VII. No man who holds of the king in capite, nor any of his chief ministers, is to be excom-

municated, nor the lands of any such laid under interdict, unless the lord king (if he be in the land)
THOMAS I5ECKET APPEARETH BEFORE THE POPE. 217
The next day, Alexander the pope assemblinc: his cardinals iiemyii. together in his secret chamber, appeareth before them archbishop "XlT"
or (if he be abroad) his justice be first consulted, that he may see justice done upon him ; and so, ^ ^ 6').
that whatever shall pertain to the king's court may be determined there, and that which belonos
to the ecclesiastical court may be remitted to the same, to be there dispatched. (Condemned.) °