Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 91
ad arisenbetween the King and the barons, it was necessary that theabbot of St. Edmundsbury should be blessed without de-lay, and so put himself in a position to act with otherecclesiastics with full abbatial power should events sodemand. It was on May 17, after his benediction atRochester, that… … THE ABBOT S BRIDGE, BURY ST. EDMUNDS BURY ST. EDMUNDS cussions were already in progress between the King andhis barons, which issued in the granting and proclamationof the Great Charter. Hugh de Northwold, the bishop,died in 1254; and the historian, Matthew of Paris, whomust have known him well,…
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