The Life of Simon De Montfort, Earl of Leicester, With Special Reference to the Parliamentary History of His Time
The Life of Simon De Montfort, Earl of Leicester, With Special Reference to the Parliamentary History of His Time
G W George Walter Prothero
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Meanwhile the object of Henrys wishes was Critical rapidly falling from his grasp. He was sorely vexed the^"°" °^ by the news he received of Manfreds successes. The country. election of Richard to the German Crown raised up a rival in the King of Castile, and a feeling of jealousy in France which threatened every moment to burst forth into war. This situation of course produced disturbances in Gascony, which were fomented by the Spaniards. The Welsh harried the frontiers, the nobles of the nort...hern marches were disaffected towards the English king and his son-in-law of Scot- land, yet the infatuated monarch would not give up the struggle. He thought to impress his subjects with ^. fait accompli, when in the Lent Parliament of ' Ann. Burt. 388, 390. Such were the demands for the first years income of vacant benefices during the next five years, half the income of non-residents, the revenues of all but one of benefices held by pluralists . (the right to hold a plurality Vi3s, conceded by the Pope to the English Church in 1245), &c.
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