archbishop of York, &c., complain of him at the old king's court, 316.-A
conspiracy formed against his life, 317.-And upon what occasion, 317.-He
behaves himself with great fortitude, and is assassinated, 317.-The murderers,
avoided by everybody, repent, 318.-Archbishop Becket's extraction, and the
first part of his life, 319.-The great service he did the king in the war against
France, 319.—The controversy between the king and archbishop briefly en-
quired into, 320.-The clergy to be considered under two capacities, 321.-
They cannot plead an exemption from the civil courts without a grant from
the government, 322.-An enquiry into the matter of fact, 323.-The imperial
laws examined, 323.-The grounds which led the archbishop into his mistakes,
324.-Precedents in favour of his practice from the English constitution, 325.
-The sense of the law at that time, 326.-Constitutions of Clarendon not all
ancient customs, 327.--The archbishop indefensible in some instances, 328.—-
His false principle, 328.-A calumny against him, 328.-The king of France,
&c., write to the pope about the murder of the archbishop, 329.-The arch-
bishop's canonization, 330.—The king of England sends an embassy to Rome,
330.
The king undertakes the Irish expedition, 331.-The occasion of the conquest
of the kingdom, 331.-The synod of Armagh, 332.-The Irish kings submit
to king Henry, 333.—The synod of Cashel, 334.—The Irish Church brought
to a conformity with that of England, 335.-The death of Henry, bishop of
Winchester, 335.-His benefactions, 335.-Roger, archbishop of York, and
Gilbert, bishop of London, purge themselves upon oath and are absolved, 336.
-The king clears himself by oath about the murder of archbishop Becket,
336. Several other articles sworn by him, 336.-The king absolved, 337.—
The synod of Avranche, 337.-A contest about the archbishop of Canterbury,
338.-Richard elected archbishop by the convent, 340.-And confirmed by
the pope, 340.-The king's discipline voluntary, 341.-A synod at Westmin-
ster, 342.-The canons run in the archbishop's name, 342.-The abbacies
filled by the king and archbishops, 345.—The king of Scots, with the bishops,
earls, &c., of that kingdom, swear fealty to the king, 345.-They own their
dependence on the Church of England, 346.-The circuits first set up, 347.-
The Scotch bishops return home without owning the superiority of the Church
of England, 347.--The archbishop of Canterbury's letter to the pope, to justify
the bishops' living at court, 349.-The pope's legates not to come into England
without the king's leave, 351.-The king's engagement to the legate in refer-
ence to the clergy, 351.-The nuns of Amesbury expelled for debauchery,
352.—A synod at Edinburgh, 352.—An accommodation between the emperor
and pope, 352.-A contest about exemption between the abbot of St. Augus-
tine's and the archbishop of Canterbury, 353.-An heresy in the earldom of
Toulouse, 358.-A dispute about the choice of the bishop of St. Andrew's,
359.-The new bishop retires to Rome, and dissuades the pope from an inter-
dict against Scotland, 359.-The council of Lateran under Alexander III.,
362.-King Edward's laws confirmed, 364.-Geoffrey, elect of Lincoln, re-
signs, 364.—The charters of exemption of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, most
probably counterfeit, 364.-The death of Roger, archbishop of York, 365.—
The death of Johannes Sarisburiensis, 366.—His character, 366.-Petrus Ble-
sensis's letter to the bishop of Lisieux about resigning his see, 366.-The
bishop of Rochester held his barony of the archbishop of Canterbury, 367.—
The archbishop of Canterbury's remonstrance to the young king, 368.-The
Brabantines, what, 369.-The archbishop of Rouën's remonstrance to the
young king, 369.-The young king dies very penitent for his undutifulness
and rebellion, 370.-The death of the archbishop of Canterbury, 372.-Petrus
Blesensis's remonstrating letter to that prelate, 372.-A contest between the
bishops and monks about the election of the archbishop of Canterbury, 374.-
Baldwin elected, 374.-He designs a college for secular canons at Hackington,
375.-The archbishop and monks disagree about the project, 375.-The pope
addressed by both parties, 375.-The cause determined at Rome in favour of
the monks, and the archbishop forced to desist, 377.-The king of Jerusalem
sends an embassy to the king of England to solicit for succours, 378.-The
bishops and other great men undertake the crusade, 378.-The patriarch of
Jerusalem dissatisfied with the king's answer, 379.—Jerusalem taken by
Saladin, 379.-The death of Gilbert, bishop of London, 379.-A crusade un-
dertaken by the kings of England and France, 380.-A convention at Mannes,
380.-Another at Gaintinton or Godington, 381.-The pope's bull of exemp-
tion to the Church of Scotland, 381.-July 6th, the death of king Henry, 381.
