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The legate degraded him from his dignity: the king confiscated his estate, and cast him into prison, where he continued, in poverty and want, during the remainder of his life. Like rigour was exercised against the other English prelates: Agelric, Bishop of Selesey and Agelmare, of Elmham, were deposed by the legate, and imprisoned by the king. Diceto, p. 482. Knyghton, p. 2345.
It is under the form of chartered towns, not communes, that the importance of the boroughs in English commercial and public life continued to increase in the thirteenth as it had in the twelfth century. Ralph de Diceto, ii, 113. Roger of Howden, iv. 46. Round, The Commune of London. Luchaire, Communes Francaises, 97. Articles of the Barons, c. 32; Stubbs, Select Charters, 393.
Appeals to the pope were indeed permitted by that treaty; but as the king was also permitted to exact reasonable securities from the parties, and might stretch his demands on this head as far as he pleased, he had it virtually in his power to prevent the pope from reaping any advantage by this seeming concession. Benedict. Abb. p. 34. Hoveden, p. 529. Diceto, p 560. Chron.
The primate, who, as all the others, had shown fealty to Matilda, refused to perform this ceremony; but his opposition was overcome by an expedient equally dishonourable with the other steps by which this revolution was effected. Gest. Paris, p. 51. Diceto, p. 505. Chron.
William even plundered the monasteries. Flor. Wigorn. p. 636. Chron. Abb. St. Petri de Burgo, p. 48. M. Paris, p. 5. Sim. Dun. p. 200. Diceto, p. 482. Brompton, p. 967. Knyghton, p. 2344. Alur. Beverl. p. 130. We are told by Ingulf, that Ivo de Taillebois plundered the monastery of Croyland of a great part of its land, and no redress could be obtained.
The Norman soldiers, who were placed without, in order to guard the church, hearing the shouts within, fancied that the English were offering violence to their duke; and they immediately assaulted the populace, and set fire to the neighbouring houses. Pict. p. 206. Order. Pict. p. 208. Order. Gemet. p. 288. Chron. Sax. p. 189. M. West. p. 226. M. Paris p. 9. Diceto, p. 482.
Henry, in prosecution of some controversies, in which he was involved with the Count of Auvergne, a vassal of the duchy of Guienne, had invaded the territories of that nobleman, who had recourse to the King of France, his superior lord, for protection, and thereby kindled a war between the two monarchs. M. Paris, p. 75. Diceto, p. 547. Gervase, p. 1402, 1403.
Henry made the cause be examined before his great council, and gave a sentence, which was submitted to by both parties. Bened. Abb. p. 172. Diceto, p. 597. The reign of Henry was remarkable also for an innovation which was afterwards carried farther by his successors, and was attended with the most important consequences.
The chronicle excites less interest in the personality of its author than does its predecessor; is of a somewhat more solemn type, and shows more plainly the traits of the ordinary ecclesiastical writer in its sympathy with current superstitions and its frequent moralizing. RALPH DE DICETO, Dean of St.
On July 6 he died at Chinon, murmuring almost to the last, "Shame on a conquered king," and abandoned by all his family except his eldest son Geoffrey, the son, it was said, of a woman, low in character as in birth. Gesia Henrici, i. 338. Gervase of Canterbury, i. 371; Giraldus Cambrensis, De Principis Instructione, iii. 2. Giraldus Cambrensis, De Principis Instructione. Ralph de Diceto, ii. 55.
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