5.
*** Walsing.p.206.Knyghton, p.

2655, 2656.
**** Knyghton, p.

2663.
Meanwhile the English parliament continued to check the clergy and the court of Rome, by more sober and more legal expedients.

They enacted anew the statute of "provisors," and affixed higher penalties to the transgression of it, which, in some instances, was even made capital.[*] The court of Rome had fallen upon a new device, which increased their authority over the prelates: the pope, who found that the expedient of arbitrarily depriving them was violent, and liable to opposition, attained the same end by transferring such of them as were obnoxious to poorer sees, and even to nominal sees, "in partibus infidelium." It was thus that the archbishop of York, and the bishops of Durham and Chichester, the king's ministers, had been treated after the prevalence of Glocester's faction: the bishop of Carlisle met with the same fate after the accession of Henry IV.

For the pope always joined with the prevailing powers, when they did not thwart his pretensions.