MarginaliaKing Henry chosen arbitrer by 2. kyngesby their oth, to abyde the awarde of this king Henry: who made awarde, and pleased them both. Whereby it is to be presupposed that this kyng, to whom other princes did so resort as to their arbitrer and deciser: did not attende eyther to any slouth or viciliuing. Wherefore, it may seeme, the actes of this prince not to be so vicious as some monkishe writers doe describe.

Among many other thinges in this king memorable, this is one to be noted (follow it who can) that he reigning. 35. yeares, and hauing such warres with his enemyes: yet neuer vpon his subiects put any tribute or taxe, nor yet vpon the spiritualtie, first frutes, and appropriations of benefices. Belike they were not knowen, or els not vsed. MarginaliaThe tresure of K. Henry the 2.And yet his treasure after his death (weyed by king Rychard his sonne) amounted to aboue nine hundreth thousand pound, besides Iewels, precious stones, and houshold furniture. Of the which substance a leuen thousand pound came to him by the death of Roger, Archbyshop of Yorke: who had procured a Bull of the Pope, that if any Priest dyed within his prouince without testament, thē he should haue all his goods. MarginaliaA couetous archebyshop.And shortly after, the Archbyshop died, and the king had all his goods: which extended (as is said) to a leuen thousand pound beside plate. &c. an. 1181.

But as there is no felicitie or wealth in thys mortall world so perfect, which is not darkned with some cloude of incombraunce and aduersitie: So it happened to thys kyng ,that among his other princely successours, this incommoditie followed hym withall: that his sonnes rebelled and stoode in armour agaynst him, taking the part of the French kyng agaynst their father. First at the coronation of Henry his sonne, whom the father ioyned with him as kyng, he being both father and kyng, tooke vpon him (that notwithstanding) as but a Steward: and set downe the first dishe as Shewer vnto his sonne: renouncing the name of a king. At what tyme, the foresayd archbishop of Yorke, sitting on the right hand of þ^e young kyng, said: sir ye haue great cause this day to ioy. For there is no Prince in the world that hath suche an officer this day. &c. Marginaliapride destoryeth all.And the yong kyng disdayning his wordes, sayd: my father is not dishonored in this doing. For I am a King and a Queenes sonne, and so is not he. And not onely this, but after he also persecuted his father. And so in his youth, when he had raigned but a fewe yeares, died: teaching vs what is the price and rewarde of breaking the iust commanndements of God.

MarginaliaK. Henry the 2. persecuted of his Sonnes.After him likewise Richard his sonne (who was called Richard Cæur de Lyon) rebelled against his father: And also Iohn his yōgest sonne did not much degenerate from the steps of his brethren. In so much that this foresayd Richard (like an vnkinde childe, persecuting and taking part agaynst his father) brought him to such distresse of body and mynde: MarginaliaThe death of K. Henry the 2. How the kyng beyng dead bled at the comming of his sonne.that for thought of hart he fell into an ague, and within foure dayes departed, after he had reigned xxxv. yeare. Whose corps, as it was caried to be buried, Richard his sonne cōming by þ^e way & meetyng it, & beginning for compassion to weape: the bloud brast incontinent out of the nose of the kyng at the comming of his sonne: geuing therby a certaine demonstration how he was the onely autor of his death.

After the death and reigne of which king: his children after him (worthely rewarded for their vnnaturalnes against their father) lacking the successe which their father had: lost all beyond the Sea that their father had got before.

And thus much concerning the reigne of Henry the second, and the death of Thomas Becket: whose death (as is aforesayd, happened in the dayes of Pope Alexander the thyrd: which pope vsurping the keyes of Ecclesiasticall regiment xxi. yeares (or as Gisburgensis writeth, three and twenty yeares) gouerned the Church with much tumulte: striuyng and contending with Friderick the Emperour not shamyng like a most proude Lucifer, to treade with his foote vpon the necke of the sayd Emperour, as is aboue described pag. 207.

MarginaliaAn. 1179.Thus Pope among many other his actes, had certaine Councels (as is partly before touched) some in Fraunce, some at Rome in Laterā, by whom it was decreed: that no Archbyshop should receiue the palle, unlesse he should first sweare. Concernyng the solemnitie of which palle: for the order and maner of geuyng and takyng the same with obedience to the pope, as it is cōteined in their owne wordes: I thought it good to set it forth vnto thee, that thou mayest well consider and vnderstand their doynges therin.

