Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3, Index 14.1 (1 of 3)

Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · Index 14.1 (1 of 3)

INDEX 14. Part 1. Alphabetical, Of the ſeveral Countries, Empires, Kingdoms, Nations, Emperors, Kings, Queens, Princes, Republicks; the Matters relating to, or Acts done by them, mentioned in this Tome.

A.

KIng Adelphus his payment of Peter-pence, 292.

Admiralius Murmelius, King of Africa, Feſſe and Marocco, King Johns embaſſy, proffer to reſign the Kingdom of England to him, &c. a malitious forgery to defame him, 283, to 287.

Aegypt, the Chriſtians Army defeated in it, 754.

Aethiopians, ſubject to the Greek Church, 491.

Alani, ſubject to the Greek Church, 491.

Albania, waſted by the Saracens, 649, 650.

Alexander King of Poland, his Law concerning the alienation of Crown Lands, 321.

Alexander King of Scots, his Charter, League, Fealty to King H. 3. 620, 621. See Scotland.

Apulia, the Popes, Emperors claims to, acts done in it, 513, 522, 524, 535. Offered by the Pope to Richard Earl of Cornwall, who refuſed it, 776, 777, 808. Given by Pope Innocent 4. to King H. 3. and Edmund his Son, upon hard conditions, to cheat them of vaſt ſums of money, 808, 809, 810, 822, 869. King H. 3. vows a Voyage thither, 813. The Croyſado againſt the Saracens, turned by the Pope againſt the Chriſtians in Apulia, 808, 809, 825, 919, 931, 932, 933, 948, 1049.

Arabia, the Collyridians hereſie hatched in it, 58.

Aragon, Popes claims to that Kingdom, 9, 291. reſumption of Crown Lands alienated from it, 319.

Arnulphus Emperor, a Council under him, 707

Arthur, our Britiſh King, his Parliamentary Counſil, and anſwer to the Romans demanding Tribute from him for our Iſle, as conquered by Caeſar, 326, 327.

Ath…nians Law, againſt alienating the publick La…s, and their reſumption of them, 320, 321.

B.

BAldwin King of Jeruſalem, conquers the Saracens, 41.

Baldwin Emperor of Constantinople, expelled; a Croyſado granted him againſt the Grecians, routed, 491, 492.

Bituria, 14.

Blanch, 364.

Bohemia, Popes pretended Title to it, 291.

Bulgarians, ſubject to the Greek Church, 491. conqueſt, 41.

Burgundy Dukedome, unalienable by the King of France, 319, 320.

C.

CAlabria, offered by the Pope to Richard Earl of Cornwall, refuſed by him, 776.

Caſim…r King of Poland, his Will, 319.

Castell, Popes pretended Title to that Realm, 9. The King and Queen thereof, their Title to ſucceed Arthur, 364, 365.

Charles the Great Emperor, his Charters of Donation to the Pope, 292. voyd in Law, 316. The Realm of France converted from Paganiſme to Chriſtianity by the Wars, blood of the Nobles under him and other Kings, who endowed the Clergy with Lands, Priviledges; they forgetting their Founders, treacherouſly endeavoured to ſwallow up the Government, Juriſdiction, Priviledges, Liberties, Laws of ſecular Princes, by their new Conſtitutions, and judge them, when as they ought to be judged by them, 700, 701. Councils under him, 707.

Charles the 5. Emperor, takes King Francis 1. priſoner, who avoyds his contract upon his releaſe, 319, 320.

Charles the 5. King of France, his memorable Arreſt, Decree againſt excommunicating any of his Officers, or Interdicting any of his Cities, Towns, Lands, 702, 703.

Charles the 8. King of France, his Donations of Crown Lands to the Church, reſumed, 319.

Charles the 9. his Edict concerning rents, 322.

Charles, King of France his Brother, Pope Urbans conditional donation of Sicily to him for four generations, 948.

Chazari, ſubject to the Greek Church, 491.

Commadus the Roman Emperor, his ſale of publick Lands reſumed, 319.

Conrade, the Emperor Fredericks Son, his Negociations in Italy, 529. Offered as a pledge to Pope Gregory, 534. his tranſactions with him, 335, 336. imployed by his Father to ſtop all paſſages to Rome by Land or Sea, 652. King of Apulia and Sicily, Pope Innocent 4. offers his Realms to Richard Earl of Cornwall, to ej…ct Conrade by War, who refuſed them; King H. 3. embraceth his offer, vows a journey thither; his Son Edmund inveſted King thereof by a ring, to diſinherit Conrade, who manfully oppoſed him and the Popes forces, whom he routed, 776, 777, 808, 809, 810. His Kingdom is Interdicted, he Excommunicated without any citation or hearing; commands his Clergymen to celebrate divine ſervice notwithſtanding theſe unlawfull Papal cenſures: The Popes ſlanderous reports ſpread of him to render him odious, excite the King of England and others againſt him; his anſwers to theſe ſlanders, 809, 810, 811, 812. His ſickneſſe, poyſoning, ſpeeches againſt the Pope, Church of Rome, for their ſlanders, injuries, oppreſſions; His death, Ibid.

Constantine the Great, his reſignation, donation of Rome, and the Empire of the World, to Pope Sylveſter, in Chriſts right, 8, 9, 13. a forgery, 9. voyd in Law by the greateſt Lawyers judgements, 292, 316, 317, 318. removes to Conſtantinople, 9.

Croatia, Popes pretended Title thereto, 9, 291.

Cyprus, ſubject to the Emperor Frederick; victuals prohibited to be carried out of it to the Holy Land, 513. The Conneſtable of it for money diſpenſed with to hold his Wife againſt a divorce, and other Rebels againſt the Emperor abſolved from their Oaths to him by Pope Gregory 9. 531.

D.

DA…ma…ia, Popes pretended Title to it, 9, 291.

Danes, ſeiſed the Iſle of Ely, 922

David King of Scots, ſurrenders Cumberland, Nortbumberland, and Weſtmorland to King H. 2. and receives the County of Huntingdon from him, 324.

Denmark, Popes pretended Title to that Realm, 9, 291. a Legate ſent thither to Crown the King thereof; his gifts and exactions there, 697.

E.

PRince Edmund, King H. 3. his Son, inveſted in the Kingdom of Apulia and Sicily by the Pope, of which he never got poſſeſſion, 808, 809, 822, 867, 918, 919, 920, 921, 931, 932, 933. His grant of a penſion therein as King of Sicily, 866. preſented to the Parliament by King H. 3. in an Apulia… habit; commended and prayed an Ayde for him, 921. ſtiled King thereof, 809, 914, to 920. The Nobles, Parliaments indignation and oppoſition againſt that affair, 931, 932, 933. See Apulia, Sicily, K. Henry ….

King Edred, his Charter to St. Albans confirmed, Appendix p. 21.

King Edward the Confeſſor, Chriſt viſibly appeared to him in the Hoſtia, in form of a Childe, and croſſed him; his concealment of it, how divulged, 72, 73. King John ſworn to cauſe his good Laws to be obſerved and uſed, 279, 283. The deſcription of the Office of a King in them, 323. His grant of the Realm of England to William the Conqueror, without his Nobles conſent, voyd, 327.

King Edward 1. Pope Gregory the 10. his Letter to him for the arrears of Peter-pence, and the annual rent for England and Ireland; which he refuſed to pay, 311, 312. Pope Martin his ſucceſſor's Letter to him for it; his payment of part thereof acknowledged, 312, 313. Pope Honorius the 4. his Letter to him for it; his payment thereof, upon what occaſion, his laſt payment thereof, 313, 314. He grants ſeveral annual penſions out of his Exchequer, to the Popes Cardinals, Notaries, to promote his affairs at Rome, 314, 315. Pope Boniface the 8. his Letter to him, concerning his right to the Crown of Scotland, 328.

King Edward 3. and his whole Parliaments Declaration againſt King Johns Charter, Homage, Tribute to the Pope, as null, made without his Barons aſſent, againſt his Oath at his Coronation; and that if the Pope would iſſue proceſſe for it, they would aſſiſt the King, and oppoſe it with all their might: His Law againſt Popes Proviſions, 301, 302, 779. The Title to the Crown of France devolved to him; His Act and Declaration concerning Englands unſubjection to it; The Armes, Title thereof, 325. His Act reſuming Queen Iſabels Dower, 325.

King Egfrids Charter to St. Albans, Appendix p. 21.

Queen Elizabeth, her revenue, ſtate, frugalicy, 323. her caſe of the Crowns deſcent, 326.

