[1] But here (to stay a litle with temporall affaires) it shall not be amisse to rehearse the effect of a conten|tion, which fell about this time betwéene that king and the archbishop of Canturburie. For so it happe|ned (as Geruasius Dorobernensis writeth) that pope Eugenius came this yeare into France, Ger. Dor. about the middest of Lent, and afterward held a synod or coun|cell at Rhemes: wherevnto Theobald archbishop of Canturburie, with others of the English bishops were summoned. The archbishop therevpon asking licence of the king, & not obteining it, found meanes to steale awaie in a small bote, not without danger of his person.