REX G. Sabiensi Episcopo, Apostolicae sedis Legato, salutem. Quia dilectum* 1.1 & fidelem nostrum Petrum de Monteforti, unum de Consiliariis nostris, veritatis pacis & tranquillitatis zelatorem, ad vestram praesentiam destinamus, pro quibus∣dam negotiis nostris reformationem pacis et tranquillitatis Regni nostri contingentibus, vobis viva voce plenius exponendis. Cui super hiis cum ad vos venerit fidem adhibeatis indubitatam, Paternitatem vestram rogamus & requirimus attentè, quatenus Literas vestras de salvo et securo conductu inveniendo ad vos, vobiscum morando, et aliunde receden∣do, sub omni festinatione sibi obviam usque Dovor. transmittere ve∣litis. Teste Rege apud Cantuar. 24. die Septembris.
This Legat not daring to arrive in England for fear of those of the Cinqueports and the Barons, you shall receive an account of his proceedings in the next year.
The Clergy having granted a Disme to the King for the defence of the Realm and Church, by unanimous consent, and that it should be collected by the Bishops, and imployed by the King for the common benefit of the Realm and Church, he there∣upon issued this Writ to the Bishop of Norwich, and another to the Archbishop of York, speedily to collect and pay in the same, else in their default the Sheriffs of the County should levy it, his necessities and the publick safety being to be prefer∣red before the Churches Liberties in this case, though he had an extraordinary care to preserve them.