[1] The ambassadours being brought to a streict issue herewith, by helpe of some of the cardinals found meanes to haue it put into the popes head, how the English ambassadours had commission to vnder|take, that the king of England should obeie in all things what order soeuer it pleased the pope and his court to award him. Herevpon they tooke their oth, that it should so be, and by that meanes they auoi|ded the interdiction. The messengers of the archbi|shop of Yorke & the other bishops vsed the like shift, but yet the same daie the pope did excommunicate the knights that had murthered the archbishop Tho|mas, and all those that had procured, aided, succoured, or abetted them therein. Some write, Ger. Dor. that those am|bassadours which the king sent to the court of Rome, could not be suffered to come to the popes presence,The ambassa|dours were glad to vse a shift by briberie. till according to the fashion, they had giuen 500. marks in reward, and so at length were admitted to his presence.