Bishopricks Monasteries and all other Ecclesiastical preferments Palls to those who would give most money for them to extort monies for Papal Benedictions Valedictions dismissions from attendance in General Councils or the See of Rome upon summons thither 15ly An over-awing authority over all the Bishops Clergy of England Ireland to obey the Popes most unjust treasonable commands against the expresse commands protestations of the King Barons Kingdoms to the Kings Realms and Churches prejudice 16ly A power to hear and determine by Appeal or otherwise all causes and controversies concerning elections unions or disunions of Churches or other Ecclesiastical Offices As to the Kings and Kingdoms Temporal Rights and Jurisdictions Pope Innocent made these unparalleld encroachments on them 1. An actual Interdiction of the whole Realm sundry years for a pretended personal contempt in the King alone and after that the like Interdict of the Londoners and Barons temporal Estates for their Rebellions and civil offences against the King 2ly An Antichristian power to dethrone dis-inherit the King and his Heirs of their hereditary right in the Crown Kingdoms of England and Ireland and to transfer them to foreign Kings and Enemies without the Kings or Kingdoms consent or any tryal hearing of the King or Kingdom 3ly A forcible wrested resignation from the King of his Crown Scepter Kingdoms to the Pope and his Successors without his Barons or Kingdoms consents by a void illegal extorted Charter 4ly A resuming of them by King John and his Heirs from the Pope and his Successors under an Annual Rent or Pension and extorting of an Oath of Homage and Fealty from the King as a meer Vassal and Tributary to the Pope and Church of Rome directly contrary to the Rights of the Crown and freedom Office Royaly of a King 5ly A power to confirm null repeal the Kings own Temporal Charters yea Great Charters of Liberties and the Forrest and judge of their validity or invalidity at his Papal pleasure 6ly A power to examine hear determine the Right and Title of King John and others to the Crown of England and decide them in the Court of Rome as the supream Judicature in such cases 7ly A Jurisdiction to hear and determine all civil controversies touching Priviledges Rights Franchises between the King and his Barons and excommunicate them for not submitting to his Papal Edicts therein 8ly A power to make Truces and prohibit Christian Kings to War upon each others Kingdoms under pain of Excommunication and Interdiction 9ly A pretended right to protect all Kings and Nobles who took up the Crosse from any civil proceedings Wars against each other during the Crossado and to recommend promote grant prescribe Taxes Tenths to maintain those Wars against the Turks but in truth to fill his Papal coffers 10ly A power to exempt Treacherous Rebellious Clergymen from being Out-lawed or Interdicted by the King and force the King by publike Patents to disclaim this his antient Prerogative with his power of detaining any Clerks in Prison for capital Crimes or Felonies if demanded to be delivered by and to their Ordinaries All these with some other Usurpations of lesse concernment reducible to these heads were introduced by Pope Innocent the 3d. during the reign of King John never practised in England before by any of his ambitious Predecessors and so fastned upon the necks of the King Kingdom by wholesale by means of King Johns forced resignation of his Crown to the Pope intestine Wars differences between the King his Bishops Barons this Pope and his Legates policies that his Successors for many years after though they frequently complained petitioned against them with much earnestnesse and regret yet were hardly able with all their power or policy to resist much lesse to shake them off but only by piece-meal and inches as they had strength and opportunity to do it I shall now proceed to his Sons and Successors long yet troublesome reign by like unhappy contests between the Crosâ—er and Scepter the King and his Barons upon pretext of publike Liberty and our Ecclesiastical affairs under him THE FOVRTH BOOK CHAP. I. K. Henry the 3d. his succession to K. John his Coronation necessitated Oath Homage Subjection to Transactions Complyance with the Pope and See of Rome against his own and the Nobles wills his and their Complaints Oppositions Prohibitions against the Popes Bishops Clergies Encroachments Exactions both in England and Ireland with the chief passages concerning the Ecclesiastical affairs in them during the first 20. years of his young troublesome reign KIng John being taken out of this world by poyson through the implacable malice of the Monks and Prelates having then many Enemies both of Earls Barons and more especially of the Popish Clergy Henry his eldest son was then but of the Age of 9. Years at which time most of the Lords of England adhering to Lewes the French Kings son whom they had sent for before in displeasure of King John to be their King and had sworn to him their Allegiance Thereupon William Earl Marshall a Noble man of great
volumus nec debemus relinquere tuae fraternitati per Apostolica scripta Mandamus atque praecipimus quod taliter quae praedicta sunt corrigas per teipsum quod adversum te nos non cogas durius commoveri qui tolleravimus hactenas temeritatem tuam in multis Alioquin noveris nos Venerabili fratri Eliensi Episcopo dilecto filio Abbati de Waltham per scripta nostra praecipiendo mandasse et ut praedictus excommunicationis suspensionis et interdicti sententias talfter a te illatas nullas esse denuncient et te ad restitutionem eorum quae vel a Clericis vel ab Ecelesâ—is Archidiaconatus ejusdem post appellationem ad nos legitime interpositam extorsisti et recompensationem damnorum per Censuram Ecclesiasticam appellatione remota compellerint et quicquid per te vel tuos in prejudicium ejus vel suorum invenerint immutatum in statum pristinum nostra freti authoritate reducant et sub praemissa te districtione compescant ne Archidiaconum vel ejus Clericos injuste molestes aut statum vel libertates eorum audeas perturbare Sciturus procerto quod cum durum sit tibi contra stimulum calcitrare nisi abstineas ab hujusmodi et mandatis nostris reverenter obedias manus nostras in te ultra forte quam timeas curabimus aggravare ne tui nobis imputentur excessus Datum Laterani 3. Nonas Februarâ—â— Pontificatus nostri anno I find not that this Archbishop was any wayes daunted with this high menacing Epistle but proceeded still against Honorius till restrained by the Kings Writs Appeals to Rome being but then in their very Infancy and that not as to a Supream Judicature but only by way of complaint as a Voluntary perswading Arbitrator and that by the Kings license first obtained as Learned Sir Roger Twisden truly observes This Pope in his Epistle to the Bishop of Ely who did nought therein relates That K. Henry the I. when he would create a new Bishoprick at Karleol because the Archdeaconry of Richmond would be prejudiced thereby obtained from the then Archbishop of York some Privileges in recompence of part of the Archdeaconry then substracted from it which the Archdeacons enjoyed ever since which Jeoffry then endeavoured to substract confessing hereby that the King had an inherent power without the Pope to create new Bishopricks substract alter the Diocesse Privileges both of Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons so as to bind their successors thereby In this second year of King John Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury against the Kings Royal Prerogative intending to celebrate a generall Council at Westminster without the Kings special Writ thereupon the King being then in Normandy Geoffry Fitz Peter Earl of Essex being then chief Justice of England sent a Prohibition to inhibit it yet the Archbishop contra Prohibition em Gaufridi held the Council wherein he made and promulged severall Decrees statuens ea a suis subditis inviolabiliter observari Two of them are very memorable The first prohibiting Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons or Deans in their Visitations Ne subditos suos talliis exactionibus gravare praesumant sustinemus autem pro multis necessitatibus quae aliquotiens superveniunt si manifesta rationabilis causa extiterit cum charitate modicum ab eis valeaent auxilium postulare Cum enim dicit Apostolus Non debent filii Thesaurizare parentibus sed parentes filiis multo longe a paterna pietate videtur si praepositi subditis suis graves existant quos in cunctis necessitatibus pastoris more debent fovere Archidiaconi aut sui Decani nullas exactiones vel tallias in Presbyteros seu Clericos exercere praesumant The second Sicut in Lateranensi Concilio salubriter a sanctis Patribus est provisum inhibemus ne a personis Ecclesiasticis deducendis ad sedem vel Sacerdotibus vel aliis Clericis instituendis aut sepelendis mortuis aut benedicandis nubentibus seupro chrismate seu quibuslibet aliis Sacramentis aliquid exigatur His adjicimus ne pro licentia celebrandi divina a Sacerdotibus vel docendi a Magistris aliquid exigatur si solutum fuerit repetatur De ejusdem etiam Concilii auctoritate prohibemus ne novi census ab Episcopis vel Abbatibus aliisve Praelatis imponantur Ecclesiis nec veteres augeantur Si quis autem contra hoc venire praesumpserit portionem cum Gihezi se noverit habiturum cujus factum exactione turpi muneris imitatur By what Law such exactions of Procurations Fees for Orders Institutions Inductions Licences of Ministers and Schismaticks are since taken and claimed as duties I cannot yet discover It seems these Decrees were not esteemed obligatory nor regarded Lyndwood Aton and most Histories taking no notice of them because made against the Kings Prohibition and Bishops and their Officers profit though much for the peoples ease Geoffry Archbishop of York having the year before as you heard much incensed the King against him for opposing the levying of Carvage for which he compounded and made his peace with the King the Sheriff and his Officers having exceeded their Commission not only in spoyling him of all the Goods and Mannors of his Archbishoprick but likewise violently entring into the Lands and taking away the Goods of other Clerks and Religious persons Upon their fore-mentioned agreement and the Archbishops humiliation and submission the King issued forth this Writ to preserve the Rights of his See of York JOhannes Dei gratia c. Venerabili Patri E. eadem gratia Elyensi Episcopo Abbati Rufford Archidiacono Northampton Meminimus quod durante discordia inter Nos Venerabilem Patrem in Christo Fratrem Charissimum G. Eborum Archiepiscopum quedam per Ballivos nostros in damnum ipsius Archiepiscopi sunt attemptata quae ob rancorem tempore discordiae conceptum fieri sustinuimus verum pace postmodum apud Porcestriam inter nos reformata omnia in praejudicium juris ipsius tempore discordiae attemptata cassavimus adhuc cassamus Nolumus enim quod occasione eorum quae durante discordia in dispendium juris ipsius Archiepiscopi vel Ecclesiae suae facta fuerint idem Archiepiscopus vel Ecclesia sua dampnum sustineat vel aliquod detrimentum incurrat Teste meipso apud Bangy duodecimo die Januarii This King in the same year and Patent Roll issued forth these two memorable Patents in the behalf of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury for his Justices to assist him in his Courts for the recovery of the demesne Lands unjustly alienated from his Archbishoprick by due course of Law JOhannes Dei gratia Capitali Justiciario Angliae Justiciariis de Banco c. Volumus quod cum Venerabilis Pater noster in Christo Hubertus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus voluerit revocare in Curia sua ea quae injuste alienata fuerint ab Archiepiscopatu Cantuariensi unus vel duo de vobis qui fueritis Justiciarii
injuste occupaverat occuputam hereditatem suam contra justitiam detinebat quare cum ipso ad Angliam venire nolebat Lo here a cleer confession of the Earl of Flanders of the Injustice of King Johns deprivation and King of France his intended Warre to deprive him of his Kingdom by the Popes command who being diverted by Pandulph from invading England turned all his forces and Fleet upon Flanders and by a divine retaliation had all his Navy burnt and taken by a smal party of King Iohns ships summoned to resist King Philips landing in England to his great greif vexation and damage the English burning above a 100. of his ships on shore and taking above 300. more laden with Wine Victuals Armes and other things The many insolences of the Popes Legat and exiled Bishops Treasons rebellions against King Iohn encouraged his Nobles in like manner to disobey and capitulate with him and that upon this occasion REX apud Portesmue exercitum congregavit immensum ut ad Pictaviam transfretaret disponens a parte Occidentali sicut illi qui erant in Flandria a parte Orientali Regem Regnum Francorum inquietare necnon cum omni nisu terras amissas ad suum dominium revocare Sed aliter accidit quam sperabat Magnates enim Angliae ipsum sequi noluerunt nisi prius a sententia Excommunicationis absolveretur Hac ergo districtione Rex compulsus misit Chartas viginti â—quator Comitum Baronum ad Archiepiscopum Episcopos praescriptos ad maiorem securitatem ut omni metu deposito venirent in Angliam omnia sua et ablatorum damna secundum praescriptae pacis formam illico percepturi These Charters and Patents of theirs and the King being extant in no Historian I shall present you with them out the Patent Roll in the Tower VEnerabili in Christo Patri S. Dei gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinali Gâ—filius Petri Comes Essex R. Comes Bolon Comes Cestriae W. Marescal Comes Penbroc W. Comes Warren W. Comes Arundel W. Comes de Ferrari Willielmus Briwer Robertus de Ros Gilbertus filius in Reinulf Rogerus de Mortuo Mari Petrus filius Hereberti salutem debitam reverientiam Sciatis quod bona fide studebimus quod Dominus noster I. Rex Angliae pacem et securitatem vobis et aliis tam Clericis quam Laicis negotium quod inter Anglicanam Ecclesiam et ipsum Regem versatum est contingentibus firmiteer observabit secundum formam pacis a Domino Papa ei transmissam et ab eo acceptatam Et si forte quod Deus avertat Rex ipse vel aliquis alius ex parte sua contravenerit nos pro Ecclesia contra violatores securitatis et pacis mandatis Apostolicis inhaerebimus et ipse perpetuo vacantium Ecclesiarum custodiam amittat Preterea promitimus quod si quid omissum est vel minus plene factum circa hoc negotium in hoc scripto propter accelerationem adventus vestri in Angliam id post adventum vestrum secundum formam praedictam perficietur Et in hujus rei Testimonium c. Salutem in Domino Haec Autem omnia supra dicta nos firmiter observaturos noveritis nos de mandatis Domini Regis tactis sacro-sanctis spontanea voluntate corporali Sacramento firmasse Eodem modo scribitur singulis Episcopis cum Archiepiscopo existentibus scilicet Londonensi Herefordensi Eliensi Bathoniensi Lincolniensi Priori Monachis Cantuariensibus The Kings own Patent reciting this of the Earls and Barons follows in this form REX Dei gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinali salutem Sciatis quod secundum formam mandati Domini et Uenerabilis patris nostri I. Dei gratia summi Pontificis veram pacem ac plenam securitatem vobis praestamus nec non caeteris tam Clericis quam Laicis hoc negotium quod inter nos et Ecclesiam Anglicanam versatum est contingentibus nec vos nec vestros laedemus vel laedi faciemus aut permittemus in personis vel rebus vobisque remittimus omnem iudignationem et in gratiam nostram vos recipimus et tenebimus bona fide et quod vos non inpediemus nec faciemus aut permittemus aliquatinus impediri quo minus vestrum libere exequamini officium et plena jurisdictionis vestrae Authoritate prout debetis utamini Et super hiis vobis juramenta litteras Patentes fidelium nostrorum Venerabilium Patrum Domini H. Dublin Archiepiscopi P. Wint. J. Norwic. Episcoporum praeterea Duodecim Baronum nostrorum scilicet G. filii Petri Comitis Essex Justiciarii Nostri R. Comitis Bolon R Comitis Cicest W. Comitis Marescall Comitis Pembroc W. Comitis Waren W. Comitis Arundell W. Comitis de Ferrariis Willielmi Briwer Roberti de Ros Gileberti filii Ranulf Rogeri de Mortuo Mari Petri filii Hereberti fecimus exhiberi quod ipsi bona fide studebunt ut haecpax et securitas firmiter observetur Et si forte quod Deus avertat per nos ipsos vel alios contra venirmus ipsi pro Ecclesiae contra violatores securitatis et pacis mandatis Apostolicis inhaerebunt Nosque perpetuum Ecclesiarum vacantiam custodiam amittamus thrust in by the Pope and Pandulph on purpose that the Pope by his Provisions might dispose of them as he had done of the See of Canterbury wrested out of the Kings hands Et ideo vos rogamus quod ad nos secure sine dilatione in Angliam venire festinetis si quid vero in hoc scripto omissum fuerit vel miâ—us plene factum cum in Angliam veneritis id secundum formam mandati Apostolici perficietuâ— Et in hujus rei Testimonium c. Test H. Dublinensi Archiepiscopo P. Wintonensi Episcopo G. filio Petri W. Marascal Comite Penbroc apud Templum de Ewell XXIV die Maii Anno Regni n. xv EOdem modo scribitur singulis Episcopis ultra mare existentibus cum Archiepiscopo scilicet Londonensi Herefordensi Eliensi Bathoniensi Lincolniensi Episcopis Priori Monachis Cantuariensibus Teste eodem At the same time this King sent his Letters Pattens to Robert Fitzwater and other Lay-men to teturn into England whence they fled upon the Bishops quarrel REX Roberto filio Walteri Mandamus vobis quod secure veneatis in Angliam secundum formam mandati Apostolici quia pacem securitatem secundum formam mandati Apostolici vobis praestamus Et in hujus rei testimonium has literasnostras Patentes vobis mittimus Teste Domino P. Wintoniensi Episcopo apud Wingham Decimo Septimo die Maii Anno regni nostri Decimo Quinto Eodem modo scribitur Eustacio de Vescy They likewise in pursuit of the Popes agreement enforced him by letters patents to the Archbishop
