Note 865 — Chapter VIII · THE BISHOP.
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Throughout every difficulty the English kings never lost sight of this part of their prerogative, often as they were deceived in its exercise. A writer of the twelfth century very justly calls it “the custom of the realm.” “Cum autem iuxta regni consuetudinem, in electionibus faciendis potissimas et potentissimas habeat partes,” etc. Pet. Blesensis, Ep. de Henrico II. An. Trivet. 1154. p. 35.