PEr id tempus, Clericus quidam apud Oxoniam, liberalibus vacans disciplinis, mu∣lierem* 1.1 quandam casu interfecit, quam cum mortuam deprehendisset; per fugam sibi consuluit. Praefectus autem urbis & multi alii accurrentes cum mulierem exani∣mem invenerunt, ceperunt quaerere homicidam illam in hospitio suo, quod cum tri∣bus sociis suis Clericis locaverat, & facti reum non invenientes, ceperunt tres socios ejus Clericos memoratos, & de homicidio penitus nescios, & eos in carcerem retru∣serunt. Deinde post dies paucos, Rege Anglorum jubente, in con∣temptum Ecclesiasticae libertatis, extra villam educti suspendio peri∣erunt. Quod cum factum fuisset, recesserunt ab Oxonia ad tria Millia Clericorum tam Magistri quam Discipuli, ita quod nec unus ex omni Universitate remansit; quo∣rum quidam apud Cantebrigiam, quidam vero apud Radingum, liberalibus studiis va∣cantes, Villam Oxoniae vacuam reliquerunt. Yet, Eodem anno Hugo Archidiaconus Wellensis, & Regis Cancellarius, ad Episcopatum Lincolniensem, eodem Rege procu∣rante, electus est, qui continuo post factam Electionem, totius Episcopatus a Rege li∣beram dispositionem accepit: And was consecrated by the Archbishop of Rohan, so as the King during the Interdict disposed of his Bishopricks as before, to such who were loyall and obedient to him.
Whereupon the Pope considering how much his Interdicts were generally slighted throughout England, proceeded one degree further, to excommunicate the King by name in all Conventual Churches, every Lords day and Holy day, though no Divine Service must be used in Parish Churches; such was his daring Impiety, thus related by his Creatures.