The English Black Monks of St. Benedict Volume 2; A Sketch of Their History from the Coming of St. Augustine to the Present Day (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...10,118, f. 394. have the manor, anciently St. Mary's abbey, resigned to them. Whether the mansion-house, without the large appurtenances of a mitred abbat, will satisfy them, you, that are a far-seeing and skilful man, can best tell."1 But the Revolution brought all these undertakings to an end. In the monastery at St. James's, from July 30th to August 10th of 1685, a general chapter was held under the presidency of D. Joseph Sherbum, a monk of St. Edmund's, Paris. The capitular fathers waited on the king to receive his commands, and he desired that they should not elect for their presidentD. Maurus Corker, who had been condemned to death during the Oates' plot. The king was afraid that, were he elected, it might give offence to his protestant subjects, and thus draw down enmity upon the monks. James II. having secured the appointment of four vicars apostolic, one of whom was D. Philip Ellis, the old questions of jurisdiction broke out again as soon as the king had abdicated. The bull of Plantata complicated matters considerably, as it confirmed the benedictines in possession of all their old rights as holders of the jurisdiction during the vacancies of the sees. To this had to be joined the pope's express command that no attempt should be made to abrogate this position. A letter from D. Augustine Walker, though written during a later dispute on similar grounds, gives so clear a resume 1 Twelfth Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Appendix vii. p. 208 (Rydal Hall Collection). of the arguments used by the monks in defending their rights against the vicars apostolic that we here give extracts therefrom: --"The Roman catholic bishops, only temporary missioners from Rome, without any hereditary right or jurisdiction, seem to fix their hear...