Clement, whereby his power legantine ceased: wherewith being somewhat abashed, [Sidenote: The lord chancellor and earle John are agréed.] he came to a communication with earle John, and vpon certeine conditions made peace with him. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
And so he departed as he came, for no man receiued him as legat, neither did he exercise anie legantine authoritie. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
He is said to have written a life of Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, and we know that he had legantine powers at the opening of the century. ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)
Clairvaulx -- despatched Cardinal Papiron, with legantine powers, to correct abuses, and establish a stricter discipline. ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)
From Rome he returned with legantine powers which he used with great energy during the year 1180. ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)
But alarmed, as well as enraged, at seeing the man whom he regarded as his bitterest personal enemy placed in a situation so convenient for carrying on intrigues with the disaffected papists in England, Henry addressed so strong a remonstrance to the governess of the Netherlands, as caused her to send the cardinal out of the country before he had begun to exercise the functions of his legantine office. ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)
Mary's accession, Charles V. impeded the journey of Pole into England till her marriage with his son Philip had been actually solemnized; but this was probably rather from a persuasion of the inexpediency of the cardinal's sooner opening his legantine commission in England, than from any fear of his supplanting in Mary's affections his younger rival, though some have ascribed to the emperor the latter motive. ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)
Henry, bishop of Winchester, the king's brother, being armed with a legantine commission, now conceived himself to be an ecclesiastical sovereign no less powerful than the civil; and forgetting the ties of blood which connected him with the king, he resolved to vindicate the clerical privileges which, he pretended, were here openly violated. ❋ David Hume (1743)
The latter was a Frenchman of mean birth, and of a violent character; who by art and address had insinuated himself into favor, whom Richard had created chancellor, and whom he had engaged the pope also to invest with the legantine authority, that, by centring every kind of power in his person, he might the better insure the public tranquillity. ❋ David Hume (1743)
Canterbury, attempted another innovation, favorable to ecclesiastical and papal power: in the king's absence, he summoned, by his legantine authority, a synod of all the English clergy, contrary to the inhibition of Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, the chief justiciary; and no proper censure was ever passed on this encroachment, the first of the kind, upon the royal power. ❋ David Hume (1743)
Becket had obtained from the pope a legantine commission over England; and in virtue of that authority, which admitted of no appeal, he summoned the bishops of London, Salisbury, and others to attend him, and ordered, under pain of excommunication, the ecclesiastics, sequestered on his account, to be restored in two months to all their benefices. ❋ David Hume (1743)
III. had mounted the papal throne; the bishop of Winchester was deprived of the legantine commission, which was conferred on Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, the enemy and rival of the former legate. ❋ David Hume (1743)
An indiftment was laid againft him; that, contrary to a ftatute of Richard II. commonly called the flatute of pro - vifors, he had procured bulls from Rome, particu - larly one invefling him with the legantine pov/er, which he had exercifed with very extenfive autho - rity. ❋ Unknown (1796)
The truth is, the pontiff was brought into a better temper by fome late events, which turned his regard from tfe French toward the Spaniards, and the ftorm againft Pole blew ovtv entirely, 'by a peace that was concluded this year, between his holinefs arid Philip, in one of the fecret articles of which, it was uipulated, that our cardinal ihould be reftored to his legantine powers. ❋ Unknown (1791)
About this time Theobald archbishop of Canturburie departed this life, after he had gouerned that sée the space of 22. yeares, who at his going to Rome, and receipt of the pall of pope Innocent the second, was also created legat of the see apostolike, which office he exercised so diligentlie, and so much to the auaile of the church, [Sidenote: The power legantine anexed to Cant. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
Skelton's satire against Wolsey is noticed by our chronicler Hall: "In this season, the cardinal, by his power legantine, dissolved the convocation at Paul's, called by the Archbishop of Canterbury; and called him and all the clergy to his convocation to ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)
Longchamp, presumptuous in his nature, elated by the favor which he enjoyed with his master, and armed with the legantine commission, could not submit to an equality with the bishop of Durham: he even went so far as to arrest his colleague, and to extort from him a resignation of the earldom of Northumberland, and of his other dignities, as the price of his liberty. [ ❋ David Hume (1743)
