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115 HISTORY OF
appears to have disgraced them on the present occasion. Hugezun, the pope's
legate, having, it seems, summoned a synod of all the bishops of England to meet at
Westminster, the Archbishop of Canterbury seated himself on the right hand of
the legate; upon which his brother of York, coming into the assembly with every
mark of anger and disappointment, placed himself in his lap. This, it seems,
exasperated the bishops who sat near him to so great a degree, that they plucked the
Archbishop of York from his seat with indignation, and treated him so rudely
both with their hands and their feet, nay, with sticks and staves, that had not the
Archbishop of Canterbury interposed, and rescued him from their resentment, the
consequences might have been fatal. At length, an end was put to the dispute, at
least for some time; as, by the intercession of Henry, it was agreed between the
two archbishops, that all their animosities should cease for five years, till the
pleasure of the pope could be known. In the fourth year after, the affair seems
to have been decided rather in favour of the see of York; as Pope Alexander
determined that neither metropolitan should claim precedency of the other, but
from the seniority of his ordination*.
Little is known of the transactions of Walter while he was Abbot of
Westminster-}-. He appears, however, to have practised too ready a compliance
in granting the estates of the church in fee-farm. The manor of Denham, in the
county of Bucks; the tithes of Boleby, in Lincolnshire; the church of St.
Alban, in Wood-street; what the abbey possessed in Staining-lane and Friday-
street ; and the manor of Paglesham, in Essex, were granted by him.
He appears to have felt a very great solicitude to perpetuate his memory by
an anniversary festival, and accordingly ordered one of a more pompous character
* Decern Scriptores, col. 588.—Hugo Petri Leonis.—Ibidem, coL 582„
* Flete,
appears to have disgraced them on the present occasion. Hugezun, the pope's
legate, having, it seems, summoned a synod of all the bishops of England to meet at
Westminster, the Archbishop of Canterbury seated himself on the right hand of
the legate; upon which his brother of York, coming into the assembly with every
mark of anger and disappointment, placed himself in his lap. This, it seems,
exasperated the bishops who sat near him to so great a degree, that they plucked the
Archbishop of York from his seat with indignation, and treated him so rudely
both with their hands and their feet, nay, with sticks and staves, that had not the
Archbishop of Canterbury interposed, and rescued him from their resentment, the
consequences might have been fatal. At length, an end was put to the dispute, at
least for some time; as, by the intercession of Henry, it was agreed between the
two archbishops, that all their animosities should cease for five years, till the
pleasure of the pope could be known. In the fourth year after, the affair seems
to have been decided rather in favour of the see of York; as Pope Alexander
determined that neither metropolitan should claim precedency of the other, but
from the seniority of his ordination*.
Little is known of the transactions of Walter while he was Abbot of
Westminster-}-. He appears, however, to have practised too ready a compliance
in granting the estates of the church in fee-farm. The manor of Denham, in the
county of Bucks; the tithes of Boleby, in Lincolnshire; the church of St.
Alban, in Wood-street; what the abbey possessed in Staining-lane and Friday-
street ; and the manor of Paglesham, in Essex, were granted by him.
He appears to have felt a very great solicitude to perpetuate his memory by
an anniversary festival, and accordingly ordered one of a more pompous character
* Decern Scriptores, col. 588.—Hugo Petri Leonis.—Ibidem, coL 582„
* Flete,