England, Its Freedom, Nobleneſſe, Kings anciently ſubject to none but God himſelf, 284, 325, 326. The King of England can neither ſurrender nor grant it, nor the Crown Lands to the Pope, nor any other, without his Nobles, Kingdoms concurrent aſſents, 292, to 330, 504, 505. The Popes pretended Title to it, as ſoveraign Lord thereof, as an Iſland given by King Henry the 2. and King Johns Charters, though voyd in Law, 9, 273, 274, 275, 289, 290, 291, 292, to 330, 340, to 345, 365, 370, 414, 415, 470, 486, 504, 505, 545, 546, 547, 548, 551, 644, 645, 663, 664, 671, 800. The Archbiſhops, Biſhops, Barons, peoples oppoſitions, exclamations againſt King Johns unworthy ſubjecting and making it Tributary to the See of Rome; his own bitter bewailing thereof; after which his Nobles roſe up againſt him, who aſſiſted him againſt the Pope before, yea all things went croſſe and inauſpicious with him till his death, 292, to 300, 301, 302, 340, to 348, 359, 360, 361, 362. Its intollerable oppreſſions, vexations, grievances, by avaritious, ambitious, inſatiable, tyrannical Popes, Legates, Nuncioes, and Romiſh Agents, by Croyſadoes, Diſmes, Taxes, Procurations, Proviſions, Rapines, Exactions of various kinds, with the Kings, Nobles, Prelates Letters, complaints, appeals, oppoſitions againſt them, 226, 227, 292, 293, 325, 326, 340, 414, 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 tho… 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 confederac…, 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, cat with him, but adviſed him to ſatisfie the Pope, and be reconciled to the Church; his complaints to them againſt the Popes unjuſt cenſures, 416. The Pope pronounced him contumacious for going to the Holy Land according to his vow, before his abſolution; endeavours to dethrone him by the Material Sword, when unable to do it by the Spiritual, againſt the Laws of Chriſt and Chriſtianity; hired, raiſed great forces under John de Breſnes, to invade his Territories with fire and ſword; authorized theeves, robbers; incendiaries to dethrone him, whiles engaged againſt Chriſts enemies, to the admiration of all Chriſtians, 416, 417. His Imperial Seal, Mottoes affixed to his Letters, 417. He recovers Jeruſalem; yet▪ the Patriarch and his Suffragans would not ſay Maſſe there whiles he was in it, 417. His Victories againſt the Saracens envied by Pope Gregory, who ſuborned the Templars to betray him to the Soldan, who deteſts, reveals their Treachery; He diſperſed ſcandalous Letters againſt him in England and elſewhere; cauſed men, monies to be raiſed in all places more induſtriouſly then before to dethrone him; vacated the due election of the Archbiſhop elect of Canterbury, for money and a Diſme promiſed him in England and Ireland to diſinherit and depoſe the Emperor, which he deſired above all things, 418, 419. The Pope and his enemies blaſt his fame in ſeveral Letters to England and elſewhere, as guilty of moſt execrable hereſie, blaſphemy, ſtiling Moſes and Chriſt Impoſtors, as well as Mahomet; and uttering moſt nefarious opinions▪ ſpeeches of the Sacrament of the Euchariſt, which no diſcreet Chriſtian could believe he ever uſed, only to engage all againſt him; He ſtirred up the Millainois to rebell againſt him, 514, 515. He ſeiſed the Iſlands in the Mediterranean Sea, the City of Piſa, and greateſt part of Sardinia, which Popes uſurped, as part of St. Peters Patrimony, antiently belonging to the Empire; whoſe diſſipated poſſeſſions he (as bound by Oath) ſtrenuouſly endeavoured to reſtore: For which the Pope growing very angry, in the preſence of his Cardinals on Palme Sunday ſolemnly excommunicated, delivered him to Satan to be deſtroyed, and depoſed him; in ſuch a dreadfull thundering fury, as made all auditors greatly to tremble: The form of his Excommunication, abſolving his Subjects from their allegiance, and depoſing, upon pretext of his raiſing ſedition in Rome againſt the Church, to thruſt him and his Cardinals from their ſeat, trample the priviledges, dignities, honours, liberties of the Apoſtolick See, Church under feet; hindring preſentations to vacant Churches; apprehending, impriſoning, baniſhing, ſlaying ſome rebellious Clergymen, (ſent abroad to raiſe monies, forces againſt him) ſpoyling ſome Templars, Hoſpitalers, Churches of their goods; laying Taxes upon Churches, Monaſteries, compelling Biſhops, Abbots, Ciſtercians to contribute towards the building of Caſtles; thinking ill of the Catholick Faith, and other particulars, 514, 515, 516 His high indignation againſt Pope Gregory for publiſhing theſe ſcandalous Excommunications, Letters againſt him by his Legates in all Kingdoms, Churches: He ſurpriſeth Mount Caſſini, where the Monks publiſhed his Excommunication; writes ſevere reprehenſive Letters to the Romans, for ſuffering him the chief Prince of Princes, their Emperor, natural Lord to be excommunicated in his own chief City; and to the Cardinals, for ſuffering the Pope ſo raſhly, unjuſtly to draw his Spiritual Sword againſt him the Roman Emperor, and advocate of the Church; for fomenting and not reſtraining his unbridled authority according to their duties, which neceſſitated him for his own defence againſt this perſecutor, more grievouſly to offend thoſe who reſiſted his juſt power, 517, 518, 519. Prophecies concerning his or the Popes ceaſing to be Head of the whole World, 519, 520. His anſwer to all the Popes ſcandals compriſed in his Bulls of Excommunication, 520, to 525. The Popes Legate publiſhed his Excommunication at Pauls and St. Albans, commanded him to be excommunicated with Bells and Candles, in all Churches, every Lords-day and Holy-day, 525, 526, 527. His Letters to Richard Earl of Cornwall, againſt his injurious Excommunication and Popes ſlanders, to vindicate his innocency; wherein he largely deſcribes the unparallel'd injuſtice, malice, treachery, ſlanders, calumnies of Pope Gergory the 9th, againſt him, divulged by Letters, Nuncioes in all places; his raiſing rebellions, ſeditions in Italy, Germany, Lombardy, Millain, againſt him the ſupreme of Chriſtian Princes: That he reputed him not to be a Judge competent to excommunicate or depoſe him; who declared himſelf his capital enemy both in words and deeds, by foſtering his enemies, inſtigating his Subjects to rebell, yea cauſing hereticks in Millain to riſe up againſt him and the Empire: That he deemed him unworthy to be reputed Chriſts Vicar, Peters Succeſſor, and Steward of Christian ſouls, for ſelling dispenſations privately in his Chamber, like a Merchant, without advice of his Cardinals, (▪with whom he was bound to deliberate) againſt Oaths ſo'emn'y made, diverces judicially pronounced, to marry within degrees prohibited, for dilapidating not only the monies, but lands and poſſeſſions of the Church of Rome, whereof he was the ſupreme Pat…ran, to raiſe Souldiers to fight againſt him: Therefore the univerſal Church and people of God might not wonder, that he dreaded not the ſentence of ſuch a Judge; not in contempt of the Papal Office, or Apoſtolical Dignity, but in reſpect of the prevarication of the perſon, who demonſtrated himſelf unworthy the chair of ſo great a dignity; that all Christian Princes might acknowledge his holy intention, purpoſe, zeal, that he the Roman Prince had for moſt just cauſe oppoſed the Roman Prelate, out of fear lest the Lords flock ſhould be lead into by wayes under ſuch a Paſto…, 527, to 532. Pope Gregories reply thereto, fraught with new defamations, for aſſerting, That he as Chriſts Vicar had no authority to excommunicate him; That Chriſt had given to St. Peter and his Succeſſors, no power in the Church of ſuch binding and looſing: concluding him from thence to be an heretick, having no good opinion of the Articles of Chriſtian Faith, whiles he endeavoured to take away this priviledge and power from the Church, on which the Catholick Faith is built; recharging him with the premiſed blaſphemies againſt Moſes, Chriſt, and the Euchariſt, which he denyed : By which Epiſtles the whole world had been unanimouſly exaſperated, and riſen up againſt him as an apparent Enemy of Chriſt and the Church, had not the Popes deteſtable avarice, and execrable diſhoneſty of the Roman Church, rendred his Bulls ſo contemptible, that none or very few believed them: They being perſwaded, that the Church of Rome was more obliged to the Emperor, who according to his Oath manfully intended to regain, reſtore the rights of the Empire, then he was to the Church, 532, to 540. The Popes Nuncioes, Letters to the French King, publiſhed before all his Barons, declaring he had judicially depoſed him from the Empire for his wickedneſſe, elected the French Kings brother Earl Robert Emperor in his place, whom the Church of Rome and Univerſal Church would generouſly aſſiſt. Upon which the French King and his Counſil demanded; By what ſpirit or raſh attempt the Pope had diſinherited and precipitated from the Imperial dignity ſo great a Prince, then whom there was not a greater, yea not an equal, not being convicted of, nor confeſſing the crimes objected? That if he deſerved to be depoſed, he was not to be adjudged, caſhiered but by a General Council; That no credit was to be given to the crimes objected againſt him by profeſſed enemies, whereof the Pope was known to be the principal; That he was yet guiltleſſe as to them, and a good neighbour, who never diſcerned any infidelity in him in ſecular matters, or in the Catholick Faith; That they knew be faithfully warred for our Lord Jeſus Chriſt againſt the Saracens, jeoparding himſelf both by Land and Sea for his cauſe; That they found not ſo much Religion in the Pope, who inſtead of aſſiſting, promoting, protecting him warring in Gods cauſe, as he ought to do, …ickedly endeavoured to confound and ſupplant him whiles abſent; That they could not precipitate themſelves into ſo great dangers to impugne Frederick himſelf, being ſo potent, whom ſo many Kingdoms would aſſiſt againſt them, and whoſe just cauſe would afford him aſſistance; That the Pope cared not for the prodigal effuſion of their blood, ſo as they might ſatisfie his wrath; That if he ſhould conquer him by them or others, he would tread down all other Princes of the world under his feet; aſſuming hornes of boaſting and pride, becauſe he had broken in pieces the great Emperor Frederick himſelf; That they would ſend Meſſengers to him, to enquire diligently, and certifie them of the Orthodoxy of his Faith; That if they found nothing in him but what was ſound, why ſhould they impugne him? If otherwiſe, they would perſecute both him, yea and the Pope himſelf if he ſhall think evil of God, or any other mortal even unto death: whereupon the Nuncioes departed confounded. His ſatisfactory pious anſwer to the French Meſſengers, concerning the Orthodoxy of his Faith, the treacheries of the Pope, and prayer to God to avenge them, 540, 541. He maketh a Truce with the Soldan, recovers the Cities taken from him by the Popes forces, marched towards Rome againſt the Pope, who endeavoured not only to depoſe, but murder him; writes Letters to the King of England, relating the Popes impious proceedings, Rebellions, Wars raiſed againſt, and ingratitude towards him; exhorts him to adhere to, and aſſiſt him in this cauſe, which concerned the Juriſdiction, honour, ſecurity of all other Kings, Princes, whoſe rights he patronized; which Letters much diſcredited the Popes authority, and prejudiced the Clergies honour, 541, to 545. His expoſtulatory Letters to King H. 3. for permitting the Popes Agents continually to extort vaſt ſums of money out of his Realm, to maintain Wars againſt him; and ſuffering his ſcandalous Bulls to be publiſhed in all places to his infamy, againſt the Law of Nature, Nations, bonds of affinity between them, being his Son-in-law, Brother, Friend, againſt whom he had declared no War; his cauſe concerning the Intereſt, Prerogative of other Kings Crowns, and his own; the Pope to his infamy claiming a Lordly Dominion over him as his Vaſſal: To which he unworthily anſwered, That he durſt not contradict the Popes will, 546, 547, 548. The Pope to divert his march to Rome, ſtirs up the Earl of Flanders to invade his Territories, 548. He makes peace with Millain and Bononia, reduceth the Cities near Rome to obedience by his forces and Letters, cauſeth the Romans and moſt of the Cardinals to deſert the Pope, who deſired a General Counſil to ſettle a peace between them, which he aſſented to : The Pope deſpairing of his cauſe, conſents to a Truce till the Council: His Legate in France perſwades him to break it, and bid open defyance to the Emperor, having raiſed monies enough to maintain one years War againſt him; He ſummons all the Emperors enemies to the Council, to depoſe him; who thereupon by his Letters to the King of England and others, prohibits the Biſhops to repair to it, ſtops all their paſſages by Land; who upon the Popes Letters repairing thither with a ſtrong Convoy ſent from Jenoa by Sea, three Popes Nuncioes, above one hundred Archbiſhops, Biſhops, Abbots, and P…oxies of Prelates, beſides Embaſſadors from Cities in Rebellion againſt the Emperor, and above 4000 Mariners of Jenoa were taken priſoners by the Emperors Gallies, and ſome Biſhops ſlain, drowned in the fight, wherein God ſignally owned his cauſe againſt the Pope; his Letters concerning it, 549, to 558. He ſurprizeth the Popes new Caſtle built with the Croyſado money, whereupon he dyed of grief and diſcontent, 647. The Cardinals deſire his releaſe of the impriſoned Cardinals, and licenſe to elect a New Pope, to which he condeſcends: Their diviſion, double election; he aſſents to one, but diſlikes the other, being a Roman, and his profeſſed enemy, 647, 648. Cardinal Columna taken priſoner, his Caſtles demoliſhed for ſeeming favourable to him, 648. The Engliſh Biſhops Embaſſy to him, to remit his indignation againſt the Church of Rome, though juſtly provoked; to permit, command the Cardinals to elect a New Pope, after Coeleſtine the 4. his death, Ibid. His anſwer, That the pertinacious pride, and unſatiable covetouſneſſe of the Church of Rome, not he, hindred the proceedings to a New Popes election; That if he hindred the ſucceſſes of the Roman and Engliſh Church, none might admire, ſince the one endeavoured by all means to depoſe him from his Imperial dignity, and the other deſiſted not to excommunicate, not a little to defame him, and pour forth their money to his detriment, 648, 649. He commanded the diſagreeing Cardinals to elect a Pope, to take off the infamy, that he hindred the election; releaſeth all the impriſoned Cardinals and Prelates at their requeſt, for the Churches peace; who thereupon became more obſtinate, ſchiſmatical, and hating each other then before: He thus deluded, beſieged Rome and the Romans, as the authors of this ſchiſme, to the detriment of the Church and Empire, from which ſuſpicion the Roman Citizens freeing themſelves by their Agents, and laying all the blame on the ſchiſmatical Cardinals, he by publick Proclamation in his Camp commanded all the Cities and poſſeſſions of the Church and Cardinals to be depopulated by his Souldiers; which they vigorouſly purſuing, the Cardinals petitioned him to forbear his indignation and plunder of them, promiſing faithfully ſpeedily to elect a Pope profitable both to the Church and Empire; they elect Innocent the 4: Pope, 649, 650, 651. This Pope being confirmed, trayterouſly ratified his former ſentence of Excommunication, raiſed forces againſt him▪ routs his Army, publickly defamed him, That he never heard divine ſervice nor prayers, (occaſioned by his Excommunications, and Prelates refuſal to communicate with him) that he did not worthily reverence Eccleſiaſtical perſons; that he did neither rightly ſpeak nor think of the Catholick Faith; that he lay with Sa…cen women; that he called Saracens and other Inſidels into the Empire, wherein they built fortified Citus: Which calumnies cauſed many Noble, grave perſons to depart from him, and his dejected enemies to life up their heads: After which he cauſed the Germans to elect another Emperor, the Lantgrave, who upon conference ſided with him againſt the Pope; who refuſed all termes of peace, unleſſe he would ſweat abſolutely to ſtand to his-Eccleſiaſtical cenſure, which he refuſed to do, unleſſe he knew before hand the cauſes and all conditions of it, without reſtoring the places he had gained, belonging to the Empire of antient right, 651. The Pope refuſeth all ſorts of cautions he tendred to him to ſettle place, to the great rejoycing of Saracens, Turks, and other Pagans, who invaded, ſpoyled the Chriſtians in all places during their diſſentions: Upon which he ſtops all paſſages to Rome by Sea and Land, imploying his Son Co…rade therein, forced the Pope and Cardinals to fly out of Rome and Italy diſguiſed into France; his jeer againſt the Pope for this his diſhonourable flight, 651, 652, 653. By aſſiſtance of the French King, the Pope ſummoned a General Council, excommunicated, depoſed the Emperor afreſh, abſolves all his Subjects from their allegiance, prohibits any to own or converſe with him under pain of Excommunication, in a moſt inſolent manner, notwithſtanding all his Embaſſadors, Advocates allegations and proffers of ſatisfaction, 643, to 654, 664, 753. The Bulls, cauſes of his Excommunication and dethroning, 644, to 660. His notable ſtout ſpeech after his dethroning by the Pope and Council; He ſets his Crown on his head, bids defyance againſt the Pope; ſends notable Letters to the King of England and other Princes, againſt the pride, inſolency, ingratitude of the Pope and Prelates, occaſioned by their great endowments, riches, by the bounty of Chriſtian Emperors, Kings, to the impoveriſhing of their Realms; aſſeits, it would be an act of charity very acceptable to God, to reſume their poſſeſſions, riches, which made them caſt God behind their backs, choaked their Religion, cauſed them ungratefully to conſpire and ſet themſelves againſt their advancers Heirs; exhorting them to reduce them to their primitive humility, condition, to ſubſtract their great noxious revenues from them, which made them mad, riotous, rebellious, and unlike the Primitive Biſhops in the Apoſtles times, who ſubdued Emperors, Kings by their piety, holineſte, nor by Armes, 660, 661, 662. The great dangers many Princes, Prelates apprehended would enſue by this Emperors depoſing, by encouraging Popes (though of mean birth) to trample all Emperors, Kings, Princes, Prelates under feet at their pleaſures, and grow intollerably proud, inſolent; to boaſt, we have trampled the very greateſt Lord and Emperor Frederick under feet, and who art thou, who raſhly believeſt thou art able to reſist us? 662. The Pope exhorts the Ciſtercians to live and dye in his and the Churches quarrel againſt him, who thereupon inclined to his party, 662, 663. All Chriſtendome troubled with Wars by the hatred, diſcord between the Pope and him, and the Univerſal Church every where endangered, 753, 754. The French Nobles adhere to him, deteſt the pride of the Pope, the Servant of Servants, who rejected all the honeſt conditions of peace which he offered him, 755. He the greateſt of all Chriſtian Princes, who had not his equal; an enemy to Pope Innocent the 4. generally hated in moſt Kingdoms, 676. Two new Emperors ſucceſſively ſet up againſt him, their forces defeated, one of them ſlain in battle, the other dyes, 753. Appendix 27. He is poyſoned by his moſt intimate Counſellor and Advocate Peter de Vinea, corrupted by Pope Innoccut the 4. his great gifts and promiſes; his memorable declamation againſt Popes ingratitude, inſolency, advanced from nothing by his predeceſſors to ſo great wealth, power, who thereby endeavoured to exterminate, deſtroy their advancers and the tottering Empire, 754, 756, 809, 810. The puniſhment of his poyſoner, the Popes great rejoycing at his miſery, death, 754, 755.

Frederick King of Naples, his great munificent gifts of Crown Lands, revoked, 319.

G.

GErmany, Almaign, Popes pretended Title to it, 391. The Emperors Oath, power, he cannot alien his Lands or Soveraign power, 316, 317, 318, 319. See Index 14. Emperor, Oath, Frederick, Otho. Seditions, Rebellions raiſed in it by Popes, againſt the Emperor, 411, 523, 5…8, 536, 753, 754, 810, 811. Shaken with inteſtine wars by the Pope, 676, 698, 717.

Gothes, obey the Greek Church, 491.

Granado, Popes pretended Title to it, 9, 291.

Greek Church, ſubject to the Patriarch of Conſtantinople; its errors, oppoſition againſt, ſeparation from the Church of Rome for its deteſtable ſymony, ambition, corruptions; the ſeveral Nations, Countries obedient to it, rejecting the Popes authority; its claim of primacy above the Pope, by St. Peters firſt preaching, fixing his See at Antioch, not Rome; G…us its Patriarch, and Greek Churches oppoſition againſt Pope Gregory 9. who grants a Croyſado againſt them, 484, 490, 491, 492, 512, 513, 676, 752. Greek Emperors, 319, 490, 491, 492, 512. Their donations of the Lands of the Empire revoked, 319.

H.

HAco King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, his Coronation by the Popes Legate, gifts to him and the Pope for it, 697.

Henry 5. Emperor, Pope Paſchal 2. and his Cardinals grant of the right of Inveſtitures to him, by his Bull, Oath; perjuriouſly revoked ſoon after, 328.

King Henry 1. of England, his Charter of Laws, Liberties …ead to the Barons by Archbiſhop Langeton, who ſwear to revive, maintain, and fight for it to death in convenient time, 283. Enlarged with divers new additions in King Johns Great Charter, 338. He erected, endowed the Biſhoprick of Carliſle, 376, 377.

King Henry 2. of England, his antient Juriſdiction over Clergymen by preſcription, declared voyd by the Pope, 6, 7. He ejects the Abbeſſe and Nuns of Ambresbury for their Incontinency, and puts others in their places, 228. His conteſts with Becket, abjuration of the antient priviledge of Inveſtitures, and right of conferring Biſhopricks, before the Popes Legate, 250. Revokes, reſumes the Crown Lands, Mannors, Caſtles, granted by King Stephen an Uſurper to the Nobles, as voyd; and the Counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Weſtmerland from the King of Scots, 324.