-His character, 382.-King Richard's coronation, 383.-He discountenances
those who had revolted to him from his father, 383.-The bishop of Durham
purchases the earldom of Northumberland, 383.-The king meets the lords
spiritual at Pipewell, 384.-The king settles the agreement between the arch-
bishop and monks of Canterbury, 384.-The king resigns his sovereignty of
Scotland, 385.-A protestation against Geoffrey's election to the see of York,
385.-December 11th, the administration left in the hands of William, bishop
of Ely, &c., 385.-A treaty between the kings of France and England, 385.—
The bishop of Ely grows haughty and mismanages, 386.-A miserable
slaughter of the Jews at York, 386.-The king charges the court of Rome
with simony, 387.-Abbot Joachim's opinion concerning Antichrist, 387.—A
farther account of the birth, progress, and other circumstances of Antichrist,
388.-A contest about the election of the bishop of Worcester, 390.-The
death of Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury, 391.-The archbishop of York
outraged and imprisoned at Dover, 391.-William, bishop of Ely, the chan-
cellor, impeached, and turned out of the administration, 392.-The bishop of
Coventry's invective against the bishop of Ely, 393.-Blesensis's apology for
the bishop of Ely, 394.-His defence of himself, 394.-The English prelates
take no notice of the pope's bull, 396.-Monasteries visited by the bishop of
the diocese, 396.—The bishop of Lincoln removes Rosamond's corpse out of
the church, 397.-The monks of Canterbury refuse the king's recommendation
in the choice of an archbishop, 397.-The death of Reginald, archbishop of
Canterbury, 397.-King Richard returns from the holy war, 398.-He is taken
prisoner by the duke of Austria, and sold to the emperor, 398.-The pope's
letter to the English clergy, 398.-Hubert elected archbishop of Canterbury,
399.-Earl John's revolt, 399.-The queen-mother and lords justices tax the
subjects for the king's ransom, 400.—The pope serviceable to king Richard,
400.-Adam of St. Edmond's, an agent of earl John's seized, 400.-An ex-
communication denounced by the English prelates against earl John and his
party for rebellion, 401.-A dispute between the chapter and archbishop of
York, 401.-The archbishop discountenances appeals, 402.-April 17th, the king
crowned a second time, 402.-The archbishop of Canterbury made legate, 403.
-A synod at York, 403.—A general confessor for a diocese, 403.—The death
of Hugh, bishop of Durham, 404.-His character, 404.-A disturbance in Lon-
don by William Longbard, 405.-He is seized by the archbishop's orders, 405.—
The archbishop of York goes to Rome and vindicates himself, 405.-The office
of chief justiciary, what, 406.-The bishop of Beauvais taken prisoner, 406.—He
is reprimanded by the pope, 407.—The death of William, bishop of Ely, 407.
-The priests' marriage customary in Poland and Bohemia, 407.-The monks
of Christ's Church complain against their archbishop at Rome, 408.—Secular
jurisdiction not inconsistent with the episcopal character, 408.-The college
of Lambeth demolished, 409.-April 6th, the death of king Richard, 409.—
A dispute between Giraldus Cambrensis and Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury,
410.-A synod at London, 411.-The death of Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, 411.
