XVII. That cardinals, and other clerks, aliens and denizens, reside at Rome, ""•

whereof one cardinal is dean of York, another of Salisbury, another of Lincoln, dignities another archdeacon of Canteibur\', another archdeacon of Durham, another in Eng- archdeacon of Sufl'olk, another archdeacon of York, another prebendary of |^^'^''^^" Thame and Nassington, another prebendary of Bucks in the church of Lincoln : nals. and many others aliens living at Rome have divers of the best dignities and
(1) Ex ArcWvis Regime Majestatis, an. 50. Reg. Ed. tit. 95. (2) Ibid. tit. 9G, 97.
(3) Tit. 98, 99. (4) Tit. 100. (5) Tit. 101. (6) Tit Wi. (7) Tit. 103.
(8) Tit. 104. (9) Tit. lO.').
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(bo NOTES OUT OF THE PARLIAMENT ROLLS AGAINST THE POPE.
Edward benefices in Enoland, and liave sent over to them yearly twenty thousand marks, ///. over and above that vvliicli linglisli brokers living there have.' 4 I) XVIII. I hat the pope, to ransom Frenchmen taken prisoners by the English,
\o-Q and to maintain his wars in Lombardy, doth levy a subsidy of the clergy of
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The pnpe XIX. That the pope, on the vacancy of a bishopric by death or otherwise, ethTiie'"' Tial^eth four or five translations of other bishops, to have the first fruits of each : kiiiir's and tlie same by other dignities within the realm.*
wlth'ihe ■^^' '''''^^ '^'"^ pope's collector hath this year (for the first time) taken to his king's "se the first fruits of all benefices bestowed by collation or provision, whereas money, he never used to take first fruits but for vacancies in Curia Roniana.^ The Uw XXI. Whereujjon it was suggested to renew all the Statutes against Provisors mJniTe '^^"'" Home, and against papal reservations ; since the pope reservcth all the renewed, benefices of the world for his own proper gift, and hath this year created twelve new cardinals, so that now there are thirty, wliere were wont to be but twelve ; ami all those cardinals, except two or three, are the king's enemies.*