MarginaliaThe Abbat of Battayle. Abbat of Fauershā, Abbat of S. Austēs executers of þ^e Popes cōmaundemēt against the Archb.
The popes executors commaunded by L. Glanuile, in þ^e kinges name not to procede agaynst the Archb.writyng to the said Abbat of Battayle, and to the Supprior and Couent of Cant. commaundeth them in the kynges name, and vpō their othe and fealtie giuē vnto him, that they nor any of them do procede in this controuersie betwene the Monkes & the Archb. of Cant. before they come & talke with him, there to know further of the kinges pleasure: and furthermore charging the Couent of Cant. not to enter further in any examination concernyng the Archbyshops matters, and also cityng the Supprior of the sayd house, to appeare before him at London, at the feast of S. Iames the same yeare, which was. 1187. Notwithstandyng he excusing him selfe by sickenes, sent two Monkes in his steade, and so kept him selfe at home. MarginaliaMonkes of Cant. cōmaunded to shewe their priuileges to þ^e kyng.To whom commaundement was giuē that þ^e Monkes of Cant. w^tin xv. dayes should sayle ouer to Normandy to the kyng and there to shewe the tenour and euidences of their priuileges: And also that such Stuardes and Baylyfes whom they had placed in their farmes and Lordshyps contrary to the will of the Archb. should be remoued. And likewise the iij. Abbats in the kynges name were commaunded in no wise to execute the Popes commaundement agaynst the Archb. MarginaliaCertein officers put in þ^e house of Christ Church, agaynst the mōkes wil.Not long after this, the Archbyshop tooke shyppyng at Douer, and went ouer to the kyng, where hee ordeined three principall officers ouer the Monkes of Christes Church: þ^e Sacriste, the Cellarer, and Chamberlayne, cōtrary to the will of the Couent, with other greuances moe: wherby the Monkes were not a litle offended, MarginaliaAn other appellation of þ^e mōkes agaynst the Archb.so that vpon the same they made a new appellation to the Pope. Whereupon Pope Vrbane, by the settyng on of MarginaliaHonorius the Prior returned agayn to the Popes Court.Honorius the Prior, who was now come agayne to the Court, wrote to hym an other letter after a sharper and more vehement sort, to the effect as foloweth.

MarginaliaThe copy of Pope Vrbanes letter to þ^e Archb. of Cant.VRbanus Episcopus seruus seruorū Dei Baldwino Cant. Archiepiscopo & Apostolicæ sedis legato salutem & Apostolicam benedictionē. &c. In that we haue borne with your brotherhode hetherto, & haue not proceded in such greuous maner against you, as we might, although beyng therto greatly prouoked, the chiefest cause was this, that we supposed your hart would haue relented frō the oppression of þ^e conuentual church of Cant. cōmitted vnto you, if not for our reuerence, which you seme to haue contēned more then became you, yet at least for feare of Gods iudgemēt. For wel we hoped, our cōsciēce persuadyng vs to þ^e same, that after you had obteined that hygh state and dignitie in the Church of England, you would haue bene an example to other of obedience and reuerēce to be giuen to the sea Apostolicke, of all Ecclesiasticall persons. MarginaliaNote how the Popes stand all vpon their honour.Wherfore at the first begynnyng both of our and also of your promotion we did not spare to aduaūce and honour you as we haue done few other besides, thinkyng no lesse, but that we had found a faythfull frēd of the Church, for our honour. MarginaliaThe popes expectation deceaued in the Archb. of Cant.Wherin we perceaue now (which maketh vs not a litle to maruell) our expectation greatly deceaued. And whom we wll trusted to be a sure stay for the mainteynaunce of our estate, him now we finde a persecuter agaynst vs in our members.

