Compare 1577 edition: 1 This deed and instrument being written and in|grossed, the king deliuered it vnto Pandulph, to take with him to Rome, there to make deliuerie thereof to pope Innocent, and herewith did homage to the same pope, in forme as followeth.
7.1. The words of fealtie made by king Iohn to the pope.
The words of fealtie made by king Iohn to the pope.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 _EG [...] Iohannes Dei gratia rex Angliae, & dominus Hyberniae, ab hac hora & in antea, fidelis ero Deo & beato Pe|tro & ecclesiae Romanae, & domino meo papae domino Innocentio, eiús successoribus catholicè intrantibus. Non ero in fa|cto, in dicto, consensu vel consilio, vt vitam per|dant vel membra, vel mala captione capiantur. Eo|rum damnum si sciuero, impediam, & remanere faciam sipotero: alioquin eis quàm citiùs potero in|timabo, vel tali personae dicam, quàm eis creda [...] pro certo dicturam. Consilium quod mihi credide|rint, per se vel per nuncios suos seu literas suas, se|cretum, tenebo, & ad eorum damnum nulli pan|d [...] me sciente. Patrimonium beati Petri, & spe|cialiterregnum Angliae, & regnum Hyberniae ad|iutor ero ad: tenendum & defendendum, contra omnes homines pro posse meo. Sic me adiuuet Deus, & haec sancta euangelia, Amen Act a autem sunt haec, vt praedictum est, in vigilia dominicae Ascen|sionis ad Doueram, Anno 1213.
7.2. An English thus.
An English thus.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 _IOhn by the grace of God king of England, and lord of Ireland, from this houre forward, shall be faithfull to God and to saint Peter, and to the church of Rome, and to my lord pope Inno|centius, and to his successours lawfully entring. I shall not be in word nor deed, in consent or counsell, that they should lose life or member, or be apprehended in euill manner. Their losse if I may know it, I shall impeach and staie, so far as I shalbe able, or else so shortlie as I can I shall signifie vnto them, or declare to such person the which I shall beleeue will declare the same vnto them. The counsell which they shal com|mit to me by themselues, their messengers, or letters, I shall keepe secret, and not vtter to any man to their hurt to my knowledge. The patri|monie of S. Peter, and speciallie the kingdomes of England and Ireland, I shall indeuour my selfe to defend against all men to my power. So helpe me God, and these holie euangelists, A|men. These things were done on the eeue of the Ascension of our Lord, in the yeare 1213.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Pandulph hauing thus reconciled king Iohn, thought not good to release the excommunication, till the king had performed all things which he had promised, Matth. Paris. and so with all speed hauing receiued eight thousand markes sterling in part of restitution to be made to the archbishop, and the other banished men, he sailed backe into France, & came to Roan, where he declared to king Philip the effect of his trauell, and what he had doone in England. But king Philip hauing in this meane while consumed a great masse of monie, to the summe of sixtie thousand pounds,Fortie thou|sand marks of siluer saith Matth. West. as he himselfe alledged, about the furniture of his iour|nie, which he intended to haue made into England, vpon hope to haue had no small and within the realme, by reason of such bishops and other banished men as he had in France with him, was much offen|ded for the reconciliation of king Iohn, and determi|ned not so to breake off his enterprise, least it might be imputed to him for a great reproch to haue beene at such charges and great expenses in vaine.The French K. displeases for the recon|ciliation of K Iohn with the pope. There|fore calling his councell togither, he declared vnto them what he purposed to doo.