[1] Beside these letters, were other written, and sent from the king, conteining in summe,Sir Iohn Shordich sent to the Pope. the tenor of the other aboue mentioned, and one sir Iohn Shordich, knight a graue personage and well seene in the law, was appointed to go with the same, who comming to Auignion, and there presenting his letters in the popes priuie chamber, where the pope sat, with all his cardinals about him, receiued no great courte|ous welcome, after his letters were once read. And whie? Euen bicause the cõtents of the same misliked his mind, tending to the impairing of his vsurped profits & cõmodities from time to time in this land,

Ambitiosus enim sibi totum vendicat orbem,

Se (scelus) Christo clamitat esse parem.