Affaires of the Church in his time.
IN the 17. yeare of his Raign the Bishop of Hereford was arrested•• accused of High Treason, for aiding the Kings enemies in their late rebellion; but he refu••ed to an∣swer, (being a consecrated Bishop) without leave of the Arch-bishop of Canter∣bury, whose Suffragan he was, (and who he said was his direct Judge, next the Pope) or without the consent of his fellow Bishops: who then all arose, and hum∣bly craved the Kings Clemency in his behalfe; but finding the King implacable, they tooke him away from the Barre, and delivered him to the custody o•• the Arch-bishop of Canterbury: shortly after, he was againe taken and convented as before, which the Clergy understanding, the Arch-bishops, Canterbury, Yorke, and Dublin, with tenne other Bishops, all with their Crosses erected, went to the place of Judgement, and againe tooke him away with them; charging all men, upon paine of Excommunication, to forbeare to lay violent hands upon him; with which audacious Act, the King was so much displeased, that he presently com∣manded inquiry to be made ex Officio Iudicis, concerning those Objections against the Bishop; wherein he was found guilty, though absent, and had all his Goods and Possessions seised into the Kings hands. In this Kings time the Crowchet Fry∣ers came first into England. In his time, Pope Iohn the two and twentieth, first Instituted the Feast of Corpus Christi; begunne before by Urban the fourth.