Note 1238 — Chapter IV · (continued 3)

This deprivation of Herbert by the King—​most likely with the consent of somebody, but we are not told—​is quite as contrary to strict ecclesiastical notions as the deprivation of Stigand by the English people. The Parliaments of Elizabeth, William and Mary, George the First, followed that precedent. I will not speak of the reign of Edward the Sixth, as that was a time of “unlaw” nearly equal to the days of Rufus himself.