[1] This yeare the bishop of London pronounced the sentence of excommunication against certeine vsu|rers called Caorsini. But bicause the same vsurers shadowed themselues vnder the pretext of the popes merchants (as they named themselues) they preuai|led so much by the fauour of the court of Rome, Matth. Paris. Usurers cal|led Caorsini, of whome sée more in pag. 211. col. 1. that the said bishop being sicke and feeble, was cited per|emptorilie in the parts beyond the seas, before iud|ges chosen foorth by the same vsurers, to make an|swer for such high iniurie as he had here doone to the popes factors. The bishop willing by the example of [...]em, rather to couer his fathers shame, than to re|ueale it to the whole world, did quietlie put vp the matter: and with commendable patience receiued the proffered wrong, hauing learned this lesson, that

Gaudet patientia duris,

and to pacifie the trouble, suffered their wickednesse, commending in the meane while the cause vnto his patrone S. Paule. And when he preached of the force of faith, he vttered this saieng:The bishop of London his doctrine. If an angell preach contrarie doctrine to vs in these things, let him be accurssed.