[680] Messenii Chron. Episcoporum per Sueciam etc. p. 76 (Stockholmiæ, 1611).
[681] Concil. Londiniens. ann. 1126 c. 13 (Wilkins, I. 408).
[682] Henric. Huntingd. Lib. VII.—Matt. Paris ann. 1125.—Baronius (ann. 1125, No. 12) endeavors to disprove the story, but is only able to offer general negative allegations, of but little weight when opposed to the testimony of a contemporary like Henry of Huntingdon, who speaks of it as a matter of public notoriety, which covered the cardinal with disgrace and drove him from England.
Such conduct was a favorite theme of objurgation with the ascetics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—
Certe tu qui missam dicis
Post amplexum meretricis,
Potaberis ab inimicis
Liquore sulphuris et picis.
(Du Méril, Poésies Latines, p. 133.)
So also, among the poems which pass under the name of Golias Episcopus is one of fierce invective directed against the priests, in which this is one of the principal accusations—