As a most just law, established by the careful providence of sacred princes, exhorts and decrees that what touches all should be approved by all (ut quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur), so also, very evidently should common danger be met by means provided in common.  You know sufficiently well, and it is now, as we believe, divulged through all regions of the world, how the king of France fraudulently and craftily deprives us of our land of Gascony, by withholding it unjustly from us. .  .  .  September 1295

Letter was also written to all the bishops of England, 67 abbots, and the Masters of the Knights Templar and the Prior of the Hospitalers