REX Thesaurario &▪ Camerariis suis salutem; Liberate de Thesauro nostro* 1.1 fra••i Iohanni de Kanciae de Ordine Fratrum Minorum Nuncio Domini Papae in Angliam, mille Marcas ad opus ipsius Domini Papae de Anno Re∣gni nostri quadragesimo quarto, de Annuo Censu mille Marcarum quas per∣cipit ad Scaccarium nostrum. Teste meipso apud Windes. sexto die Februarii.
The principal cause of this warrant was (if I mistake not) to procure the Popes dispensation with his Oath made to the Barons for observing the Statues made by them at Oxford, which he sollicited for and received this year, as * 1.2 Mat. Paris informs us, Poenituerat eum jam jurare taliter, metuens quodammodo notam perjurii, misit i∣gitur ad Papam secretè, rogans, ut ab hoc se juramento absolveret, quod facillimè im∣petravit; and thereupon issued this warrant for this years Pension.
After this Warrant it continued unpaid for 7. years together, whereupon the Pope to allure and enable the King to pay him the 7. years Arrears, with a greater overplus to his own Coffers, gave him a Tenth to be collected of the Clergy and Religious per∣sons throughout Ireland; whereupon the King issued these two Patents in the 51. year of his reign to the Collectors of this Tenth, to make payment thereof without delay out of the Tenths collected, which should be allowed them on Account, being the first warrant of this Nature.