“Your Grace, your best hope is to refuse to be subject to lay judgement and seek justice from the bishops in canon law.”
It was excellent advice but did not allow for the king’ turbulent character, who announced,
‘You may talk as you please, still you shall not escape out of my hands until you have delivered the castle to me.’ Nor did Thurgot take into account the failure of the bishops to support the argument of the bishop of Durham.
‘You may talk as you please, still you shall not escape out of my hands until you have delivered the castle to me.’The bishop’s estates were confiscated on 14 November and on 13 December, to Thurgot’s dismay, an army of one hundred knights marched into Durham and took possession of the castle. It was a fearful time for the prior and also for Kenrick, whose
