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.

EOdem Anno, Cassata Romae electione Magistri Willielmi Scoti Dunelmensis electi,* 1.1 Robertus Sarisburiensis Episcopus ad eundem Episcopatum electus est, postulatus, & translatus: post cujus promotionem Canonici Sarisburienses elegerunt Magistrum Robertum Bingeham Canonicum suum in animarum suarum Episcopum & Pastorem. Quo utique anno decisa est contentio inter Monachos Coventrenses, & Canonicos Litchfeldenses, super Episcopo eligendo, Romae per sententiam diffinitivam: Ita ut deinceps Episcopos alternatim eligant, Monachi primum, & Canonici eo defuncto alterum. Hoc tamen observato, ut Prior Coventrensis in electione primam semper habeat vocem. In hac autem sententia videtur plurmum juri Monachorum fuisse derogatum, qui eatenus semper Pontifices elegerant absque Canonicorum consensu.

This year there grew a new contest between the King and Monks of Canterbury, about the election of the Archbishop, which occasioned an Appeal and decision of the election by the Pope at Rome, whereby the Pope got two years payment of his Annual Pension granted by King John, (as you * 1.2 heard before) and a Tenth in promise the Historian will inform us.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Anno 1228. Mat. Paris Hist. Angl. p. 332.
• * 1.2

  Here p. 307.