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A70866 The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq.; Exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1665 (1665) Wing P4076; ESTC R14735 1,530,072 1,129

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extravagances perverting changing Scripture Texts concerning the Virgin Mary St. Dominic● Francis St. Catharin of Senis Miraculous apparitions of Christ Saints seeing Prayers in the Looking-glasse of the Trinity Popes Supremacy Transubstantiation See all these Titles More Marians then Christians 33. 39 Their Declamations Passages against the unparalleld exectable ava●ice ●apines ambition usurpation symony apostacy oppression injustice of the Popes Court Cardinals Legates Popish Prelates Clergy Monks and their detestable Apostacy from Christ and St. Peters Doctrin practise See Index 10 12. throughout and Antichrist Rome Croysadoes Monks Popes Frederick 2 Index 14. part 1. Paralitiques usually not alwayes live long Appendix p. 27. Pardons Popes pardons for Eighty two thousand years for saying a short Prayer at Christs Sepulcher in Venice tottes quoties 15. For saying every Ave Mary in our Ladies Crown consisting of 63 Aves 288 dayes pardon of all sins and every holy Mary in it 40 dayes pardon and for saying the whole Crown of 63 Aves and 12. Pater-nosters by several Popes Indulgences two hundred seventy three thousand seven hundred fifty eight dayes of pardon And by Pope Sixtus 4. his ●ull 12000 years pardon for every time any person in the state of Grace shall say this prayer Hayle most holy Mary mother of God Queen of heaven Gate of Paradise Lady of the world singular and pure thou art a Virgin thou hast conceived Christ without sinne Thou hast brought forth the Creator and Saviour of the world in whom I doubt not De●iver me from all evill and pray for my sins Amen Bernardinus de Busti Mariale Pars 12. Sermo 1. pars 3. L. M. which should have come in p. 52. l. 12. after Holy Ghost but was omitted by the Printer For going or contributing to the Holy Land against the Saracens 448. To such who crossed themselves against King John when deposed by the Pope or contributed towards his conquest 267. To such who fought against Lew●s at Lincoln with a full assurance and reward of eternal life besides 371. Freer Tekel his blasphemous passages concerning the power of Popes pardons 51. See Mary Parliaments and Great Counc●ls of State summoned by our Kings John and Henry 3 on several occasions the proceedings in them between the King Barons Prelates Popes Popes Legates foreign States and concerning Aydes Oppressions Grievances Confirmation of the Great Charter and other particulars fully expressed in the precedent Tables At St. Albans 282. Ebor. 486. St. Edmunds 335. Ken●lworth 1019 1020. London sondry times upon various occasions 282. 283. 287. 288. 289. 294. 296. 332. 333. 334. 387. 485. 486. 498. 499. 500. 544. 622 632. 663. 664. 665. to 670. 673. 674 678. 679 690. 721. to 725. 770. to 775. 795 796. 797. 814. 822 823. 814. 841. 842. 931. 933. 935 936. 1013. 1014. 1024. Merton 445 446. See Bastardy Northampton 262. 263. 264. 391. 392. Oxo● 696. 935. 936. 947. 948. 949. 985 to 990 930. to 940. 1001 1002. Reding 288 546. Westmiaster several times 398 399 402. 425. 426 4●4 445 485 486. 609 to 613. 721. 722 1006 1007 1009. Wnllingford 288. Winton 674. 675. 930 See Barons Quod omnis tangit ab omnibus debet approbari 546. 549. The King refused to hear or answer the Legates Letters which concerned the publike but with his Prelates and Nobles in Parliament 398 399 400 402. Passage Exemption from the duties for it 229. Out of the Realm made free by new clauses in the Great Charter to all when formerly prohibited without the Kings license specially to Rome 336 249. Of Clerks to Rome restrained without taking a special Oath 865. See Oath Of Bishops C●ucesignati and others prohibited 439 850 865. 