The History Of England, From The First Invasion By The Romans To The Accession Of William And Mary In 1688 Volume 2

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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...the nullity of the other had been declared.5 1 Wendover, iii. 183. 1 See the king''s letter to the pope in the Patent Rolls, p. 56; also 57. 3 Wend. iii. 188, 211. Paris, 180. Chap. This decision had been foreseen in England; still A.D. 1205. it was possible that Innocent might be induced to favour the king''s nominee. New messengers were therefore despatched with letters of credit to a great amount, to make friends in the papal court, and with a memorial, which had been subscribed by the greater barons, earls, and prelates,i stating that the king''s predecessors had been accustomed to nominate to the vacant bishoprics; and moreover with a request to the pope from John himself, that he would provide for the desolate church of Canterbury, but with due attention to the rights of the English crown.2 Innocent, however, had insuperable objections to the promotion of De Gray. That prelate was the prime minister, so encumbered with temporal concerns, that he could spare no time for the spiritual government of his diocese. It was not long since the pontiff had compelled Archbishop Hubert to retire from the cabinet to his church: he could not then consistently appoint another secular minister to the archiepiscopal dignity. But where was he to discover a substitute for De Gray, likely to prove acceptable to the king? He persuaded himself that there was one at that very time in Rome, Stephen Langton, an Englishman whose merit had raised him to the rectorship of the university of Paris,5 and had induced Innocent to in 1 This memorial had been sent round the kingdom with a request from the king to the barons, earls, and prelates, that they would sign it.--See Patent Rolls, p. 63, 64. 2 Destinamus ad pedes sanctitatis vestrse latores prsesentium, rogantes quantenus dignitat...

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