with much grief and discontent as one who had used his utmost endeavours to subvert a miserable Kingdom by subjecting his own and their free necks to the Pope Court of Rome under pretext of obtaining protection from them After this Anno 1216. the Barons being driven almost to desperation resolving utterly to reject King John and elect a new King which they did thus openly inveighed against him for this his Charter of Resignation and against Pope Innocent himself making it the principal argument of their revolt from him Circa hos dies cum denique Barones qui jam omnia amiserant quae propensius in mundo diligebant spem bom melioris penitus non habebant ut per se recuperarent amissa tacti sunt dolore Cordis intrinsecus quid agerent ignorabant maledicentes Regis versutiam tergiversationes et infidelitatem et ducentes suspiria geminando Veh tibi Iohannes Regum ultime Anglorum Principum Abominatio Nobilitatis Anglicanae Confusio Heu Anglia jam vastata et amplius vastanda Heu Anglia Anglia omnibus bonis hactenus Princeps provinciarum facta es sub tributo non tantum flammae fami et ferro sed servorum ignobilium et advenarum imperio subjecta et suppeditata cum nihil infelicius quam servorum subjici servituti Legimus quod multi alii Reges immo ut Reguli usque ad mortem pro liberatione terrae suae subjectae dimicarunt sed tu Iohannes lugubris memoriae pro futuris seculis et terra tua ab antiquo libera ancillaret excogitasti et operam impendisti et ut alios tecum traheres in servitutem quasi cauda serpentina medietatem stellarum a firmamento te ipsum primo depressisti factus de Rege liberrimo Tributarius firmarius et vassalus servitutis terrarum nobilissimam Chirographo servitutis aeternae obligasti nunquam a Compede servili liberandam nisi miseratus ille qui nos et totum mundum quos sub pecc Iugo vetusta servitus tenuit dignetur quandoque liberare ati Et quid de te Papa qui pater sanctitatis speculum pietatis tutor Justitiae custos veritatis toti mundo deberes lucere in Exemplum tali consentis talem laudas tueris Sed hac causa Exhaustorem pecuniae Anglicanae Exactorem Nobilitatis Britannicae tibi inclinantem defendis ut in Barathrum Romanae Averitiae omnia demergantur sed haec causa excusatio est ante Deum culpa accusatio Et sic Barones Lachrymantes Lamentantes Regem Papam maledixerunt peccantes inexpiabiliter cum scriptum sit Principi non maledices veritatem reverentiam transgredientes cum illustrem Johannem Regem Angliae servum asserverunt Cum Deo servire regnare sit Tandem decretum est ut aliquem potentem in Regem eligerent per quem possint ad possessiones pristinas revocari credentes quod nullus Johanne pesor vel durior possit dominari tale miserabile statuentes Argumentum Fortuna miserrima tuta Nam timor eventus deterioris abest Cumque aliquandiu quem oligerent haesitassent demum in hec pariter consenserunt ut Lodovicum filium Philippi Regis Francorum sibi praeficerent ipsum in Regem Angliae sublimarent Besides King John himself in his Letters to the Pope complains that his Earls and Barons were devout and loving to him till he had subjected himself to his Dominion but since that time specialiter ab hoc they did all rise up against him And when he alleged to them that the Realm of England was St. Peters patrimony and held of the Pope c. they slighted it so as to return no answer to it Yea Pope Innocent himself in his Epistle to all Christian people wherein he Nulls the Great charter of Liberties complains thus of the Barons ut ordine perverso in illum insurgerent postquam Ecclesiae satisfecit qui assistebat eidem quando Ecclesiam offendebant And the French Kings Barons H. the 3. and his Proctors in the Council of Lyons with the Parl. of 40 E. 3. peremptorily affirm that the Barons never assented to it Therefore this clause inserted into the Patent that it was made Communi Consilio Baronum Nostrorum must needs be a false suggestion and untruth which makes it Null in Law 8ly There is an antient Manuscript stiled Eulogium in the famous Library of Sir Robert Cotton which records that in the year 1214. soon after this Surrender and Charter of King Iohn there was a Parliament called at London wherein Stephen Archbishop of Canterbury and all his Clergy cum tota laicali secta with all the Lay sect being present Per Domini Papae praeceptum illa obligatio praefata quam Rex Domino Papâ— secerat cum fidelitate et homagio relaxatur omnino primo die Julii iâ— then Pope â—nnocent himself in full Parliament totally released King Iohns Charter Obligation Rent Homage and Fealty made him for these kingdoms immediately after their making upon the Archbishops appeal against it â—or as extorted from him by such atheistical impious Interdicts Excommunications menaces frauds circumventions Crossadoes and foraign forces raised against him and fraught with nothing but untrue suggestions not upon any real considerations as the Author of this Treatise positively asserts How any of his Successors or Roman Advocates especially in this Age can in justice or equity insist thereon to intitle themselves to the Soveraign Temporal Dominion Jurisdiction of England and Ireland as St. Peters Patrimony without the greatest absurdity and shamelesse impudence no rational creature can discover 9ly After King Iohns surrender of his kingdom and confirmation of the Charters to the Kingdom and Bishops with the Popes ratification of them too his friends courtiers flatterers soldiers and common people for this his Resignation of his Crown did thus deride and jeer him to his very face to exasperate him against the treacherous Bishops and his Barons as well as against the Pope and raise New Commotions HIS peractis ex utraque parte approbatis exultaverunt omnes credentes Deum misericorditer Cor Regis tetigisse Cor ab eo lapideum abstulisse Cor Carneum addidisse ut in eo fieret optima dextrae Excelsi permutatio Speraveruntque omnes singuli Angliam quasi Aegyptiaco Jugo quo diu ante premebatur per Dei gratiam suis temporibus liberatam tam per Romanae Eccesiae protectionem cujus alis se credebant obumbrari sic velut sub Clypeo Divinae Militiae cui servire regnare est pace libertate gaudere tum propter Regis humilitationem desideratam quam speraverant omni mansuetudini paci faeliciter inclinatam Sed longe aliter proh pudor et proh dolor et nimis dissimili quam speratum fuit evenit Treachery Perjury Fraud Rebellions Hyporcrisy and Accords obtained by wicked Machivilian Policies never ending in expected Tranquillity and security
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
flumen Trente ubi tunc Legatus erat misit qui eidem ex parte Domini Cantuariensis interposita appellatione prohibuerunt ne contra dignitatem suam ad quam ordinatio Ecclesiarum suae Diocaesis de jure spectabat Praelatos in Ecclesiis vacantibus instituere praesumeret Legatus autem appellationi factae non deferens misit assensu Regio Pandâ—lphum jam saepe dictum ad Curiam Romanam ut Archiepiscopi et Episcoporum propositum irritaret Quo cum pervenisset famam Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis in conspectu summi Pontificis non mediocriter denigravit Regemque Anglorum tantis ibidem extulit laudum praeconiis asserens se Regem tam humilem tamque modestum eatenus non vidisse ut in oculis Domini Papae idem Rex gratiam admirabilem obtineret Restitit autem Pandulpho ibidem Magister Simon de Langetuna frater Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis Sed quoniam Charta Regis auro Bullata Domino Papae de subjectione et Tributo Regni Angliae et Hyberniae a praedicto Pandulpho nuper delata fuerat Magister Simon in suis contradictionibus non potuit exaudiri Asserebat praeterea Pandulphus memoratus in praesentia Domini Papae Archiepiscopum et Episcopos in exactione et ablatorum restitutione tempore Interdicti nimis esse rigidos et avaros quodque ipsum Regem et Regni Libertates plus aequo deprimebant Et sic propositum Archiepiscopi Episcoporum ad tempus accepit dilationem A just reward for their former complyances with the Pope against their most humble and modest King thus highly applauded by Pandulphus though most untruly aspersed by the Bishops and our Monkish Historians Upon Pandulphus his information of the extraordinary covetouâ—nesse and unreasonablenesse of the Bishops touching the Kings satisfaction of all their particular damages beyond the rates of Justice or Conscience before the Interdict released and at the earnest sollicitation of the Kings Ambassadors and Procurators sent to the Pope to reduce the Bishops damages to certainty and the Kings caution both by his Oath and Patent to pay them that so the Interdict might be released The Pope upon hearing all parties made this agreement between them which he sent to his Legate with orders to release the Interdict the more to ingratiate himself with the King Nobles and Commons of the Realm now become his Vassals Clirca dies istos Papa Innocentius Nicholao Thusculanensi Episcopo pro relaxatione Interdicti scripsit in haec verba INNOCENTIUS Episcopus c. Venerabilis frater noster Johannes Norwicensis Episcopus dilectus filius noster Robertus de Marisco Archidiaconus Northanhumbriae Nobiles viri Thomas de Hundintâ—na Adam Nuncii Charissimi in Christo filii nostri Johannis Regis Angliae Illustris ex una parte necnon Magister Stephanus de Langetuna A. G. Clerici Nuncii Venerabilis fratris nostri Stephani Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi ex altera parte nuper in praesentia nostra constituti asseruere concorditer constanter quod pro vitando grandium rerum dispendio et gravi periculo animarum expediebat quam plurimum tam Regno quam Sacerdotio ut sine dilatione relaxetur sententia Interdicti Vnde nos pro affectu paterno sollicite in Anglia intendentes ad salutem et utilitatem communem super his quae pacis sunt tunc inde cum illis tractavimus diligenter et tandem ipsis adquiescentibus formam invenimus et statuimus infra scriptam Sane praefatus Rex tantam pecuniam Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi Londinensi et Eliensi Episcopis vel aliis quos ad hoc assignare voluerint faciat assignari computatis his quae idem Rex noscitur persolvisse quod summa Quadraginta Millia Marcarum implerit Quibus solitis cautione praestita inferius annotata protinus sublato cujuslibet conditionis et appellationis obstaculo relaxes sententiam Interdicti Ac deinde singulis Annis duodecim Millia Marcarum in duobus terminis in Commemoratione videlicet omnium Sanctorum sex Millia Marcarum totidem in Festo Dominicae Ascensionis apud Ecclesiam Sancti Pauli Londinensis eisdem faciat exhiberi donec tota summa fuerit persoluta Quae nobis Taxarint per Inquisitionem mandato nostro perinde faciendam Et ad hoc fideliter exequendum obligavit se ipsum ipse Rex per proprium juramentum et per Literas Patentes suo sigillo communitas necnon pex fide jussionem Wintoniensis et Norwicensis Episc Cestriensis et Wintoniensis Episc et Willielmi Mareschalli Comitum ita quod tam Haeredes ipsius Regis quam successores eorum tenebuntur astricti Quocirca nostra per Apostolica tibi scripta praecipiendâ— mandamus quatenus secundum formam praescriptam procedere non postponas nisi de mera libera voluntate partes aliter duxerint componendum Datum Laterani The Charter Roll thus differs from Matthew Paris Cestriae Wintoniae Comitum W. Briwere W. Marr. Com. de Pembrock si in Anglia fuerit Com. de Ferrariis vel de Arundell Et si absens fuerit dictus Marr. ita quod tam Haeredes ipsius Regis quam successores eorum pari obligatione tenebuntur astricti Quocirca mandamus quatenus secundum praescriptam formam procedere non postponas nisi forte in aliam formam partes convenerint de mera libera voluntate Et si quid fuerit attemptatum circa personam dicti Regis occasione Juramenti praestiti Archiepiscopo ab eodem Rege in Pasch praeter formam mandati nostri acceptata forma ista denuncies illud penitus non valere The King receiving from his Agents the Popes Letters and Agreement touching the release of the Interdict whiles he was demolishing the Castle of Melesin in France which he had newly taken dispatched Letters to William Earl Marshall all the Barons Knights and Subjects of England in general and to several Corporations in special to inform them thereof and to give their uttermost assistance for the speedy discharge of the Interdict which had so long continued on the whole Realm which I shall here insert out of the Records being not extant in our Historians REX dilecto fideli suo W. Comiti Maresc salutem Sciatis quod sani Dei gratia incolumes apud Rupellam applicuimus die Sabbati proxima c. Dum adhuc moram fecissemus circa Castrum illud funditus prosternendum venit ad nos a Curia Romana Willielmus de Sancto Andreno afferens nobis Literas Domini Papae de forma Interdicti relaxandi in Anglia quas Venerabili Patri nostro Domino P. Wintoniensi Episcopo destinavimus unde vobis mandamus rogantes quatenus ad negotium illud exequendum ad honorem Dei nostrum vestrum consilium auxilium efficax impendatis faciatis super negotio isto quod Dominus Wintoniensis Episcopus Justiciarius noster
mortem quod proles suscepta post sententiam damnationis succedere non debet geniti tamen ante sententiam succedere debent Sed tamen super hoc Nuncii litigare noluerunt Item dicit Papa Quod Rex Anglorum judicatus esset ad mortem etiam filii de carne sua geniti non ideo Blanca deberet ei succedere sed propinquiores de genere ejus videlicet proles fratris primogeniti ita soror Arthuri vel Otho qui fuit filius sororis primogenitae Et si ponatur quod Regina Castellae debeat succedere ita Blanca filia ejus non est verum quia masculus debet praeferri Rex scilicet Castellae Et si nullus esset masculus praeferri deberet Regina Legionum tanquam primogenita Ad haec Nuncii dixerunt Filii fratris non debent succedere ex quo tempore latae sententiae frater non vivebat ita neptis soror scilicet Arthuri non debet succedere quia non est in linea descendenti cum sit filia fratris Similiter tempore latae sententiae mater Othonis non vivebat ergo non successit ergo Otho non debet succedere Sed Regina Castellae vivebat quae soror erat ideo successit Ergo mortua Regina Castellae proles successit succedere debuit Ad haec dicit Papa Quod Rex Castellae succedere debet quia masculus est vel Regina Legionum tanquam primogenita Nuncii dixerunt Quod cum plures sint haeredes qui alicui debent succedere ille qui primo loco debet succedere taceat vel haereditatem investiri debet haereditate illa secundum consuetudinem approbatam salvo tamen jure alterius si reclamaverit Et ideo Dominus Lodovicus intrat Regnum Angliae ut suum Et si quis propinquior velit super hoc reclamare Dominus Lodovicus faciet inde quod debet TUnc dixit Papa Quod Regnum Angliae suum proprium est et est in possessione Dominii ratione fidelitatis quae super hoc est ei facta per juramentum et etiam ratione census qui jam ei solutus est de Regno Unde cum in nullo delinqueret non deberet sibi guerram movere Lodovicus nec deberet eum spoliare a Regno Angliae per guerram maxime cum Rex Angliae multas habeat terras in feudo Regis Franciae de quibus potest ei movere guerram Ad haec Nuncii Mota fuit guerra justum Bellum contra Regem Angliae antequam Regnum illud esset Domini Papae Sed de Regno Angliae venit Willielmus de Longa spata multi alii cum eo in manu valida armata qui damna multa injurias intulerunt Domino Lodovico in terra sua propria ideo Dominus noster potest movere justum Bellum contra Regem Anglorum Ad haec Papa dixit Quod licet Rex Angliae tanquam Vassallus ejus Lodovico non ipse tamen deberet ei movere guerram sed deberet conqueri Domino superiori scilicet Papae cui subest Rex Angliae tanquam Vassallus ejus Ad haec Nuncii responderunt Quod consuetudo est ex quo aliquis Vassallus alterius movet guerram alicui authoritate sua ille cui mota est guerra potest ei movere guerram authoritate sua nec tenetur conqueri Domino illus Et si Dominus vult defendere Vassallum suum quamdiu movet talem guerram ipse Dominus dicitur facere guerram Item dicit Papa Quod in generali Concilio statutum est quod inter omnes discordantes debet esse pax vel treuga usque ad quatuor annos pro succursu Terrae Sanctae ideo tempore medio Lodovicus non debet Regno Angliae guerram movere Nuncii dixerunt Quod in recessu suo a Francia Lodovicus non fuit requisitus de pace vel treuga si requisitus esset crediderunt tantam esse malitiam Regis Angliae quod noluit pace vel treuga gaudere Item dicit Papa Quod Rex Angliae cruce signatus est unde ex constitutione generalis Concilii ipse Rex omnia sua debent esse sub protectione Ecclesiae Ad hoc Nuncii responderunt Quod Rex Angliae aute crucem sumptam guerram moverat Domino Lodovico damna multa fecerat Castra sua ceperat adhuc Milites suos servientes incarceratos retinet hucusque in guerra est contra Dominum Lodovicum nec pacem vel treugam cum eo habere voluit super hoc etiam saepe requisitus Item dicit Papa Quod de communi consilio generalis Concilii excommunicaverat Barones Angliae omnes fautores eorum ita Dominus Lodovicus fententiam incurrisse videtur Nuncii dixerunt Quod Lodovicus non adjuvat Barones Angliae nec fovet eos sed jus suum prosequitur nec etiam credit Lodovicus nec credere debet quod Dominus Papa vel tantum Concilium injuste velit aliquem excommunicare Nam tempore latae sententiae Dominus Papa nesciebat quod Lodovicus haberet jus de Regno Angliae cum hoc illi constiterit non credit Dominus Lodovicus quod Concilium possit ei jus suum auferre Item dicit Papa Quod Rex Francorum Lodovicus filius ejus post sententiam a Baronibus Franciae in Regem Angliae latam ipsum Regem appellaverunt pro Rege habuerunt cum eo tanquam cum Rege Angliae treugas statuerunt Ad haec Nuncii responderunt Quod post latam sententiam a Baronibus in Regem nunquam illum pro Rege habuerunt sed ipsum Regem depositum appellaverunt sicut Abbas depositus quilibet alius dici solet Novissime vero dicit Papa Quod ipse statuet super hiis antequam veniant Nuncii Domini Walonis By which relation we see the Pope himself became King Johns Advocate as well as Judge not as King of England but only because he was his Vassal as he frequently stiles him and the Kingdom of England his Kingdom not Johns in point of Interest Whiles these things were agitated at Rome England was miserably wasted and harried by Lewes and his Army in the East and South and by King John in the West and North whereupon 40. of the Barons considering the miseries of their native Country the power successes of K. John became sensible of their errors in rejecting him and calling in and Crowning Lewes for their King and being likewise informed by Vicount Melun on his death-bed upon his salvation That Lewes and 16. others of his chief Earles and Barons whereof himself was one had taken an Oath That if ever the Crown of England were quietly setled on his head he would condemn to perpetual exlle all the English who now adhered to him against King John as Traytors to their lawfull Soveraign and would actually extirpate all their kinred counselling
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
