[1] About the same time also, pope Innocent being certified, how the barons of England would not o|beie his prescript, iudged them enimies to the church and gaue commandement to Peter the bishop of Winchester, to the abbat of Reading, and to the sub|deacon Pandulph, to pronounce the sentence of ex|communication against them. But they could not at the first execute the popes commandement here|in, by reason that the archbishop of Canturburie,The arc [...]b. [...] Canturburi [...] fauoureth the barons par [...]. who fauoured the barons cause, would not permit them. Wherefore the same archbishop was interdicted out of the church, and from saieng diuine seruice, and also being cited to appeare at Rome, was in danger to be depriued of his miter; had not certeine cardinals intreated for him, and obteined his pardon. The arch|bishop being gone to Rome, as well to excuse him|selfe in this matter, as to be present at the generall councell there holden at that time (for he was readie to go take the sea thitherwards when the bishop of Winchester and Pandulph came to him with the popes letters) the said bishop of Winchester & Pan|dulph proceeded to the pronouncing of the excommu|nication against the barons, Matth. Paris. The bar [...] denounced [...]|curssed by the popes com|mandement. renewing the same euerie sundaie and holieday: albeit the barons (bicause none of them were expresselie named in the popes [page 189] letters) made none account of the censure, reputing it as void, and not to concerne them in any manner of point. But now to returne to king Iohn.