. The age of Hildebrand. sisted of the pay-ment of a silver penny by every family possessing land or cattle of theyearly value of thirty pence. Rankc ascribes its introduction to KingO^a (755-794) ff^r the purpose of paying for the education of theclergy and of aiding pilgrims. This, however, is very doubtful. Lin-gard thinks it is not earlier than the time of Alfred. Gregory Meets his Match. 103 Peters pence he would pay, because his predecessorshad paid it; but they had never bound themselves toobey the Roman see. It was a manly and dignifiedutterance. Gregory had found his match. TheConquer
. The age of Hildebrand. sisted of the pay-ment of a silver penny by every family possessing land or cattle of theyearly value of thirty pence. Rankc ascribes its introduction to KingO^a (755-794) ff^r the purpose of paying for the education of theclergy and of aiding pilgrims. This, however, is very doubtful. Lin-gard thinks it is not earlier than the time of Alfred. Gregory Meets his Match. 103 Peters pence he would pay, because his predecessorshad paid it; but they had never bound themselves toobey the Roman see. It was a manly and dignifiedutterance. Gregory had found his match. TheConqueror kept his promise, but he was not disposedto favor a close intimacy between the Primate ofEngland and the Pope. Gregorys complaints grewlouder, until at last Hubert, his legate in England,was commanded to admonish William and to threatenhim with the anger of Peter. It may be imaginedhow much effect this stage-thunder produced uponthe stalwart Norman. CHAPTER X. HENRY BESIEGES ROME—GREGORYS FATAL TRI-UMPH—HIS HREE legates had been selected byGregory to decide finally the contest forthe German throne. One of these, thePatriarch of Aquileia, turned traitor tothe Pope and detained the others inItaly, so that May was well advanced when theyreached Germany. It was arranged that the busi-ness should be transacted at Wijrzburg, and thata truce should be observed until after the Menry came to the assembly accompanied bytroops in order to force the condemnation of Rudolph,and Rudolph remained away and prepared for battle,so that the legates accomplished nothing. One ofthem, Bishop Ulrich of Padua, hastened to Romebefore his colleagues in order to plead the cause ofMenry ; but besides being already suspected by thePope, he was pubHcly contradicted by a monk, anemissary of Rudolph, who accused Henry of perjury,and was confirmed by the third legate, Peter of Al-bano. Gregory wrote to Rudolph, assuring him ofhis neutrality and justice, and urging liim to
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