[1] There be that write, that the king sent ambassa|dours twice vnto the pope, Matth. Paris. for the first that went, could not come to his presence, nor be suffered to de|clare their message: those that were sent the second time, were receiued of some of the cardinals, but yet onelie with words without anie other way of freend|lie interteinement. At length, when the feast of Ea|ster drew néere, on the which either absolution or ex|communication was to be denounced against eue|rie man, there were certeine of the cardinals which gaue intelligence to the English ambassadours, that the pope by aduice of the colledge, meant on the thursdaie before Easter daie to declare the sentence of interdiction against the king of England, and a|gainst all his dominions, and to confirme that which had beene alreadie pronounced against Richard the archbishop of Yorke, and the other bishops his com|plices.