Following Pope Boniface VIII's bull Clericis Laicos in 1296 forbidding clergy to pay taxes to secular rulers without papal approval, English clergy initially refused to pay Edward I's war tax. Edward responded by outlawing the clergy, withdrawing royal protection from them. Without royal protection clergy were vulnerable to assault and theft. The threat of violence forced the clergy to capitulate and pay voluntarily without citing papal authority.
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