A new and powerful motive for resistance was supplied by the French war of Edward III. Parliament and the Crown were at one in refusing to yield to papal pretensions, and the first statutes of Provisors and Praemunire, though they by no means put a stop to the evils at which they were aimed, at least taught the Popes the necessity of moderation. We leave the Church in the midst of a struggle. Exhausted with the burden of the French war, and disappointed at the change from victory to defeat, the nation was inclined to find fault with existing institutions. The wealth and power of the Church provoked envy; its abuses were regarded with indignation. The earliest phase of the struggle, the attack made in Parliament upon the clerical ministers and the richer clergy, brings this volume to a close. The work and theories of Wyclif and his followers, and the effects of the papal schism on the relations between England and Rome, are reserved for another volume of this series. INDEX. Abercorn, see of, 19. Adam Marsh, 155, 157. Adoptionists, 33. AEddi (Eddius), 21. AElfgifu, wife of Eadwig, 46, 47. AElfheah the Bald, bp. of Winchester, 45. AElfric, archbp.-elect, 67. AElfric the Grammarian, 53, 54. AEthelberht, king of Kent, 2-4, 28. AEthelburh, queen, 5. AEthelred the Unready, king, 51, 56, 57, 59. AEthelstan, 42, 43, 44. AEthelwold, bp. of Winchester, 48. AEthelwulf, king of W. Saxons, 35, 36. Agatho, pope, 19. Agilberct, bp., 11, 12. Aidan, St., 7, 9, 14. Avignon, 179, 199, 201. Alchfrith, king, 10-14. Alcuin, 25, 29, 32, 33. Alexander II., pope, 71, 77, 79, 86, 87. Alexander III., pope, 118-122. Alexander IV., pope, 155. Alfred, king, 36, 40, 43, 44, 214. Andover, 57. Andrews, St., see of, 101. Anselm, archbp., _see_ Canterbury, archbps. of. Anselm, legate, 99. Appeals to Rome, 18-20, 31, 81, 88, 93, 105, 107, 131, 137, 149. Archdeacons, 30, 41, 98, 111. Assandun, battle of, 60, 61, 67. Asser, bishop, 39. Augustin, St., _see_ Canterbury, archbps. of. Aust, conference at, 3. Ayermin, William, bp. of Norwich, 186, 187. Baeda, 21-23, 30. Bari, council of, 94. Bath, 50, 51, 82. Beaumont, Lewis, bp. of Durham, 185. Benedict, Biscop, 10, 16. Benedict III., pope, 36. Benedict X., antipope, 71. Benedict XII., pope, 196. Bernard, St., of Clairvaux, 109, 111, 126. Bernicia, kingdom of, 5, 7, 10, 11, 35. Bertha, queen, 2. Bigod, Roger, earl of Norfolk, 175, 177. Bishops and archbps., election of, 28, 29, 64, 65, 70, 81, 90, 141, 149, 184, _see_ Provisions. Birinus, bp. of Dorchester, 6. Bodmin, see of, 42. Bohun, Humphrey, earl of Hereford, 175, 177. Boniface V., pope, 5. Boniface VIII., pope, 174-179, 217. Boniface (Winfrith), 32. Bourchier, Sir Robert, chancellor, 197. Bristol, 85. Brithelm, bp. of Wells, 47. Bruges, conference at, 211. Brunanburh, battle of, 44.