[1] [2] The king forthwith not onelie granted his letter, but made the bishop tarie vntill the same was writ|ten, and his hand and signet set therevnto, and com|manded the bishop not onelie to deliuer the said let|ter himselfe, but also to signifie vnto the maior, that it was the kings speciall request and expresse com|mandement, that the maior should therein trauell, and as soone as he might conuenientlie giue him knowledge how farre he had proceeded therein. The bishop was so ioious of the hauing of this letter, and that he had now an occasion to trauell in that good matter, wherein he was maruellous zealous, that nothing could more haue pleased and delighted him: wherefore the same night he came to the maior of London, who then was sir Richard Dobs knight, and deliuered the kings letter, and shewed his mes|sage with effect.