[1] Herevpon also the bishop of Elie himselfe wrote vnto the bishop of Lincolne and other, touching this matter: but the bishops did neither any thing in ac|complishment of the effect of the popes letters, nor at his owne supplication. And therefore percei|uing small helpe to come that waie, he sought to ob|teine the fauour and fréendship of earle Iohn, and of his mother quéene Elianor. In the meane time, the lords, barons and prelates of the realme, after they had depriued him of all authoritie, and banished him out of the land, ordeined the archbishop of Rouen in fauour of the kings commission,The arch [...]i|shop of Rouen chéefe gouer|nour of Eng|land. to haue the chéefe rule and administration of things touching all the affaires of the common-wealth; but yet so as earle Iohn had the dooings in manie points, so that he might séeme in manner an associat with him, wher|of sprang much inconuenience. For this Iohn being a man (as he is noted by some writers) of an ambiti|ous nature, was suspected to aspire vnto the king|dome: in somuch that he had ioined with the French king, after the same king was returned foorth of the holie land, against his brother king Richard, if his mother quéene Elianor had not persuaded him to the contrarie.