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

The next year the Clergy were called again, 1256. Rustandus the Legate said, All Churches are the Popes: Leonard the Prolocut r• answered, yes, to defend;¹ not to enjoy and appropriate; as we say, All things are the Prince's; that is to defend; and not to disperse; And this was the intent of the founders. The Legate angry at this answer, commanded that henceforth without a Prolocutor every man should speak for himself, that they might be known; which astonished and silenced all. He commanded them to subscribe a Lie, that they had received such sums of money of foreign Merchants and Usurers; which they said, it wa• good Martyrdom to die for the refusing of. Pag. 920.

The next year the Clergy were called again, 1256. Rustandus the Legate said, All Churches are the Popes: Leonard the Prolocut r• answered, yes, to defend;¹ not to enjoy and appropriate; as we say, All things are the Prince's; that is to defend; and not to disperse; And this was the intent of the founders. The Legate angry at this answer, commanded that henceforth without a Prol•cutor every man should speak for himself, that they might be known; which astonished and silenced all. He commanded them to subscribe a Lie, that they had received such sums of money of forreign Merchants and Vsurers; which they said, it wa• good Martyrdome to die for the refusing of. Pag. 920.

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Here is annexed by M. Paris, A charter of King John confirmed by Pope Innocent 3d. ordering that all Bishops be freely elected without the Kings hinderance by the Church vacant, and cursing all that otherwise come in, pag. 921.