BEST ANECDOTE OF THE 12th CENTURY?

`Henry, king of the English &c. to his faithful monks of the church of Winchester, greeting.
`I order you to hold a free election, but, nevertheless, I forbid you to elect anyone except Richard my clerk, the archdeacon of Poitiers.'  Henry II, 1173 AD

This was how the English drew the line between Church and State and I wonder what the American Fundies would think of this?

SOURCE:From Domesday book to Magna carta, 1087-1216, by Austin Lane Poole, page 221.