King Henry 3. of England, his Coronation at Glouceſter at 9. years old, after his Fathers death; his Oath; Homage to the Pope, 369, 370. The Biſhops, Nobles, Caſtellans Homage, Fealty, and Fidelity to him; he remains in the cuſtody of William Earl of Pembrock, his chief advancer, Ibid. Many Barons revolt from Lewes to him, for breach of his Oath, and detaining their Lands, Caſties, 370. He routs Lewes his forces; Articles of agreement between them ratified by Oath, out of which ſundry Biſhops, Abbots, Clerks were excepted, 371, 372. The Popes Uſurpations on him, by reaſon of his infancy, neceſſities, aſſiſtance of him againſt the French and revolted Barons, 369, 372, 1068. His memorable Prohibitions, Writs to reſtrain the Uſurpations, Extortions, exorbitant Encroachments of Popes, Popes Legates, Delegates, Archbiſhops, Biſhops, and other Agents in England and Ireland, upon the rights of his Crown, the Liberties, Properties, Conſciences of his Subjects, Courts, Officers, and redreſſe their grievances: See Prohibitions, Elections, Excommunications, Oathes, Index 14. and Index 3, 4, 5, 6, 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 Be…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 Franc…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, 9…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 the only peace of Kings and kingdoms conſiſted in his and the Churches ſafety; that he exhorted the Emperor by no mans raſh advice to recede from the devotion due to him and the Church, but humbly to obey and ſubmit to him; that he would and was obliged to him as to his Father and Lord, whom he would aſſiſt in the fulneſſe of all fidelity and obſequiouſneſſe; adviſing him to a reconciliation with the Emperor upon due ſubmiſſion, for the relief of the holy Land, hindred by their quarrels, 415, 416 The conteſt between him and the Monks of Canterbury about the Archbiſhops election, his diſallowing their choice; and his Proctors promiſe of a Diſme to the Pope in England and Ireland to ſubdue the Emperor, upon condition to null their election, and make Richard Archbiſhop, whom he recommended to him; which he did accordingly: Making an Archbiſhop hereupon by proviſion, without any election, (though at the Kings and Suffragans requeſt) which introduced all ſubſequent proviſions by Popes to other Biſhopricks in England and Ireland, 418, 419, 420, 778, 779. His grant of the Cuſtody of all Archbiſhopricks & Biſhopricks in Ireland to ſatisfy debts. His Patent to all Abbots, Priors, Nobles and other Lay-Subjects in Ireland to pay Tithes of Ponds and Fiſhings to the pariſhes wherein they were, without expecting any Writ or Mandate, becauſe he would not have thoſe Tithes detained to the peril of his ſoul, 424. His Cowardiſe to oppoſe, and forwardneſſe to promote a Diſme for the Pope, through England, Wales, Ireland, (which moſt of the Nobles, Clergy denyed) to wage war againſt the Emperor to depoſe him, according to his promiſe upon nulling the Archbiſhops election: the Popes agents inſolency, Tyranny thereupon, 425, 426, 427. He exacts an ayde from the Clergy to recover his rights beyond Sea, 428. Complains to the Pope againſt the endeavors of the Archbiſhops and Biſhops of Ireland, to deprive him of his antient Right of the Cuſtody of Biſhopricks there during their vacancie, and ſuits in his Courts by his Bulls, which he requeſts him not to grant to the hurt of his rights and authority, 428. He denyed to grant a penſion to one of the Popes creatures at his requeſt, by reaſon of his penury and want of money, 428, 429. The Archbiſhop and ſome other Prelates refuſe to grant him an ayde of eſcuage in Parliament, which all elſe aſſented to, 429. His offence againſt the Pope for nulling the due election of his Chancellor to Canterbury by all the Monks, after his reſtitution of the Temporalties, without any cauſe, and ordering a new election by his Bull; his prohibition and appeal againſt it, as contrary to his prerogative, 431, 432. The Monks refuſe to elect any Archbiſhop without the Kings ſpecial licenſe: whereupon the Pope ſent a Pall to Edmund, & made him Archbiſhop without their previous conſent, or the Kings licenſe, vacating 3. elections one after another approved by the King, 433, 434. The inſurrection againſt the Romans by Popes proviſions, and ſpoyling of their Barns, goods, throughout England; with the Kings and Prelates ſevere proceedings againſt them, and thoſe who countenanced them, upon the Popes Letters, 434, to 439. His ſevere proceedings againſt Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent, his Chief Juſtice, and faithfull Counſellor, for conniving at the plunderers of the Romans and other pretences, taking him per force out of Sanctuaries, to which he was conſtrained to reſtore him by the Biſhops excommunications, interdicts againſt the actors and aſſiſters therein, 438, 439. He commanded the Biſhop of Carliſle and his goods to be ſtayed by his Officers at Dover, departing the realm againſt his licenſe, for which they were excommunicated by his inſolent Biſhops in the midſt of his Army at Hereford; though he murmured againſt and prohibited the excommunication, 439. He erects an houſe for the Convert Jews in London, and an Hoſpital, 442, 476. He reſolves the wife of a Convert Jew, who refuſed to turn Chriſtian with her Husband, ſhould have no dower of his houſes, 442. His prohibition to Biſhops to act any thing in their Convocation contrary to his Crown, perſon, State, under pain of forfeiting their Baronies, 443. His conteſt with, reprehenſion by the Archbiſhop elect, and Biſhops in Parliament, adviſing him to baniſh his Foreign ill Counſellors, reform his practices, whereby his Father loſt Normandy, his Subjects hearts, almoſt all his Treaſure, kingdom, and Crown of England; the Realm troubled, interdicted and the Prince of Provinces made Tributary to ignoble perſons; threatning to excommunicate him and all other contradictors in a ſhort time if he corrected not his errors; whereupon he humbly craved time to alter his counſil, and take account of his Treaſure, till he could remove them: and ſends to the Earl Marſhal and Prince of Wales for a reconciliation with them, 443, 444, 445. His Writ for impriſoning and baniſhing all whores and Prieſts concubines out of Oxford, upon their Oath never to return again or keep company with them, 445, 446. Clerks livings ſequeſtred for his debt, 446. His contract of marriage between the Emperor Frederick and his Siſter Iſabella; and ſubmiſſion of himſelf and his Succeſſors therein to the Juriſdiction & Cenſure of the Pope and Church of Rome, (who promoted the match) notwithſtanding any exception of the Court, or Royal dignity, if he failed of paying her port…on on the dayes preſcribed. The inſtruments, Letters concerning it, 450, to 455. His proxy to the Pope to confirm his contract of marriage, 454, 455. His Remonſtrance to the Pope of the Treachery of the Earl of Britain in revolting from him, and delivering up his Caſtles in G…ſcoigne to the French King, againſt his Homage, Fealty, and expreſſe Oath, deſiring him by Eccleſiaſtical cenſu…es to compell him to reparations, 455, 456. His Letters ſignifying his conſent to permit the Biſhop of …riaton to return into England at the Popes requeſt on his behalf, 457. His reprehenſory Letter to the Chief Juſtice of Ireland for not executing his Letters ſent to him, and to prohibit a Legates comming into Ireland from the Pope without his licenſe, 458. His Letters to the Pope on behalf of the Abbot Elect of St. Albans, the Pope thereby inforced on him a new Oath of Fealty; his Letters ſlighted at Rome without great gifts and bribes, 462, 463, 465. The Popes Vſurers harboured and maintained in London under him, their execrable bonds and penalties, 667, 668, 669. Append. 25, 26. He repeals his grant, made before his marriage, becauſe not made with aſſent of the Pope or his Legates, without which he pretended he had no power to make any grant of his Lands, as if he were not King, but the Pope, ſubjecting himſelf to his ſentence, and Excommunications, 470, 504, 505. Pope Gr…gory the 9. his Bull ſharply reprehending him for alienating the Crown-lands, to the prejudice of the See Apoſtolick as Lord thereof, and ordering him to reſume them, notwithſtanding his grants, and Oath, 504, 505. His Parliament at Merton, Law, Nobles reſolution in caſe of Baſtardy contrary to the Popes Canons, and 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 Merchand…ze, under pain of forfeiting the goods and monye, 480. His Writ to the Chief Juſtice of Ireland to do ſpeedy Juſtice between two …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 …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 chain…, 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 inf…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 L…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 bewa…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 Agen… 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, Defender of the Church, which he by Gods grace would and ought to defend; to remove all violences, injuries in Churches by whatſoever perſons or occaſion they were committed, and reaſonably to puniſh them with Juſtice; That therefore it was fit his Biſhops, who by reaſon of their Baronies are bound by Oath to conſerve the Kings temporal honors and dignities; ſhould by a gratefull requital preſerve the rights and liberties of the Regal Dignity, 576, 671, 688, 689, 1016. His Writs for making publike prayers for the proſperity of himſelf, his Queen, and Military expedition, 577. His prohibition of any Novelties, or new Eccleſiaſtical encroachments, to diſturbance of the Clergy and Realm, 578, 579, 600. He imployes the proſits and proviſions of the Archbiſhoprick of Canterbury during the vacancy, to ſupply his forces in France, 579. His endeavours to procure Boniface, his Queens Vncle, a Forraigner and unfit perſon, Archbiſhop of Canterbury, which he effected, the Pope and he favouring, promoting one another deſigns: His Letters to the Pope and Cardinals on B…i…ace his behalf, 579, 580, 581. His Writ to the Mayor of Winton not to permit the Biſhop whoſe election he oppoſed, or any of his Officers to come within the City, to the Sheriff of the County and others not to receive, lodge, or give him or his Officers victuals within the County: the Biſhops Excommunication of them thereupon, he forced to quit the Realm; 584, 585, to 592. Pope Innocent 4. his ſharp Letter reprehending him for writing to him; that no poſtulation of a Biſhop from the Pope o… other ought to be admitted in the Realm of England againſt his will; That he had the ſame power in temporal as the Pope had in Spiritual things; That no Biſhop ought to receive poſſrſſion of his Temporalties without his aſſent; That he held the Popes tranſlation of the Biſhop of Norwich to Winton invalid, as done by the vice of ſurreption; which ſounded not to the honor of God, nor of the Church, not of his own ſublimity; eſpecially, ſince the pious credulity of all Chriſtians held, That the Apostolical See by the providence of God had a free power in all Churches, neither was it bound to ſtand to the arbitrement of Princes that their aſſent ſhould be required in the buſineſses of elections or poſtulations of Biſhops; Admoniſhing him to reſtore the Temporalties to the Biſhop he had confirmed againſt the Kings will; elſe, ſince he deſired not the Liberties of the Church to be d…miniſhed in his dayes, but to be encreaſed, through Gods favour, he could by no means endure, that himſelf ſhould ſuffer ſo prejudicial an injury in this Biſhop; who gave this Pope 8000 Marks, without abating one penny for this Biſhoprick, 592, 593. The Biſhop of Wintons propo…als to him for the preſervation of his antient prerogative concerning the election, poſtulation, and confirming of Biſhops, to continue in full vigor, to releaſe the interdict againſt the City of Winton, and abſolve the Citizens of Winton, with all others he had excommunicated in the quarrel between them; their accord and reconciliation, 563, 594, 595. The Conteſt between him and Groſthead Biſhop of Lincoln, about a proviſion and the Church of Thame, 595, 596. He claims an intereſt in the Church of Lincoln, and in the Controverſie between the Biſhop, Dean and Chapter, by their Charters produced, 597. His Writ not to permit the Monks of Bardeny to be tak…n and impriſoned upon an excommunication unduly awarded againſt them, and to take their impropriations as well as other Lay-fees into Cuſtody during the vacancy, 599, 600. His ſummons to the Biſhop of Aquis, to anſwer his impriſoning of 3. and killing one of the Citizens in a hoſtile manner, to his enormous diſgrace as King, and prejudice of his dignity; his order therein, no more to inſeſt them, 600, 601. His Licenſe to the Abbot of the Ciſtercians to ſend one or two Monks of his order to viſit the Ciſtercians in England. His Writs to provide livings for his Clerks of the Chancery, 601. His Writs not to ſuffer female heirs in Capite, eſpecially ſuch as hold Caſtles, to marry without his royal aſſent, and to require pledges of them for that purpoſe: And againſt Archdeacons demanding annual procurations, 612. He extorts Eſcuage: Demands the price of one years wool from the Ciſtercians, who oppoſing it, are thereupon prohibited to meet at their Chapter, or to tranſport their wool that year, and abuſed by the Kings Officers, eſpecially on the Sea, 603, 604. The Nobles aſſemble and petition to him againſt Martins the Popes agents intollerable grievances and proviſions of benefices to Italians, and other Forraigners, which they ſhould rather dye then any longer tolerate, 606, 607. His notable Letters to Pope Gregory 9 and Innocent 4. againſt their proviſions to Churches, to the great grievance, oppreſſion of him and his kingdom, and of the rights, Liberties of the Crown, and to redreſſe this Innovation; which yet neither of them refrained, following their own unbrideled wills; whence men believed, that the …o…d and his Apoſtle Peter (whoſe fo…ſteps they did not follow) were not unworth…ly provoked againſt the Church of Rome, who bent th… how, and prepared against it, 607, 608. The Pope exemots David Prince of No…thwales from his allegeance and Oath to him for 500 Marks a year out of it and its appurtenances; who fled to the Popes wings for ſhelter, protection in his rebellion againſt the King of England, whoſe Vaſſal he was, 608, 609. His Nobles in Parliament refuſe to grant him an Ayde againſt the Scots: Pope Innocent 4. his Letter to the Prelates and Clergy to grant him an Ayde; wherein he extolls him for a Catholick Prince, and devout ſonne of the Church of Rome, alwayes ſo ſtudying to reverence his mother with filial ſubſection and obſequiouſneſſe, that he would by no means decline from its good pleaſures, but perform with all ready diligence what things he knew gratefull and pleaſing to her. Wherefore it was both condec…nt and condigne for him and them if they more eaſily granted his requeſts, and gave him an ayde for his preſent great arduous affairs; Which yet the Biſhops, Abbots joyntly and ſeverally denyed, poſtponing the Popes as well as Kings petition, 609, 610. The Popes New Bull and Martins Demand of an Ayd for the Pope: which the Biſhops, Nobles joyntly oppoſed, and the Emperors Embaſſadors; who adviſed the King justly and potently to ſree the Realm of England from the Tribute wherein Pope Innocent the 3. bad unjuſtly obliged it, and all other Papal grievances wherewith it was daily oppreſſed: which if he refuſed to do; the Emperor would grievouſly paniſh every of his he could fiade within his Dominions, 61…, 612, 613. His breach of the Great Char…r, notwithſtanding his Oath to obſerve …, and publick Excommunication by St. Edmond Archbiſhop of C…n…u…y againſt all infringers of it. The Nobles pio…oſi…ns to prevent it, by having the power to elect his Counſellors, Chancellor, Chief Juſtice, and o▪ther Officers, to publiſh a New excommunication againſt all infringers of it, and