The zeal manifested by Henry to convert all Ireland to the faith moved the soul of Adrian to invest him with the sovereignty of that island. Three important conditions were annexed to the gift. 1st. That the king should do all in his power to propagate the Christian religion throughout Ireland. 2nd. That each of his subjects should pay an annual tribute of one penny to the Holy See, commonly called Peter’s pence. And 3rd. That civil liberty should be guaranteed, and the privileges and immunities of the Church be held inviolate.[420] This clear testimony to the Pope’s belief, in 1645, that Adrian had, by ‘Laudabiliter,’ invested Henry II. with the sovereignty of Ireland can hardly be agreeable reading to Father Gasquet and his friends. IX The Coronation of Richard I The first coronation of an English king of which we possess a detailed account is that of Richard I. (3rd Sept., 1189). It was carried out, says Dr. Stubbs, “in such splendour and minute formality as to form a precedent for all subsequent ceremonies of the sort.”[421] As a more recent writer has observed: The order of the procession and the details of the ceremonial were arranged with unusual care and minuteness; it was the most splendid and elaborate coronation-ceremony that had ever been seen in England, and it served as a precedent for all after-time.[422] It is consequently of some interest to learn on what authority the narrative of this coronation rests. The original authority is that of the writer formerly described as “Benedictus abbas,” but now virtually known to have been Richard ‘Fitz Nigel,’[423] who was not only a contemporary writer, but, as the king’s Treasurer, would probably have been an actual spectator of the ceremony he describes. His account is repeated by Hoveden,[424] who was also a contemporary, and possibly present, but “adds only matter of extremely small importance.”[425] We then come to Matthew Paris, writing some two generations later, who gives, says Dr. Stubbs-- a similar account of the coronation, more closely resembling that of Benedict ... in the few and unimportant places where the two differ. He indicates the common source of information, the Rolls (ed. Wats, p. 154) or Consuetudines (Abbreviatio, Ed. Madden, iii. 209) of the Exchequer.[426] This view was accepted by Dr. Luard (1874), who says of the narrative given by Matthew in his Chronica Majora (ii. 348–350): This account is taken from Benedict. The original source (the Consuetudines Scaccarii) is referred to in the Hist. Angl., ii. p. 8, and the Abbreviatio Chronicorum, iii. 209. See Madden’s note, iii. 209.[427] We are thus referred to Sir Frederic Madden, who, as keeper of the MSS. at the British Museum, possessed special knowledge, and who wrote thus (1869):