DA 25 .B7 1887 v. 2 Canterbury Cathedral. Literae Cantuarienses RERUM BfUTANMCAKLM MEUIL /EVl SCRTPTOEES, ou CHROI^ICLES AND MEMORIALS OE GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. U 52122. a Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/literaecantuarie02cant THE CHRONICLES AND MEMORIALS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. ITBLISnET) BY XUr. ALrUoUITV 1(1 IIEK MAJKviXV's XHKA-^l.ltV. PNDKK TUK DIRKCTION OK TUr, M VSTER OK THK KOLLS. On the 26tli of January 1857, the Master of the Rolls submitted to the Treasury a proposal for the publication of materials for the History of this Country from the Invasion of the E-omans to the reign of Henry VIII. 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And to be purohasrd, either diicoily or tlirousli aiij' Bookseller, from EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.O. • or ADAM and CHARLES BLACK, 6, North Bridge, Edinburgh ; or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., 104, Grapton Street, Dublin. 1888. Printed by Eyrk and Spottiswoodk. Her Mujest.v's Printers. Fnr Her Mnjesty's Stationery Office. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page 495. On the collection of a King's tenth at Cliff-at-Hoo - 1 496. An attorney appointed for the Convent - - 2 497. A similar appointment - - - - - - 4 498. On the same subject . - . . - 499. The Bishop of Chichester thanked for an offering at the Shrine of St. Thomas - - - / - - 5 500. An obscure letter of business - - - - G 501. The tenants at Risborough to be coerced - - t! 502. A feigned receipt for the "Wine of St. Thomas - - 7 503. In the matter of Peter de Dene, alleged to be a pro- fessed monk of St. Augustine's Abbey - - 7 504. On the same subject - - - - - 8 505. On the same subject - - - - - 10 506. To the King of France in the matter of the Wine of St. Thomas ------ H 507. To the Countess of Hainault, on the same subject - 12 508. The agent for the Wine in France is reminded of his arrears 12 509. The Senescallus Alike is allowed to appoint a dejjnty - 14 510. The Prior's proctor in the Curia is asked to obtain certain privileges for him - - - - 16 511. On the matter of Peter de Dene - - - 17 512. Monks of St. Angiistine's excommunicated for the matter of Peter de Dene - - - - 19 513. The Prior declines to pay an aid - - - 20 514. The Bishop of Rochester is asked to impart chrism - 22 515. The liberties of the Church invaded by the Sheriff of Kent ------- 22 516. In the matter of the Wine of St. Thomas - - 24 517. On the same subject - - - - - 24 618. The master's degree of a student of (Janterbnry College deferred - - - - - - 26 519. The Prior declines to supply transport to the King's army 26 520. On the same subject - - - - - 28 521. The Prior yields, and promises the transport asked for 28 522. On the same subject - - - - - 30 ii CONTEXTS. Page 523. On the same subject - - - - - 30 524. Laud escheated at Mersham - - - - 32 525. Provisions to be collected foi' winter store - - 34 526. On the same subject - - - - - 36 527. On the same subject - - - - - 36 528. Instructions to an attorney in a suit with the Arch- bishop - - - - - - - 38 529. In the matter of Peter de Dene - - - 40 530. On the same subject - - - - - 41 630a. On the same subject - - - - - 43 531. Instructions to an attorney in the suit wilh Dover Priory - - - - - - -44 532. On the same subject - - - - - 44 533. On the same subject - - - - - 46 534. Instructions as to the Wine of St. Thomas - - 48 535. On the same subject - - - - - 50 536. A tenant does fealty for his inheritance - - 52 537. Order for the delivcrj- of timber - - - 54 538. The rector of Becking is supplied with fuel, and corn is lent to him - - - - - - 54 539. Complimentary letter to the Ai'chbishop - - 56 540. Money received for the Wine of St. Thomas - - U7 541. The tenants of six manors required to combine for the carriage of timber - - - - - 5G 5t2. A judge's influence asked for in the suit with Dover Priory - - - - - - - 56 54-3. On the same subject - - - - - 58 544. Adam de Murymouth is refused a pension - - 59 545. Papers in the Dover suit sent to Adam de Murymouth GO 546. A fee refused to the Archbishop's Seneschal - - GO 547. A tenant reminded of the near expiration of his lease 02 548. The Bailiff of Eisborough called to a consultation - 62 549. The matter of Peter de Dene is likely to be referred to Kome - - - - - - - 64 550. A legacy left to Christ Church by John de Dene - 66 551. A felon's goods seized at Shoreham - - - 68 552. Eeceipt given to the executor of J. de Dene - - 68 553. A Senescallus Libertatitm appointed - - -69 554. A pension gi'anted to A. de Murymouth - - 70 555. The next presentation to a benefice refused to Earl Warenne - - - - - - 70 556. A pass, conferring free board and lodging, in all the manors of the Convent - - - - 72 557. Instructions, relating to Cheam and Risborough, given to the Seneschal - - - - - 74 CONTENTS. iii Page 558. The Prior claims the Kole right of corrocting his monks at the Archbishop's visitatiou - - - -76 559. The Abbot of Boxley wishes to bii}' Land in the fee (jf Christ Church ------ 77 560. The Balliflf of Risborough called to a consultation - 70 561. Power given to the Prior to absolve ad cnntelan - 78 562. Form of absolution to be used • - - - 80 563. The Chapter resent an irregular citation of the Com- missary of the diocese - - - - - 80 564. The Ai-chbishop upholds the citation - - - 81 565. A King's tenth twice demanded - - - 82 566. Instructions to the Bailiff of Risborough - - 82 567. On the same subject - - - - - 86 508. On the same subject - - - - - 88 569. Transport promised for the King's armj- . - - 90 570. On the same subject - - - - - 90 571. On the same subject - - - - -92 572. A list of the servants in the cellarer's department • 94 573. The Archbishop borrows two horses - - - 95 574. On the same subject - - - - - 95 575. On the same subject - - - - - 96 .576. A King's tenth twice demanded - - - 96 577. The Prior certiOes the Archbishop that there is peace at Christ Church - - - - - 98 .'378. The Archbishop's answer. Sir J. Stonor declines the office of Seneschal of Christ Church - - - 98 .'')79. On the same subject - - - - - 99 580. The Archbishop's answer on the same subject - - 100 581. A writ of right t,o be tried in the Manor Court of Mersthara - - - - - - 102 582. On the same subject - - - . . 104 583. Two monks of Battle Abbey trespass on the pasture at Loose - - - - - - - 104 584. The Prior asks for the power of appointing ohedicniiarii at Christ Church - - - - - 106 585. On the exchange of foreign and debased monej- - 108 586. J. de Stonor recommends a Seneschal - - - 108 587. The Seneschal appointed .... no 588. A suitor introduced to the Archbishop - - - 111 589. Commission of an attorney to act in the election of a Bailiff of Romney Marsh - - - - 112 590. Commission of a Woodreeve for the Weald - - 112 591. Moi-tuary roll of .John Ilotham, Bishop of Ely - - 114 592. The King excuses the Convent from granting corrodies to his nominees - - - - - 122 iv CONTENTS. Page 593. The Chapter protest against being called on to furnish a coast guard 122 594. The Bishop of Exeter delivers his professmial cope to Chi-ist Church - - - - - - 124 595. The Countess of Valois offers au image at the Shrine of St. Thomas - - - - - - 124 596. A suit of esquire's livery granted for life - - 126 597. An adviser called to consultation - - - 126 598. The Prior declines an invitation to a funeral - - 128 599. Notice sent to tlie Archbishop of the cellarer's unfit- ness for his office - . . . . 128 600. Disputes between the Burgesses of Sandwich and the tenants of Christ Church in Thanet - - - 130 601. The Prior complains that the Arclibishop has mis- judged him 130 602. The Prior asks the Archbishop to support him in his dispute with the Bisborough tenants ; and to allow him to j5?-q/(sss novices ----- 131 603. The Prior inquires iiato the condition of Dockombe manor 133 604. An affray between the servants of the Archbishop and those of the Convent ----- 134 605. Two Canons of St. Frideswydes migrate to Canterbury 136 606. A Canon of Kenilworth migrates to Canterbury - 137 607. The Archbishop has misjudged the Chapter - - 138 608. On the same subject . - . - . 139 609. A dispute with the Archbishop about a palfrey for- feited in a manor belonging to Christ Church - 140 610. On the same subject - - - - - 141 611. Memorandum of the amount of the bread consumed in Christ Church in three months - - - 141 612. Cost of the decorated window in St. Anselm's Chapel in the Cathedral . . - . . 142 613. A '^vommsoTj note juxta forraam Liimhardovum - 143 614. Counsel's opinion as to selling land to the Abbot of Boxley - - - - - - - 143 615. The Archbishop releases an uhedientiarms fi'om his office 144 616. The Chapter nominate three persons for the office of whom the Archbishop may choose one - • 145 617. A receipt for the pension due from the rector of Westerham 145 618. The call-over of the library of Christ Church - - 146 619. The Archbishop is thanked for help in the matter of Bisborough and the suit with Dover Priory - - 152 CONTENTS. Pago 620. Extract from the will of R. de Haute, Rector of Westerham 153 621. The Cathedral defiled by blood-shedding - - 153 622. On the same subject . - . . . 155 623. On the same subject . . . . . 156 624. On the same subject . - - . - 167 626. The Bishop of Rochester, called to officiate at Christ Church, warrants the Convent against future p-e- judice in consequence - - - - 157 626. On the same subject ..... I.57 627. A petition sent to the Archbishop by the religious houses of Kent, asking that men capable of defending them may not be sent out of the county - - 158 628. A legacy left to the charch - - - - 159 629. The rector of Westerham on his retirement - - 159 630. The Archbishop forbids the prior to jtrofcss novices whom he has not introduced to the Archbishop - 160 631. The Prior's acknowledgment of the Archbishop's pro- hibition - - - - - - 161 632. On the same subject - . . . . \q\ 633. On the same subject ..... \Q2 634. On the same sul ject ..... 635. The Bishop of Rochester is asked to nominate a vicar for Westerham ..... 636. The Chapter of Canterbiiry are urged to present to Westerham at once ..... 1^5 636a. On the j:iro/ess(*on of novices, continued - - 166 637. On the tithes of the vacant rectory of Westerham - 167 638. The defaulting Provost of Ickham arrested - - 168 639. The tithes of Westerham sequestrated - - - 168 640. On the same suliject - . . . . 170 641. The Priory of Dover submits itself to the Archbishop's arbitration ...... I7x 642. The Chapter of Canterbury incur a risk of excom- munication through delay in paying a subsidy - 172 643. On the same subject ..... 173 644. The Archbifihop advises the Prior to ascertain what p-oc Derations his House has been used to pay to papal Legates 174 645. On the same subject ..... 174 646. The Prior refuses to collate a candidate to Aldermari- church 175 647. The town of Romney under an interdict - - 176 648. Advice to the Prior obscurely given - - - 177 649. The reply to the same - - - - - 177 vi CONTKNTS. 650. On a diverted watei'-course at Borley - - - 178 651. On tho same subject . - - . . ]79 6-52. On the Eomney interdict - - - - 179 653. An attorney in tiie Dover snit appointed - - 182 654. On the same subject - - . . . 184 655. The King asks for a licence of alihi. for the Elect of London 184 656. The licence gi-anted ..... iqq 657. Thanks for the same . - - - - 187 658. Cautionary letter given by the Bishop elect - - 188 659. The Prior declines to furnish transport for the King's army ....... 190 660. The Prior and Chapter consent to furnish the transport asked for - - - - - - 190 661. The Archbishop on going abroad empowers the Bishop of Chichester to superintend the election of a Prior of Christ Church - - - - - - 192 662. The new Prior invites his friends to attend the cele- bration of his first mass .... 194 663. The same in Latin . - - . - 195 664. A protest against a demand of aid in furnishing a coast guard - . . - - -194 665. A request for letters testifying to the regularity of the Prior's election ..... igg 666. A request that a servant of the Convent may not be sent out of England with the King's wool - . 196 667. The Archbishop complains of the presence of the Bishop of Chichester at the Prior's election . - 199 668. The Prior's reply - - - . .199 669. Summary of a papal Bull on Provincial Benedictine Chapters - - - - - - 200 670. A judge is asked to favour a person suing in his court 202 671. A pension settled upon a counsel ... 204 672. The bond tenants of Risborough submit to their lord 204 673. A legacy left to the Church - - . - 206 674. A protest against a demand for aid towards a coast guard - - - - - - - 206 675. An agent commissioned to exact feudal dues - . 208 676. An attorney commissioned to resume possession of the rectory of Ash Booking - . . . 208 677. The Prior intercedes for a tenant charged with tres- pass - - - - - - - 210 678. The Prior i-efuses to acknowledge the King's right to confer a corrody in Christ Church - - . 212 679. The Archbishop on the Prior's election - - 215 CONTENTS, vii Page 680. The Prior asks leave to 25ro/ess novices ■ - - 216 681. The Archbishop confers an office in Christ Church upon his kinsman . - . - . 217 682. The Chapter consent to the collation - - - 217 688. The Archbishop is asked to suspend his senteitce upon a Canon of St. Gregory's - . - . 218 684. Receipt for a pro/essto«aZ cope ... 218 685. A stet processus ..... 219 686. Confirmation of the transfer of the advowsons of Boughton and Preston to Faversham Abbey - - 219 687. The Chapter confer a pension at the request of the Archbishop ...... 220 688. A letter of credence ..... 221 689. A certificate of legitimacy .... 221 690. An undergraduate allowed to remain in Oxford in the long vacation ..... 222 691. Other undergraduates provided with the means of returning home ..... 222 692. Covenant for the sale of timber - - . 223 693. A proposal to fai-m Chilham Rectory - - - 223 694. On the Benedictine Provincial Chapter - - 224 695. A complimentary letter sent to a Kentish Knighfc serving in France ..... 224 696. A letter of thanks to a patron ; with mention of a riotous summons made to the Archbishop for a debt duo to the Duke of Brabant - - . . - 226 697. A complimentary letter to the same patron - - 230 698. The Rector of Hadleigh wishes to rent a piece of land 231 699. A pension granted to a couusel - . 232 700. An attempt to convert a bond tenure at Risborongh into a freehold ..... 232 701. The Chapter decline to grant a corrody upon thcKhig's nomination ...... 234 702. A King's writ exempting the manor of Eleigli from payment of scutage - 236 703. On the same subject ..... 237 704. On the Proc!«-a mcic et ad opus monachorum, terram nomine Newintune et Brutheuuelle, liberam ab omni secular! servicio et fiscal! trlbuto, exccptls expedicione, pont!s et arcis constructlone ; ista terra est !u regi- one qujB nomlnatur Oxanaford. Ego quoque contuli e!dem Ec- clesia) Christi, pro spc salutis aetcrua), calicem cum patina aurea in quo sunt tresdecim marcas de puro auro, et duo dor- salia de pallio, et duas capas de- pallio cum tessalis auro paratis. The neighbouring manor of Risborough Monachorum Risbo- in Buckingham-shire was owned by the Canterbury ° ... Manor. monks from very early times, in fact it does not at present appear how they became possessed of it ; but the cartulary of the Convent contains the record of a Reg. B. curious piece of history relating to this manor which is interesting as showing the business-like way in which the Danes whilst overrunning tlie country abstained from slaughter when there was a profit to be made by moderation. The record alluded to is in the form of a licence granted by Ethehed II. in the year 995 to ^swig Bishop of Dorchester, permitting him to hold, as a security for money lent to Siric the Archbisho[) of Canterbury, the Territory of Risborough. After giving to the Bishop leave to hold " Quandam juris particulam sua3 potcstatis arbitrio xxx'^ " videlicet mansiunculas in loco qui ab indigenis ' at Risen- " burga' nuncupatur vocabulo:" xxxvi INTRODUCTION. he says that it will he necessary to relate the circum- stances in consequence of Avhich the Bishop hecame entitled to this land, thus : Cum enim gens pagana Canciam suis stomachando casdibus devastaret, ct hostiliter bachando deleret, promittebant sc ad Ecclesiam Sancti Salvatoris, qiise in Dorovernensi civitate sita est, ituros, et earn suis incendiis funditus delere, nisi pecunia quae eis ab Archiepiscopo Siricio promissa fuerat ad plenum daretur. TJnde, multis agitatus anxiefcatibus, Archi- episcopus, cum nec unum mutuum haberct, iniit consilium, et mittens ad prassulom pra3fatum, Eswium videlicet, et cum multis obnixe rogitabat precibiis, quod sibi pecuniam quae deerat pro sui amoris diligentia donaret, et antedictum rus, quod in suo potestatis arbitrio pi'o hac accipere non renucret, multa prece deposcit. TJudc, talibus jDcrmotus miseriis, pra3- fatus prassul, accepta pecunia, nonaginta, videlicet, libras meri argenti ducentasquc purissimi auri mancusas, per eosdem nuntios quibus perlatum est, ad Archiepiscopum mittens, con- sensum praabuit. Qua accepta, Archiepiscopus, accersitis hos- tibus, ad plenum prajbuit quod ante, quamvis coactus, pro- misit, et librum ruris prasfati, me praesente, meisque optima- tibus testimonium praBbentibus, Episcopo Eswig libentissimo tribuens donavit, etc. Within a year Bishop ^scwy " timore Dei compunc- " tus " restored the land which he held in pledge ; not, as far as his deed shows, receiving any consideration for the restoration. The Domesday Monachorum, which is a copy of the Domesday Domini Regis modified to suit the conve- nience of the stewards of the Monastery, records the condition of this manor thus : Rysbergh tenet Sancta Trinitas, pro xxx. hidis sc defendit : ibi xxxij" villani cum viij*" bordmannis : ibi iiij°' servi, etc. Hoc manerium tenuit Esgarus Scalre de Ecclesia Cantuar. ita quod non poterat separari ab Ecclesia tempore Regis E. The manor lay at a great distance from Canterhuiy, and its villeinage tenants, not being under the direct supervision of the monastic officers, continually encroached upon the rights of the Lords, and rebelled against the stewards, whom the Chapter selected as their managers from among the smaller gentry of the neighbourhood. INTRODUCTION. xxxvii Hence it is that the registers of the Convent show- frequent copies of commissions given to these officers, who evidently one after the other failed to coerce the tenants of the outlying manor into submission to their distant Lords. In the year 1336-7 the nativi of Risborough made a supreme effort to throw off their bondage, and declared that the manor was ancient demesne of the Crown, that they were not villeins, but copyholders, possessing their lands as freemen, subject to the custom of the manor. Quod ipsi fuerujit liberas conditiouis, et quod potuerunt ven- dere tenementa sua per cartas ad voluntatem eorum Bine licencia Domini. The case was on this occasion considered so grave that the Prior of Canterbury in person came into Bucking- hamshire, and calling upon Sir John de Stonor (one of the King's Justices and a freeholder in the district) to sit with him as assessor, he presided at the Manor Court. This rather interested tribunal decided that the self -called freemen were in fact nativi, and that they held their land at the will of tlie Prior by a base tenure. The tenants refused to submit themselves to the judg- ment of the Court, and therefore the Bailiff was ordered to arrest one Will, attc Halle and nine others who had been active in the rebellion. The arrested tenants after- wards brought an action in the King's Bench against the Prior, chai'ging him with assault and false imprison- ment. In stating their case they related that early on the morning of ^^ hit Tuesday, in the 10th year of Edw. III., certain officers of the monastery " Ceperunt eos extra lecta sua propria, et illos ligaverunt cordis, et duxerunt usque Curiam dicti Prioris de Risbergh, et illos posuerunt in seppis,' et ibidem vilificarunt despec- tuose, etc., et postea posuerunt in carectis et illos duxerunt usque Cantuariam, et ibidem in prisona detinuerunt, aliquos in seppis et aliquos in ligamentis fciTcis." cippis ? xxxviii INTRODUCTION. The case of Peter de Dune, first a sojourner at, aucl then a raouk of St. Augus- tine's The tenants still remained obdurate, and were kept out of their lands for about seven years, but it does not appear how much of this time they passed in prison. It is with surprise that we find that whilst the nativi of the manor were excluded from their holdinefs, other persons, freemen and strangers to the place, came and offered to hold these distrained lands as bondmen of the Convent. Thus, John Kynge of Berewyk prayed to be admitted to a messuage and two rods of land which John ate Well, one of the rebels, had held : " Dictum tenementum tenendum in bondagio sibi et sequelas suaj datis Domino pro messuagio habendo vigiuti marcis, &c." The suit in the King's Bench dragged on until the year 1352, when the tenants who were the plaintiffs submitted themselves unconditionally to the Prior in open court, and promised obedience for the future ; in consequence of which submission it was ruled " ut eant " sine die." It is remarkable that one of the tenants who thus confessed himself to be a bondman was named Will, atto Halle, and that sixty years before this revolt one Henry atte Halle (Hen. de Aula) gave to the Prior and Chapter in pure and perpetual alms a small estate within the manor, together with all the homages and services belonging to it. It is not impossible that the descendants of Henry atte Halle had held 07i as free tenants to the estate Avhich their ancestor gave until at last, all memory of their free condition being lost, William atte Halle, their representative, came to be confounded with ilie ordinary nativi of the manor. The history of Peter de Dene, which is only ob- scurely reported in these letters, is told at great length by Thorn in his Chronicle of St. Augustine's Abbey, whose narrative discloses startling facts such as would not be expected from the comparatively tame and business-like reports of the Prior of Christ Church in INTRODUCTION. xxxix the letters. Peter de Dene/ who sprang fro:n a Kentish family of knightly rank, was a learned lawyer, in priest's g^^jp orders, and a voracious pluralist. He is described by 19"9- 206(1 Thorn as a doctor of laws, and prebendary of London, York, Wells, Southwell, and Wymborne. Hi;5 advice and support were so much valued by the Chapter of St. Augustine's, that in 1301 he became standing counsel of the Abbey, with an annual stipend of ten pounds ; and by 1312 he had so greatly risen in estimation that he was received into confraternity as an adopted brother of the convent ; and, in addition to the ordinary privi- leges belonging to this adoption, perpetual daily masses wore appointed to be celebrated for his benefit ; a con- cession only made to eminent benefactors. The descrip- tion thus far is taken from the ordinary narrative part of Thorn's Chronicle, and the two events above recorded took place before any kind of discord had liroken out between Peter and the Chapter, and consequently before the biassed chronicler found it expedient to depreciate him, as an enemy of the monastery of which the chronicler was the champion. In the latter part of his career the picture of Peter painted by the historian is evidently delineated by the hand of a bitter opponent. Some years having gone by, probably soon after the fight at Boroughbridge in 1322 (for in spite of many years occupation about the Court Peter became a partizan of the Earl of Lancaster) he became an inhabitant of the monastic precincts ; but after the lapse of about ten years ' The name is evidently derived from the family estate of the Dean or Dene in Wingham parish, the proprietors of ■which were, as ex- isting records show, from the earliest times connected, partly as patrons and partly as salaried officials, with the two great re- ligious corporations at Canterbury. The estate now belongs to the Oxenden family, the name of which may probably be taken as a variant of that of Dene. On the fr.ime of one of the family portraits repre- senting a puritan of the 1 7th cen- tury is the pentameter verse : Oxendenus erat, qui non Deimx cral. ■ by which the close relation of Oxenden with Dene is expressed. xl INTRODUCTION. quaiTels arose, the history of which is contained in two ex ^arfe statements ; the one being Peter's narrative sent, as the foundation of an appeal, to the Pope ; and the other a report of the case as seen from the point of view of the Chapter of the abbey. Of course these two op- posing statements show the events related in contrasted colours. Taking the appellant's statement fii'st (as it is found recited in the preamble to the rescript by which John XXII. appointed a commission to hear the cause at Canterbury), Peter poses as a defrauded benefactor, and an oppressed sojourner. At the date (probably 1330) he is thus described : " presbyter Cicestrensis dioecesis, " incasibus a jure permissis, famosus patronus causarum " extitit; patrocinia et consilia multis, in jure cujus " peritus est, prjestitit in partibus Anglicanis ; stu- " dendo prse ^dribus prodesse cuique ; et praecavendo " alicui non obesse." It is then said that his success procured him enemies, from whose persecutions he fled for refuge (taking with him his portable property and his household servants) to the precincts of St. Augustine's Monastery. Here he, at his own cost, built several houses for the habitations of himself and of his following, and here, too, he made some kind of a profession, the nature of which formed the subject of future disputes. His own view of the matter was that he did not enter the Benedictine order as a professed monk, nor did he assume the monastic habit in any more binding sense than did those who, as was not unusual, were clad in the frock and cowl of the Franciscans when they arrived at the point of death. He intended to remain within the precincts of the abbey as long as his safety required him to keep out of the way of the King's partizans, and then, the danger past, he proposed to return to the secu- lu'iii, and to resume his business. He was excused from all the burdensome observances to which he would have been liable if he had really been 'professed as a monk, and, in the words put by his advocate into the mouth of INTRODUCTION. xli the Pope : " nee teneretur in Ecclesia, Capitulo, Refec- " torio, Claustro, sen alibi, pro divinis officiis vel aliis " quibuscuraque cansis, cum monacliis ejusdem monasterii " convenire, neque se quovismodo actibus monasticis " conformare ; set libere manere in domibus suis ante- " dictis ; protestans