text:  From this time the Pope's power began to decline in all the countries of Europe so that at the present day his name is read in the _khotbah_ only in the city of Rome and the small territory which is yet left him in its neighbourhood; and the old practice of excommunication seems to have entirely ceased; while the reformed religion introduced by Henry and which is so different from the ancient faith has existed in England ever since a period of above three hundred years