The barons and knights granted him, without hesitation, an eleventh; the burgesses, a seventh.

But the clergy still scrupled to meet on the king's writ, lest by such an instance of obedience they should seem to acknowledge the authority of the temporal power: and this compromise was at last fallen upon, that the king should issue his writ to the archbishop; and that the archbishop should, in consequence of it, summon the clergy, who, as they then appeared to obey their spiritual superior, no longer hesitated to meet in convocation.

This expedient, however, was the cause why the ecclesiastics were separated into two houses of convocation, under their several archbishops, and formed not one estate, as in other countries of Europe; which was at first the king's intention.[***] We now return to the course of our narration.
* Archbishop Wake's State of the Church of England, p.

235 Brady of Burroughs, p.34.

Gilbert's Hist, of the Buch.