eciam expressius, quod per hujusmodi " habitus assumptionem, professionem, moram quantum- " cumque diutinam, aut quicquid aliud, non intendebat " nec volebat se quomodolibet obligare ad aliquam obser- " vantiam vel obedientiam regularem. Qute omnia et " singula, tarn ante dictum ingressum, quara in ipso " et post eum, fuerant expresse recepta, concessa, " et approbata per Abbatem et monachos monasterii " prsedicti." After a time however (in 1330), when Peter wished and attempted to leave the monastery, a new Abbot sent an armed forced to detain him and his goods ; took from him a notice of appeal which he had prepared ; and, committing him to his own house as to a prison, fed him scantily and deprived him of all the consolations of divine services. By some means the prisoner's appeal reached the Curia, and the Pope appointed the Prior of Christ Church, William de Renham a Canon of St. Paul's, and the Official of the diocese to form a commission, charged with the duty of personally examining Peter (who during the examination was ordei'ed to be freed from all restraint) ; and, if the Commissioners found that he was unlawfully imprisoned, they were empowered to restore him, "pristince liber- tati." It will be noticed that the Prior considered the phrase "'pristinoe lihertati" to be ambiguous and un- practical. In obedience to the Pope's mandate the Prior of Christ Church and W. de Penham made various vain attempts to have their interview with the Abbot's prisoner, every kind of obstacle being thrown in their way by the monks of St. Augustine's ; but at last they were admitted to the choir of the abbey, where they xlii INTRODUCTION. saw Peter, but could have no private conversation with him. Among other childish stratagems the men of St. Augustine's refused to admit the Pope's delegates by the great gate of their abbey, and only consented to open their parvum tuykethcm, which was so low (as it is at this day) that every person on entering was forced to bow himself, as though he were making a humble obeisance upon entering the abbey. After the service of many citations and monitions, the judges were confounded by an apparently voluntary new profession publicly made by Peter in the choir of the abbey church, Lr. 504. in which profession he confessed himself to be a properly professed monk, and subject in all matters to his Abbot. This of course ended the appeal, and no further mention is made of the case in the letters. The Aufjustinian account of this matter is so far different from that stated above that, in justice to the Abbey, it ought to be reported. A short abstract of it is therefore given below. Peter de Dene, " hujus monasterii defensor valens et conductor," found it necessary, after the death of Earl Thomas of Lancaster at Pontefract, to take shelter at St. Augustine's from the persecutions of the King's partizam — it is hinted that, in the confusion after the defeat at Boroughbridge, Peter stole all his brother John's plate and brought it witli him to the abbey. He was admitted, as he stated above, as a quasi-monk, and having built houses infra se2'>ta monasterii he remained in secu- riry until 1330, and then he attempted to return to the world in a manner likely to bring scandal on the abbey. Thorn's narrative tells us that, on St. Lucy's day, John de Bourne, the rector of St. Martin's in Canterbury, came to dine with the Infirmarius of St. Augustine's, but in the middle of dinner he jumped up and said that he was appointed by the Consistory Court to examine Peter de Dene; and to him he went and with him he con- versed privately. At supper-time, on that same day INTKODUCTION. xliii Peter said to his servant : " Ego celebravi hodie, set non " ero in statu celebrandi crastina die, et ideo non impedias " me a sompno matutino." This he said in order that the flio-ht which he meditated mia^ht not be discovered until o o late in the next day. During the night, with two ser- vants, he crept out to the Cellarer's garden — having previously tampered with the lock of the door — and, passing across the garden, came to the boundary wall of the abbey. Here the rector of St. Martin's was waiting with ladders and horses, by means of which he escaped to the house of the rector's brother at Bishops- bourne. Before leaving St. Augustine's the fugitive encumbered himself with six silver dishes, six salts, and other objects of value. Three days after the flight Peter was found by the officials of the monastery con- cealed under a truss of hemp stalks at Bishopsbourne ; and the Borsholder — the King's officer — havino- been called in to give a legal sanction to the arrest, he was carried back to the abbey ; his servants, with the plate in their possession, being sent to the Archbishop's prison at Maidstone. After his capture three knights — Cobham, Valoynes, and de Bourne — came from the Archbishop to protest against the Abbot's proceedings ; but their interference was useless, Peter was compelled to resume his monastic habit, and to receive the (Benedictine) tonsure ; and not long after, having in the meantime been put upon low diet in the infirmary, he consented to make his unconditional profession as a monk ; whereupon penance was enjoined upon him and he was absolved. But still a longing for liberty made him restless, and he appealed to the Pope, with the result, as is related above, that he was again defeated, and again declared himself to be a member of the Benedictine order, and bound to observe the regula in all things.^ ' More minute particulars relating to Peter's public employments and his acts as a Canon of York are U 52122. collected in a paper printed in the Archaeological Journal, Vol. xvii., p. 30. d xliv INTRODUCTION. The iu-^ As questions concerning the income of the Monastery thcMonas- of Christ Church and the expenses incurred by the tery. Chapter in the maintenance of the services of the Church and of the hospitality of the House constantly arise in these letters, it is a cause for congratulation that the Treasurer's accounts during the 13th and 14th centuries can still be referred to. The income received annually from rents, oblations, and other sources reached a large amount, and yet the Prior's letters show that debts were paid off by instal- ments, as if ready money were scarce ; and the Chapter more than once begged to be excused from various con- tributions under the plea that the income of the Monastery was insufficient, or barely sufficient, to pay its necessary expenses. An examination of the abov^e-mentioned accounts gives a very accurate picture of the domestic affairs of a great mediaeval monastery, and shows how far the pleas of poverty were well or ill founded. The first account in the records, that for the year 1207, is so complete in its arrangement as to prove that the system upon Avhich the books were kept was the mature result of many years, perhaps ages, of practice. The entries are divided into the two grand classes of Recepta and Expensa, and these again into sections, in each of which are grouped together all the items of the year which are similar in kind ; a summa being appen- ded to each section, vvitli a mmma smnmarum at the end of each class. The first item records the balance carried on from the previous year — Le remanente in area 4s. 7d. — and then follow the amounts received for arrears, rents, manorial dues, tithes, synodals, oblations, and obventions or casual i-eceipts not falling under any of the regular heads. Among these latter are money received for the sale of pigs fattened on the refuse of the kitehen, of timber, and of worn out or superfluous horses. The total income for the year in question reached 1,460?. 10s. of the money of the time, whilst the expenses only amounting to INTROnUOTION. xlv ],425^. 15.S. 7f?. left a balance in area at the end of the year. In this year before striking the annual balance the Treasurers deducted under the heading: Ex hiis decider imt in igne, casura, camhio, et falsina (loss by melting, mischance, exchange, and base money) 9?. 175. 10(Z. This heading occurs in each year's accounts, but the amount of loss was extraordinarily large in the year in question. The way in which the fretina, or miscellaneous foreign coins, received from pilgrims was dealt Avith is explained by a letter on p. 108 of the present volume. Before the end of the above-mentioned year the Con- vent was driven into exile, and, the administration of the estates being in the hands of Reginald de Cornhell, the administrator appointed by the King, the accounts of the Ti'easurers were necessarily intermitted ; but seven years afterwards the monks returned to their home, and the Treasurers, resuming their functions, accounted for a sum of 982^. 4s. lO^d., received between the beginning of June and the counting day at Michael- mas. It must be mentioned that one annually l ecurring item reads : De emprimto scilicet de Magistro , an item which, being set down as real profit, improperlysvvells the apparent balance, often by a considerable amount. It is not certain that these so-called loans were raised to relieve the necessities of the house, for in many cases the lender in successive years sometimes increased his balance by paying in farther amounts, and sometimes decreased it by receiving partial payments, thus giving the transaction the appearance of a current banking account, in which the so-called creditors made the de- posits (no interest is mentioned), and the Chapter acted as the bardfers. In other cases, however, it is stated that the rautvMm was received : De Romanis, or, De nnercaiorihus Florentinis, and then it may safely be assumed that the Bardi and their associates did actually lend the money, nnd reooive a substantial usus for the accommodation. xlvi INTRODUCTION. In 1219, which was an ordinary year, unmai'ked by any great festival, and the last before the translation of the relics of St. Thomas from the obscure tumha in the crypt to his magnificent new shrine in the upper church, the total receipts, including 80?. de emprunto, are set down at 1,527?. 13s. 9|fZ. In the next year, when the splendid ceremony of the translation took place, it is not surprising to find that the attraction of the festival and the immense concourse of royal and noble pilgrims almost doubled the monastic income at one bound. It is to the credit of these pilgrims, coming together out of all lands, that from the gross receipts of the year, amounting to 2,707?. 12s. 9^d., the Treasurers only claimed allow- ance of 4?. 3s. %d. for exchange and base coin. The liberal contributions of the visitors — the ohlationes of the accounts — of course was the chief source from which this flood of prosperity rolled in upon the Monastery, since it is plain that the usual rents and feudal dues would, in spite of the rush of visitors, remain an almost fixed quantity. From the year of the translation onwards the income of the Convent remained permanently improved, and only on one or two occasions, during the period of nearly two centuries covered by these accounts, feU to so low an amount as before the inauguration of the shrine. For the six years preceding 1220 the receipts from all sources averaged 1,460?. 14s. Ofd, whilst for 1220 itself and the five following years the average was raised to 2,340?. 12s. Great fluctuations are found in the amounts received, some of which must be put down to promptness and slackness of tenants in their payments, good and bad seasons, and other similar causes ; but even with these allowances wide variations still remain unaccounted for. Political convulsions do not as a rule appear to have in- fluenced the prosperity of the Monastery either for good or ill ; but it may be noticed, although no inference can safely be drawn from the fact, that the year of the mise of Leives produced less than that of the dActiwii of Kenil- INTRODUCTION. xlvii ^vorth by more than 600^., the respective receipts being 1,589?. 5.S. S\d. and 2,201?. 12s. M., a difference equal to, probably, at least 15,000Z. of the money of our own time. A more detailed examination of the whole of the accounts for some two contrasted years, that is to say, one of which was marked by great political disturbance and the other by comparative national tranquility, will give a fair idea of how far the monastic wealth was affected by the general adversity or prosperity of the people of England. Selecting then the years 1326-7 as one of revolution and foreign invasion and 1335-6 as the contrasted year of comparative prosperity, in which no King was forcibly dethroned, a probable cause of dimi- nished income, and no Archbishop elected, a certain source of great expense, we find the balance sheets thus made up : — Recepta. 1326-7. 1335-6. £ s. d. £ s. d. De remanente anni praate- Nichil 74 7 3 riti. De maneriis - - 1,100 15 Hi 1,258 2 1 This latter item includes rents, arrears of rents, together with sales of wool and farming stock. £ s. d. £ s. d. De arreragiis obedientia- 39 12 Oi I 13 2 0 riorum. I The Sacrist, Gustos Berthonse, Cellarer, and other chief officers (denominated obedientiarii) had rents annexed to and settled upon their offices, for the proceeds of which they were bound to account. £ s d. £ s. d. De feodofirmis - - 81 9 9J | 89 19 0 Produce of lands demised in perpetuity at a fixed rental. £ s. d. £ s. d. De gabulis maneriorum - 61 6 2J | 52 16 If xlviil IXTRODUCTIOX. These were tolls and similar dues paid to the Chapter as lords of manors. £ s. d. £ s. d. De diversis locis - - 166 15 8f | 185 18 2i This section includes rents of shops and houses in the city, sales of underwood, and the profits derived from the Wine of St. Thomas (in both years vichil). 1326-7. 1335-6. £ s. d. De libertate - - 2 11 6 | Nichil. Dues coming to the Chapter as lords of manors, as distinguished from mere owners of the soil ; such as waifs, strays, forfeited chattels of felons, &c. £■ s. d. £ s. d. Dc pensionibus - - - 24 6 0 | 1 12 6 Annual pensions were reserved to the Chapter out of the fruits of churches which were in their patronage, bvit not annexed to the monastery in iwoprios tisus ; also the annual sum due from the monks of the Abbey of Tynterne, who farmed the Irish manors of Christ Church, was reckoned under this head as a ^jemio (but beino- an Irish rent it viekled nothing in either of the years in question). £ f!.' d. £ s. d. De oblationibus - - 460 0 0 | 461 0 0 These offerings were made at the shrine, tomb, corona, and scene of the martyrdom of St. Thomas, at the high altar of the Cathedral, at the altar of St. Mary in the Cry})t, and at the tomb of the quasi-canonised Abp. Winchelsey. £ s. d. £ s. d. De obventionibus - - 17 17 1 | 44 10 5 Miscellaneous receipts, in the two years, were derived from gifts made by three of the monks to the ti-easury of their monastery, and others given by laymen ; from the value of the skin of a horse which died of disease ; from that of a living horse sold by the Treasurers (13«. 4td.); and from the amonnt of a King's tenth, INTHODUCTION. xlix collected from the London tenants but not yet paid into the royal Exchequer. £ s. d. De debitis attcrminatis - 1 11 0 | Nichil. This small sum was made up of 13 instalments paid by debtors, who were bound to make their payments on certain prefixed days. 1326-7. 1335-6. £ s. d. De mutuo de diversis amicis 160 0 0 ad instantiam Domini H. Prioris. This entry certainly indicates a loan advanced for the accommodation of the Chapter, and not merely a banking transaction. £ s. d. £ s. d. Summa tocius rcccpti siuc 2,093 3 8j 2,107 1 2 romancntc. Suinma tocius rcccpti cum 2,093 3 8} 2,181 8 5 rcmaneutc. lude subtracta pro casura, 0 13 85 0 8 5 cambio, etc. Et rcmanet ad expensa - 2,092 10 0 2,181 0 0 £ s. d. Expensa. Per tallias - - - 908 2 1 | 875 19 -1 This section includes the ordinary domestic expenses laid out by the Cellarer and other responsible otticers, who were permitted to indent upon the ti'easury by means of cheques {fallieft). £ s. d. £ s. d. Siue tallils - - . 332 7 8 | 817 12 1 These were cash payments for miscellaneous pui-chascs and salaries, and in the MS. are divided into two distinct paragraphs, each of which has its separate summa, with 1 INTRODUCTION. a sum total made by the addition of these two. The first inchides wine purchased in France (.56 hogsheads and 2 pipes, costing 1S21.) ; a small quantity of wine bought in the city (20s.) ; and the cost of wheat, barley, malt, pease, and horse corn. The second division con- tains stipends of chantry priests, costs of enclosures, repairs of buildings, timber bought, two silver-gilt and enamelled cups and a vase given to the King and Queen, and sundry unspecified presents made by the Prior. £ s. d. £ s. d. Solutiones peusionum - 1,326 7 0 | 18 6 8 These pensions are the retaining fees of five Coun- sel of the Convent (one of whom was Adam de Mury- mouth, the historian), and the stipends of two holders of corrodies. All the payments to Counsel were in both years in arrear, and (as is shown on pp. 59, 60, 70) Adam's claims were only grudgingly allowed at first. 1326-7. 1335-6. £ s. d. £ s. d. Solutiones salariorum - - 13 14 2 | 0 0 These include the salaries of certain laymen having professional rank ; among them being two or three proctors; Magister Egidius, Medicus (21. 13s. 4x1. a year) ; and MagistriW. and S., Sirurgici (each 13s. 4f?.). £ s. d. £ s. d. SolutionoK debitorum per 159 13 9'i 222 6 1 tallias. I Solutiones debitorum sine 224 1 3| 198 7 2 talliis. Under these heads are included old debts discharged, for the payment of which the Treasurers claimed credit ; those of an ordinary kind being acquitted by tallies, whilst other.s, including the exactions of papal nimtii, and pensions due to alien monasteries on account of English churches, were settled in cash. INTRODUCTION, li £ s. (I. Allocationes - - - 16 11 7 [ Nichil. In these are included small sums for which the Trea- surers ask alloiuance, pleading over-payments and errors of various kinds. £ s. d. £ s. d. Summatociusexpensi 2,046 10 8f | 2,317 11 4i Et remanet in annum 45 19 3J I 43 8 7i futiiram. I Here terminate the regular annual accounts, but in the MS. there follow many pages of memoranda forming an analysis of the debts owing by and to the Chapter. Among the latter are payments due from defaulting tenants, bailiffs of manors, and purchasers of produce ; the accumulated arrears of the Irish innsion ; and those due from the King of France on account of the Wine of St. Thomas. The King of England in 132G is charged with various sums of money lent or exacted by forced loans, amovmting in all to 338L Os. Tel., one of the items being an old liability which had been running since the time of Henry III. The last paragraph of all is headed : " Dehita qiue debet Conventus primtis et diversis ami- cis " ; in which are included all arrears of salary due to those officials who forbore to press the treasury for prompt payment ; and arrears of the customary dues which the Convent OAved to the Archbishops, who Avere evidently indulgent creditors. From these two balance sheets it appears that the most unftivourable year possible, as far as the condition of the country was concerned, presented as good a state of financial affairs, within a few pounds, as the most favourable ; that, in fact, the balance from the year before in one case, and the special loan contracted by the Prior's intiuence in the other, being deducted from the receipts, the year of peace and prosperity only out- did the year of revolution by 147^. ; which advantage was to a great extent neutralized by the fact that in the more prosperous year the expenses exceeded by 911. those of that which was less prosperous. In calculating U 52122. p lii INTRODUCTION. the relative purchasing power which money possessed at the time of the compilation of these accounts with that which it has in our clay, it may be mentioned that in the early part of the 1-tth century a good sheep cost about Is. 6d., whilst in the present year of depressed markets only a poor specimen can be obtained for 30s. ; hence measured by this standard we may multiply the above-given figures by at least 20 in order to arrive at the modern equivalents for the sums there set down. The offerings at the several holy places in the church, which have been enumerated above, furnished a con- siderable j)roportioii of the monastic income — roughly speaking, about one fifth — but the amount of these offerings varied much, nor is it easy to find in the cir- cumstances of the times the rule which controlled the fluctuations. In 1207, when the Convent was most oppressed by King John, and on the eve of being driven over sea to St. Bertin's and other French monasteries, the " offerings to St. Thomas," that is to say, the oblations made at the three holy places with which he was identified, amounted to 388?. 16s.; whilst in 1215, possibly because the sympathy excited by the adversity of the monks had died out with their returning prosperity, the amount offered only reached 12s. 6d. Up to the year 1220 the gifts arising from the cultus of St. Thomas were collected at three altars : (1) that of the Tumha in which the Martyr lay buried in the Crypt ; (2) that of the Martyriiim ov Punctum ensis, situated in the north transept, at the place where the Archbishop's blood was shed, and where the broken point of the sword of one of the murderers was displayed ; and (3) at the Corona — the detached calvarium of the martyr — a relic which was adored in some part of the church which the histories do not specify ; although there is reason to believe that it was kept in a portable box which usually lay upon the Tumha. INTRODUCTION. liii Before 1220 this Corona is only three times men- tioned as the object of separate gifts, and it is probable that the offerings made in its honour were usually merged in those given to the Tumha ; but after 1220 a special chapel to the east of the magnificent new shrine, to which Becket's relics were then translated, was built to receive the " Altar of the Corona," and instantly this Corona^ ceasing to be a mere occasional recipient of oblations,^ assumed the second place in the popular estimation. The building, as well as the relic, was denominated " Becket's Crown," from the Corona there deposited, with, perhaps, some allusion to the crown-like form of the convergfino- vaulting ribs of the roof of the chapel. When the Shrine was added to the three holy places above mentioned the average offerings at the four places of pilgrimage greatly exceeded those which were col- lected at the three which previously existed. The Shrine naturally attracted the greater part of the stream of oblations, and was followed by the Corona (at which was usually collected about one fourth of the amount given to the shrine), after which came the Martyrium and the Tumha, whose joint receipts lagged far behind even those of the Corona. The partes oblationum for for the year 1237 — an ordinary year — give the following proportions : £ s. d. De Feretro - - • 182 10 0 De Corona - - - 3G 3 5 DeTumba - - - 11 1 0 De Martirio - - - 14 0 0 In the same year the other altars of the church attracted comparatively small sums, thus: £ s. d. De Magno Altari - - 12 10 0 De Sancta Maria (in Cryptis) - 0 8 0 De Crucc - - - 0 19 6 De Sancto Michaele - - 0 9 4 liv INTRODUCTION. After a few years the altars of St. Michael and of the Holy Rood disappear from the accounts entirely, and the receipts at the High Altar, which are for years together recorded as nichil, seldom amovinted to more than twenty or thirty shillings in any one year ; but on the contrary the altar of Our Lady in the Crypt, after the foundation there of the Black Prince's chantry, became more attractive, so that its oblations approached in value those of the Corona. The letters contain several allusions to legacies and gifts of ornaments to the Shrine, but it is reserved for the Treasurers' accounts to record the fact that King Henry VIII. was not the first to rob it and the church of some of their jocalia. In proof of this, under the dates 1372-3 are these entries amongst the ohventiones: £ s. d. De una cappa veuerabilis Lanfrauci cre- mata, et de diyersis jocalibus fucis (fusis) venditis - . - . . 116 6 8 De duabus casulis venerabilis Lanfranci crematis, cum aliis diversis jocalibus fucis venditis - - - - 138 12 0 Item : receptse, per manus Domini Eicardi Prioris, centum libras, de diversis ymaginibus feretri Beati TliomjB Martiris fucis venditis. That is to say. Archbishop Lanfrane's ancient vest- ments were burnt to recover the gold from the orphreys, and the ornaments of the shrine were melted and sold, not furtively, but under the direction of Prior Gilling- hani. LITERS CANTUARIENSES. 495. — LiTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO JOHANNI DE COBE- 8 Jau. 1 333 HAM, TAXATORI ET COLLECTORI X""^ ET XV™=* IN COMITATU KaNCIA, PRO OVIBUS NOSTRIS DE I^- 29 a. THESAURARIA NOSTRA ET DE MANERIO DE ClYVE NON TAXANDIS. A seon cher amy et byen ame en Dyeu Munsire The Prior Johan de Cobebam, Ricbard, par la sufFraunce de Dyeu collector Priour del Eglyse de Canterbire, salutz, et seynte de of a tenth cors et dalme. Purceoqe nous avoms purchace brefs fifteenth le Roy, a vous et a vos cornpaygnons chefz taxours et '^^al coyllours del disme et xv^ie le Roy en le counte de ^^thThe^'^ Kent, pur nous et nos tenans, sycome nostre cunseyl P°J|^^^°* n(o)us cunseyla ; les queux brefs nostre cher et byen taxation of ame en Dyeu Munsire Johan de Ifeld nostre Sene- ''^ ^'j-g'^'j.'^ schal vous bailera, sicome nous entendums. Et nos hoo, and. 495. To his dear friend and well-beloved in God Sir John de Cobham, Richard, by God's permission Prior of the Church of Canterbury, greeting, and health of body and soul. "Whereas we have obtained king's writs, directed to you and to your fellows the Chief Taxors and Col- lectors of the King's tenth and tifteenth in the County of Kent, on behalf of us and our tenants, as our counsel recommended us to do ; which writs our dear and well- beloved in God Sir John de Ifield, our Seneschal, will deliver to you, as we are given to understand. Now as U 52123. Wt. 9790. A 2 lest the tenants should pass off their own sheep as those of the Con- vent, he sends the number of those on the manor belonging to the Convent. berbys, apertenaas a nostre tresorie et a nostre manoir de Clyve, sunt taxes en divers hundres par vos sutz- taxours, sicome le portour de cestis vous saverr. en- fourmer, nous, affians en les grantz amistes et bien- fetz qe vous nous avcz fet avant cest houre, pur les queux nous et nostre Covent vous sumes mut tenu, clierement vous prioms qe as ditz brefs, nous et nos tenans touchantz, save vostre honur, voillez estre favorable. Et purceoqe nous ne volums qe nul de nos tenans, ne autres en ky meyn nos berbys sunt trovez, se puysse covenir de ces berbys demene taxer, par colur de noz berbys, en deceyte de nostre Seignur le Roy ne de vous ; de nos dites berbys vous maundums la summe, la quele est uhi^ et xiiij. berbys, des queux nous vous prioms qe santz taxer ou damage aver ordeyne nous soit remedy e. Adyeo qi vous save et vous meyntiegne en grant honur. Done a Can- terbire le viij. jour de Jenever, etc. 12 Jan. 496. — LiTTERA CREDENCI^ MISSA DOMINO WiLLELMO (1333). DeNOM pro ATTORNATO NOMINANDO ET L. 29 b. FACIENDO. The Prior entangled in three law suits, asks a Judge to recognize a person, to be named to him by the Coun- sel of the Convent, as Attor- ney for the Chap- ter. A son treschier amy et bien amez en Dieu Monsire William de Denom, Richard, etc. salutz, et saunte de corps et dalme. Moult vous mercioms de toutz biens et honurs, qe fait nous avez et a nostre E.sglisc, et unqore frez sil vous plest. Et vous prioms qe crere voillez a nosti'e chier et bien amez Thomas de Med- menhammc, portour de cestes, et reeordier pur qous et pur les noz un attorne le quiel le dit Thomas vous nommera, en troys brefs, ou nous sumes pleintifs en lun, et en les deux defendantz ; et foy donier al dit Thomas de chose qil vous dira de par nous, pur le droit de nostre Esglise sauvier. Et moult nous peise CANTUABIENSES. 