Note 914 — Chapter V · JOHN AND THE POPE 1210–1214

R. Wendover, vol. iii. pp. 283, 284. The terms are stated in a very confused way, both in the Pope’s letter (given l.c.; also in Rot. Chart. pp. 208, 209), in a letter of Earl William of Ferrars (Rot. Pat. p. 139; Ferrars was one of those who swore as sureties for the king), and in that of John himself (Rot. Chart. p. 199); but a comparison of the three documents with Roger’s own account of the matter makes it tolerably clear that Nicolas was authorized to raise the interdict as soon as he had obtained security for the payment of twelve thousand marks a year, in half-yearly instalments, till the total of forty thousand should be complete.