DOmino Papae Salutem. Dilectos & fideles nostros Magistrum Stephanum de* 1.1 Lucy, & G. de Crancumb. Militem, Constituimus Procuratores in Curia vestra, ad impetrandum et contradicendum. In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras Patentes fieri fecimus, duraturas usque ad festum sancti Johannis Bap∣tistae Anno, &c. Octavo. Teste meipso apud London. Duodecimo die Decembris coram H. de Burg. Justiciario & Bathonensi & Saresburiensi Episcopis.
King John had granted a Pension of 50. Marks by the year to Stephen a Cardinal in Rome, to promote his affairs there: King Henry the 3d. withdrew it, where∣upon Pope Honorius sent this impotunate Bull to the King, to continue this pension to him for the good service he had done his father and him, and which he might do him for the future, with menaces to crosse him in his designes and proceed ri∣gorously against him, if he refused to continue this salary. By which we may clearly discern, that our Kings could do nothing at Rome in their affairs, but by grant∣ing pensions and mony both to the Pope and Cardinals.