À.D.1232. HENBY ATTENDS THE FESTIVAL OP THE NATITITY. 163 none of them, five thousand marks of silver, which was nearly all that he had left after his past losses. Richard, archbishop of Canterbury, being dead, the monks of Canterbury determined with one accord to demand as his successor, Radulph de Neville, bishop of Chichester, and chancellor of the king, because he was very faithful to both king and kingdom, and an unshaken pillar of the truth. But after this demand of theirs was intimated and made known to the lord pope, he having made a diligent inquiry of master Simon de Langton into the character of the man, fearing the zeal of that faithful man, lest he should hereafter endeavour to deliver the kingdom of England, which he loved with a sincere heart, from the yoke of tribute under which it was bound, made them answer that he was a man hasty in word and presumptuous, and not such as to be worthy of such pre-eminence. And that the monks might be the more willing to abandon their proposal, he hardly granted them permission to elect or demand any other archbishop they chose. About the same time, some persons whom the intolerable yoke of the Romans oppressed above measure, having by some means or other obtained letters from the king, carried off the corn belonging to the Romans, and took in a hostile manner a Roman of the name of Cintine, a canon of the church of Saint Paul's, in London, and after a few days, they allowed him to depart, after having stripped him of everything. But when this conduct came to the knowledge of the king, by the pope's making a complaint of it, he attributed the whole of the guilt to Hubert, the justiciary ; and from that time forth, as if some one of the Romans had been his brother, he persecuted most mercilessly Hubert, the justiciary, who had often powerfully assisted the king himself in many of his troubles about obtaining the kingdom, as the following history will deduce to those who are inclined to read it. Master John Bland is elected archbishop of Canterbury, the election of the former John having been annulled. Hubert de Burgh is exposed to great persecution. AD. 1232. Henry the Third, king of England, at the festival of the Nativity of our Lord, was at Winchester,and Peter, the bishop of that city, provided both the king and his train with all things necessary, and gave them garments suited to