-The preaching of the abbot of Flai, 412.-The canons of Lincoln insist
upon their right of election, 412.—The death of Arthur, duke of Bretagne, a
great misfortune, 412-The death of Savaricus, bishop of Bath, 413.-Hubert,
archbishop of Canterbury, dies, 414.-A double election for the see of Canter-
bury, 415.—The pope annuls both elections, and forces the monks to choose
Langton, 416.-The pope's present to the king, 417.-The king expels the
monks of Christ's Church the kingdom, 418.--The revenues of the church of
Canterbury seized, 418.-The king's expostulatory and menacing letter to the
pope, 419.-The pope's answer, 419.-The bishops endeavour to persuade the
king to receive Langton, 420.-The kingdom put under an interdict, 420.—
The king makes an offer of compliance, 421.-The proposal rejected, 421.—
The king seizes the revenues of the bishops and clergy, 421.-The students
retire from Oxford, 423.-The king excommunicated, 423.-Some of the pre-
lates in the king's interest, 423.-Alexander preaches in defence of the king,
424.-The Jews tortured, 425.-The clergy rigorously taxed, 425.-A confer-
ence between the king and the pope's nuncios, 425.-King John's offer refused,
429.-Peter, the hermit's prophecy, 430.-Archbishop of Canterbury, &c.,
complain at Rome against the king, 430.-The pope pronounces the king
deposed, 430. He gives his dominions to the king of France, 430.-The king
of France prepares for a descent upon England, 432.-Pandulphus offers terms
to king John, 432.-The king complies, 432.-The terms of the accommodation,
433. He resigns his crowns to the pope's legate, 433.-The nobility refuse to
attend the king till the excommunication was taken off, 435.-Archbishop
Langton and the rest of the prelates recalled, 435.-They absolve the king,
435.-The archbishop of Canterbury persuades the king to stop his march
against the barons, 436.-He interposes too far in the business of the state,
436. An expedient suggested to the barons, 436.-The king offers to turn
Mahometan, &c., 437.-The legate behaves in an arbitrary manner, 438.—
The filling of the sees of the province claimed by the archbishop, 439.-The
archbishop's security to the barons for the king, 440.-A remarkable clause in
the forest charter, 441.-The freedom of elections of bishops secured by
Magna Charta, 441.-The pope annuls the charters and excommunicates the
barons, 442.-The pope taxes the archbishop of Canterbury with favouring
the barons, 443.-The fourth council of Lateran, 443.-The canon against
heresy, 444.-The marriage of the clergy allowed, 445.-The canons all drawn
up by the pope, 445.-The archbishop of Canterbury's suspension confirmed
by the pope, 445.-The archbishop of York pays dear for his pall, 446.-The
barons excommunicated by name, 446.-The Londoners slight the pope's cen-
sure, 447.-The barons invite Lewis, the French king's son, 447.-Lewis's de-
sign against the English discovered by a French nobleman, 447.-The death
of king John, 448.-The occasion of the loss of Normandy, 448.-October
28th, the coronation of king Henry III., 449.-A treaty between king Henry
and Lewis, 451.-The clergy who abetted the barons excluded the benefit of
the articles, 452.-The Dominicans settle in England, 452.-A council at
Oxford, 453.-A man burned for misbelief before the statute de heretico com-
burendo, 454.-The archbishop moves for the confirmation of Magna Charta,
454. The archbishop of Canterbury, &c., sent ambassadors into France, 455.
-Bishops among the Albigenses, 455.-The grant of Magna Charta, 456.—
The pope moves for two prebends, &c., and is disappointed, 456.-The death
of the bishop of Durham, 458.-His constitutions, 458.-Usury anciently for-
bidden both by Church and state, 459.-A contest about electing to the see of
Durham, 460.-The death of Pandulphus, 460.-Bishop of Winchester dis-
charged from the protectorship, 460.-The archdeaconry of Canterbury, when,
461.-The Franciscans settle in England, 462.-The death of Stephen, arch-
bishop of Canterbury, 463.-And of Eustachius, bishop of London, 463.—
Walter's election voided, 463.-Richard preferred to the see of Canterbury by
the pope, 464.--The tenths collected by the pope's agents with great rigour,
465.-A synod at Westminster, 466.-The death of Richard, archbishop of
Canterbury, 466.-Bishop Nevil's election to the see of Canterbury made
void, and why, 467.-The Italian clergy mismanage and are roughly treated,
467.-The pope complains of this usage to the king, 468.-Two other elections
to the see of Canterbury annulled by the pope, 469.-The state embroiled,
469. The bishops' remonstrance to the king, 469.-Edmund consecrated
archbishop of Canterbury, 470.-The pope's bull to encourage the holy war,
470. The avarice of the pope's agent, 472.-The form of electing the abbot
of St. Alban's, 473.-The barbarity of the Jews, 473.-Pope Gregory the
Ninth's decretals published, 474.-The Caursin's practices to impoverish the
English, 475.-Bishop of London excommunicates the Caursins, 475.-The
Franciscans desert their rule, 476.-The bishop of Chichester refuses to de-
liver up the broad seal, 476.-The difference between the canon and the
common law, with reference to bastardy, 476.-Sir Edward Coke's testimony
to the integrity of the clergy, 477.-Otho, the legate, comes into England, 477.
