74
This sum was paid to Pope Alexander 6
th
. for the benefit of
the Jubilee granted to those at a distance from Rome
upon payment of a sum of money & Jasper Pons a
Spaniard was sent into England as the Popes
commissioner to collect the same. Bacon says
"It was thought the King shared in the money. But
"it appeareth by a letter which Cardinal Adrian, the
"Kings ˄
pensioner
wrote to the King from Rome some few years
"after, that this was not so," it seems however from
an item of the 23
d
. of the same month that the King
had a share of ˄
the
Jubilee money for there we find 60s
paid to the Official of Salisbury that came with
the money of the Jubilee