The National Movement in the Reign of Henry Iii And Its Culmination in the Barons' War
The National Movement in the Reign of Henry Iii And Its Culmination in the Barons' War
Richardson, Oliver H. (Oliver Huntington), 1866-1936
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The cause of the national church and that of the reforming party in the state found here one connecting link. The method by which intrusions were accomplished was no less exasperating than the practice itself. At York, for example, three strangers secretly entered the cathedral and asked a worshipper to point out the dean's stall. Then two of them said to the third as they placed him in the chair, " Brother, we install thee by the author- ity of the pope." Archbishop Sewall, a man renowned for ...holiness of life, tried later to invalidate this appoint- ment and was suspended from his office for his pains.^ The usurpation in this case was paiticularly glaring, but in very many instances an insult was added to an injury. Honorius III. had instituted this pernicious custom ; Gregory IX. extended and combined it with another politically worse. In 1229 came Stephen, demanding in the pope's name a tenth for the war against the emperor.^ The clergy at first refused to make the grant, but a few days later yielded for fear of excom- 1 Cf.
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