[1] [2] Herevpon therefore the legat dispatched Pandulph to Rome vnto the pope as is aforesaid, and the king likewise sent ambassadors thither, as the bishop of Norwich, and the archdeacon of Northumberland, with others, the which in the end so behaued them|selues in their suit, that notwithstanding Simon Langton the archbishops brother earnestlie with|stood them, as proctor for the bishops, yet at length, the pope tooke order in the matter, writing vnto his le|gat, that he should sée the same fulfilled, and then ab|solue the realme of the former interdiction. In this meane time, king Iohn made prouision to go ouer into France (as after yee shall heare) but at his go|ing ouer he committed the whole ordering of this matter vnto the legat, and to William Marshall the earle of Penbroke. The legat therefore vpon the re|ceipt of the popes bulles, called a councell at Lon|don, and there declaring what was conteined in the same, he tooke hands for paiment of the residue of the fortie thousand marks which was behind, being 13000 onelie, as before I haue said.