supplicationis obtentu eisdem Clericis nostris favorabiles vos exhibentes propitios in negotiis nostris quae ad utilitatem nostram honorem vobis exponent ipsos libenter audire liberaliter sicut speramus exaudire dignemini ut cum ad nos redierint foeliciter expediti de gratia vestra nobis impensa hilares efficiamur jocundi ad devotissimas Sanctitati vestrae teneamur gratiarum actiones Teste c. apud Windeles xiij die Augusti This Marriage Treaty and License on which they were sent was countermanded and proceeded no further the King altering his mind and marrying Alienor the second Daughter of the Earl of Province who was conveyed into England married to the King and crowned Queen this year with extraordinary pomp and sollemnity as you may read at leisure in Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster Holinshed Speed and other our Historians This Pope was grown so insolently proud and peremptory in this age by his premised Usurpations that he would not vouchsafe to hear or admit the Kings Proctors and Agents sent to Rome upon his urgent affairs without most humble suits and supplications to him in his Letters of Credence and Procurations as the precedent Procurations and this ensuing Record demonstrates SAnctissimo Patri in Christo G. Dei gratia Summo Pontifici salutem tanto Patri ac Domino omnimodam reverentiam cum honore Apostolicae sedis Pia Mater nonnunquam filiis suis desolatis solatium oppressis subsidium pie petentibus viscera pietatis consuevit misericorditer aperire Quapropter ad ipsam tanquam ad piam matrem nostram quae nobis sua gratia ut filio suo devoto continua compassione compatitur favorabiliter benigne cum Regiae dignitati necessitatem imminere videmus confugimus confidenter Hinc est quod cum dilectos fideles nostros P. Saracenum Magistrum S. de Steyland Clericum nostrum pro quibusdam negotiis nostris ad sedem Apostolicam transmittamus Paternitatis vestrae dilectioni affectione plena duximus supplicandum quatenus ipsos in negotiis nostris quae vobis exponent audire benigne efficaciter exaudire velitis clementia consueta ut hae preces nostrae benignitate vestra mediante nobis more solito fructum pariant copiosum nosque exinde paternitati vestrae ad speciales gratias astringamur Teste Rege apud Merewell Vicesimo quinto die Maii. Anno c. Decimo nono This year King Henry the 3d. made a Remonstrance to the Pope of the several injuries done to him by the Earl of Britain in seizing upon his Castles and revolting to the King of France desiring the Pope by his Ecclesiastical censures to compel him to restore his Castles to him or give satisfaction for them DOmino Papae salutem debitam ac devotam in omnibus reverentiam ut Sanctitati vestrae plenius innotescat qualiter erga nos se gessit P. Comes Britanniae vestrae significamus Paternitati quod cum dilectum fratrem nostrum R. Comitem Cornubiae Pictaviae transmisissemus ad partes Wascon pro defensione partium illarum habito inter ipsum Comitem Britanniae praedictum fratrem nostrum Colloquio nobis significavit quod paratus erat ad servitium nostrum venire de nobis in capite tenere Nobis igitur id mediocriter adhuc ferentibus per transmissum ad nos fidelem nostrum S. de Malâ— Leonâ— tunc superstitem Dominum perdilectum fidelem nostrum Philippum de Albiniaco nos instanter sollicitavit super eodem Cum igitur monitis suis adquiescentes exercitum totius Regni nostri convocassemus apud Portesm habentes in proposito transfretare in Britanniam ad jura Haereditaria nostra perquirenda in partibus transmarinis memoratus Comes in eodem tempore ibi applicans coram universis Magnatibus terrae nostrae homagium nobis fecit de terra sua Britanniae Sacramentum de fideli servitio nobis praestitit tunc honorem de Richmond in quo jus vendicabat ei reddidimus plura alia feoda terras ei dedimus non modicas Revertente autem eodem Comite ad partes suas nobis per consilium suum in terra nostra remanentibus cum in aestate sequenti aggregasset Rex Franciae universum posse ad invadendum terram praedicti Comitis cum totis viribus nostris in succursum ejus ad suum mandatum transfretavimus in Britanniam non sine gravi dispendio corporis nostri jactura irreparabili magnatum aliorum hominum nostrorum quos ibidem perdidimus Cum ergo per adventum nostrum ab incursibus praedicti Regis Franciae defensus extitisset securus ipso Rege sine obtentu propositi sui ad partes suas revertentâ— vellemus similiter ad terram nostram redire de consilio suo convenit inter nos memoratum Comitem Britanniae quod ad tenendum ei Milites servientes quandam summam pecuniae daremus eidem per annum tempore guerrae aliam summam pecuniae si contingeret inter ipsum Regem Franciae nos tunc treugas iniri sicut factum est quod quidem sine omni defectu ei plene perfecimus Novissime vero cum instante fine treugarum inter ipsum Regem nos essemus requisiti ab ipso Comite de Militibus servientibus mittendis in succursum suum ad Castrum nostrum Sancti Jacobi super Beveronam quod fuit in manu sua de Ballivo nostro muniendum pro quo nobis reddendo cum venissemus in Britanniam ei dederimus Duo Millia Marcarum gratanter annuimus ejus petitioni destinantes ad eum dilectum fidelem nostrum Amauricam de Sancto Amando Senesc nostrum cum numero Militum servientium quem ipse Comes petierat Quos postquam ad placitum suum retinuerat ad nos remittens sub simulatione parcendi sumptibus nostris nunciavit nobis quod Castrum praedictum salvo custodiret ad opus nostrum insuper ad mandatum ejus nobilem virum H. de Trublevill Senesc nostrum Wascon cum multitudine Armatorum ad eum misimus Qui strenue potenter suae instabat defensioni In cujus etiam praesentia praedictorum multitudinis Armatorum juravit super verum Corpus Christi quod nec pacem cum Rege Franciae fecerat nec etiam cum eo tractatum inde habuerat Licet siquidem ipse Comes ut praediximus in nullum nobis repererit defectum Immo juxta Conventionem inter nos habitam ultra ei semper satisfecerimus per finem quem cum eo fecimus singulis vicibus quibus propter hoc ad nos venit vel misit id idem adhuc facere pro viribus nostris essemus parati tamen cum injuria sua spreta fidei suae religione Sacramento de fideli servitio nobis praestito sine eo quod nos
confirmationis ejusdem Episcopo Londoniensi in dicto negotio excusato literatorie nos electionem ipsius Johannis in hunc modum confirmamus In nomine Patris Filij Spiritus Sancti Inquisitis secundum formam literarum Domini Papae quae circa personam Electi Sancti Albani fratris Johannis sunt inquirenda tum per testes juratos tum per propriae personae examinationem invenimus eum ad regimen dictae Abbatiae sufficientem Unde electionem tanquam de persona idonea de ipso factam authoritate Apostolica confirmamus In cujus rei testimonium his literis nostris Patentibus sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum Acta Anno Domini M. CC. XXXV die Lunae proxima post festum Sancti Laurentii apud Crucem Roisiae In crastino igitur scilicet Nativitatis beatae Virginis in Ecclesia Sancti Albani ad majus Altare in praesentia Episcopi London totius Conventus in Choro existentis idem Episcopus eidem electo munus impendit benedictionis Ubi apertae sunt literae inclusae bullatae Domini Papae quas oportuit Electum in Abbatem benedicendum profitendo palam legere sub hac forma Ego Johannes Monasterii Sancti Albani Abbas ab hac hora in antea fidelis et obediens ero Sancto Petro sanctaeque Apostolicae Romanae Ecclesiae et Domino meo Papae Gregorio ejusque Successoribus Canonice intrantibus Non ero in Cansilio aut consensu vel in facto ut vitam perdant aut membrum aut capiantur mala captione Consilium vero quod mihi credituri sunt per se aut per Nuntios suos sive per literas ad eorum damnum me sciente nemini pandam Papatum Romanum et Regalem sancti Petri Adjutor eis ero ad retinendum et defendendum salva ordine meo contra omnem hominem Not excepting the King himself as is usual in Homage and fealty to all other Lords Legatum Apostolicae sedis in eundo et redeundo honorifice tractabo et in suis necessitatibus adjuvabo Vocatus ad Synodum veniam nisi praepeditus fuero Canonica praepeditione Apostolorum limina singulis trienniis visitabo aut per me aut per Nuntium meum nisi absolvae Apostolica licentia Possestones vero ad Monasterium meum spectaiites non vendam neque donabo neque impignorabo neque de novo infeudabo vel aliquo modo alienabo inconsulto Romano Pontifice Sic me Deus adiuvet et haec sancta Evangelia This New Oath of allegiance and fealty to the Pope and See of Rome being the highest incroachment upon the Kings Rights and Prerogative making all who took it the Popes subjects vassals villains not the Kings was sealed up and concealed both from the King and Abbot elect till this very nick of his consecration and benediction for fear it should be opposed refused as the Historian observes and thus relates Haec cooperta fuerunt occulta et clausa sub bulla donec staret Pontificalibus ad Altare redimitus quando nullo modo poterat ab ista abligatione resilire Et cum rogasset Abbas ab Episcopo Londoniensi Rogero quid Romae faceret Episcopus sicut jocundus extitit jocose respondit sub ridens ait Amice ut offeras veritas in verbo latitavit Rex autem super praemissis certificatus Tenentibus de Sancto Albano scripsit in haec verba HENRICUS Dei gratia Rex Angliae c. Militibus liberis hominibus omnibus aliis Tenentibus de Abbatia de Sancto Albano salutem Sciatis quod electioni factae de fratre Johanne de Hertford in Abbatem S. Albani assensum Regium praebuimus favorem Et ideo vobis mandamus quod eidem sratri Johanni tanquam Domino vestro in omnibus quae ad praedictam Abbatiam pertinent intendentes sitis respondentes Incujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Augusti Anno Regni nostri Duodecimo EX tunc igitur Abbas plenarie constitutus cepit homagia Juramenta fidelitates omnium Abbatiae subditorum installatus in omnibus Abbas habitus firmatus Sed ut non lateat simpliciores qualiter se gessit dum Electus esset qualiter in posterum se gerere debet Electus praesentibus duximus inserendum In the beginning whereof he thus expresseth the New Abbots sence and detestation of this New Oath and yoak of bondage imposed by the Pope on this famous Monastery and on others by his ill president in submitting thereunto and of the Popes manifold superadded exactions ISte Johannes secundus Abbas Prior quando que de Hertford inde oriundus praeter opinionem omnium nutu Dei sublimatus in Abbatem Primo invitus et dolens Romanorum jugum subiit servitutis ut scilicet de triennio in triennium vel per se vel peralium limina adiret Apostolorum sicut in subdola professione ejusdem continetur in magnum Ecclesiae damnum et gravamen et insatiabilis Romanae Curiae emolumentum voluntarium et injuriosum Primus quidem fuit in Abbatem creatus post Concilium Laterense generale sub Papa Innocentio quarto celebratum in quo illud continetur cum aliis gravaminibus in Ecclesiae Sancti Albani quae a fundatione sui primitiva libera ingenua legitur extitisse praejudicium et si fas est dicere injuriam et jacturam Iste quoque Abbas in Novitate sua multis exactionibus fatigabatur et expensis sed prae omnibus Romanorum oppressionibus novis et inauditis coepit molestari Et quod obstantibus antiquis privilegiis quae non sine magna Sanctorum patrum injuria et Contemptu cassantur et spernuntur non permissa est tam Celebris Ecclesia suis libertatibus gratulari Id cujus rei triste praesagium paulo ante ejusdem Abbatis creationem cito post scilicet infra triennium bis supra Ecclesiam beati Albani visum est fulgur usque ad incendium cecidisse quod se meminit praevidisse nec audivit evenisse Et sicut non prodest sanctorum inniti Privilegiis aut indulgentiis sic non obstitit fulguri impressio Papalis Cerea in qua Agnus Dei figuratur quae in Summitate Turris nostrae collocatur quae ut dicitur contra tales procellas abigendas virtutem habet potestatem I have related these Passages at large to evidence the execrable Bribery Symony Rapine extortions and insufferable usurpations of this Pope on the Crown and Church of England recorded by Matthew Paris living in that age privy to all these Transactions being a Monk of St. Albans little redounding to the honour of the Pope Court or Church of Rome which though generally detested yet could not be resisted reformed in that age by the King Nobles or Clergy of England who only murmured and made some bootlesse
as these Records inform us REX Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo salutem Mittimus ad vos dilectum Clericum nostrum Magistrum W. de Kilkenny Constituentes ipsum procuratorem nostrum ad assignandum quasdam causas contradictionis nostrae contra Electionem de Priore Norwic. celebratam contra ipsum Priorem Electores ipsius salvis nobis aliis Juris remediis competentibus ratum habituri quicquid idem Willielmus super praemissis fecerit Damus etiam eidem potestatem appellandi ad sedem Apostolicam si viderit expedire Hoc idem Priori Norwic. Monachis ejusdem lioci significamus In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium Undecimo die Novembris REX Domino Papae salutem Constituimus dilectum Clericum nostrum Magistrum Will. de Kilkenny procuratorem nostrum in Curia Romana ad prosequendum Causas contradictionis nostrae contra electionem Electum Electores Norwic. Ecclesiae damus etiam eidem Magistro Willo potestatem substituendi procuratorem in negotio memorato ratum habituri quicquid idem Magister VV. vel ab eo substitutus procurator fecerit in praemissis Idem praemissis electoribus Electo significamus Teste Rege apud VVestmonasterium 23. die Januarij What the issue was of this Election Matthew Westminsters and Matthew Paris thus relate INgressis itaque viam universae carnis piae memoriae Venerabilibus Patribus Wigorniensi Norwicensi Episcopis elegerunt Monachi Wigorniae Magistrum Walterum de Cantelupo filium Willielmi de Cantilupo viri potentis praeclari in Praesulem Pastorem animarum suarum quem sine difficultate Dominus Papa acceptavit et in Episcopum consecravit Norwicenses autem Priorem suum virum religiosum discretum in suum sibi Praesulem elegerunt cu us electio licet rite facta quia tamen Regi displicuit quibusdam ridiculosis rationibus vel exceptionibus contradicentium fuit diu in pendulo non sine peccatorum scrupulis impedita After near three years contests William de Raleigh was consecrated Bishop thereof and the Prior put by The deplorable servile irreligious condition of the Church and Realm of England at this time under the manifold tyrannical Usurpations Exactions Corruptions of the Pope and his Instruments bonis terra in Regni perniciem saginati is thus most emphatically remonstrated by an eye witnesse then living TEmporibus illis ingruentibus igniculus fidei coepit nimis refrigescere ut penè in cinerem redactus vix videretur scintillare Jam enim simonia sine rubore perpetrata usurarii manifeste diversis argumentis a popularibus minoribus pecuniam impudenter extorquebant Expiravit charitas libertas Ecclesiastica emarcuit religio viluit suppeditata facta est filia Syon quasi meretrix effrons non habens ruborem Quotidie vilissimae personae et illiteratae Bullis Romanis armatae in minas statim erumpentes redditus a piis Patribus in Uictus religiosorum et sustentationem pauperum et hospitalitatem peregrinorum collatos spretis privilegiis a Sanctis nostris antecessoribus indultis diripere non formidarunt fulgurâ—ntibus enim sententiis sine dilatione raptim postulata receperunt Quod si ad refugium appellationis vel privilegii recurrerent injuriam patientes spoliati statim suspendentes per aliquem alium Praelatum authentico Papae compellente fecerunt excommunicare Et sic non prece non canonice sed imperiosa exactione simplices spoliarunt Juxta illud Poeticum Armato supplicat ense potens Unde factum est quod ubi solebant nobiles dapsiles Clerici Ecclesiarum custodes patroni circumjacentis Patriae latitudinem sua opulentia nobilitare transeuntes suscipere pauperes recreare ibidem abjectae personae moribus vacui versutia pleni procuratores et firmarii Romanorum quicquid preciosum in terra fuit et utile abradentes Dominis suis in remotas terras deliciose expatrimonio Crucifixi viventibus et ex alieno superbientibus transmiserunt Erat igitur videre dolorem praecordialem genas Sanctorum irrigare querelas erumpere suspiria multiplicare dicentibus multis cum singultu cruentato Melius esset nobis mori quam videre mala gentis nostrae et Sanctorum Uae Angliae quae quondam Princeps provinciarum Domina gentium speculum Ecclesiae religionis exemplum nunc facta est sub tributo Conculcaverunt eam ignobiles et facta est in praedam degeneribus Sed haec Anglis flagella multiformes reatus procurarunt irato eo qui Regnare facit Hypocritam propter peccata populi Tyrannum dominari No wonder then that Temporibus eisdem Graecorum debacchante solita insolentia tam adversus Ecclesiam Romanam quam suum Dominum Imperatorem Constantinopolitanum who sided with the Pope Dominum Papam omnem Ecclesiam adeo exasperavit quod multorum erat sententia volunt as Cruce-signatorum exercitum super eos retorquere the Pope sending for some Souldiers to the Earl of Britain and making him his General by Land and Sea in this intended War against them for which he wanted monies The Pope upon the Kings request under pretext to rectifie some of these abuses against which there was a universal complaint sent Ottoâ—one his Legate into England who at first demeaned himself like a Woolf in Sheeps cloathing to take off the scandal odium prejudice of the people against the Pope See of Rome and Legates till by degrees he put off his Sheeps cloathing and proclaimed himself a raâ—ening Woolf as well as his Predecessors whose arrival in England and proceedings are thus recorded by Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster EOdem quoque anno nesciebatur ad quid circa festum Apostolorum Petri Pauli Dominus Otto Sancti Nicholai in carcere Tulliano Diaconus Cardinalis per mandatum Regis venit Legatus in Angliam nescientibus Regni Magnatibus Unde plures adversus Regem magnam conceperunt indignationem dicentes Omnia Rex pervertit jura fidem promissa in omnibus transgreditur Nunc enim Matrimonio se sine suorum amicorum hominum naturalium consilio alienigenae copulavit nunc Legatum Regni totius immutatorem clam vocavit nunc sua dat nunc data cupit revocare Sic sicque de die in diem juxta dictum Evangelicum in se divisum dissipatum Regnum est enormiter desolatum Dictum est autem quod Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis Aedmundus Regem talia facientem increpavit praecipue de vocatione Legati sciens inde in suae dignitatis praejudicium magnam Regno imminere jacturam Sed Rex spretâ—tam suo quam aliorum suorum consilio quod concepit animo nullatenus voluit propositum revocare Venit igitur in magno apparatu Legatus praenominatus potentia magna Et occurrerunt ei Episcopi Clerici famosi usque ad littus aliqui in naviculis navigando obviarunt ei applaudentes munera impreciabilia
