. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . in its recognised assemblies, judicative andexecutive, and. though not as a corporation holding common property, yetcomposed of a great number of persons, each holding property. As an estateof the realm, its clergy acknowledge the of the ; as pai-t of theWestern Church, that of the Pope (.Stubbs. Const. Hist., III., c. lH). [- Its opening words, Deal circumspectly (in all matters concer
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . in its recognised assemblies, judicative andexecutive, and. though not as a corporation holding common property, yetcomposed of a great number of persons, each holding property. As an estateof the realm, its clergy acknowledge the of the ; as pai-t of theWestern Church, that of the Pope (.Stubbs. Const. Hist., III., c. lH). [- Its opening words, Deal circumspectly (in all matters concerningthe jurisdiction and rights in things spiritual of the of Xorwich andhis clergy) : .in order to the Judges of Assize.] TffE CnUBCH AXD THE CROWX. 27 1348] itnd later battle of Pope and king over Scottish suzerainty,the ruin of the Templars in 1307-12, and the action of thethurch under Edward II. and Edward III., either do notproperly concern English religion at all, or belong to thepurely social part of this section rather than to ecclesiasticalpolitics. (1) And iirst of all as tn mortmain. Before the Norman a licence from lliu (rown seems to have been. EDW.^RD I. (?nXKIUMING THE .A1.\KCH 8, i:»). (MS. (laml. D. II,) expected for alienation into the dead hand of a spiritualcorpoiation; but the alarm now felt lest all England shouldlieeomo Church property, enabled Edward, in 1270, to forbidsuch alienation absolutely. Land so granted was in forfeit tothe lord, or, in his defaidt to the king, and the original grants in mortmain was made more stringent in clerical resistance seems to have fallen back on legalevasions. (2) The second of Edwards restraints provoked a more Ecclesi-open defiance. Perhaps all churchmen felt satisfied enough j^^^^to be conservative on the land cjuestion—here they held the diction,ground, and were only just withheld from monopoly; but injurisdiction it was time to make a stand. In spite ofH
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