Since you intimate to us, well beloved son in Christ, that you wish to enter the island of Hibernia to subject that people to laws and root out the nurseries of vice from it, and are willing to pay from each house one denarius annually as cess to blessed Peter, and to preserve the rights of the Church of that land unimpaired and inviolate, so we, seconding your pious and laudable desire with the favour it deserves, and according to your request a benignant assent, are pleased and willing that to extend the bounds of the Church and for preventing the re-growth of vice and for amending morals and sowing the seeds of virtue and for the advancement of the Christian religion, you shall enter that island and do therein what tends to the honour of God and the salvation of the people.
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