[1] In the same yeare also, Thom. Wals. frier Iohn Lisle bishop of [page 392] Elie,The bishop of Elie. being (as he tooke it) somewhat wronged by the ladie Blanch de Wake, and other that were of hir counsell, when the last yeare against the kings will vnto the popes court, where exhibiting his com|plaint, he caused the pope to excommunicate all his aduersaries, sending to the bishop of Lincolne and o|ther of the cleargie, that if they knew any of them so excommunicated to be dead and buried, they should draw them out of their graues:Excommuni|cation. which was doone. And bicause some of those that were excommunica|ted were of the kings councell, the king tooke such displeasure therewith, that he gréeuouslie disquieted the prelats. Wherevpon there were sent from the court of Rome on the behalfe of the bishop of Elie, certeine persons, which being armed, met the bishop of Rochester lord treasuror, deliuering to him letters from the pope, the contents of the which were not knowen, and foorthwith they shranke awaie: but the kings seruants made such pursute after them, that some of them they tooke,Such as de|liuered the popes letters hanged. and bringing them before the kings iustices, vpon their arreignement they were condemned, and suffered death on the gallowes.