3 our sheep appropriated to our Treasury, and our manor of Cliff, are taxed by your Sub-Taxors in separate hun- dreds, as the bearer of these will be able to inform you, we, trusting to the great friendship and benevolence that you have hitherto showed us, for which we and our Convent are truly bound to you, earnestl}- pray that you will be pleased to favourably consider these writs which concern us and our tenants, as far as your honour will allow. And because that we do not desire that any of our tenants, nor anyone else in whose hands our sheep may be found, shall by pretext of their being our sheep contrive to have his own sheep taxed (upon our favourable scale), which would be a fraud upon the King and you ; we send you the sum total of those sheep which are ours, namely 2,014 sheep, concerning which we beg you to provide relief, not taxing them or causing us to suffer injury. Adieu, &c. 496. To his very dear friend and well-beloved in God Sir William de Denom, Richard, &c., greeting, &c., and health of body and soul. We thank you exceedingly for all the benefits and honours which you have already done to us and to our Church, and which, may it please you, you will do in the future. And we beg that you will give credit to our dear and well-beloved Thomas de Medmenham, bearer of these, and enter for us and ours the name of an attorney, whom the said Thomas will name to you, in three writs, in one of which we are plaintifis, and in the other two defendants ; and give credence to the said Thomas in what he shall say to you, A 2 4 LITER.E qe nous avoms si pou daqeintaunce de vous, par defaute denti'eparlance entre nous, de quey il serra adresse ^ si nous vous puissoms une foith parlier, dont vous prioms si vous vienez en noz parties qe a nous venier voillez com al vostre, de quey nous serroms joyous, et lee de laqueintaunce especialment affermier. A DieUj etc. Done a Canterbire le xij. jour de Janivoir. 12 Jan. 497 — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO AdJE DE StANGRE PRO (1333). EODEM NEGOTIO. L. 29 b. A letter Salutem in Auctore salutis. Pro utilitate vestri la- of similar boris et efBcacis amicitipe, quae nobis et Ecclesise nostraj ad(l°ressed frequenter solatium relevationis afferebat, vobis grati- to another arum actiones referimus cumulatas ; ex affectu vos coudsgI • • of the rogantes, quatinus dilecto nostro Thome de Medmen- eonveiit. hamme, latori prsesentium, fidem indubiam adhibere velitis, in hiis qua? vobis dicet ex parte nostra quoad quosdam attornatos pro nobis, si placet,, per vos nomi- nandos. Valete in Christo. Dat. ut supra. 12 Jan. 498. — LiTTERA REGEATIONIS MISSA DOMINO ElYE DE (1333). GrYMMESBY PRO LABORE ET EXPENSIS NOBIS L. 29 b. FACTIS. The Pricr Salutem, etc. Pro utilitate, etc. 'p<^t^t proxima lawyer for Utteva supradicfa usque ad illud verhumi cumulatas, favours prsecipue pro labore et expensis vestris factis circa conferred . . . . .. •,. in con- xvj. brevia regia, nuper pro nobis, non nostns mentis with*the ^^'^ vestra continua benignitate, jjer vos perquisita ))ro business salvatione juris Ecclesiae nostras ; quae brevia una cum Coment litteris vestris per nuntium nostrum nobis transmisistis, ' redresse? CANTUARIENSES. 5 on our part, and for the salvation of the rights of our Church. And it grieves us greatly that we have so little personal knowledge of you, from lack of oppor- tunities of conversing, for which there will be a remedy if once we can speak with you ; hence we beseech you, that if ever you come into our parts, you will please to couie to us as to your own ; whereof we should be rejoiced, and especially glad to draw closer the bond of our acquaintance. Adieu, &c. nos vobis specialiter obligantes. Valetc in Christo, nobis cum fiducia rescribentes vel mittentes, si aliqua vos concernant qufe per nos valuerint feliciter ex- pediri. Dat. ut supra. 499. — Responsio litter^e Domini Johannis Cices- I6 Jan. trp:nsis Episgopi de uno calice amallato AD FERETRUM BeATI ThOM^ MaRTYRIS per L. 29 b. IPSUM OBLATO. Venerabili in Christo Patri Domino Johanni, Dei John de gratia Cicestrensi Episcopo, Ricardus, permissione ejus- Bi^ho'pof dein Prior EcclesiiB Christi Cantuariensis, salutem, et Cliiehester quicquid reverentiie potuerit et honoris. Litteras ^ vestras reverendre paternitatis recepimus xvj" die precious Januarii circa horam nonam, per Dominum Thomam offered for de Scarles clericum vestrum ; quibus, coram nobis fratribus nostris in Capitulo nostro, statim post earum of st. receptionem, perlectis, recepimus a dicto Domino Thomas. Thoma unum calicem pretiosum, ad feretrum Beati Thomae Martyris nomine vestro oblatuni ; quo medi- ante pro salute vestra. Ipso juvanto qui est omnium vera salus, ad altare dicti feretin in missis celebrandis temporibus .succedentibus, juxta vestrfe voluntatis affectum, summo Regi preces salutares specialiter offe- rentur. Valeat et vigeat vestra benigna paternitas in 6 LITER.E Domino per tempoia diutina. die Januarii supradicto. Datum Cantuariso xvj° (Jan. 1333.) L. 29 b. The Prior alludes mysteri- ously to some favour ■which he has hoped to obtain for Tho- mas de Foxton, but in ■which hope he has hitherto been disap- pointed. 500. — Litter A dieecta Magistro Thom.e de Foxton SUPER QUIBUSDA:^! NEGOTIIS IPSUM CONTIXGEN- TIBUS, INTER NOS ET EUNDEM MODO PRIYATO PROLOQUUTIS. Salutem in salute vera. Recepimits litteras vestras in Vigilia Epiplianiae Domini, quibus inspectis et intellectis, incepimu.s considerare qusedam per.sonam vesti'am concernentia, qiife inter nos, sicut scitis, modo private nuper fuerant proloquuta; pro quibus raodo secretiori et convenientiori, nostros confratres seniores stepe probantes et examinantes, studuimus laborare ; sed ex labore nostro, juxta nostri desiderii affectum, optatus et efficax etfectus nullatenus gene- ratur. Nec adhuc potuimus allicere confratres nostros ut voluntas vestra, nobis viva voce vcstra secretins iutimata, cfticaciter impleatur. Hac lationc, no.s, unitatem fraternte caritatis quoad vestram petitionem expeetantes, vobis temporibus retroactis non scripsimus, secundum quod inter nos fuerat ordinatum. Valete, etc. 18 Jan. 1333. L. 30 b. The tenants of Ris- borough, having broken their sworn promise, ask for indulgence which the Prior refuses. 501. — LiTTERA MISSA JaCOBO FrYSEL DE GRATIA FACIEKDA TEXEXTIBUS XOSTRIS DE HALTOX PRO SUO JURAilENTO XOBIS FACTO NON OBSERVATO. Salutem etc. Recepimus litteras vestras quas bene intelleximus, et consuluimus teuentibus nosti'is de Halton, qui venerunt ad nos, sicut scitis, pro gratia habenda, ut ad(b)irent Poenitentiarium pro suo jura- mento, nobis prius facto, non observato, et ipsi annu- ebant nostrse voluntati. Postea, juxta consilium ves- trum, recepimus a dictis tenentibus novum juramentum, quserentes ab eis pro sua transgression e quadraginta CANTUARIENSES. 7 raarcas ; ipsi vero qusesierunt relaxationem ; nos re- spondimus, quod nichil relaxare vellemus antequam constaret nobis de eorum gestibus futui-is temporibus melioratis. Haec diximus ad terrorem, discretioni ves- tvse correctionem vel punitionem prsedictorum tenen- tium totaliter relinqiientes. Dat. Cantuar. xviij^io die Januarii, anno Domini moccc°xxxijo. 502. 22 Jan. 1333. A feigned Memoraudum : quod xxii'' die Januarii, anno Domini ^^"^"^^P^ I ' given m Mcccxxxij" misimus, per Petrum nuntium nostrum. Domino the matter Johanni Lange, Militi, civi Parisiensi, unam acquietantiam "^j^g^^^ sigillo prajpositurEe Parisiensis sig-natam, in qua continebatur : St. Tho- quod dictus Dominus Johannes Lange recepit a Domino Ed- q^^^^ Avardo, Dei gratia Rege Auglia3 a couquesto tei-tio, centum fg^^g j{ libras sterlingorum, per mauus religiosorum virorum Prioris it appeared et Oapituli Ecclesiaa Christi Cantuarias. Et memorandum gxcheauer quod hujusmodi recognitio receptionia fuit vocalis sed non had paid realis. Convent . a hundi'ed pounds on account of a debt owing by the King to Launge, which the hitter acknowledged as a payment on account. But this payment never took place. 503. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO SiMONI ArCHIEPISCOPO 4 Feb. DE NEGOTIO P. DE DeNE ET DE MORTE J. DE Dene. l. so o. Quicquid potuerit obedientise, reverentife, et honoris. The Prior Pater reverende, Magister Willelmus de Renhara et fj^g history ego accessimus, xiiij° die Novembris ultimo prteterito, of his ad Monasterium Sancti Augustini Cantuariae, pro in- st'Augus- formatione habenda super statu Petri de Dene, juxta ti^"*^'* "| mandatum apostolicum nobis directum ; et ibidem of Peter fecimus monitiones sub certa forma, quam, una cum "^"^ P^"^", ^ and he processu nostro et aliis actibus dictum Petrum con- asks the Arch- bishop tingentibus, vobis ex parte mea lator prsesentium -^'"cii- 8 LITER.?': to press his co- executor to come to Canter- bury to put an enc to the business. demonstrabit. Et quia, sicut scitls, scribitur : " omnia cum consilio," etc. humiliter supplico paternitati vestrje, quatinus pr?ecipere velitis clericis vestris ut dictum processum vestrum, unacum aliis actibus hujusmodi processum concernentibus, diligenter examinentur. Qui- bus examinatis, michi, vestro, dignemini renuntiare qualiter securius et melius fuerit procedendum in negotio memorato ; scientes quod collega meus mul- tipliciter se excusat, quod non valet liac vice mecum procedere ad exequendum finaliter mandatum apostoli- cum nobis pro dicto negotio transmissum. Et ideo, si placet, excitetis dictum Magistrum Willelmum per litteras vestras, ut, praetermissis suis excusationibus, ad Cantuariam accedat, mecum ulterius in dicto negotio, juxta juris exigentiam, processurus. Valeat vita vestra in Christo, qui propicietur animjie Johannis de Dene qui, die Jovis proximo ante festum Purificationis proxime prteteritum, diem suum clausit extremum ; per cujus decessum officium senescallise Aulfe Hospitum Ecclesise vestrse ad praesens vacat, ubi habetis alium Senescallum prseficere, juxta arbitrium vestrse volun- tatis. Dat. Cantuar. iiij*o die Februarii. (Feb. 1333.) L. 30 >J. The co- executor is begged to come to Canter- bury to end the affair of Peter de Deue, a copy of Peter's re- cantation being en- closed in the letter. 504. — Alia littera missa Magistro W. de Renham de eodem negotio. Salutem in vera salute. "Recepimus nuper litteras vestras, quibus intellectis, vocavimus consilium nos- trum, cum quo consideravimus de modo ulteriori pro- cedendi in negotio concernente P. de Dene, et, tractatu prpeliabito, videtur nobis, quod tutius et lionorabilius possemus in pra3sentia vestra quam absentia declinare at Monasterium Sancti Augustini pro executione negotii supradicti ; et ideirco ex affectu vos }'ogamus, quatinus, quamcitius commode potueritis, accedere velitis ad nos a])ud Cantuariam vos expectantes ; ut sic quae per nos aliqualiter fuerant inchoati, per nos CANTUARIENSES. 9 etiam feliciter finiantiir. Adhuc mittimus vobis copiam cujusdam sermonis, praesentibus interclusis, quern P. de Dene, die Sancti Blasii proximo prteterito ante pran- dium, prsedicavit in clioi'o Monasterii Sancti Augustini supradicti, coram notario et aliis personis, tarn clericis quam secularibus, in multitudine copiosa ; quam copiam demonstretis, si placet, OfBciali Curije Cantuariensis, et Decano de Arcubus si decreveritis hoc esse facien- dum. Valete, etc. Tenor vero sermonis supradicti talis est : In nomine Dei, Amen. Eg-o Petms de Dene, mona- The text . ... of Peter chus Monasterii Sancti Augustini Cantuaria^, Dene's fateor me nec vim nec metum passum, nec vi [•'j^^^'^" nec metu ductum esse, sed ab omni vi et metu liberum in praesenti. Item : fateor me monachum in ordine Sancti Bene- dicti, et Monasterio Sancti Augustini Cantua- rise canonice professum fuisse et esse in pric- senti. Item : protestor me nolle a statu monacliali nec a professione mea hujusmodi recedere, nec ipsum nec ipsam impugnare de cetero quovismodo. Item : non obstante vi vel metu quocunque, si quae vel quis tempore professionis hujusmodi, ante, vel post, michi illatus extiterit, propter quod professio mea hujusmodi calumpniari, vel quic- quam ejus form?e vel efFectui derrogari pos.sit vel impingi, ipsam professionem aj^probo et ratifico in hiis scriptis. Item : proclamationibus seu protestationibus de statu meo monachali ad statum secularem per me a tempoi'e professionis hujusmodi factis, necnou provocationibus et appellationibus, querelis, litteris apostolicis impetratis vel impetrandis, ac processibus quibiiscunque, per me seu alium nomine meo, habitis, factis; seu inturjectis, et specialitcr littei'is apostolicis in Curia Romana 10 LITERS noinino inco impetratis, ac Domino Priori Ecelesise Christi Cantuariensis, Magistro Willel- mo de Renham Canonico Londoniensi, et Officiali Cantuariensi, in hac parte nuper directis, pure, sponte, libere, et absolute re- nuntio per prn?sentes. Et juro ad hsec sancta Dei Evangelia, per me corporaliter tacta, me omnia et singula prsemissa perpetuis temporibus firmiter observaturum. (Feb. 1333.) L. 31 «. The Arch- bishop's resident monk is reminded of the sentence •which hanufs over the Arch- bishop on account of the un- paid costs of his suit with at Augus- tine's. And a report follows of the recan- tation made in the choir of St. Augus- tine's by- Peter de Dene. 505.— LiTTERA MTSSA FrATEI THOMiE GUODWYNESTON DE QUADAM EXECUTIONE FaCTA PER DOMINUM Icherium contra DoMiNUM Archiepiscopum PRO August [xiENSiBUS, et de quada^m inhi- BITIONE ; AC DE MORTE J. DE DeNE, ET DE NEGOTIO P. DE DeXE. Salutem. Non recessit a memoria qualiter, die Veneris proximo ante festum Pui'ificationis Beatie Marife, contra Dominum Archiepiscopum factae fueruiit qutedam nionitioncs, qucB continebantur in processu Domini Icherii, cujus processus copiani non possumus habere Domino nostro communi transmittendam : vir- tus tamen processus:, sicut intelleximus a quodam viro discreto quein non latet hujusmodi processus, talis est : Monehatiiv Dominus Cantiuiriensis, die Veneris prox' ime supradido, quod infra xxx. dies satisfaciat Augus- tinensihus de septingentis lihris, et si non fccerit sit siispensus ah ingressiv ecclesice ; et si jycr alios xxx. dies non satisfecerit, etc. sit suspensus a divinis; ter- tio, si p>er alios xxx. dies sequentes non satisfecerit, etc. s'.t excommunicatus. Hsec vobis scribimus, consilio Domini nostri, et ultcrius, si fuerit expediens, Domino nostro, notificanda. Et quia inter nos fuit loqatum de quadam inhibitione quam Dominus habet penes se, ut credimus, cujus copiam habere multum affcctamus, volumus quod vos faciatis copiari dictam inhibitioncm, CANTUARIENSES, 11 et nobis hujusmodi copiam per latorem prsesentium, transmittatis ; scientes quod per talem missionem in inmensum poteritis nos placare. Adhuc vobis mittimus copiam cujusdam sermonis, prcesentibus interclusis, quern P. de Dene, die Sancti Blasii proximo prceterito, prredicavit ante prandium in choro Monasterii Sancti Augustini Cantuarice, coram notario et aliis personis, tarn clericis quam secularibus, in multitudine copiosa; quam copiam demonstretis consilio Domini nostri, et uiterius Domino, si suum consilium decreverit hoc esse faciendum. Valete in Christo, super liiis et aliis, Do- minum et vos contingentibus, voluntatem vestram nobis rescribentesj etc. 506. — LiTTERA MTSSA DOMINO ReGI FrANCIvE PRO VIXIS 28 Jau. NOSTRIS IBIDEM. L. 30 a. Excellentissimo Principi, Domino Philippo, Dei The Tiior gratia Regi Francia3 illustris, sui humiles et devoti to'phm'p^ Ricardus Prior Ecclesife Cliristi Cantuariensis et ejus- VI. that dcm loci Capitulum, salutem, et orationum sufFragia Laun-^e devotarum. Celebris memorise Dominus Ludovicus bas got Rex Fi'ancise, ob devotionem et dilectionem quas habuit jn arrear ad beatum et gloriosum martyrem Thomam dudvim "^i'l^ ^^'^ Ecclesise nostrge Archiepiscopum, nobis et Ecclesise fo/thc"''' nostroc supradictse centum modios vini in perpetuam ^'^fi^"*^ elemosinam concessit, percipiendos in castellaria Pissiaci mas, aud annuatim. Sed Dominus J. Launge, miles, civis Pari- ^.^ . 1 . King siensis, procurator noster ad dicta vina colligcnda et to inter- percipienda ad opus nostrum, de hujusmodi vinis nos- P"**^' tris, ab ipso per sex annos proximo praeteritos collectis, nobiscum plenarie computare, ac nobis solvere qufe tenetur, efficaciter non curavit. Quocirca vestrce regise serenitati humiliter supplicamus, quatinus, pro amore et honore gloriosi martyris Thoraai prgedicti, prrefato Do- mino Johanni praecipere dignemini, ut dc singulis arreragiis centum modiorum pnedictorum de sex annis 12 LITERJi proxime praeteritis, sine uune majoris Jispeudio, nobis satisfacere non omittat. Valeat et visreat vestra regia celsitudo in Cliristo, cui pro incolumitate vestra hostias offerimus sacrificii salutaris, et glorioso mar- 22 Jan. 507. — Alia littera supplicatoria missa Domix.e 1333 JOHAXXi COMITJSSA DE Ha^'OSV PRO EODEM ^- 3° NEGOTIO, The Coun- ^ ^pgg honurable dame Dame Joliann Contesse tet. Tho ma 22 Jan. 598. — TeRTIA LITTERA MISSA DOMINO J. LaUXGE PRO DICTIS VIXIS XOSTRIS FrAN'CLE. L. 30 a. A letter A SOU lx)n et f3-able amy Mon-sire J. Launge, Chi- sMie sub- '^'aler, Richard, etc. saluz, et bon amistiez. Sachez, CANTUARIENSES. 13 tyri Tliomse preces effundimus speciales. Datum in Capitulo nostro xxij<5° die Januarii sub sigillo nostro comrauni, anno Domini Mcccxxxudo^ secundum cursum EcclesiaB Angiicanaj. 507. To his right honourable Lady, the Lady Joan Countess of Hainault, her devoted Richard, by God's permission &c. greeting, and all manner of reverences, and honours, and joy everlasting. Most dear Lady, we heartily thank God and you for the great devotion which you feci towards St. Thomas and our Church of Canterbury, and for the honour which you did us when you wei e last in England, wherefore at all times to come we are bound to you and to all yours. And whereas, very dear Lady, we have sent a letter to that most noble prince and your very dear brother the Lord Philippe King of France, asking that it may please him to command Sir John Launge, knight, and burgess of Paris, to pay us, at the earliest date that he can, the money which he owes us in respect of our wines in France for the last six years, which the said Sir John has received as our proctor ; we devoutly pray that you will be pleased to give us a letter to the said noble King your brother, to tlie effect that he will be pleased benevolently to listen to our devout prayer and graciously to grant it. Adieu, &c. 508. To his good and trusty friend Sir John Launge, Knight, Richard, &c., greeting and true fricndsliip. Know, 14 LITERS jectsent Sire, qe nous avoms suy en la court nostve Seignur hlmsd'f:^^ le Roy Dengleterre ove la quitaunce/ de cent livres qc vous nous mandastes, la quele nous vous remaun- doms par le portour de cestes. Et auxi sovent avoms prie a la compeignie de Barde, de par vous et par lamour de nous, qil vous duissent aider qe les deniers, qe vous nous devez pur noz vins de Fraunce, fuissent paiez a nous en florins ou en esterlings. Voillez savoir qe nous avoms tieu respons de la Court nostre Seignur le Roy et de la dite Compeignie, qil ne covient mye qe vous nous travoillez plus de suire par cele voye. Et pur ceo qe nous avoms hastivement abusoigner, vous prioms cherement qe vous nous voil- lez paier toutz les deniers qe vous nous devez de noz arrerages, aplustost com vous le poez esploitei-. Tant voillez faire, cher Sire, benignement endroit de ceste chose pur lamour de Seint Thomas, a cui vous avez bien et lealment servi et unqore servez, qe nous ne ayoms mestier par aillours nen altri court querre re- medye; kar nous harreyoms molt de vous travoiller. Vostre volente, cher Sire, endroit do cestes choses nous voillez remaundier par le portour avantdit. Don. ut supra. 18 Feb. 509. — LiTTERA CONCESSA PER NOS ThOM^ DE ByS- ^^3^- SCHOPPISTON SeNESCALLO AULyE HoSPlTUM L. 31 (/. SUPER LIBERATIONE ATTORNATO SUO MINIS- TRANDO. The Ste- Richardus permissions divina Ecclesise Christi Can- ward of tuariensis Prior humilis, dilecto nobis in Christo Thomte ten Hall de Bysschoppiston, Seneseallo Aul93 Hospitum EcclesitB at Canter- j-^qs^^^.^. nrpedictfu, salutem, et sinceram in Domino cari- Dury IS in ^ t-> • constant tatem. Attendens reverendus pater noster Dommus ' This is the abortive receipt alluded to iu 502. CANTUARIENSES. 15 Sieur, that we have applied in the Court of our Lord the King of England with the receipt for a hundred pounds which you sent us, and which we return to you by the bearer of these. And also we have often prayed the Company of the Bardi, on your behalf and for love of us, that they would help to procure that the money which you owe us for our French wines might be paid to us in florins or in sterling money. Please to under- stand that we have received such answers from tlie Court of our Lord the King, and from the said Company, that it is not becoming for us to be farther troubled by you to sue in the present way. And therefore, as we are in pressing need, we earnestly pray you that you will be pleased to pay us all the money which you owe us for arrears, as soon as you can accomplish it. Be pleased kindly to do so much in this matter, dear Sieui*, for the love of St. Thomas whom you have hitherto loyally served and in whose service you still are, so that we may not have need to seek a remedy elsewhere, or in any Court of Law, for we really hesitate to press you. Please to send word of your intentions in these matters by the bearer aforesaid. Symon Dei gi-atia Cantuariensis Ai'chiepiseopus totius personal p, . , . , 1 ■ ,. attendance Angiiee Primas obsequium tuum, quod ei praesentia- ji^g liter impendis, sibi perutile pariter et gratum existere, Arch- suis instanter litteris nos pulsavit, quatinus, tibi quam- and there- diu suis obsequiis institeris, ut per attornatum ydoneum ^^'^y ^* nobis et Ecclesiie nostrse, in officio senescallise prse- of'the'^"''** dictai, ministrare valeas, et stipendia consueta per- letter, he . . ^ . . . IS to be cipere ac si personaliter in dicto officio ministrares, allowed spocialem licentiam concedere curaremus. Nos igitur, fi^s'dilt^^s"^ beneplacito patris nostri pra3dicti favorabiliter an- by deputy nuentes, tecum, ut per attornatum tuum vel alium receive virum ydoneum, quera ad pnesentationem seu nomi- i>is salary iu person. 16 LITERiE nationem tuam duxerimus acceptandum, totum servi- tiuTii quod ad dictam senescalliam pertinet, quamdiu obsequiis dicti patris institeris, facere valeas et exer- cere, ac propter hoc feoda, liberationes, et stipendia, necnon emoiumenta omnia et singula Senescallis nostris hujusmodi personaliter in dicto officio minis trantibus debita et consiieta, adeo plene percipere debeas ac si persona propria totum servitium faceres antedictum, tenore })ra3.sentium dispensamus, ac tibi gratiam et licentiam concedimus specialem. In cujus rei testimo- nium sigillum nostrum fecimus hiis apponi. Dat. Cantuar. in Prioratu nostro prsedicto, decimo octavo die mensis Februarii, anno Domini M'^ccc°ioxxxij<^'o. 9 March o iO.— LiTTEKA DIRECTA PROCUEATORI XOSTRO IN CU- (1333). RIA EOJIANA PRO QUIBUSDAM CONCERNENTIBUS ^- 28 «• PERSONAM NOSTRAM. The Prior Salutem in Christo. Vobis reddimus gratiarum (isles Ills proctor acticnes pro quadam commissione, quam, ad nostram at the instantiam, impetrastis a Domino Gaucelino Pceni- Cuna to . . -r-. • • , • n- , obtain for tentiario Domini nostri rapse ; vos ex anectu rogantes him the jterata vice, ouatinus instare pro persona nostra velitis pnvilege .... of choosing exhabundanti erga prtedictum Poenitentiarium, ut ipse confelsor dignetur, per suas litteras, nobis concedere potestatem and to eligendi confessorem nostrum juxta parvitatem nostrre ?ha/con- discretionis ; et habeat ipse Confessor, per nos eli- fessorthe gendus, si fieri possit, potestatem absolvendi nos in aWvini quibuscunque casibus Curire reservatis, exceptis certis in cases casibus quos ipse Pcenitentiarius Domini Papae decre- serTed^to^' verit, per litteras suas nobis dirigendas ut credimus, the Curia, specialiter excipiendos. Instetis etiam ex parte nos- tra exhabundanti erga pi'aedictum Poenitentiarium Domini Papa?, ut ipse velit concedere poenitentiario, sicut prsescripsimus per nos eligendo, potestatem dis- pensandi nobiscum super irregularitate, si quam con- traxerimus indiscrete nos miscentes divinis ; et fiat CANTUARIENSES, 17 petitio vestra, ex parte nostra, ita universalis in hac parte sicut fieri potest, exceptis certis casibus quos dictus Pcenitentiarius Domini Papse duxerit excipiendos. Expensas vero pro ipsis impetrandis per vestrse pru- dentise diligentiam faciendas, juxta vestram informa- tionem nobis intimandam, .super hirs intendimus mi- nistrare. Valete, super hiis et aliis litteris nostris per nos vobis tarde directis, ac de contiugentibus Ecclesiam nostram in Curia, et de statu vestro, per latorem prsesentium reseribentes. 511. — LiTTERA MISSA MaGISTRO H. DE IdESWORTH PRO (Mar. CONSILIO HABENDO SUPER NEGOTIIS TANGENTI- ^^^^-^ BUS P(ETRUM) DE DeXE. L. 26 b. Salutem, etc. Placeat vobis adhibere fidem dilecto The Prior amico nostro Magistro W. de Renham, latori prsesen- ^^^^'^ . . judges tium, in hiis quae vobis dicet ex parte nostra et sua. delegated Adhuc, non latet vos, ut intelleximus, bulla quae nobis ^pQ^°j,|jg et vobis ac dicto Magistro W, directa est, pro quibus- See have dam negotiis contingentibus Petrum de Dene ; pro ^t'st^^^ cujus bullae executione nos et pi^sedictus Magister W., Augus- xiiijo die Novembris proximo praeterito, juxta manda- enforce'the tum Apostolicum, accessimus ad Monasterium Sancti liberation Augustini Cantuaviae, et ibidem in doiv.o Capitulari, Dene, coram Domino Wygorniensi, et nobis, et prasdicto aboarderin Magistro W., et aliis fratribus dicti monasterii, et aliis tine^,"who personis secularibus in multitudine copiosa, et in P^'*" Jj^,* ^^'^'^ ^ sentia notariorum, perlegebatur bulla supradicta ; qua by the Ab- perlecta, pars adversa emisit protestationem quod ^"^gy^]'^^'^ contra nos et alias personas cjuascunque, si oporteret, tinians suas justas difientiones haberet, et magna altercatio Jl^^tcd^^anj erat de quibusdam rasuris in dicta bulla contentis. difficulties Verumptamen, non obstantibus hujusmodi protestatione fou^u^'^i^^" et altercatione, nos, juxta discretionem consilii nostri, ipterpre- fecimus monitionem sub forma quae sequitur : wofds^of TI 52122. B tbe Papal bulls. 