[1] But this auailed them not, neither tooke his excuse any such effect as he did hope it should: for those am|bassadors that king Iohn had sent thither, replied a|gainst their assertions, so that there was hard hold about it in that court, albeit that the pope would de|crée nothing till he hard further from his legat Gua|lo, who the same time (being aduertised of the procée|dings of Lewes in his iournie) with all diligence ha|sted ouer into England,Cardinall Gualo com|meth ouer in|to England. and passing through the mid|dle of his aduersaries, came vnto king Iohn, then so|iourning at Glocester, of whome he was most ioiful|lie receiued, for in him king Iohn reposed all his hope of victorie. This legat immediatlie after his comming did excommunicate Lewes by name, with all his fautors and complices, but speciallie Si|mon de Langton, with bell, booke, and candle, as the maner was. Howbeit the same Simon, and one Geruase de Hobrug deane of S. Pauls in London, with other, alledged that for the right and state of the cause of Lewes, they had alreadie appealed to the court of Rome, and therefore the sentence published by Gualo they tooke as void.