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ARCHBISHOP.
of Canterbury. He had seen the revenues of the
Alien Priories confiscated and vested in the king
without uttering a protest. On the contrary, he had
himself purchased some of their properties, to the
value of £10,000, for the foundation of All Souls'
College, Oxford. He applied them to a good pur-
for he was both charitable and munificent
At that time the secular clergy were coming into
prominence for the work of education, and Chicheley's
foundation gave impetus to the movement. So far
from condemning the spirit of Prcemunire in its
various expressions, the Archbishop sanctioned the
order in Council which prohibited the preferment in
England of any foreigner to an ecclesiastical benefice
until he had first made oath that he would never
divulge the secrets of the Government.1
Chicheley was an Englishman first, and a
Catholic afterwards, and in this respect the Prime
Minister went beyond the king. Henry the Fifth's
spirit of faith and personal piety would have left
their impress on his reign if he had not passed too
rapidly away, and been absorbed during his brief
eight years with an inane and impossible dream of
conquest. Boniface IX. had specially charged Henry
IV. to remember the soul of Richard II., as an atonement
for having caused his dethronement and death.
Henry V. was mindful of this legacy. He founded
in 1414 Sion House of the Bridgettine Order, and
the Carthusian House of Sheen. The king brought
1 Hook, Lii-'it of Archbishops, p. 68.