ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



asserted that this appointment was merely temporary, and tried to restore 

 Peter. The canons, however, elected Simon, and Geoffrey then gave the 

 ■dignity away to Philip Peytevin, Archdeacon of Canterbury. He thus bred 

 strife with the chapter ; and when he asked some of the canons to devote 

 a quarter of their incomes to the ransom of Richard I, he was refused. 

 Richard was grateful to him for his loyalty during John's rebellion, and was 

 ready to mediate in the quarrel ; but the canons had suspended service in the 

 minster, and Geoffrey, instead of going to Richard, stayed to finish out the 

 fight at York. He placed his clerks in the church, and was liberal in 

 excommunications : the citizens restored the canons. Four of the dignitaries 

 took their case to Rome, and obtained the provision of Simon to the 

 deanery.'" Unable to procure a final decree on their rights of presentation, 

 they accused Geoffrey before the pope of various crimes, including his love 

 of hunting and hawking, which some of them formerly had been willing to 

 overlook. The pope appointed a commission in June 1194. It met at 

 York in the following January, and assessed the damages claimed by the 

 canons at about 3,000 marks. Geoffrey was abroad, and time was allowed 

 him in which to make his appeal at Rome." 



In 1 194 the old dispute about the cross arose with Hubert 

 Walter, now Archbishop of Canterbury. Hubert was at Nottingham 

 on Lady Day with his cross erect : Geoffrey, although he stayed 

 away from Richard's coronation on 17 April, was allowed to have his cross 

 borne before him at Waltham, six days later, whereupon Hubert sent com- 

 missioners to York, who deprived Geoffrey of all his manors but Ripon. 

 At Michaelmas, when the dignitaries came back from Rome with a decree 

 in their favour, Pudsey was called in to remove the archbishop's interdict 

 from the church. 



Geoffrey now went abroad, and found Richard well disposed to his 

 claims. But in 1 195 the king once more seized his temporalities. ''^ In his 

 absence the commissioners published their report ; and on 1 1 June Hubert 

 Walter came to York as legate. The canons joined with Geoffrey's officers 

 in refusing to acknowledge him as archbishop or primate. Hubert did not 

 press the point, but succeeded in promulgating a number of decrees at a synod, 

 and deposing the infirm abbot of St. Mary's, who appealed to Rome. Some 

 mionths later, at Northallerton, he confirmed the election of Philip Peytevin 

 to the bishopric of Durham, left vacant by the death of Pudsey in March.^' 



'° Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), iii, 92 seq. (17 May 11 94). The dignitaries were Hamon, the precentor ; 

 Ralph, Archdeacon of York ; Geoffrey Muschamp, Archdeacon of Cleveland ; and William Testard, Arch- 

 deacon of Nottingham. From the letter of Celestine III to the commissioners (8 June 1195), ap. Hoveden 

 (op. cit. iii, 292—3), it appears that the abbots of St. Mary's and Selby, and eleven Premonstratensian abbots, 

 laid information against Geoffrey, either in person or by deputy. 



" Hoveden gives two separate accounts of the commission and of Geoffrey's appeal at Rome, an. 1 194-5. 

 The sequence of events is made clear by a comparison of the dates in his account. Hugh of Lincoln, as we 

 should expect, behaved with great magnanimity on the commission, and refused to suspend Geoffrey until 

 he had had time to make his appeal. For the report of the commissioners and details of the damage, see 

 Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), iii, 99 seq. 



" Hoveden (fikron, [Rolls Ser.], iii, 287) says that Geoffrey's arrogance was the cause of his deprivation. 

 Letters in his favour were issued by Richard from Mamers in Maine, 3 Nov. 11 94, one of which requires 

 amends to him from the men of Beverley, and the other orders the deprivation of the Archdeacon of Cleve- 

 land arid two of the canons. 



"Peytevin was elected at Durham, 4 Jan. 1 195-6 (G. Coldrnghnia, Hist. Dunelm. Scrifiores Tres. 

 [Surt. Soc], 17). Hoveden (op. cit. iii, 308) says that the confirmation at Northallerton took place on the 

 fifth day after Christmas, 1 195. 



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