Note 18 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)
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His attitude, we are told, proved fatal to the scheme, compelling the king and his ministers to abandon it in impotent wrath. But perhaps his biographer exaggerates the defeat, for the Bishop of Salisbury, we know, had to purchase the king's pardon for his action by a heavy fine, while the Abbot of St Edmund's had to compromise the matter by the payment of a large sum.18 It seems probable that similar compromises would be arranged in other cases where the request was not complied with.