REX dilecto Clerico suo Magistro Waltero Scamel Arch. Berk. salutem. Cum* 1.1 Venerabilis Pater O. Sancti Adriani Diaconus Card. Apostolicae sedis Legatus, de assensu nostro Vos assignaverit, ad Decimam nobis a sede Apostolica concessam in Cant. Roff. Cycestr. Wynton. Sar. Exon. Bathon. & Wellen. Wygorn. & Hereford. Civitatibus & Diocesibus Colligendam, prout in Literis suis Patentibus quas vobis transmittimus plenius continetur, Vobis Mandamus rogantes quatinus collectioni praedictae faciend. diligenter intendatis juxta traditam vobis formam, & prout nobis (or ad opus nostrum as some Patents) magis videritis expedire. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Clarendon. 13. die Decembris.
Consimiles Literae diriguntur Episcopo Sar. de dicta Decima colligenda in Dioc. Sar. Teste ut supra.
The like Letters issued Episcopo Menevensi, Pat. 52 H. 3. m. 25. intus, with this addition at the close, Ita quod diligentiam vestram merito debeamus commendare. Teste Rege apud Westm. 10. die Maii.
The Kings Proctors in the Court of Rome, borrowing 540. marks sterling mony, of forraign Merchants, to expedite the Kings affairs there, by his Commission and the Popes authority, obliged the King and his Successors, and the Kings Dismes, obventions, granted him by the Pope out of his Lands and Kingdoms, to pay the same by a certain day, with interest and damages, by this forme of Obligation usually made in those dayes to the Popes Merchants, (for monyes taken up by and for the Pope) who were ready to advance monyes upon such gainfull termes and grand penalties, upon good security.