Anglo-Saxon kings of England presumed right to appoint bishops

On the Anglo-Saxon kings' presumed right to participate in the appointment of bishops:

See:

William Stubbs (8 December 2011). The Constitutional History of England, in Its Origin and Development. Volume I. Cambridge University Press. pp. 134–5. ISBN 978-1-108-03629-0.

http://archive.org/stream/constitutionalh27stubgoog#page/n146/mode/1up

In the election of bishops the same uncertainty of both theory and practice exists. In the earliest days the kings of Northumbria and Kent deliberated on the election to Canterbury, as a matter of international interest.

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It is probable then that under the heptarchic kings [of Anglo-Saxon England] the action of the churches [to select and elect their own bishops] was comparatively free in this respect, and that the restriction was as a result of the growth of royal power: but that, like all other ecclesiastical business, the appointment of bishops was a matter of arrangement between the parties concerned: the election by the clergy was the rule in quiet times, and for the less important sees; the nomination by the king in the witenagemot was frequent in the case of the archiepiscopal and greater sees, and the consent of the national assembly to the admission of a new member to their body being in all cases implied, on behalf of the most important element in it, by the act of consecration performed by the comprovincial bishops.
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