[1] In an assemblie of all the bishops of England, all those were excommunicate in solemne wise, with candels light, and other such ceremonies, which had either giuen commandement, or were present as partakers, to pull out of the church the archbishop of Yorke, or his people by violence, and had imprisoned them in maner (as before yée haue heard:) but this was after the archbishop was set at libertie, as shuld appeare by Matthew Paris, for the chancellour repen|ting himselfe (though now too late) of his cruell dea|ling against the archbishop of Yorke, wherewith he had kindled such a brand against him, commanded the said archbishop (namelie at the instant sute of the bishop of London, or rather at the commandement of earle Iohn, as Houeden saith) to be set at libertie. But the displeasure once kindled in the hearts of the Nobles, could not so easilie be quenched with his de|liuerie, as it was spéedilie set on fire by his imprison|ment, so that they being now in armour, purposed to abate the pride of the chancellour, and to deliuer the common-wealth of such an vglie tyrant. And to be|gin, they summoned and assigned him a peremptorie day to appeare at Reading, R. Houed. The chancel|lour summo|ned to appeare to make answer vnto such iniuries as he had doone against the archbishop of Yorke, and the bishop of Durham, sithens the de|parture of his souereigne lord the king.