Note 60 — Chapter XI · THE ELECTION OF HAROLD.[1] January 5th–April 16th, 1066.
Reading edition
T. Wikes, 1269 (Gale, ii. 89). “Ecclesiam ... Rex opere sumptuosissimo fabricatam, amotâ prorsus veteri [this is not true, see M. Paris, u.s.] quæ nullius omnino valoris exstiterat, de propriis fisci regalis exitibus [Simon and the Parliament had something to say on that head], a fundamentis construxit, quæ quidem sumptibus pariter et decore sic cæteris per orbem ecclesiis præponi decernitur, ut videatur comparem non habere.”