QUia W Wygorn. concessit relaxare usque in quindenam Paschae proximo futu∣ram,* 1.1 sententias excommunicationis latas in quosdam Balli∣vos Vic. Wygorn. occasione quarundam districtionum quas fecerunt in terris praedicti Episcopi, ut dicitur, Rex etiam concessit quod di∣strictiones quae fiunt pro ipso Episcopo attachiando occasione praedicta relaxentur. Et mandatum est Vic. praedicto, quod districtiones quae fiunt pro Attachiamento praedicto interim faciat relaxari in forma prae∣dicta. Teste Rege apud Sanctum Albanum 25. die Februarii.
The Bishop of Hereford having been the original contriver of all the * 1.2 forged Obliga∣tions to the Pope for great sums of money, wherein other Bishops, Abbots, Priors and Covents were obliged to the Popes Usurers in what vast sums he pleased, without their privity; and the Popes and Kings prime Instrument to levy the Dismes and other Exactions pretended to relieve the Holy Land, like a cunning decoy, caused himself and his Church to be obliged in the sum of 4000 Marks to the Popes Usu∣rers, to palliate his fraud, but yet procured this special Writ from the King, and Bull from Pope Alexander, to reimburse these monies out of the Dismes he should collect in England and Ireland, and to levy them with severity, when as all other Bishops, Abbots, were enforced to pay their forged Obligations as just debts, with∣out any relief at all.