[1] [2] Whilest all things were thus in quiet, Polydor. Matth. Paris Matt. VVest. Dauid [...] of Wales [...]neth to sub|mit himselfe to the pope. and the king himselfe not troubled with any outward wars, the Welshmen (who though they were subdued, yet could not rest in quiet) receiued againe the fornamed Dauid to their prince, the which for a policie deter|mined himselfe to make offer to the pope to hold his land of him, yéelding therefore yearelie vnto him the summe of fiue hundred marks (as is said) to the end that vnder the wings of the popes protection he might shadow himselfe, and be defended against all men. At length by large gifts of no small summes of monie he purchased letters of the pope in his fauour, [page 233] to the preiudice of the crowne of England, as touch|ing the right which the king of England had to the dominion of Wales, as by the tenour thereof it may appeare, Matth. Paris pag. 880. beginning as here insueth. Illustri viro domi|no Henrico Dei gratia regi Angliae, &c.