On the back-side of the Roll, [ 58]

Are contained sundry Articles of Advice given by the Merchants of the Staple to the whole Parliament,* containing in effect these here∣tofore named: To abate the prices of the Florines,* to raise Forty shillings Custom in every Sack of Wooll, and to establish the Staple rather in England then beyond the Seas; and there you may see the strange practice for abusing the Staple.

[ 59] The Commons find great default of Provisions coming from Rome, * whereby strangers were enabled within this Realm to enjoy Ecclesi∣astical dignities, and shewed divers inconveniences ensuing thereby, namely the decay of Hospitality, the transporting of the Treasure to nou∣rish the Kings mortal enemies, the discovering of the secrets of the Realm, and the disinabling and impoverishing the Clerks within this Realm. They also shew how the Pope had in most covert wise granted to two new Cardinals sundry Livings within this Realm;* and namely to Car∣dinal Parrigots above ten thousand marks yearly tax. They therefore require the King and Nobles to find some remedy, for that they neither could nor would any longer bear those strange oppressions,* or else to help them to expell out of this Realm the Popes power by force.

The King understanding of these mischiefs,* willeth, that between the Lords and Commons some remedy may be had whereto he might, &c.

[ 60] Hereupon the King, Lords and Commons sent for an Act made at Carlisle in the 25 year of Edward the First, upon the like complaint, thereby forbidding that any thing should be attempted or brought into the Realm, which should tend to the blemishment of the Kings Preroga∣tive,* or in prejudice of his Lords and Commons. And so at this time, the Act called The Act of Provision, was made by common consent, which generally forbiddeth the bringing in of any Bull,* or such trinkets from the Court of Rome, or the using, allowing or enjoying of any such Bull, Process, Instruments, or such Ware, as thereby at large doth appear.