Origines Anglican Author:John Inett Title: Origines Anglicanæ: Or, a History of the English Church, From the First Planting of the Christian Religion Amongst the English Saxons (till the Death of King John), 2 Vols. 2 Vols. [in 3]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustr... more »ations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 16. The proceedings of the aforesaid council. Pope Alexander puts an oath of fealty on the German bishops. That oath taken from the feudal law. 17. The canons of that council destructive to the rights of princes. 18. That council pronounces those to be heretics who oppose their designs. 19. The controversy betwixt seculars and religious revives. The archbishop of Canterbury represents to the court of Rome the mischiefs of exempting the religious from the authority of their bishops. 20. The mischiefs which fell upon the clergy by their exemptions from the secular power. 21. Some instances thereof given by the archbishop of Canterbury. 22. Pope Alexander's displeasure against the archbishop of Canterbury for asserting the rights of the crown. 23. The archbishop of Canterbury asserts the rights of the parochial clergy to tithes against the Cistercian monks; commands them to pay tithes. Henry II. !. J-URING the stay of the aforesaid legate in England 1176. the old dispute about the liberty of the clergy was brought under consideration; and, whatever end the king and the contending parties for the rights of the two archbishops might have in bringing over the legate, the settlement of the ecclesiastic liberty according to the schemes of the court of Rome seems to have been the thing which that court had in view in sending over that prelate. And, as this appears to have been the great errand, so the chief rema...« less