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The issue of this Appeal to Rome was this: After two years expensive contests,* 1.1 the Monks election of William was cancelled at Rome, Luke the Kings Chaplain put by▪ and Richard Bishop of Salisbury elected Bishop by the Popes favour, Anno 1228. the Pope only gaining by such contests.
Anno Domini 1227. The King requiring the fifteenth part of mens goods gene∣rally* 1.2 throughout England; Compulsi sunt etiam viri Religiosi, & Clerici beneficiati, hanc quintam decimam dare omnium bonorum suorum, tam rerum Ecclesiasticarum, quam Laicarum. Nec profuit eis appellatio ad Dominum Papam interposita. Sed ordine turba∣to, Archiepiscopi & Episcopi, authoritate Papali, per censuram Ecclesiasticam, quos Laica potestas non potuit; ad solutionem, omni destitutos solatio, compulerunt: being thus extorted by pretext of the Popes * 1.3 forecited Bull. This fifteenth thus extorted perforce, against the wills of the generality of the Clergy of England, was made a president for the like Ayd in Ireland, by virtue of the Popes Bulls, and this forced extorting it, stiled a free and laudable grant of the English Clergy themselves, as this Patent assures us.