July 1, Avignon

To the same. Faculty to dispense persons of illegitimate not being sons of priests, or regulars, or of adulterous or parentage, and of good conversation, to be ordained, to minister in orders received; salutary penance being at the discretion of the nuncio. To Master William de Balaeto, archdeacon of Forli, papal Mandate to warn and induce the archbishops, bishops, prelates of England to carry out the orders of Nicholas IV. the payment of Peter's pence collected, but not yet to Geoffrey, bishop of Parma, papal nuncio, and which, excuses and appeals, was not paid to William Testa, sent the present pope to obtain it. The secular arm is to be in to enforce obedience to the mandate. [Benedictine edition, 9929.]