1802.) 
of St. Alban’ss _ On the contrary, nume- 
rous infiances may be adduced to prove, 
that if he failed to FLEECE the holy fathers, 
it was more owing to their own prudence 
and the protection of the Pope, than to 
any want of inclination on his part. 
In the year 1242 (for inftance) Henry, 
then in France, commilfions the archbi- 
fhop of York, whom he had left regent 
im his abfence, to convene a general af- 
fembly of the Ciftercian abbots; and to 
demand of them a fubfidy, equal to one 
year’s income, for the maintenanee of his 
army.* This claim the careful abbots 
thought proper to refit: alleging that 
grants of fuch a nature could only be 
made ina general chapter of the order ; 
and befeeching his grace to recollect, that 
* . 5 . * 
it was inconfiftent with the rules of their 
inftitution to encourage the flaughter of 
human beings, and more efpecially of their 
fellow chriftians. The Archbifhop, highly 
incenfed at their refufal, begged to know 
with what affurance they could in future 
folicits favours of the king? <* My Lord, 
(replied one of the Abbots), we are not 
difpofed to folicit favors. By the.oath 
taken at his coronation, the king is 
bound to maintain juftice; and ought 
not to withhold that from us, which he 
hath {worn to obferve in regard of all his 
fubjects.” —On this occafion a procla- 
mation was iffued, by which abbots of the 
Ciftercian order were, during the remain- 
der of the year, forbidden to attend any 
general chapter held out of the kingdom. 
This injunétion was an impotent difplay 
of Henry's malice; for, Matthew Paris 
adds, they had very fubftantial reafons 
for ftaying at home, (578). Two years 
afterwards, he took a more effectual me- 
thod of making them feel the weight 
of his refentment, by prohibiting the ex- 
portation of their WOOL. (607). 
A.D. 1252. Henry countenances the 
oppreflion of the monks of the Abbey of 
* Archiepifcopo roganti, ut Regem in ex- 
hibitione pecunie efficaciter promoverent et 
juvarent promovendo, in unum congregati 
refponderunt: In quo, domine? At Archiepif- 
copus .- in parvo. Et cum inquififfent Cif- 
tercienfes : In quo parvo ? ait Archipreful : 
Jn tanta pecunia quantum poteflis habere pra 
LANA anni unius.~ Similis fa&tus dicenti : 
Da mibi animas, cetera tolle tibi. 
Non enim pofiet quis alimentorum penue 
riam per paucos dies tolerare & vite carere 
fuftentaculis, quin animam exhalaret, 
Ciftercians—Glue-making. 
3 
Rivaulx, in Yorkthire, by, Peter of Sa- 
voy, an infolent favorite. (832). 
A.D. 1256, Henry made another at~ 
tempt on the property of the Ciftercians ; 
but Ruffand the Pope’s nuncio, who 
was his advocate in this, (*) fucceeded 
ro better than the Archbifhop had done . 
in the former inftance. Henry was fo 
much exafperated at this fecond repulte, 
that he vowed to extort from them indivi- 
dually, what, as a body, they had re- 
fufed to advance ; and proceeded to the 
moft unjultifiable extremities in the exe- 
cution of his threats. By the interce!- 
fion of the Pope, however, a check was 
at length put to thefe diabolical ats of 
defpotifin. (895. 896.) 
In the fame year 4n order was fent to 
the fheriffs, and other officers of the 
crown, enjoining them to refpect no 
privileges claimed by the Ciltercians; 
and to exact the payment of toll, Teloniunr, 
quod vulgariter dicitur Paagiumt) on the 
proctors returning from a general chapter: 
i confequence of which, many, who 
were unapprized of this new regulation, 
were compelled to part with their hoods 
and coats to anfwer the demand. (904.) 
Manchefter, Fuly 8.. DELISLE. 
eee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
i tones following attempt to difplay the 
“art and myftery” of glue-mak- 
ing, is at your fervice, if you think it 
worthy a place in your very valuable 
Mifcellany. The improvement of any 
.manufacture depends upon its eafy accels 
to men of f{cience—and a prudential the- 
orift can never be better employed, than in 
attempting to reduce to regularity, or to 
fyitem, the manufactories that may fall 
under his notice. In conformity to the 
firt principle, I made fome notes whilft 
vifiting a glue-manufatory a few years 
ago, in Southwark; and thofe interwoven 
with remarks on that fubject, of fame 
chemiftst of the firft refpeétability, I take 
* Ruftandus, fa€to prologo fatis prolixo, 
poftulat ab eis, ad opus Pape & ad opus 
Regis, juvamen pecuniare non njodicumy 
quantum afcendit preclum LANARUM fua- 
tum, vel amplius. 
+ Peage, Fr. 
t Nicholfon, Lewis, Chaptal, Hopfon. 
MOLE Cie Pea ats sa ees Ween 
