Chronicles of England, Scotland And Ireland (2 of 6)
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[Sidenote: _Matth. Paris. _ _Matth. West. _ _Wil. Mal. _ _Wil. Thorne. _ Abbeis searched. ]But now to the matter, king William hauing made these ordinances tokeepe the people in order, set his mind to inrich his cofers, andtherevpon caused first a tribvte to be leuied of the commons; then theabbeies to be searched, and all such monie as any of the Englishmenhad laid vp in the same, to be kept. Besides all this, he seized intohis hands their charters of priuileges made to them by the Saxon kings...of the land, and spared not so much as the iewels and plate dedicatedto sacred vses. All this did he (as some write) by the counsell of theearle of Hertford. [Sidenote: _Polydor. _ _Simon Dun. _ _Wil. Thorne. _ _Polydor. _ _Sim. Dunel. _ Stigand archbishop of Canturburie depriued. ] Shortlie afterbetwixt Easter and Whitsuntide, a great synod was holden at Winchesterby the bishops and cleargie, where Ermenfred the bishop of Sion orSitten, with two cardinals Iohn and Peter sent thither from popeAlexander the second, did sit as chéefe commissioners.
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