Paternitas vestra quod nos appellationes quas dilecti Clerici nostri Magistri Simon de Steyland Domini Papae capellanus Willielmus de Glouc. Blasius de Mara in negotio electionis Dunelm coram vobis apud Eborum Blyam Pontem fractum interposuerunt ratam habentes ad dictas appellationes innovandas appellandum de novo si necesse fuerit praedictum Magistrum S. procuratorem nostrum constituimus ne ulterius in dicto negotio procedatis sedem Apostolicam appellamus In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras Patentes vobis mittimus Idem parti adversae significamus Teste Rege apud sanctum Edmundum primo die Junii anno regni nostri 22 The like Proctor he constituted in the difference about the election of the Bishop of Norwich referred to the Popes Legat to determin REX Domino Legato salutem In causa electionis quae vertitur inter nos ex una parte Priorem Conventum Norwic. Ecclesiae ex altera Authoritate Domini Papae sanctitati vestrae commissa dilectum Clericum nostrum magistrum Williel de Kilkenni procuratorem nostrum constituimus Ratum habituri quicquid idem Magister Williel fecerit justitia mediante in causa memorata Idem parti adversae significantes Teste Rege apud Ditton undecimo die Junii This year Richard Earl of Cornwel with all the Nobility and Barons of England except the Earl of Kent and generality of the Citizens and people of England made a commotion against the King by reason of this Legate and other aliens by whom he was wholy swayed neglecting and suffering them extreemly to oppresse his natural subjects The contests hereupon are at large related by Matthew Paris ET sperabatur certissime tunc quod ipse Comes Richardus esset liberaturus terram tunc tam a Romanorum quam aliorum alienigenarum misera qua premebatur servitute omnes a puero usque ad hominem senem crebras in ipsum benedictiones congesserunt Nec adhaesit aliquis Regi nisi solus Comes Cantiae H. Quod comperiens Rex animo vultu nimis consternatus nobilium terrae singulos per nuntios suos interrogavit diligenter sciscitando si in hunc vel illum in hac jam exorta tempestate possit de adiutorio confidere Cui responderunt universi praecipue cives Londinenses asserendo universaliter quod honori suo commodo Regni procuratum est circumspecte quod incipiebatur ab ipso Comite Richardo licet ipse Rex salubri consilio ejus non adquiesceret unde incepta nullo modo impedirent Haec comperiens Legatus summam adhibuit imminere videns pericula diligentiam ut Regem suis naturalibus hominibus reconciliaret secreto admonens Comitem R. Replicans quod ipse qui Capitaneus hujus impetus factus est deinceps ab incaepto desisteret promittens Regem ei ampliores possessiones collaturum Dominum Papam collatas confirmaturum addens quod si omnes terrae in Regem insurgerent ipse qui frater ejus cum eo contra omnes stare haberet indefessus Ad quod respondit Comes R. domine Legate De terris Laicorum et earum confirmationibus nil ad vos de rebus autem Ecclesiasticis curam geratis Nec miremini si status Regni moveat me cum sim haeres solus apparens Rex enim cum fere omnium Episcopatuum terrae multarum escaetarum custodias habuit nullum tamen Thesaurus ejus sentit ad Regni tuitiones incrementum cum tamen undique variis vallemur inimicis Praeterea redditus beneficia Ecclesiastica a piis praedecessoribus nostris collata praecipue quae contulerunt antecessores nostri viris religiosis permittit quasi spolia diripi alienigenis cum abundet ipsa terra viris idoneis distribui fit Anglia quasi vinea sine maceria quam vindemiant omnes qui praetergrediuntur viam Cum autem audisset Legatus hos sermones Regem adiit una cum Episcopo Wintoniensi P. monens muniens ut se ex tunc voluntati suorum juste in eum insurgentium subderet obtemperaret nunc minis nunc monitis nunc precibus eundem reformantes Rex videns impetus suos favoribus caruisse omnes fratri suo Comiti Richardo inclinantes quaesivit quae potuit diverticula inducias deliberandi postulando ut competentius responderet Induciae igitur ad instantiam petentium concessae sunt Regi licet cum difficultate usque in crastinum Dominicae primae quadragesimae Convenerunt igitur Magnates die statuto Londini super his diligenter tractaturi Et venerunt multi equis armis communiti ut si Rex circumventus per levitatem recalcitraret ad praemissa complenda cogeretur Ibi igitur post multas multorum deceptationes se subjecit Rex quorundam provisioni de gravioribus viris jurans se eorum provisioni adquiescere Quod factum est in scripta redactum appensa sunt tam Legati quam aliorum Magnatum Sigilla omnibus in communi manifestanda Interim his nondum perfectis sed cum spe tamen pendentibus Simon de Monte forti who had unlawfully married the Countesse of Pembrock the Kings and Earls sister and to prevent a divorce Extorta prius undecunque potuit immensa pecunia Romanam curiam adiit quam speravit pecunia circumvenire ut illicito matrimonio liceret gratulari humiliavit se Comiâ—â—â— obtinavit ab eo osculum concordiae Quod gravissime alij Magnates acceperunt sine quorum conniventia hoc fuit attemptatum quorum laboribus fuit res hucusque deducta Quibus enormibus factis totum negotium in magna parte mutilatum perfectum non sumpsit effectum sed miserias regni continuavit famam Comitis Richardi in magna parte denigravit sic factus est deinceps suspectus qui credebatur baculus fortitudinis Edmond Archbishop of Canterbury Anno 1237. Hebdomada ante Natale transfretavit Romam adiit nec propter Legatum ipsum revocantem voluit remanere unde sibi ex tunc adversabantur The occasion and successe of this his journy against the Legates revocation is thus reported by Matthew Paris Anno 1238. Illo quoque Anno c. data est sententia a Domino Papa pro Monachis Roffensibus super controversia mota inter Archiepiscopum Aedmundum eosdem Monachos de eligendo sibi Episcopo data est senteutia pro eis tam de petitorio quam de possessorio confirmatus est electus eorum magister Richardus de Wendoure die sancti Cuthberti Convenerat autem eosdem Monachos dictus Archiepiscopus expensis laboribus exinanitos insuper transalpinaverat ut sicut jus dictaret lis tanta debito fine determinaretur Similiter data est sententia tunc temporis contra eundem Archiepiscopum qui tunc in Curia Romana praesens fuit super gravi
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
quae fuerat Willielmi de Haverhulle Regii Thesaurarii nuper defuncti cujus fructus annui ad pretium plusquam Centum Librarum ascendere dignoscuntur Istum nempè Capellanum natione Pictavensem mores ac Literas penitus ignorantem vidimus lapidantem Dominum Regem Galfridem fratrem ejus alios Magnates dum in Pomaerio Sancti Albani spatiarentur cespitibus lapidibus pomis viridibus acerbas uvas in oculos eorundem exprimentem tanquam expertem rationis Gestu quoque verbis habitu necnon corporis qualitate quantitate despicabilis histrio potiùs quà m Sacerdos in dedecus ordinis Sacerdotalis poterat judicari Ecce quibus Dominus Rex multa animarum millia committit et committi procurat custodienda spernens tot literatorum tot discretorum tot idoneorum quam Anglia genuit numerositatem Quae et linguam novit indigenarum et ruditatem informare Similiter alia Ecclesiarum beneficia quae ejusdem Willielmi memorati extiterant contulit Rex inconsulte velut ad provocandum sponte iram et odium dignorum indignis et ultramarinis quorum insufficientiani et inutilitatem gestus inordinati et verba non tantum scurrilia seddelira et obscoena reprobos indicabant Hanc autem materiae digressionem genialia suspiria elicuerunt How proud insolent and refractory to our Kings the great possessions Liberties Franchises granted by Kings to Prelates and Religious persons made them will appear by this answer of King Henry the 3d. to the Master of the Hospital of St. Johns of Hierusalem the true cause why he began to check and controle them by Non obstantes by the Popes example Tempore quoque sub eodem Magister Hospitalis Hierosolymitani in domo de Clerkenwelle in pace expectans donec tempus quietis idoneae inveniret confabulandi cum Rege de quadam manifesta injuria ipsi illata querulus patefecit Chartas quoque Regum suam de protectione ostendit Cui Rex voce elevata iratus respondit praevio magno Juramento Uos Praelati et Religiosi maxime tamen Templarii et Hospitalarii tot habetis Libertates et Chartas quod super fluae possessiones vos faciunt superbire et superbientes insanire Revocanda sunt igitur prudenter quae imprudenter sunt concessa et revocanda consulte quae inconsuite sunt dispersa Et addidit Nonne Dominus Papa quandoque imo multoties factum suum revocat Nonne apposito hoc repagulo Non obstante Chartas cassat praeconcessas Sic et ego infringam hanc et alias Chartas quas praedecessores mei et ego temere concessimus Cui Magister Hossitalis quem Priorem appellant respondit alacriter vultu elevato Quid est quod dicis Domine Rex Absit ut in ore tuo recitetur hoc verbum illepidum absurdum Quamdiu iustitiam observas Rex esse poteris quam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hanc infregeris Rex esse desines Ad quod Rex nimis incircumspectè respondit O quid sibi vult istud vos Anglici vultis ne me sicut quondam patrem meum à Regno praecipitare atque necare praecipitatum The same year the Pope to promote his own designs to the prejudice of the King in vindicating his Rights in France and to empty Earl Richards coffers and imploy him in his Wars by proffering him a Crown which he had no lawfull title to dispose of like the Devil when he tempted our Saviour to fall down and worship him sent his Notary into England to effect these designs Circa festum quoque Sancti Martini venit Magister Albertus Domini Papae Notarius in Angliam qui jam biennio elapso venerat quando scilicet parabatur Rex Erancorum transfretare ex parte Domini Papae prohibiturus ne Rex Anglorum terras Regis Francorum Deo militaturi quomodolibet infestaret Causa autem adventus sui multos latuit in principio sed effectus per opera causam posteà patefecit Dominus autem Papa sciens Comitem Richardum fratrem Domini Regis prae omnibus optimatibus Occidentis pecunia abundare non curans qualiter adquisita satis astutè providit ut ipsum ad Regnum Apuliae Sieiliae Calabriae eligeret et vocaret ut ipse Comes Papae militans exposita sua pecunia dubiis Martis caâ—bus et corpore suo periculis praesentato haec omnia adquireret ad Romanae Curiae emolumentum et Thesauros in sui damnum maximum accumulandos Hujus fretus sophistica deceptione qui dixit Haec omnia tibi dabo si cadens adoraveris me Noverat enim Papa quod Comes Hydropisi pecuniali insatiabiliter laborabat et dignitate temporali Tali igitur edulio hamum recurvum fecit concupiscibilem quo credidit eum citius inescare Et tunc mysterium manifestatum est quare Dominus quondam apud Lugdunum tantum honorem fecerit Comiti Richardo ut cum ipso prudenter collateraliter tantum applausum ei fecerit ut omnes mirarentur sed non credebatur aliquatenus à quampluribus ut consentiret aliquatenus Comes Papalibus promissionibus tum quia corpore sanus integer nullatenus extitit tum quia in armis strenuus nec exercitatus extitit tum quia inhonestum videretur nepotem suum Henricum supplantare tum quia certa pro incertis non est sapientis commutare Sed haec omnia Dominus Papa tolerabilia sed nec inconvenientia fuisse judicavit Sciendumque quod ea die qua Comes Richardus epulabatur cum Papa captus est infoelici sidere Rex Francorum Hoc mihi haec scribenti idem Comes assertivè narravit Matthew Westminster addes Sed cum Comes exigisset securitatem videlicet quaedam castra Domini Papae obsides ut esset in possessione aliqua saltem securitate de Papali promisso Respondit Albertus se Papam super haec convenire Albertus interim multa sibi beneficia acquisivit quibus acquisitis transalpinavit Et audita Dominus Papa Comitis responsione noluit aliquod propositum continuare de praemissis I find that the King upon this Popes proffer of the Kingdom of Sicily to Earl Richard his Brother returned him special thanks assenting that he should grant to his Brother or his Heir a competent Ayde from the Clergy of his Realm to gain this Kingdom alwayes saving the Ayde formerly granted to himself for his voyage to the Holy Land thus entred in the Clause Rolls SAnctissimo in Christo Patri I Summo Pontifici H. Rex Angliae salutem Ecclesiae Romanae matri nostrae praecipuè piae Paternitati vestrae quantas potest humana devotio referimus gratiarum actiones de eo quod Richardum Comitem Cornub. prae caeteris mundi Magnatibus elegistis ad culmen Regni Siciliae quod inter caetera Regna magnum esse cognovimus cencenties nos in ipsius exaltatione non mediocriter honoratos Verum cum
omnia quae ad Baroniam ipsius Ecclesiae pertinent quae pro spiritualibus in eadem exercendis pia Progenitorum nostrorum devotione constat eidem fuisse collata et quae hactenus colligi et salvo custodiri praecipimus in commodum et utilitatem ipsius Ecclesiae convertenda cessante jam causa in manu nostra totaliter capiemus nec ulterius sustinebimus quod temporalia metat qui spiritualia ad quae ex officii sui debito tenetur irreverenter subtrahere non formidat aut quod emolumenta percipiat qui incumbentia eisdem onera subire recusat Teste Regi apud Hereford primo die Junii REX Archiepiscopo Cantuar. salutem Pastores c. Vt in alia usque ibi dissimulare non possimus nec pertransire incorrectam Quia igitur ad vos suffrageneorum et aliorum subditorum vestrorum negligentias corrigere spectat et excessus paternitatem vestram rogamus et requirimus ne in defectum opprobriumque rigoris Ecclesiastici manum Laicam quod inviti faceremus apponere nos oporteat praefatum Herefordensem Episcopum suffraganeum vestrum monere et efficaciter inducere et si opus fuerit ea qua convenit censura compellere velletis ad Ecclesiam suam praedictam usque ibi provideri faciemus Quod si aliqua justa causa quam ignoramus subfuerit quo minus hoc personaliter facere possit ipsum si de ea vobis constet rescribentes ipsum ut alicui discreto de Regno nostro vices suas in omnibus quae ad jurisdictionem Episcopalem spectant committat simili censura compellere non omittatis Alioquin c. REX Magistro Hugoni de Mortuomari Offic. Archiepiscopi Cantuar. sub eadem forma Quia igitur ad vos ratione officii vobis commissi suffraganeorum Ecclesiae Cantuariensis negligentias corrigere c. ut infra ubi dicitur praefatum Episcopum Herefordensem Ecclesiae Cantuariensis suffraganeum Monere et efficaciter inducere et si opus fuerit ea qua convenit c. usque in finem Teste ut supra The Jews in Lincoln and other places having been plundered and spoiled of their goods during the Barons Wars and since threatned to be spoiled again the King upon their Petition issued this Patent to certain personsin Lincoln not to offer any violence and to protect them and their goods from all violence plunder having taken them into his Royal Protection as they would answer the contrary at their peril REx dilectis sibi Thomae de Fou. Waltero de Braund Willielmo Braund Gilberto del Punt. Rogero filio Benedicti Johanni de Luda Osberto filio Egidii Johanni de Paris Jacobo del Punt. Jordano filio Egidii Henrico filio Egidii Thomae filio Roberti Petro fratri Henrici Gupil Waltero de Croyland Nicholao Mundae Nicholao Stoyle Willielmo de Holgate Willielmo de Hepham Johanni Coiti Thomae le Parmniter Johanni de Lanc. Johanni del Soler Martino le Corwunder civibus suis Lincoln salutem Cum post turbationem nuper habitam in regno nostro de consilio Baronum nostrorum Judeos nostros Lincoln sicut caeteros Judeos nostros Angliae ad eorum corporum rerum suarum tuitionem conservationem in nostram protectionem specialem susceperimus ac quidam de civitate praedicta sicut ex eoruÌ„ querimonia didicimus sibi de corporibus rebus suis minas inferunt manifestas per quod nimium sibi dampnum grave periculum evenire formidant Nos indempnitati eorum prospicere volentes Vobis mandamus firmiter injungentes quatenus praefatos Judeos Lincoln viriliter protegentes contra quoscunque manutenentes eis in personis vel bonis suis non inferatis vel ab aliquibus inferri permittatis injuriam c. Et si quid c. Et hoc sicut vos vestra diligitis nullatenus omittatis In cujus c. Duraturam per annum Teste Rege apud Glouc. 6. die May. Some Marchers of Wales having entred into a Solemn agreement with Simon de Monteford Earl of Leicester Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and other Nobels to go over into Ireland for some time for the Peace of the Realm and raâ—ified it with their Oathes which they perfidiously violated by staying in England raising new Forces Wars drawing the Earl of Gloucester and he the Prince into the Confederacy and Rebellion against the King openly slandering and defaming him the King thereupon by the Earl of Leicesters perswasion as the Subscription and other circumstances evidence commanded the Bishops of the Province of Canterbury jointly in their several Diocesses to excommunicate all of them small and great without sparing any and all their adherents in general and to vindicate the King from their slanders by publishing the truth of things to unblind the people whom they seduced REx Venerabilibus in Christo patribus de London Episcopo caeteris Episcopis Provinciae Cantuar. salutem Cum inter delectum fidelem nostrum Simonem de Monteforti Comitem Leicester Senescallum Angliae ac Gilbertum de Clare Comitem Gloucester Hertford materia cujusdam dissentionis nuper exortae quà m per compromissum quoddam inter eosdem in certas personas factum hinc inde juramento Vallatum credebamus sicut meritò si in hominibus al qua esset fidei certitudo credere poteramus pacificatum penitus sedatum ad pacanda corda subditorum nostrorum ex dissentionibus hujusmodi commota forsitan turbata qui ex hoc novas in regno nostro verisimiliter praesumebant posse guerras provenire per singulos Com. Regni nostri decepti literas nostras transmisimus inter caetera continentes quod dicti Comites amici fuerant concordes ecce quod dolenter referrimus idem Com. Glouc. quem ratione homagii eodem tempore nobis facti in fide ac devotione nostra ferventius solito perseveraturum credebamus Marchionibus aliis Rebellibus nostris qui ex pacto suo hoc anno cum apud Wigorn. essemus de ipsius Comitis aliorum Magnatum Regni nostri assensu habito pro Regni ipsius pace quam iidem temerè violarunt in Hiberniam termino dudum transacto se transferre debuissent infra certum tempus minimè reversuri contra pactum ipsum proprium Sacramentum super hoc praestitum hoc hactenus facere distulerunt Nec non Willielmus de Valentia Comes Warren ac complicibus suis qui nuper in Regno nostro applicuerunt contra pacem nostram sibi associatis terram nostram in partibus Marchiae hostiliter circumeundo discurrit castra villas occupando guerras ibidem coÌ„movendo contra pacem nostram sicque praefatos rebelles nostros in familiaritatem admittere defendere ac ad pejora committenda inducere non formidat quibus nisi propriae salutis immemor Sacramenti ab ipso praestiti praevaricator