MarginaliaGeuyng of the pall.AD honorem omnipotentis Dei, & beatæ Mariæ virginis & beatorum Petri & Pauli, & Domini nostri N. Papæ, & sanctæ Romanæ ecclesiæ, nec non N. Ecclesiæ tibi commissæ tradimus tibi pallium de corpore beati Petri sumptum, plenitudinem pontificalis officij, vt vtaris eo infra Ecclesiam tuam certis diebus, qui exprimuntur in priuilegijs tibi ab Apostolica sede concessis. That is in english.

To the honour of almighty God, and of blessed Mary the virgin, and of blessed S. Peter and Paule, and of our Lord Pope N. and of the holy Church of Rome, and also of the Church of N. committed to your charge, we geue to you the palle taken from the body of S. Peter, as a fulnes of the office pontificall, which you may were within your own church, vpon certaine dayes, which be expressed in the priuileges of the sayd church, graunted by the sea Apostolike.

☞ To the honour. &c. with what confidēce durst the pope couple the honour of almighty God, and the honor of Mary, of S. Peter. and of the Pope, and of the Romish Church altogether if he had not bene a presumptuous Lucifer, equallyng himself not onely with such Saints, but also euē with him which is God alone, to be blessed for euer? Taken from the body. &c. If S. Peters body be not all consumed, let him shewe it if he can. If he can not shew it, how then is this palle taken from the body of S. Peter? or if he meane it to be of S. Peters owne wearyng, then belike S. Peter had a goodly wardrop of palles, when euery Archbyshop in all Christendome receiueth from the Pope a diuerse palle.

As a fulnes of the office, &c. Rather he might say, the fulnesse of his owne purse, when as Archbyshops payd so sweetely for it. In somuch that Iacobus the Archbyshop of Mentz (as is aboue touched pag 174. a litle before the coūcell of Basile where the price was wont to be but a thousand florences, could not obteine it without xxvij. thousand florences.

Vpon certaine dayes. &c. This difference there was betwene the pope and other archbishops. For the Pope might were the palle at all tymes and in all places at his pleasure. Archbyshops might not weare it, but vpon certaine dayes, and in their church onely within their prouince. MarginaliaEx libro grauaninum nationis germanica.Moreouer, this palle should not be asked but with great instaūce, and within three monethes without which palle, he is not to be named Archbyshop, but may be deposed, hauyng it not after three monethes. And the same palle must also be buried with him whē he dyeth. And when it is geuen some priuilege must be geuen withall, or the old renued.

MarginaliaThe solemne oth of Byshops made to the Pope.EGo. N Episcopus. N. ab hac hora in antea fidelis & obediens ero beato Petro, sanctæque Apostolicæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ, & Domino meo. D. N. Papæ, suisq̀ successoribus canonice intrātibus. Non ero in consilio, seu auxjlio consensu, vel facto, vt vitam perdant, aut membrum, seu capiantur mala captione. Cōcilium vero quòd mihi credituri sunt, per se aut per nuncium, seu literas ad eorum, me sciente nemini pandam. Papatum Romanum & Regalia S. Petri adiutor eis ero ad retinendum & defendendum saluo meo ordine, MarginaliaSaluo meo ord
This was the clause that made Becket to be banished and to be slayne.cōtra omnem hominem. Legatum Apostolicæ sedis in eundo & redeundo honorifice tractabo, & in suis necessitatibus adiuuabo. Vocatus ad synodum veniam, nisi præpeditus fuero canonica præpeditione. Apostolorum limina singulis triennijs visitabo, aut per me, aut per meum nunciū, nisi Apostolica absoluar licentia. Possessiones vero ad mensam mei Episcopatus pertinentes non vendam, neq̀ donabo,neq:oppignorabo, neq̀ de nouo infeudabo, nec aliquo modo alienabo, inconsulto Rom. pōtifice, sic me Deus adiuuet, & sancta Dei Euangelia. That is in English.

I N. Byshop of N. from this houre hence forth, wilbe faythfull and obedient to blessed S. Peter, and to the holy Apostolique Church of Rome, and to my Lord N. the pope I shalbe in no counsell, nor helpe, either with my consent or deede: wherby either of them or any member of them may be impayred, or wherby they may be taken with any euill takyng. The counsell which they shall commit to me, either by themselues or by messēger or by their letters, wittingly or willingly I shal vtter to none, to their hinderaunce and damage. To the reteyning and mainteyning the Papacy of Rome, and the regalities of S. Peter I shalbe an ayder (so myne order be salued) agaynst all persons. The le-