18 LITERS " Nos igitur Prior Cantuariensis et Willelmus de Renham Canonicvis Londoniensis eeclesiarum, execu- tores mandati Apostolici supradicti, sub forma in eodem contenta, volentes hiijusmodi mandatum Apostolicum exequi reverenter, auctoritate Sedis Apostolicse supra- dictfe vobis Domino Abbati Monasterii Sancti Augus- tini CantuarifB, ac Conventui loci ejusdem, et cuilibet de Conventu prsedicto, praefatum mandatum Apostoli- cum, ac universa et singula in ipso contenta, insinua- mus, notificamus, et ad vestram notitiam deducimus; vosque Abbatem et Conventum prsedictos requirimus et monemus, primo, secundo, et tertio, communiter et divisim, ac peremptorie, et in virtute sanctse obedientife qua dictae Sedi tenemini, sub poenis suspensionis ab ingressu ecclesife, et excommunicationis majoris, in Dominum Abbatem dicti Monasterii et majores per- sonas ejusdem Monasterii, et interdict! ecclesiastici in Monasterium vestrum canonice proferendis, districte prtecipimus et mandamus, quatinus Petrum, de quo in mandato Apostolico prpedicto fit mentio, in vestra potestate invite detento, ut dicitur, infra novem dies, ab hac die monitionis nostras vobis factse continue numerandas, quorum primos tres dies pro prima, et tres alios proxime sequentes pro secunda, et alios tres dies residuos pro terfcia, et termino peremptorio, assignamus, exhibiatis seu exhiberi faciatis ut, ipso Petro in statu iibertatis posito, dictum mandatum Apostolicum plene, quatenus nos contingit, exequi valeamus, prout dictum mandatum exigit et requirit." Adhuc, vobis, ex cei'ta causa, scribimus imam clausulam in dicta bulla contentam, sub forma qu^ sequitur nobis transmissa et collegis nostris : " Johannes Episcopus, servus servorum Dei, etc. Discretioni vestrae per Apostolica scripta mandamus, quatinus vos, vel duo, aut unus vestrum ad dictum Monasterium pariter accedentes, dicto Petro prius in statu Iibertatis posito, cum ipso de prtedictis, et utrum. confessio, approbatio, ratifieatio, et renuntiatio CANTUARIENSES. 19 hujusmodi, quae per eundem Petrum factse fuisse dicuntur et in instrumento designantur eodem, sint verae, nec devient a tramite veritatis, inforraationem recipere studeatis ; et si per informationem hujusmodi reperieritis confessionem, approbationem, ratification em, et renuntiationem pnefatas, in dicto instrumento ut preemittitur contentas, a veritatis substantia deviare, praefatum Petrum, auctoritate nostra, restitui faciatis pristinse libertati." Haec sunt verba bulla? sed magna altercatio est, et erit ut timemus, apud nos, qualiter prima libertas distinguitur a secunda, et quid intelligitur per primam libertatem et quid per secundam quae dicitur pristina. Ac etiam disputatio multiplex est apud nos, et erit ut timemus, qualiter intelliguntur haec verba, cum ipso de prcediciis, etc, Quidam dieunt cum ipso et de ipso per alios informationem recipere, etc. ; alii dicunt et exponunt haec verba cum ipso, etc. isto modo, vide- licet quod debemus dictum Petrum seorsum accipere, et per ipsum solum informaii super contentis in bulla, etc. Super hiis altercationibus supradictis placeat vobis nobis transmittere, quamcitius commode potueri- tis, arbitrium vestrae discretionis ; et sic nobis releva- tionem consolationis multiplicis afFeretis ; et utinam, pro dictis negotiis et aliis nos et Ecclesiam nostram specialiter concernentibus, ad Cantuariam possetis hae vice personaliter declinare. Valete, etc. 512. — LiTTERA ABSOLUTORIA QUORUNDAM MONACHORUM 8 March 1333 Sancti Augustini excommunicatorum prop- ter EORXBI REBELLIONE IN CAUSA PeTRI DE ^' ^" Dene. Noverint universi quod nos Ricardus permissione The Prior divina Prior humilis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, executor f^*'°'^es two monks quarundam litterarum, pro parte Petri de Dene pres- of St. byteri, prout idem Petru.s asseruit, dicecesis Cices- ^^g^^^tio B 2 20 LITERS resisted trensis, nobis, una cum reverendis viris Willelmo de he weut Renham canonieo Londoniensi, et Officiali Cantuari- to their ensi, cum ilia clausula vos duo aut unus vestrum monastery o i a t t t-i on the directarum, a bede Apostolica deputatus, Fratres Peter^de Stephauum de Hakynton Priorem Monasterii Sancti Dene. Augustini Cantuariee, et Salomonem de Ripple mona- chum monasterii ejusdem, a sententia excommunica- tionis, in ipsos et eorum quemlibet, propter ipsorum rebelliones et olTensas contra executionem dictarum 20 March 513. — SeCUNDA LITTERA EXCUSATORIA MISSA DOMINO ReGI pro AUXILIO NON FACIENDO ad MARITA- GiUM Elyanor^e sororis su^. (1333). L. 28 a The Prior, again asked for an aid towards the mar- riage of the King's sister, excuses himself under the same plea as before. To the charge of discourtesy in not answering a former letter, he says that he wrote the answer but that the King's clerk for some rea- son refused to deliver it. A son treschier et treshonurable Seignur Sire Edward par la grace de Dieu Roy Dengleterre, Seignur Dirlande, et Dux Daquitaine, son chapelleyn Richard Priour del Esglise de Canterbirs salutz, et sauncte du coi"ps et dalme, ove la joye pardurable. Treschier Seignur, voillez savoir qe jeo receu nad- gaires voz honurables lettres, par les mains vostre chier clerk Robert de Hemminsbourgh, et auxi receu jeo voz honurables lettres, par les mains vostre vadlet Raulyn de Sey, le xviij^ jour de Martz, ove la reve- rence qe savoy et poay ; en lesqueles est contenuz, qe jeo vous deveroye aider a lez grantz despenses qe vous avez fait honurablement pur le sollempne mariage Dame Elyanore vostre chiere swei', qest marie a noble home Monsire Renaud Counte de Gerland. Benure Seignur, vous plese entendre, qe jeo nay en severealte terres. rentes, ne altres biens, ne chateaux de tem- poralte ne espiritualte, a moy appertenantz forsque en commun ovesqe mon (Jovent. Pur quey, tresgracious Seignur, humblement vous requier, qe de tiele aide a vous taire. pur mon nonpoair a ceste foith, benigne- ment me voillez avoir excusez. Et, treschier Seignur, CANTUARIENSES. 21 litterarum coram nobis commissas, per nos, exigente justitia, fulminata, auctoritate Apostolica supradicta absolvimvis, et ecclesiasticis restituimus sacris, injuncta per nos ipsis et eorum cuilibet, pro commissis praedictis, poenitentia salutari. In cujus rei testi- monium sigillum nostrum pnesentibus est appensum. Dat. Cantuar. viijo die mensis Martii, anno Dni. MOCCCMoxXXIjdo, 513. To his very dear and right honourable Lord, the Lord Edward by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, his Chaplain Richard Prior of the Cliurch of Canterbury, greeting, and health of body and soul, with everlasting joy. Very dear Lord, be pleased to know that I received your honourable letters, by the hand of your clerk Robert de Hemings- burgh, and also I received your honourable letters by the hand of your servant Rawlyn de Sey, the 18th day of March, with all the reverence that I knew or could ; in which there is contained, that I should aid in the great costs that you have to your honour incurred for the solemn marriage of the Lady Eleanor, your dear sister, who is married to the Sir Reginald Count of Guelderland. Our fortunate Lord, please it you to understand, that I do not own in severalty lands, rents, or other possessions, nor temporal nor spiritual chattels, belonging to myself but only in common with my Convent. Wherefore, most gracious Lord, I humbly beg you to mercifully hold me excused for this time from this aid, on the plea of my inability. And, very dear Lord, as to what you have sent me word by your later letters, namely that you marvel 22 LITER/E endi'oit de ceo qe vous me avoz maunde, par voz plus tardive lettres, qe vous emmervoillez moult, et estes meu devers moy, qe Dieu defent, qc jeo iie vous maunday mes lettres dc respouns de voz primere let- tres par le portour de meismes cez, sicome le tenour de celes lettres le voileynt ; a vostre noble Seignurie faz assavoh', qe cele defaute de respons ne peeche mye en moy ; kar jeo profri mes dites lettres de dit respons a vostre dit Clerk, et il de les recevire et a vous poriier pur certeigne cause tout pleinement se excusa, A Dieu, treschier Seignur, qi vous gard, et vous donit sa grace en terre et la gloire qe toutz jours durra. Donz a Canterbirs le xx^ jour de Martz. (Marcb 514<. — LiTTERA MISS A EPISCOPO ROFFENSI PRO SACRO ^^^^■^ CRISMATE PER IPSUM MITTENDO. L. 28 a. The Prior Reverentiam et honorem. Nos, excitati per Sacris- asks the . . . ,^ Bishop of tarn Ecclesipe nostrse, vestrje paternitati preces eiiun- to'^parT f^^"^'^'* cum affectu, quatinus, si in feria quinta proxima chrism to post datam praesentium sacrum crisma conficere decre- the^useof "veritis, nobis portionem de hujusmodi sacro crismate, his Monas- jvixta vestrae discretionis arbitrium, per latorem prte- sentium defereudam transmittere dignemini. Valeat, etc. 17 April 515. — LiTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO SiMONI ArCHIEPISCOPO (1333). SUPER QUlBUSBAM INJURIIS ILLATIS CONTRA I'- 27 a. LIBERTATES EcCLESI.E PER ViCECOMITEM KaN- The Suo patri devotus filius id quod potest obediential, Kranb^s^ reverentise, et honoris. Quia Vicecomes Kancise tardei captured ingressus est libertatem vestram in manerio vestro de of the°'^"'^ Wyngham, et ibidem cepit duos de tenentibus vestris, ' Here and elsewhere tarde must be translated lately. CANTUARIENSES. 23 much, and are displeased with ine, which God forbid, because I did not send my letters of reply to your former letters by the bearer of them, according as the meaning in those letters expressed ; I beg your noble Lordship to understand, that the guilt of this lack of answer was not mine ; for I proferred my said letters of reply to your said clerk, and, for some certain cause, he plumply excused himself from receiving and carrying them to you. God be with you very dear Lord, and may he keep you, and grant you his grace on earth, and that gloiy which shall endure for ever. et duxit eos ad Castrum Cantuarite ; cepit etiam idem convent Vicecomes duos de tenentibus nostris infra libertatem at Mougc- nostram apud Upmonyngham, et eosdem duxit ad Castrum pra^dictum, ibidem hujusmodi captos, tam ves- them iu tros cjuam nostros, detinens, in grave preejudicium ^ur'y'^'^^" libertatum EcclesiiB vestrje. Et, pro hujusmodi injustis Castle, captione et detentione, tam ministri vestri quam nostri, ^so^hn- ad dictum Castrum simul accedentes, custodiam dicto- prisoued rum tenentium vestrorum et nostrorum, ut praedicitur iiants*of captorum, instanter petebant, juxta consuetudinem et Arch- libertatem Ecclesiaj vestrje temporibus retroactis lauda- arwing- biliter usitatam ; sed hujusmodi justis petitionibus i^^"p • Subvicecomcs, locum Vicecomitis prajdicti tenens, tan- proposes quam filius ingratus Ecclesiaj vestrae, annuere totaliter ^^'1*^*^ rccusabat. Hac ratione motus, vobis pro jure et liber- bifihop tate Ecclesise vestrse salvandis humiliter preces infundo, . '■ ' shall join quatinus, juxta discretionem vestram, super hiis forces and leesionibus vestrie libcrtatis et nostrre festinum reme- ag^insf dium apponere velitis. Valeat semper vita vestra in the Sheriff. Christo. Beneplacitum vestrum super hiis et aliis, per latorem prsesentium, signiticare dignemini michi vestro. Dat. Cantuar. xvij'^ die Aprilis. 24 LITERiE 20 April 516. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO GAWENO, DE PECUNIA PER IPSUM RECEPTA A DoMINO J. LaUNGE I'- 35 a. pj^O VINIS NOSTRIS FrANCI^. The Con- vent have succeeded in obtain- ing fifty pounds from Launge by the hands of Gawain Cordier ; and, with a view to the more easy ob- taining of the wine, they send copies of the ori- ginal grant by Louis VII. and other in- struments. Salutz, etc. Sachez, chier amy, qe nous receumes vos lettres le xv. jouv Daveryl apres mange)-, en nostre manev de Adesham ; les queux nous avoms bien enten- duz, et en les quelx feut contenuz qe vous avez resceu de Monsire Jon Launge, Chivaler, soixante neu£ livres six soudz dix deniers desterlings ; des quelx nous avoms resceu, par les mayns Willeam Russel vostre vadlet, cinquante livres desterlings, en partie de paye de les soixante neuf livres six soudz dix deniei-s avant- dites ; des quelx cinquante livres nous vous maundoms une acquitaunce par vostre dit vadlet. Et auxint nous vous maundoms la copie de la cliartre del premier doun qe nous avoms de Sire Lowys jadys Roy de Fraunce, tout en la manere qe nous la avoms ; et auxi vous maun- doms la copye de nostre dreyne chartre del confirmacion qe Sire Charles nous granta. Et pur ceo qe nous voloms qe ces copies soient apertees a toutz et leal- ment crewes, nous avoms fait faire un instrument de la mayn un tabellion sur les dites copies, et auxi les avoms fait asseallier de nostre seal. Et vous maun- doms copie del acompte qe Monsire J. Launge nous maunda dreynement, assealle de son seal et le vostre, Et de la demoere qe vostre vadlet ad fait ove nous, vous prioms qe ne le pi'enez a mal, kar nous avoms estc desheytez, et ne le purrioms plustost deliverer. A Dieu, etc. Donez a Canterbirs le xx. jour Daveryl avantdit. 9 Sept. — Acqttietancia MISSA Domino Gaweno tradenda , PR/EFATO Domino J. Launge. L. 35 a. A receipt Pateat universis per praesentes, quod nos Ricardus, Launge, permissione divina Prior Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis, CANTUARIENSES. 25 51 G. Greeting. Know, dear Friend, that we I'eceived your letters on the 15th of April after dinner, at our manor of Adisham ; which we have well understood, and in which it was contained, that you have received from Sir John Launge, knight, sixty nine pounds six shillings and ten pence sterling ; out of which we have received, by the liands of William Russel your servant, fifty pounds ster- ling, in part payment of the sixty nine pounds odd afore- said ; concerning whicli fifty pounds we send you an aquittance by your servant. And also we send you a copy of the charter of the first grant that we have from the Lord Louis, formerly King of France, — a fac-simile of the original which we have ; and also we send you a copy of our last charter, with the confirmation which My Lord Charles granted to us, and because we wish that these copies should be patent to all and honestly believed, we have caused an instrument to be drawn by a notary relating to the said copies, and also we have caused them to be sealed with our seal. Also we send you a copy of the account which Sir J, Launge last sent to us, sealed with his seal and your own. And as to the long stay which your servant has made with us, we pray that you will not take it ill, for we have been unwell, and could not liberate him earlier. Adieu, &:c. recepimus et habuimus a Domino J. Launge, milite, bythe quindecem libras duodecem solidos et sex denarios ster- ^^°'}? °^ ^ CordiPr, lingorum, m centum florenis de Florentia ; ac etiam for all his sexaginta novem libras sex solidos et decern denarios P^^* P'^J'" ° _ ^ mcnts. sterlingorum, in quibus tenebatur de arreragiis suis pro 26 LITERS ^'inis nostiis FranciitJ, Addelicet, de annis Domini Moccc"xxvijo-viij«-ixo-xxx°-xxxj« et xxxijo, usque ad festiun Kativitatis Beatse Marise Virginis, anno ejusdem Domini m°ccc''xxxiij. De qua quidem pecuniae summa prtedictum Dominum J., heredes et executores suos, imperpetuum vocamus quietos. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum prtesentibus fecimus biis apponi. Dat. Cant, in crastino festi Nativitatis Beatse Marise prsedictce, anno Domini MoccCxxxiijo supradicto. 23 May 518.— LlTTERA MISSA COilMISSAEIO DoMINI CaXCEL- 1333 lARU UXIA'ERSITATIS OXOXI^ SUPER EXCUSA- L. 32 u. TIONE SULLBIATIOXIS FrATRIS H. DE SAXCTO Iyoxe. For some Ricardus, etc. xivo reverendai discretionis Mao^stro reason _ _ _ _ o wliich is Edwardo Haward, Commissario Domini Cancellarii thePrior^ X-^niversitatis Oxonise, salutem in. vera salute. Recepi- decides mus litteras vestras, xsiijio die Maij proximo prje- IMay — LlTTERA EXCUSATORIA MISSA DOMIXO ReGI PRO (1333). ^ CARIAGIO NOX FACIEXDO VERSUS PARTES SCOCI^E. L. 31 «. De PRDIO BREVI de CARIAGIO VERSUS PARTES ScocLs:. The Prior, A .son treschei" et treshonurable Seignur, Sii-e Ed- usuaf plea ^^Jy '^on cliapelleyn Eichard Priour, etc. of ha\-ing salutz, etc. Tresclier Seignur, enckoit de ceo qe vous no'pro^^ me mandastes nadgaii"es par vostre breft* de Chavm- perty, asks cellerye, le quiel jeo receu a Canterbirs le xviijo jour to excuse Daveryl proschein passe, par my les meins un Fouk him from de H(er)twelle, de a vous maundier une cliarette bien transport" fare3'llez for t^e^ avenalment, pur voz cariages vers les parties de Escoce, Var. lendemeyn de Ascencion proscheim avenir, a Ever- CANTUAKIENSES. 27 terito, quibus peiiectis ct intellectis, nobis, per vestri that Hugh laboris utilitatem et amoris efiicaciam, pro honore Can- f Q^Iter- tuariensis Ecclesiae feliciter intimatas, apparuit evi- bury monk denter, (j^uod nos debitorem vestrum, quo ad ilia qUcB aroxford pro vobis poterimus facere, specialiter effecistis. Et must ut debitum nostrum aliqualiter incipiamus solvere, fhe'^ ""'^ vobis, ac per vos, si placet, venerabili ccetui Magis- ^'^^'^^ °^ trorum in dicta Universitate regentium, pro beneficiis ten's de- supradictis, nobis per vos et illos impensis, gratiarum 8^^^- actiones referimus cumulatas ; vestram prudentiam, de consensu et consilio ccnfratrum nostrorum, cei'tificantes, quod confratris nostri H, de Sancto Ivone magistralis suUimatio, de qua nobis scripsistis, juxta vestree volun- tatis affectum et litterarum vestrarum tenorem, pro temporis brevitate et aliis ad hujusrnodi actus felicem et honorificam expeditionem requirendis, nuUatenus in instanti anno nos poterit consolari. Valete semper in Chxisto. Dat. Cantuarise die supradicto, anno Domini M°CCCXXXIIjio. Consimilis littera directa fuit Magistro J. de Scajjeya Sacra3 Theologia3 Professori, ct pro eodem negotio. 519. To his very dear and most honourable Lord, the Lord Edward, &c., King, &c., his Chaplain Richard, &c., greet- ing, &c. Very dear Lord, with respect to what you commanded me lately by your writ out of the Chancery, which J received at Canterbury on the 18th day of April last past, by the hands of a certain Fulk of Hart- w^ell, namely, that I should provide you with a waggon with iron wheel-tires and well equipped, together with five horses properly harnessed, for your transport service for Scotland, to be at York on tlie morrow of the Ascen- 28 LITER.E ■wyk ; voillez savier, trescher Seignnr, qe jeo nay terves, ne rentes, ne altres biens ne chatcaus de temporalte ne de espiritualte, appartenantz a moy en severalte, qe moult me poyse qe jeo ne puisse mon honur faire. Et pnr ceo, trescher Seignur, vous plese moy aver excusez en ceste chose pur mon nonpoav. A Dieu, trescher Seignur, et vous donit la joye pardurable. Donez a Broke pres de Wy, le premier jour de Maij. 31 May 520. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO CaNCELLARIO DoMINI (1333). Regis Angli^e illustris pro cariagio non ^- ^1 ^- faciendo versus partes scocm. The Chan- Venerabili in Cliristo patri Domino J. Dei gratia asked to Wyntoniensi Episcopo, Domini Regis Anglire illustris take ■ Cancellario, Ricardus Prior Ecclesije Christi Cantuari- the'^Prior's ^nsis, cum omni reverentia et honore, salutcm. Recepi- excusatory ruus apud Cantuariam, xviij" die Aprilis proximo pra?- lating to terito, breve domini nostri Domini Regis, tenorem the de- continens subsequentem : Edward us Dei gratia, etc. raand of ^ . . . , . . transport, vestrse reverendfe paternitati cum nostri cordis nnxie- tate referimus, quod hujusmodi mandatum, juxta nos- tras voluntatis affectum, non valemus efRcaciter adim- plere, quia possessiones seu priBdia nobis, separatim a Conventu nostro, minime specialiter assignantur ; sed nobis ac etiam confratribus nostris, devotioni pariter insistentibus, in communi necessaria ministrantur ; ut 8 May 521. — LiTTERA DOMINO ReGI DIRECTA PRO CARIAGIO FACTO VERSUS PARTES SCOCI^. De CARIAGIO ■L- 31 6. ])E BREVI SECUNDO. The Prior A SOU treschcr et treshonurable Seignur, Sire Ed- s^ends'^a*"'^ ward par la grace de Dieu Roy Dengleterre, etc. son CANTUAKIENSES. 29 sion ; please you to understand, very dear Lord, that I have neither lands, nor rents, nor other goods or chattels, either temporal or spiritual, belonging to me in severalty ; from which cause I am concerned not to be able to show my honourable obedience. And therefore, very dear Lord, be pleased to have me excused in this case, owing to my inability. God be with you, very dear Lord, and grant you everlasting bliss. Given at Brook near Wye, the first day of May. veraeiter Christi discipulos imitemur, de quibus scribi- tur in Actibus Apostolorum : Omnes erant perseve- Act ii. 3.0. rantes unanimiter in oratione, et habebant omnia com- munia, et dividebant omnia omnibus lyrout cidque opus erat. Hac ratione, nos, de vestrse benevolentije et dilectionis benignitate confidentes, paternitatem vestram requirimus et rogamus, quatinus erga prpefa- tum dominum nostrum Dominum Regem, super dicto mandato suo, ex causa superius expressa, propter nos- tram impotentiam nullatenus adimpleto, nos dignemini excusare ; scire volentes quod super hiis mittimus litteras nostras domino nostro Domino Regi excusa- torias vobis, si placeat, tradendas, per prsesentium portitorem. Valeat, etc. Datum apud Broke juxta Wy, ultimo die Maij.^ CoDsimilis littera fuit dirccta Magistro Roberto do Stral- ford, locum tencnti Domini Cancellarii snprascripti, ct pro eodem negotio. 521. To his veiy dear and right honourable Lord, Lord Edward by the grace of God king of England, &c., his ' This letter ought, evidently, to be dated April. By the 8th of May the Prior had decided to comply with the King's demand. 30 LITERS waggon cloapelleyn Richard Pinoui% etc. salutz, etc. Sire, endroit and five , t , t • horses. de ceo qe vous me mandastes nadgaires par vostre breff de la Chauncellerye, le quiel jeo receu le secund jour de Maii proschein passe, de a vous maundier a Everwyk une cliarette ove cink chivals tout appa- reillez avenalment, pur voz cai'iages vers les pai'ties de Eacoce, a lendemeyn del Ascencion pi'oschein apres la date de ceste lettre ; sachez, Sire, qe jeo suy prest a faii'e vostre maundement solone mon poair ; et si envoy jeo a Everw;y'k avant la dite feste del Ascencion une charette ove cink chivals, a celuy qe serra assigne de les recevii-e. A Dieu, tresclier Seignur, qi vous gard, et quantqe a vous apent, et vous donit bon esploit de vostre emprise. Donez a Canterbirs le viij« jour de Maii Ian de grace mIcccxxxiij. 8 May 522. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO CaXCELLARIO DOMINI 1333 Regis pro eodem negotio. L. 31 h. He an- Venerabili in Christo patri Domino J. Dei gratia, uounces g^g_ suprci, Ricardus, etc. ut supra, cum omni re- his com- . ii--M-'-ii- pliance to verentia, etc. ut supra, becvmcio ciie Man ultimo prte- the Chan- terito recepimus, iterata vice, breve domini nostri cellor. Regis, nobis per hujusmodi breve mandantis rogando, quod sibi, pro suis pavilionibus et aliis rebus eai'iandis versus partes Scocite, mitteremus unam carectam cum quinque equis sufiicientibus usque Eboracum. Hujus- 8 May 523. — UkE LETTRE MAUNDE AL ReCEIVOUR DES 1333- CARTAGES NOSTRE SeIGNUR PUR MEISME LA I-- 31 BUSOIGNE. And ac- A SOU cher amy et bien amez en Dieu . . , . credits his Receivour des cariages nostrc Seignur le Roy vers les CANTUARIENSES. 31 Chaplain Eiehard, Pi'ior, fee, greeting, &;c. My Lord with regard to that which you lately commanded me by your writ out of the Chancery, which I received the second day of May last past, namely that I should send to you at York a waggon with five horses properly equipped for your transport service for Scotland, by the morrow of the Ascension next after the date of the said letter ; know, my Lord, that I am prepared to comply with your command to the best of my ability ; and so I am sending to York against the said Feast of the Ascension a waggon and five horses, to such person as shall be assigned to receive them. God be with you, veiy dear Lord, and keep you and ail that belong to you, and grant you a happy termination to your expedition. Given, &c. modi mandatum Domini Kegis, juxta nostrge possibi litatis efficaciam, intentes adimplere, per latorem prse- sentium mittimus Domino Regi, pro suis cariagiis supra- dictis, unam carectam cum quinque equis ad locum prsedietum. Et vestram reverendam paternitatem ex affectu requirimus et rogamus, quatinus dieto latori consilium et auxilium impendero velitis ad faciendum injunctum nuntium, ex parte nostra. Domino Regi, loco et tempore opportunis. Valeat, etc. Dat. ut supra. 523. To his dear friend and well beloved in God . . . . the Receiver of transport for our Lord the King for 32 LITER thecal" P^^"^^^'^ Escoce, Richard par la soeffi-aunce de Dieu gage isiiis- Pi'iour, etc. salutz, etc. Pur ceo qe nostra dit Seignur Yorlf ^^^^^^ maunda nadgaires, par son breff de la Chaun- cellerie, en priant, le quiel nous recumes le second jour de Maij proschein passe, de a luy rnaundier a Everwyk une charette ove cink chivals tout appa- reillez avenalment pur ses cariages vers les parties de Escoce ; sacliez qe nous avoms fest le maundement nostra dit Seignur le Roy solonc nostre poair; et .si envoyoms a Everwyk une charette ove cink chevals a vous, qi estes Receivour do les dites cariages, de les receivre. Et pur ceo nous vous prioms.. sil vous plest, qe vous soiez en aide al messageier de nostre dite charettCj portour de cesteSj qil fuist tost et bien deli\'Tes de son message, et qil ait lettres de la deliveraunce de la dite charette. A Dieu, cher amy, etc. Donez ut supra. (May 524. — LiTTERA DIRECTA J. DE EaRDE BaLLIVO NOSTRO DE Walda, ut ipse accipiat in manus nos- ^- 32 a. xRAS TEXEMENTA QU^ FUERUNT SyMONIS Constable de Faversham, nuper tenentis NOSTRI DE MeRSHAM. A free A Jon de Earde son Bailiff de Mershani, salutz et tenant at , • i • -n j. i Mersham amistiez. rur ceo qe nous avoms entendu qe un dying, left Symond Constable de Faversham, nadgaires nostre gitimate tenant de Mer.shara, morut, et fuist bastard, et avoit daughter fille, Maud, qi fuist dedeinz age quant il morut y^ho^^er et nasquit deinz esposeilles ; la quele Maud fuist bailie the custom noreture a plusproschein de sank a cui heritage ne 01 gavel- kind, was pout descendre, solon le ussage de gavelekende, be^reared temps Estevene de la Dane a donqes nostre at the bailiff ; la quele Maude ad este marie deux foith, a her'next hom dist, et unqore est dedeinz age, et son ot kiu second baron deinz ces deux jours ad aliene tout la CANTUARIENSES. 