When, two generations later, a more resolute temper seized upon king and estates, they fell back upon the petitions and proceedings of the parliament of Carlisle for precedents for resisting the papal authority.
Not less loud was the complaint against the increasing numbers of foreign ecclesiastics forced into English benefices by papal authority, and without regard for the rights of the lawful patrons and electors.
Not only did they question the papal authority, but they were beginning to argue that the papacy itself was vacant.
John proceeded to extort a large sum; from some he got a full tithe, from others a half, from others again as much as he could extract, while all who held benefices underpapal authority had to pay a full year's revenue.
England and the character of her people, but who does not see that English freedom has been nurtured from the earliest times by resistance to Papal authority, and established by the blessing of a reformed religion?
Nevertheless, the decision of the synod was not all gain, for it led to the submission of the Church to papal authority, and in times of national weakness exposed it to papal aggression.
Church; for they witnessed the restriction of papal authority by parliament, and the rise of a spirit of discontent at evils which existed in the National Church.
Such persecutions, begun by papal authority, continued among illiterate zealots till late times, and, as is well known, were practised even in America.
To this denial of papal authority he soon added a dissent from the doctrines of purgatory, auricular confession, absolution.
It had threatened the papacy, till the threats issued virtually in an ultimatum followed by repudiation of papal authority.
He faced the Diet, reaffirmed his heresies, and emphasised his flat repudiation of Papal Authority.
As marking a final repudiation of every kind of papal authority, Henry, after the suppression of the Geraldine rising, assumed the style of King of Ireland.
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