MarginaliaThe Pope expostulateth with Baldewyn, for contempt of his sea.For where as we sondry tymes haue written to you in the behalfe of our brethren, and the Church committed to your charge, that you should desiste from disquietyng them, and not to vexe or disturbe their liberties, at least for reuerence of vs: you not onely in this, but in other thinges moe (as commonly is reported of you in all places) settyng at light our letters, and appellations made to the Apostolicall sea, what you haue wrought agaynst them after their so manifold appellations layd into vs, and our inhibitions agayne vnto you, we are ashamed to vtter. But reuolue and consider in your mynde, if ye haue done well, and aduise in your owne conscience what you haue done. We for our part because we may ne ought not with deafe eares passe ouer the clamours of the brethren, and such contempt of the Apostolicke sea, although our byddynges and warnynges giuē to you seme to be all in vayne, yet notwithstanding we send our mandates agayn to your brotherhode, in these Apostolicall writtynges, districtly and inMarginaliaThe Archb. commaūded by the Pope to throw downe þ^e building of his new Church, of his owne costes & charges.vertue of obedience commaundyng you, that whether ye be present in your Church, or absent, all that notwithstādyng, what soeuer you haue done in the building of your Chapell (which you to the destruction of the Monastery of Cant. haue erected) after the tyme of their appeale made to vs, or our inhibition sent to you, you fayle not, of your proper costes and charges to demolish, vndoyng agayne and makyng voyde, whatsoeuer you haue begon and innouated concernyng the institution of the Canons, and other thynges belongyng to the erection of the sayd Chapell: accountyng moreouer and reputyng the place where the Chapell was set, to be accursed and prophane: & also that all such who soeuer haue celebrated in the same place, shall stand suspended, till the tyme they appeare before our presence: MarginaliaThe Archb. commaūded to restore and assoyle þ^e monkes whom he did depriue and excommunicate.Commaundyng farthermore that all those Monkes, whom you haue presumed to remoue from their office or to excōmunicate, since the tyme of their appeale made, you shall restore and assoyle agayne, rendering also & restoryng all such fermes, maners, tenementes, and oblations, as you after their appeale made, haue inuegled frō them: And finally that you innouate nothyng touching the state of that Monasterie, duryng the tyme of this controuerise dependyng before vs. MarginaliaThe Archb. threatned by the Pope.Giuyng you to vnderstand, that in case you shall continue in your stubbernes and rebellion vppon this present warning, or differe the execution of this our precept xxx. dayes after the receauyng hereof, we shall appoynt others to execute the same, inioynyng also all your Suffraganes, that as you shall shew your selfe disobedient and rebellyng to vs: so they shall refuse lykewise to giue any obedience or reuerence vnto you. &c.

Geuen at Ferraria 5. non. Octob.

MarginaliaThe pope writeth to the Abbats, and also to the kyng.An other letter beside this, the Pope also sent to the three Abbats aforesayd for the correction of these enormities. Likewise an other letter was sent to king Henry 2. wherein the Pope inioyneth and requireth hym vppon remission of his sinnes, not to dissemble and beare with the Archb. in his oppression of his Monkes, but to helpe those thynges to be amended, where hee he hath trespassed agaynst them.MarginaliaPope Vrbane dyeth.

These pontificall letters were written an. 1287. the 3. day of Octob. and in the 19. day after, the same moneth the sayd Pope Vrbane dyed. MarginaliaBaldewynus king of Hierusalē, with many nobles takē of þ^e Saracēs.
Hierusalē won agayne of the Saracens.In the which yeare and about the which moneth, Baldewinus kyng of Hierusalem was taken with many noble men, of Saladine the Saracen: and Hierusalem lost, after it had bene in the possession of the Christiās and so continued the space of 88. yeares, and 80. dayes, from the tyme that Godfridus Bolonius did first wynne it from the infidels.MarginaliaThe kyng and Archb. glad to agree with the mōkes & graūt what they would haue.

After the receauing of those letters of pope Vrbane aboue specified, both the kyng, and Archb. with all the Byshops of the Realme were maruelously qualed, glad now to please, and speake fayre to the Monkes, promising all thinges to be done and restored to them after the best sort. Neither was the kyng now and Archb. so submisse: MarginaliaThe Monkes got the vpper hand ouer the Archb.but the Monkes on the otherside were as brag and iocant, beyng fully assured, that all now was their owne. In the narration of which historie (as it is set in Geruasius at large) this we haue to note by the way, MarginaliaThe miserable subiection of kynges vnder the Pope, to be noted.in what feare and thraldome kynges in those dayes were vnder the Pope, who could not be masters ouer their owne subiectes, but that euery pyld Monke, or peltyng Prior, vpon vertue of their appeale to the Court of Rome, and makyng their house tributary to þ^e pope, was able not onely to match, but to giue checkmate to the best kyng Christened, as not in this story onely may appeare.

MarginaliaCalypha is the hygh Priest of the Saracens, sittyng in Damascus, vnto whom all the Sultans were subiect, as our Princes now are to the pope.It foloweth then in the story of these Monkes, that as they were thus in the mydest of their ioye and iolitie, sodenly commeth newes of the death of Pope Vrbane, their great Calypha, and also how that Gregory 8. was placed in his rowme, who was a speciall frend and fauourer of the Archb. which as it did greatly encourage the king and the Archb. so the hope of the Monkes on the other side was as much discomforted, so that now all was turned vpside downe. For where as the kyng and the Archb. before thought they had