To the most holy in Christ and Lord, Lord Urban, through divine wisdom supreme pontiff of the holy and universal Church. The ruling masters of the university of Oxford , acting with one mind , lay devout kisses on the blessed feet .
The apostolic trumpet sounds forth with its public voice to pronounce the unity of  the high Church as it repeatedly intones its sacred voice to the hordes of those who are devotees of the unity of the Church and who have declared that it should not be divided , that there is one body of the church, one spirit, one calling, one faith , one baptism , one Lord.
Just as in the heavens there is one ruling power , in the same way , here on earth , power is not divided into three parts with one part subservient to a victor . One world mirrors the other.
It is the same in the sky , where one sun reigns supreme . Just so, there is but one lord on the throne of Peter. There is only one who is named the representative of Christ. So here, there is one shepherd . The one dove of peace calls on the Church, founded on a rock , and the lovely bride of Christ, at the end of confinement, gives birth, signalled by the call of the trumpet.  Whoever offends against this unity, confirmed by the heavenly signs, is guilty of profanity.
 In the time of the flood, the sign of the rainbow shown to Noah means that in the realm of Peter, anyone who is not bound in is to be treated as a branch which has changed its nature , which is to uprooted  [vellatus] at the base and burned in the eternal fires.
So we have come to the throne of Peter and the seat of those praising with evangelical voice. You have the power to bind and to release from their cells those committed to prison. You have the power , too, to pour oil on the wounds of the sick . In this matter that concerns us , we have come as supplicants to the feet of your holiness , since your sanctity is like the shepherd of his flock , who guards the archives of the law which the New Testament has transformed. We have brought to you someone who is worthy of pardon , to be raised as an example, the Lord Adam Easton. May the balm of prayer and of your abundant compassion and pity be poured upon him.
May he be led from prison and restored to the state that your own sanctity determined , so that he may receive due memorial from the nations and from the clemency of the church.
We have no wish for anything which would , with greater holiness, not happen. You will offer your true holiness to us supplicants as a continuation of the blessings you have already brought us.  We will feel great gratitude to you as a son would to a father.
We are compelled , holy father , to offer our prayers to you , given your sanctity, on behalf of one who at our university has taken the step of a doctorate and who wishes , through your benevolence , to attain reconciliation and the freedom to serve. Just as a cleric might be reconciled with a king, or even, blessed father, as in the cases of Peter, who denied the Lord, or Paul, who persecuted Christ. Both, through divine mercy, were converted, became the most solid pillars of the church and brought it strength with the sacrifice of their blood.
These men are an open demonstration to all members of the Church of Christ that those who stray in ignorance through the faults of others may receive his mercy. This act of mercy would be a sign of the divine ruler of the Church, who came down to earth from the heavens and laid his hand on the sins of his flock.

BL add ms 48179 folio 9v and 10r (other letters are on 10r and v and IX, VIII). Once again the editors wish to acknowledge the invaluable help of David Oliver in working through the translation!