[1] In the meane season,A shift to get monie of the bishops deui|sed by the bish. o [...] Hereford. the bishop of Hereford de|uised a shift to helpe the K. with monie, towards the paiments of his debts, by obteining certeine auten|tike seales of the prelats of this land, wherewith he signed certeine instruments and writings, wherein was expressed, that he had receiued diuerse summes of monie for dispatch of businesse perteining to them and to their churches, of this and that merchant of Florence or Siena, whereby they stood bound for re|paiment thereof by the same instruments and wri|tings so made by him their agent in their names. This shift was deuised by the said bishop of Here|ford, with licence obteined therevnto of the king, and also of the pope, vnto whome for the same intent the said bishop was sent, with sir Robert Walerane knight. The pope was the sooner persuaded to grant licence for the contriuing of such manner of shift, bi|cause the monie should go to the discharging of the kings debts, into the which he was run, by bearing the charges of the warres against the king of Si|cill.