REX omnibus, &c. salutem. Licet ad nos de antiqua et approbata* 1.1 consuetudine Regni nostri custodia Episcopatuum vacantium et fructus de eisdem vacationis tempore provenientes pertinere noscantur, Pensantes tamen merita probitatis discreti viri Magistri Godefridi Gif∣fardo, Cancellarii nostri ad Wygorn. Ecclesiam Electi, qui per continuum suae fa∣miliaritatis obsequium quasi à pueritia, gratum se nobis semper exhibere studuit & devotum; Attendentes insuper quod Domus & Aedificia dicti Episcopatus per negli∣gentem praelatorum praeteriti temporis custodiam dirutae sunt non mediocriter & con∣sumptae, ita quod magna reparatione & sumptuosa refectione indigent in praesenti, ad quae idem Electus, qui nostris insistendo obsequiis, gravibus se ipsum sumptibus & expensis propter maliciam temporis exinanivit hiis diebus, non sufficeret fructus prae∣dicti Episcopatus quos in proprios usus convertere, aut aliter sicut placeret disponere potuimus de eisdem, eidem Electo donamus & concedimus, de gratia nostra speci∣ali. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Wyndes. 30. die Junii Anno Regni nostri 52.
The Archbishop of * 1.2 Cassal in Ireland, having through ignorance, not fraud, malice or contempt of the King, confirmed some elections of Bishops made in his province, before the election presented to and confirmed by the King, did by his special Patent under his Seal, acknowledge this his Error (to avoyd a heavy fine and consure) and oblige both himself and his Successors for all time to come, to confirm no Bishops election, till first certifyed to and confirmed by the King, and promised to do his endeavour that his Chapter should make the like acknowledgment, thus entred on