33 Scotland, Richard by God's permission Prior, &c. Greeting. Whereas our said Lord lately commanded us, by his writ out of the Chancery which we received on the second day of May, requesting us, namely, to send to him at York a waggon and five hoi'ses all properly equipped, for his transport service for Scotland ; Know that we have obeyed the command of our said Lord the King to the best of our ability, and so we send to York, for you as Receiver of the said transport, a wagon and five horses, so that you may receive them. And therefore, if it please you, we pray that you will assist the conductor of the said waggon, the bearer of these letters, so that he may be quickly and happily acquitted of his message, and that he may have letters of acquit- tance for the delivery of the said waggon. Adieu, &:c. 524. To John of Eard his Bailiff at Mersham, greeting and true friendship. Whereas we have heard that one Simon Constable of Faversham formerly our tenant at Mersham died, and was a bastard, and had one daughter Maude (who was under age when he died and was born in lawful marriage) ; which Maude was put to nurse with her nearest of kin to whom the inheritance could in no way descend, according to the custom of gavelkind; Stephen de la Dane being then our Bailiff; which Maude has been twice married, as is said, and yet is still under age ; and her second husband within these two days has sold all his wife's inheritance, and carried his wife U S2122. c 34 LITERS who was excluded from the iuheri- tance. Then the daughter married twice, although still under age, and finally dis- appeared, leaving her hus- band behind, who sold her estate. The cir- cumstan- ces being suspicious the Bailiff of the manor is instructed to take steps for protecting the rights of the lord. heritage qe fiiist a sa feme, et la feme alloigne hors du pays, issint qe ascun gent entendont qe cele feme soit morte ; et si ensi fuist, les tenementz duissent estre nostre eschete, pur ceo qe le sank est esteint sanz issu de luy. Par quey nous vous mandoms, qe hastivement, vewe ceste lettre, facez seissier en nos- tre main toutz les tenementz qi furent al dit Sy- mond, dont il morut seissi nostre tenant, et descen- dirent a meisme cele Maud, la quele nad nyent fest a nous ceo qe faire duist apres la mort son auncestre, ne nulle issu nad ; et baillez meismes les tenementz en sauve gard en les mains nostre Serjant du manoir et tres altres de noz tenantz bon gent ; et qe eux respoynent des issues des meismes les tenementz, si lad qe meisme cele Maud viegne et face a nous ceo qe faire doit. Et si ele soit morte, a donqes les tenez en nostre main com nostre eschete par defaute de sank. Et ceo ne soit lesse qe ne soit hastivement fest. Et en le mene temps facez enquere de com bien de tenementz le piere meisme cele Maud morut seissi, et par queux services il tint de nous, et toutz les circumstaunces de meimes les tenementz. Et de toutes les choses susdites nous facez certifier bone- ment a plustost com vous pui'rez. A Dieu, etc. 11 Oct. 525. — COiDIISSIO PKO BESTIIS LIBER AXDIS AD LARDA- 1 QQQ RroM IS'OSTRUM. L. 179 b. Richard par la soeffraunce de Dieu, etc. as toutz noz The war- ^ . rant given Serjeants de toutz noz maniers en les Vaus ^ et Estkent to the pur- ^alutz. Nous VOUS maundoms et commaundoms, qe vous veyor of the Con. deliverez a J. de Pisyngg, portour de cestes, beofs, vaches, wen*t porks, moultons, et berbys, tantz et tieux qe le dit round the Jon voudi'a eslire, et qil voit qi soient bons et conve- > F«?=Yalda= Weald. CANTUARIENSES. 35 out of the country, so that some people believe the wife to be dead ; and if it be so, then the tenements should escheat to us, because the family is extinct slie having no issue. Therefore we command you that, having seen 'this letter, you speedily seize into our hand all those tene- ments which belonged to the said Simon, of which he was seized as our tenant when he died, and which descended to the said Maude ; which Maude has performed none of those acts of homage to us which she ought to have done after the death of her ancestor, nor has she had any issue ; and deliver these same tenements to the safe keeping of the Serjeant of our manor and of three others of our tenants who are responsible men ; and let them be answerable for the profits of the same tenements, if it happen that the said Maude come and do to us the homage which she is bound to do. And if she be dead, then retain them in our hand as having escheated for lack of heirs. And let there be no delay but that this may be speedily done. And in the mean time make enquiry as to how many tenements the father of this Maude died seized of, and by what services he held them from us, and all about the said tenements. And send us information as speedily as you can about all the above- mentioned matters. Adieu, &c. 525. Richard by God's permission, &c. to all our Serjeants of all our manors in the Weald and in East Kent, greeting We send to you and we command you, that you deliver to J. de Pisyngg, the bearer of these, oxen, cows, hogs, wethers, and sheep, as many as and such as the said John shall be pleased to select, and which he sees are C 2 36 LITER.'E down for ■winter store. manors in nables a nostre lardier. Et les testes, queux qi soienfc, collect°the '^^^ ^* ^^^^'i^'chera et lerra devers vous mettez en animals to bone pasture et bone garde, issent qils soient bons be salted g^.^g^ et convenables a nostre maundement. Et tons les coustages qe vous y mettez en les ditz bestes nous vous alloueroms bien et bonement. Ceste bu- soigne prenetz a cuer et soietz aidant et attendant al dit J., sicome vous volez plaire a nous, et vous meismes gardier sanz damage. A Dieu. Donez a Cauntorbirs le xj. jour de Octobre Ian de grace Mocccoxxxiijo. Et nous voloms qe cestes noz lettres estoisent en lour forte tanqe a la feste Seint Martyn proschein avenier. (1333.) 52(3. — LiTTERA MISSA SINGULIS PROPOSITIS NOSTRIS IN L. 179 6. CUSTODIIS DE ESTEKENT ET WALD AD HABEN- DUM PRECIUM ET NUMERUM BESTIARUJI DE QUIBUS SUPERIUS FIT MENTIO. The Bailiffs of manors are re- quired to make out lists of all the cattle they deliver to the Cel- larer for winter store. Richard par la soeft'raunce, etc. as toutz noz ser- jantz de toutz noz maniers en le Vaus et Estekent saluz. Nous vous maundoms et commaundoms, qe chescun de vous facez mettre en escript com bien des bestes, queux manere bestes, et le pris de chescune beste, qe vous avez delivere as noz Celeriers pur nostre Lardier en tout cest an ; et eel escript nous maundez par le portour de cestes sanz ascune deley. Ceste chose ne targez en nulle manere. Escript a Cantor- birs, etc. (1334.) 527. — Item altera littera. TheBailifiFs Kichard, ctc. as toutz noz sergeantz de toutz noz proved for i^aniers de la garde de Vaus saluz. Pur ceo qe Dantz CANTTTARIEXSES. 37 good and proper for our larder. And as to the animals Avhicli the said John shall mark and leave with you, pnt them into good pasture and safe keeping, so that they may be sound, fat, and fit against we send for them. And all the expenses you are put to about the said beasts we will fairly and willingly allow you. Take this busi- ness to heart, and be helpful and obsequious to the said John as you wish to please xm and to preserve yourselves from blame. Adieu, &c. And we will that these cm- letters shall be valid until Martinmas next. 526. Richard by God's permission, &rc. to all our Serjeants of all our manors in the Weald and East Kent greeting. We send to you and command you that each of you shall set down in writing how many beasts, what kind of beasts, and the price of each beast, that you have delivered to our Cellarers for our larder during this year ; and send us this writing by the bearer of these without delay of any kind. Do not put off this business in any way. Wi itten, (fee. 527. Richard, &c. to all our Serjeants of all our manors in the Ward of the Weald, greeting. Whereas Dom. E. de 38 LTTp:RiE "tT nde Uo ^' Aclesliam, nostre Celerier, vous cnvoya ime the Cei- lettre, qe vous luy duissiez avoir maunde porks ct laier's de- altres bestes pur nos despenses countre ceo Paskc, a cattle for quiele lettre vous no fuistes raye cntendantz ; nous tkm at"'' voloms, ct VOUS commaundoms, qe si vous avetz porcz Easter, and ou altrcs bestes qi vous puissez deportier sanz damage send thenT ^^^^''^ ^ inaniei's, ou qe vous voudriez vendre a to Canter- autre [s] gciitz, qe vous luy facez deliverer meismos ouce.''*^ les bestes a nostre oeps, et ceo par tailles levez entre le dit Celerier et vous del pris de toutz. Donez, etc. (1333.) 528. — LiTTERA MISSA "WALTERO DE WaLDEGRAVE ATTORNATO NOSTRO IN BANCO DOMINC ReGIS, l. 33 a. pro negotio tangente causam inter nos et Dorobernensem. The attor- Salutz. Sachez qe nous sumes assentus, pur certeine Convent in rcsonablc cause, qe le Bref qe vyent sur Lercevesqe the King's de Canterbire en la xv. Seynt Michel serra respondu Bench is • i , i instructed o^c a COO jour, adeo tarde ; pur quei vous prioms f|e as to his VOUS gardes byen nostre ioui', et qe vous le facez procedure , ^ . . ' ^ ., , in a suit entrer en roule, sicom vous veyez par conseii de noz between amys qe bein soit pur nous et nostre Esglisc ; et qe the Cou- i 1, 1 1 f + 1 vent and VOUS prenez hors le brei, et qe vous purchacez un the Abp. ai^jtre bref de fere venir le Archeveske au procbcin He IS , \ directed jour. E endroit du plee qe fut entre nous et Jakys proceed**"^ de Etcbyngliam, sachez qe, par nostre conceyl, nous iugsin sumes accorde ovesqe le dit Jakys en le dit plee, ham'Tcase ^unt yl nc VOUS covyent plus outre prendre garde. E because quant a les costages del argent qe vous paerez de par have conie T^ous, sachcz qe le portour de cestes vous bandera to a com- quand qe mester vous serra ; sy ryen vous soyt arere promise, vostre travayl, sachez qe byen et bonement serrez paye. Adyeu qe vous gard. CANTUARIENSES. 39 Adesbani, our Cellarer, sent you a letter, saying that you were to send him hogs and other animals for our con- sumption at Easter, to which letter you paid no at- tention ; we desire, and we command, that if you have any hogs or other animals which you can remove with- out doing injury to your manors, or such as you would be willing to sell to the outside world, then that you cause the same animals to be delivered for our use ; making tallies of the total price, to be struck between our Cellarer and you. 528. Greeting. Understand that for a certain reasonable cause wc have agreed that the writ running against the Archbishop of Canterbury in the quindene of St. Michael shall now be answered on this day, late as it is ; there- fore we pray you that you will duly keep our day, and that you will cause it to be entered on the roll, as you may see, by advice of our counsel, that it will be best for us and our Church ; and (we pray you) that you will sue out the writ and that you will j^rocure another writ of venire facias (svimmoning) the Archbishop for the next day. And as to the suit which there was between us and James of Etchingham, understand that by intervention of our counsel we are agreed with the said James in the said action, of which you need take no farther notice. And as for the costs that you may pay on our behalf, know that the bearer of these will supply you when you have need ; and if there be any arrears in the com- pensation for your trouble, be sure that you shall be well and truly paid. God be with you and keep you. 40 LITERS 20 Nov. 529. — LiTTERA DIRECTA MaGISTRO W. DE ReNHAM PRO NEGOTIO TANGENTE PeTRUM DE DeNE. L. 27 a. The Abbot In Christo salutem. Vestrse discretioni plenius in- aiid Chap- notescat, quod, pest recessum vestrum de Cantuaria, tt'l- of bt. . . . • ATI- /~1 Augustine's jam trma vice, ex parte Dominorum Abbatis et Gon- havmvitli the Arch- bishop iu the matter of Dover Priory is rit a standstill through the death of Arch- bishop ]Meopham, and the Attorney is instructed to revive it as soon as a new Arch- bishop is appointed. Salutz et bon amour. Pnr ceo qe la parole qe pent devant nostra Seignur le Roy, entre luy et le Priour cle la Trinite de Caunterbire, cui attorne vous estes, demoi'a sanz jour a la xv^ de Saint Hillaire drein passo, devers lercevesqe de Canterbire par sa mort, et, a ceo qe jeo qui, vous avez este toutz jours prest en court a pursure pur le dit Priour, et nncore vous ^ le jeo qe vous pregnez conseil et qe vous augez a la bare, et qe vous parfrez, depuis qe liad un Ercevesqc, qe brefs isse de faire le venier. Et jay prie a Mon- sire Thomas Bacon et a Sire Adam de Stangre qils vous soient en aide ; ct si vous aiez mestier de deniers pur sergeantie ' jay prie a Monsire Thomas qil vous apreste de deniers, fesant une endenture entre vous et luy de la recepte. Et prenetz avisement priveement de eaus ceo qe meuz vous serra affaire en les bus- soignes susdites, et maundez me novelles par le portour de cestes. A Dieu, etc. (Maj 532. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMlNO Ad^ DE StANGRE PER 1334.) _ ^ PR^FATUM ThOMAM PRO NEGOTIO SUPRADICTO. Li. 36 a. After re- Honours et reverences. Vous plese, Sire, avoir en citing- the '■ intcrrup- remembraunce coment la parole qe pent devant tiou caused yQ^g entre nostre Seignur le Roy et le Priour de la lu the 1 • 1 Dover suit Trinite de Canterbire, ad este grant temps continue bishop'^' P^^" nonvenue Symond nadgaires Ercevesqe de Meopham's Caunterbire, devers qui la Court dona proces de faire writer asks vener, et le proces continue par la grant destresse the Judge Je la xv^ Saint Michel tantqe a la xv^ Saint Hillaire the'^suit""'^ drain passe, de deinz quel temps le dit Ercevesqe against ^ Dieu commaude, sicome vous bien savez ; sur Meopham's successor. ~" 1 venx? I in serving writs. His small fees - scrgeflntie = probably the cm- j would be paid at the time when his ployment of a serviens ad clavam I services wei'c rccjuired. CANTUARIENSES. 45 531. Greeting and real afFecCion. Whereas the suit wliich is pending before our Lord the King, between him and the Prior of Holy Trinity Canterbury, whose attorney you are, was dismissed at the quindene of St. Hilary last past, as far as concerned the Archbishop of Canterbury, owing to his death, and as, as I believe, you have always been ready in Court to act for the said Prior, yet still I wish you to engage counsel, and (through them) to plead at the bar, and to procure that, as soon as there is an Archbishop, writs shall issue to compel his appearance. And I have prayed Master Thomas Bacon and Sir Adam de Stangre that they will help you ; and if you have need of ready money for searjeanty, I have asked Sir Thomas to lend you some, on security of an indentui-e of the loan to be made between you. And take advice from them secretly about what it will be best for you to do in the aforesaid matters, and send me intelligence by the bearer of these. Adieu, &c. 532. Honours and reverences. Please, my Lord, to call to mind how the action, which is pending before you between our Lord the King and the Prior of Holy Trinity Canterbury, has been prolonged for a great time through the non-appearance of Simon lately Ai'ch - bishop of Canterbury, against whom the Court issued a writ to compel his attendance, and adjourned the cause, by way of la yrande destresse, from the quin- dene of St. Michael to the quindene of St. Hilary last passed, within which time the Archbishop was taken 46 LITERS quey, Sire, y busoig-ne, a ceo qe me semble, qe breffs isse a celuy qe est ore Ercevesqe de Caunter- bire a faire le venier, ou, Sire, de faire le garnier ; kar y semble, a mon petit sen, de puis qe la Court jugge qil est partie, par la chartre le Roy qest de record, est a son avantaoe de le faire aarnier plustost, qe de chassier le par destresse. Mais Sire, si meuz ne puist estre, soit le proces pur le venire facias continue devers Lerchevesqe qore est auxi com y fuist devers lautre. Et voillez, pur lamour Saint Thomas, un poy travoiller vostre pense le plus de ordiner un bon breS" judicial pur le Esglise, et qe le proces soit bien continue, et, Monsire, le Priour Iq deservira. Sire, Nostre Seignur Jesu Crist vous eyt en sa garde, etc. (May 533. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO THO:\r^ BaCOUN JuS- 1334.) TICIARIO PER PR^DICTUM ThOJIAM PRO EODEM L. 36 a. NEGOTIO. A judge is Honours et reverences. Tresamez Seignur, jeo vous asked both -^yiq qe VOUS voillez avoir les busiogces le Priour favourable de la Trinite de Canterbire al cuer qi sont pendantz ^ ^^^^ ^ devant vous, entre nostre Seigneur le Roy et luy, and to ad- auxi come Sire Adam de Stangre vous purra mous- money to lime. trer par record, et auxi come Walter de Waldegrave jKiyTosts son attorne vous ptuTa moustrer. Et sil eit mestier in tlie mean sergeantie, jeo vous prie. Sire, qe vous luy aidez de demie marc ou de plus, tantqe nous entre parloms Et sil aviegne qe le dit Walter, attorne le Priour, soit mort, ou malade, ou qil ne soit mye en Court, jeo vous prie qe vous veullez, par mon record, recor- dier Willeam Fant, vostre clerk, son attorne ; et jeo CANTUARIENSES. 47 to God, as you well know ; wherefore, my Lord, it is necessary, as it appears to me, that writs should be issued against him who is now Archbishop of Canter- bury, to cause him to appear ; or, my Lord, that we ought to have him warned ; for it seems to my feeble mind, since the Court has decided that he is a party to the suit according to the royal charter, which is matter of recoi'd, that it is to his advantage to have him warned as early as possible, rather than to have him persecuted by distraint. But, my Lord, if it may be no better, let the process of the venire facias be continued against the Ai'chbishop who now is, just as it was against the other. And be pleased, for the love of St. Thomas, to strain your mind somewhat the more in order to devise an efficient judicial writ for the Church, and that the process be still kept going, and, my Lord, the Prior will repay it. My Lord, may Our Lord Jesus Christ have you in his keeping. 533. Honours and reverences. Wellbeloved Lord, I beg you to have at heart the affairs of the Prior of Holy Trinity Canterbury, which are pending before you in a suit between our Lord the King and him, as Sir Adam de Stangre can show you by documentary evi- dence, and also as Walter de Waldegrave, his attorney, can show. And if there be need of sergeantie, I pray you, my Lord, to help him to half a mark or more, as a loan until we meet. And if it happen that the said Waiter, the Prior's attorney, be dead or sick, or if he be not in Court, I beg you to be pleased, on my responsibility, to enrol William Fant, your clerk, as his attorney ; and I have begged him by my letter that he will be so ; 48 LITERS lay prie par ma lettre qil voille estre, et mon dit Seignur le Priour le deserviva, devers vous, Sire, et devers luy. A Dieu, Sire, etc. ^iQ^^r* — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO GAVVENO LE CORDIER PRO VIXIS NOSTRIS FrANCI/E. 1334 L. 35 a. Gawaiu Salutz et la joye pardurable. Chier amy, veullez savier qe le Lundy proschein devant la Nunciacion receives '°th "a^^'r"* Nostre Dame, nous receuraes voz lettres fesauntz to bis ex- iiiencion assez pley Dement, cum il nous semble, de noz acting the busoio-nes dont avez entremys de noz vins de Fraunce. UlTCilVS owed by J. Pj^i' inspectioun de la dreine acount Monsire Johan Launge on Launo-e, et par les allowaunces oil demande pixr son account oi 7, , , tbe wine travoil, y semble a nous qe vostre lettre qe chaunte Thomas dette amounte a soixante neuf livres, et pur son acounte six sondes dix deniers. outre ^ desterlings, jesques a la Nati\'ite Nostre Dame Ian de grace 3ICCCXXXIIJ. proschein passe. Et pur ce qe y nous semble qil ny ad mye moult grant recoverier de luy reprendre de son acounte, y serroit bon qe nous us- soms les deniers avantditz auxitost com vous puissez bonement faire levier. Quant a une acquitaunce de cent florins de Florence a nous paiez par Monsire Jon, qi amountent quinze livres douze soudes six deniers desterlings, dont nulle mencion faites a nous en voz lettres, nous, a la requeste Monsire Jon avantdit, vous maundoms lacquitaunce de bailler al Mounsire dit Jon Louge, et de les soixante neuf livres six soudes dix deniers contenuz en meisme cele acquitaunce, les queux soixante neuf livres six soudes dix deniers nous sont apaier. Et quant a lacquitaunce du Provost du Chas- telet de Parys de cent livres desterlings, qi duissent avier este paiez de la Thresorie nostre Seignur le Roy Dengleterre, par les mayns de la compeignie de Barde ' I'une et I'autre ? CANTUAllIENSES. 49 and, my Lord, the Prioi- will repay it, both to you, my Lord, and to him. 534. Greeting and enduring hliss. Dear friend, be pleased to know that on the Monday befoi'c the Aimunciation of Our Lady we received your letters making mention, sufficiently fully as it seems to us, of our afiairs connected with our French wine, in which you have interested yourself. By inspection of Sir John Launge's last account, and by the allowances which he asks for his trouble, it appears to us that your letter, which ti-eats of his debt, amounts to sixty-nine pounds, and for his account six shillings and tenpence, both stei-ling, np to the Nativity of Our Lady in the year of grace 1333 last past. And as it appears to us that there is no gi'eat fault to be found with him in respect of his ac- count, it would be as well if we had the aforesaid sum as soon as you can Avell get it. As for an acquittance for the hundred florins of Florence paid to us by the said Sir John, which amount in sterling to fifteen pounds twelve shillings and sixpence, of which you make mention to us in your letters ; we, at the request f)f the said Sir John, send it to you, to be handed to the said Sir John Long ; and (another) for the sixty-nine pounds six shillings and tenpence, which sixty-nine pounds six shillings and tenpence have yet to be paid to us. And as to the acquittance (certified) by the Prevot of the Chatelet of Paris for a hundi-ed poiuuls sterling, which ought to have been paid from the Treasury of our Lord the King of England through the hands of the Company of the Burdi, on the note of the ^fih] Sir Jolin ; U 52122. D 50 LITERS a la requeste Monsire le dit Jon, saeiiez qe nous en- voyames nos lefctres, ove la dite acquitaunce du Clias- telet, al dit Monsire Jon par Pyrot nostre messagier long temps passe, sicome pleynement nostre dit mes- sagier vous purra enfourmer de boviche ; la quele copie de noz dites lettres maundez al dit Monsire Jon nous vous maundoms deinz cestes enclose. Et amailloure enfourmacion de les choses avantdites, vous fa(isoms) assavoir qe, le xxij. jour de Janyvoir Ian de grace Mcccxxxij., nous maundames, par Perrot iiostre mes- sagier avantdit, al dit Monsire Jon sa lettre asealle du seal le Provost du Chatelet de Parys, en quele fuist contenuz qe le dit, Monsire Jon resceut de nostre Seignur le Roy Dengleterre qore est, par les mayns le Priour et le Chapitle de Canterbirs, cent livres desterlings; des queux deniers le dit Monsire Jon par les mains le ditz Priour et Covent rien nad resceu. Et si Monsire J. avant dit veulle, par malencolie^ ou par vendie, estre contrarious a les cliose;) qi sont sus- dites, vous prioms chierement qe vous ordinez remedie de par nous, coment nous puissoms estre gwye et mene par ley ; kar de les soixante neuf livres six sondes dix deniers avantditz nous ne sumes de rien servy. De ceste matire nous vous maundoms une lettre de bailler al Monsire dit Jon, la copie de quele lettre nous vous envoyoms pur vostre enformacion, et quant vous la avez regardee baillez ou maundez la dite lettre al dit Monsire Jon, si vous voiez qil fait 'afaire. A Dieu, oilier amy, etc. Escript a Canterbirs le Meskerdy proschein devant la Nunciacion Nostre Dame avant- dite. 22 Mar. 535_LlTTERA MISSA DOMINI J. LaUNGE PRO EODEM 1333 NEGOTIO. I/. 35 a, Instruc- Salutz, ctc. Nous avoms cntendu i3ar Monsire Gaweyn Cordier qe vous estes en volente de nous tions sent to J. de ' malice or vialignite? CANTUARIENSES. 51 know tliat long ago we sent our letters, along with the said acquittance of the Chatelet to the said Sir Jolm by Pyrot our messenger, as our said messenger can inform you by Avord of mouth ; a copy of which our said letters sent to the said Sir John we forward to you enclosed in these. And for your better information as to the aforesaid matters, we let you to know, that on the 22nd day of January in the year of grace 1832 we sent by Pierrot our messenger aforesaid to the said Sir John his own letter, sealed with the seal of the Prevot of the Chatelet of Paris, in which there was contained, that the said Sir John had received from our Lord the King of England who now is, by the hands of the Prior and Chapter of Canterbury, a hundred pounds sterling ; of which sum the said Sir John has not received one farthing by the hands of the said Prior and Chapter. And if the said Sir John wishes, through malice or cunning, to contradict what is said above, we pray you earnestly that you devise a remedy for us, showing how we may be guided and conducted according to law ; for of these sixty-nine pounds six shillings and tenpence nothing has been paid to us. We send you a letter on this matter to be delivered to the said Sir John, and, for your information, we send you a copy of this letter, and, when you have looked over it, deliver or send the said letter to the said Sir John, if you think that it ought to be done. Adieu, &e. 535. Greeting. We are informed by Sir Gawein Cordier that you are prepared to furnish us with all the money D 2 52 LITEU.E Laun;ie as sei vier do toutz les deniers, en qiieux vous nous estes Frauce for tenuz pur noz vin.s de Fraixnce de tout vosti'e temps, vent^°°" j*^^'!'^^^'' ^ feste Nostre Dame en Septembi-e drein passe Ian de grace M^cccxxxiij. Et pur vostre bono volente qe vous avez eu a nostre Esglise et a Seint Thomas nous vous mercioms de cuer ; et vous en- Toyoms, par le dit Monsire Gaweyn, une acquitaunce de c. floreyns de Florence, qi amountent en esterlings, Kolom vostre taxacion, xv. livres xij. soudes vj. deniers ; et de Jes Ixix. livres vj. soudes x. deniers contonuz en meisme celo acquitaunce. Mais veullez savoir, cliier amy, qe endroit de la lettre de Provost du Chastelet de Parys, nous sumes un pou trouble pur la demande do cele lettre ; kar, certeignement en Dieu, nous vous la remaundames, par Pyrot nostre me.ssagier, le xxij. jour de Janyvoir, Ian de grace M^cccxxxiJ. proschein passe. A Dieu, etc. Donez ut supra. 53G. — LiTTEllA MISSA JoHANNI FITZ BeXEYT BaLLIVO ^^^^^r^ SUO ESSEXI.