[1] [2] The archbi|shop refuseth to come to the court.Manie other misdemeanors was the archbishop charged with towards the king in that letter, as ma|liciouslie slandering the king for vniust oppression of the people, confounding the cleargie, and greeuing the church with exactions, leuies of monie, tolles and [...]allages. Therefore, sith he went about to slander the kings roiall authoritie, to defame his seruants, to stirre rebellion among the people, and to withdraw the deuotion and loue of the earles, lords, and great men of the lan [...] from the king: his highnesse decla|red, that he meant to prouide for the integritie & pre|seruation of his good name (whereof it is said trulie,

Dulcius est aere pretiosum nomen hab [...]re.)

and to meet with the archbishops malice. And here|with diuerse things were rehersed to the archbishops reproch, which he should doo, procure, and suffer to be doone, by his euill and sinister counsell, whilest he had the rule of the realme in his hands vnder the king: wherein he had shewed himselfe not onelie an accep|tor of gifts, but also of persons, in gratifieng diuerse that nothing had deserued sundrie waies foorth, and presuming to doo rashlie manie other things to the detriment of the kings roiall state, and hurt of his regall dignitie, and to no small damage of the peo|ple, abusing the authoritie and office to him commit|ted, so that if he persisted in his obstinate wilfulnesse, and rebellious contumacie, the king by those his let|ters signified, that he meant to declare it more appa|rantlie in due time and place, and therefore comman|ded the said deane and chapiter of Paules, to publish all those things openlie, in places where they thought conuenient, according to their wisedome giuen to them by God, so as he might haue cause to commend therein their carefull diligence. ¶ This letter was dated at Westminster the tenth of Februarie, in the fifteenth yeare of his reigne ouer England, and se|cond ouer France.