Sentence:  In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on <WSD>curial</WSD> business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own eyes and ears at Rome […]. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pertaining to the papal curia.