603. See ●over and Cinquepo●ts Index 13. Patrons of Churches King John obliged all the right of Patronage he had to Churches in England to make good his Articles to the Pope and exiled Bishops 272. Patronage of the Bishoprick of Rochester granted by Charter to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors 339. Prohibited to intrude Clerks into benefices without authority of the Diocesan not antiently required 386. Persons excommunicated who maliciously procure a Jure patronatus to defraud true Patrons of their right 386. Concerned in the Popes demands of 2. Prebends in every Cathedral and one or two Monks allowances in every Monastery ●99 Deprived of their rights suspended from presenting to their Benefices by Popes provisions and Bulls complaints Letters against it to the Pope and some redresse therein as to Lay Patrons 506 507 508 509 69● 750. The King Nobles and others Patrons of the. Churches in England No tax charge may or ought to be imposed on Churches but by their assents and advise 568 569. A Constitution concerning the Right of Patronage and presentations to particular Churches appendant to Mannors Baronies of Bishops and Abbots 940. when an Indicavit and Prohibition lies for them 874 875 876 877 878 893. St. Paul equal to stiled our beloved brother by St. Peter 12. Disclaimed all Dominion Lordship over others 11 12. V. Mary illuminated more then he 17. Men go more easily to Christ by St. Dominick then by him 65 Joined with St. Peter as his equal in King Johns Charter to Pope Innocent but omitted in his Oath of Fealty 273 274 289 290 305. The Bp of London commits himself to his Patronage 469. Peters fellow Apostle suffered both together under Nero 492. Conjoyned in Excommunications as equal in authority authoritate Petri Pauli by Popes and all our English Prelates And in Popes Bulls 344 515 516 745 796. His and St. Peters reliques kept together at Rom 544. Pope Innocent 4. prophanely swears by S. Peter S. Paul joyntly 800. Placed on the right hand of the Crosse in the Popes own Bulls and St. Peter on the lef● in coequal power and glory with Peter by the Popes Cardinals resolution 485. His direct Texts against St. Peters Popes pretended Soveraign Monarchical power 11 12 13. See Peter The Apostle of the Gentiles and of our Isle Epist Ded. Admiralius Murmelius his applause of his Epistles 284. Peace disturbers of it excommunicated punished 386 1025. See Excommunication banished and not permitted to return 392 391 728 936 937. 949 9●0 966 967. Arrested imprisoned 436 437 438 493 494 495 558 826 823 1065 1067. See Arrests Setled for 4. years between Christian Princes by the Pope to relieve the holy Land against Saracens His Excommunication of those who refused to submit to it 6. 449 450. See more Index 10. 14. Popes agency in procuring peace between England and France 392 393. See H. 3. and Truce Writs to the Keepers of the Peace to protect the persons goods of Ecclesiastical persons from violence 999. 1000 See Protections Bishops and Clergymen have their Lands Benefices to maintain Peace not War 1024. Popes the grand disturbers of the Peace of all Christian Empires Kingdoms See Index 10 12. 14. King John Frederick Innocent 3. 4. and War P●●●● See Barons Nobles and Index 7
which they deem infallible is now conteined in or under the narrow species and circumference of every small consecrated Host Chalice yea in every part thereof without its organical parts and corporeal dimensions locally distinct from each other yet appearing sometimes miraculously as they relate upon the Altar and in the sacred Host or Chalice to some of their Priests and other Saints either in the form of a petty infant lamb or morsel of flesh or some drops of blood for confirmation of their Doctrine of Transubstantiation though he never knew nor taught it but never in the shape or proportion of his full-growen humane body in which he suffered on earth and with which he ascended into heaven which body St. Peter himself and all Creeds resolve the Heavens must receive until the time of the restitution of all things and his comming to judgement and other Texts define to be incorruptible being prepared and given him only by God when he was made flesh and born of a woman and was never corporally present but in one place at once Or in such an inglorious inhuman unkingly despicable body as wants both the form lineaments accidents of a human body appearing in and under the form species accidents dimensions of meer bread and wine which every Communicant worthy or unworthy doth not only actually receive into his mouth but chew with his teeth swallow into his belly yea rats and mice may devour in consecrated wafers and which the meanest vilest Priest can make and create at his pleasure as well as the greatest holiest Pope Bishop and then lift up and down turn or overturn imprison under lock and key in a Pix and send abroad to every sick person carry about in procession or devour at his pleasure Or in such a strange body as is really corporally insensibly present in above ten thousand Hostia's Altars Pixes Chalices at once which yet they solemnly adore with Latria as their very Lord God Saviour Creator and doom