enter into a New Oath to obſerve it, upon conceſtion whereof they would grant him an Ayde, 610, 611. He condeſcends that the Biſhops in every Dioceſſe ſhould publiſh a ſentence of excommunication againſt him, and all who went againſt the great Charter of Liberties in any Article. They grant him an Ayde to marry his daughter, 20 s. out of every Knights fee held in Capite, and repeating what aydes they had granted him, and how much moneyes he had extorted from them from time to time, 613, 614. His prohibition to all Biſhops, Abbots, others who field Baronies of him in Capite, to oblige their Lay-fee to the Church of Rome, whereby he might be deprived of his due ſervice, 614. His Prohibition to Martin the Popes Legate, declaring, that no Popes Legate ought to come into the Realm, unleſſe ſpecially requeſted by him from the See Apoſtolick; That the Legates ſo requeſted did never pervert the Popes Mandate, nor endeavour to ſubvert the rights of the King and his Great Noble,▪ of which nature Biſhops and Abbots were juſtly reputed, who held Baromes of him like other Nobles, whom he needed to protect as well as Laymen, if he would preſerve his Realm; who were reacy to mutinie againſt him by reaſon of his proviſions to their livings, which neither he nor they could or would any longer patiently endure, to the ſubverſion of the Realm; threatning to put a bridle to this his inſolence, injury, and to complain thereof to the Pope and Cardinals, if he carried not himſelf more modeſtly, without intrenching upon his or his Nobles rights, who proceeded notwithſtanding, 615, 616. His Writs to inquire in all Counties the annual ſum of the Romans, Italians rents, wherewith the Court of Rome had fraudulently, violently enriched them in England; found to amount to 60000 marks in rents, beſides other profits; to the 3. part of which all the Kings ſtanding revenue amounted not, 616, 617, 620. His Writs to all Ports to intercept all Popes Letters, Bulls to levy moneyes, brought by Clergy-men, Monks, or other of what degree ſoever, whethee aliens or denizens, and impriſon the importers, 617. To prohibit all Taxes to the Pope in England or Ireland, 618. His Speech and malediction to Martyn, deſiring of his ſhelter againſt the Nobles fury, who threatned to hew him in pieces; and ſafe conduct to him in his timerous flight out of England, 619, 620. The Pope grinds his teeth at him, for that he would not accept of his comming into England, when the Kings of Aragon and France ſ…bad him entrance into their Realms, and ſo reproachfully caſt out his Nuncio and Clerk out of England with an execration, wiſhing the Devil to carry him to hell, ſaying in a great rage with a murmuring voyce, rolling his eyes, and ſhriveling his noſe; It is expedient for us to compound with the Emperor, that we may break in pieces theſe rebellious Petty Kings; for the Dragon being qualified or pacified, the Little Serpents will quickly … trodden under foot: which Speech divulged, ingendred grand offence and indignation in the hearts of many, 620. Alexander King of Scots his Charter of Peace and Fealty to him, ratified by his and his Nobles Oathes and ſubjection of him and his heirs to the Popes Juriſdiction, cenſures in caſe he violated it, to compel him to ſatisfaction, 620, 621. He commands the Biſhop of Worceſter to excommunicate David Prince of Northwales his Vaſſal, & interdict it, for breach of his Charter, Homage, Fealty, Oath by his rebellions, according to his ſubmiſſion by his Charter: who by bribes procured an abſolution from them all of Pope Ianocent the 4. who injuriouſly uſurped his Land, to hold it under the yearly Tribute of 500 marks. He is ſummoned to appear before the Pope concerning the Contents of Prince Davids Charter, and anſwer certain injuries done by him, as he ſaid, to David. His and his Nobles indignation, deteſtation of this avarice of the Pope: They perſwade him not to regard theſe injurious Papal mandates, and invade Wales, to repreſſe this new inſolence of ingratefull David; He waſtes Wales with fire and ſword, which the Pope winks at, and paſſeth over in ſilence, 621, 622, 623, 624. His oppoſitions, conteſts againſt the elections of the Biſhops of London, Durbam, Coventry, together with a Writ to the Mayor of Ciceſter, not to permit the Biſhop elect or any of his -to enter the City gates: his ſeiſing, detaining the temporalties of Bps. elected againſt his will, 623, to 628, 637. His Writs, care to preſerve his royal Juriſdiction & rights of his Crown againſt the Vſurpations of the Biſhops in Ireland, 628. His Writs to inquire what lands, tenements, rents Archbiſhops, Biſhops, Priors, aliens, or any Normans had in England, 630, 631. The Councils and Parliaments held under him: See Councils, Parliaments: He diſpenſeth with the Biſhop of Durhams attendance in Parliament by reaſon of danger from the Scots, 632. His Liberties granted to the Abby of Weſtminſter, 632. His Patent that no Freer Minor ſhould be a Biſhop in Ireland, 632, 633. His Writs prohibiting any ayde to the Archbiſhop or Pope without his aſſent, 634. His Licenſe for a Popes Legate to go into Ireland only to abſolve ſuch who laid violent hands on Clerks, and collect Diſmes, without exerciſing any other Juriſdiction, till his further order, 634. His Writ to his Chief Juſtice in Ireland to proceed to give judgement in an Aſſiſe, notwithſtanding any menaced excommunication, and attach, impriſon Biſhops and others for holding plea of Layfee in the Eccleſiaſtical Court, to the prejudice of his Crown and dignity, 635. His Licenſes to Biſhops to make wills, and their executors to execute them, without him or his heirs interruption, 636. He ſends Proctors to the Pope to complain of, redreſle the injuries done to him, for creating divers Biſhops without his aſſent; for nulling due elections confirmed by him, upon falſe, forged, frivolous malicious pretences, againſt his antient and approved right uſed in former ages; to the great detriment of the Church and Realm, 637. His Letters to the Pope to excuſe ſome of his Biſhops and Abbots ſummoned to the Council of Lions from appearing in it, by reaſon of age, ſickneſſe, poverty, their imployments in the Cuſtody of the Realm, and other publike ſervices; with his anſwer, aſſent thereto, except only to one of them, 638. He ſends ſolemne Embaſſadors to the Council of Lions to complain of the daily grievances done to the Realm of England by the Court of Rome, and againſt the Tribute, Charter extorted from K. John in time of War, to which the Nobles never aſſented, nor would aſſent, and which the Archbiſhop proteſted againſt; and to preſent the Nobles Letters againſt Papal grievances and extortions: their proceedings therein, 299, 638, 639, 644, 645, 646, 647, 663. His Writs to all his Biſhops, Abbots of England and Ireland reſorting to this Council, according to their Oathes to defend the rights and royal dignity of the King in all things, to uſe all fidelety and diligence therein to preſerve, defend the rights of his Crown, kingdom; and not to act or aſſent to any thing contrary or prejudicial thereunto, 640, 641. He denyes Pope Innocent the 4. his requeſt to come into England, wherein he had a ſpecial right, by reaſon of the prejudice that would ariſe to it, and infamy of the Popes Court, whoſe ſtink aſcended to heaven, 654. The Emperors notable Letter to him againſt the ingratitude, pride, inſolency, treachery of Popes, Prelates, Clerks, againſt Emperors, Kings, others, from whom they received their endowments; oppreſſing the Sons of their Donors, by whoſe almes they were fatted, enriched; forgetting their native condition, being the Sons of their poor Subjects, yet neither reverencing, fearing Emperor or King, when made Popes or Prelates: The injuſtice, tyranny of Pope Innocent 4. in denouncing a ſentence of Excommunication and deprivation againſt him, without any ciration, hearing, conviction of any fraud or pravity, to the enormous prejudice of all Kings, who might juſtly expect the like proceedings, if he a Chriſtian Emperor, lawfully, unanimouſly elected, approved by the Church, whiles the Clergy flouriſhed in Faith and Religion, owned Emperor by God, and magnificently governing other Kingdoms, was thus dethroned, who had nought to do with him in temporal matters, if peccant in them: That he was not the firſt, neither ſhould he be the laſt who was thus infeſted by the abuſe of Papal authority; ſince their ambition ſought to ſwallow down Jordan and all earthly powers, though the turpitude of the Court of Rome was ſuch, as all might execrate, and honeſty, ſhame prohibited to recite: That their plentifull rents, revenues wherewith they were enriched, to the impoveriſhing of moſt Realms, made them mad: That the more they received, the more they coveted; inſnaring, dethroning their Pations, advancers: That he intended to reduce all Clerks, eſpecially the greateſt, to their primitive humility, ſtate, condition in the Apoſtles age, when they were famous for piety, miracles, conquering Kings, Princes by their Apoſtolical lives, humility, ſanctity, not a…mes: That thoſe now being addicted to the world, drunken with delights, caſt God behind their backs, all their Religion being ſuffocated by the affluence of riches and wealth: That it was a work of charity for him and all Chriſtian Kings to ſubſtract their hurtfull riches, wherewith they were damnably burdened; and that they ſhould ſerve God in doing it, exhorting him to joyn therein, 661, 662. His extraordinary anger againſt the Engliſh Biſhops, for ſetting their hands and ſeals out of effeminate fear, to the tranſcript of King Johns deteſtable Charter burnt at Lyons, at the Popes command, after his and the Nobles proteſtation againſt it therein, and reſolution never to pay, or ſuffer the Tribute therein mentioned to be payd: His Oath after the Nobles proteſtation▪ Th… although the Biſhops were diſhonestly incurvated, yet he would firm'y ſtand for the liberty of the Realm, neither would he whiles he lived pay the church of Rome the annual reat under the name of Tribute, 300, 663. The Popes ſecret rancour, and great anger againſt him and the Realm, for daring to bewaile or mutter againſt his manifold injuries; his vaunting ſpeeches, That if he could tame Frederick, he would eaſily tread under feet the inſolent pride of the Engliſh, who complained of the oppreſſions of the Roman Court, eſpecially of the Tribute, in the Council: inſtigating the King of France in a ſecret conference at Glungy, to wage War upon the King of England for ſo great an injury, till he had diſiaherited, or ſo enormouſly bu…t him, that he ſhould wholly ſubmit to the will of the Roman Court, volens …olens; which he refuſed, becauſe he was King Henries Kinſman and their Queens Siſters; becauſe he had no manifeſt right to the Crown of England; becauſe there was a Truce between him and the King of England, which he would rather Prolong, that ſo he might relieve the Holy Land; becauſe much Chriſtian blood would be ſhed, before the Realm of England would yield to France; becauſe the Chriſtians in the Holy Land were now oppreſſed, beſieged by the Pagans, who expected his relief; and becauſe he had a ſtronger and more hurtfull enemy to the Chruch of Rome to be firſt conquered, to wit Frederick, 663, 664. His priviledge, that no Legate ſhould come into his Realm unleſſe requeſted; fraudulently abuſed by the Popes ſending certain ſophiſtical Legates, having greater power to excort rents, money, and were more inſolent then Legates in all things, although they had not the enſigns of Legates, being Clerks, or Freers Minors, or Preachers, who made them his Beadles and Tax-maſters, to the ſcandal and detriment of their Order, 664, 690, 691, 692. He ſummons a Parliament at London, by reaſon of the Popes indignation againſt him and all his Nobles, oppreſſing them with many daily intollerable grievances, and divers new devices to extort monies more then before; their complaints againſt his grievances, which they could no longer tolerate without the brand of ſluggiſhneſſe and imminent ruine, being done in contempt and ſpight; his Papal indignation ſo ſwelling againſt the miſerable Engliſh, for that they durſt complain againſt their daily injaries and oppreſſions in the Council; which he ſo multiplied without intermiſſion, that the Engliſh were more vile in his eyes, Court then any other even of the remoteſt Nations: Inſolently ſaying; It is expediens for us to compound with the Emperor Frederick, that we may trample the little King of England, our Vaſſal, under feet, who now kicks with the beel againſt us, 664, 665. The King, Archbiſhops, Biſhops, Abbots, and Nobles, draw up 7. Articles in Parliament againſt the Popes grievances and oppreſſions: 1. In extorting, collecting ſeveral ſums of money by general Taxes and Aſſeſſes, without the Kings aſſent or conſent, againſt the antient Cuſtoms, Liberties, and Rights of the Realm, and againſt the Appeal and contradiction of the Proctors of the King and Kingdom, made in a General Council. 2. In hindring Patrons to preſent their Clerks to vacant Livings, and beſtowing them by Proviſoes on other Roman Clerks, utterly ignorant of the Engliſh tongue, to the peril of the peoples ſouls, and impoveriſhing of the Realm beyond meaſure, by tranſporting money out of it. 3 In granting penſions out of Livings by Proviſion, and more Proviſions of Benefices then he promiſed after his Bull againſt them. 4. That one Italian ſucceeded another. 5. That Subjects cauſes were drawn out of the Realm by the Popes authority, againſt the Cuſtome of the Realm, againſt the written Laws, that men ought not to be condemned amongſt their enemies; and againſt Indulgences granted by his predeceſſors to the Kings and Realm of England. 6. The frequent mention of that infamous word Non-obstante in his Bulls, by which the Religion of an Oath, antient cuſtomes, vigor of writings, the eſtabliſhed authority of Charters Laws, Priviledges were debilitated, vaniſhed away and his not carrying himſelf courteouſly towards the Realm, in revoking the plenitude of his power as he promiſed. 