Besides all this, he seized into
his hands their charters of priuileges made to them by the Saxon kings
of the land, and spared not so much as the iewels and plate dedicated
to sacred vses. All this did he (as some write) by the counsell of the
earle of Hertford.
[Sidenote: _Polydor._ _Simon Dun._ _Wil. Thorne._ _Polydor._ _Sim.
Dunel._ Stigand archbishop of Canturburie depriued.] Shortlie after
betwixt Easter and Whitsuntide, a great synod was holden at Winchester
by the bishops and cleargie, where Ermenfred the bishop of Sion or
Sitten, with two cardinals Iohn and Peter sent thither from pope
Alexander the second, did sit as ch?efe commissioners. In this synod
was Stigand the archbishop of Canturburie depriued of his bishoprike,
for three speciall causes.
1 First, for that he had wrongfullie holden that bishoprike,
whilest the archbishop Robert was liuing.
2 Secondlie, for that he kept the see of Winchester in his hands,
after his inuestiture vnto Canturburie, which he ought not to
haue doone.
3 Thirdlie, for that he had receiued the pall at the hands of
pope Benedict the tenth, whom the cardinals, as one not lawfullie
elected, had deposed.
Howbeit, manie writers burthen king William (who was present at this
synod) for the procuring of Stigand his depriuation, to the end he
might place a stranger in his roome.
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