Bishoprics and abbacieswere rewards of service to the king, the bishops were worldly-minded, plurality was frequent, and simony not unknown.
William Rufus tried to feudalize the church, to bring its officers and lands under feudal law; he kept bishoprics and abbacies vacant and confiscated their revenues.
And Mauger was summoned before the synod, and accused of unclerical crimes; and they deposed him from his state, and took from him abbacies and sees.
Norman conquer, what become of our abbacies and convent lands?
He had the Abbacies of Kelso and Melrose conferred on him; but he died at an early age, in the year 1548.
Henry won much applause at the same time by filling up all the bishoprics and abbacies which his brother had kept so long vacant, by inviting the exiled Anselm to return to England, and by imprisoning William's odious minister Ranulf Flambard.
He also refused to consecrate Henry's nominees to certain bishoprics and abbacies on the ground that they had not been chosen by free election by their chapters or their monks.
The question of election to bishoprics and abbacies went back to the stage which it had reached in the time of Henry I.
And afterwards in the beginning of August he was again at Westminster, and there gave away and settled the bishoprics and abbacies that either in England or in Normandy were without elders and pastors.
Afterwards he went over all England, to all the bishoprics and abbacies that were in this land; and in all he was received with respect.
Its wealth was the least of its advantages, though the abbacies and bishoprics were richer than dukedoms all over the land.
Every churchman of high rank was likely to be a pluralist, holding bishoprics and abbacies together, like Stigand, who held with the primacy the bishopric of Winchester and many abbeys.
Soon after the work of filling long-vacant sees and abbacieswas begun.
Several important abbacies which had been held vacant were at once filled.
Several of the Benedictine nunneries founded after the Conquest owed their foundation to abbacies of men.
In Germany the bishoprics and abbacies almost ceased being ecclesiastical and became little more than political divisions of the kingdom.
Bishoprics and abbacies were commonly sold to the highest bidders by the kings and nobles.
So long as emperors and kings could fill the rich bishoprics and abbacies with their creatures, the papal dominion was weakened in its most vital point, and might become a dream.
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