Bedes Ecclesiastical History of England Also the Anglo Saxon Chronicle
Bedes Ecclesiastical History of England Also the Anglo Saxon Chronicle
The Venerable Bede
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Thiirstan archbisho]) of York went to Rome at the same time by order of the poj)e, and he arrived three days before the archbishop of Canterbury, and was received with much Iwnour. Then came tlie archbishop of Canter- bury, and it was a full week before he could obtain an audience of the poj^e, because the ])ope had been given to understand that he had received the archbishoj^ric in opposi- tion to the monks of the monastery, and against right ; but that which overcometh all the world, namely g...old and silver, * overcame Rome also, and the pope relented and gave * " How fortunate for the writer that the pope and his cardinals did not understand Saxon ! The boldness of this remark might otherwise have procured him the distinguished honour of an excommunication. Matthew Paris has a simihir remark, but less openly expressed, respecting tlie venality of the Roman see: ^ quis nvUi decide consuevit, dinnmodo albi uliquid vcl rxibei inlercedat. An. ]]03. ' Dr. Ingram might have quoted an equally elegant compliment paid to the cardinals, ^^ quorum nares odor Uteri qvastus causa infcecavif.
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