Such propaganda was significant at the time, since papal reform would soon be trying to damage regal imagery.
But those who achieved the highest percentage of benefices were papal nominees, followed closely by royal clerks.
The last could well be what a thirteenth-century author would understand, anxious to show instruments in church as having papal blessing.
For him however, the papal-episcopal relationship, was one of ' unity of subordination ', whereby the rights of each bishop were to be respected and maintained.
There the vigils survived well into the sixteenth century even as their papal cousins had vanished three hundred years before.
The figure of 120 days is odd : it may reflect a combination of episcopal grants, or alternatively a papal grant.
All is well when papal error is manifest.
Respect for papal dignity should rather encourage those who possess charity to correct papal errors.
