REX E. Thesaurar: & Camerariis suis salutem; Liberate de Thesauro no∣stro* 1.1 Magistro Stephano Clerico Domini Papae, ad opus ipsius Domini Papae, de Annuo Censu, eidem Domino Papae debito, de termino Sancti Michaelis Anno, &c. xi. et de Termino Paschae, Anno &c. xii. Teste Rege apud Westm: 21 die Febr: Anno &c. xii.
The ground of this Warrant I conceive to be this: After the death of Stephen Langton, the Monks of Canterbury gaining the Kings license to elect an Archbishop,* 1.2 chose * 1.3 Walter de Hevesham a Monk, whom the King refused to allow of for sundry reasons, resolving to make Richard his Chancellor Archbishop: Walter posting to Rome to get confirmation and consecration from the Pope, and the Kings Proctors there excepting against him▪ pressing the vacating of his election, and making Richard Archbishop with much importunitie, they could not prevail with the Pope or Cardinals to stop Walters confirmation, or promote Richard, till Habito tractatu detestabili de praemissis, promiserunt Domino Papae ex parte Regis Anglorum Decimatio∣nem omnium rerum mobilium, ab universo Regno Angliae & Hyberniae, ad guerramsuam contra Imperatorem sustinendam, ut eos in Regis proposito exaudiret: whereupon the Pope and Cardinals forthwith vacated Walters election for his insufficiency, and made Ri∣chard Archbishop. No doubt the same occasion drew on the payment of this Pension, being both the same year, and the warrant after the tenth promised, was most proba∣bly seconded with a promise of paying this pension, else the Pope and Cardinals would not have so readily gratified the King in this his importunate sute: which be∣ing fully granted, the King by way of gratitude made this other Warrant for pay∣ment of this annual Pension the very next year, for one moiety at Michaelmas 12. and another moiety at Easter 13. of his reign.