Ebook Collins's Peerage of England

This Jerome, one Sunday in Lent, heating a monk in a church exclaiming against the murder occasioned by his ancestor, rushed in upon him, and slew him; for which rash act he was excommunicated by the archbishop, from which he could not be absolved at any rate; so he went to Rome, where he obtained absolution, with this injunction, viz To hear, in the monastery of Canterbury, mass publicly on a Sunday; then to ask first ofthe archbishop, and then of the monks, pardon then to be absolved, and receive the sacrament, and to give to the convent two pieces of gold, as the fruit of his repentance, and for the souls of his ancestors.' He afterwards became a benefactor, by new building, at his own charge, their church, by which (as my author saith) he much impaired his fortune on earth, but by it he obtained a g1eater in heaven.