ABSTRACT
Durant a templer,! who comming unto king John, exhorted him with manie terrible words to leave his stub borne disobedience to the church, and to reforme his misdooings. The king for his part, quietlie heard them, and bringing them to Northampton, being not farre distant from the place where he met them upon his returne foorth of Wales had much conference with them; but at length, when they perceived that they could not have their purpose, neither for restitution of the goods belonging to preests which he had seized upon, neither of those that apperteined to certeine other persons, which the king had gotten also into his hands, by meanes of the controversie betwixt him and the pope the legats departed, leaving him accursed,2 and the land interdicted, as they found it at their comming.
