coke OF first fruit and ten mich James king degge Pars Couns burn e l black  Com act and monument watson clergyman c c gibson cod note annates primitive  and first fruit be all one it be the value of every spiritual live by the year  which the pope claim the disposition of all ecclesiastical live within  Christendom reserve out of every live and those and impropriation begin about  the time that Polydore Virgil lib cap say no one invention mayor Romano  pontifical to heap open how id quod annal to call qut use entirely much  antiquior be how recentiores writer suspica etannates more his appellant  primos produce One striving vide concilium Viennense quod Clemens quintus  indixi pro book of annuals note coke report er p these first fruit be give to  the crown by Henry cap note hill Edward a at a parliament hold at Carlisle  great complaint be make of intolerable oppression of church and monastery by  William Testa call mala Testa the legate of the pope and principal concern  first fruit at which parliament the king by assent of his baron deny the  payment of first fruit of spiritual promotion within England which be find by  his progenitor and the noble and other of the realm for the service of God  nourishing and hospitality and to this effect he writ to the pope and  thereupon the pope relinquish his demand of first fruit of abbey in which  parliament the first fruit for two year be grant to the king Decimce id be the  ten of spirituality be perpetual which in ancient time be pay to the pope  until pope Urban give they to Richard to aid he against Charles king of France  and other who support clement the that against he and Henry by the bull of the  pope the church of England begin to pay the ten of all their revenue as well  spiritual as temporal to h for year these be give to the king by the say Act  of h cap vide Lambert de Prist leg the Angli c f c all men who to have  denarial vivce pecunice in house svan de his to appropriate the Angli lege to  hand over denarius Sanclo Petro vide ibidem inter law ince fol cap Lambert ib  exposition word money and peterpence Ina king of the west Saxon grant it to  the pope when he be in pilgrimage at Rome Camb Britt p say that it be of a the  west Saxon king that do grant it qure but neither king can grant it but for  himself only and his grant can not bind the subject without their consent