![]() Being now absolute and immediate Lord over all, he endeavours to convert the Profits of both Kingdoms to his own Use so that Prince and People were hereby reduced to very great Poverty and Servitude. And having upon the matter made Conquest over more than half the Kingdom, in the Times of King John, and Henry the Third, sets on for the whole, and obtains of King John an absolute Surrender of England and Ireland unto his Holi∣ness, which were granted back again by him to the King, to hold of the Church of Rome, in Fee-farm and Vassalage. ![]() The Bishop of Rome is now over all Ec∣clesiastical Persons and Causes, even in these Dominions, Su∣preme Head. In Henry the Second's Days, the Pope gets the Clergy, and Spiritual Persons, exempted from Secular Powers. King Stephen grants, that Appeals be made to the Court of Rome. Henry the First, after much Contest, yields to the Pope the Patrona∣ges and Donations of Bishopricks, and all other Ecclesiastical Benefices it being decreed at Rome, that no Lay-Person should give any Ecclesiastical Charge. By William the Conqueror, Legates from the Pope, to hear and determine Ecclesiastical Causes, were admitted. For many Years there hath been a Contest about Juris∣diction and Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Matters, between the Bishop of Rome, and the Kings of England who hath got ground herein, according as our Princes were found more weak, necessitous, or devoted to his Holiness.
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