EDmundus Dei gratiâ Siciliae Rex, universis & sigulis Praelatis, Proceribus, Militi∣bus,* 1.1 Civibus & aliis per Regnum nostrum constitutis salutem, gratiam & om∣ne bonum. Cum foelicis recordationis Dominus Innocentius Papa quartus de fratrum suorum consilio & Apostolicae sedis gratia speciali Regnum nobis contulerit supradi∣ctum; Nos ad tranquillitatem & commodum dicti Regni, & omnium incolarum ejusdem zelum praecipuum & affectum habentes sincerum, Universitatem vestram requirimus & rogamus attentè, quatenus assensu grato nos in Regnum admittere, & nostris profectibus & honoribus velitis insistere cum favore. Nos antem ad dicti prosecutionem negotii pro viribus nostris & nostrorum accincti, vobis universis & singulis in omnibus quae ad vestri juris conservationem cesserint, & honoris aug∣mentum cum omni desiderio & promptitudine annuere intendimus, & pronis volumus affectibus complacere. In cujus rei testimonium praesentem literam aurea bulla no∣stra fecimus consignari. Dat. apud Windes. 13. Kalend. Aprilis, Anno Do∣mini 1261.
Claus. 46. H. 3: memb. 14. There is more concerning the same businesse, and memb. 11. dorso, which I pretermit.
The King this year sent these two complementall Epistles to Pope Urban the 4th. the latter of them to absolve him from his Oath taken to observe the Provisions of his Barons made at Oxford, as prejudicial to the Rights and Prerogatives of his Crown, from which Pope Alexander his predecessor had absolved him, but dyed before it was compleated; and not to confirme the Barons statutes if pressed to it, revoking his former Proctors sent to Rome, whiles his Seal was out of his power. The first Epistle runs thus,