1284-06-20, Baladeulyn

To J. duke of Brabant. The king's especial desire is to cut away matter of dissension amongst all Christians and his neighbours, and more especially amongst those to whom he is bound by any relationship or treaty of love, since the Author of all, loving peace before all things, caused it to be left on earth as a most grateful gift. The king, having heard that dispute has arisen between the duke and the count of Guelders, reflecting that great loss not only of bodies but of souls in the persons of those parties and of their subjects and their adherents would arise, to the loss of all Christendom, from a conflict between such grave persons, has caused A. bishop of Durham, John de Vescy, John de Luvetot, knights, and Master Thomas de Sudington, clerk, his confidants (secretarios), to be sent to the duke to extinguish the embers of discord and to re-establish peace, and he requests the duke to have the Father of peace before his eyes, and