[1] After this, when by sending of messengers to and fro, aswell bishops, abbats, and other, both spirituall persons and temporall, there could no agréement be made, he directed his letter to certeine churches here in England, pronouncing by a certeine day, namelie the twelfe day of September, a sentence of inter|diction to be obserued through the relme. The monks of Canturburie sore offended herewith, before the prefixed day of this sentence to be put in vre, sent two moonkes of their owne house, Nigell and Absolon, vnto the pope: whose errand when the pope had vn|derstood, he commanded them to returne home, and to obeie their archbishops sentence in all things.