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 ADRIAN. that he even confented to abfolve him from the mth he h.id taken, not to fct nfiJe any part of his f.iihvr'b v ill j"<; j. Adiian, i:i the beginning of his pontificate, flood the attempts of the . The fame c-.ir he excommunicated William ki..g of Sicily, who iv iged . territories of the church, and abfolved ifuc pnn<tA It; -; from their allegiance. About the fame time, Frede ic kin of the Romans having enter-id Italy with a powerful army, Adrian met him near Sutrium, and concluded a peace with him. At this interview, Frederic ccnfenied to hold the pope's ilirrup whil/the mounted on horfeback. After which, hisho- lincfs conducted that prince to Ro:ne, and in St. Peter's church placed the impeiial crown on his head, to the great mortifica- tion of the Roman peo.-le, who afTembled in a tunriluous manner, and killed feveral of the Imperialifts. The next year p| 3l;- a reconciliation was brought about between the pcpc and thc Vlt '' Sicilian king, that prince taking an oath to do noining far- H * dtunlv * ther to the prejudice o. the church, and Adrian Granting him the title of King of the Two Sicilies. He built and fortified feveral caftles, and left the papal dominions in a more fl.,u;:i'n- ing condition than he found them. But notwithftandingaii his fuccefs, yet he was extremely fenfible of the dilquiet ides attending fo high a ftation, and compb.ined thereof to hi? countryman John of Salifbury [H J. He died Sf-pt. i. 1150,, in the fourth year and tenth month uf his pontificate, and w;:s [G] Geoffry Piantaqenet, late earl of buried, he at lad tock the mth with Anjou, had, uy the errprels Maul, three great relu trance. But .it'te; fons, Henry> Geoff y, and William, to ihe thron:, up">n a corjjplaint to p This prince, being fenfible that his own Adrian, that the OJth vas forced dominions would of eourfe dffc;nd to his him, he procured ft difpenfatien fromiri eldcft fon Henry, and that the kinj>!cm holme!?, ahlolving him rr- d to render this the more valil, he fienforhismaintenap.ee. G';l NLJJ.-J. exacted an oath of rhe bi(hop? and n':bi- dc Reb. /. r-g!. lib. ii. c p. -. lity, not to luft'er his cntpc :o be buiieri, f H] He allured him, '' that all t e till his fon Henry had fworn to fulfil " former hardlhips of : every part of his will. When Henry ' amuferrent compared v. r 'th ri.i; mil- came to attend his father's funeral, ihe " fortunes of the pop, 4 .c m; f oath was tendered to him, but for fome " looksrf upon St. Peter'-; ci.-rr lo b- time he refufed 10 fwe^r to a writing, the " the moft uneafy fejt :n;' contents of which he was unacquainied " that J.'is cnnv w-i'.h. However, b^ing repioiched with " buiriin" rt "- the icandal of htttng h:s fattier lie un- nal. torn, xii.?.n 1154. I buried