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ambassador ; and offering both his person and the 

 forces of his kingdom, upon all occasions, to do him 

 service. 



The ambassador making his oration to the pope, 

 in the presence of the cardinals, did so magnify the 

 king and queen, as was enough to glut the hearers. 

 But then he did again so extol and deify the pope, as 

 made all that he had said in praise of his master and 

 mistress seem temperate and passable. But he was 

 very honourably entertained, and extremely much 

 made on by the pope : who knowing himself to be 

 lazy and unprofitable to the Christian world, was 

 wonderfully glad to hear that there were such echoes 

 of him sounding in remote parts. He obtained also 

 of the pope a very just and honourable bull, qualify 

 ing the privileges of sanctuary, wherewith the king 

 had been extremely gulled in three points. 



The first, that if any sanctuary man did by night, 

 or otherwise, get out of sanctuary privily, and commit 

 mischief and trespass, and then come in again, he 

 should lose the benefit of sanctuary for ever after. 

 The second, that howsoever the person of the sanc 

 tuary man was protected from his creditors, yet his 

 goods out of sanctuary should not. The third, that 

 if any took sanctuary for case of treason, the king 

 might appoint him keepers to look to him in 

 sanctuary. 



The king also, for the better securing of his 

 estate against mutinous and malcontented subjects^ 

 whereof he saw the realm was full, who might have 

 their refuge into Scotland, which was not under key 



