ABSTRACT
Then Pandulph keeping the crowne with him for the space of five daies in token of possession thereof, at length (as the popes vicar) gave it him againe.2 By meanes of this act (saith Polydor) the fame went abroad, that king John willing to continue the memorie hereof, made himselfe vassall to pope Innocent, with condition, that his successors should likewise from thencefoorth acknowledge to have their right to the same kingdome from the pope. But those kings that succeeded king John, have not observed any such lawes of reconciliation ....
