SECTION IV. OPPOSITION OF THE IRISH AND BRITISH TO
THE USURPED SUPREMACY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, p.
201. When the Papal jurisdiction was introduced into
the British Isles, p. 201;-first opposition to the Claim of
Supremacy, by the Irish, p. 201;-Sedulius's interpreta-
tion of our Lord's grant to Peter, Matt. xvi. 18, 19. pp. 201
203;-exposition of Claudius, p. 203-206;-of Gildas
Badonicus, p. 207-209;-Gildas probably an Irishman,
pp. 207-208, note. Opposition of the Irish Bishops to
Pope Gregory the Great, p. 209, Opposition of the Bri-
tish Bishops and Abbots to his emissary Austin the Abbot,
p. 211;—massacre of twelve hundred Bangorian Monks,
by his means, p. 213. Further opposition of the Irish Bi-
shops and Abbots, to the Pupal authority, p. 214;-the
spirited admonition of Columhanus to Pope Boniface IV.
pp. 215-218. Further opposition of the British Church
to the Papal authority, p. 219. Welsh poems of Taliessin,
against the Pope, p. 220. Conversion of the Saxons, prin.
icipally owing to the Irish Missionaries, Aidan, Finan, &c.
p. 221. II. Opposition of the Saxon Kings to the Papal
claims, p. 223. Union of the Church and State, strenuously
supported by the laws of Ina, p. 224;-first introduction
of Papal encroachment, in his and Offa's reigns, pp. 224,
225. Laws of Ethelbert, p. 225;-of Alfred the Great, p.
225;-of Edmund, p. 226;—of Edgar, p. 226;—of Ethel-
red, p. 226;-of Canute, p. 226;-of Edward the Confes-
sor, p. 227. III. First introduction of Papal jurisdiction
in England, p. 228;-the views of William the Conqueror
therein, 228. King Edward the Confessor's vision, note, p.
229. Description of the duty of a King in the English Laws
of that period, p. 230. William adopts the Canon Law in
preference to the Saxon, p. 231. William Rufus prohibited
Appeals to Rome, p. 232. Encroachments of the Pope,
during the reigns of Henry I. and Stephen, p. 232. Parlia-
ment of Henry III. complain of the Exactions of the Legate,