FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS
Canterbury, what church cathedral, collegiate, or conventual, what see, church,
monastery, or chapel, was under all the pope's government, but ever there happened
some variance, either between the king and the archbishop, as between King William
and Lanfranc, King Henry the First and Anselm, King Stephen and Richard, King
Henry the Second and Becket, King John and Stephen Langton, King Henry the Third
and Bonifaee, &c.? or else between archbishop and archbishop, for making profession,
for carrying the cross, for sitting on the right hand of the popes legate, &c.? or else
between archbishops and their suffragans, or between archbishops and their convents,
or between bishops and monks, between dean and chapter, between monks and secular
priests, monks of one sort against another, friars of one order against another, students
against friars, townsmen against scholars, &c.? As, for example, what discord was
between the archbishop of Canterbury and Richard, archbishop of York; between
Lanfranc and Archbishop Thomas; between Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, and
Silvester, abbot of St. Austin's; between Walter of Christ's Church, and Silvester,
abbot aforesaid; between William, archbishop of Canterbury, and Jeremias. prior of
Canterbury, A.D. 1144; between the monks of Canterbury and Odo their prior, for
translating the relics of Dunstan; between King Stephen and Roger, bishop of
Salisbury, the bishop of Lincoln and Roger, bishop of Ely, his son, A.D. 1138;
between Pope Innocent and Anacletus the space of seven years, the cardinals for
money (saith Gervasius) sometimes holding with the one, sometimes with the other; at
last the election was determined by a sore battle between Lotharius, emperor, and
Rogerius, duke of Apulia, A.D. 1137; also between Pope Innocent the Fourth, and
Frederic the Second, emperor; between King Henry the Third and William Rale,
bishop of Winchester, when the king had the gates of Winchester town to be shut
against him, A.D. 1250; between Boniface, archbishop of Canterbury, and canons of
St. Paul: item, between the said Boniface and monks of St. Bartholomew, who sat
there in harness in his visitation, A.D. 1250; between the abbot of Westminster and
monks of the same house, A.D. 1251: item, between the foresaid Wiffiam Rale, bishop
of Winchester, and Boniface, archbishop of Canterbury, for a priest of the hospital in
Southwark, A.D. 1252; between the said Bonifaee and canons of Lincoln after the
death of Robert Grosthead, for giving of prebends, A.D. 1253; between the monks of
Coventry and canons of Lichfield, for choosing their bishop in the time of King Henry
the Third?
And what should I speak of the discord which cost so much money between
Edmund, archbishop of Canterbury, and the monks of Rochester, for choosing Richard
Wandor to be their bishop, A.D. 1328; between Robert Grosthead, bishop of Lincoln,
and canons of the same house, for which both he and they were driven to travel to
Rome, A.D. 1244; between Gilbert, bishop of Rochester, delegate to Archbishop
Baldwin, and Robert, the pope's legate, for sitting on the right band of the legate in his
council at Westminster, A.D. 1190; between the abbot of Bardeny and the said
Grosthead about the visitation of their abbey, A.D. 1242: item, between the convent of
Canterbury and the said Robert, bishop of Lincoln, A.D. 1243; between Hugo, bishop
of Durham, and Hubert, bishop of Sarum, and Geoffrey, archbishop of York, A.D.
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189; between William, bishop of Ely, the king's chancellor, and the canons of York,
for not receiving him with procession, A.D. 1190; between the abbot of Westminster
and his convent of black monks, whom King Henry the Third had much ado to still
and agree, A.D. 1249: item, between the foresaid bishop of Lincoln and the abbot of
Westminster; likewise between Nicholas, bishop of Durham, and John, abbot of St.
Alban's, A.D. 1246; also between Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury. and the monks
there for the house of Lambeth, A.D. 1146? And what a stir was between the
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