velut alter Octavianus instauraris amicis tam Alemannis quà m Anglis c. Whereupon he accepted it Magnates Alemanniae Nec Italicum vel Romanum et praecipue Papalem aliquatenus eligere propter insatiabilem eorum avaritiam Elegerunt igitur inito diligenti cum deliberatione consilio Comitem Richardum tum propter linguam Anglicanam c. tum propter ejus fidelitatem constantiam sapientiam tum propter sui Thesauri abundantiam Unde quidam scilicet Satyricus satis inquit Satyricè Nummus ait pro me nubit Cornubia Romae Book 4. Chap. 3. p. 930. l. 38. Before Mat. Paris this should have been inserted Anno 1258. Gravis in urbe Romana sacta est seditio civium maxima cum schismate perturbatio c. Confaederatis igitur popularibus De consilio cujusdam Anglici concivis eorum magistri pistorum in urbe Matthaei dicti de Bealuere facto impetu vehementi catervatim ruentes glomeratim carcerem in quo Brancaleo pristinus Senator tenebatur in vinculis confregerunt liberantes constituerunt eum Senatorem facientes ei secundum pristinam urbis consuetudinem cum juramentis fidelitatem Roboratus igitur Brancaleo expulit ab urbe sibi adversantes et Hannibalenses duos scilicet consanguineos cujusdam Cardinalis patibulis fecit praesentari spernens Papalem reverentiam nec Papalibus pepercit amicis aut consanguineis Quos cum Papa excommunicaret scilicet Brancaleonem Senatorem et suos fautores ipsi cachinnantes omnes minas suas contempserunt et potestatem in eos exercendam non tantum parvipendebant sed etiam sannis vilipendebant Ipsi se asserebant habere privilegium quod nequit aliquis Papa eos excommunicare et subsannantes comminabantur ipsum Papam cum suis Cardinalibus usque ad internecionem persequi et damnificare Quo cognito Papa sibi timuit et dixit fratribus Dum furor in cursu est currenti cede furori Et ne malis pejora succederent se subito contulit Viterbium proponens se remotius scilicet Assisium conferre But at lâ—st he was forced to humble himself to Brancaleo and implore his favor Whereupon Manfridus quia Papam odio habuit Senatorem Brancaleonem praecordialiter dilexerat gavisus vehementer est quod qui paulo antè minas jaculabatur et sententiam excommunicationis comminabatur fulgurare sic humiliatus est quod ea quae pacis sunt cogebatur postulare Spospondit igitur Princeps Manfredus eidem Senatori Brancaleoni se ad omnia necessaria subventurum Et sic destitutus est undique amicus Regis Anglorum Henrici cui consuevit potenter suffragari totaque inaestimabilis pecunia quam pro Regno Apuliae adquirendo effuderat et illuc transmiserat non sufficiebat ad adquietandum usuras quae tacite subrepentes ipsum Regem ignarum illaquearent et incircumspectum Imposuit insuper ei Papa quod deceperat Ecclesiam et circummvenerat unde fama ejus inter omnes nationes obsorduit vehementer When as the Pope himself was the grand and most infamous Cheater Diebus sub eisdem excanduit Papa in Regem Anglorum eo quod promissa toties iterata non observans seipsum ultro obligaverat sub poena amissionis Regni excessus corrigere consuetos Instante igitur Episcopo Roffensi Laurentio such was his Episcopal Loyalty et aliis multis urgentissime proposuit Papa post admonitiones infructuosas in Regem fulgurare sententiam eâ—communicationis et Regnum interdicere such was his Papal presumption et graviora gravibus successive cumulare Rex igitur mente confusus who wanted the courage of Brancaleo and the English Bakers valor at Rome quinque millia Marcarum Domino Papae numeravit ut iram temperans cordis sui hanc sententiam ad tempus prorogaret atque differret Dominus autem Papa precio et precibus postulantis ilico adquievit Whereas the King should have derided contemned it as the Romans then did under his very Nose in Rome it self and much more he a King at a greater distance Et sic depauperato Regno Angliae undique bonis suis spoliato omnis spes de obtinendo Regno Apuliae penè evanuit exsufflata nisi quod in sinu novi Regis Alemanniae Richardi aliquantula sed nimis exilis est reposita quia nondum culmen Imperii est adeptus Such a grosse holy cheat did those unholy Popes put upon this our deluded King Henry his sonne Edmund and our kingdomes This Record should have been inserted Book 3. Chap. 1. p. 476. l. 9. What an Ecclesiastical Soveraignty King Henry the 3d. exercised in the appropriating of Churches and endowing of Vicaridges this memorable Writ for that purpose issued to the Bishop of Worcester Anno 20 H. 3. will clearly evidence Rex Domino Wigorn. Episcopo salutem Ex quo minus honestum vobis videbatur appropriare Monachis nostris Wigorn. Ecclesiam de Bremgrave in forma quam intendebamus videlicet ut augeretur numerus eorum discretioni vestrae relinquerimus ut secundum quod videritis honestius id fieri posse animae bonae memoriae Domini J. Regis Patris nostri cui super hoc subveniri cupimus magis expedire de appropriatione praedicta disponatis secundum tenorem Cartae nostrae Ita tamen quod Vicaria mediocris sit modum non eâ—cedat quod provisionem vestram in hac parte per literas vestras Nobis plenius certificetis antequam ipsam promulgeâ—is vel statuetis Teste Rege apud Wudstock 24 die Februarii FINIS Courteous Readers FOr the readier finding of the principal persons places matters conteined in this Volume I have made several distinct Indexes or Tables thereunto The 1. of the Authors and Authorities of all sorts therein quoted and made use of The 2. of the English and other Abbies Priories Monasteries Nunneries Abbots Priors and all matters relating to them The 3. of the English and Welsh Archbishopricks Bishopricks Archbishops Biships their Elections Actions Treasons Extravagances Contests and all matters relating to them in this Tome The 4. of the Irish The 5. of Forraign Archbishopricks Bishopricks Archbishops Biships their elections and actions herein mentioned The 6. of the English Irish and other Archdeaconries Deaneries Archdeacons Deans The 7. of the English and other Earls The 8. of the chief Officers of State of England and Ireland The 9. of Barons Knights and other principal persons Names of our English or other Nations The 10. of the Popes of Rome The 11. of the Romish Cardinals The 12. of the Popes Legats Nuncioes Agents in England Ireland or other forreign Dominions The 13. of Cities Castles Churches parishes places and passages relating to them with the Pages wherein you may finde them The 14. of the Principall matters herein contained wherein the Names Actions of cur own and other Kings Emperors Princes and chief Persons are more particularly related The 15. of sacred Texts occasionally abused
visitations 7â—1 Joynes in the publike excommunication of all infringers of the Churches Liberties and Great Charter 796 797. Opposed Rustands demands exactions in the Council at London professing He would lose his head before he would submit to so great an injury and slavery of the Church which encouraged the rest 823. Complained on for it by Rustand to the King Pope who threatning punishment he stoutly answered they might take away bit Miter being stronger then be but not his head-peece 824. A Writ to the Archbishops official to prohibite his intended excommunication of the Abbot of Glaston by the Bishop of Wells instigation pending in his Temporal Court after an Appeal Writ seeing it touched his Crown Dignity and was against his prerogative 851 852. Ordered by the Antimonarchical Council under Archb. Boniface that he his successors in the vacancy of the Archbishoprick as Dean of the Bishops with two Bishops more should admonish the King to recall his processe against Clerks summoned to appear in his temporal Courts or else to interdict his Castles Towns Lands and excommunicate his Judges Officers if they desisted not 901 902. Died of the Plague 954. The Bishop of Ely his will produced under his Seal 965. Henry de Wengham Chancellor of England recommended by the King elected though unlearned insufficient 954. His Patent to hold all his former Promotions benefices in commenda before consecration 954 955 984. A prohibition to him and his Officials not to draw any of the Kings Subjects into plea without the Realm 980 981. A Commissioner to hear and determine the Complaints of such Clergymen whose goods were spoyled substracted during the Troubles and give them recompence against the Trespassers 1000 to 1007. A Writ to excommunicate the Earl of Gloucester and others for staying in England and not going over into Ireland according to their Oathes 1013 1014. Joynes with the Barons against King H. 3. for which he was by name excommunicated by the Popes Legate suspended from his office and benefice and commanded within 3. moneths to appear before the Pope where he appeared expecting his doom 1018. The Rebels in the Isle of Ely commend him blame the Popes Legate for banishing him the Realm and seising the profits of his Bishoprick 1020 1021 1023. The City of London interdicted by the Legat 1025. Collectors of the Disme appointed in his Diocesse and Writs to hasten the collection 1033 1034. Bonner the first reviver of Visitation Oaths and Inquisitions introduced by Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln after their suppression by King H. 3. his prohibitions p. 710. N. Norwich Bishoprick Bishops TRinity Church the antiquity and Kings care of it 1016 1017. John de Oxenford present at the ejection of the Abbesse Nuns of Ambresbury for their whoredom and introduction of others in their places 228. A Writ of King John to him to revoke and to the Justices to assist him in the revocation of all Lands Tenements possessions unjustly alienated from his Church in times of his predecessors 230. John de Gray recommended by King John to be Archbishop of Canterbury unanimously elected by the Monks approved by the King yet unjustly rejected by the Pope and Stephen Langeton obtruded 244 245 246 247. brought 500. Foot and many Horse out of Ireland to assist the King against Lewis invasion to deprive him 269. joynes with others and the King in writing to the rebellious exiled Bishops to return and enjoy their Bishopricks according to agreement with the Legate and Oath of the Nobles and for the restoring of their damages 277 331. recommended by the King and Pope to the Monks of Durham for their Bishop but rejected by them 353 354. His Official during the vacancy one of the Popes Delegates to excommunicate the Barons 359. Pandulfus the Popes Legate Bishop elect thereof 378 381 382. Excommunicated the Earl of Albemarl for with-holding and seizing the Kings Castles 378 379 421. His recognition before the Kings Counsil that he never put the Prior and Covent of St. Fritswith Oxon. in possession of the Church of Acleya 381. See Index 12. Thomas de Blundevil A Writ to him to restore the Benefices in his Diocesse to a Clerk sequestred who had made his peace with the King 446. his death 483. Simon Prior of Norwich elected by the Monks disallowed by the King who appointed a Proctor to appeal against him 483. delayed excepted against his election nulled by the Pope because it displeased the King 484 924. William de Raele unanimously elected Bishop thereof approved consecrated 484 510 511. elected Bishop of Winton by the Monks approved by the Pope refused by the King 581 to 591. See Winton Walter consecrated the Church of Waltham 604. joynes with other Bishops in appointing publick fasts prayers and a message to the Emperor for electing a new Pope after a long vacancy 648. Appointed by the Popes Bull an Executor of his Tax imposed on the English Clergy his proceedings therein notwithstanding the Kings Nobles Prelates provision in Parliament and Kings special Writ of Prohibition against it 672 673. Spends above 4000. marks in gifts and entertainments on the Popes Legate 697. said Masse and preached at Westminster when the viol of Christs blood brought from Jerusalem was carried thither by King Henry in solemn procession and given to that Church for a sacred Relique justified it to be Christs real blood granted 6. years and 140. dayes pardon to those who should come thither to adore it by the consent of the other Prelates 711 712. A Prohibition to him not to collect the First-fruits of Benifices granted by the Pope to Archbishop Boniface which the Nobles in Parliament opposed 718. Present at the Parliament at London wherein the Bishops blamed the King for invading the Liberties of the Church and denyed him an ayd 721 722. The Kings Letter to the Pope to appoint him one of the auditors of the account concerning the monies levyed for redemption of the Crosse 758. A Writ to him to appoint Freers Predicants and others to preach the Crosse and collect the monies raised by it 767 807 917. A Writ to sequester the goods of a creditor to the King 782. his publication of Pope Innocent the 4. his Decree concerning Visitations and Procurations 791 Present in Parliament and joynes in the general Excommunication of all infringers of the Churches Liberties and Great Charter 796. A Collector appointed for the Dismes granted to the King by the Pope in England and Ireland 814 815 816. A Writ to him to respite the collecting of it from Priors and Rectors of poor Hospitals from those of Winton and others in particular 834 835. Simon de Wanton elected by the Monks dispatched swift messengers presently to Rome where with expence of vast sums of money he obtained confirmation and a license to hold all his former rents livings for four years though his Bishoprick was sufficient 925. meets at Oxford with three other Bishops convenes all the exempt Abbots and other Religious persons
of the Bishoprick of Lismor by this Union during his absence in England by the Popes Legates mandate to help consecrate the Bishop of Carliâ—le the Chapter of Lismor informing the King the Church was void elected and presented a new Bishop to him whom he confirmed and restored the Temporakies to but upon complaint of the Bishop of Waterford and proof of the Union restored him to the possession thereof Upon an Appeal to the Pope the Bishop of Norwich elect then his Legate the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Rochester to whom he referred the examination of the cause resolved the Union to be void the election and confirmation of the other good whereupon the King restored him to the possession of Lismor and the other to all the possessions and Temporalties belonging only to Waterford p. 373 374 381 382. See Lismor Philip Dean of Waterford being elected Bishop thereof whom the Pope approved to be Bishop the King thereupon granted him his Royal assent and favour And because he had done fealty to the King he issued Writs to his Chief Justice to give him full seisin of the Temporalties thereto belonging according to usage and to all Tenants of the Bishoprick to be intendent and respondent to him p 784. King H. 3. being in Gascoigne granted a license to elect to the Dean and Chapter of Waterford yet to spare their labour and expenses of sending thither for a confirmation after the election made he commanded his Chief Justice of Ireland when the person they required or elected should be presented to him he should give the royal assent and favour to him yet so as the King might have no reason to suspect his loyalty and to restore him full seisin of the Bishoprick and all Temporalties thereto belonging when he was confirmed having first received the due and accustomed Fealty to the King from him and that he should take care he received Letters Patents from the Dean and Chapter conteining that they should not draw this grace of the King into consequence in future times p. 818. This Index with those in my other Tomes when compleated will supply sundry defects in Sir James Ware his Book De Praesulibus Lageniae sive Provinciae Dublinensis Archiepiscoporum Cassaliensium Tuamensium Vitae INDEX 5. Of Foreign Archbishopricks Bishopricks Patriarchs Archbishops Bishops Matters Acts relating to them those only formerly under our Kings Dominions in France and Normandy are particularly touched the rest referred to the pages wherein mentioned A. AMciensis Bishop p. 1032. Sr. Andrews Archbishop G. A Writ to the Barons Bayliffs of the Cinque-ports and others to arrest him and all his and other enemies coming from beyond the Seas oâ— out of Scotland who had procured certain things from the Court of Rome tending to the disinheriting of the King of Scotland who had married King H. 3. his daughter not without the manifest scandal and disgrace of him and the said King and not to suffer any of them to come into the Realm 973. Antiocha Patriarch claims primacy of the Bishop of Rome p. 490 491 492 521 643. Anxianensis Auxiensis Archbishop p. 400. Aquensis Episcopus ordered by Pope Honorius his Bull at King H. 3. his instance to excommunicate Geoffry de Lizimace the Kings sworn Vassal for breach of his Oath of Fealty to him p. 402 403. Summoned to appear before the King at Burdeaux on a certain day upon the men of Aquis complaint for invading them in an hostile manner to the Kings great disgrace and dishonour taking three of them prisoners and slaying one J Mansell sent thither to hear and end the differences between them The Bishop prohibited not to molest them again as he would avoyd the Kings revenge p. 600 601. Aquilegia Patriarch p. 643. Arelatenâ—is Archbishop prohibits Earl Richard by the Popes authority not to passe to the Holy Land when in his journey towards it to all mens admiration 514. Armenia Archbishop arrives in England p. 421. B. BElvacensis Bishop Philip taken in his armes against King Rich. 1. by his forces was kept in them long detained prisoner not released by him noâ— by King John notwithstanding all the Popes Letters menaces till he payd a ransom of 6000 Marks and 2000 Marks more for expences in prison p. 227. Beritensis Bishop p. 643. Bithuricensis Archbishop p. 400. Bononiensis Bishop James p. 822 866 867 870 880. Brixiniensis Bishop G. p. 532 550. Burdegalensis Archbishop summoned to a Council to Biturica in France by the Popes Legate p. 400. The Bishop of Hereford aspiring to it defeated by the Archbishops unexpected recovery p. 851. Fortone the Kings Clerk elected by the major part the Kings Letters to the Pope on his behalf 971. C. CAesariensis Archbishop p. 529. Canturcensis Bishoprick p. 1032. Cathanensis Bishop p. 516. Coloniensis Archbishop H. p. 453 912. Appendix p. 27. Condonensis Bishoprick 516. Constantinopolitanus Patriarcha contests with the Pope for primacy p. 490 491 492 643 752. Corliagensis Bishop William p. 1033. Cremonensis Bishop p. 520. Cuma Bishop H. p. 532. Cunerensis Bishop A. p. 598. D. Dolensis Bishop Sampson Archbishop of St. Davids carries his Pall from St. Davids thither whereupon the Bishop succeeding him refused subjection to the Archbishop of Turon till Pope Innocent the 3d. descided the controversie for Dole p. 234. E. EBredunensis Archbishop King Henries grand Proctor to the Pope in the businesse of Sicily wherein he decoyed him p. 944 to 948 957 958 960 966. F. FErraria Bishoprick p. 516. Florence Bishop p. 530. G. GLasgo Bishop Nicholas his election vacated by the Pope who conferred the Bishoprick by Provision on John de Cheyham whom he consecrated King H. 3. his Letters at the Popes request to the King and Queen of Scots and whole Council of Scotland to restore his Temporalties without opposition though they might justly withstand it p. 972 973. H. HEâ—bipâ—lâ—nsis Bishop p. 520. L. LAudensis Bishop p. 520. Lexovi Bishoprick Bishops King Johns memorable Writ to the Dean and Chapter shewing his and his ancestors antient Prerogative that no Bishop ought to be elected there or in any other of his Cathedrals but by his special license to elect and confirmation after the election his admiring their presumption in electing a Bishop without it appeals against it to preserve his right p. 229 230. Limovicensis Bishop at the Kings request by the Popes command excommunicates Hugh de Lizimaco Earl of March and his Wife interdicts his Lands for seising and besieging King H. 3. his Castles and other things against his Oath p. 377 384. Proctors constituted concerning a difference between the King and him in the French Kings Court 1032. Lingonensis Bishoprick p. 641. Lucanensis Bishoprick p 516. Lugdunensis Archbishop p. 400 401 641 642. M. MEssanensis Archbishop the Popes Agent p. 520 521 522 523 530 928. Mons Regalis Bishoprick p. 516 520 521. Mutinensis Bishop p. 520 655. N. NArbonensis Archbishop p 400 Navariensis Bishop p. 520.
