[1] In this while, the lords of the realme practised sun|drie drifts likewise, as men that would faine haue béene rid of the legats companie: but the king did what he could on the otherside (by sending to the pope for licence) to haue him remaine still here, who be|gan now indeed to looke to his owne profit,The legat beginneth to looke to his owne cõmo|ditie. as by way of procuracies and other meanes, so that he got togi|ther great summes of monie, although in the begin|ning he séemed to forbeare, and not to séeke for anie such gaine. Also, he tooke vpon him to bestow bene|fices without consent of the patrones that were tem|porall men, wherevpon complaint was made to the pope,Sir Robert de Twing. namelie, by one sir Robert de Twing, who clai|med as patrone the presentation of the rectorie of Luthun in Yorkeshire, and could not be permitted to inioy it, by reason of the popes prohibition, but vpon the hearing of his title in the popes consistorie, he ob|teined letters [...]om the pope to be restored, and also an inhibition, that from thence foorth no person should be promoted to anie spirituall benefice or church, with|out consent of the patrone. The king and the péeres of the realme vnderstanding themselues to be touched in this wrong offered to this knight, had written in his fauour to the pope, so that his suit had the better successe.