archb. fayning himselfe not a little agreued at hys labor and good will so lost: departed, as one in whom no ready diligence was lackyng: if in case that the abbot had been at home. Wherupon, the abbot (beyng thus disapointed) was fayne to fill his siluer flagon a fresh, & make a new course to Rome to hys father the pope, of whō he receiued his consecration, and so came home again with asmuch wit as he went forth: but not with so much mony peraduenture as he went withal.

We haue declared a litle aboue, pag. 260. touchyng the actes and doynges of this pope Alexander the 3. how he had brought the emperours head vnder his foote in S. Markes church at Venice: at which tyme & place peace was concluded, & a composition made betwene þ^e Pope and þ^e sayd Friderike the emperour. MarginaliaHouedenus.
Gisburgensis.
1177.Which pacificatiō, Rog. Houedenus and Gualterus Gisburgensis, referre to this tyme beyng the yeare of our Lorde. 1177. bringing in two seuerall letters sent from the sayd Pope to Rich. archbish. of Canterbury, and to Roger archb. of Yorke, and Hugh bishop of Duresme. Out of the which letters (so much as serueth to our purpose) I haue taken and here inserted.

ALexander, seruant of the seruants of God, to his reuerend brethrē Roger archbishop of Yorke, & Hugh bishop of Duresme greeting, and Apostolicall blessing. The obsequie & seruice of your kinde deuotion, which hitherto you are knowē to haue geuē both deuoutly & laudably to vs & to þ^e church: requireth þ^t we should describe to you as to our special frendes, the prosperous successe of the church: and to let you know as spirituall children of the church, what hath happened to þ^e same. For meete it is, conuenient, & also honest, that you whom we haue had so firme and sure in our deuotiō: should now be cherished and made ioyous in the prosperitye of vs and of the church. And about the ende of the Epistle it followeth thus.

MarginaliaA meeke Emperour and a proud popeThe next day folowing, which was the feast of saint Iames (the sayde Emperour so requesting) we came to the foresayd church at saint Marke, there to celebrate our solemne Masse: where (as we were comming in the way) the sayd Emperour met vs without the churche, & placing vs againe on his right hand, brought vs so into the said church. After the Masse was done, placing vs againe on his right hande: he brought vs to the Churche doore. MarginaliaThe Emperour holdeth the popes stirrupAnd moreouer, when we should take our palfrey, he held our stirrup: exhibiting to vs such honour and reuerence, as his progenitours were wont to exhibite to our predecessors. Wherfore, these shall be to incite your diligence and study towardes vs: that you reioyce with vs and the church in these our prosperous successes, and also that you shall open the same effect of peace to other deuout children of the church: that suche as bee touched with the zeale of the house of the Lord, maye congratulate and reioyce also in the Lord, for the great working of peace which he hath geuen. Geuen at Venice in the deepe riuer, the. xxvi. of Iuly.

Thys yeare the contention reuiued agayne, spoken of a litle before, Pag. 223. betwene the two archbishops of Yorke and Canterbury. The occasion whereof was this. The maner and practise of the pope is, when he beginneth to lacke money, he sendeth some limiting Cardinall abrode: to fetch his haruest in. So there came this yeare into England (as lightly fewe yeares were wythout them) a certayne Cardinall from Rome called Hugo, or as Houedenus nameth him, Hugezim, who wold nedes keepe a councel at Westminster. To this councel resorted a great confluence (about middle of Lent) of bishops, Abbots, Priors, Doctors, and suche other of the Clergy. As euery one was there placed in his order, and after his degree: first commeth the archbishop of Yorkenamed Roger: MarginaliaContention betwene two archbishops who should sit on the ryght hand of the Cardinall.who (thinking to preuent the other archbishop) came something sooner, and straightway placed himselfe on the right hand of the Cardinall Richard the Archbishop of Canterbury, following shortly after: and seing the first place taken vp, refuseth to take the secōd: complayning of þ^e archbishop of Yorke, as one preiudiciall to his see. So, whyle the one would not rise, and the other not sit downe: rose no small contention betwyxte them two. The archbishop of Canterbury claymed the vpper seat by the preheminence of his church. Cōtrary, the archbishop of Yorke alledged for him the olde decree of Gregory, wherof menciō is made before, pag. 158. By which this order was taken betwene the two Metropolitanes of Canterbury & of Yorke: that, which of them two should be first in electiō, he should haue the preheminēce in dignitie, & go before þ^e other. Thus they contending to and fro, waxed so warme in wordes, that at last they turned to hote blowes. How strong the archbishop of Yorke was in reason and argument I cānot tell: but the archbishop of Cāterbury was strōger at the armes end. Whose seruants being mo in number (lyke valiant men) not suffering their maister to take suche a foile: so preuailed against Yorke (sitting on the right hand of the Cardinall) that they pluckt him downe from the hande, to the foote of the Cardinall vpon the ground: treading and trampling vpon him with their feete, that maruel it was he escaped with life. His Casule, Chimer, and Rochet, were all to be rent and torne from his backe. Here no reason would take place, no debating woulde serue, no praying could be heard: suche clamour and tumult was there in the house among them: much like to the tumult, which Virgil describeth.

Ac veluti in magno populo cum sæpe coorta est
Seditio, sæuitq; animis ignobile vulgus,
Iamq; faces & saxa volant, furor arma ministrat.

Now, as the first part of this description doth well agree: so some peraduenture wyll looke agayne, that according to the latter part also of the same: my lord Cardinall with sagenes and grauity (after the maner of the old Romaynes, standing vp) shoulde haue ceased and alayed the disturbaunce: according to that which followeth in the Poet.

Tum pietate grauem meritis si forte virum quem
Conspexere, silent, arrectisq; auribus astant:
Ille regit mentes dictis, et pectora mulcet. &c.

But what did the noble Romane Cardinall? Lyke a prety man of his handes (but a pretier man of his feete) standing vp in the middest, and seing the house in such a broyle: committed hymselfe to flight, & (as Houedenus writeth) abscondit se a facie illorum. The next day after, the archbishop of Yorke bringeth to the Cardinall hys rotchet, to beare wytnes what iniurye and violence he had susteined: appealing and citing vp the archbishop of Canterbury with certaine of his men, to the bishop of Rome. And thus the holy councel (the same daye it was begun) brake vp and was dissolued.

MarginaliaThe great dominion of K. Henry the. 2.Vnder the raygne of this king Henry the second: the dominion and crowne of England extended so farre as hath not ben seene in this realme before him, whom hystories record to possesse vnder his rule and iurisdiction first MarginaliaHomage of Scotland in paine of interdictionScotland, to whom William king of Scots, wyth all the Lordes temporal and spiritual did homage, both for them and for their successors (the seale whereof remayneth in the kinges treasury) as also Ireland, England, Normandy, Aquitane, Gaunt. &c. vnto the mountaynes of Pireney, which be in the vttermost partes of the great Ocean in the Brittish see: MarginaliaKing Henry the secōd protector of FraunceBeing also protector of Fraunce, to whom Philip the Frenche king yelded both himselfe and realme wholy to his gouernance, an. 1181. MarginaliaKing Hēry chosen kīg of Ierusalē and refused it.Moreouer, he was offered also to be king of Ierusalem, by the Pairiarche and maister of the hospitall there: who thē being distressed by the Soldane, brought