in reprehending the King for his misgovernment 721 722. The King respites the seising the Bishop of Worcesters temporalties for suing against his prohibitions at his request 752. Extraordinary rich The Pope offers him the Realm of Sicily which he refuseth being only to exhaust his Treasure 776 777. Excepted out of Archbishop Boniface his general Excommunication 786 788. Present in Parliament at the general excommunication of the infringers of the Churches Liberties and Great Charter 796. Guardian of the Realm with Queen Elianor in King H. 3. his absence 806 to 824 refuseth Sicily or to lend the King or Edmund monies to gain it the Popes Letters for that purpose 808 8â—2 The Jewes sold to him by King H. 3. Append. 27. Elected Emperor and why App. 27 28. D. DErby VVilliam de Ferâ—ariis 757. E. ESsex Galfridus Geoffry Fitz-Peter 231. Chief Justice See more Index 8. Chief Justices of England G. de Mandevil Earl of Glocester and Essex 338 435. H. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex 669 951. F. FLanders Philip refused to invade England p. 276. Ferrers de Ferrariis â—illiam 271. matters relating to him 257 271 274 276 277 290 331 338 339 472 721. G. GLocester G. de Mandeville p. 338. Gilbert de Clare his actions 558 559 721 788. Richard de Clare his actions for and against the King 931 935 950 967 977 1001 1002 1013 1014 1021 1024 1025 1032. H. HAssia and Turing Lantgrave Henry elected Emperor by the Popes means in opposition to Frederick 2. slain 680 753. Heresord Humsry de Bohun Marshal excommunicated p. 359 390. His acts and matters concerning him 452 472 715 721 788 796 862 951. Holland William set up and chosen Emperor against the Emperor Frederick the 2. by the Pope routed slain and his whole army defeated Appendix 27. K. KAncia Kent Hubert de Burgo his Negotiations troubles acts p. 452 453 472 485 498. See Chief Justices L. LEycester R p. 229. Simon de Montefort Monfort 400 472. Gave ill Counsell to King H. 3. against the publick 486. Guarded the Popes Legate with his arms to the Council at Pauls 488. Goes with a vast summe of mony to Rome thereby to prevent a divorce from his unlawfull mariage against his wives vow of virginity made before the Archbishop which the Pope confirmed 498 500. Yet being checked for it by the King he departs the Court with infamy goes beyond Sea with his wife Ibid. Sollicits the Prelates Abbots Priors Clergy to grant an ayde to the King at his and the Popes request by Letters to them which they deny 610. Joynes with the other Nobles in a Letter against Popes Extortions Innovations Oppressions of the Church of England 669 670. Joynes with the Bishops and other Lords in a sharp reprehension of the King in a Parliament which dissolved in discontents and denial of an ayde 721 721. Appointed an Ambassador to the Pope with others about the Priviledge sent K. H. 3. for the kingdom of Sicily thereby given him 914. Several Writs Letters Procurations concerning that his Imployment 915 to 920. Called by William de Valentia an old Traytor in Parliament before the King and Nobles His indignation reply thereto 931. He and other Nobles confederate together come with horse and arms to the Parliament at Oxford force the Poictovins to deliver up the Castles they had got possession of under pain of losing their heads and to depart the Realm 935 936 937 938. Letters by his and other Nobles advice to the Pope concerning Sicily 943 to 951 reputed to be crowned with Martyrdom 980. His Precepts during the Wars net to pillage or rob Churches or Churchyards ineffectuall 991 1000. He joyns in the Instrument of submitting the Articles of Oxon and other Differences between King Henry and his Barons to the King of France Popes Legat and others 1001 1002. His presentation under the Great Seal to the Treasurership of Yorke during the Kings imprisonment under him revoked after his enlargement 1010. A Writ to excommunicate the Welshmen Earl of Gâ—ocester and other opposites to him procured and signed by him in the Kings name 1013 1014. Absolved from his sinnes encouraged by some Bishops in all his Wars against the King slain in Rebellion the tempest at his death 1021 1022. Lincolne John matters concerning him p. 472 486 487 488. M. MAndevill 389 390. See Essex March Henry de Lizimaco matters concerning him p. 377 385 384 Hugo de Brune p. 750. Melun Viscont his confession of Lewes his intention to banish the English Barons who elected and made him King as Traytors when he conquered King John 366. N. NOrfolke and Suffolke Roger Bâ—god and Hugh de Bâ—god acts concerning them p. 280 299 359 390. 638 639 644 669 715 721 796 843. O OXon Albericus de Veer p. 251 261. R. de Veer 472. 669 721 796. Matters concerning them Ibid. P. ST Paul Pol against the Pope p. 700. Pembroc William Marescallus his Teste to K. H. 3. his write Charters Letters Oath to the exiled Bishops p. 230 274 276 277 280 290 33â— 338 339. The Kings Writ to him concerning the release of the interdict 332 appeals by him against the disturbets of the kingdomes peace 346. Sets up crowns assists H. 3. after K. Johns death 369 370 389 390. Richard Earl Marshall certain Bishops accused by the King in Parliament of overmuch familiarity with him 443. Bishops sent to treat a peace between the King and him 445. Gilbert swears to maintain the contract of marriage between King H. 3. and the Emperor 452. Present in the Parliament of Merton and Lords resolution not to alter the Law of Bastardy 472. Went armed to the Council at Pauls to guard Otto the Popes Legat 488. Takes up the Crosse and vowes to go to the Holy Land with Earl Richard 513. A Writ to him not to intermeddle in the quarrel between Archbishop Boniface and the Bishop of Winton 788. Perron confederates against the Popes and Prelates usurpations extravagances 700. Poictou taken prisoner by the Saracens 755. Provence King H. 3. maries his daughter 455. Is taken prisoner by the Saracens 755. P. RAinoldus a Forraign Earl 410. Richmond Peter of Britain 457. of Savoy p. 723. Rogerus a Forraign Eatl 410. S. SAbaudia Savoy 502. Thomas imprisoned 848 849. Sarum Salisbury William his actions p. 251 265 271 274 290 389. Swartzemburge 753. T. THolose Reymund The Pope and his Legates interdict excommunicate and grant a Croysado against him though an Orthodox Christian for favouring the Albigenses refusing to abjure the Earldom for him and his heirs and become the Popes vassals like King John p. 400 403 404 414. W. WArren William matters concerning him p. 271 274 276 277 338 339 346 389 372 494 721. John 836 943. Warwick H. 390. F. 472. John de Placeto 936 951. Winton S. acts matters concerning him p. 251 274 290 331 338 339 359. R. 669 721. INDEX 8. Of the Names of the Chancellors and other Great Officers of
State of England and Ireland With their particular Actions CAstellan of Dover Richard de Gray p. 937. Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury p. 229. See Archbishops Hugh Archdeacon of Wells 257. Walter de Gray 259 290. Richard de Marisco 338 339 388 389 390. Simon Langeton Chancellor to King Lewes whiles in England 362. Ralph de Nevil Bishop of Chichester 294 431 removed why 472 48â— 501. Geoffrya Templar and John de Lexinton 501. Hugh de Pateshull 510. Simon Norman 568. Henry de Wengham 923 924 954 955 961. Nicholas Archdeacon of Ely 981 982. Godsry Gifford 1038. Most of these were recommended to Bishopricks or made Bishops by our Kings some of them with much opposition after they were Chancellors Ibid. Chancellors of Ireland Rolph de Norwico p. 850. Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland p. 559. Constable of Chester J. p. 359. Constable of Dover Castle 1059 1060. Escheator of Ireland William de Bakepuz p. 310 939 942 956 979 991 992 1017 1056 Chief Justices of England Prohibitions Writs issued by with their Testes other acts by them Galfridus or Geoffry Fitz Peter Earl of Essex 230 231 232 233 239 242 251 252 265 274 276 277 279 280 282. Appendix p. 7 8 9. Peter Bishop of Winton 332 354. Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent his actions as Chief Justice Teste to Writs flight troubles pulling out restoring to sanctuary reconciliation to the King c. 373 388 389 to 396. 429 430 437 438 439 443. Hugo de Bigod p. 937 951 964 965 969 970 971 972. Hugo le Dispenser 1001 1005 1008. Chief Justices in Ireland Writs Mandates directed to them concerning Ecclesiastical and Civil affairs of several kinds the declaration execution of Lawes Justice Collection of Disies c See Archbishops Bishops and Archdeacons Deans of Ireland G. de Marisco 372 373 378 382. Archbishop of Dublin p. 393 â—397 Richard de Burgh 422 423 458. M. Fitzgerold 474 475 480 481 482. 559 603 618 632 633 634 635. John Fitz-Geoffry 690 719 735 756 768 784 768 807 808 810 827 828 857 858 859 951. Alanus le Zouche 939. Stephen Longespe 941 956 990. The Bishops Clergies complaints to the King Pope against the Oppressions imprisonments Proceedings prohibitions of the Justices of Ireland against them their Clerks Tenants with Writs Bulls concerning them 827 828 857 858 859. Inferior Justices in England John Fitz-hugh p. 262. Simon de Pateshull 281. Philip de Uletot Appendix 20. Henry de Braibroc 265 360 392. Martin de Pateshull 407 473. Henry de Bathonia 720 818 830 853 862 965. Roger de Thurkeby 760. Gilbertus de Preston 825. Henry de Bracton with his Treatise of the Kings Prerogative and Prohibitions 872 to 890. See Index 1. Thomas Trivet 1067. Gardians of the Realm in the Kings absence beyond the Seas Geoffry Fitz Peter Earl of Essex Chief Justice and Peter Bishop of Winton p. 282. Appendix 7 8 9. Writs with their Teste 1b VVilliam Archbishop of Yorke The Bishop of Carlisle and W. de Cantilupo 579 599 to 603. The Queen Richard Earl of Cornwall 808 814 to 819. writs with their Teste Ibid. Marshals of England William Earl of Pembroc Marescallus p. 230 c. See Earls of Pembroc John Mareschallus 399. Richard 445. John 614. Roger Bigod 705 721 788 796 937. William de Bonquer 937. Protoforester of England Hugo de Nevil 265. Seneschalls Stewards of England William de Cantelupo 348 354. Aimericus de S. Amando 456. Simon de Montefort Earl of Leycestre 1013. Seneschal of Gascoigne Henry de Troublevill p. 456. Treasurers of England Hugo de Pateshull p. 511. Robertus Passeleve 625. William de Haverbulle 735. Philip de Luvell Vudel 820 826 862 865. 925. 960. VVardens of the Cinque Ports Writs to acts by them VVilliam de VVortham p. 265. Bertramus de Cryoyle 617. Roger de Cobham 867. INDEX 9. Of Names Sirnames of Barons Privy Counsellers Knights Embassadors Proctors for the King at Rome Officials Lawyers Clerks Monks other persons of our own or other Nations not comprised in the former Indexes with most of their qualities actions A. DE Abendune William a learned Monk censures the Popes confirmation of a Mariage against vowed Chastity for money as illegal p. 500. De St. Agatha a Clerk 495. Agoilun Robert Miles the Bishop of Winchesters servant excommunicated 787. De St. Albano Albino St. Albon St. Albine Henry a Chaplain 971. Michael a Clerk of Oxford 495. Nicholas a Monk their Proctor at Rome 458 462. William Kings Proctor at Rome 377 378. De Albamara Robert Commissioner for the exiled Bishops dammages 280. De Albaniaco Philip a Baron agent for King H. 3. 446 453 454 472. Robert Commissioner for the Bishops dammages 280. Albertus Popes Notary 777. De Albin Philip a person of quality imployed in Lady Isabels contract of marriage with the Emperor 453 454 455. De Albineto William a Baron he and his son excommunicated by the Pope for taking arms against King John 359. De Aldermanbury Gervas his case 882. Aldebrandi 845. Ildebrando 1038. Aldethely James 1049. Alexander William a Lawyer excommunicated for opposing King John 455. Alienora Queen to H. 3. One of the Gardians of the Realm in his absence 808 814. The Dismes of Ireland assigned to her for a debt 1049 1054. Alienora King H. 3. his Sister married to Simon Montefort against her vow 498 500 575 756. Mr. Altho the Legates Register p. 448. St. Amand Aimericus a Baron mentioned in the marriage agreement with the Emperor 453 456. Present in the Parliament of Merton and vote for Bastardy against the Canons 472. Amblion John Kings Proctor at Rome 808. De Amendalia Jacob 531. St. Amur William Kings Proctor at Rome 578. De Andre James a Baron subscribing a Letter to the Pope with others against his exactions 951. Roger a Commissioner for the Bishops dammages 281. De St. Andrew William brought Letters of the Popes releasing the interdict to King John 332. Angermund William 941. Anselmus a Romish agent 957 958. De Arches Peter the Popes provisor 575. De Arden Ralph Custos of the temporalties Archishoprick of Cant. 25â— William Commissioner for the Bishops damages 280. De Argentine De Argento his Teste to a Writ as a privy Counsellor 1005 1008 1014. R. a Baron in the Parliament of Merton 472. Mr. Attee a Clerk 562. De Aly Attie Gerardus one of King Johns Counsellers adherents against the Pope and Bishops 265. Ingelardus his Nephew the like Ib. William Miles sent by King John to the Pope to congratulate his election 995. De Avenir William a plundered Clerk 1009. Auketill Anketill Robert Kings Proctor at Rome 580 583. Aumbly Geoffry Commissioner for the Bishops dammages 280. Aundely Walter the like Commissioner 280. Arthur King Johns Nephew reported to be slain by him he condemned for it 256 361 362. B. DE Bacon Robert an Oxford Monk 495 624. 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conferre it on whom he pleased nulls the election of Ralph the Kings Chancellor by the Monks approved by the King without alledging any cause but his own Papal pleasure commanding the Monks to make a new election by clauses prejudicial to his Prerogative 431. The Kings Inhibition thereupon to the Monks to do nothing therein to the prejudice of his Crown nor go to a new election without his special license 432. Nulls their Priors new election by the Kings license because old too simple to govern that Church nulled their third election of Blundus approved by the King because he held two Benefices without his license 433. Commanded the Monks at Rome to elect Edmund to whom he sent a Pall who refused to do it without the Kings license they and the King at last enforced to accept of him for Archbishop without any election 433 434. The corn goods of his foreign Clerks by provisions publickly threshed out and sold by a general insurrection against them 434 435 436. The Pope very angry at the tidings thereof writes biting Letters to the King for not punishing the offendors contrary to his Coronation Oath threatens to Excommunicate him if he did not exemplarily punish them to deterre others commanding some Bishops and Abbots to Excommunicate all they found guilty thereof till absolved by himself Whereupon sundry found guilty by inquisition were imprisoned others forced to fly 436 437 438 c. Hubert de Burgo his Mannors sequestred to give them satisfaction he removed from his Chief Justiceship for conniving at confederating with these Rioters and not punishing them 438. His Bull for visiting all Religious Orders Houses in all places for their vices corruptions by his special visitors their severe proceedings therein appeals against them 440 441 442. His Letters on behalf of Hugh de Burgo 443. King Henry submits himself at his command to prolong the Truce with France for three years to ayd the Holy Land 446 447. His abusive Bulls to all Christians for the ayd of the Holy Land only to extort monies upon that pretext levyed by and payd to his own Agents to be imployed against the Emperor Frederick promoted by Freers without the names of Nuncioes yet having their power and authority to absolve men from their Vows for money when crossed and to compell them to pay their monies by Excommunications Interdicts the Indulgences therein contained 447 to 451 466 367 He propounds a marriage between Isabella King Henries Sister and the Emperor his Letters concerning it the Kings answer to him and submitting himself to the Jurisdiction censures of the Pope and Roman Church in case he failed to pay the marriage portion promised 450 to 455. King Henry 3. sends Proctors to him concerning his own Marriage-Treaty to be ratified by his Papal authority dispensation which he prayed 454. Humbly relorted to him for counsil refuge upon all emergent occasions his over-submissive Procurations Letters to that purpose 454 455. His remonstrance to him of grievances by Philip Earl of Britain in seising his Castles Lands and revolting from his Allegiance and prayer to compell him to give him satisfaction who instead thereof imployed him in his Wars 455 456. His Letter to the King for receiving the Bishop of Winton into England who fled out of it was sent for by him to Rome to supply him with monies and ayd him in his Wars being a better Souldier then Preacher which he is content to do at the Popes request 456 457. His Legate prohibited to enter into Ireland without the Kings command 458. His encroachments upon the elections and confirmations of Abbots his new Oath of Fealty exacted from the Abbot of St. Albans to the prejudice of the Crown Churches Abbots Priviledges his Bulls and his Delegates proceedings therein 458 to 467. Published new compendious Decretals to get monies and usurp a legislative power over the world 457. He set up countenanced Usurers called Caursini in all places especially in England to whom most Prelates Abbots were bound in strange Obligatlons to raise monies for his use protected by him against the Bishop of London whose threats to excommunicate and banish them the City they derided 467 to 470. The insolency cruelty secular imployment of the Freers Minorites against their Orders by his countenancing them 469 470. King H. 3. by his Bull endeavours to revoke sundry of his grants as if unable to make them without his consent 470 486. His frequent abuse of Croysadoes and new wayes to raise money by dispencing with Vows and perverting it to his own use to the gâ—eat scandal of many discovered declamed against 470 471. Confirmed the Archbishop of Rhoaâ—s election which the King approved 482. His license to hold Pluralities to such of the Kings Clerks as he should appoint 483. I he miserable estate of England by his Agents Bulls Provisions to unlearned vitious Foreigners extortions symony abuse of Ecclesiastical censures being made a common prey by his Hypocrisie Tyranny 484. The Greek Church rejects his pretended authority over them separated from the Church of Rome for his and her avarice symony corruptions and claims superiority over it against whom he grants a Croysado and sends Souldiers to reduce them 484 489 to 494. He sends Otto at the Kings request into England under pretext to reform abuses who proved a ravenous wolfe 485 c. See Index 12. Opposed by Archbishop Edmund as prejudicial to his Archiepiscopal authority Ibid. The Nobles refuse to grant King H. 3. an Ayd publickly reprehend him in Parliament for saying publickly and secretly he could dispose exchange or alien nothing in his Kingdom without the Popes or Legates consent as if he were not King but the Popes Feudatory Vassal as many stiled him 470 485 486 504 5â—5 He Decrees St. Edwards Feast to be publickly observed His Canonization of Francis and Dâ—mâ—ick for Saints published and that his Legates Decrees in Councils should be valid after his Legateship ended 488. Recalls his Legate Otto from England by reason of the commotions against him for his rapines the Kings supplication for his stay notwithstanding them 49â— 493 505. Gives sentence for the Monks of Rochester and Earl of Arandel at Rome against Archbishop Edmund awarding them costs of suit yet granted him a priviledge to the prejudice of the Monks of Canterbury whom he oppressed by it 498 499. His unjust sentence by bribery against the Canons in the cause of Alienor married to the Earl of Leycester against her vew of chastity and in case of the Monks and Bishop elect of Winton upon appeals to him 498 500 to 504. His Statutes concerning the reformation of the black Monks and proceedings on them 503 504. His sharp Letter Bull to King H. 3. for giving alienating the Lands of the Crown to Bishops Abbots Nobles others to the prejudice of the See Apostolick to whom the Realm of England belonged and command to resume them notwithstanding his improvident Charters Oath 504 505. His Legate not permitted to enter