-E DE FIDELITATE FACTA PER MAGIS- TRUM WiLLELMUM DE LA SOUCHE. L. 27 a. Th B/l'ff Nous vous mnndoms assavoir qe Mestre oftbeEssex Willpam de la Souch, nostre tenant en Essex, fiiist Manors IS ^ nous a Canterbirs et nous fist sa fealte dos tene- informed i ■ ^ i i • thatw.de mentz qil cleyme tenier de nous, le dymaigne en la la Zouche y^iHe Soiut Elpheg, l;m du rengne le Koi Edward has done . fcaltv io tiers apres la conqueste vijo. Pur quey nous vous ^^^J'™' mandoms, qe, si nulle destresse sur luy soifc prise pur bury, la dite fealte arere, soit hastivement delivres. Et foi-e*ini^s favour qe vous luy poetz bonement faire, salve le goods have droit de nostre Esglise, nous voloms qe vous luy seized to facez. A Dieu, etc. Donez a Canterbirs le jour et Ian enforce this avantditz. act of homape, they are to be re- leased. CANTUARIEXSES. 53 which you are indebted to us for our French wines during the whole of your term of office, up to the feast of Our Lady in September last past in the year of grace 1333. And we thank you heartily for the goodwill which you have borne to our Church and St. Thomas ; and we send you by the said Sir Gawein a receipt for the hundred florins of Florence, which in sterling amount, according to your estimate, to fifteen pounds twelve shillings and tenpence ; and for the sixty-nine pounds six shillings and tenpence contained in the same receipt. But, dear friend, please to understand that, as to the letter of the Prevot of the Chiitelet oi Paris, we are somewhat troubled by youv asking for that letter ; for, without doubt as God knows, we sent it back (lo you) by Pyrot our messenger, on the 22nd day of January, in the year of grace 1332 last past. Given as above. 536. Greeting. We send to let you know that Meister William de la Souch, cur tenant in Ebscx, has been with us at Canterbury and has done his fealtj' for the tene- ments which he claims to hold from us, on Sunday the eve of St. Alphage, in the seventh year of the reign of King Edward the third since the Conquest. Wherefore wc command you that, if any distraint has been levied ui)on him for delaying the said fealty, it may speedily be withdrawn. And we desire that you will show liim all tlie favour you can, so long as the rights of our Church are maintained. Adieu, &c. Given at Canterbury the day i,nd year abovesaid. 54 (1334.) L. 180a. A wood- reeve is ordered to deliver six beams of timber each thirty feet long, and lie is to mark the stumps of the trees from which the timber is cut so that the AVarden of Manors may see that the Convent is not de- frauded. 27 April 538. — LiTTEllA MLSSA SERVIENTI N08TR0 DE BOKKYNGG QUOD IPSE LIBERET DOMINO JOHANNI REC- L. 36 a. TORI LOCI PRiEDICTI FRUMENTUM ET FOCALIA PROUT CONTINETUR IN LITTERA SEQUENTE. 587. — De meremio liberando. Saluz. Nous vous mandoms qe vous cTcliverez a J. de Coekessale, nostre bon amy, vj. cheverons dc la longure de xxx. pees, en nostre Park de Bock- yngg. Et voiez qe par cause del dit meryn issi abbatuz nul damage soit fait en nostre dit Park. Et voloms qe vous facez raarchier les souches de de los cbevcrons avantditz, issint qe le Gardien, a sa proscheine venue, puissc ver quielx vous avez dcli- verez. A Dieu etc. The Ser- jeant at l?oeking is directed to lend the rector eight or ten seams of corn, to be repaid. Also to f^ive him as a present from the Chapter three tree?, under the size of timber- trees, for fuel. Salutz. Nous vous maundoms, qe vous facetz live- rier a la persone de Bockyngg, ou a son attornc pourtour de cestes, oyt ou diz summes de ble, de tel ble come il voudra devisier, pur la sustenaunce de ses seriantz ; et fetes taille entre vous et celuy qi recevera le dit ble, apaier ble pur ble a la fest Seint Michel proscheyn suyant. Et auxi facetz liverier de donn, de par nous, a la dite persone, ou a sou attorne, treys arbres pur fuail, soloni vostre discrc- cioun, issint qils ne touclient mye mcryn. Cestes choses susdites nous voloms (je vous facetz, si vous voiez qe vous purretz bonement faire sanz damage de nous, et nonpas attrement. A Dieu. Escript a Canterbire le xxvi)° jour Daveryl, CANTUAKIENSES. 55 537. Greeting. We order that you deliver to J. do Cogges- hall, our good friend, six beams of tlie length of thirty feet, in our park at Bocking. And take care that no damage be done in our said park by reason of the said timber so cut down. And we desire that you cause the stumps of the said beams to be marked, so that the Warden of Manors at his next coming may see which trees you have given. Adieu, &c. 538. Greeting. We command you to deliver to the Rector of Bocking, or to his representative the bearer of these, eight or tens seams of corn — such corn as it may please him to choose — for the maintenance of his servants ; and strike a tally between yon and him who may receive the corn, to repay it, corn for corn, at Michaelmas next. And also deliver as a free gift, on our behalf, to the same Rectoi-, or his representative, three trees for fuel, selected after your discretion, so that they do not attain the size of timber-trees. The aforesaid things we desire you to do, if you .see that they can be done without injury to us, but not otherwise. Adieu, &c. 56 LITERS 27 May C1334). L. 36 a. The Prior expresses pleasure that Areh- l)i>hop Stratford, who is in France on the King's business, has suc- cessfully carried it out. 539. — LiTTERA REGRATIOXIS MISSA DOMINO J. ARCHI- EPISCOPO PRO SUIS LITTERIS NOBIS UIRECTIS. Quicquid obedientiai potuerit et honoris. Pater reverende, iiocte proxime sequente xxv"^ diem Maii, recepi apud Cantuariam litteras vestras, in quibiis continetur quod negotia Domini Regis Anglite .sunt expedita, pro r^uibus nuper ad partes Francise trans- migrastis, Et scire digneaiini, quod prsefatie litteraj vestne michi materiam actualem Ifetitiae, vestri gratia, multipliciter offerebant. Yaleat Dominus mens in Christo, qui in pro.speritate feiici ad partes vestras cite redire faciat vos et vestros. Scriptum Cantuarice xxvij. die mensis supradicti sub sigillo meo privato. (1334.) 541. — LiTTERA MISSA SERVIENTIBUS NOSTRIS PRO L. 180 a. CARIAGIO MEREMII AB UNO LOCO AD ALIUM. The Prior Richard, etc. as noz sergeantz de Grant Chert, de summons Petite Chert, de Well, de Aghene, de Rokyngg, et of^six'"^'*''^^ de Mersham, salutz. For ceo qe nous avoms a carier manors to mei yu, de nostre manoir de Grant Chert a Caunter- arGrcat'^ bire,^ pur une mesoun en nostre Court qest .sur le Chart on a poynt de cheyer ; vous luaundoms et commaundoms pro^'ded^^ qe VOUS soiez, Lundy matyn jjroschein sviyant, a with means nostra dit manoir de Grant Chert, ove toute la porting cariage qe vous poetz, denienier le dit meryn a la timber to porte la persone de Godmersham, et nyent plus avant. Godmer- 1, ^ , . t , -rx- sham lit ceo ns lessez pur lamour de nous. A i)ieu, etc. Court. Escript, etc. (May 542. — LiTTERA MISSA W. FANT PER PR^FATUM ThOMAM 1334.) ])E FaVERSHAM PRO EODEM NEGOTIO.^ L. 36 b. W. Fant is Salutz et treschiers aniistez. Sacliez qe Monsire asked to Priour de Cavmterbire ct mov sumes accordcz qe act as ^1 ' Caunterbirie is clearly a clerk's error for Godmersham ; a manor belonging to the Chapter. 2 See p. 46. CANTUARIENSES. 57 540. — ACQUIETANCIA FACTA DOMINO GaWENO CoRDIER 19 April 1334. DE L. LIBRIS NOBIS SOLUTIS. L. 35 h. Pateat universis, etc. quod nos Ricarclus, etc. recepi- Gawain mus ethalmimus a Domino Gaweno Cordier de Caleville t^Vdicr milite, quinquaginta libras sterlingorum, in partem theCon- " solutionis sexaginta novem librarum sex solidorvim et "^^'"t fifty decern denariorum sterlingorum, quas sexaginta novem which ho libras sex solidos et decern denai'ios prtedictus Doininu? ^f^^'^J*^ Gawenus recepit et habuit a Domino Johanne Launge, Launge in milite, pro vinis nostris Francire : de quibus quinqua- P''""' P''^^" 1-1 • 1- T • meat of ginta libi'is sterlingorum dictum Dommum Gawenum his arreais heredes et executores suos par praisentes acquietamus ["j^^'J'^f^^' imperpetuum. In cujus rei, etc. Datum Cantuarite Thomas, xix. die meusis Aprilis anno Domini Moccc'iioxxx"ilijo. 541. Richard, &;c. to our Serjeants of Gi'eat Chart, Little Chart, Westwell, Aghene, Rokinge, and Mersham greeting. Whereas we have to carry timber from our manor of Great Chart to Canterbury, for a house in our court which is on the point of falling down ; we send and command you that on next Monday morning you be present at our said manor of Great Chart, with all the means of transport you can in order to carry the said timber as far as the gate of tlie parsonage of Godmcr- sham, and no farther. A Dieu. 542. Greeting and close friendship. Whereas the Prior of Canterbury and I are agreed that you shall remain 58 LITER.E attoruey vous tlcmoiTcz ovG luy, sil vous jileso, et jeo serroy Prior'if ^^^^^ Dieu a covenant faire entre vous; et pur "Waide- ceo qe le grant plee pent entre nostre Seignur le Roy abseut*^ et luy, del avoeson de la Priourte de Douvre, sur lierrours qi scut assignes, et jeo ne soy si AValter Waldegrave son attorne soit en Court ou ne mye, vous prie, de par men dit Sire, qe sil soit lad qe vous luy soiez en aide de les busoignes susdites, et sil ne soit poynt jay prie Monsire Thomas Baconn qil vous voille recordier son attorne en le plee avantdit, et ceo vous prie jeo qe vous veuUez estre, et mon dit Sire le Priour le deservira. A Dieu, etc. C1334) — I'^^'^^^-'^ DIEECTA DOMINO AdM DE StANGRE PER L 30 J. ' DOMINUM PRIOREM PRO EODEM NEGOTIO. A judge is Salutem, etc. Intelleximus quod dilectus nobis in use his in- Christo Thomas de Faversham nobis distincte scribit, flu once m p^.Q eausa qu9s est inter nos et monaclios Dovorienses : the Dover . ^ . . . . suit, and cujus caustB fastidium vos credimus non latere, quia he IS told pj.Q (lictgg causfe expeditione desiderata pro nobis that the . . ^ , . ,. . rrior will laborare, vestn gratia, vos multipliciter sumus experti ; behispuy- 1^ ideo vobis fiducialiiis scribimus, quatinus, iuxta master. , , ' ^ 'J tenorem litterarum prpodicti Thoma;, ac etiam discre- tionem vestram, velitis interponere preces vestras, ut dicta causa non tarn via districti juris sed favora- biliter valeat continuari post rnortem bonte memorise Symonis nuper Ecclesia) nostras Cantuarieneis Archi- episcopi, et nos pro vestri laboris vexatione erimus tliesaurarius vester specialiter, ut tenemur. Valete in Christo, nos remittentes, si placet, per latorem prte- sentium, super praemissis beneplacitum vestrum, ac etiam de statu vestro, et quando intenditis nos per- sonaliter visitare. Scriptum apud Icham vj^o die Junii. CANTUARIENSES. 59 engaged on his side, if it please yon, and I shall, with God's help, settle the terms between you ; and because the great suit between the King and liim, concei'ning the advowson of Dover Piiory, is in suspense on account of alleged errors, and I do not know whether Walter Waldegrave his attorney be at the Court or not, I beg you, on behalf of my said Lord (Prior), that if he be there you will help him in the aforesaid matters, and if he be not I have asked Sir Thomas Bacon that he will enrol you as his attorney in the aforesaid suit, and I beg that you will accept this office, and my said Lord the Prior will reward your acceptance. 544. — LiTTERA EESPONSORIA IVIaGISTRO Ad^ DE MeRY- ^ -'"'y (1334). MOUTH SUPER PETITIONE PENSIONIS SUiE. L. 36i. Salutem quam peperit puerpera singularis. Karis- sime, recepimus litteras vestras apud Cantuariam, vent^le-' videlicet ixo die Julii, quibus inspectis, habuimus eline, deliberationem super hujusmodi litteris vestris cumJJ^ve '^^ confratribus nostris, nobis dicentibus quod eis aliqua- fa' thcr in- liter videtur quod non tenentur solvere pensionem ac to pily the etiam arreragia ejusdem, de quibus nobis et confra- P^"^*^"" °f tribus nostris nuper scribere voluistis ; et causa est, mouth, ut dicunt prjefati confratres nostri, (luia in littera '"^'''^^ vcstra, quam ut supponimus habetis, per prsedeces- deteimineil sorem nostrum et Capitulum Ecclesise nostras, quredam ^l"" I'™" .... p,. motion (to clausula inseritur quse sic mcipit : Si vero contmgat tiie office 2)roefatum Magistrum Adam ad aliquem dignitatiti^l^^^^^'^^ giudv^m jpvomoveri, etc. Verumptamen si, tempore diocese of succedente, alitor super hac materia rationabiliter fuerimus informati, nos quod juri consonum est seu ration! vobis, Deo dante, totaliter, ut proponimus, faciemus. Valetc in Domino per tempora diutina. Scriptum die et loco supradictis, sub sigillo nostro privato. GO LITERS (1334)^ 545.— LiTTERA DIRECTA MAGISTRO Ad.E DE MeRY- MOUTH OfFICIALI CaNTUARIEXSI DE QUIBUS- L. 36 b. DAM COPIIS PRIVILEGIORUM ET PROCESSUS DOVORLE EIDEM MISSIS EX PR.ECEPTO DOMIXI JoHAxxis Archiepiscopi. The Chap- Salutem, etc. Nos, de prseeepto Domini nostri Can- the Offi- tuariensis, mittimus vobis, per latorem prsesentium, cial of the (m")^ 546. — LiTTERA RESPOXSORIA MISSA H. DE BrADEWEYE Sexescallo libertatum Domixi Johaxxis ^- 3' Archiepiscopi super petitioxe feodi sui xox coxtenta ix compositioxe facta ixter DOMIXUM ARCHIEPISCOPUM ET XOS. The new Salutz, etc. De ceo qe vous nous avez maunde par \rcli- • • bishop has '^'02 lettres, qe nous faissoms deliverer al Priour, de demanded meismes celes vint marcs de vostre fee de terme de an annual -o • ■ i i ■ fee for his xasqes ja passe, en quiel nous duissoms estre tenuz, steward golum UDC composicion de ceo faite par entre les from the ^ . ^ ' Chapter, predecessour nostre Seignur Lercevesqe qore est et such^o be ^^^^'•'^ predecessours, a ceo qest suppose par les lettres due by le dit Ercevesqe a nous maunde, ou qe nous retour- anold°^ nissoms respons ]>ur quey nous ne lavoms fait. Savoii- composi- vous fesoms qe nous avoms serche estreytement le dit theC'ha^-* composicion en presence de vostve tresorier, en Ja ter decline qnele nest pas trove qe nous serrioms charge de tieu hol^uff to pavement, solom les paroles contenues en la lettre a different Je dit Ercevesqe, mais ceo qe duist estre paie en tadon'^of ceste partie, solom la forme de la dite composicion, the words (j^j^^ estre paie en la tresorie le dit Ercevesqe a Caun- of the com- . ,p it,i, position, terbire, et uonpas pur vostre tee com la dite lettre Lercevesqe demaunde. Par quey vous prioms chiere- ment, qe nous veullez avier excuse en ceo cas ; quar, si ne fuist qe nous dotoms qc serroit en;blemissement del Cbtat de nostre Esglise a paier altrement qe la composicion en luy mesmcs ne vtut, vous U'stz CANTUAIUENSES. 61 copias quorundam sigillo nostro privato signatas, super diocese quibus, ut supponimus, idem dominus noster nuper '"ipprs habuit vobiseum colloquium speciale. Valete sicut i» the suit valere vellemus, nobis, si placet, rescribentes per die- prim^"^^'^ tum latorem, si ab eodeni reciperitis copias supradiotas. for the in- Scriptum Cantuariie in crastino Beata3 Marios Mag- of tijg u^^y dalenoB sub sigillo memorato. Arch- " bishop, who is made a party tn the suit. 54G. Greeting. Concerning what you have written to us in your letters, which wc liave caused to be delivered to the Piior, with regard to the twenty marcs of your fee for the quarter of Easter already past ; which we arc bound to pay according to a composition made thereon between the predecessors of our Lord the Archbishop who now is and our predecessors (as far as can be gathered from the letters sent to us by the said Arch- bishop) unless we can send a reply giving a reason for not having paid it. We wish you to know, that we have, in the presence of your Treasurer, strictly searched the said composition, and we do not find in it that we are charged with any such payment, as is stated in the words of the letter of the said Archbishop ; but what has to be paid in this behalf (according to the terms of the said composition) must be paid into the treasury of the said Archbishop at Canterbury, and not (as the letter of the said Archbishop demands) as a fee to yourself. Therefore we earnestly pray you that you will be pleased to hold us excused in this case ; for if we did not fear that it would tend to the injury of the estate of our Church if wo paid otherwise than is 62 LITERS este servy en avant ; raais a vostrc proscliein venue par devers nous ferroms issint, par lavisement de vostre tresorier, qe vous teudrez apaie al aide de Dieu. A Dieu, etc. Escript a Canterbire lo xxiiij. jour de Juyl desouz nostra prive seal. 0334)". '^^^^^ — Litter A. missa Johanni Doo super conven- X,. 37 a. TIONE FACTA INTER NOS ET IPSUM DE MANERIO . ^ , DE West Merseye. A tenant stocked""^' *5alutz, etc. Com la teriue qe vous avcz en nostrc ■with cattle maner de West Merseye soit ja approchant a la fyn, isre-°'"' ^ Seint Michel proschein avener, et vous, solom Ics minded covenantz desur ceo tallies, meisme le Maner en toutes term is choses, com en Llees et en estor, aumeynz solom ceo almost qe vous la receutes, en tien manere les devez sus and that he rendre, et tout soit ensi qe les blees dedeins meisme IS hound to ]e maner cressantz sont enmuriz, et mestier fuist qe hand over • t t n • i ^ the land ascun SO entremeit de les laire entrer, par doute de aud^dead P^^'^^^'j VOUS ne VOUS ent(re)medlez point, com faire stock equal duisscz, a ceo qe nous est fait entendont, de quey whichVe ^^^^^ emmervoilloms molt, pur quey nous vous prioms received on qe, vewes cestcs, nous facez assavoir liastivement ceo ButTar- 1^ vous enpensBz faire, issint toutes voies qe si vous vest is at ne veullez emprendre la charge de les faire entrer a he'i's' "^"'^ coustages, solom ceo qe vous estes tenuz, nous warned remandez vos lettres patentes, donant poair a nous de corn must ^60 fairc en vostre noun, tant qe nous puissoms entrc- be got in parler de ditz covenantz. A Dieu, etc. Escript a tit lllS GX~ ■ peuse, for Caunterbire le ix^ jour de Augst. the lessors payment. 9 Aug. .'348. — LITTERA DIRECTA J. FrYSEL UT AD NOS ACCEDAT NOBISCUM TRACTATURUS SUPER QUIBUSDAM L. 37 a. CONCERNENTIBUS MANERIUM NOSTRUM DE RlSSE- BURGH. The Stew- Salutz, etc. De la grant affeccion qe vous avez a mauOToV nous, et a nostre honur et profist, et a bon et hastif CANTUARIENSEf5, 63 raeatifc in the composition itself, you sliould have been satisfied without asking ; but at your next coming to us we will so do that, with the help of God, you shall hold yourself well content. A Dieu. 547. Greeting. Seeing that the lease tliat you have o£ our manor of West Mersey is now approaching its term (at the Feast of St. Michael next coming), and that 3'ou, according to the covenants executed in this matter, are bound to surrender the same manor in all particulars, as in corn and stock, at least as well furnished as when you received it ; and although the crops growing within the said manor are now ripe, and it is necessary tliat some one should set to work to harvest them, lest tliey perish, you do not concern yourself at all as you ouglit to do, as it is reported tons, whereat we marvel greatly ; and therefore we pray you that, having read tliesc letters, you will let us know quickly what you intend to do in this matter, so, at all events, if you are not inclined to undertake the duty of harvesting them at your own cost, as you arc bound to do, send us your letters patent giving us authority to do so in your name, until we can discuss the said covenants. Adieu. 548. Greeting. For the great affection that you have for us, and our honour and profit, and for the good and 64 MonksRis- esploit de iioz busoignes, et de la grant diligence asked^to'* travoil et peniblete qe vous avez mys avant ces come to houres en la meyntcnaunce de droitures do nostre biirv to Esglise, solom ceo qe nous avoms toutz joins trove en consult fait_ vous mercioms molt, et savoms especialement boii with the . , , -n 11 Chapter gi'se, en pnant qe cele benevoillaunce veullez toute about the foith contiuuer. Et pur ceo qe vous nous avez cer- lueans to . ^ be used iu tifie qe noz tenantz de nostre maner de Ryssebergh with'the portent estraungement devers nous, en clamant tenants destre dautre condiciun qils nont este tenuz devant showiu" houres, et se sent entredonez de meyntener lour signs of emprise, la quiele cliose si ensi fuist soffert tourneroit nation"^' appcrtement en prejudisse de nous et en desheritaunce de nostre Esglese ; nous veulliantz y tele malice re- froindre, et convenable remedie, si avant com nous pooms en toute boue maneres, ordiner et mettre, par avisement de vous et des alteres de nostre conseil ; vous prioms tant de cuer com nous pooms, qe, vewes cestes lettres, aplusenbaste qe vous poetz vous afforcez de venier a nous, pur parler et tretier de ceste busoigne, et des altres sur quelx nous desiroms vostre presence pur accompler nostre propos, et le quiel ne puist avant vostre venue par devers nous venier en effect, nestre mys bonement al fyii. Si en veullez pur tant de plus empensier, et ceo qe vous en veullez faire a ceste nostre requeste, et du temps qe vous entendez destre ove nous, nous remaundez par voz lettres et p&v le portour de cestes. A Dieu, cliier amy, etc. Escript ut supra. 17A'.ig. 54)9. — LiTTERA DIKECTA MaGISTEO RoB. ThRESK PRO • i^^^'*)- CURATORI NOSTRO IN CuRIA ROMANA SUPER L. 37 b. QUIBUSDAM CONCERNENTLBUS QUENDAM CAPEL- LANUM QUI SEQUEBATUR PRO NEGOTIO PeTRI DE DeXE. The Proe- Salutem et considerationem debitam in scribendo. Curia Intciitionis no4rfe non excitit nec existit illi capellano CANTUARIENSES. 65 speedy conclusion of our business, and for the great dili- gence and labour that you have aforetime brought to bear upon the maintenance of the rights of our Church, as we have always really recognised, we thank you exceedingly, and with especial goodwill we pray that you will ever continue this kindness. And because you have reported to us that our tenants at Risborough bear themselves coldly towai'ds you, claiming to be of a freer condition tlian they have hitherto been believed to be, and have made a jf>int stock fund for tlie maintenance of the'r cause ; which thing if so allowed would plainly tend to our prejudice and to the disherison of our Chnreh ; we, desiring to restrain such illdoing, and to devise and apply a convenient remedy so far as we can in any proper way, by your advice and by that of others of our counsel, pray you as heartily as we can that, having seen these letters, you exert yourself to come to us as speedily as you are able, in order to discuss and to treat of this matter, and of other tilings about which we require your presence for the accomplishment of our purpose, and which cannot before your coming to us l)e put into practice, or come to a proper conclusion. And so please the more to consider this ; and send us word by your letters and by the bearer of these what you propose to do in the matter at this our request, and at Avhat time you expect to be with us. Farewell, &c. de quo scripsistis gravamen conferre. Unde videtur told that a nobis mirandum quare coraminationes varia? videntur ^sks for^" sub velamento inferri, ubi posuimus confidentiam nos- payment ■ lor scr- tram magnam. Et scire velitis, si dictus capellanus vices habuisset vel haberet procurationem a nobis petendi .'eniiered processus concernentes Petrum de Dene, et hujus- matter of modi ijrocuratorium fuisset nobis manifestatum, tunc 1^^^^ Dene, was U 52122. E 66 LITERiE talnedby P^'^f^^^^s capellanus per nos forsitan fuisset gravatus nisi the Chap- suis petitionibuf; annuissemus ; sed revera totaliter latet that ipsum, ut proodicituv, esse procuratorem. Adliuc thing is vobis iterata vice scribimus, quod nos tradidimus Ma- hi"m '°Also S^^*^^"*^ Roberto de Solebery totale debitum pro quo the Troc- nobis tarde vestras litteras transmisistis ; et idem Ma- nsked^for g^^ter dictum debitum, ut supponimus, vobis mittet in his salary, brevi. Et vos rogamus quod non accipiatis pro malo toid'with l^iofl tarn distulimus vobis solvere qure solvere debe- an apology bamus ; vos etiam rogamus ex affectu, quatinus inspi- or delay, ^^^^ velitis quandam cedulam preesentibus interclusam, Oct. 1334. L. 38 a. The exe- cutor of J. de Dene is reminded that the testator left five pounds to Christ Church, but that the Chap- ter agreed to accept three pounds in considera- tion of prompt payment. Payment has not been prompt, so the remis- sion comes to nothing. But the executor being a neighbour the Chap- ter do not ■wish to distress bim. 550. — LiTTERA MISSA J. PyROT EXECUTORI J. DE DeXE DEFUNCTI DE QUADAM RELAXATIONE SIBI FACTA DE CENTUM SOLIDIS NOBIS LEGATIS IN TESTA- MENTO DICTI DEFUNCTI. Salutz, etc. Pur ceo qe Jon de Dene, (de) qui cxe- eutour vous estes, nous devisa cent soudz al overaygne de nostre Esglise, et nous, par assent de nos fraires, a vostre requeste grauntames qe si vous ne^ paiessez soixante soudz as deux termes, cest assavoir la moyete a la Nativite Saint Jon proschein passe, et lautrc moyete a la feste Saint Michel proscheyn suyant, qe vous duissez estre quites de les ditz cent soudz ; et si vous ne tenassez mye les termes avantditz qe les cent soudz serroyent entierement paiez. Et quant al terme Saint Johan la paie est faite, et quant al terme Saint Michiel rien nest paie, pur quey les cent soudz sont entierement paiables a nous. Et par ceo qe vous estes nostre veisin et nostre bienvoillent nous herioms molt de vous somoundre ou travoiller ; pur quey vous prioms qe vous nous maundez vostre respons endroit de les choses susdites, par le portour de cestes. A Dieu, etc. en ? CANTUARIENSES. 67 ac etiam instantev, si placet, ct efficaciier pvocurare, t^aUt has ut nos habeamus commissionem absolvendi fratrem to him. nostrum, cujus nomen insertum est in cedula prfedicta. Et quia immiscuit se divinis frequenter non absolutns, etc. habeamus commissionem dispensandi secum super irregularitate per eum contracta. Valete in Christo, nobis rescribcntes de vestri status incolumitate, ac etiam aliorum amicorum ; nostros inimicos quantum po- teritis, sicut alias fecistis, vestri gratia compesccntes, et eos in sua malitia rctardantes. Scriptum Cantuaria) xvijo die Augusti. 