The English Church
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The English Church and clergy, whose grievances against John and alliance with the barons contributed to the rebellion.
This union of tyrants led to another union which checkmated it, for the baronial opposition allied itself with the ecclesiastical opposition.
The united action of two autocrats, each claiming supreme powers, lay and spiritual respectively, threatened to annihilate the freedom of the English nation and the English Church.
When John, during his quarrel with Rome, repaid each new anathema of the Pope by fresh acts of spoliation against the English Church, the sufferings of the clergy were shared by the poor.