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 504 THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE contributions in a time of dire need. The pope also tried to placate Philip by other measures, among them the canoni- zation of St. Louis, and the king thereupon rescinded his embargo upon the flow of French gold to Rome. Boniface's partial withdrawal of Clericis laicos did not fully satisfy Philip, however, and before the close of his reign he had secured from the pope's successors a complete exemption of France from the provisions of that bull. Meanwhile other causes of disagreement and bitterness arose between Philip and Boniface. The Viscount of Nar- Renewal of bonne did homage for his fief to the king instead the conflict f to the Archbishop of Narbonne as his pred- between pope and ecessors had been accustomed to do, while a haughty papal legate gave Philip great offense by his demands. Since this legate was ordinarily the Bishop of Pamiers in southern France, when his legateship expired and he returned to his diocese, Philip had him seized and tried for sedition, heresy, simony, blasphemy, disrespect to royalty, and what-not. This seemed an outrage to the indignant pope. Moreover, Boniface had been made over- confident of the support of Christendom against Philip by the success of the Jubilee, or centenary of Christ's birth held at Rome in 1300. There had been a vast concourse of pilgrims and a great outpouring of gifts to the Papacy. Accordingly in the bull, Auscultafili charissime (December, 1 301), Boniface demanded the bishop's release and rendi- tion to Rome, where, too, he summoned the clergy to con* suit with him how the excesses of the French monarch against their order might be stopped. He also asserted the /superiority of the Papacy over all kings and realms. Early in this same year Edward I had submitted to Parliament a complaint from Boniface against his occupation of Scotland and a contention that Scotland was a fief of the Papacy. 1 Parliament had completely repudiated the papal claims. Philip now followed this example and in 1302 submitted to the Estates General a garbled version of Auscultafili, which caused that assembly to sympathize entirely with the king. J Philip was thus assured of national support in the com-