550. Greeting. Whereas John de Dene, whose executor you are, bequeathed to \\h a hundred shillings for the fabric of our church, and, at your request and. by consent of our bi-ethren, we granted that if you paid sixty shillings of it in two instalments, that is to say one half at Midsummer last past and the other half at Michael- mas next following, then, that you should be acquitted of the said hundred shillings ; but that if you did not keep to these two terms then that the hundred shillings should be paid in full. Now as to the Midsummer term the money is paid, but for the Michaelmas term nothing is paid, and therefore the hundred shillings are due to us without abatement. And, because you are our neighbour and our wellwisher, we greatlj' hesitate to summon you or to worry you, and therefore we pray that you will send us your reply upon these aforesaid matters by the bearer of these letters. E 2 68 LITERS (Oct. 551. _ LlTTERA AIISSA DeCANO DE ScHORHAM PRO 1334 ^ RELAXATIONE SEQUESTRATIONIS CATALLORUM L 38 h. ALICI.E DE LeYHAJI CONVICTS DE MORTE MA- RITI SUI PER DICTUM DeCANUM FACTyE. The Dean Salutem, etc. Quia intelleximus quod vos seque- ham.a''' strastis catalla quce fuerunt Alicite de Leyham de peculiar Oi'pinton, vobis significamus quod prasdicta Alicia £uit Arch- convicta de felonia, videlicet, de morte qviondam ma- bishop.has g^j^ quare no.s, ut dominus feodi cui catalla t'elonum seques- ^ „ . . tiated darapnatorum et iiigitivorum pei'tinent per cartam of A^klfde I^'^^i^^ Regis, seisivimus catalla pmedictse Alicine per- Leyham. tinentia de hereditate sua in manus nostras, ut catalla Prior^^ nostra propria, pro conservatione jurium Ecclesia' shows that nostrse ; qua de causa, vobis supplicamus qixatinus feloiTan'd sequestrationem prfedictam relaxare velitis, nostris therefore precibus et amore ; ne per nos et consilium nostrum goods'^' aliud remedium apponatur ; scientes, quod infringentes escheated jura Ecclesia^ nostras prjpdictfe sententiam excommuni- Lord ofThe cationis inajoris incurrunt. Nostris votis, si placet, in manor in hac parte sic annuatis, ut nos habeatis vobis specia- llved • he liter obligatos. Semper in Christo valeatis. Scriptum tlierefore Cantuari?e xiiijo die Octobris sub sigillo nostro private Dean to Beneplacitum vestrum sujjer liiis nobis significare take ofi his yelitis prsesentium ])er latorem. seques- ' tration. ]4 Oct. 552. — ACQUIETANTIA J. PyROT ADMINISTRATORIS BONO- RUM TESTAMEXTI J. DE DeNE DE C. SOLIDIS ^- 3^ AD OPUS Ecclesia no.str^ legatls. The exe- Pateat universis, etc. quod nos Ricardus permissione, j"*de Dene I'ecepiuuis et habuimus a J. Pyrot, administratorem not having bonorum testamenti J. de Dene defuncti, centum solidos pounds'^*^ sterlingorura, ad opus Ecclesias nostrse supradictte in promptly testamento dicti defuncti legates. De quibus centum five under solidis dictum admin istratorem, tenore praesentium, CANTUAEIENSES. 69 ac(piiefcamu.s. In cujus I'ci testiii ionium .sigilhini uo.s- I'l'^^s.-inu trum fecimus liii.s appoiii. Datum CantuariiB xiiijo die ioive^'^thii Octobris, anno Doiuiui m1occc™° tricesimo quarto. acquit- ^ tance. 553. — COMiHlSSIO J. DE BrAYDESTOXE SeNESCALLI 8 Nov. LIBERTATIS ECCLESI^ CaNTUARIENSIS. L. 38 a. Ricardus permissione divina Prior Ecclesife Cliri.sti rpj^^ ^^xox Cantuariensis, liberis hominibus, et onmibus aliis te- appoints a nentibus et ministris nostris in omnibus et singulis fj"^i^"JS coniitatibus Anglise, ac aliis universis quorum interest, '"<'s, an aut interesse potuerit, salutem in Domino. Noverit ".jy^^^yj^osg iiniversitas vestra, quod nos fecimus et constituimu'!, '^"'y 't was; ac etiam ordinavimus dilectum nobis in Chi-isto Jo- thc'liberl hanncm de Braydeston Senescallum libertatis Ecelesite nostra) prjedicta^, et attornatum nostrum specialem, of 'rtie*'^'* ad supervidendum omnia maneria nostra, waynagia (^""J^"*^ terrarum nostrarum, et ad curias nostras tenendum authoritr in maueriis nosti'is, si sibi visum fuerit ex])ediens, et '""^ ^ ' encc. omnia alia ad prtedicta maneria nostra pertinentia, et omnes defectus in eisdem, et eosdem defectus sumptibus nostris reparari faciendum in defectum bal- livorum et prfepositorum nosti'orum ; ac etiam omnes servientes et ministros nostros, et omnia jura et libsr- tates nostras, nos et Ecclesiam nostram prajdictaro homines et tenentes nostros qualitercunque contiiv gentia, in omnibus et singulis comitatibus ])nedicti,s, petendum, consei vandum, defendendum, et manutenen- dum, ubicunque et coram quibuscunque ministris Do- mini Regis vel alioruin quorumcun(iue. Quocirca vobis, omnibus et singulis vestrum, pr.necipiendo mandamus, quatinus prjefato Johanni sitis intendentes, consilium prsebentes et auxilium in prtemissis. In cujus rei tes- timonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus sibi paten- tes, valituras (^uousque eas duxerimus I'evocare. Datum Cantuariae viij" die mensis Novembris, anno Domini millesimo ccc" tricesimo quarto. 70 LITEKiE Vacat. Eevocata fvdt hxc commissio sxix" die mensis Martii auno Domini mcccxxxv'". Vol sic: dilectum nobis iu Christo Johannem de Hlldeslc, attornatum nostrum, et locum tonentem Seuescalli nostri ipso absento, ad supervidendum omnia maueria nostra, etc. ut supra. Memorandum : quod Dominus Thomas do Brochullc habuit commissionom sub forma proximo praascripta, sub data Cantu- aria3 ultimo die Novembris, anno regni Kegis Edwardi Tercii a conquestu xiiij''. 5 Dec. 554. — LlTTERA DIRECTA DoMINO AdM DE MeRYMOUTH 1334. PRO PENSIONE SUA. L. 38 b. The Prior Salutem ill CO qui minas judicum non tiniuit, nec in sending tcrreiiBe dignitatis gloriam adquisivit. Amice karissirac, in'part^^'^^ littcras vcstras recepimus, iiijto die Decembris apud payment of Cantuaiiam, continentes quod, licet niinistri Cantu- sion^which avlensis Ecclesise prre ceteris teneantur personis in he had jpg-j^ Ecclesia, rota fortunse volvente, promotis ; non previously ^ . . , . refused to teuentur nisi secundum menta personarum, et quain- tbxry^^ diu utiles comprobantur in negotiis Ecclesise dirigendis. mouth, De istius rotas revolutione, juxta vestrBe intentionis aud*^"^" conceptum, sicut fuerit voluntas in coelo sic fiat. Et Lawyer, scirc vclitis quod nobis gaudium magnum est quod fTheavy tenemini nobis tanquam monacho claustrali, nulla kind of rota fortunte promote ; sic vero vos tanquam nostrum sarcasm, j-gfygj^j^ singulare, modo claustrali, et si non in rotaj motu circulari, speramus feliciter optinere. Et, vit iu vita claustrali per vos speclaliter simus nullatenus derelicti, nos, mediante diligentia majori, pro arrera- (1334.) 555. — LlTTERA EXCUSATORIA AD CoMITE]\r DE GAR- eenne pro priesentati Leonardi in Londonia. ■j^ jg„^ EENNE PRO PRiESENTATIONE ECCLESIiE SANCTI The Prior A noble seignur et lour trescher amez en Dieu thatThe ^^^^ ^^^^ Counte de Garreiine, de Surrei, et de CANTUARIENSES. 71 giis annuro pensionis vestnB mittimus ad vos latorcm prsesentium, juxta nostrse possibilitatis efficaciam secum deferentetn decern libras sterlingorum, vobis solvondas in partem solutionis arreragiorum pensionis vestra3 prsedictcB ; quam pecuniam velitis acceperc in partem solutionis dictorum arreragiorum, et nobis et confra- tribus nostris, si placet, relaxetis, juxta puritateui vestrfB consciencicB et discretionis, aliquam portionem dictonim arreragiorum. Advertentes, si placet, et con- siderantes quod vos nostris temporibus nunquam one- ravimus pro negotiis Ecclesiae nostrje prsedictse ; qua ratione nostris votis seu voluntati felicius annuere in liac parte poteritis, ut speramus. Valcte in Christo. Kecipiatis si placet dictam pecuniam, tradentes dicto latori prresentium litteras vestras acquietancias super hujusmodi rcceptione ; ac ctiam nobis rescribentes de statu vestro, et nos, monachum Ecclesiae Christi, ha- bentes specialiter, juxta vestne conscienciai permissi- onem, recommendatos. Et non habentes pro malo quod nos majorem pecuniam vobis non mittimus hac vice ; quia, secundum quod alias vobis scripsimus, arclia nostra, quod nobis prjecipue pro vobis displicet, pecunia non habundat, et hoc prse oculis vestris si libeat apponatis, nobis per litteras vestras sollatium allaturi. Credimus vero quod si vos ultima vice mauu vestra nobis scripsissetis, mentis trant^uillitas seu (^uies aliter (]uam detinct nos multiplicitcr possidcret. ^crip- tum Cantuariic v^^ die Dcceuibris, etc. 555. To the noble Lord and their dearly beloved in God Sir John Earl Warenne, &c. My Lord, as to youi- 72 LITERiE Church of Stratlierne, Seig-nur de Bromfeld et de Yal, Richard par bt. Leo- T rf o- iianl's la soefiraunce de Dieu Priour, etc. Saluz, etc. oire, had been en(jroit de voz lettres qe vous nous mandastes, les disposed i of before quelx nous receumes a Cauterbire le jour de Seint Warenne ^ichel, qe nous voudrioms presenter Sire Willeam de applied for Kendale, vostre chapelleyn, al esglise de Seint Leonard presenta- Estchepe de Loundres, la quele a nostre donesoun tion. appent ; veullez savoir, cher Seignur, qe devant ceo qe nous receumes voz lettres, par commun assent de noz fraii'Bs, la dite esglise fuist donez. Pur quel, Sire, vous prioms qe a ceste foith nous veullez bonement aver escusez. Et durement nous poise, qe voz lettres neussent venuz a nous a tieux temps, qe vustre volente neust este pleynement parfui'nye. A Dieu, cher Seignur, etc. 1334. 556. — LiTTJfiRA DE LIBERO CONDUCTU IN LINGUA L. 1 80 a. GaLLICANA. A special Richard par la soeffraunce de Dieu Priour, etc. As agent of ^ ^outz noz sergeantz et minis ires de noz maniers par the Chap- tout, salutz. Come nostre trescher et tresamez clerk vided whh ^^^^ ordine par nous daler en diverses parties a pass, pur noz hautes busoignes fa ire et esploiter, al aide de him'tlThve Dieu, VOUS maundoms et chargoms, fermement en- at free joygnant, qe, as toutes ses venues par devers vous, any'^nianor recevez bien et convenablement, entroiant ^ a luy of the toutes choses necessaires pur ses coustages pur tout Convent. , , ^, i On leaving le temps qe y avera a dcmorrer, en ycele mauere each gQjjj vous ferriez as Gardien de meisme les maniers : manor he will {rive a faisant taille ou endenture ovesqe luy de ses coustages certificate ^ departier. En te.smoiOTaunce de queu chose or his ex- . penses in nous luy avouis fait cestes noz lettres patentes. ofatTlfy Escript a Canterbire le xiiije jour de Martz Ian de grace Mcccxxxiiije. en ottroiant ? CANTUAlllENSES. 73 letters, which you have sent to us (and) which vvc received at Canterbury on Michaelmas day, (desiring) that we should present Sir William de Kendale, your chaplain, to the church of St. Leonard Eastcheaj) in London, which is in our patronage ; be pleased to know, dear Lord, that before we received your letters the said church wa^ disposed of, by the common assent of our brethern. Wherefore, my Lord, we pray you that on this occasion you will kindly hold us excused; and it greatly troubles us that your letters should not have come to us in time for your wishes to be fully accom- plished. Adieu, &jC. 556. Richard by God's permission Prior, &c. to all our Serjeants and officials in all our manors wherever situate. Whereas our beloved clerk A. de B. is selected by us to travel in various districts to conduct and conclude our important affairs, with God's help, we command and charge you, firmly enjoining that whenever he comes to you, you receive him well and suitably, providing him with all things necessary for his consumj)tion during all the time he may have to remain, on the same scale as you would do for the Warden of our said manors ; making with him a tally or bipartite inden- ture of his costs when he leaves you. In testimony of which we have made for him these letters patent. Written, &c. 74 (Dec. 557. — LiTTERA DIRECTA J. BrAYDESTON SeNESCALLO 1334.) PRO TERRA QU^ FUIT ROGERII DE BeRNIERS L. 38 b. QUA5I EpISCOPUS ExONIENSIS ADQUISIVIT. In the Salutz, etc. Nous avoms bien entenduz les lefctres, the I'rfor's quelx vous iious niaundaste.s nadgaires a Canter- predeccs- h'lrs pur les terre.s qe le Evesqe de Excestre purcliasa K-^hop of Rogier de Berniers, a lay et a sa Esglise, les quelx Exeter tevrcs furent de nostra fee ; et pur ceo qe y furent some land alienez en morte main sanz conge de nostre prede- iu the fee cessour et de nostre Chapitle, y nous semble qe nous Convent pooms bien seysir et entrer en les dites terres, et les (atCheam) ^etenier, sanz tort faire a nuUy. Par quey vous 'present prioms cherement, qe veullez approcliier le Eschetour Trior sug- \yilleam de Northo, et luy priez, de par nou.s, nil gc-ststothe ^ . ^ i-H Seneschal veulle de ceste chose surser tantqe y viegne a Canter- "/■h'" ■ ^Ai^^, et qe nous puissoms entre vous et nous et altres that the de nostre conseil parler et trestier coment meuz purra Bishop oh- gg^j.g ceste chose, et estre pese et redresse solom tamed no ' >■ licence in la ley si nul tort soit fait, Daltre part, vous prioms anTthat"' ^® VOUS prengnez al cuer les busoignes qi pendent therefore entre nous et noz tenantz de E.3'ssebergh, et nous escheated £>''^'oms maunde noz lettres a James Frysele, qil vous to the Con- soit aidant et conseillant en celes busoignes ove toute I^o asks*^ laide qil purra mettre pur lamour de nous. Et the .arty, or that of Sir William de Bohun, his brother, or of Hir William de M(mtao-ue, who should be willing' to inter- pose for us to save and u])hold the right of our Church F 2 84 LITERiE great et contrairalntz en voz parties. Savoir vous iesoms, nobles , . • -i. j. should be ^1^ nous agreoms bien qe ensi soit, et vous pnoms, si obtained, treschei'ement com nous plus pooms, qe vous plese The Prior . , . /> • eonsentino- Gusi orclmer devers ascun a cui vous nez, si vous •agrees that meismss faire ne puissez de approche as les avantditz ard shall g^antz de trestier ovesqes eux, al fyn qils vousissent have carte, estre del assent de emprendre de mayntenier la bu- secure such soigne avant dite, solonc Dieu et droiture ; mettant nobles. certeyn ces qe il lour plust a prendre pur meismc sent Chief la cause. Et entendez, lealment qe ceo qe vous [ferrez], bTo^him; altre deputez par vous ferra, devers les ditz grantz, other em- sil vous semble qil est mestier de toutz retenier on umf tcTgi^ve ^® partie de eaux, solonc vostre avysement, ou daltres up his office, grantz en defalte de eaux qi ne vorront assentier, PHor^*^ tendroms en toutz pointz ferm et estable, sanz venier would like a lencountre pur nul meschietf". Mais, toute foith, pur .Tohn de^*^ ceo qe nous avoms entenduz qe vous etes a nial aisc Stonor, du corps, sumes tropgrandement desconfortez ; sur quey decline, "the '^O'^^s prioms al Jesu Crist de bon cuer, qi vous remene a.'k^d"^ ^ sauncte hastivement, et vous donit bone vie et longe. name some Et veullez savoir qe nous bioms ordiner qe Johan other ^reat (]g Braydeston qest ore nostre Seneschal nous aide en man who .ii -, i t ^ • will accept altre degree, et soit descnargee de la senesclialtie ; ct the office, p^^. vous prionis cherement, qe vous plese nous certifier par voz lettres sil fait afaire de prier Monsire Joliati de Stonore qil veulle estre nostre Seneschal ; kar, com vous bien savez, y covient avier un grant de meintenier nostre droit, et de redresser le tort a nous fait et a nostre Esglise. Et si le dit Monsire Jon ne veut emprendre la charge destre nostre Sene- schal, vous plese nomer a nous ascun altre grant qi nous puissc bien aider en cele office. Endroit de cestes choses nous remandez vostre volente par le portour de cestes. A Dieu, etc. Escript, etc. CANTUAllIENSES, 85 against our rchcls and opponents in your parts. We let you know, that we quite consent that it may be so, and we pray you as earnestly as we can, that you will he pleased to thus arrange with some one in whom you have confidence, in case you yourself cannot approach the said nobles, to treat with them, in order tliat they may be brought to consent to undertake the aforesaid business, after the rule of God and right ; ascertaining Avhat it will satisfy them to receive on this account. And understand, that whatever you shall do, or another person deputed by you shall do in connexion with these noblemen, whether you think it necessary to retain them all, or only some of them according to your better judgment, or others instead of those above named if they are not willing to consent, we Avill confirm without contradiction at any risk. But at the same time, hearing as we do that you are sick in body we are seriously concerned ; and for this cause w^e pray heartily to Jesus Christ, and may he speedily bring you back to health and give you a good and a long life. And please to understand, that we in- tend to arrange that John de Braydeston who is now our Seneschal shall work for us in some other capacity, and shall be released from his oftice of Seneschal ; and there- fore we pray you earnestly that you will please to certify us by )'Our letters if it can be managed, that we may ask Sir John Stonor that he will consent to be our Seneschal ; for as you well know it is advisable to have some great man to maintain our right, and to redress the great wrong done to us and our Church. And if the said Sir John is not willing to undertake the burden of being our Seneschal, please to name to us some other great man who may be able to help us in that office. As to these things send us your wishes by the bearer ot these letters, 86 LITEU.K 22 Mar. 567. — AlTEKA LITTERA MISSA EIDEM J. PRO NEGOTIO i^^^-^^- de Ryssebergh supradicto. luuoutiuu- Salutz, etc. Cher amy, nous receumes voz lettics tlic'last lendemayn del la Annunciacion Nostre Dame a Can- Ch'^'f '^'^"^ terbirs, les quelx nous avoms bien entenduz. Et Seueschal veullez savoir qe nous avoms parle as noz fraires, et '^h'^'^ed monstre voz dites lettres, et nous et noz and ft ' fraires sumes molt eonfortez de vostre bon conseil bomg ^.g nous avoms entenduz en meimes celes. Et par necessary ^ i i • i • to employ ceo qe nous vous mandames nadgaires, com vous bien ">iacea ^^vez, qe Jon de Braydeston duist estre descharge do iiKiu of la senesclialtic, nous vous certifioms par noz lettres ius'^who^s" le dit Jon est descharge de dit office, en quiel leu wise, well y nous covient avier un grant, qi soit sage, connuz, aud po'pu- amez entrc les grantz ; ct, soloin ceo qe nous lar, the avoms eutcnduz, un tiel est Monsirc J. de Stonore ; steward is • i ^ i i asked to P"^" ^^cy nous prioms cuereinent, par assent de iiox; '"*t*^\' ^^"^^'^^^J ^® vous plese approcher al dit Monsire J., fore J. de ct luy prier, de par nous solonc vostre discrecion, (pi Th'^Snw ^^^^^^ emprendre la charge destre nostre Seneschal ; ardhas et sil veulle grantier vostre priere, nous, apres son U-eu sued gonseil et le vostre, parleroms et tresteroms ove ascuns in the . County of altres gentz de mayntenier par poair nostre droit, et Bucks by j redrcsser le tort qest a nous fait. Et ne veullez Lady 1 itz- ^ Neal about prendre a mal qe nous ne maudorns a ceste foith un na^re^"' dc noz fraires de parlier a luy joyntement ove vous ofhofTs de les dites busoignes, kar ceo ne pooms mye ore borou'^li bonementes faire ; et nous entendoms qe vous le frcz wood, aud bien meismes saunz maundier a vous mil de noz harbee^ ff^ires ; et nous agreeroms et tendroms ferm et estable suffered quantqe vous ordinez. Et eudroit de ceo qe vous for want « . , . tit of a com- nous laites assavoir, qe nous sumes emplede en le ^li^'hth" '^^"'^^^ Buks par la Dame de Fitz-Neal, pur pan- late Seue- nage de nostre boys de Rysserbergli, et qe vous avez schal pro- p^^. nrrant damage continue la chose de counte en inised to ^ i • i i i exhibit but counte, par defalte de la composicion qc Johan de CANTUARIENSES. 87 567. • Greeting, &c. Dear Friend, we received your letters on the morrow of the Annunciation of Our Lady, at Canterbury, and we have thoroughly mastered their contents. And please to understand that we have spoken with our brethren and have shown them youi said letters, and we and our brethren are much consoled by the good advice that we have found in the same. And Avhereas we lately sent word to you, as you well know, that John de Braydeston was to be discharged from his stewardship, we let you know by these present letters, that the said John is removed from the said office, and in his place it is expedient to have some great man who is prudent, well known, and popular among the nobility ; and, from what we have beard, such a man is Sir John Stonor ; wherefore we earnestly pray you, with the assent of our brethren, that you will please to see the said Sir John, and pray him, on our behalf, as shall seem best to you, that he will be pleased to under- take the burthen of being our Seneschal ; and if he is Avilling to grant your prayer, after his counsel and yours, we will speak to and treat with otlier persons who may by their power maintain our rights, and redress the wrong which is done to us. And do not take it amiss that on this occasion we do not send one of our brethren to speak with him together with yourself on the said matters, for at present we cannot well do this ; and we have reason to think that you will manage it very well by yourself without an}' of our brethren being- sent ; and we will accept and hold firm and stable what- ever you settle. And as for what you tell us, namely, that we are sued in the County of Bucks by the Lady Fitz-Neal for the pannage of hogs in our woods at Risborough, and that you have with great cost prolonged the matter from one county court to another, for lack of the composition 88 LlTEHiE doso^-*' Braydeston vous proiiiist davier fait venier, nous vous hence the uiaundoms la copie de la composicion avantdite, desouz a^'ittcstctl ^^^^ Commissaire de Caunterbire, en priant qe copy, but vous ne le prenez a mal qe nous ne vous maundoms trust the ^® original a ore, kar nous ne osomes la dite corn- original to posicion bailler a nul garcion, par doute de peite ou A^leuer of altre mQscliiefF qe poet avenier ; mais si vous nic ^ credence faites assavoir qil busoigne la dite composition niaun- twmncnd- d^r, nous Ic VOUS mauudroms par le Gardeyn a sa st^' "^'4 t P^"*^'"^*^^^*^"^*^ venue apres Pascli. Et bien esperonis, par Sir J. de laide de Dieu ct vostre bone diligence, en le men Stouor. temps estre sanz damage. Et saclicz, qe nous ct Dantz Richard de Wyllardeseye nostre Suppriour, qi ad bono aqueyntaunce del dit Monsire Jon, maundoms deux lettres, des quelx nous vous maundoms copies, ct a'ous prioms especialment qe vous plese les dites lettres a luy bailler de par nous, Et vous prioms, qe vous veullez user la robe qe nous vous maundaraes en hoiiur de nous ; entendant qe nous, solonc nostre poair et par vostre aide, les busoignes susdites met- troms en bon esploit. A Dieu, etc. Escript a Caun- terbire le xxix. jour do Martz. Mar. 1335. L. 40 a. The Trior regretting that he has never made Sir .Tchn Stonor's acquaint- ance, and thathecau' not do so now. 5(j8. — Une lettre de credence pur la dite BUSOIGNE. A son tresclier amy Monsire Jon de Stonore, Richard, etc. salutz, etc. Cher Sire, nous avoms entcnduz qe vous estes bon amy a nostre Esglise, la vous merciz ; et molt le plus desiroms avier vostre aqueyntaunce, qe nous ne avoms eu devant cest heure ; et nous ne poems meismes ore a vous parlier, qe durement nous poise. Nous avoms maunde nostre volente devers vous par nostre chcr et bien amcz en Dieu J. de F., ' m; MS. CANTUAllIENSES. 89 that Jolm flc Braydcston promised to produce, wo now send you a copy of the aforesaid composition, certified by the seal of the Commissary of Canterbury ; begging you not to be hurt that at the present time we do not send you the original, but we do not dare entrust the said composition to a groom for fear of loss or some other mischance which might happen ; but if you will let us know if it is necessary to send the said composi- iioii, we will scud it by the Warden of our Manors at his next visit after Easter. And we sincerely hope, by the help of God and of your diligence, to be safe from loss in the mean time. And know that we and Dom Richard de Willardescye our Sub-Prior, who knows the said Sir John well, send two letters, furnishing you with copies of them, and we specially pray you to be pleased to deliver them to liim as from us. And we pray you that you will be pleased to wear the (livery) gown which we have sent you, in our honour ; believing that, to tlie best of our power and by your help we shall bring the above-mentioned affairs to a good ending. A Dieu, &c. 5G8. To his very dear Sir John de Stonore, Richard, &;e. greeting, «Sz;c. Dear Sir, wc have understood that you are a good friend to our Church, for which you have our thanks ; and all the more we desire to have acquain- tance with you, which up to this time we have never had ; and even now we are not able to speak to you in person, which troubles us much. Wc have entrusted our wishes in which you arc concerned to our dear and 90 J P^i't'-'^^i" tlo cestes, a cui vous pvioins chei'ement, qc Frysel the "\'<^us veullez cloncr parfite credence do ceo qil vou.s steward dirra de bouclie, do par nous. A Dieu, Sire, etc. Et WllO will . . 11 1 c'xpiaiu SI i"i<-'ii soit qe VOUS veullez devers nous, nous vous what IS serroms assez prests A Dieu, etc. necessary. 6 May BG9. — LlTTEKA MISSA DOMINO ReGI PRO CARIAGIO 1335. FACIENDO VERSUS PARTES SCOTI^. L. 41 «. The Kiri<^ A SOU trescher et treshonurable Scignur, Sire di'd fn™!!"^' Edward par la grace de Dieu Roy DeugleteiTc, the Con- Seignur Dirland, et Ducx Dacquytaine, son chapclleyn couti'lbu- Richard Priour del Esglise de Canterbire, salutz, etc. tion of a Tresclicr Sire, endroit de ceo qe vous nie avez and five luaunde par voz lettres, les queux jeo receu le quart horses to- jour dc Mali proscheiii passe; en queux est contenuz transport qe VOUS, en defense de vostrc realme, biez retournifr hirscot"^ prosclieinement as parties Descoce, pur vostre guerre tish war, finier illoesqes, od laide de Dieu, et bosoignez davoir and the nri-ant foison de cariage : pur quey vous me maundez Pnor pro- ^ . . niiscs to qe, moy cliargeant cele necessite qest si grande, vous them"^'' envoye sanz delai une chare tte od cink chevaux et tout lapparail, en aide de vostre cariage avantdit ; issint qils soient a vous a Noefchastel-sur-Tyne len- demayne de la Trinite proschein avenier aplustart. Trescher Sire, veullez savoir qe jeo serroy prest solonc mon poair afaire ceo qe vous avez maunde en voz lettres susdites. A Dieu, Sire, qi vous donit bono vie et longe, et victorie de voz enemys. Escript a Broke le vj<2 jour de Maii avantdit, Ian de grace m'cccxxxv. 25 May 570. — AlIA LITTERA MISSA EIDEM ET PRO EODEM NEGOTIO. L. 41 a. The Prior A SOU tresclicr Seignur, etc. -at tiiopra. Tresclier repeats his ggitrjm,. endroit de ceo qe vous me mandastes promise to o ' • OANTUARIENSES. 91 well beloved in God J. dc Frysel, bearer of this, and to liim we earnestly l)eg you to give complete credence in all that he shall say to you by word of mouth on our behalf. And if there be anything that you desire at our hands we shall be most ready Adieu, &,c. 569. To his very dear and right honourable Lord, Sir Edward by the grace of God, &:c. his Chajilain Kichard Prior of the Church of Canterbury, greeting, &c. Very dear Sire, as to what you have required of me in your letters, which I received the fourth day of May last past, in which there is contained that, in defence of your I'ealm, you propose to shortly return to the borders (jf Scotland, in order to put an end to your war there, with God's help, and that you require to have great plenty of means of transport ; wherefore you send me word that, this so great necessity urging me, I should send you without delay a waggon with live horses and all their furniture in aid of your aforesaid transport, so that they may be with you at Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the latest on the morrow of Trinity Sunday next coming. Very dear Sire, please to know that I shall be ready to the extent of my power to do that which you have demanded in your above-mentioned lettei's. God be with you, Sire, and give you a good and a long life, and victory over your enemies. 570. To his very dear Lord, &c. above. Very dear Lord, as to what you commanded me lately by your letters. 