all for Hereticks who comply not with them herein Or 3ly They picture carve represent pray to and adore him as still hanging on yet nailed to but not taken down from his Crosse whereon he suffered their most usual representation of him in all their Crucifixes Churches Chapels Colledges Crosses Closets Missals Breviaries Offices Litanies Manuals or Books of Devotion Caeremonials Processionals Statues Pictures and Good Friday Devotions as if he were not yet risen again for their justification or sitting at Gods right hand to intercede for them as their advocate Or 4ly As yet lying in his grave in their Good Friday Enterludes wherein they not only re-crucifie but re-interre him in his Sepulcher as if not formerly crucified dead buried And not only so but in the famous City of Venice in Italy as Sir Edwin Sands an eye-witnesse assures us they have erected a stately Sepulcher of Christ whereon is written Hic situm est Corpus Domini nostri Iesu Christi with verses annexed Conditur hoc tumul● as if his crucified body were there yet actually interred and never ascended into heaven where there is likewise hanging in a printed Table a prayer of St. Austin with Indulgence for no lesse then fourscore and two thousand years granted by Pope Boniface the eighth and confirmed by Benedict the eleventh to whosoever shall say it before his Tombe and interred Body and that for every day toties quoties which is very observable for that in a few dayes a man may provide for a whole million of worlds pardon if they did last no longer then this hath done hitherto But if Christs body be still interred in that Venetian Sepulcher as the inscriptions attest or elswhere S. Paul assures both them and us 1 Cor. 15. 12 to 20. that their faith preaching and this their prayer and indulgence too are vain yea they are yet in their sins are of all men most miserable and their deceased Roman Saints and ancestors are likewise perished In this inglorious unkingly manner do they now usually represent pray to and adore our glorified Savior Jesus Christ the King and Lord of glory On the contrary how do the Churches Popes Prelates Priests of Rome and all their Members usually paint portray represent stile invoke adore and blazon abroad the Soveraign Imperial and Regal Authority of the Virgin Mary over all Angels Creatures Persons powers both in heaven earth purgatory hell yea over God himself and Christ her sonne to the derogation subversion both of Christs Soveraign Universal Monarchy Priesthood and chief branches thereof if not of his Prophetical office and of St. Peters and all Popes pretences Rights Titles to them which because not hitherto pressed against them in this kind or to this end by any of our Protestant Writers I shall the more largely and fully charge against them 1. They usually Carve pourtray paint the Statues Pictures of the Virgin Mary as visible experience attests past contradiction and represent her by them to their eyes thoughts when they pray unto her in all their Offices Primers Psalters Howers Rosaries Missals Breviaries Books of Devotion Churches Chapels Monasteries Altars of our Lady especially on all their publike Festivals dedicated to her honor in greatest State Majesty Crowned with a Crown or Rayes of glory as the Empresse Queen Lady of heaven earth and all creatures in them but Christ her sonne only in the form or shape of a small sucking infant lying in her lap bosom arms or at her feet 2ly They stile pray to invoke worship adore her in all their publike Liturgies Offices Howers Rosaries Crowns Anthems Psalters Primers and private Devotions and in their Postils Sermons Writings proclaim assert her to be in respect of her Regal Vniversal Monarchy Imperatrix Augusta Regina et Domins Coeli coelorum Mundi Terrae et Totius Orbis ac exercituam cunctorum Angelorum et Martyrum Imperatrix or Regina Angelorum Patriarcharum Prophetarum Apostolorum therefore of St. Peter and his pretended successors of Rome Confessorum Virginum et omnium Sanctorum yea Imperatrix Regina Domina or at least Ferulae Diabolorum ipsa enim contrivit Diaboli potentiam sicut praedictum fuit Gen. 3. dum ipsi Diabolo Dominus ait Ipsa conteret caput tuum confunditque ejus astutiam juxta illud Judith 14. Vna mulier Hebraea confusionem faciet in Domo Nabuchodonosor Item dejecit ejus maliciam juxta illud quod ipsius in persona dicitur Judith c. 9. Erit memorialis primus tui cum manus foeminae dejecerit eum And if this be not sufficient Ambrosius Catherinus in the Council of Trent sessio 2. stiled her Fidelissima Dei et Christi Socia Cardinal Bembus in his Epistle to the Emperor Charles the 5th calls her Dominam et Deam nostram our Lady and Goddesse And others Dea Dearum The Goddesse of Goddesses 3ly They positively assert that the Virgin Mary not St. Peter during the time of Christs
