Marcarum in quo idem Rex summo Pontifici et Ecclesiae Romanae tenetur quatuor Millia Marcarum sterlingorum per manus Barontini Walteri, Richardi, Gudicionis, & Henerici de Podio de Societate Ricardorum de Luka, pro quatuor Annis in premissis Literis Apostolicis comprehensis & terminatis in festo sancti Michaelis proximo praeterito Currente Anno Domini M••llefimo Ducen∣tesimo Octogesimo primo persolverit, et recognoscamus et confiteamu•• de ipsis quatuor Millibus Marcarum nobis esse promissi nomine a dicto Domino Rege per Manus dicttorum B••tuntini, Ricardi et Henrici pro supradictis quatuor Annis integre satisfactum. Nos concess a nobis per easdem Literas Apostolicas faculta∣te facimus eidem Domino Regi nomine Domini nostri summi Pontificis & Romane Ecclesie Refutationem plenariā de hujusmodi Censu praedictorum quatuor Annorum de qui∣bus praefatae Litterae Apostolicae faciunt mentionem, et qui in dicto festo sancti Michaelis proximo praeterito terminati fuisse noscuntur. In quorum omnium testimonium has Literas Patentes fecimus & sigillo nostro munivi∣mus. Et Venerabiles Patres Domini Godefridus Wigornensis & Willielmus Norwi∣censis Episcopi, ac Magister Ardicio Primicerius Mediolan. Domini Papae Capellanus & in Anglia Nuncius, qui dictas Litteras Apostolicas viderunt, & recognitioni, ac con∣fessioninec, non refutationi premissis interfuerunt sua sigilla praesentibus apponi fece∣runt, ad majoris roboris firmitatem. Dat. London. sexto Idus Novembris Anno Domini supradicto.
Et Memorandum quodistae duae Literae precedentes Liberatae fuerunt Thomae de Gunneis, apud Cestriam die Sabbati proximo ante festum Apostolorum Petri & Pauli Anno &c. Decimo per manum Johannis de Langeton, in Garderoba Regis custodiendae.
King Edward was very backwards to pay this Pension any more, so that Pope Martin the 4th. dying, Anno 1285. and Hmorius the 4th. succeeding, sent Let∣ters to the King, requesting him to pay 3. years arrears then due unto him, which he refused or neglected to do during his Papacy: whereupon Pope Nicholas his Successor in the 17. year of his reign, sent this Bull unto him, entred in the Clause Rolls, requiring him to pay the said 3. years arrears, and 2. years more since incur∣red, intirely and freely, that so he receiving it gratetully, might from thence deser∣vedly commend his Munificence: Intimating thereby, that it was rather a voluntary bounty, then duty in this King to pay it, who thereupon issued a Warrant to his Treasurer for payment thereof, and to receive an acquittance for it; the Transcript whereof I shall here present you with.