Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§ 117.¹ But one thing I desire may be noted of this Henrician Heresy, that the Emperor did not take away the old liberty of the Clergy and People in choosing their Bishops: Investiture was not Election, or any determining Nomination, but like our Inductions an after-consent, and a delivery of possession by a Staff and Ring, as may be seen in the form of Pope Paschal's Grant in Nauclerus, Gen. 38. p. 738. [We grant and confirm to you, that you may bestow Investiture by a Staff and Ring to the Bishops and Abbots in your Dominion, FREELY ELECTED WITHOUT FORCE AND SIMONY.] And it meddled not with the Presbyters, but was only a Negative power of freely chosen Prelates induction, who was still chosen by the inferior Clergy and the People.

§ 117.¹ But one thing I desire may be noted of this Henrician Heresie, that the Emperor did not take away the old liberty of the Clergy and People in chusing their Bishops: Investiture was not Election, or any determining Nomination, but like our Inductions an after-consent, and a delivery of possession by a Staff and Ring, as may be seen in the form of Pope Pasohal's Grant in Nauclerus, Gen. 38. p. 738. [We grant and confirm to you, that you may bestow Investiture by a Staff and Ring to the Bishops and Abbots in your Dominion, FREELY ELECTED WITHOUT FORCE AND SIMONY.] And it medled not with the Presbyters, but was only a Negative power of freely chosen Prelates induction, who was still chosen by the inferior Clergy and the People.

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§ 118. How the old Emperor was basely deprived by the three Bishops of Mentz, ¹