7. That in the Benefices of Italians, neither their rights, nor ſuſtentation of the poor, nor hoſpitality, nor preaching of 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, Prior…; 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 Knightſervice, 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 Millſtones, 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, C…rk, o… 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 Clergymen and Papal Biſhops his Counſellors, (whereof the Biſhop of Worceſter was principal, to whom he granted a power of interdicting the Realm) was ſo inclined by their counſils more then was juſt, that his conſtancy was enervated with the ſame levity it was conceived, being ſo terrified with the Popes menaces, that he trembled for fear where no fear was, yea womaniſhly relinquiſhed what he had manfully undertaken, ſubmitting to him as conquered, affrighted: whereupon the whole endeavour as well of the Nobles as Biſhops, and the hope of freeing the Engliſh Church and Realm, miſerably withered and came to nought, not without the bleeding grief of many hearts, all this reſiſtance vaniſhing like a cloud before the ſhining Sun, the Clergy ſatisfying the gapings of the Roman avatice with this Contribution without reſiſtance; the richeſt Prelates & Clergymen who had greateſt revenues, which they over-heartily loved, fearing to loſe them by the Popes indignation, complying with his deſigns; and thoſe who reſolved to reſiſt through the Noblemens encouragement, (the Kings eyes being averted, and his ears cloſed againſt them by the Court Prelates) being forced to comply and pay 6000 Marks to the Pope, to the great impoveriſhing of the Realm; which was tranſported by the Popes Nuncioes and Merchants to ayd the Landegrave againſt the Emperor Frederick; part whereof he intercepting, grievouſly reprehended the effeminacy of the Engliſh and Earl Richard, complaining much of it before his fellow Souldiers, who ſeemed to have conſented to the Popes party, to the deſtruction of the Realm of England, and detriment of the Empire; becauſe he gathered much treaſure together out of the aſſiſtance of the Cruceſignati, by the Popes permiſſion, whereby the audacious rapines of the Romans were infinitely encreaſed, by how much they found no contradiction in them; flying from thoſe who chaſed them, and purſuing ſuch who fled from them; ſo as all the hope and conſolation of relieving the Engliſh expired, whoſe enemies were their Judges, 674, 675, 676. Pope Innocent 4. informed by his Nuncioes of the Kings and Engliſh fear, intended to interdict the Realm had they not payd his 6000 Marks Tax, and the King by his Nuncioes ſignified his complyance to it, notwithſtanding Cardinal John an Engliſhmans ſharp reprehenſion of his indiſcreet anger and violence, by which the Holy Land was endangered, the Greek Church departed from them, the Emperor the greateſt, powerfulleſt of all Princes, an adverſary to them, he and his Cardinals (the top of the Roman Church) expelled Italy, Hungary and its confines exterminated by the Tartars, Germany ſhaken with Civil Wars, Spain raging mad againſt them, to the cutting out of Biſhops tongues, France reduced to poverty, conſpiring againſt them, and England ſo frequently hurt by their injuries, like Balaams Aſſe, beaten with ſpurs and clubs, at laſt enforced to ſpeak and revile them, complaining ſhe was over-intollerably wearied and irreparably damnified; ſo that like Iſmael they were now odious to all, and provoked all to anger: Yet the Pope took ſo much boldneſſe from what was paſt, more imperiouſly then before to trample upon the miſerable Engliſh, moſt of them being troden down, diſſipated, effeminated; he demanding, that all reſident beneficed perſons in England ſhould pay the third part, and all Non-reſidents the moity of their Benefices to him: The Prelates oppoſed this Tax as impoſſible, and the Kings Proctors ſtrictly prohibited all the Clergy of England, not to aſſent to ſo execrable a demand of the Pope, or conſent to this Contribution to the Kingdoms deſolation; which they obeyed, appealing againſt it as intollerable, impoſſible; which they had more effectually contradicted, if they had had any confidence in the Kings wavering words and promiſes: The Clergies anſwer thereunto, and appeal to Jeſus Chriſt and the next general Council againſt it: Their complaint againſt it to the King and Parliament, with their Nuncioes and Epiſtles to the Pope and his Cardinals, in behalf of the whole Clergy of England, againſt his unſupportable exaction, 676, 677, 678, 679, 680. The Court of Romes indignation againſt their Letters, as well reprehending as reſtraining their avarice, who thereupon reduced their demands to 11000 Marks ſubſidie, excluding all the exempt Abbots of England cut of this ſum, to be more perilouſly expoſed to the Roman rapacity▪ 679, 680. The Popes deluſory grant to him, that whereas he before indifferently granted proviſoes of Eccleſiaſtical Benefices in England to Italians, to its intollerable grievance, he would from thenceforth by Gods grace, when he granted any ſuch proviſions to any of his or his Cardinals Nephews, importunately intreat the King, that he would be pleaſed to condeſcend to ſuch a proviſion, whereby they more ſtrictly enſnared him; this being but a baited hook to enrich the Popes Secretaries, by ſuch rhetorical Epiſtles from the Pope to the King on their behalf, 682, 683. His indignation, exclamation, prohibition againſt the Popes grant of the firſt years fruits of all vacant Benefices within the province of Canterbury for 7. years to Archbiſhop Boniface, till he ſhould raiſe the ſum of 10000 Marks, to be levyed by this Apoſtolical authority without any appeal: His effeminacy in condeſcending to it afterwards, and not ſtanding for the defence of the Realm, and honour of the Archbiſhops of Canterbury, againſt the debts of that Church as he ought, the Suffragan Biſhops being compelled by the Popes authority, excommunicating all who durſt ſpeak againſt it, to ſubmit thereto, not daring nor being able to oppoſe or contradict it, 682, 683. He commanded the keepers of the Ports by his Writs to prohibit the importation of any Bulls, for proviſions or exacting monies from the Church of England by the Popes authority, to impoveriſh the Realm, or ſuffer any to wander with them by land to the Prelates; and if any ſuch were found, to apprehend and impriſon the bearers of them, 684. He preſcribes a ſpecial Maſſe to be ſaid upon the Canonization of St. Edmund, 685. He augments the dignity of the Abbot of Weſtminſter, that celebrating Maſſe in his Pontificalibus, he ſhould give the benediction ſolemnly to the people when Agnus Dei was ſung, 686. He ſeiſeth the Temporalties of the Archbiſhop of Rhoan, for not coming perſonally into England to ſwear his Fealty for them, 686. He prohibits the collection of one years Diſme in England from the Monks of the Order of Cluny, granted to the Abbot by the Popes authority, (who was to have part thereof) without his Royal aſſent, and ſeiſeth all the monies collected thereby, 686, 687. He reſtores the Temporalties of the Biſho▪ prick of Coventry, long detained in his hands, out of his meer grace, to Roger de W…ſeham made Biſhop thereof by the Pope, to the prejudice of his Prerogative, 687. His high reſentment of Biſhops excommunicating his Officers for executing his Writs, in removing a force out of a Church to the prejudice of his Royal dignity and authority, and making a fraudulent appropriation to his and the Churches prejudice, 688, 689. His licenſe for the Pope to grant a proviſion, though odious, at two of his Clerks requeſts, ſo as this his licenſe were not drawn into conſequence, 690. His care to prevent the Popes proviſion to the Archbiſhoprick of Ardmach, 690. He ſummoned a Parliament at London, to oppoſe an importable Contribution to the Pope, to which the Biſhops had unhappily obliged the Clergy in a General Council, who thereupon abſented themſelves, leſt they ſhould ſeem to oppoſe their own facts far off, wherewith they knew the hearts of all men were not undeſervedly wounded, even to the bitterneſſe of ſoul, 690. Another Parliament of all the Nobles convened by him at Oxford, to which the Biſhops were ſtrictly ſummoned, to prevent the manifold exorbitant exactions of the Pope and his ſophiſtical Legates, to the apparent danger of the Realm, impoveriſhing of the Prelates, by Papal extortions and frequent exportations of the Treaſure of the Realm, without any benefit to the Church, yea to its great diſadvantage, and Gods diſpleaſure; where all the Prelates conſented to a grant of 11000 Marks to the Pope, which ſome of them before reſolved to oppoſe; beſides the exempted Abbots, expoſed to the Popes arbitrary demands, which rendred the Biſhops and Clergy ſuſpected to the whole Realm, 696. The Pope and King ſuſpected to comply together to force exactions from the Church and State by turns; the Pope writing to the Nobles to grant the King an Ayde, and the King conniving at, or aſſenting to his Papal exactions from the Clergy, ground between the Pope and King as between two Mill-ſtones, 696, 716, 717. He refuſed to licenſe the Biſhop of Sabine a Cardinal Legate, to enter England in his paſſage to Haco King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, till he had firſt taken an Oath upon his ſoul, That he came into England for no detriment of the King, or Kingdom, or Church, but only to paſſe peaceably through it from the Port of Dover to Lenn, and to paſſe from thence to thoſe Northern Realms with the next opportunity and winde; becauſe all ſorts of Legates and Popes Nuncioes, were accuſtomed to impoveriſh, or by ſome meanes to perturbe the Realms into which they entred▪ his free gifts to this Legate coming to viſit him, 697. His notable Prohibitions upon the complaint of Nobles and others, to the Biſhop of Lincoln, his Officials, rural Deans, and others, againſt ſummoning and enforcing Lay-perſons by Eccleſiaſtical cenſures, to appear before them in their Courts and Viſitations, to make Inquiſitions and give in Informations or teſtimony upon Oath againſt their wills, in caſes of Incontinency and other ſcandals, never formerly uſed, againſt his Crown, Dignity, the Laws, Cuſtoms of the Realm, to the ſcandal, vexation of his Subjects, and danger of their reputations, ſouls, 699, 704, 705, 706, 728. His carrying of the Viol of Chriſts blood brought from Jeruſalem, from St. Pauls to St. Peters at Weſtminſter with his own hands, in a ſolemn proceſſion, beſtowing it on that Church, to be there reſerved, adored as a moſt precious (though forged) Relique, 711, 712. His new Fair granted to Weſtminster, and ſuppreſſion of all other Fairs and ſale of goods in London for ſeveral dayes, to draw company thither to adore this Relique, 715. His notable Letter to the Biſhop of Durham, charging him with contempt againſt his Crown, Dignity, and ingratitude in diſtreining the Cattle of the Prior of Tinemuth, 716. His puſillanimity in not recalling the Popes ſuſpention of the Prelates to collate to Benefices, till the Romans covetouſneſſe was ſatisfied▪ and not protecting the Abbot of Abendune, againſt the Popes citation to, and vexations at Rome, for conferring the Church of St. Helen on Aehelmar his half brother, at his requeſt, who had given it to a Roman, to whom the Pope enforced the Abbot to pay an annuity out of his Chamber, to his Churches great detriment, 716, 717. His and his Officers ſpoyles, rapines, during the vacancy, of the Abby of St. Edmund. and Biſhoprick of Bath and Wills, 717, 721. His Prohibitions againſt citing his Clerks out of the Realm, and levying Firſt fruits granted by the Pope to Archbiſhop Boniface, out of Lay-mens Benefices, 718, 719. His confirmation of the antient liberties of the Dean and Chapter of York, ſaving the antient Rights and Liberties of the Crown, of which he was in actual poſſeſſion, 719, 720. He ſummons a general Parliament at London, wherein he demands an Ayde, for which he was ſharply reprehended, being contrary to his late Charter to the Nobles, and for his indiſcreet prodigality to aliens, whom he called in, marrying his Nobles to ignoble aliens, againſt their wills, aſſents, and diſreſpecting his native Subjects; for keeping vacant Biſhopricks, Abbies long in his hands, whereof he was to be the guardian, defender, protector, who ſpoyled, impoveriſhed them to their deſtruction, againſt the firſt and chief branch of his Coronation Oath, 721, 750. That he had no Chief Juſtice, Chancellor or Treaſurer, made by the Common Counſil of the Realm, as was fit and expedient, he alwayes making ſuch as followed his own will for his gain, and promoted not the publick, but their own ſingular profit, by ſcraping wealth, and gaining wards and rents for themſelves: At which he bluſhing, as conſcious, promiſed he would moſt freely, certainly and thankfully reform all theſe things, thinking by this feigned humility to win all their hearts to condeſcend to his demands; who often deceived by ſuch promiſes, delayed to grant an Ayde for a time, till they ſaw an actual reformation; whereupon the Parliament was adjourned, 721, 722. At the ſecond meeting, he taxed the Nobles for dealing uncivilly with him their King, Lord, in denying him that liberty which every of them uſed, to chuſe what Counſil, Officers, Servants he pleaſed, and preferre, depreſſe, remove them at his pleaſure: Adding, That Servants ought not to judge or fetter their Lord with their own conditions, much leſſe Vaſ…als their Prince; that all inferiors ought rather to be directed, ordered by the will of their Lord, The Servant not being above his Lord, nor the Diſciple above his Maſter: That he ſhould not be reputed their King, but their Servant, if they might thus incline him at their pleaſure; wherefore he would neither remove his Juſtice, Chancellor or Treaſurer, as they propounded, nor ſubſtitute others; yet demanded an Ayde of money from them to acquire his rights in foreign parts, which concerned them likewiſe: Upon which ſubtile anſwer by thoſe who feared to be diſplaced had he followed the Barons general advice; they all unanimouſly anſwered, they would by no means unprofitably impoveriſh themſelves, to make foreigners proud with their goods, and ſtrengthen the enemies as well of the King as Kingdom, as of late hapned in Po…ctou and Gaſcoign: The Parliament thus diſſolving in diſcontent, he fell out with his Counſellors for loſing the hearts of his Nobles; who to raiſe monies, cauſed him to ſell his plate, jewels; oppreſſe and extort money from the Londoners; to take up proviſions for his Houſhold by force, without paying for them; to beg money from particular Nobles, Prelates, Abbots when ſevered, who denyed him any ayde whiles conjoyned, by Letters, Meſſengers to them one after another, which took ſmall effect with any, 722, to 725. His Meſſengers to the Pope, and prohibition to ſome Biſhops his Delegates, charging them upon their Oaths of Fealty, not to prejudice the rights of his Crown, in putting the Popes proviſor into a Benefice, to which he preſented a Clerk by his Royal Prerogative, under pain of ſeiſing their Baronies, 725. The Dean, Chapters, Biſhops of St. Aſaphs two Charters to him under hand and ſeal, That they ought not to elect a Biſhop without humbly petitioning him and his Heirs for a licenſe to elect; and that he ought to confirm their election before any conſecration, 726, 727. His Writs, and Pope Innocents Bull concerning the Priviledges and Exemptions of his Free-Chapples from Epiſcopal Juriſdiction or Taxes, 727, 728, 734, 735. See Free-Chapples. He ſendeth for, and craves pardon from the Londoners for injuries done them; croſſeth himſelf for the Holy Land, to extort monies from his Nobles under that pretext, who formerly denyed him an Ayde, 729, 730. He for money procures a Bull from the Pope to his Nobles, when they had ſold, mor…gaged their Lands, and prepared all things for their journey to the Holy Land, not to repair thither under pain of Excommunication, till he might go with them as their Captain; commanding the Conſtables of … and other Ports, to ſuffer no Nobleman who was croſſed to paſſe beyond the Seas: He exacts vaſt ſums of money from the Jews and Chriſtians under that pretext, 730. His Letters to the Biſhops of Ireland, to preach the Croſſe and raiſe monies for his pretended voyage, 732, 733. His Patent to the Maſter of the Jews Law in London, to excommunicate all ſuch Jews who promiſed any monies towards their Church-yard in London, and payd them not, ſo as he might receive the amends for it, 736. His indignation againſt Grosthead Biſhop of Lincoln, for excommunicating the Sheriff of Roteland for not apprehending a Clerk excommunicated by him, after 40. dayes; and Popes Letter he procured concerning it, 738. His Prerogative to have all Royal Fiſhes wherever they arrive, and Writ concerning it, 738, 739. His notable Writ to Biſhop Groſthead, to appear and anſwer his contempt before him, for endeavouring to deprive him of his ancient Prerogative to attach Clerks in his Dioceſſe; for contempts, in proceeding againſt his Writs of Prohibition in the Eccleſiaſtical Court, which exorbitant injury and contempt he neither would nor ought patiently to endure; with his ſpecial Mandate to his Juſtices of the Kings Bench, to keep him in poſſeſſion of this liberty, not permitting any thing of this his right to be diminiſhed, 739, 740. He refuſeth to hear or redreſſe the complaints of the Prior of St. Bartholmews, and Canons of Pauls, againſt Archbiſhop Boniface, for beating, wounding him and his Canons, and tearing his Miter when he came to viſit them; he excuſing and juſtifying himſelf before him: His Proclamation throughout London, that none under pain of loſſe of life or member, ſhould preſume to intermeddle in that quarrel to prevent a ſedition; the Londoners reſolving to ring their common bell, and hew the Archbiſhop in peices if they found him, for this fray and riot; who backed