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ROGER OF WENDOVER Flowers of history. The history of England from the descent of the saxons to A.D. 1235. vol.2
page 428
A.D. 1220.]
CANONIZATION OK ST. Il Will.
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Stephen, archbishop of that place, in the presence of tinclergy ami people from all parts of the kingdom. On the following feast of St. Barnabas* the apostle, Henry king of England, and Alexander king of Scots, had an interview at York, where treaty was entered into for the contracting a marriage between Alexander king of Scots and the king of England's sister, antl the contract having been confirmed, the king of Scots returned home.
Of the canonization of St. liayh òisfiop of Lincoln.
In this same year, St. Hugh bishop of Lincoln was canonized by pope Ilonorius, and admitted into the number of saints, an inquisition of his miracles having been first held by Stephen archbishop of Canterbury and John abbat of Fountain's abbeys, which circumstance was set forth in the following warrant of our lord the. pope: "Ilonorius, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to all his beloved and faithful children in Christ, to whom these presents shall come, health and the apostolic benediction. The divine mercy assigns a plain: of felicity in heaven to its saints anil elect, and whilst they are on earth honours them with miracles, that the devotion of the faithful may be thereby excited to ask for their intercession. Whereas, we. have enrolled in the number of saints, Hugh bishop of Lincoln, of sacred memory, whom, as it is plainly evident to us, the divine goodness has rendered illustrious by the number of his glorious miracles, as well during his life as after he had put oil' the garb of mortality, we command, and in the naine
of the Lord exhort the whole brotherhood of you, devoutly to implore his mediation with God; and in addition to this, we order, that from the day of his death a feast in honour of him shall be solemnly observed each year thenceforth, (iivcii at Viterbo, this seventeenth of February, in the fourth year of our pontificate."
The capture of the castles of Sanncy otiti Hoekinyham.
In the same year, on the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul.t king Henry suddenly took possession of the castles of liockiiighaui and Sanney, against the will of William earl
of Albemarle. When the said king arrived at the castles to
• 11tli of June. t June 2!ltli.
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