ISBN: 9781130067644

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 252 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 252 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: . . . sees. of S. German, was elected to fill it. He was accepted by the king, but made such a show of reluctance that Winchelsey delayed his confirmation, and the matter was carried to Rome. There Boniface VIII obtained from John the renunciation of his claim, and immediately consecrated to the see a Franciscan named William Gainsborough. Boniface was not content with the substance of supreme He attempt power; he took in both these cases a further step in which he temponUidirectly attacked the kings constitutional relation to the epi-as the n scopate. We have seen that Innocent IV, in confirming the election of Boniface to the see of Canterbury in 1243, had ventured to commit to him the administration of his church in temporals as well as spirituals2. We are not told how this assumption was regarded in England, or whether it was noticed at all. Nor did it immediately become a precedent in the appointments to English sees. Gradually however the form was introduced into the bulls by which Scottish and Irish prelates were nominated3, and expressions similar in tenns but not 1 Winchelsey rejected Orford on account of his literary insufficiency; Ang. Sac. i. 640; Prynne, Records, iii. 919. Cont. Gervas. ii. 200: Rogamus itaque universitatem vestram et hortamur attentius, per apostolica scripta vobis praecipiendo mamlantes, quatinus praefatum electura ad saepff dictam ecclesiain, cujus in spiritualibuB et temporalibua plenam sibi administrationem commisimus, cum benedictJouis noatrae gratia procedentem, devote ac hilariter admitlentes et honeate tractantes, sibi obedientiam et reverentiam debitain impendatis; Sept. 16, 1243. In the letters confirming the election of a bishop of Killaloe in 1253, Innocent IV uueil the form plena tibi ejusdem ecclesiae tarn in . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<