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Examples whereof, albeit in number infinite,¹ may easily and readily •ee vouched, if out of France, Germany, Sicily, Austria, •e would reckon up all, and every particular King and Emper•ur• bearing the names of Phillip, Lewis, Otto, Henry, Frederick as we might: yet passing over for this present foreign princes, we will content ourselves with a brief Catalogue taken out of our nati•e Country Monuments, such as shall suffice for this present purpose.² William of Normandy, wearing the Cro•n of this land .500. years ago or very near thereabouts, this Romish tyrannical Hierarchy (whereof I spake before) began too grow somewhat more lofty then before, against whose haughty arrogancy Henry the first of that name,³ a learned and puissant Prince of courage, began somewhat to bend his brows. After whose death his successor Henry the second did set himself against the Pope,⁴ in more forcible ma•er. But Pandol• the Popes Legate forthwith qualified the king. Not long after succeeded John king of England,⁵ who was much more eagerly sharpened against the Pope: but this force prevailed nothing at all. After them reigned Henry the third of that name,⁶ who mightily laboured to stay the Romish money markets exceeding all measure and mean within his own kingdoms. This was a worthy enterprise certes, well beseeming the nobleness of a most worthy king. But the insatiable pride of the Pope gate the upper hand notwithstanding.⁷