To the illustrious King of France.

It has been brought to our ears on your behalf that, since you have received a considerable sum of money from the Jews of the kingdom, from their Christian debtors and in their name, and since this money is believed to have been acquired by those Jews through usury, you wish to make satisfaction from the aforesaid money so that their sin may not be counted against you as punishment.

Therefore, you humbly asked us that, since many of those from whom the aforesaid Jews extorted usury cannot be identified, and since you wish to direct the money that you would be bound to restore to them as a subsidy for the Empire of Constantinople, we should, from the kindness of the Apostolic See, grant your serenity permission to do this. In this way, it may also benefit you before God for salvation, and, according to the amount of this subsidy, you may be released from the debt of satisfaction.

Therefore, inclined by your prayers, by the authority of these present letters, we grant you what you request.

Given as above, at Viterbo, on the second day before the Nones of October, in the eleventh year of our pontificate.