[1] [2] King Henrie held his Christmas at Windsor, and about the feast of the conuersion of saint Paule he came to Northampton, Anno Reg. 22. 1176 & after the mortalitie was well ceassed,A parlement at North|hampton. he called a parlement, whereat was pre|sent a deacon cardinall intituled of S. Angelo, being sent into England as a legat from the pope, to take order in the controuersies betwixt the two archbi|shops of Canturburie and Yorke. This cardinall whose name was Hugh Petro Lion, assembled in the same place a conuocation or synod of the bishops and cleargie, Matth. Paris. as well of England as Scotland: in which conuocation, after the ceassing of certeine strifes and decrées made as well concerning the state of common-wealth, as for the honest behaui|our of mans life, the cardinall consented that (accor|ding as by the kings lawes it was alreadie ordei|ned) all maner of persons within the sacred orders of the cleargie,An act against preests that were hunters. which should hunt within the kings grounds and kill any of his deare, should be conuen|ted and punished before a temporall iudge. Which li|bertie granted to the king, did so infringe the immu|nitie which the cleargie pretended to haue within this realme, that afterwards in manie points, préests were called before temporall iudges, and punished for their offenses as well as the laitie, though they haue grudged indéed and mainteined that they had wrong therein, as they that would be exempted and iudged by none, Polydor. except by those of their owne order.