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THE ALIEN PRIORIES. 307
had another device for raising the necessary subsidy,
and this was furnished by the Alien Priories. He
had begun his reign by restoring thirty-three of
them, reserving the revenues they paid to their
foreign abbeys in time of peace for his own wars.
Twice, at least, Henry's parliaments broached the
question of supplying the royal revenue from Church
property, which constituted a third part of the land
of England. Both in 140*2 and 1405, Archbishop
U'undel staunchly resisted the demand, and Henry
declared that nothing should induce him to touch
the goods of the Church. He should have added in
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