[97]. What these were may be read in the Pipe Rolls, e.g., in that of 14 Henry II., when the Bishopric of Lincoln was vacant.
[98]. See Statutes of the Realm, Ch. of Liberties, p. 5, and Sel. Charters, p. 288: “Salva nobis et haeredibus nostris custodia ecclesiarum et monasteriorum vacantium quae ad nos pertinent.” Contrast the terms of Stephen’s Oxford Charter; Sel. Charters, pp. 120-1.
[99]. Rotuli de oblatis et finibus, p. 354.
[100]. Rot. Claus., pp. 37, 55.
[101]. Pollock and Maitland, I. 305.
[102]. See infra, under chapters 6, 7, and 8.
[103]. Middle Ages, II. 429.
[104]. p. 437.
[105]. The Bishop of Durham enjoyed it, so it seems to be stated in a charter extorted from him in 1303 by the men of his fief (see Lapsley, Pal. of Durham, p. 133). But this forms no real exception; since the Bishop, as an Earl Palatine, enjoyed exceptionally the regalia of a king.