-He reconciles the great men, 478.-The king of Scotland refuses to admit
the legate, 478.-A council convened at London, 478.-The bishop of
Worcester's speech to the legate, 479.-A scruple removed, 479.-The legate
preaches, 480.-The death of Richard Poer, bishop of Durham, 482.-The
clergy's petition to the crown, 483.-A satire upon the court of Rome, 484.—
A quarrel at Oxford, 485.-The university interdicted by the legate, 485.—
Bishop of Winchester's death and character, 486.-A difference between the
king and the monks of Winchester about the election of a bishop, 486.-The
archbishop of Canterbury opposes the marriage between the king's sister and
the earl of Leicester, 487.-The barons' letter to pope Gregory IX. in defence
of the right of patronage, 488.-The bishops and barons complain of the ad-
ministration, 490.-A heretick seized at Cambridge, 491.-The exactions of
the court of Rome, 491.-The bishops' objections against complying with the
legate's demand for money, 492.-Their reasons seconded by the clergy of
Berkshire, 493.-The emperor's reasons against the convening a general
council, 495.--The death of Edmund, archbishop of Canterbury, 496.-The
pope commands the bishops to come to the council, 496.-Boniface elected to
Canterbury, 497.-David, prince of Wales, excommunicated, 497.-Wales
submits to king Henry, 498.-The death of Roger, bishop of London, 498.—
Isabella, the empress, 499.-An odd bull, 499.-A dispute between the con-
vent of Canterbury and the bishop of Lincoln, 499.-Raley chosen bishop of
Winchester against the king's liking, 500.-The misbehaviour of the Domini-
cans and Franciscans, 501.-A remonstrance against the oppressions of the
court of Rome, 502.-A motion for the canonization of St. Edmund, 503.-A
new order of Religious, 504.—The pope's summons to the council of Lyons,
505.-The emperor's offer of agreement with the pope, 506.-He is deposed
in the council, 506.-The remonstrance of the English agents, 507.-The
emperor's letter to the king of England, 507.-The emperor keeps his crown
notwithstanding the pope's censure, 509.-The English agents return dissatis-
fied, 509.-The English bishops forced to sign king John's charter and the
deposing bull, 510.-A dispute between the bishop and chapter of Lincoln,
510.—The pope attempts to persuade the king of France to invade England,
511.-The encroachment of the Dominicans, 512.-A list of grievances sent
to the court of Rome, 513.—The king, the bishops, the barons, &c., write to
the pope for redress, 514.-The pope continues inflexible, 515.-The king
forbids the collecting any money for the pope, 515.-But afterwards yields to
the encroachment, 516.—An English cardinal's reprimanding speech to the
pope, 517.—The pope gives up his claim to the goods of the intestate clergy,
517. The ecclesiastical courts restrained, 518.-The bishop of Durham re-
signs, 518.-The monks of Durham refuse to choose the king's half-brother
for their bishop, 519.-A brief account of the holy war, 519.-The bishop of
Lincoln excommunicates the high sheriff, 522.-The archbishop of Canterbury
begins a provincial visitation, 523.-A quarrel at the priory of St. Bartholo-
mew, 523.—The archbishop reproached about his election, 523.—He goes to
Rome, 524.-The king's sermon to the convent of Winchester, 524.-The
historian's satire upon the times, 524.-The pope was now driven out of Italy,
and forced to reside at Lyons, 525.—The bishop of Lincoln suspended, and
why, 526.-The clergy and laity swear with difference in the posture, 527.-
The bishop of Lincoln augments old vicarages, and settles new ones out of the
parochial tithes, 527.-The archbishop's reception at Oxford, 527.-The
avarice of the court of Rome, 528.-The king's answer to the bishops' address,
529.-The bishop of Lincoln's letter to the pope, 530.—This remonstrance
highly resented by the pope, 532.-The cardinals dissuade the pope from
proceeding against the bishop, 532.-The bishop's last sickness, 533.-His
notion and application of heresy, 533.—He resumes his satire against the
court of Rome, 535.-His death and character, 535.-He is reckoned a saint
notwithstanding the pope's excommunication, 535.-His writings, 537.-The
pope attempts a regulation in the studies of the clergy, 541.-A significant
charter granted to the abbey of Westminster, 542.-The death of Hugh,
bishop of Ely, 542.-The king returns into England, 543.-The death of
Walter Gray, archbishop of York, 543.-The pope gives the kingdom of
Sicily and Apulia to Edmund, the king's second son, 544.-Richard, earl of
Cornwall, chosen king of the Romans, 544.-The death of Suffeild, bishop of
Norwich, 546.--An encroaching regulation made at Rome, 547.-The death
of Sewal, archbishop of York, 548.—A provincial synod at Merton, 548.-The
provisions of the synod in defence of ecclesiastical privilege and jurisdiction,
548. Their particular grievances, 548.-The bishops checked in their jurisdic-
tion, 549.-Intrusion of clerks, 549.-Excommunicated persons set at liberty
without making satisfaction, 550.-Clerks prosecuted upon false or insufficient
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