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 110 campion's historie ship of Meth, this to the Earldome of Vlster : King Iohn made his Vice-gerent, and returned home, subdued the Welchmen, met with Pandulphus the Legate of Innocentius the third, who came to release him of the sentence wherein he stood excommunicate for his spoyle and extortion of Church goods, to whom being the Popes Atturney, hee made a personall sur- render of both his Realmes in way of submission, and after his assoylement, received them againe : some adde that he gave away his Kingdome to the See of Rome, for him and his successours, recognizing, to holde the same of the Popes in fee, paying yearely therefore one thousand markes, and in them three hundred for Ire- land. u Blundus sayth, Centum pro utroq; auri mar- chas. Sir Thomas Moore, a man in that calling & office likely to sound the matter to the depth, writeth precisely, that neither any such writing the Pope can shew, nor were it effectuall if he could. How farre foorth, and with what limitation a Prince may or may not addict his Realme feodary to another, Iohn Maior a Scottish Chronicler, and a Sorbonist, not unlearned, partly scanneth, who thinketh 300. marks for Ireland a very hard pennyworth. The instrument which our English Chronicled rehearseth, might haply be mo- tioned and drawne, and then dye unratified, although the copy of that record continue : But certaine it is, that his successours never payde it, and thereto assenteth Iohn Bale in his Apology against vowes. ■ Polid. lib. 15. v Fabian.