In England from Wicliffe to Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

entered, he, Henry, would be but half a king; that
the legate-a-latere was the Pope in all but the name;
that he would bring with him the Pope's power in
all but its plenitude; that the chair of the legate
would eclipse the throne of the king; that the courts
of the legate would override the courts of
Westminster Hall; that the legate would assume the
administration of all the Church property in the
kingdom; that he would claim the right of
adjudicating upon all causes in which, by any
pretext, it could be made appear that the Church
had interest; in short, that the legate-a-latere would,
divide the allegiance of the subjects between the
English crown and the Roman tiara, reserving the
lion's share to his master.
Henry V. was not the man to fill the place of
lieutenant while another was master in his
kingdom. Winchester had to give way; as the
representative of Rome's majesty the Pope's other
self–he must not tread the English sod while Henry
lived. But in the next reign, after a visit to Rome,
the bishop returned in the full investiture of the
legatine power (1428). He intimated his
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