Titus: "Quid multa? In diebus eis multiplicata sunt mala in terra, ut si
quis ea summatim recenseat, historiam Josephi possint excedere." John of
Salisbury, "Policraticus," book vi chap. xviii.

[143] "Videas ubique in villis ecclesias, in vicis et urbibus
monasteria, novo aedificandi genere consurgere." The buildings of the
Anglo-Saxons, according to the testimony of the same, who may have seen
many as his lived in the twelfth century, were very poor; they were
pleased with "pravis et abjectis domibus." "Gesta Regum Anglorum," ed.
Hardy, 1840, book iii. p. 418.

[144] William of Malmesbury, _ut supra_, p. 420.

[145] The Conqueror was buried at Caen; Henry II. and Richard
Coeur-de-Lion at Fontevrault in Anjou. Henry III. was buried at
Westminster, but his heart was sent to Fontevrault, and the chapter of
Westminster still possesses the deed drawn at the moment when it was
placed in the hands of the Angevin abbess, 20 Ed. I. (exhibited in the
chapter house).

[146] "Henry II.," by Mrs. J. R. Green, 1888, p. 22 ("Twelve English
Statesmen").

[147] Stubbs, "Seventeen Lectures," 1886, p. 131.

[148] After having congratulated the king upon his intention to teach
manners and virtues to a wild race, "indoctis et rudibus populis," the
Pope recalls the famous theory, according to which all islands belonged
of right to the Holy See: "Sane Hiberniam et omnes insulas, quibus sol
justitiae Christus illuxit ... ad jus B. Petri et sacrosanctae Romanae
Ecclesiae (quod tua et nobilitas recognoscit) non est dubium
pertinere...." The items of the bargain are then enumerated:
"Significasti siquidem nobis, fili in Christo charissime, te Hiberniae
insulam, ad subdendum illum populum legibus, et vitiorum plantaria inde
exstirpanda velle intrare, et de singulis domibus annuam unius denarii
B. Petro velle solvere pensionem.... Nos itaque pium et laudabile
desiderium tuum cum favore congruo prosequentes ... gratum et acceptum
habemus ut ... illius terrae populus honorifice te recipiat et sicut
Dominum veneretur." "Adriani papae epistolae et privilegia.--Ad Henricum
II. Angliae regem," in Migne's "Patrologia," vol. clxxxviii. col. 1441.

[149] As little French as could be, for he did not even know the
language of the conquerors, and was on that account near being removed
from his see: "quasi homo idiota, qui linguam gallicam non noverat nec
regiis consiliis interesse poterat." Matthew Paris, "Chronica Majora,"
year 1095.

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