by the King and Queen, excommunicated the Canons afreſh in his Chapple at Lambeth, 742. Pope Innocent 4. deſires his licenſe to repair to Burdeaux in Gaſcoign; the King of France his brothers charging the Pope, that his covetouſneſſe in prohibiting the voyage of the Cruceſignati, and diſpenſing with their vows for money, was the cauſe of the French Kings overthrow; ſoliciting King Henry to joyn with the Emperor, and haſten his voyage to the Holy Land according to his vow, as he tendred the honour of Chriſt; which put the King to a great Dilemma, either to diſpleaſe the Pope, or the Emperor and French King, 746, 747. He uſed all diligence to procure the Monks of Winton to elect his brother Aethelmar Biſhop of Winton, though a foreigner, youth, unlearned: His Letters, ſpeech to them, to induce them to chuſe him Biſhop; and menace, to confound all the Monks if he found them rebellious to his perſwaſions; who deſpairing of any aſſiſtance from the Pope by appeal, where any thing might be obtained by gifts, they unanimouſly elected him out of fear, againſt their conſciences: The Kings Letters, Meſſengers to the Pope for his confirmation, which he obtained by great gifts, and by a proviſion of 500 Marks a year rent, which the Pope exacted for the Duke of Burgundies young ſon, 748, 749. He commands the Woods of the Biſhoprick of Winton to be cut down, ſold, and the money brought into his Treaſury, but diſtracted not the goods thereof, becauſe his brother Aethelmar was to enjoy them, 751. He enricheth his brethren and Queens kinred with Eccleſiaſtical Livings; writes on their and Boniface his behalf to the Pope, againſt his Suffragans, 752. Preſcribes an anniverſary obſequy for his Mother Qu. Iſabell, and prayers to be made for himſelf, his Queen and Children, 755, 756. He refuſed to aſſent to a Diſme granted by the Popes Letters to his brother Geoffry in the province of Burdeaux, becauſe he ſhould ſuffer damage thereby; yet conſents to his grant of a Diſme in the province of Dublin to Stephen Longeſpe, 757. His Letters to the Pope to appoint auditors named by him, to take the account of the Biſhop of Worcester, of the Diſme he granted him for the Holy Land, and not to hearken to his complaint for ſeiſing his Barony for excommunicating the Sheriff of Roteland againſt his prohibition, to the prejudice of his royal dignity, 738. His licenſe to tranſport ſtones from Briſtol Caſtle to Ireland, to build a Church in Dublin, 758. He ſeiſeth the Liberties, and attacheth the Bayliff… and 12. Burgeſſes of Rocheſter, for thruſting a condemned perſon into the Church to prevent execution, 759. The Maſſing furniture he provided for his Chappel in Windſor Caſtle, 759. His Patents, Temporal Courts defiled with Nonobſtantes like the Popes, by whoſe Non-obſtantes he juſtified his, 760. He ſides with the Covent of Weſtminſter againſt the Abbot, grants them the Cuſtody of the temporalties of the Abby, and goods thereof, during the vacancies: His prohibition to foreign Merchants, Uſurers to lend any monies to the Abbot or Covent thereof, without his Royal and both their joynt aſſents thereto, 763, 764. He Feaſts with his brother the new Biſhop of Winton upon his return from Rome, 764 His injuries, grievances to the Church of St. Alban, ſpoyling Prelates and religious perſons by the Popes command, reducing them to extreme ſervitude, 765. His hydropical thirſt after gold, ſilver, jewels, which he extorted from Jewes and Chriſtians, 766. The Pope animates him to go to the Holy Land to ayde the King of Franc…, he takes on him the Croſſe, and ſummons all the Londoners to Weſtminster to croſſe themſelves for the Holy Land, only to gain money, 766, 767, 771, 772. His Writs to the Archbiſhops, Biſhops of England and Ireland, to promote the preaching of the Croſſe to raiſe monies, by Freers Predicants and others, and to publiſh the Popes indulgences to ſuch who croſſed themſelves, 766, 767, 768. Several Writs concerning it, and his voyage to the Holy Land. His Letters to the Queen of France for reſtoring the lands taken from him in France, which would be a great encouragement for him and his Nobles to relieve the diſtreſſed Chriſtians and King Lewis, 769, 770. He ſummons a Parliament, reads the Popes Bull to the Prelates to grant him an ayde, which the Biſhops oppoſed, leſt it ſhould be drawn into cuſtome by a double act; They promiſe him an ayde, conditionally, to confirm the Great Charter of their Liberties ſo often agreed to, promiſed; to ſwear anew, inviolably to obſerve it for the future; and ſo as the money might be faithfully collected, reſerved in ſafe hands for his uſe, till he actually went to the Holy Land, and not prodigally ſpent, to the prejudice of the Realm and his faithfull ſubjects, and advantage of his enemies, like former aydes; whereupon he ſwore horribly in a great rage, that he would never whiles he lived, inthrall himſelf to ſuch a ſervitude; Their further debates concerning it, his diſcourſe with the Biſhop of Ely, with his ſtout anſwer, refuſal to ayde him to the impoveriſhment and ſervitude of the Church▪ in imitation of Tho Becket, and Edmund of Canterbury, who were martyred. His indignation againſt his brother, Biſhop of Wincheſter, for his ingratitude in oppoſing his ayde, he committing him to the living Devil, at his departure: The Parliaments diſſolution in great diſcontent without ayding him, they telling him he was born only to extort money and empty their purſes, 770, to 775▪ He and the Pope favoured, furthered each other in their tyranny, exactions, which provoked the anger and internal hatred of all againſt them, yea a manifeſt departure (although not of bodies, yet of hearts) from the Church of Rome, and a general exaſperation againſt her, extinguiſhing as it were the fire of mens devotion to her, 773. He reſolved to ſend for a Legar, which ſhould compell the Biſhops by the Popes authority to pay the contribution demanded, although an heavy Tribute, and new intollerable ſervitude to the Church, 774. He extorts gold from the Londoners againſt their Charters, as if ſlaves of the baſeſt condition, 773. He oppreſſed, exacted great ſums of monies from ſeveral religious houſes, the world being then ſo addicted to ſpoyls and rapines, that whoever could extort any thing from …eligious houſes, thought he rather merited then demerited, 775 He gave away his eſcheats, vacant rents, Churches to unworthy illiterate ſcurrillous Foreigners, in contempt and revenge to the Engliſh, committing and cauſing to be committed many thouſands of ſouls to ſuch aliens as were altogether unlearned, unworthy, obſcene, and knew not the Engliſh tongue, to provoke the anger, hatred of thoſe Engliſh who were worthy and learned againſt him, 775. His Speech, Oath againſt the pride, inſolency of the Prelates, Religious perſons, Templars, Hoſpitalers, occaſioned by their Liberties, Charters, and great ſuperfluous poſſeſſions, which made them mad, and ought to be prudently, adviſedly reſumed, as they were imprudently and unadviſedly diſperſed by Kings: That as the Pope ſometimes, yea very often revoked, nulled his former Bulls, Acts by Non-Obſtantes, ſo he might likewiſe revoke all Charters he and his anceſtors had unadviſedly granted them. Whereto the Maſter of the Hoſpital of Jeruſalem anſwering; What is this you ſay, my Lord the King? God forbid ſuch a displeaſing and abſurd word ſhould fall from your mouth; So long as you obſerve Juſtice, you may be a King; and ſo ſoon as you ſhall infringe it, you ceaſe to be a King: To which he replyed too uncircumſpectly; O you Engliſhmen, what means this? will you precipitate me from the kingdom as you did my father, and kill me being depoſed? 776 The Pope by Albertus his Nuncio prohibits him to invade the King of France his Lands, whiles imployed in the holy war, proffers the Realm of Sicily to his brother Richard, who refuſed it: The Kings Letter of thanks to the Pope for this proffer of Sicily to his Brother, and all other favours received from the Church of Rome; requiring that a competent ayde might be given his brother by the Clergy to gain it, yet with a ſaving the ayde he had granted himſelf for the Holy Land, 776, 777. Pope Innocent by his connivance granted more proviſions, and more oppreſſed the Church of England during his Papacy, then all his predeceſſors; the rents of the Romans, beſides other revenues, amounting annually to above 70000 marks, his own regal rents not to the 3d. part thereof, 777. England trodden under foot by aliens, ſubject to many Lords, deprived of his ſincere love, languiſhed without conſolation to deſpair, enthralled in extreme conditions, whereby (which was moſt grievous) the venemous hatred between the Church and people daily encreaſed, 778 His Writs againſt Biſhops for contempts to admit his Clerks upon preſentations, 781. He prohibits Bakers by proclamation to imprint the ſigne of the croſſ…, Agnus Dei, or name of Jeſus on any bread put to ſale, 783. His Writs to ſundry Noble men, not to foment▪ the difference between Archbiſhop Boniface and the Biſhop of Winton, nor take part with, or bear armes, or make tumults for either of them, 788. He ſummons a new Parliament at London▪ demands an ayde of money: The Archbiſhop and two Biſhops ſent to him, to perſwade him according to his Oath to permit the Church to enjoy her Liberties▪ eſpecially in elections, not to intrude perſons into them by regal power, to the deſtruction of the Prelates, Subjects, and great damage of the Church; to correct theſe and other his Errors, according to his Oath, and the Great Charter: which done they would yield to his requeſt: His ſharp, ſatyrical reply to all 3. Biſhops promoted by his meer grace, though unworthy, wiſhing them firſt to repent, reſign their Biſhopricks, as unfi… for them, to give him good example; who would thereupon elect fi… ter for the future: They grant him an ayde upon condition to confirm the Great Charter, though frequently violated by him and his Father K. John againſt their Oathes, for which they got infinite ſums of money. He confirmes the Great Charter. A ſolemn excommunication denounced againſt all infringers of it and the Churches Liberties, by the Archbiſhop and Biſhops in Weſtminſter hall, in preſence of the King and Nobles: His Promiſe, Oath to obſerve all Articles of the Charter as he was a man, a Chriſtian, a Knight, a Crowned and anointed King, 795, 796, 797. When he had a lighted Taper put into his hand whiles the excommunication was read, he delivered it to a Biſhop to hold, ſaying he was no Prieſt, holding his hand upon his breaſt, with a ſerene and chearfull countenance, ibid. His Letters to the Pope on behalf of the Biſhop of Chicheſter and his Chaplains for proviſions for them, 797. to excite all Chriſtian Princes to joyn with him in ayding the Holy Land, 798. He gives one Cup to put the Euchariſt in of 4. marks price to every Archbiſhops, and of 3. Marks to every Biſhops Cathedral in Ireland; the ſum of 100 marks to be diſtributed to the Hoſpital of St. Johns, Freers Minorites and others in Ireland as his Chief Juſtice ſhould deem meet, 798. Pope Innocent 4. in a great paſſion againſt Biſhop Grosthead, ſaid of K. H. 3. with a proud minde; Is not the King of England our Vaſſal, and that▪ I may ſay more, our Bondſ…ave? who can at our beck impriſon and enthral him to ignominy? 800. His Writs to Earl Richard, & Guardians of the Realm in his abſence, to beſtow livings on particular Clerks which next fell void in his gift of ſuch and ſuch values by the year, 806. His Writs to promote the Croyſado, and certify the number of thoſe who croſſed themſelves in Ireland, 807, 808. His protection from ſuites to the Archbiſhop of Ardmach during his journey to Rome, 808. His Writ to celebrate the Maſſe of St. Edward every day in his Chappel during his abſence in foreign parts, 808. The Pope offers him and his Sonne Edmund the kingdome of Sicily and Apulia, which his brother Earl Richard refuſed; he indiſcreetly accepts thereof: binds himſelf by Oath and Covenant to perform the hard conditions compriſed in the Popes Priviledge whereby he granted it; obligeth himſelf by Letters, Writs under his ſeal in vaſt ſums of money, debts to the Pope and his Merchants under pain of interdict, diſinheritance; ſpends a world of Treaſure about it, yet never got poſſeſſion thereof, being cheated of all his money and it at laſ…; The Writs, Procurations, tranſactions between him, the Pope, Cardinals and Parliament concerning it, 807, 821, 834, 859, 860, 865, 866, 87…, 914, 915, 916. See Apulia, Sicily, Index 13. His Nobles, Parliaments oppoſition againſt it, 930, 931, 932. His great joy and elevation for this ſhadow and vain grant of the Pope, and inveſting his Sonne in poſſeſſion of Sicily by a ring: He ſtiled him King of Sicily, recommends him by that Title to his Parliament, Ibid. 809. He oppoſeth Sewalds election, confirmation to the Archbiſhoprick of York, which the Pope notwithſtanding confirms, 813. See Index 3. Sewald. Diſmes granted him by the Pope for the Holy Land; Writs concerning the collecting, diſpoſing compoſitions for, accounts concerning them, 814, to 817, 834, 835, 843, 846, 860, to 868, 870. See Aydes. The Prelates much oppoſed them, 918, 919. He prohibits the Archbiſhop to exact aydes for making the Kings ſonne a Knight, or marrying his daughter; from the Biſhop of Rochester, and him to pay them, till determined by his Counſil whether he ought to have them by Law, 819. He ſeiſed the Lands of the Dean and Canons of Yorke, for invading the Citizens temporal Liberties, 820, 825. He aſſigned 3000 l. a year out of his Exchequer for repair of Weſtminſter Church, which was to be new conſecrated, 820. His Inquiſitions of all the particular Mannors, Lands, …ents, ſervices of religious perſons, and their values, 820. His vain expedition to, vaſt expenſes in Gaſcoign, more then it was worth to be ſold, 820. His vain liberality to the French and French Churches, in paſſing through France, 821. Pope Alexander abſolved him from his Vow, Voyage to the Holy Land againſt the Saracens, ſo as he went with an Army into Apulia to conquer Manfred, the ſtrong enemy of the Roman Church, 821, 822, 825. He reviled the Biſhop of London for oppoſing Ruſtands demands on behalf of the Pope and him, ſaying, That neither be nor any of his loved him; with his bold reply, 824. See Index 3. The Pope and King, like the Shepherd and Wolf, confederated together to devour the flock, 826, 845. He ſeiſed on the perſons, goods of all Clergymen, whether juſtly or unjuſtly ſuſpended, excommunicated by Ruſtand after 40. dayes, ſeeking whom he might devour. The Pope, Church of Rome never ſo tyrannouſly, cruelly oppreſſed Chriſtians, wounded the ſouls of all Chriſts ſervants, as Anno 38 & 39 H. 3. by his connivance, ſo as almoſt all the devotion of the Prelates, Clergy, people towards their mother the Church of Rome, and their Father the Pope expired; who nulled all their former Priviledges, uſed his Papal power for their edification to their deſtruction, converted 3. years Diſmes into 5. and the Croyſado againſt the Saracens, againſt Apulia and Chriſtians; forcing Chriſtians falſly to break their Oathes, Vowes, yea to turn Idolaters, Apoſtates, in renouncing the Truth: Selling Prelates, like Sheep or Aſſes, for money, 824, 825, 848. His Writs for ſolemnizing St. Edwards Feaſt at Weſtminster, make oblations for him; to feaſt the Poor; for the Mayors, Londoners ſolemn proceſſions thither, 826. For all the Cruceſignati to learn to draw their bowes, and publiſh the indulgence granted them, Ibid. His Writ to puniſh the riot done to the Biſhop of Durham and his ſervants, in abuſing, beating, impriſoning them, 826, 827. To Prince Edward to reform the grievances of his Judges, Sheriffs, Bayliffs, temporal Officers in Ireland, done to the Biſhops Clergy, Tenants, upon their complaint, by advice of his Counſil, Nobles there, that he might have the honour thereof, 827, 828. To make an exchange for Biſhops Lands to build a Caſtle in Ireland, 823. For allowing the Dean and Chapter of