opposers reduce the Prelates and Clergy his grand Antagonists to obedience and supply his necessities by Croysadoes Dismes and other extravagant meanes whereof the Pope and his Agents usually got the greatest share who made use of his regal as he did of their Papal power to fleece and poll the Clergy by sundry impositions and rapines 3. The frequent use he had of the Popes favor mediation power Legates to maintain his interest in France to make Leagues Truces with the French King and other forraign Princes States to obtain the Kingdom of Sicily and Apulia for his youngest Son wherein he was grosly cheated by the Pope to gain the German Empire for his Brother Richard and Bishop●icks or other Ecclesiastical preferments for his Queens forreigne kindred who were no waies qualified for them else when he was free from such necessities and entanglements he alwaies joyned with much gallantry and resolution with his Nobles and People in opposing all the Popes Usurpations encroachments innovations exactions and his own Prelates invasions of his and his Subjects Prerogatives and rights as much as any of his Predecessors as his premised Letters prohibitions proceedings against them from time to time demonstrate especially his embassy and Letters to the Pope at the Council of Lyons and banishing Martin the Popes oppressing Nuncio out of the Kingdom thus briefly related by Walsingham Anno 1245. Innocentius Papa celebravit Concilium apud Lugdunum Ad quod missi sunt per Regem Angliae de consilio Praelatorum Comitum Baronum viri Nobiles 4. dato eis advocato Magistro Gulielmo de Powike ut concessioni Regis Johannis de C●nsu annuo pro Anglia Hybernia contradicerent eo quod de Regni assensu non processerat sed per Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum fuerat reclamatum vice totius Regni sed Papa hoc indigere morosa deliberatione respondens negotium posuit in suspenso Praelati Angliae hoc anno conquesti sunt Regi de oppressione Ecclesiae Anglicanae cujus proventus omnes redditus Italici occupabant propter quod Magistro Martino Domini Papae consanguineo qui Major inter caeteros aliorumque tutor in hujusmodi negotiis videbatur defensor ut evacuet regnum indilate regio mandatur edicto Yea had not the Bishops then most unworthily betraied both the Kings Emperors Rights Crowns in subscribing the Popes new draught of King Johns surrender of his Crown when the old was burnt and publishing his excommunication and deprivation of the Emperor and yeilded up their own Rights by their inexcusable cowardise the Pope had then lost all his former usurped interest and authority within our Realms But what any Popes unjustly gained extorted by these necessities fears weaknesses excommunications interdicts or intestine wars either from this King Henry or his Father King John they soon after gradually lost by the courage wisdome resolution vigilance of his Son Grandson and great Grandson King Edward the 1. 2 3d. as I shall God assisting me undenially evidence by irrefragable yet unpublished Records during their successive Reigns in my next ensuing volume In the mean time I shall close up his life with Wal●inghams and Rishangers Character of him which will please our Pontificians Iste Rex quantum in actibus saeculi videbatur minus prudens tanto apud Dominum majori devotione pollebat singulis namque diebus tres missas cum nota solebat audire et privatim plures audire cupiens assidue assistebat celebrantibus Et cum sacerdos corpus Dominicum elevaret manum sacerdotis tenere illam osculari solebat Contig it autem aliquando S. Lodowicum Francorum Regem cum eo super hoc conferente dicere quod non semper missis sed frequentius serrmonibus audiendis esset vacandum Cui faceta urbanitate respondens ait Se malle amicum suum saepius videre quam de eo loquentem licet bona dicentem audire Now to recreate my tyred Readers of this Voluminous Tome I shall conclude it with this lively Poeticall Description of the Citie Popes and Court of Rome written by Gualther Mapes Archdeacon of Oxford flourishing under King Henry the Second Richard the First and King John an eye witness of them whiles he was in Rome Anno Dom. 1201. ROMA Mundi caput est sed nil capit mundum Quod pendet a capite totum est immundum Trahit enim vitium primum et secundum Et de