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
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
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
Writs to the Chief Justice of Ireland concerning it and other affairs 471 to 476. His Patent not to draw an Escuage granted him by the Clergy into consequence 475 His Writ for a resting and imprisoning all Hereticks of what sort soever till his further order 475. His Patent to poll all Clerks of his houshold who wore long hair 479. His Writ prohibiting Monks to buy and sell wool skins or other Merchandâ—ze under pain of forfeiting the goods and monye 480. His Writ to the Chief Justice of Ireland to do speedy Justice between two â—ishops according to the Law and Custome of Ireland notwithstanding any former Letters To receive the Archbishop of Rhoans Oath of Fealty by his Proctor and restore his temporalties 482 483. The deplorable sad slavish condition of the Church Realm of England under him by the Simony provisions extortions rapines depredations excommunications usurpations of ambitious avaritious Popes and their instruments 484 506 507 546 566 567 570 571 572 573 574 605 606 607 608 615 to 618 663 to 684 690 to 699 717 718 750 777 824 825 841 to 850. 868 to 872. 918. to 935 953 959 960 963 664 1020 1024 1069 1070. Appendix 26 to 29. He sends for Otto the Popes Legate into England to the Nobles Prelates Clergies great discontent Concludes a Peace with the King of Scots in a Parliament at Yorke 485 486. He sends his Proctors to the Councils held at Panls by the Popes Legat and at Oxford not to act or attempt any thing against his Crown and Dignity 487 578 807. His Writs severe proceedings against the Oxford Scholars for assaulting the Legat at Osney Abbey 494 496 558. He disposed not of the Taxes granted levyed but by the Legates advice 496. Opposed deserted by most of the Nobles because swayed by the Popes Legate who came with horse and arms to the Parliament admonished him of his errors whereupon he swears to submit to their provisions by an instrument sealed with his and the Legats Seal 497 498. His Speeech against Simon Monteforts mariage notwithstanding the Popes confirmation thereof 500. He oppresseth the Church Monks Prior of Winton about the Bishops election 502 580 to 595. He so farr displeased Pope Gregory the 9. for sending ayde of men and money to the Emperor Frederick his brother-in-law and desiring him to deal more mildly with him that he suspended all Englishmens businesses for a time 502 503. He stayes Otho in England after the Popes Letters to recall him sends Messengers Letters to the Pope for that end skipt for joy that he obtained his request therein 505. which he soon repents of by reason of his â—apines and impudent demands 508 509. He takes away his Seal from his faithfull discreet Chancellor about an election which he after repents of he refused to re-accept it 510. The Bishop of London and Canons of Pauls by excommunicating the Mayor and interdicting the City enforce him to release one of their Canons imprisoned by his command in the Tower in chainâ— 512. The Emperor Frederick his Letters to him and Earl Richard against Pope Gregories unjust Excommunication and Defamations published by his Legare in England against the Lawes of God and Justice with his recriminations of him to the Archbishop of Conterbury to be every where published to his infamy with the Emperors reply whose execrable Papal actions to the destruction of the world trampling justice under feet stirring up rebellions against him and attempts to deprive him of his life Empire he sadly recommends to King Henryes consideration as highly concerned in it 527 to 545. His eyes are opened to see the Popes extortions he prohibits his Usurers to stay in England who for money continued there notwithstanding 546. The Emperors sharp Letters to him for suffering the Popes agents wittingly and willingly in his hearing to publish scandalous Letters Excommunications and extort monies by Taxes rapines against him throughout his Dominions to his great infâ—my injury prejudice for foolishly obeying his Capital enemy thirsting after his honor blood against the Lawes of consanguinity God Nature in this businesse which concerned his own and all other Kings persons crowns safety as much as his That it was all one to fight against him with moneyes as with arms That the Pope to his own infamy gloried in nothing so much as that he had the power of a Lâ—â—ge Lord over him That his insatiable ambition determined to subject all Christian kingdomes and the Emperor most of all to his Dominion taking an example from the Crown of England trodden under foot He expected an answer therein that he might certainly know whom to trust or bewaâ—e of who returned this unkingly answer He neither would nor durst contradict the Popes will wondered his Sister was not yet solemnly Crowned Empress 546 547 548 555 His Letters to him concerning the taking of Faventia and the Popes Legates Prelates going by Sea to the Council against his advice 555 556. His prohibition against the Popes Legats provision to a Praebendary in his Free Chappel 557 775. His Consent to a provision to the Bishoprick of Landaffe and revocation of his grant of the temporalties thereof 558 559. His Patents to the Chief Justice of Ireland to assist the Cardinals agent to collect their Procurations and Dismes there 559 560. His Prohibition to build a Church and houses for Canons at Maydeston 561. To the Legat not to exact the 5th part or other Taxes from his Clerks 561 562. To the Prior of Rupe not to collect a Disme from the Monks of Cluny in England granted by the Pope without his assent against the right of his Crown nor any other Tax till he advised with his Prelates and Nobles in Parliament 562. His sharp answer to the Abbots who complained against Peter Rubeus the Popes Agenâ— his intollerable Tax upon them for their Baronies held of him instead of assisting them to their great discouragement 567 573 574. The Clergy of Perkshire oppose it amongst other reasons that they ought not to contribute against the Emperor as an heretick being neither condemned nor convicted by the Judgement of the Church though excommunicated 568. He feasted placed the Popes Legate in his Royal Throne at dinner Knighted and gave his Nephew a pension at his departure from England after 3. years irreparable damage to the Church by his stay here not leaving so much money in England as he extorted 570. His Writs to inquire of the number values of all Benefices and provisions to forraigners in England by what Popes Legates and to whom granted what monies had been collected for the Pope what was arrear in every Diocesse 572 573. His Writs to apprehend Apostate Monks and remove dead corps from one Monastery to another according to the parties will 575. His Patents for Archbishops Bishops executors to execute their wills and administer their goods on the Temporalties 576 636. His Writs reciting that God had constituted him by reason of his Government as King
Gods word nor the usefull ornaments of the Churches nor cure of souls nor divine services in the Churches were performed as they ought to be and according to the custom of the Country That their houses walls fell down together with their roofs and were dilapidated To which other complaints to the King and Parliament against the Court of Rome were superadded which they sent to the Pope by their respective Messengers with five several Letters two from the King to the Pope and his Cardinals a third from all the Archbishops Bishops a 4th from all the Abbots Priorâ— the 5th from all the Earls and Temporal Lords speedily to reform all these their grievances to prevent unavoydable mischiefs to the King Pope and Church of Rome and their revolt from subjection to them 666 to 672. They complained the Pope demanded Knight-service due only to the King Lords from their Tenants from Prelates Clergymen to find him so many Horse or Foot for half a year or pay a great ransome in lieu of it under pain of Excommunication which they must reveal to no man That he granted one years fruits of all Benefices that fell voyd within the Province of Canterbury to Archbishop Boniface That he by sealed Bulls required the Abbots of the Cistercian Order in England to send him golden Jewels to adorn his Planets and Copes as if they might be got for nothing That he published this new unheard of Statute in England not without the brand of covetousnesse That if any Clerk should from thenceforth dye intestate his goods should be converted to the use of the Pope which he commanded the Freers Preachers and Minors diligently to execute seising on the money plate and goods of three rich Archdeacons which the King hearing of prohibited detesting the multiplied and manifold cunning avarice of the Court of Rome and by the common advice of his Prelates and Nobles in Parliament issued several successive Prohibitions to the Abbot of St. Albans and others not to pay any Tallage to the Pope or his Agents before the return of their Messengers sent to Rome against these grievances under pain of seising his Barony and to the Bishops not to exact or levy any such Tax for any Clerk Religious person or Layman to the prejudice of his Royal dignity against his and his Nobles Provisions in Parliament which he neither would nor could endure 671 672 673 674. The Pope placing his confidence in gold and silver contemned the zealous Letters and memorable complaints of the King and whole Kingdom against his exactions requiring the Bishop of Norwich and others to levy a subsidie for him at which all were amazed they receiving such a new grievance instead of the relief expected the Kings wrath and indignation thereat and new memorable Prohibitions against it the English Church thereby ground as it were between two Mill-stones and placed between Sylla and Carybdis the King by the general advice and assistance of his Nobles endeavouring the salvation and instauration of the Realm on the one side and the Pope endeavouring its impoverishing on the other Many Prelates fearing the instability and effeminacy of the King and his Counsils resolutions fomented the Papal part though they never had seen that the Church received any happy encrease but rather incurred unhappy detriment by such effusions of their money 673 674. He summons a new Parliament at winton concerning the manifold dissolutions of the whole Realm and especially of the Church wherein the Messengers sent to the Court of Rome reported That they could discerne no humility nor moderation in the Popes gestures or words concerning the oppressions wherein the Realm Church of England were grieved and complained That when they expected a pleasing answer the Pope told them The King of England who now kicks the heel and Frederizeth hath his Counsil and I have mine which I will pursue That from that time scarce any Englishman could dispatch any businesse in Court yea they were all repelled and reviled as Schismaticks so as so many and such Epistles of the King and Universality both of the Nobles and Prelates of the Realm had no efficiency at all At which report the King and Nobles being much grieved exasperated at the repulse of their just petitions by the Court of Rome to which they had so often freely contributed the King by their advice commanded proclamations to be made through all Counties Cities Boroughs and Villages of the Realm That no Prelate Câ—â—rk oâ— other person throughout the Realm should consent to any Contribution to the Pope or transmit any money toward his ayd or in any wise obey his Papal command in contributing aydes which was accordingly done The Pope hearing thereof fell into a vehement anger writ to the English Prelates more sharply then before under pain of Excommunication and suspension to pay in the ayd he demanded to his Nuncio in the New Temple before the Feast of Assumption which the King resolving manfully to resist as he had begun for the freeing of the Realm and Church from Papal extortions by the threats of Earl Richard his brother to whom the Pope granted a Croysado and the whisperings of certain ambitious Clergy-men and Papal Bishops his Counsellors whereof the Bishop of Worcester was principal to whom he granted a power of interdicting the Realm was so inclined by their counsils more then was just that his constancy was enervated with the same levity it was conceived being so terrified with the Popes menaces that he trembled for fear where no fear was yea womanishly relinquished what he had manfully undertaken submitting to him as conquered affrighted whereupon the whole endeavour as well of the Nobles as Bishops and the hope of freeing the English Church and Realm miserably withered and came to nought not without the bleeding grief of many hearts all this resistance vanishing like a cloud before the shining Sun the Clergy satisfying the gapings of the Roman avatice with this Contribution without resistance the richest Prelates Clergymen who had greatest revenues which they over-heartily loved fearing to lose them by the Popes indignation complying with his designs and those who resolved to resist through the Noblemens encouragement the Kings eyes being averted and his ears closed against them by the Court Prelates being forced to comply and pay 6000 Marks to the Pope to the great impoverishing of the Realm which was transported by the Popes Nuncioes and Merchants to ayd the Landegrave against the Emperor Frederick part whereof he intercepting grievously reprehended the effeminacy of the English and Earl Richard complaining much of it before his fellow Souldiers who seemed to have consented to the Popes party to the destruction of the Realm of England and detriment of the Empire because he gathered much treasure together out of the assistance of the Crucesignati by the Popes permission whereby the audacious rapines of the Romans were infinitely encreased by how much they found no contradiction in them flying from those who chased
