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DOmino Papae salutem. Certam de Sancta Paternitate vestra fiduciam obtinen∣tes,* 1.1 quod preces nostrae solitum & optatum in oculis benignitatis vestrae favo∣rem inveniant et gratiam, novis emergentibus negotiis, pro reme∣dio petendo fiducialiter ad sedem Apostolicam confugimus. Cum igitur dilectos Clericos nostros Magistros R. de Langedon, & W. de Gloucestria ad quae∣dam negotia nostra procuranda necesse habeamus ad praesens ad pedes Sanctitatis vestrae destinare, ipsos synceritati vestrae recommendamus attentius, toto corde supplicantes, quatenus nostrae supplicationis obtentu eisdem Clericis nostris favorabiles vos exhibentes & propitios, in negotiis nostris, quae ad utilitatem nostram & honorem vobis exponent, ipsos libenter audire, & liberaliter, sicut spera∣mus, exaudire dignemini, ut cum ad nos redierint foeliciter expediti; de gratia vestra nobis impensa hilares efficiamur & jocundi, & ad devotissimas Sanctitati vestrae tenea∣mur gratiarum actiones. Teste, &c. apud Windeles, xiij. die Augusti.
This Marriage Treaty and License on which they were sent was countermanded, and proceeded no further, the King altering his mind, and marrying Alienor the second Daughter of the Earl of Province, who was conveyed into England, married to the King, and crowned Queen this year, with extraordinary pomp and sollemni∣ty, as you may read at leisure in * 1.2 Matthew Paris, Matthew Westminster, Holinshed, Speed, and other our Historians.
This Pope was grown so insolently proud and peremptory in this age, by his pre∣mised Usurpations, that he would not vouchsafe to hear or admit the Kings Proctors and Agents, sent to Rome upon his urgent affairs, without most humble suits and supplications to him in his Letters of Credence and Procurations, as the precedent Procurations, and this ensuing Record demonstrates.