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12 lo. Expedition, by seizing their Effects’tillthey complied. He likewise extortedgreat Sums from the Cistercian Monks.He embarked, with his Army, onboard his Fleet, consisting, according toHackluyt, of five Hundred Ships, atPembroke, and arrived at Dublin , Junethe sixth. Here he was met by abovetwenty (some fay thirty) petty Princes,who came to swear Fealty to him. Af-ter having received their Hommage, hemarched against Cut hoi, King or Con-it aught, took him Prisoner, and thensoon reduced the whole Isiand to hisObedience, as before. This done hemade John de Grey , Bishop of Norwich,his Justiciary, and returned with hisFleet and Army to England, wherehe arrived on the twentieth of August.

In the Yeari2i2. the Pope, whohad before excommunicated King John,(f) finding that the Church’s Censurehad no Influence to reduce him to afilial Obedience, resolved to proceedto yet greater Extremities, and, by theAdvice of a Consistory of Cardinals, for-mally deposed him, for his Rebellionagainst the Holy See. The Execution. an h lyBufi of this Sentence he committed to Philip

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ance> ragement, not only gave him plenaryRemission for all his Sins ; but, by aformal Bull, granted him all Right andTitle to the Kingdom of England, forhim and his Heirs for ever. Philip, rea-dily accepted of the Commission, fittedout a considerable Fleet, and raised alarge Army, hoping to put himself inPosiefsion of the Pope's Donative. He, Je g ordered the Ships, of which this Fleetwas to consist, to come from allParts,and

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pso to take tendesvous at the Mouth of the Seine.Jf-Jjion of In the meanTime,the Princes,his Vassals,and all his Nobles, marched their Troopsto Rouan, where he had commanded his

Land-Army to assemble. King John, 1213.having foreseen a Storm rising, which M ^was likely to break over his Head, was ]f lnaupon his Guard, and had got together raises an Jr*a chosen Army of Sixty Thousand Men, an Ifi is

who were encamped upon Barnham^pfJfstJ'Downs in Kent, and a Fleet, by far,more powerful than that of his Ene-

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His Orders for the raising this Army,and equipping the Fleet, were so pres-sing, and his Threats to those who weredilatory had so good an Effect, that hesoon found he had more Ships and Menthan he could maintain, and was, there-fore, obliged to discharge a good Num-ber of both. His Navy must have beenthe most considerable England ever saw,if it so far exceeded in Power that of theFrench Fleet, which consisted of seven-teen Hundred Sail.

Notwithstanding this Superiority, MJohn, intimidated hjPandulphfhe Po pe’s ^nighton"Legate, who, being just come fromFrance, extreamly aggrandized Philip’sPower, thought it more advifeable to f lt p m ‘ tst0make his Peace with the Pope, upon n r e jtmTthe hard Condition, among many other,of resigning his Crown to him, and do-ing Homage to him for it. All this be-ing done, and John's Submission madeto the Pope’s Satisfaction, His Holinessreversed his Bull, restored him to hisRights upon the hard Conditions before ,mentioned, (g) and enjoyned the FrenchKing to desist from his Pretensions. Phi-lip, enraged to be thus disappointed inhis Hopes, at first refused Obedience France re _to the Pope’s Injunction, and declared, f u f es t0 0 i e ythat not all the Arguments, nor all the the Pope’s In-,Threats in the World should deter him t0from prosecuting the Design he hadundertaken, at the Pope’s pressing In-stances, especially as he had been at sovast an Expence to put it in Execution.

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^ Un -Burton. (/) In the Ann. Burton, the Reader will find

a Dialogue said to have been held between Johnand Pandulph, the Pope’s Legate, on that Occa-sion.

Mg. ? „ R ., (g) A Manuscript Copy of the scandalous In-

Cott; 0 “ 1D ■ ^ruiuent, by which John resigned England andClauds, Ireland to the Pope, is yet to be seen in the Cotton

b. Vm’ o library, and shews, that this King was as base

3°- and mean-spirited in Adversity, as he was proud

and insolent in Prosperity. By this Instrument hepretends; “ That of his own free Will and Ac-“ cord, without Force or Fear, and by the cbm-“ mon Consent of his Barons, (all which was no-“ toriously false) he freely gives to God, to the

“ Holy Apostles, St. Peter, and St. Paul, to the

“ Holy Roman Church, his Mother, to his Lord,“ Pope Innocent III. and to all his Catholick Suc-“ ceifors, the whole Kingdom of England, and all

" Ireland, with all their Rights and Appurte-" nances, (and that) for the Remission of his" Sins, and those of his whole Family, whether" Living or Dead : (He allows) That from thence-“ forth he receives and holds his Kingdoms from" God, and from the Roman Church. (He ac-“ knowledges) That he had publickly perform-“ ed Hommage to the Church for the fame ; And“ had obliged his Successors to do the like, &c.‘‘

But it seems his Successors had more Grace thanto think this mean servile Compliance to a proudPrelate’s unreasonable Demands any Way obliga-tory to them. M. Paris gives us, likewise, a M- Paris.Copy of the Charter of Pacification, and Restitu-tion, the Cession of the Crown, and the Hom-mage done by John for his Kingdom to the Pope’sNuncio.