St. Martins their Tenants amerciaments; To pay his Chaplains wages twice a year; and to the Ciſtercians to make prayers for his, his Queens, Childrens, and affairs proſperity, 828, 829. His Notable Prohibitions againſt proſecuting the Mayor of London, and Sheriff of Worceſter in Spiritual Courts, and excommunicating them, with his Officers, Citizens of York and others, for executing his Writs, in contempt of his Crown, Dignity, Law, Cuſtom of his Realm: Mandates to abſolve them, 829, 830, 831, 860. He prohibits the ſequeſtration of the Priory of Winton, and any to lend monies to the Monks or Church thereof, who had brought their Church in debt by prodigal expenſes, ſuits, 832, 833. He founds the Priory of Ravenſtone, and conſtitutes a Prior therein, 833. He claims the Cup, Palfry of every Biſhop and Abbot of the Realm that dyes, by his Prerogative, 834. He ſends many Jewiſh Converts by his Writs to ſeveral Monaſteries, Priories in England, to be maintained by Corodies in them, by ſeveral ſucceſſive Writs; whom they generally refuſed to receive, 835, to 841. He reconfirms the Great Charter, renewing the ſolemn excommunication againſt the infringers thereof in another Parliament, with King Johns Charter for Freedom of Elections, which were ſent to the Pope to confirm, 841. His tyranny toward vacant Churches; The Pope and Roman Court durſt not offend him therein for their own intereſt, but connived thereat, 841, 842. He ſeiſeth on the Archdeaconry, goods of John Roman Archdeacon of Richmond, one of the richeſt and moſt coverous of the Clergy, who promoted the Romans moſt of any to prey upon the Engliſh Church, Clergy, 842. He could not move Archbiſhop Boniface to do Juſtice to the Biſhop of Rocheſter, after manifold complaints, 842. His Letters to the Pope and a Cardinal, on behalf of the Church of St. Albans about a Proviſion, and againſt drawing ſuits out of the Realm, 842, 843. The ſtrange form, conditions, penalties, uſury reſerved in his Proctors Obligations made in his Name for monies borrowed from the Popes Uſurers, 845, 846. The Popes Letters to him on behalf of the Ciſtercians, whom he oppreſſed notwithſtanding for denying him an ayde, 844, 845, 846. The Popes conſolatory Letters to him and his Queen, touching the overthrow, taking, impriſonment of the Duke of Savoy by his Citizens, againſt whom he warred with the ſpoyles of Canterbury, 849. He prohibits any Prelate, Souldier or Clerk to go beyond Seas, or Popes Bulls to be imported: yet ſpecially licenſeth Ruſtand and the Biſhop elect of Sarum to paſſe over privately about his own ſecret affairs, 850. His royal authority and the kingdoms dignity daily declined by the Popes conſecrating Biſhops, whoſe elections he oppoſed, and obtaining Palls, conſecrations at Rome from the Pope for money, whether he would or not. The Engliſh Biſhops, Clergies diſcords encreaſed the Popes and his Courts revenues, 822, 823, 824. His ratification of an accord between the Biſhop and Prior of Winton, 852, 853, 854. His Writ commanding the Dean and Chapter of York to inſtall John Manſell his Clerk in a Prebendary at York by Proctor in his neceſſary abſence, notwithſtanding any Oath or cuſtom to the contrary, 854. His Writ of quod dampnum, concerning the enlarging of the Cathedral Church at Lincoln upon the Dean and Canons petition, 855. His Writ for providing 300. marks a year for Ruſtand the Popes Nuncio, out of Livings and Prebendaries in his gift, which ſhould firſt fall void, 855. His proceedings againſt the Jewes of Lincoln for crncifying a Chriſtian child in contempt of Chriſt, 855, 856, 857. Sends the Biſhop of …y Ambaſſador to Spain; and ſatisfied the Debts wherein he was ingaged for him to the Popes Merchants; and the Debts of the Biſhop of Hereford, bound only to decoy the other Biſhops, 859, 860, 861. His Writs to the Wardens of the Cinque-ports, to permit no Clerk to paſſe beyond Sea, unleſſe he would firſt ſwear if he went to the Court of Rome, he would impetrate nothing againſt the King concerning Sicily, or the ordinance made thereon by the Pope, nor other things againſt the Crown and dignity of the King of England, 865. His Writ to Ruſtand to collect and depoſite the money of the Diſme in a ſafe place, and to diſpoſe of none of it, untill he knew the Popes pleaſure concerning it, 865. Obliged not to go in perſon, or ſend a Captain to Sicily, till he had firſt paid the Pope and his Merchants 133540 marks by a ſhort day; which involving him in great difficulties, he craved longer time for payment by Letters to the Pope and Cardinals, 868, 869, 870, 871. How much he had then actually paid for it, 871, 872. Judge B…actons paſſages concerning his Royal Juriſdiction, Prohibitions to Eccleſiaſtical Courts and Popes Delegates, 872, to 880. He ſummons the Abbots of the Ciſtercian Order by his Writs to London, demanded a great ayde of money from them; which they unanimouſly denyed to pay, for which he and his officers moleſted them: but the Biſhops gave him an ayde of 4000 marks, to the irrepelable loſſe and dammage of the Church, to conquer Sicily and Apulia, 889, 890, 621. The chief end they gave it was, to induce him to grant 50. Articles they had drawn up, (much like thoſe for which the glorious Martyr Becket contended to death) for which they reſolved to fight if denyed. Archbiſhop Boniface ſummoned a Council to confirm theſe Articles; the King by his Writs prohibited him and the Biſhops to meet therein, which yet they did in contempt of his Royal authority. The Articles, Canons they drew up and confirmed in it, to the ſubverſion of the Kings, Civil Officers, Judges Eccleſiaſtical and Civil Prerogatives, his Nobles, Commons Liberties, Properties, his Laws and Courts of Juſtice, ſubjecting them all to their Eccleſiaſtical Cenſures, Juriſdictions, Interdicts, Excommunications for acting ought againſt them, and wholly exempting the Clergy from the Kings Temporal Juriſdiction, 890, to 913. The Kings and Nobles Appeals, Proctors ſent to Rome to complain againſt, repeal theſe their Antimonarchical Conſtitutions, as grievances highly prejudicial to the Crown, Liberties, Laws, Cuſtoms of the Kingdom, 983, 986, 990, 991. The Archbiſhop forced to fly the Realm thereupon, not permitted by the King and Nobles to return, but upon condition to reverſe all his Excommunications denounced againſt any man by theſe Conſtitutions, and by reaſon of the late troubles; to act nothing for the future in matters concerning the affairs of the Church or Realm, but by the major and diſcreeter part of his Suffragans, and other diſcreet men of the Realm; And that he or the Clerks coming with him, ſhould bring with them nothing in Letters, Meſſages, Mandates, nor do or procure any thing elſe whiles they continued in the Realm, whereby any damage, peril or prejudice might come to the King or any of the Kingdom, 997, 998. See Index 3. Archbiſhop Boniface. His Writs concerning the ſequeſtration of, and monies raiſed by the profits of vacant Biſhopricks, to be reſerved under lock and key in his Treaſury of the New Temple London, 912, 913. He refuſeth the Biſhop elect of Ely, made againſt his Letters for another, and in indignation fells the Woods, impoveriſhed the Tenants, damnified the Monks by John Valeran, to whom he committed the cuſtody of it, and expoſed that Church to extreme ſervitude, depredations, contemning the fear of God, and reverence of Saints, 913. His prohibition to the Archbiſhop not to conſecrate him, and Letters to the Pope, Cardinals not to confirm him, his election tending to diſinherit him of his antient Prerogative, in ordaining Biſhops in Cathedrals; yet they at laſt confirmed him, to his great diſhonour, 922, 923, 924. His Procurations granted to renounce his and his Sons intereſt in the Realm of Sicily, if expedient for the good of the Church of Rome, 914, 915, 916, 917, 918, 919, 920. His Letter to Pope Alexander concerning Sicily and Apulia, ſo to diſpoſe of that affair, that he, his Heirs, and whole Realm of England might alwayes obey the Church of Rome with accuſtomed devotion; and that by occaſion of that affair, from whence he received no fruit, he might incurre no further damage: That he would conſider, if he had obliged himſelf to the proſecution of that affair under divers penalties; to wit, that if he did not pay the Pope the monies promiſed, or not ſend or go in perſon to Sicily, it ſhould be in the Popes power alone to null and make voyd his grant thereof; yet notwithſtanding he, as King, ſhould be excommunicated, the Realm of England interdicted, forfeited: He deſired theſe penalties might be remitted, other propoſitions he propoſed therein accepted of; ſubmitting the whole buſineſſe to the meer mercy, will of the Pope and his Cardinals, to order and diſpoſe thereof as they ſhould think meet for the honour of God, of the Church of Rome, of himſelf and his Son Edmund, whom they called King of Sicily: proteſting he undertook this affair not for any temporal reſpect, but out of that ſincere affection and devotion he alwayes had to the Church of Rome, and See Apoſtolick, in whom he had ſingular confidence, having alwayes ſtood by him in his adverſities, and by whom when infeſted as well by his own Subjects as Foreigners, not ſupported by the help of any other, he evaded the ſubtilties of his enemies, and triumphed laudably over them, 918, 919, 920. He ſeals 20 blank white papers and ſchedules with his own great ſeal, 8. with the ſeal of Prince Edward, and 10. blanks more with the golden ſeal of Edmund his Son, to be ſent to Rome concerning Apulia and Sicily, 920. He brought his Son Edmund into the Parliament with an Apulian habit, commends him, prays their counſil, or an effectual ayde for his aſſiſtance, affirming that by the counſil and loving favour of the Pope and Church of England, to acquire the Realm of Sicily, he had obliged himſelf under pain of loſing his Realm, to pay one hundred and forty thouſand Marks to the Pope, beſides uſe money which daily encreaſed: That he had obtained the Tenths of all the Clergy for 5. years, according to the new Taxations, without any expences deducted; & the firſt years fruits of all vacant Benefices from the Pope, which made all mens ears to tingle and hearts to bleed: That his debts and expences after he became a dilapidator of the Realm, amounted to nine hundred thouſand and fifty thouſand Marks, which was horrible to think of, 921. Pope Alexanders earneſt Letter to him, to right the Biſhop of Rocheſter againſt the oppreſſions of Archbiſhop Boniface, which he had neglected to do after frequent complaints, to his defamation and diſhonour in foreign parts, being obliged by the Great Charter he had ratified, againſt the infringers whereof the Biſhops had by his aſſent denounced a general Excommunication, and by his Coronation Oath, to defend the Liberties, Rights of the Church, and of this and all other Biſhops; requiring him by a day to reſtore him and all other Archbiſhops, Biſhops, Prelates, and Eccleſiaſtical perſons to their rights, out of reverence to Jeſus Chriſt, who had made him his anointed one with holy oyl; for the honour of the Croſs, whoſe badge he had taken upon him, and for the ſalvation of his own ſoul; conſidering that ſins were never remitted, unleſſe rapines were reſtored; elſe himſelf according to his duty would proceed to hear their complaints againſt the Archbiſhop: Yet the King after theſe and many other complaints, encouraged the Archbiſhop, who was thereupon cited to Rome to anſwer, ſatisfie the unrepaired injuries before the Pope, 928, 929, 930. The Pope and he ſo ſpoyled, impoveriſhed England, that for want of monies Lands lay untilled, and multitudes of people dyed through penury: Yet he then called in Arlot to flea off their skins; whereupon the Nobles ſeeing the Kingdom deſolated on all hands, by the extortions, tallages as well of the King as Court of Rome, and by the preſumption, advancements of Foreigners, who ſwayed all things, confederate and provide for their own ſecurity, raiſe forces under pretext of going againſt the Welſh, met together with Horſe and Armes at a Parliament at Oxford; their proceedings, Proviſions made therein to redreſſe theſe grievances, expell all Foreigners by force, confirm, maintain the Great Charter and theſe Proviſions, which all were ſworn to obſerve, committed to 24. to execute: The Kings half brothers refuſe to ſwear to theſe new Proviſions; ſwore by the death and wound… of Chriſt, they would never reſign the Caſtles committed to their cuſtody; the high conteſts, words between them and the Barons about it; they depart from Oxford to …in…on, whither they are purſued with Horſe and Armes by the Barons; who refuſing to ſtand to the judgement of a Parliament there held, fled the Realm, 930, 931, 936, 937. Their monies ſeiſed at Dover, London, elſewhere by the Kings Writs, 937, 938, 939. The Parliaments and Nobles oppoſitions againſt, and reprehenſion of his folly in accepting Sicily, Apulia; refuſal to ayde him therein, being undertaken without their advice; complaints of the manifold frequent rapines of the Pope and his Legates, to the undoing of the Church, Realm, to promote that deſign, 931, 932. He imployed Simon Paſſeleve to carry Letters to ſeveral Abbots to borrow monies; his ſubtilty, falſhood in that affair diſcovered, defeated, 932, 933, 934. The Parliament adjourned; the altercations between him and the Nobles at their re-aſſembling, concerning his violations of the Great Charter ſo oft redeemed, purchaſed, againſt his Oath, Promiſes, Excommunications denounced; promoting, enriching aliens, impoveriſhing his natural Subjects and himſelf, ſo that he could not recover the rights of his Realm, nor repulſe the injuries of the Welſh, the deſpicableſt of men: His conviction, confeſſion of theſe his crimes, that he had oft been bewitched with ill counſil; his Oath upon the high Altar, and St. Edwards Coffin, to reform his priſtine errors, and be adviſed, ruled by his native Subjects; yet not believed, becauſe ſo fréquently violated, 935. His and his fathers frequent breach of Oaths, and the Great Charter; He and Prince Edward enforced to ſwear to the Proviſions made at Oxford, 935, 936. Manſuetus, after Arlots revocation, by his procurement ſent by the Pope into England to fleece it; his prodigal expences on this and other Popes Nuncio…s, 931, 932. He had power to abſolve the King and all others from their Oaths, to ſupply his preſent neceſſities, to furniſh the Pope with monies for Apulia and Sicily, 934. His ſafe conduct to William de Valencia to depart the Realm, 937. His Writs for the baniſhment and tranſportation of the Archdeacon of Winton, a Poictovin, 938. He induced the Abbot of Weſtminſter by fallacious promiſes, to ſet his and his Covents ſeal as a ſurety for him to a bond of 2500 Marks, to give a pernicious example to other Abbots, to extort monies from them who oppoſed it, 932, 933, 934, 953. The Abbots chuſe rather to incurre his indignation, in not being bound for him in great ſums of money, then the Popes; who had expreſly prohibited them to enter into any bonds, under pain of Interdict and Excommunication, 933, 934. A Proteus, whom his Nobles knew not how to binde by his Oaths, Charters, promiſes, or otherwiſe, to obſerve the Great Charter and their Liberties, 935, 936. His Writs concerning the Archbiſhopricks, Archbiſhops of Tuam and Dublin; and Patent concerning his right of Patronage and Preſentations to Churchs as Patron, or in right of his Prerogative, in the Mannors of Archbiſhops and Abbots, 939, 940, 941. His Patent to defray the expences of his Nuncio to the Court of Rome, 940, 941. His Letters to the Pope and Cardinals, for prorogation of the buſineſſe of Sicily till a further time then formerly appointed, 942, 943. Concerning a peace with France, to end the old and new controverſies between the two Crowns, 944, 945. His Letters to the Pope, that he had earneſtly demanded an Ayde from his Nobles for Apulia, who promiſed to grant one, if he would reform the grievances of the Realm by their advice, and