seats in Feasts and salutations in the Market-place with reservation of the Kings magnificence Whereupon most of them mad with envy and ambition forthwith made the Constitutions at Oxford swore all men and the King himself to observe them the Bishops excommunicating all infringers of them The Bishop of Worcester and some other Prelates the Fathers and Judges of mens consciences gave their assent unto them contrary to their corporal Oath to preserve the rights and terrene honour of the King and his Heirs consenting to so great a depression of Royal power For which the Popes Legate suspended them from their Office Bishopticks Benefices interdicted excommunicated them and the Barons by a publick sentence who appealed against them to the See Apostolick and if need were to the next General Council and the Church as well Triumphant as Militant contemn the Spiritual relying on the Material Sword 1020 1021 1022. The Bishops encouraged all to fight manfully and promised heaven to those who dyed in this quarrel against him who yet were routed and their chief Captain slain at Evesham 1022. The disinherited persons in the Isle of Ely their high and sharp answers to the Legates propositions sent to them wherewith the King and he were much incensed 1022 1023. His summons of all Earls Barons Archbishops Bishops Abbots and others who held by Knight-service to meet with Horse and Armes to besiege the Rebels in the Isle of Ely the Earl of Gloucester refused to come though he raised forces to prosecute his enemies 1024. He summoned a Parliament to which the Earl of Gloucester refused to repair but sent a Charter he would never bear Armes against him or his Son Prince Edmund his and the Legates demand to the Prelates therein concerning three years Dismes Horse and Armes against the Kings rebels and enemies with their high contemptuous answers 1024 1025. He places Octobon the Legate in his Royal Throne at St. Edwards solemn Feast and commanded all dishes to be set first before him 1023 1024. He commits the Tower of London to him and orders him to pawn his Jewels in it and at Westminster to raise monies 1025 1026. Pope Clement 4. by his Bull grants a Disme for three years towards his ayde and supply from all Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Clerks and Religious persons in England Wales Ireland to be levyed by Ecclestastical censures without appeal at the improved value towards his losses great expenses by the Barons Wars and Rebellions against him wherein the miseries extremities he his Queen and Son Prince Edward were put to by these Wars are largely related his zeal devotion munificence to the Church Church-men and promoting Gods worship with his and his Ancestors large endowments of the Church obliging them to assist him in his necessities are amplified 1026 to 1030. His Letters of gratitude to the Pope Cardinals Popes Advocate craving their further assistance favour advice in his great affairs promising the Advocate a full reward 1030 1031 1049. He submits the differences between him and Gilbert de Claâ—e to the Pope constituting Proctors in that affair and for defence of his rights in the French Kings Court against Ecclesiastical and Temporal persons 1032 1033. He recites the Rights Priviledges of the Archbishops of Canterbury which he is willing to maintain and grants an Inquisition for Lands aliena ted seised or detained injuriously from that See during the Wars 1033. His Commissions for collecting the Dismes granted him by the Pope several Patents Writs concerning it 1033 to 1039. The Form of his Obligations by his Proctors to the Popes Merchants renouncing all evasions of and appeals against them 1034 1035. His Letter to his brother Richard King of Almaâ—n concerning his promises to him which he had violated and to treat with concerning them 1037. He erects a Chauntry in his Hospital at Basingstoke his Writ reciting the Prerogative of our Kings from the first institution of Christian Religion freely to erect free Chauntries in all their Houses and Demesnes without the Bishops leave or disturbance and to have the custody of all vacant Bishopricks 1038. His confirmation of the Legates award of an annuity issuing out of two Prebendaries to continue notwithstanding they came to his or his Heirs presentation by his Prerogative 1039 1040. His punishment of the Jews in Oxford ordering them to erect a Crosse there and provide a silver and gilt Crosse to be carried in procession before the Chancellor and Scholars of the University for throwing down and breaking their Crosse in a solemn procession in contempt of Christ crucified 1045 1046 1047. He augments and payes the arrears of two Roman Cardinals annuities out of the Disme to promote his affairs at Rome 1048. He exempted the Popes Agents and Chaplains imployed in England from paying the Disme out of their Prebends and Benefices 1048. His Patent and Commissioners for levying the three years Disme in Ireland 1049. He by advice of his Prelates Nobles and Commons in Parliament transfers his Vow Voyage Dismes to the Holy Land to his Son Prince Edward by Patent it being dangerous to the Realm for both of them to be absent from it at once 1049 1050. His Writs to levy the 20th part of the Bishops and Abbots Villains goods which they granted him towards his Voyage 1050. His Writs concerning the levying disposing and account of the Disme levyed or compounded for in most Diocesses 1050 to 1056. Part of them assigned to satisfie the arrears due to the Pope of the Annual Rent granted by King Johns Charter 1054 1055. His license to a Tenant in Capâ—e to sell Lands in Mortmain to furnish monies for his voyage to the Holy Land 1056. He grants the profits of the Archbishoprick of Dublin except Knights fees Wards and Advousons towards the expenses of his Sons voyage 1056. His Charter of assignment of all the Revenues of England except Wards and other casualties to his brother Earl Richard for monies taken up from him towards his voyage to the Holy Land 1056 1057. His Letter on his sick bed to Prince Edward speedily to return into England upon his blessing from the Holy Land being Heir to the Crown to prevent inconveniences therein expressed 1057 1058. His Statutes and Proclamations against Jews purchasing Free-hold Lands in England and concerning their Houses in London and other Corporations 1058 1059. His Writ to the Constable of Dover to maintain the Priviledges of the Prior and Covent of St. Martins Dover during the vacancy of the Archbishoprick then in his hands against all encroachments of the Prior and Covent of Trinity Canterbury 1060 1061. His license to the Monks of Canterbury to elect and procurations against their election of a new Archbishop whom he approved not the Pope thereupon taking advantage to conferre it against both their wills on Kilwarby 1061 1062 1063. His Writs speedily to certifie and levy fines estreated 1064. His license to the Bishop of â—orcester to build two houses with lime and stone and embattle them
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
in times of danger for refusing to find pledges for their due obedience 256 260. Of Ladies and others for ill language slanders against the King ibid. 258. 267. Of false seditious prophets 266. Of Bishops Clerks others bringing Popes Bulls Provisions into the Realm prejudicial to the King or kingdom 4 617 618 635 973. Of persons going beyond Seas without the Kings license or against his inhibition 439. Of Monks others keeping force in Churches 242. Appendix 3 4 5 6. Of the Monks of Winton for not complying with the King in electing a Bishop 581 582. 748. Of Bishops and others proceeding against the Kings prohibitious issued to them 560 561 637 718 860 892 893 894 901. Of Clerks and Clergymen for offences against the Forest Trespasses with force murders other Crimes 230 258 272 283 351 512 577 704 857 858 874 884 892 893 903 904 905 906 908 910. Of Scholars others for riots tumults breach of the peace 230 242 436 437 494 495 904 905 996 997 1067. Of Hereticks 385 475 560. Of Apostate Monks 575. Of such who refuse to sell victuals and necessaries to Jewes upon Bishops inhibitions 387. Of Excommunicate persons duty of excommunications 785 829. Of assaulters imprisoners of the Kings Justices Bishops servants and others by tumults 392 785 786 787 788 826 827. Of Popes Legates Cardinals Bishops Nuncioes stirring up sedition and resorting to Councils against the Emperors prohibitions to depose him 508 509 513 516 555 556 557 639 6â—â— 652 653 655. Of Jewes in the Tower of London for murder 857. Articles and Confessions of Faith published authorized by Kings 2. Assarts acquittal from them 228 â—29 Assise of Darreign Presentment none of a Prebendary 445. of Mortdauncester in Ireland and proceedings in it 393 394. Held in times prohibited 394 407. Assumption of the Virgin Maries body in great state into heaven by Christ himself and all the host of heaven placing her at his right hand in the very throne of the Trinity asserted by the Roman Church 20 to 24. See Mary Atheisme punished by Kings 2. Attachments See Arrests Prohibitions Ave Mary changed from an Angelical Salutation to a Papal idolatrous invocation and adoration of the Virgin Mary its various kindes frequent repetitions in Popish Primers Rosaries Litanies 17 34 52 53. Annexed to the Pater Noster as an inseparable Appendix 52. No lesse then 63. Ave Marias said to 12 and 150 Aves to 15. Pater Nosters in their Romish Devotions p. 52. S. Margaret said 1000 Ave Maries every Vigil and Festival dedicated to Mary 52. The absurdity of its repetition use by Papists Ibid. They begin their morning devotions therewith by ringing an Ave-Mary Bell the Freers contests which order should first ring it and Popes decrees therein 52. Ave-Mary Bell to ring notwithstanding any interdicts Ib. A Parrot rescued from a Hawk by saying it 41. Averpeni exemption from it 229. St. Augustin his assertion that Christians are Christs very body 79. That John 5â— 53 to 57. is not meant of eating Christs flesh in the Eucharist p. 80. Aydes for defence of the Realm due from granted by the Bishops Clergy by special obligations 3 4 260 261 396 406 407 438 475 496. Ayde to make the Kings Son a Knight 819. To marry his daughter granted 614 To marry his Sister 614. Exemption of a Nunnery from them 229. None to be granted or levyed by the Pope or others without the Kings special assent 399 425 426 562 569 574 616 615 634 672 673 674 429 686 687. Extraordinary Aydes granted not to be drawn into example 396 474. Aydes granted to the King in Parliaments upon conditions to be counselled by his Natives confirm the Great Charter and reform grievances 485 486 609 610 611 to 615 795 796 797 931 932. Aydes delayed denied by the Nobles and Prelates when demanded especially for Sicily and foreign Wars undertaken without advice of Parliament and before grievances really redressed 428 429 434 485 609 721 722 770 to 779 822 841 842 931 932. Aydes for the Holy Land how imposed abused extorted perverted by Popes and their agents to Popes other uses 238 239 240 347 408 409 to 452 456 457 470 471 545 546 681 682 698 728 729 730 735 753 754 758 766 to 775 814 to 817 1327 to 1040. Popes Bulls to the Prelates Clergy of England and Ireland to give aydes Dismes to the King and the proceedings thereon 396 406 407 408 559 560 1006 1007 c. 1018 1027 1028 to 1040 1047 to 1058. Aydes Disms rapines for Popes themselves and Mother Church of Rome against the Emperor and other Enemies the oppositions against and proceedings therein 398 to 402. 419 425 426 427 546 566 to 570 572 573 574 611 612 to 621 671 672 to 683 686 to 696 753 754 757 775 776 822 823 824 841 846 847 862 to 871. What publike Aydes King Henry 3. received besides monies extorted 614 825. B. BAkers prohibited by proclamation to impresse the sign of the Crucifix Agnus Dei or name of Jesus on sâ—leable bread 783. Banishment of Aliens See Aliens of Archbishops Bishops Clergymen their kinred relations for Treason in interdicting the Realm excommunicating the Kings officers for levying Aydes arms and other misdemeanors against the Kings Crown and Dignity 3. 242 243 248 253 254 267 268 392 444 445 457 510 522 936 937 938 949 990 997 998. Of Falcatius de Brent for seising imprisoning a Judge and holding the Kings Castle against him by judgement in Parliament 392 398 Voluntary of Archbishop Edmund 563 564 591 698. Revocation from banishment granted by the King to some 392 456 457 997 998. Opposed denyed to others 398 950 951 952 960 967. Baptisme of infants permitted during interdicts by the Popes dispensation 253 489. See Interdicts Baptisme of an infidel hindred objected as a crime by the Pope against the Emperor 516 522. Baronage of England 364 618 822 936 948 949. Baronies of Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors held of the King for which they swore Fealty and were bound to maintain the rights of his Crown seised for their Contempts in not finding Horse Arms Some held of the King in Frankalmoigne Escuage Fealty due for them with other matters concerning them 231 443 567 614 615 616 627 688 725 758 781 833 837 891 893 940 1008 1009 1024. Threatned to be seised for non-residence neglect of preaching and teaching their Subjects if not reformed 999 1011 1012. Barons Earls Nobles of England See Index 7 9. Summoned to ayde the King with horses arms against the French 269. Grant an ayde to the Holy Land 238 239 240. absolved by the Popeâ— Legat from their allegiance to King John 263 265. Which of them faithfully adhered to him against the Pope 265. He is informed by Letters they would murder or betray him if he proceeded in his wars against the Wâ—lâ—h whereupon the dismissed his army and requires pledges for the loyalty of all those he suspected which most give
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
Ireland 69. Purification of Priests Concubines denyed after Child-birth 397. None of women in Churches interdicted Appendix 4. Purveyance upon Bishops and Clergymen at the Kings price for carriages and victuals complained of as against their Liberties 895. Pyrates beheaded 371. Excommunicated 449. Q. QUeen imprisoned for Adultery and the Adulterers put to death 256. 285. Dower retrenched resumed 325. 326. Quo Warranto against Clergymens usurped Liberties their Canons against it 906. R. REligion the chief care to defend promote the true suppresse the false and all errors sins corruptions contrary to it belongs to Kings 2. 3. 4. See Kings The Christian commended by a Mâ—hometan 284. Scandalized defamed by the scandalous practises corruptions of Popes the Court Legates Agents of Rome Prelates and Clergymen See Rome Bishops Croysadoes and Index 3. 10. 12. Reliques bodies of Saints translated by our Kings Writs from one place to another 3 575 576. See Blood Renuntiation of the Kings Temporal Courts Jurisdiction by the party voyd against the King punishable 886. Residence of Bishops Clergymen necessary enjoyned by our Kings Writs and Bishops own Canons 4â—9 998. 999. 1011. 1012. 1041. 1042. 1043. See Non-residence Resignation of an Archdeaconry in Wales to the Archbishop of Canterbury 236. Of Archbishopricks Bishopricks by our Bishops to the Pope 624. 625. 627. Appendix 25. To the King and Archbishop 380. 851. 925. Of the Bishop of Durham reserving three Mannors during â—â—te 623. 624. 728. 761. 92. Of a Popes provisor out of conscience Appendix 25. The Abbot of St. Albans moved to resign his Abby to the Pope â—fâ—sed it 350. Of K. Johns Crown Regalia Kingdoms to the Popes Legate the manner of it 273. 274 275. 288. 289. 290. Voyd in Law See Charter of King John Of an Abbot of his pastoral staff to the Bishop Appendix 18. Restitution of the Archbishops and exiled Bishops Temporalties Damages See Damages Index 3. Oâ— Bishops Temporalties by Kings Writs when confirmed consecrated by his Royal assent or seised for contempts 482. 483. 686. 719. 755. 756. 956. 996. 991. See Index 3 4. 5 Of Wales by David Prince thereof to the Pope 609 622 Of monies collected by Popes from those who took up the Crosse though a peace were presently concluded never made by Popes of their Agents 470. 471. though Pope Alexander 4. declared sins were never remitted unlesse rapines were restored in his Letter to King H. 3. p 929. Of Lands and Goods to such Abbots and Clergymen by the Kings Writs who officiated during the Interdict upon his Writs to them 254. 255. Of our Kings Lands in France demanded but denyed by the French 387. 388. 769 770 Resumptions of Crown and publick Lands by our own and other Kings Emperors States by vertue of their Coronation Oaths notwithstanding any subsequent Oaths lawfull necessâ—â—y put in practice 259 26â— 3â—1 to 326 395. 504. 505 515. 516. 521. 776. 874. From Popes Prelates Abbots Clergymen abusing them 662. 700 701. 776. 1011 1012. Of bishops alienations and mortgates 240. 355. 380. Resurrection doubted by King John as Morks relate 286. Ring Bishops invested by it 2. 328. Used in eâ—pousals and marriages of Princes 453. Used by Bishops and Abbots with their Pontificalia Appendix 24. Robbers Theeves and their harbourers excommunicated 386. 417. 449. Rome and Roman Court its corruptions 1069. 1070. See Index 14. part 1. S. SAcha Exemption from it 228. Sacraments ordered to be duly administred by Kings though not by them 1 2. 3. Not to be sold nor â—ught belonging to them 233. 1040. See Baptisme Marriâ—ge Orders Of Confession 909 Sacriledge all guilty of it publickly excommunicated four times a year by our Bishops Constitutions 386. 894. 1067. To invade or disturbe the rights of the Church or Clergy or distrain their goods 894 895. 900. 906. 907. To burn and spoyle a Church how civilly punished by the King 2 3 1065 1066 1067. Sâ—fe conduct of our Kings to Popes Legates exiled Bishops and others 271. 276. 277. 298. 333. 446. 999. 1006. 1020. See Protections Saints Invocation Adoration Mediation in the Church of Rome Idolatry worse then that of the Collyâ—idians Pagaâ—â— 55. to 63. Their seeing not hearing prayers in the looking glasse of the Trinity a most sottish paradox 57 58. Salve Reginae Mater God save you c. and other Salves of Romanists to the Virgin Mary direct prayers to God to save her as if not already saved as their salvum me sac salva me to her to save them assure us 34 35 52. Salva in omnibus Apostolicae sedis authoritate in Popes Bulls Appendix 25. Salvis nobis haeredibus nostris Justitiis Libertatibus Regalibus nostris in King Johns Charter to the Pope nulled the whole Charter 274 289 303. Salvo honore Dei Ecclesiae in Bishops Oath to our Kings a subverting and clear evasion of their Oaths 272. Salvo jure dignitate nostra haeredum nostrorum inserted in our Kings Writs Patents Appeals to Rome and transactions with Popes 246 251 252 338. Sanctuaries every Church Church-yard Chappel made a Sanctuary for Malefactors persons goods by Popes Popish Prelates the Kings Officers excommunicated for taking Malefactors out of them and King forced to restore them by Excommunications Interdicts 386 438 439 759 894 895 906. Sathan the Emperor Frederick 2. delivered to him by the Pope in his Anathema who yet prevailed against him his Legates Prelates 515 554. Schism between the Greek and Roman Church 491 492. Of Popes examinable by Christian Emperors Kings 2 4 10. Of Cardinals Popes See Index 10 11 12. Between Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Abbots Covent See Index 2 3 4 5 6. between others 633. Schoolmasters to pay nothing for licenses 233. Forced to residence on their livings by Grosthead but dispensed with by the Pope for money 774. Scot Exemption from it 229. Scotals of Sheriffs 282 Scriptures See Index 15. Seal of Gold of King John to his detestable Charter 288 290 300. See Charter Of Edmund King of Sicily 985. King H. 3 used the Popes Legates Bishop of Winchesters and Earl Marshals Seals at first before his own Great Seal made 372 373. The Great Charter confirmed with the Kings Great Seal See Charter Of the Master of the Temple and sundry Bishops aâ—â—esting the truth of the Viol of Christs blood 1200 years after 711 712. Seal of the City of London set to the Barons and Commons Letter to the Pope 679. Gold Seal of the Emperor Frederick and its inscription 417. Of King H. 3. Earl Richard and all the Bishops to a writing that Otto the Popes Legates stay in England was necessary 493. Of some Bishops Abbots in behalf of Archbishop Boniface elect to the Pope though unworthy 579 580. Of the King of Scots and 48. of his Nobles to his Charter of League with King H. 3. p. 621. Of all the Bishops of England to the Transcript of King Johns Charter sent to them by Pope Innocent 4. after its burning to