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BOOK IV. CHAP. II.
Conteining sundry Records, Patents, and Historical passages, evi∣dencing the Kings Supreme Jurisdiction in and over Ecclesiasti∣cal Persons, Courts, Affaires, in England and Ireland: The Intollerable Usurpations, Extortions, Oppressions, Innova∣tions, Proceedings of Popes, their Legates, Agents, Instru∣ments, to the prejudice of the Rights, Priviledges of the King, Church, Kingdom, Subjects, in both these Realms; with the severall Complaints and Oppositions against them: The Eng∣lish and Irish Bishops, Covents, Courts Christians Encroach∣ments upon the Kings Temporal Courts, Rights, Royal Dignity, and Subjects Liberties; Prohibitions and Opposi∣tions against them; with the principal Ecclesiastical Affaires and Transactions in relation to England and Ireland, from the beginning of the 21. to the end of the 40. year of King Henry the 3d. his Reign.
I Have in the cloze of the preceding Chapter presented you with King Henry the 3d. his memorable Writ of Prohibition directed to Edmond Archbishop of Can∣terbury, not to answer to a suit brought against him by the Prior and Monks of Tri∣nity, concerning Advousons of Churches, Lands, Services, and gifts to his Church, before the Popes Delegates, authorized to hear the same, to the prejudice of the Rights of his Crown and Royal Dignity: I shall now begin this Chapter with this Kings Prohibition, Attachment, for disobeying his former Prohibitions, issued against the Popes Delegates themselves, (being three Abbots) and the Prior who sued him, with other Prohibitions not to proceed therein under pain of seizing their Tem∣poralties, for citing the Archbishop to appear before the Pope out of the Realm, or elsewhere, upon this untrue suggestion to the Pope, that such cases had been formerly handled in Ecclesiastical Courts in the time of his Ancestors, without any Prohibition, which the King and his Counsel deny, sending special Messengers to the Popes Delegates, together with Prohibitions to inhibit their proceedings, as these Records attest.
REX Vicecomiti Kanc. salutem. Pone per Vad. & salvos Pleg. de Boxle, sanctae* 1.1 Radegund. & de Lesnes Abbates, quod sint coram Iusticiariis nostris apud Westmonasterium in Octabis Sanctae Trinitatis, ostensuri quare tenuerunt placitum in curia Christianitatis, super advocationibus Ecclesiarum Maneriorum Prioris et Monachorum sanctae Trinita∣tis Cantuar. et super xeniis, quae idem Archiepiscopus percipit, de Maneriis ipsorum Prioris et Monachorum, et super obedientiis domus sanctae Trinitatis Cantuar. contra Prohibitionem nostram, cum placita de advocationibus Ecclesiarum, alibi teneri non debe∣ant, nec consueverint in Regno nostro quam in Curia nostra. Et praeterea, cum vacante Archiepiscopatu Cantuar. ad nos et Haeredes nostros dictorum xeniorum perceptio, et praedictarum obedientiarum dispositio pertineat. Pone etiam per Vad. & salvos Plegios praedictum Priorem, quod tunc sit ibi ostensurus, quare secutus est idem pla∣citum