fundo redolet quod est juxta fundum Roma capit singulos et res singulorum Romanorum Curia non est nisi forum Ibi sunt venalia jura Senatorum Et solvit contraria copia nummorum In hoc Consistorio si quis causam regat Suam vel alterius hic in primis Legat Nisi det pecuniam Roma totum negat Qui plus dat Pecuniae melius allegat Romani capitulum habent in Decretis Vt potentes audiant manibus repletis Dabis aut non dabitur petunt quando petis Qua mensura seminas eadem tu metis Munus et petitio currunt passu part Opereris munere si vis operari Tullium nec timeas si velit causari Munus Eloquentia gaudet singulari Nummis in hac Curia non est qui non vacet Crux placet rotunditas placet totum placet Et cum ita placeat et Romanis placet Vbi munus loquitur et lex omnis tacet Cum ad Papam veneris habe pro constanti Non est bonus pauperi soli favet danti Et si munus praestitum non sit aliquanti Respondet hic tibi sic non est mihi tanti Papa quaerit Chartula quaerit bulla quaerit Porta quaerit Cardinal quaerit Cursor quaerit Sed si dares omnibus at uni deerit Totum mare salsum est tota causa perit Laus Deo Vivat Rex in Secula FINIS AN Additional Appendix SOme Passages pertinent to my Chronologicall History being casually omitted in their due series of time I thought meeter to supply by this Appendix then to insert them out of their proper places Book 2. Chap. 7. p. 248. l. 5. This should haue been inserted King Edward the elder Anno 908. After this division of the Bishoprick of Winchester into two Bishopricks and Diocesse ratified all Lands and liberties granted them by his progenitors and limited the bounds of the Bishops Lands by his Charter wherein he recites Ego Eaduveardus divina largiente clementia Angul-Saxonum Rex tempore quo Diocaesim Wentanae Ecclesiae in duas divisi Parochias obnixe rogatus fui à Hithelstano Episcopo quem tunc Ecclesiae praedictae Episcopum statuorum ut novarum astipulatione literarum S. Ecclesiae testamenta uti olim ab antecessoribus meis Cynegisto Ernerewalho multisque eorum successoribus devotè tradita atque restaurata fuerant confirmans renovarem Which he did by a Charter printed at large in Monasticon Anglicanum to which I referre you
like Castles 1064. His grant of the Jews School in London to the Freers Poenitentiaries whom they disturbed in their Masse with their howlings with a license to the Jews to erect another School elsewhere 1065. His zeal to punish and revenge the Citizens of Norwich tumult in spoyling burning the Priory and Cathedral there upon a fray between the Monks and them about certain Taxes and Liberties His Writs proceedings therein seising the Citizens liberties goods persons hanging some fining others and going thither in person to see Justice executed 1065 1066 1067. His prohibition of the antient manner of tryal of Felons Theeves by judgement of fire and water and appointing other penalties by advice of his Counsil Appendix 20. He convened the Popes Usurers in Lond●n before him accusing them as Schismaticks Hereticks and of High Treason for that they professing themselves Christians had defiled the whole Realm of England with the most filthy gain of Usury for which he being a most Christian King who had sworn inviolably to preserve the Holy Institutions of the Church complained he felt himself much wounded in his conscience which fact when they could not deny some of them were taken and imprisoned others hid themselves in corners Yet at last purchasing their peace for a good sum of money they were dismissed in peace and would thereupon have left the Realm but that they had purchased sumptuous houses in London Appendix 26. His great oppression and exactions of monies from the Jews at several times who proffered to leave all their wealth behind them so as he would grant them liberty to depart the Realm to get a livelihood elsewhere he being another Titus and V●spasian selling them to his brother Richard to tear out their bowels after he had pulled off their skins Appendix 26 27. His excuse of his oppression and rapines by the vastnesse of his Debts and smalnesse of his Estate which necessitated him to extort money by any means Ibid. He repents his receipt of 500 Marks from the Covent of Abendon for a license to elect a new Abbot without disturbance upon the death of their Abbot then sick of the palsie dying within 15. dayes after because else he might have made 1000 Marks or more by sale of the Woods besides other profits Appendix 27. The Pope threatens to excommunicate and interdict the Realm and proceed rigorously against him