1305-06-17, Chichester

Order to pay to John Grandonis, Clarissimi, and Gerard Hugonis, merchants of the society of the Florence, or to their attorney, 1,000 marks sterling, as speedily notwithstanding any previous order, as the king is bound to his letters obligatory in this sum, which they paid to Walter de cardinal priest of the Roman church, by the king's order, his expenses and the other necessaries belonging to the a cardinal, as is contained in the cardinal s letters patent of which they have delivered into the wardrobe, receiving from them letters obligatory aforesaid and also his letters of acquittance for the collectors, which he has delivered to the merchants. Mecords, ili, p. 1115.] archbishop of Dublin. Whereas the late pope Boniface VIII a moiety of the tenth for three years imposed upon the clergy and Ireland by the king's assent to the king, reserving to the second moiety in aid of the Roman church, if he lived so he granted that if he died before the end of that term or if established in the war concerning the realm of Sicily, the should be applied to the king's use; and the king now under- Master William de Hothum, canon of St. Patrick's, Dublin, de Vikio, parson of the church of Hese, collectors of the said Ireland, have superseded the levying and collection of the tenth pretext of vain and frivolous excuses of certain ecclesiaswho assert that they are not bound to pay the said by reason of the said pope's death and because Master de Pecoraria, who asserts that he has been specially deputed and envoy by the papal see to collect the said tenth, has revoked made to them by the bishop of London, and Master de Ferentino, canon of London, the principal collectors . ROLLS. 1305. of the said tenth in England and Ireland; at which the king marvels ; and whereas Master Gerard has expressly revoked everything that has been attempted by him in this behalf in England and in Ireland, as is contained in a public instrument, which the king sent to William and Guy, the king orders the archbishop to aid and counsel William and Guy in levying and collecting the said tenth by ecclesiastical censures and other means that seem fit and as William and Guy shall make known to him or enjoin upon him, and to enjoin all the premises upon his suffragans and others subjected to him, executing these things in such wise that he may earn the king's commendation for his diligence. The king gives him to understand that if the king be satisfied that the money has not been levied with all speed through the archbishop's negligence, he will cause the money to be levied from the archbishop's temporal goods.