The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq.

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The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq.
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Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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London :: Printed for the author by Thomas Ratcliff, and are to be sold by Abel Roper ... Gabriel Bedell ... and Edward Thomas ...,
1665-1668.
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Henry -- III, -- King of England, 1207-1272.
Edward -- I, -- King of England, 1239-1307.
Constitutional history -- Great Britain -- Sources.
Great Britain -- History -- 13th century -- Sources.
Great Britain -- Church history -- 13th century -- Sources.
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"The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70866.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.

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FActa igitur inquisitione de violentia memorata, tam a Rege quam ab Episcopis & exe∣cutoribus predictis, & sacramento mediante cum examinationibus & testibus pro∣ductis, inventi sunt multi transgressores, quidam de facto, quidam de consensu: quorum nonnulli Episcopi erant & Clerici Regis, cum quibusdam Archidiaconis, ac Decanis, militibus etiam & laicis multis. Quidam vero Vicecomites, & eorum praepositi & Ministri, pro eodem excessu Rege jubente, capti sunt, et incarcerati, et alii prae¦timore sibi per fugam consulentes a quaerentibus non sunt inventi. Principalis autem Domini Regis fustitiarius Hubertus de Burgo, ex hoc arguitur fuisse transgressor, quod praedonibus illis tam literas Regis patentes, quam proprias exhibuerat, ne quis eos de praefata violentia praepediret. Venit praeterea ad Regem inter caeteros, Robertus de Thinge, juvenis elegans, & miles strenuus, ex partibus Angliae Aquilonaribus origi∣nem praeclaram ducens: Qui aliis consentientibus, fruges Romanorum vendiderat, & Willielmum Wither se nominari fecerat, quinque servientes armatos, & hujus violentiae auctores circumduxerat: protestans manifeste, quod in odium Romanorum, & causa justae ultionis transgressus fuerat, qui per sententiam Romani Pontificis, et fraude manifeste nitebantur eum ab unica, quam habuit Ecclesia, spoliare. Addidit etiam, quod maluit ad tempus injuste excom∣municari, quam suo beneficio sine Iudicio spoliari. Tunc Rex & executores praefati, militi dederunt consilium, ut quia in canonem latae sententiae inciderat, Romam absolvendus properaret: & jus suum coram domino Papa protestaretur, & quod Ecclesiam juste pariter & canonice possidebat. Dedit etiam ei Rex literas ad Papam testimoniales, de jure suo deprecans obnixe, ut militem illius intuitu ex∣audiret.

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