[1] King Iohn (after his capteins in Flanders had sped so well as before yee haue heard) prepared to make a voiage into Guien, not much regarding the matter, in that the realme stood as yet interdicted. But when he vnderstood by his lords, that they would not go with him except the interdicting might first be released, and he clearlie absolued of the popes cursse, to the end that Gods wrath and the popes being ful|lie pacified towards him, he might with better speed mooue and mainteine the warres, he was constrei|ned to change his purpose, and so comming to Win|chester, dispatched foorth a messenger with letters, sig|ned with the hands of foure and twentie earles and barons, to the archbishop of Canturburie,King Iohn writeth to the archbi [...]hop & the other bi|shops to re|turne. and the bi|shops of London, Lincolne, and Hereford, as then so|iourning in France, requiring them with all the o|ther banished men to returne into England, promi|sing them by his letters patents, not onelie a sure safeconduct for their comming ouer, but that he would also forget all passed displeasures, and franke|lie restore vnto euerie man all that by his means had beene wrongfullie taken from them, and as yet by him deteined.