sentences:  The historian Henry Mayr-Harting sees the case against the abbey as the lone exception in Hilary's long career of support for the royal position against the papacy, and argues that the only reason Hilary opposed the king in this respect was that it was Hilary's own rights as a diocesan bishop that were being flouted.Mayr-Harting also suggests that Theobald of Bec was supporting Hilary's efforts to assert Chichester's rights.The historian Nicholas Vincent argues that the entire basis of this account, which ultimately rests on the "Chronicle of Battle Abbey", is part of the forgeries produced by the Battle monks.