Chicheley now became the subject of a leading case, the court of king's bench deciding, of ter arguments reheard in three successive terms, that he could not hold his previous benefices with the bishopric, and that, spite of the maxim Papa potest omnia, a papal bull could not supersede the law of the land (Year-book ii. [Please select]
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The sale of benefices was one great source of royal and baronial revenues. [Please select]
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The benefices of ejected Episcopalian conformists were declared to be vacant. [Please select]
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The hereditary tenure of benefices by lay protectors she did not reform, but she restored the ruined cells of Iona, and established _hospitia_ for pilgrims. [Please select]
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He turned his attention to the Church, and determined to prosecute for treason such Scottish clerics as purchased benefices through Rome. [Please select]
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