163/167 p.44.In the war of Toulouse, Henry laid a heavy and an arbitrary tax on all the churches within his dominions. 232.] [Footnote 18: NOTE R, p.307.I follow here the narrative of Fitz-Stephens, who was secretary to Becket; though, no doubt, he may be suspected of partiality towards his patron. Lord Lyttleton chooses to follow the authority of a manuscript letter, or rather manifesto of Folliot, bishop of London, which is addressed to Becket himself; at the time when the bishop appealed to the pope from the excommunication pronounced against him by his primate. |