Note 19 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)

Dr Stubbs held [1870] that he acted 'not on ecclesiastical but on constitutional grounds' (Select Charters, p. 28), though he subsequently [1871] doubted whether 'the grounds of the opposition' were 'ecclesiastical or constitutional' (Pref. to Hoveden, iv., p. xci), and even admitted that 'the opposition of St Hugh was based not on his right as a member of the national council, but on the immunities of the church' (Const. Hist., i. 578).