for not performing his covenants and promise with him touching Sicily and Apulia to which he had willingly obliged himself under these pains and losse of his Realm Whereupon being confounded in his minde to delay publishing this sentence for a time and allay his anger he payd the Pope 5000 Marks the Realm being impoverished and utterly spoyled of its treasure all his hopes of obtaining that Realm vanished Appendix 28 29. His license and direction to make an Impropriation and endow a Vicaridge Appendix 29. His devotion in frequent hearing of Masses but indiscretion in permitting himself the Church Realm to be preyed upon by Popes and their Instruments which his Obligations to them for ayding him against Lewis at first against the Barons Rebellious Prelates at last and cheating specious proffers grants to Edmund of Apulia Calabria Sicily were the greatest inducements 1067 1068 1069. His sicknesse and pious death after 56 years and 20 dayes reign 1067. King Henry 8. of England his clause in a Treaty with the Pope and Potentates of Italy that they might not give away any part of the Crown of France for redeeming of King Francis 321. King Henry 2. of France his request to the States of Lucerne denyed as illegal 320. Holy Land See Jerusalem Aydes Croysadoes Hungary Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. The Kings Oath not to alienate the Crown Lands 320. No Bishops would or could come out of it to the General Council of Lyons being for the most part wasted by the Tartars and by reason of the great distance from it 643. Invaded by the Tartars the King thereof forced to leave the Frontiers retire to fenced Castles Cities craves ayde from the Pope who denyed to send any levying monies forces in the mean time against Frederick the Emperor to depose him and hindring him to releive them 681. Hyberi subject to the Greek Church 491. I. QUeen Jane King Edw. 6. his devise of the Crown to her voyd in Law 326. Jerusalem and Holy Land Popes Titles to it 9 291. Popes Bulls and Croysadoes to raise monies forces for its relief defence against the Saracens for the most part meer impious cheats of Popes to pick peoples purses abuse Christian Kings Princes invade their Rights Prerogatives Territories whiles absent in it and maintain Popes Wars against the Emperor Greek Church and all who opposed their Usurpations the miserable defeats of the French Kings Forces and others at it and sad effects thereof with other particulars relating to Jerusalem and the Holy Land p. 238 340 342 343 403 404 410 to 414 423 424 425 447 448 467 469 470 471 512 513 516 523 to 550 680 681 754 767 770 to 775 821 to 826 1025 1049 1050 Appendix 26 27. See Aydes Croysadoes Index 14 part 2. Frederick 2. King Henry 3. King John Pope Gregory 9. Innocent 3 4. Index 10 1● King I●● his grant of Peter-pence 292. Indies and New World Popes pretended Title thereto 9. John Comnenus Emperor of Constantinople attributes his Victories over the Bulgarians and others to the Virgin Mary whose Image he carrieth in a triumphant Chariot into Constantinople going before it in person 41. John Zemisca Emperor of Constantinople doth the like Ibid. King John of England accused and condemned of Treason against his Brother King Richard made King after his death not by succession but election Appendix 18. and p. 297 298. His Coronation Oath Homages to him Appendix 18 19. and p 227. Incurrs Pope Innocent 3. his displeasure by his divorce against the Canons by his Norman Bishops and not releasing the Bishop of Belvoire upon his Letters till he paid a Ransom and took an Oath never to bear Arms during his life 227. His resolute opposition of the Popes Bishops Usurpations and contempt of their displeasures menaces during his 14 years reign 225 226 227. His Charter of Ambresbury to the Nuns of Founteveroit the former Abbesse and Nuns being ejected for their Whoredoms 228 229. To the Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver Criminal Clerks imprisoned to him upon demand to make their Purgations 230. His Prerogative to grant Licenses to elect and confirm when elected all Abbots Bishops of his Patronage in England France elsewhere a prohibition to elect any without his License and Assent 229 230. His readiness to defend the Churches Rights but with the preservation of his own Ibid. His Writ for the Bishop of Norwich to make use of his Court and Judges to recover the Lands of his Church formerly alienated 290. He seiseth the Temporalties confiscates the Goods of Geoffry his base Brother Archbishop of York and imprisoned his