REX instanter exegit ab eo ratiocinium de Episcopatibus, & custodiis sine War∣ranto;* 1.1 quae pertinent ad Dominum Regem. Item, de injuriis et dam∣nis illatis, et clericis Romanis et Italicis, et nunciis domini Papae; contra voluntatem domini Regis, per auctoritatem ipsius Huberu tunc Justiciarij, qui nullum consilium voluit apponere, ut illa cor∣rigerentur; quod facere tenebatur ratione officij sui, ad Justitiari∣um pertinentis. Hereupon Hubert, to prevent the rage and danger of his enemies upon those accusations fled to the Church of Merton, and there took sanctuary, whence the King commanded the Major of London by his Letters (the Londoners being his mortal enmies) to pull him forcibly, and bring him to him alive or dead; which the Major and Citizens readily undertaking and marching thither with a great force; the King, by the advice of the Earl of Chester (fearing the ill consequence of such a tumult) sodenly countermanded them thence, to their great discontent. After which Hubert to avoyd apprehension taking sanctuary in a Chappel in Essex, Godfry of Cranecumbe, (whom the King sent to apprehend him with 300. armed men, under pain of death) finding the Chapel dores shut, violently brake them open, appre∣hended Hubert and carried him thence bound with cords, a prisoner to the Tower of London. Whereupon the Bishop of London, under a pretext of violation of sanctuary, made this bold Encroachment upon the King and his Crown.
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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- 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 13, 2024.
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Anno 1232. Mat. Paris Hist. Angl p. 376, 377, 378, 379. Mat. Westm.