the Pope mitigate his conditions in his Inſtrument, which they deemed overhard, and prayed to have them moderated, 945, 946. His procurations to oblige him, his Realm, and Son Edmund in any conditions, and to ſwear on his ſoul to obſerve them, 946. His Patent to a Proctor to demand a Legate from the Pope, 947. He aſſigned the Diſme the Pope granted him for 3. years, to ſatisſie 30000 Marks due by him to the Pope and Church of Rome, 947. His Letters to the Pope to ratifie the Barons Proviſions made at Oxford, for the good of him and his Realm, 947. He repents of his Oath to theſe Proviſions, and to avoyd the brand of perjury, ſent ſecretly to the Pope to abſolve him and his Son from their Oaths inviolably to obſerve them; which he eaſily obtained by his Letters and Nuncioes from Pope Alexander 4. and Urban 4 his ſucceſſor; Pope Urbans Bull publiſhed for diſſolving all thoſe Confederacies, Statutes, Proviſions, abſolving all from their Oaths to obſerve them, and excommunicating all who ſhould maintain them, 948, 986, 988, 989, 1015, 1016, 1018, 1021, 1022. Pope Alexander the 4. his Letter to him for continuing an annual penſion to Arlots Nephew, who came into England upon his own calling, 952, 953. He would permit none to be elected Biſhop of Wincheſter by the Monks, but ſuch as were moſt dear to him, 954. His licenſe by advice of his Counſil to the Biſhop of London elect, (Wengham his Chancellor) to hold all his former Eccleſiaſtical dignities, benefices of his patronage in England and Ireland with it, ſo long as the Pope would indulge him; his protection peaceably to enjoy thoſe livings; his grant to him of 5000 ſheep▪ 200 cows, and 10. bulls of the ſtock of the Biſhoprick of Wincheſter, to ſtock his Biſhoprick of London, which he warranted to him againſt any Biſhop elect of Winton, unleſſe Adomar his brother were reſtored to it, 954, 955, 984. His Writ to the Guardian of the Temporalties of Winton, to put his Clerk into poſſeſſion of a parcel of Tithes, in default of the Archbiſhops Official, who delayed to do it, 955, 956. His Letters to the Roman Cardinals, 958. His Writ to the Biſhop of Hereford, concerning the particulars of the vaſt ſums wherein he obliged him, and the Biſhops, Abbots of the Realm, to the Court of Rome, for the buſineſſe of Sicily, 958, 659. His exemptions of ſome of his Clerks from the Diſmes granted, 961, 962, 996, 1007. His Letters to the Pope and Cardinals, in defence of his antient right in conferring Prebendaries and Benefices by his Prerogative, during the vacancies of Biſhopricks; and his grant of the Prebend of Fenton to John Manſell his Clerk, againſt the Popes proviſion thereof to a Cardinals Nephew; and to the Nobles of his Counſil to aſſiſt him in defence of this his right, 962, 963, 964. His Writs to Sheriffs, not to permit any of his Clerks to be ejected out of their poſſeſſions of Benefices to which he preſented them, by proviſors or others, 964, 974, 975. His Letters to the Pope not to reſtore his brother Adomar to the Biſhoprick of Winton, to prevent ſedition, diſcord, and danger in the Realm, the Nobles, people being extremely incenſed againſt him; and his Queen with himſelf for withdrawing the Prince his Son from obedience to him, 966. His Proctors and appeal againſt his and others grievances to him and his Realm, 967. His Writ to the Barons and Bayliffs of Dover and other Ports, to apprehend all Italian or other Clerks, of what order ſoever, or Laymen arriving with Papal Bulls prejudicial to him or his Realm, and to arreſt them with their Bulls, Letters, till further order, 968. His Writ to remove a Lay-force diſturbing a ſequeſtration of a Benefice, being both willing and obliged to defend the Rights and Liberties of the Church, to which he could not be wanting, 968. His notable Writs to the Biſhop of Durham and his Officials, againſt vexing, impoveriſhing the Inhabitants of Newcaſtle by Citations, and compelling them by Eccleſiaſtical cenſures to take an Oath, and anſwer Articles in their Courts and Viſitations, 969, 970. He intended not by his Writs to diſſeiſe any man of his rights, 970. His Writ to promote his Queens Chaplain to a Benefice, when it ſhould fall voyd, 971. His Letter to the Pope on behalf of the Biſhop elect of Burdeaux, whom he had approved as fit and faithfull to him, 971. His Writ to the Biſhop of Lincoln, to correct the extravagant proceedings of his Archdeacon, to the manifeſt prejudice of the Rights of his Crown and Dignity, according to his duty, 972. His Writs to the Chief Juſtice of England, to preſerve the rights of him and his Clerks againſt all new evaſions and diſturbances to obtain poſſeſſion of the Churches to which he preſented them, that no diſinheriſon might come to him or his Heirs thereby in proceſſe of time, 972 His Letter to the King and Queen of Scots at the Popes requeſt, to reſtore the Temporalties of the Biſhoprick of Glaſgo to him the Pope made Biſhop by his proviſion, unleſſe he could ſhow good cauſe to the contrary, 973. His Writs to prohibit the Archbiſhop of St. Andrews or any of his followers, to land in England with Bulls tending to the infamy or diſinheriſon of the King of Scots, or any other of his enemies, and to arreſt them till further order, 973. His Writ for a Prior to improve a Wood and great waſte, leaving the Commoners ſufficient Common, 973, 974. His Writs to Abbots and Covents to receive the Monks he ſent them from Winton▪ where they could not follow their contemplations as they ought, 975, 976. His Patent to the Archbiſhop of Yorks Tenants, to move them to a liberal Contribution towards the ſatisfaction of the Archbiſhopricks debts, 977. His Writs to ſequeſter the Benefices of a Clerk accountant indebted to him, 977, 978. His Patent to provide 50 Marks a year for his Eſcheator in Ireland, out of the Benefices of Biſhops, Abbots, Priors which ſhould firſt fall voyd there, during their vacancies, 979. The Romans and their Legates domineered in England over the Laity and Clergy, diſpoſing of their beſt Benefices at their pleaſures, excommunicating the Biſhops, Abbots, Priors who contradicted them, through his folly and ſluggiſhneſſe, 980. His Son Edmunds Letter to the Sicilians, ſtiling Sicily his Kingdom, granted him by the Popes ſpecial grace, deſiring them to admit him for their King and promote his affairs, promiſing to proſecute that affair, to preſerve the Charter of their Liberties, and readily to promote their honour, 985. His flattering Letters and Proxies to the Pope, Octobon, and other Cardinals, extolling the benefits, protection he received from his pious mother the Church of Rome and them continually upon all occaſions, to procure an abſolution from his Oath to obſerve the Proviſions of Oxford, and not to ratifie them at the Barons requeſt, or their Agents, being made to the depreſſion of his Regal liberty, and prejudice of his right, 985, 986, 987, 988, 989. His memorable Writs to all the Sheriffs of England, reciting the Barons breach of their promiſes and conditions made at Oxford, his abſolution by Pope Alexander 4. and Urban 4. from his Oath to obſerve their Proviſions and Confederacies there made, to the prejudice and derogation of his Royal right and dignity, and diſturbance of the Kingdoms peace: His promiſe freely to uſe his royal power, and exhibit the fulneſſe of Juſtice to all great and ſmall; and to make publick Proclamations throughout their Counties, that all ſhould obtain juſtice from him with all ſecurity and confidence, and proſecute and obtain their right againſt great and ſmall before him, and in all Courts by his Royal authority; that he would be wanting in his juſtice to none, whether great or ſmall; that he would maintain the Great Charter and Charter of the Foreſt in all points: And that if any ſhould adhere in their Counties to their former Confederacies, or attempt any thing againſt the right of his Regality, or the Sheriffs Office appointed by him, or preach any thing againſt him or his honour, or perſwade the people to do ought againſt it, they ſhould apprehend and detain them priſoners, till further order received from him, 989. H…s and the Nobles Procurations, Appeals againſt the Antimonarchical Ordinances, Conſtitutions, Statutes of the Archbiſhop and his Suffragans in the Council at London, to the prejudice and grievance of his Crown, and Liberties of the Realm and people; yet printed in Lindewode and Aton as the Canon Law of our Church and Realm, 983, 990, 991. He grants the Wardſhip of the Bodies and Lands of two Wards, to Arlots Nephew, 991. His Writs concerning the caſe of the Biſhop of Elphia in Ireland, 991, 992▪ See Index 4. Elphin. His Writs to the Archbiſhop of Canterbury's Tenants, to contribute towards the diſcharge of his debts, 992. He prohibits the Ciſtercians and other Monks to buy and ſell Wools or other Merchand…z…, againſt their profeſſion and order, to the impoveriſhing of the Merchants of Lincoln and other Towns, under pain of ſevere penalties if they tranſgreſſed therein for the future, 992, 993. He manures, ſowes the Temporalties of the Biſhoprick of Sarum in his hands, ſeals the corn and fruits thereof by Inquiſition of honeſt men, the money to be anſwered for them in his Exchequer, 993. The Biſhop of Winton compounds to give him 22 29 l. 13 s. 1 d. for the corn and ſtock upon his Temporalties, 994. His prohibition to Sheriffs to diſtrain Religious and Beneficed perſons, to find Horſe and Foot for the common defence of the Realm againſt enemies, being appointed by accord to find Horſe or Foot, or pay ſuch a ſum of money in lieu thereof as the Biſhops ſhould appoint, 994. His Epiſtle to Pope Urban 4. to congratulate his election to the Papacy, from which he was for a time interrupted by the Barons Rebellion, 994, 995. His Writ againſt the Biſhop of Bath and Wells, for ſuing the Abbot of Glaſton out of the Realm for a matter belonging to his Temporal Court, againſt the cuſtome of the Realm, and in contempt, prejudice of his Royal dignity, 995. His Proclamations and Writs againſt offering violence to the perſons, Churches, houſes, lands, goods or liberties of any Eccleſiaſtical or Religious perſons within the Dioceſſe of St. Davids, whoſe Liberties he was bound and ſpecially deſired to maintain, 996, 997. His Charter to Richard Earl of Cornwall, choſen King of Romans, to tax his Tenants in Boroughs and Mannors which were the Kings Demeſne, for this time, towards his journey to Rome, for moſt weighty affairs concerning his and the Kings profit and honour, 997. His Treaty and Articles with the Nobles, concerning Archbiſhop Boniface and his Clerks return into England upon certain conditions, to abſolve all excommunicated, to act nothing relating to the Church or State but by common conſent of his Suffragans, and the Nobles; and bring with them no Letters, Mandates, or act ought to the prejudice of the King or Realm, or carry any money out of it, 997, 998. He permitted Archbiſhop Boniface to confirm and conſecrate Biſhops beyond Sea, againſt the Rights and Cuſtoms of the Realm; His Writ to him to appoint ſome of his Suffragans to confirm, conſecrate the Biſhop elect of Bath and Wells in England, who could not come to him to be confirmed; which he notwithſtanding neglecting, he commanded him to come forthwith into England in perſon, or appoint others to do it, elſe he would ſeiſe the profits of his Archbiſhoprick, and not ſuffer them to be carried to him out of the Realm, where he refuſed to execute his Epiſcopal Cure, 998, 999. His Writs, Commiſſions by advice of, and Articles of agreement with his Barons, to enquire diligently of all who by reaſon of the troubles, ſeiſed and ſpoyled the goods, tithes, fruits of Churches, Biſhops, and Clerks who were Aliens, Non-reſidents, or beyond the Seas, and of other Clerks; to remove all Lay-force, to ſecure their goods and rents from violence, and give complainants full ſatisfaction according to Juſtice, 999, to 1006. His and the Barons ſubmiſſion of the differences between them, concerning the Ordinances of Oxford, to the French Kings and Popes Legates arbitrement, 1001, 1002. His ſafe conduct, protection, and Letter of advice to the Popes Legate ſent for into England, 1006, 1014, 1015. A Diſme granted him by the Clergy for the common defence of the Realm and Church; his Writs for the Biſhops to levy and pay it by a certain day, to prevent its levying by his Bayliffs on their default, 1006, 1007, 1008. He ſeiſeth the Baronies of Archbiſhops, Biſhops, Abbots, who refuſed or neglected to ſend Horſe and Armes to ayde him according to their Tenures, upon ſummons, 1008, 1009. He commands the Biſhop of Bangor by Writ to releaſe an Interdict againſt Lewellin, in a Lay-cauſe not belonging to his Court, 1009 He revokes his preſentation under his Great Seal to the Treaſurerſhip of York, whiles a priſoner under Simon Montefort, and conferres it on another when free; and commands other Commiſſioners of his appointment to inſtall him, upon the Canons refuſal, 1010, 1011. His memorable Writ to the Biſhop of Hereford, expreſſing the reaſon of inſtituting Biſhops, Paſtors, and their duty, checking him for his neglect thereof and non-reſidence, commanding him to return to, reſide on his Biſhoprick, and diſcharge his duty; and the Archbiſhop and his Official to enforce him to it by Eccleſiaſtical cenſures, under pain of ſeiſing his Temporalties, ſince he was unworthy to reap the Temporalties, who feared not irreverently to ſubſtract and neglect the ſpiritual duties of his Office, taking the milk and wool of the flock, but neither knowing, feeding, nor caring for them; which neglect he could not permit to go unpuniſhed, 1011, 1012. His Patent to ſome Citizens of Lincoln, to protect the Jews there from all violence to their perſons or goods, 1013. His Writs to the Biſhops of the Province of Canterbury, to excommunicate the Earl of Glouceſter and others for not going over into Ireland, and ſeiſing the Kings Caſtles, Towns in an hoſtile manner, drawing the Prince to violate the late agreement made with the Barons, againſt former and late publick Excommunications; without ſparing any great or ſmall, for this their contempt of God and the keys of the Church, 1013, 1014. His Inquiſition to puniſh the violations of the rights of the Church of Norwich, which he was obliged to defend, by the Inhabitants of Len, 1016, 1017. His priviledge granted to the Archbiſhop of Dublin and his Tenants, concerning diſtreſſes for debts, 1017. He ſends for two Legates ſucceſſively to excommunicate the Barons, and ſuſpend the Biſhops and Clergymen from their Office and Benefices, who fomented them in their Rebellions, 1018, 1019. He ſummons a Parliament at Kenilworth, Commiſſioners there elected and ſworn to make an accord between him and thoſe who had been and were in Armes againſt him, who drew up a Statute and Articles accordingly, 1019, 1022. His protection and ſafe conduct to Clerks and others who had been againſt him, to repair to the Legate to make their peace or demand Juſtice, 1019, 1020. The Popes Proviſions of Benefices; his intollerable exactions touching the buſineſſe of Sicily; the heavy yoak of the Roman Church; Uſurers, the principal cauſes of the differences, Wars between the King and his Barons; whereupon the Prelates, Barons aſſembling in Counſil, againſt the Lord and his anointed, ſaid; You ſee how we profit nothing; if we thus let the King alone, the Romans will come and take away our purſes and money: Let us therefore constitute 24. Elders round about his Throne, which excluding the Parthians, Medes and Elamites coming from Rome, may free Jeruſalem from Aegyptian ſervitude, may order all and ſingular affairs of the Realm, may receive the firſt 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 Cla…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 Alma…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 Cap…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 …orceſter to build two houſes with lime and ſtone, and embattle them 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.