92 LITEILE supply nagucrcs par voz Icttres, les qucux jco receu le (piart fiaiisport. j^^^^, Mail proschein passe, qe vous cndefenso de vostre rcalmc biez rctourner as parties Descocc, pur vostre guerre tinier illoesqes od laide de Dieu, et busoignez davoir grant foison de cariage, pur qucy vous me niandastes qe jeo ^"ous envoyasse unc charctte ove cink chevaux et tout lapparail, en aide de vostre cariage avantdit ; issint quils fuissent a vous a Nocf- chastel-sur-Tyne lendemeyn de la Trinite proscheyn suyvant ; sacliez, treschcr Scignur, qe jeo suy prest afaire vostre maundemcnt solonc mon poair ; et si envoy a Noefchastel susdit avant la festc de la Trinite une cliarettc ove cink clievaux a celuy qi scrra assignez de les I'ecevire. A. Dieu, tresclier Sire, qi vous gard et quantqe a vous appent, et vous donit bon esploit de vostre emprise. Escript a Cantcrbire le XXV. jour de Mali avantdit, Ian iLt supra. Item : nnc lettrc est maimde a rccevour des cariagcs uostrc Sciguur ]o Koy pur meismes les busoignes. (May 571. — LiTTERA MISSA DomNO WiLLELMO DE ClYNTON 1335.) T , PRO NEGOTIO SUPRADICTIS. Jb. 41 a. Sir W. Clintou Richard, etc. Cher Sire, .sachez qe nous cnvcoms, castle) is pf^^ nostre cher vadlet H. de S. portour de cestes, iiskcd to une charette ove cink chevaux et tout lapparail a assist the ^ . n -i-> -it • Prior's iiostre Seignur le Koy, en aide de ses cariages vers servant ui jgg parties Dcscocc. Et pur ceo vous prioms, auxi delivering ^ . . , the wag- cherement com nous poms, qe vous soiez en aide au horses"to nostre portour, qil fuist tost et bien esploite dc the Re- son message, et qil puisse avoir lettres du Recevour transport ^^^^ cariagcs nostre dit Seignur le Roy vers les dites and to pro- parties de la deliveraunce dc nostre charette svisdite. humay" A Dicu, Sire, etc. Escri[)t, etc. Ian, etc. luivL' a jiroper official receipt. CANTUAR[ENSES. 93 which I received the fourth day of May last past, namely that you, in defence of 3'our realm, propose to return to the borders of Scotland, there by the help of God to put an end to j-our war, and that you require to have great plenty of means of transport, wherefore you required me to send you a waggon and five horses with all their furnitu) e in aid of your aforesaid transport, so that they might be at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the Morrow of Trinity Sunday next coming ; know, very dear Lord, that I am ready to obey your command to the utmost of my power, and so I am sending to New- castle abovenamed, before Trinity Sunday, a waggon and five horses to the officer appointed to receive tlicm. God be with you, very dear Sire, and keep you and all belonging to you, and grant you a happy result to your enterprise. Item : a letter is seut to the Baggage-Master of Our Lord tlie King for the sainc ljusiiicss. 571. Richard, &c. Dear Sir, know that we send by our dear servant H. de S., bearer of these, a waggon with five horses and all the fittings to our Lord the Kino- as a contribution towards his transport service for Scotland. We therefore pray you, as earnestly as we can, that you help our said messenger, so that he may soon be dis- charged of his business, and that he may obtain a written receipt for the delivery of our aforesaid waggon from the Receiver of transport of our said Lord the King in those parts. 94 LITER 31 May 572. — FaMILIA QU;E EST UTILIS IN C'OQUINA COX- 1335. VENTUS. L. 109 a. The ser- Memorandum: quod, ultimo die Maii anno Domini ■rants em- M0CCC°xxxvto, injunctnm fuit Fratri R. de Icham tlle'^Cel-"^ Celerario, in virtute sanct;B obediential, quod remo- larer's de- veret oumem familiam de suo officio prajter familiam havinc'"* subscriptam. Et in crastino ultimi diei Maii supra- been found dicti facta fuit executio pra^dictfe injunetionis per excessive ^ • t , in number Celerarium supradictum. he is en- Magister cociis cum garcione ejusdem. joined to t dismiss all Item : secundus cocus sine garcione. not inclu- Item : cocus aulfe cum garcione. annexeii Item: potagiarius et discarius habentes unum gar- 'ist. cionem. Item : salsarius cum garcione. Item : focarius sine garcione. Item : portitor veniens de villa cum esculentis. Item : iiijo'' turnebroches. Pro coquina Domini Prioris. Magister cocus cum uno garcione et uno pagio, De familia Infirmitorii. Duo servientes cum discatorio et coltonario.^ • Item: in deporto ' unus serviens de mensa Magistri cum uno garcione. Item : pro qualibet camera actualiter occupata per infirmum duo garciones, quorum alter permutatur in coquina cum cocis Conventus, De familia Aulfe. Panetarius sine garcione. Discarius et vigil curiee cum uno garcione. Senescallus aul?e, sive gerens vices ejusdem, cum 1 The CoUon was a manor, ad- joining the city, assigned to the Infirmary. This officer would pro- bably be the bailiff of the manor. - deporto. Deporlum {Jtal. di- porta) was that department of the infirmary in which each of the brethren of the Convent was in turn periodically indulged with a re- laxation of discipline combino,^^ j,^^^^. episcopo prsedicto unum palfridum qui fuit Domini iiavinp Symonis Archiepisco})i, pretii xx. marcarum. Item ^\°[h''the^ misimus Domino J. Arcbicpiscopo supradicto una cum Aich- dicto palfrido alium equum, pretii x. marcarum. request^'rc- Et cum ipsis equis misimus duos garciones eidem Domino J. nostras litteras deferentes in quibus fuerat iwbi'y^fn contentum, quod nos sibi misimus dictos equos iuxta "'"^ ^ '> tiiere may 96 LITERS be no exigentiam suarum litteraruiii supradictarum, et sic doubt that i • t i • i i • , • , • , • • the Arch- P^^' Jiujusmocli iitterarum iiispectionem potei'it inissio bishop is pnedicta ac etiam ejus modus snecialiter apnarerc. bound to i,, , T . ^ . , ^ \. . restore the memorandum quod garciones qui, ut prrescnbitur, horses. ibant cum equis redierunt in festo Sanctie Trinitatis anno Domini Moccc°xxxovt'>, et nobis detulerunt lit- teras ejusdem Domini J. Archiepiscopi cujus tenor talis est. 6 June 575. — [LiTTEllA DOMTNI ArCHIEPISCOPI.] 1335. The Arch- Salutem cum benedictioue Dei et nostra. Ad ro- forms'the g^itum Domini nostri Regis et aliornm magnatum et Prior that, proccrum regni moram faciemus in partibus boriali- tained in l>us, et habebimus custodiam magni sigilli dum fuerit the North, Scotia, et ideo enuos quos nobis alias misistis he has still . . need of the penes nos I'etincbimus. Nova alia, et expeditionom borrowed parliamenti, vobis mittemus in brevi. Valete in horses, ^ _ ' _ Christo. Scriptum apud Akum sub sigillo nostro private vj^o die Junii.^ Priori Cantuariensi. 8 June 570. — LiTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO AbBATI DE WaVERLE, QUOD IPSE VELIT RETRADERE NUNTIO NOSTRO j'- 41 a. pecuniam sibi indebite solutam pro decima Domino nostro Regi concessa. The Chap- Venerabili et religioso vero, Domino Dei o-ratia Abbati de Waverle, Ricardus perinissione Christ _ y Y Church ejusdem Prior Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis, salutem, tlie King^s sincerre caritatis affectum. Domine reverende, licet tenth for decima, in congvegatione omnium pra^latorum et cleri in'the''^"*^ Cantuariensis provincitB Londoniis nuper facta, per Deanery ipsos praslatos et clerum Domino nostro Regi Anglias * The Parliament met on 26th May, hence it is probable that the jrrooras remained in charge of the horses until the Archbishop reached York. CANTUARIENSES. 97 illustri coneessa, quatenus nos concernit, ratione tem- ^'g'^*^"" poralium et spiritualium nostrorum in decanatu de ALiwt of Croyndone existentium, vobis fuerit, cx parte nostra, i^^j g^^^g' soliita, prout patet evidenter per acquietantias super then the hoc nobis factas ; quia tamen hujusmodi solutio nobis Le,ies°h;is prodesse non potest, nee nos in aliquo relevare, pro heen ap- 60 quod religiosi viri Prior et Conventus de Ledes, coiTector Cantuariensis dioecesis, ad colligendum, levandum, et foi- that recipiendum hujusmodi decimam in decanatu pnedicto, the' ' per Dominum nostrum Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum Chapter sunt yeraciter depuvati (prout apparet per commis- ^noney to sionem super hoc eis factam, cujus copiam vobis mit- lepaid. timus sigillo dicti Prioris signatam, ex causa, si placet inspiciendam), qui virtute commissionis ejusdem dictam decimam nobis exigunt sub poenis gravibus et censuris, nec solutionem, ut praemittitur, vobis factam nobis intendunt quomodolibet allocare, licet per nos super hoc fuerint specialiter requisiti, vestram discretionem benevolam votive requirimus et rogamus, quatinus dictam decimam, sic indebite vobis solutam, reddere et retradere velitis nostro procuratori ac speciali nuntio, praesentium portatori, vobis dictas acquietantias defe- renti ; cui, ad repetendum, exigendum, et recipiendum a vobis eandera decimam, sufficientem in hac parte dedimus potestatem. Dictum igitur nuntium et pro- curatorem nostrum ita gratiose et curialiter expedire velitis, quod non sit nobis necesse qnaerei-e super hoc remedium aliunde, ad evitandum maxime poenas et censuras praedictas, quas dampnabiliter incurrere multi- pliciter formidamus. Valeat in Christo vita vestra cum felici prosperitate. Beneplacitum vestrum super praemissis nobis placeat remittere vestra fraternitas per latorem supra dictum. Scriptum Cantuariae viijo die Junii. Consirailis littera directa fuifc Domino Abbati de Eynesham, Similar quod ipse retradafc pecuniam sibi indebite per nos solutam pro letters are dicta decima in decanatu do Ryssebergh. other dis- U 52122. G 98 LITERS tiict col- Item : Consimilis littera missa fuit Prior cathedralis ecclesise lectors. Norwyrensis, quod ipse retradere velit nnntio nostro pecuniam sibi indobite solutam pro Illegh et Hadelegli in decanatu de Bockyngg. Item: consimilis littera directa Priori et Conventui Sancti Bartholomei Londoniaj, quod ipsi velint retradere nuntio nostro pecuniam ipsis indebite solutam in decanatibus de Bockyngg et Beatfe Marije de Arcubus Londoniae, sen alibi fjualitercunque. L. 108/-. 577. Theriioi's Memorandum qnod xxvjto die Maii, anno Domini dum of"a' ^^icc'cxxxv*", scripsimiis Domino J. Archiepi.scopo, quod letter libenter audiremus sen inspieeremus suas litteras, con- (the Chap- tinentcs nova de sui statu.s felici prosperitate ; scrip- ter not simus etiam sibi, quod inter fratres fiiit quies seu con- senTto^ cordia, benedictus Deus, et alia in nostris iitteris sibi the^Arch- misimus, quae, sui gratia, in quantum in ipso fuit, detained expedivit, nobis rescribens sub forma qure sequitur. in the North. 11 June 578. — Littera regratiatoria Domini J. Archiepi- 1335. ™ SCOPI DE STATU CONVENTUS. L. 108 h. The Arch- Salutem cum benedictione Dei et nostra. Vobis et bishop's aliis nostris filiis prredilectis regratiamur ex corde, answer to quod optatis nos esse in statu prospero atque bono, the Prior's iHud vobis nostris litleris intimare. Super quo letter al- . _ . ^ . . . ^ ^ , hided to scire velitis, quod sumus in corporis sanitate, et valde above. lie oraudetnus quod inter vos et nostros filios antedictos reports ^ ^ . . that J. de est concordia, caritas, et quies quam Deus adaugeat Stonore ^ auctam conservet. Sicut rogastis, tractavimus cum will not ' accept the Domino Johanne de Stonore, quern erga vos et Eccle- sfneschal • ^^^^ invcnimus esse bonte in omnibus voluntatis, and he "V eruniptainen, propter causas quas nobis expressit et amistonTo vobis alias referemus, suscipere officium Senescalli the altera- vestri non potest, et se super lioc multipliciter excu- St.^An" savit. Quantum ad capellam pro qua scripsisti, libenti selm's animo fecimus quod rogastis, et super hoc litteras CANTUARIENSES. 99 nostras clausas vobis transmittimus per prffisentiiim Chapel m '■ ^ the Cathe- portitorem. Ad hoc, quantum possumus supplicamus dial ; the ut dictos filios nosti'os excitare et rogare velitis, (luod ^'^}^}'^^ ° ^ which nos juvent eoruni devotis precibus apud Deum, ut qute Prior Ox- sunt sibi placida faciamus, ad ipsius et Ecclesiae nobis ^"f^^^ commissae gloriam et honorem, Adliuc, sciatis quod the inser- nos et Dominus Johannes cogitabimus de aliquo sufH- jj^^^^gg^^e- cienti Senescallo, et ipsum vobis noniinabiiuus, ut corated faciatis quod in hac parte vobis videbitur faciendum ; et si ipse vobis placeat, eum dictus Dorninus Johannes, quantum poterit, adjuvabit. Ut optamus valere semper in Domino v^aleatis. Scriptum apud Akum juxta Eboracum, sub nostro private sigillo, xj'"o die mensis Junii. 579. — CeRTIFICATIO de statu CoNVENTUS. (July 1335). Venerabili in Christo patri ac domino suo revei'endo L. 108 b. Domino J. Dei gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, etc. ^ second devoti filii Ricardus Prior et Capitulum Ecclesiae this^case Christi Cantuariensis, salutem, cum omni obedientia, p^?' reverentia, et honore. Ad patrem transiens, pacis andChap- Auctor commendavit suis multotiens caiitatem ; tan- T . , „ ... . bined, ad- quam suorum discipulorum et lamuiarium certum dressed to signum : et vos, ipsius imitantes doctrinam, sic nobis . . . . bishop.aud ddectionis vinculum commendastis, tanquam vestrse assuring visitationis officium quam, benedictus sit Dens et vobis '^".".'''^ 1 ' _ existence retribuat, sequimur et amplectimur congaudentes. of peace Quia tameii, prout a viris audiviirius fidedignis, vobis "or/°"" contrarium est suggestum, qui, vestri gratia, de nobis among the solliciti, bona nova quae nos conceriiant frequenter "he'canter- appetitis ascultare, vestrte paternitati reverendue notum bury Con- facimus, si placeat, per haec scripta, quod nos, con- sideratis exhortationibus salutaribus et informationibus vestris paternis, cooperante spirituali gubernatore, sieut per vos positi sumus sic jam stamus amicabiliter conviventes, et affectantes continue servare invicem G 2 100 spiritus unitateni, quae viget inter nos, cum Itetitia tran- quillitatis, in tantum quod observantia regularis optinet principatum. Et hujusmodi pacis evidentia sutticiens vobis, ut spevanius, specialitev et efHcaciter api)arebit cum ad Ecclesiani vestram Cantuariensem decreveritis, quod erit in brevi Deo dante, personaliter declinare. Et adverterc dignetur vestra benigna paternitas, quod domination! vestrte super istis duximus scribendum, ne coi" vestrum, quod sui gratia in nostra quiete quiescit, confingentium fobulis perturbetur. Dominus ad Eccle - sias firraitatem vobis multiplicet dies bonos, et super causa Dovoria? quamcitius commode fieri potei'it vol)is Note b ^^^^^^ inspiret quod approbat et acceptat. Script., etc. the Chap- Usee littera non emanavit, quia antequam fnerat coucepta appointed I^o^^^^t^s Prior scripsit Domino Archiepiscopo cle pace Conventns at the et quiete ; pro quo idem Dominus remisit eidem Domino Priori \va>te of so jj^^gj^,^g regratiatorias secundum quod patet superiue. much good ° i i t- composi- tiou. Another , . . n ■ -r^ ■ t » i • • • i note in Hajc littera missa luit Domino J. Archiepiscopo, et idem another nobis resoripsit et Capitulo secundum quod patet in capite han.l, pos- ..„,.. , , . , , sibly the proximi folii atl hoc signum II. Prior's, autograph, showing that the above- priuted letter was actually sent after all. 28 Aug. 580. — De exultatione Domini J. Archieptscopi de 1335. (II.)CARITATE ET QUIETE AC REGULARI OBSERVANTIA IN CONVENTU. L. 108 6. The Arch- Johannes permissione divina Cantuariensis Archi- rcply'to^ episcopus, etc. dilectis filiis Priori et Capitulo Ecclesiie the com- nostne Cantuariensis, sahitera, cum benedi(;tione sura'nce^of dextene Salvatoris. Venerunt nobis in suavitatem the Prior odoris litterae quas misistis, dum nobis, de solidae CANTUARIENSES. 101 caritatis gratia, quieti.s dulcedine, et regularis obser- ^"'^^^^^'^P" vantife disciplina, qute jam, siciit dictte litterse com- peace pre- memoraiit, inter vo.s claris rclucent px'ocessibu.s, placida ^^^^^ '° nuntiarunt. Nam, cum ad devotionem et dilectionem vent. The mutuam inter sinoulos nobis subditos couservendam t'^i*-' -^f; . . , ^ ^ . . e.ruKdlioiie votivis afiectibus aspircmus, quanto magis m vestri, &c. imli- filiorum pcculiarium sponsce nostrae, quietis et amoris tQ^g'^iQ**^ insigniis, ct virtuosis vestris operibus, plenis nos which the convenit in Domino gaudiis exultare. In votis 'p^^^poscd namque priBcipue gerimus, et pme ceteris id optamus, This is the nt sic in hiimilitate spiritus, ac mutuae dilectionis jj exuberantia, circa virtutum exercitia divinaque servitia alhided to jugiter laboretis, quod pax quee exsuperat omnem 'eJomi sensum, et quae soils debetur homlnibus bonse volun- note ap- tatis, inter vos continue vlgeat, et fellcis quietis vobis fhe pre-'" semper arrideat pulcrltudo, per qnod vestree religionls ^. puritas Altlssimo sit accepta, et merlto humana3 laudls the Chap- ])rfeconils attollenda. Slcque per evidentiam operum t^r. obstruere poterltis ora deti'ahentium temulorum, ct, ipso facto, patenter ostendere sinistra si qua de vobls in hac parte suggesta fuerlnt a fermento mendacii processlsse. Ha3C autem vobis scrlblmus ex affectu, quamobrem ca non leviter susciplat, sed pro viribus servare stndeat, vestra devotlo per ett'ectum, ut de vobls speratam dulcedlnem degustantes, in vestris honoribus et sanctimonia dllectemur; securi quod in Iiiis potlus credemus factis cvidentlbus (|uam narratis. Adhuc, vestris oratlonlbus et plls operibus nostram imbeclllltatem tiduclaliter commcndaraus ; Intlme vos I'ogantcs quatlnus erga Deum devotls oratlonum sutfra- gils nos juvetis, ut qui Beatum Petrum ambulantem In fiuctlbus ne mergeretur erexit, nobis, circa multipllci- tatem agendorum velud in marl magno, ventls et procellis expositls, dexteram suae potentlfB porrigat, et ad. agendum salubrlter susceptl reglminls debitum dlrigat, in suo beneplaclto, mlsericordltcr actus nostros. In caritate perfecta vos confirmct Qui perfectus est, et etlam amor verus. Scriptum apud Eboj'acum xxvilj. die Augustl. 102 LITERiE (Aug- 581. — Litter A j)irecta Ricardo de Hattecombe super 1335.) CONSILIO HABENDO AD CURIAM NOSTRAM TENEN- ^' DAM IN MANERIO NOSTRO DE MeRSTHAM. ^igh?^"'^ Salutz, etc. Pur ceo qe ilyad im href de droit, a haviuR la seute Johan de Passele, pendant en nostre Court de tecUo'the" Merstliaui, sur quieu bref le proces est comence par Bailiffs of agard des sutiers de la dite Court, le quiel proces fuist Church in P^^" diverse.s re.sons chalenge a nostre Court, illoesqes their Court teuue le Lundy proschein devant la Seint Laurentz, ham, the devant qe ceo qe deist estre fait par nous et noz ^l'"'°Td "j^^llif*^' 9^''^^. adire decomencier proces, puisqe le bref °o''the'i-e- est direct as noz baillifs, la ont les ditz seutres attret gularitj-of y^jx eel poynt, en preiudice de nous et emblemisse- the process r ^ ^ , ^ , . and the ment de nostre estat et de nostre iranchise ; sicome Court nous est fait entendant auxi bien par ceux de nostre was ad- . ^ . journed, coDseil, com daltres qi se bien conissent en ley de Prio'^feir t®*'^'^' quieu chose nest mye a soeftrier. Par quey sur ing to lose nieisme tiel debat sont les parties ajournez, en lestat hi'sjuri'sdic- ^1^^''' f^ierent al primer jour, tantqe Lundy proschein tion, sends apres la feste Seint Berthelmeu, a donqs a revenier liis°comfsel recevire ceo qe sur ceo serra agarde. Si vous asking him prioms especialement qe, pur la sauvete et mayn- sent'on'^the tenaunce de nostre estat et des droitures de nostre day of Esglise en ceo cas, vous soiez laa al dit jour, auxi nient. bien en aide de nostre baillif illoesqes atenier nostre dite Court et du poynt avantdit mettre en certeyn, com pur le droit des parties pledauntz affaire. Kar nous esperoms par my vostre bone aide, sen, et avyse- ment, lestat de nous et de nostre Esglise serra sauve ala journe, et ceo qest mespris en offence de nous serra redresse. Et vous avisez estreytement en le men tem])s sur le poynt avantdit, issint qe al jour vous soiez hors de doute. A Dieu, etc. CANTUARIENSES. 103 581. Greeting. Whereas there is a ivrit of right, at the suit of Jolin Passele, pending in our manor Court at Mersthaiu, upon which writ the process is commenced by the award of the homage of the said Court, which process was for various causes challenged in our Court held there on the Monday next before the Feast of St. Lawrence, before that was done which ought to have been done by us and our Bailiffs, that is to say, the opening of the process (seeing that the writ is addressed to our Bailiffs) the suitors assumed to themselves this point, in prejudice of us and infringement of our position and our franchise, as is made apparent to us both by those of our counsel as well as others who are learned in the law of the land, and this is not to be patiently borne. Wherefore at this dispute the parties are adjourned, in the same position as they stood on the first day, to Monday after the Feast of St. Bartholomew, then to accept what in this matter shall be awai'ded. Hence we specially pray you that, for the safety and maintenance of our position and the rights of our Church in this case, you will be there on the said day, both to advise our Bailiffs as to the holding of our said Court, and to settle the aforesaid point with certainty, and also to do right to the parties pleading. For we ho})e that with your efficient aid, sense, and acuteness, our position and that of our Church shall be secured at this adjournment, and that which has been done in error, to our annoyance, shall be redressed. And instruct yourself precisely in the mean time upon the point aforesaid, so that on the day you may have no doubts. 1 04 LITERS (Aug. 1335.) L. 43 fi. Dame Pas- sele, suiug as uext frieud for her infant son, has objected to the juris- diction of the Manor Court of Mershaui , t3 the Bailiffs of which her Writ of riffht -n-as directed, lileadmg that the tenements in dispute were com- mon law tenements and not in the juris- diction of any manor. The Prior, fearing a diminution of his judi- cial powers, asks her iiot to re- move the writ into the Court of King's Bench, but to let his Court try tlie action. (Aug. 1335.) L. 43 a. Two monks of Battle, leaving the road at Loose, a manor of Cliri.st 582. — LiTTERA DIRECTA DoMIN/E MARGARETE DE Passchele quod non persequatur Breve per ipsam impetratutsi in pr/ejudiciujm ec- CLESI^ Cantuariensis, "SalvTZ, etc. Trescliere Dame, pur ceo qe nous voiis avom.s aide et favoure, tanqe nous savioms efc poyeoms, en le plee qe fuist a Meistham entre Jon de Passele et Robert vostre fitz ; et nous avoms entenduz qe vous avez remue le proces du dit ])lee en la Court nostre Seignur le Roy, par suggestion qe vous avez fait a la Chauncellerie qe les tenementz sont a la commune ley, la ou les tenementz ne sont pas einz aunciene demene ; la quele chose puiTa chere en prejudice de la franchise de nostre Esglise, issint qe nous purrioms perdire la conissaunce de tieux maneres des plees. Pur quey, chere Dame, vous prioms qe vous veullez aviser de ceste chose, issint qe le dit bref, qe vous avez pur- cliasse en la dite chavmcellerie, ne soit pas suy en prejudisse de nostre dite Esglise. Ceste nostre priere veullez faire Dame, issint qe nous et no.^tre dite E.sglise vous seioms le plus tenuz apres ; et vostre vollente de les choses susdites nous veullez maunder par le portour de cestes. Escript, etc. 583. — LiTTERA MISSA AbBATI DE BeLLO PRO MINIS factis servient: nostro de Lose. Salutem cum sincei^e caritatis atiectu. Domine re- verende, nos intelleximus, relatione hdedigna, quod duo monachi de vestro monasterio, videlicet, Domini Jo- hannes de Lose et Symon de Boclonde nuper cum suis transicrunt per nianerium nostrum de Lose juxta May^ CANTUAEIENSES. 105 582. Greeting. Very dear Madame, seeing that we liave helped and favoured you, as far as we knew, how and Avere able, in the suit which was begun at Merstham, between John do Passele and your son Robert, and, as we have heard, you have removed the process of the said suit into the Coui t of our Lord the King (under pretext of a suggestion that you have made in the Chan- cery that the tenements are under the Common Law, whereas the tenements are not really in ancient de- mesne), which removal may fall out to the prejudice of the fianchise of our Churcli, so that we may possibly lose the cognizance of suits of the kind. Therefore, Madame, we i>ray you that you will reconsider this matter, so that the writ which you have procured in the said Chancery may not be issued in prejudice of our said Church. Grant this our j)rayer, Madame, so that henceforth we and our Church may be the more bound to you, and be pleased to send word of your intentions in the aforesaid matters by the bearer of these. destane, ubi ipsi et sui, descrentcs viam regiam, super church, nostram terram aliter quam debebant, arripuerunt viam ^^'[^^''^"J.f a latere sjtecialem ; qua ratione quidam de nostris were accesccrunt ad dictos vestros monachos, insos iono- ""'"PR*^'.' ^'7 ' ^ o the Pnoi s rantes totaliter esse vestros, eis dicentes quod viam servants, alitei- quam iuxta rationem licuit incedebant : et hoc f,'"^ P?"^ * . inodicum audientes vcstri raonachi prredicti tradiderunt, ut re- quid" for fertui-, ipsis nostris sicut prtedicitur acccdentibus, ununi ""i*^?', ^ ' pass, wnicb, 106 LITERS however, nu'nl modicum ])ro eorum efc siiorum delicto, secundum "Wiis re- stored to tiuod exigebat juris regula seu consuetude rationabiliter them when laudabiliter usitata ; et hoc quod erat sic acceptuui It was . . , . . . found that cito postea cisdem, libera et sine quacumque exactione lon^«rto petitione, fuerat retraditum per nostrum praaposi- Bat"le turn nostri manerii memorati, cum pnefatos monachos m;veithe- certitudinaliter noverat esse vestros. Sed consequenter, less the nobis, quod displicet, est relatum per nostrum pra)- people^°°" positum supradietum quod idem pnepositus iioster per threaten quosdain de Maydestaue minas patitur, ac etiam per- the Bailiff j i , • , i i . jjjg turbatur, quia per nostros ad monachos vestros accessus manor, and ut pryescribitur erat factus. Hanc materiam prte- appeals to scriptam velitis sic considerare, et preces vestras, si "n}ft^l'°' placet, interponere, ut inter vos et nos ac etiam nos- for an tros sit pacis tranquillitas et quietis, in onmibus et of't'h™*^"' singulis quje nos concernunt in prassenti, seu contingere insults. poterunt in futuro. Valeat amicus noster prajdilectus in Christo. Beneplacitum super prsemissis nobis re- mittere velitis per prpesentium latorem. Script, etc. (AuR. 1335.) L. 43 b. The Prior hopes to hear good news of the Arch- bishop's prosperity, but especi- ally he makes another at- tempt to get the appoint- ment of the Arch- bishop's vbedienti- urii in the Con vent out of bis 584! — LlTTERA MISSA DoMINO JOHANNI ArCHIEPISCOPO UT AUDIAMUS BONA NOVA DE STATU SUO. Quicquid obedientiye poterit et honoris. Pater et Domine reverende, mei confratres et ego, vester in omnibus ad preecepta, in vestrte dilectionis et pacis, benedictus sit Deus, quietudine conviventes, et pro vobis et vestris ipsi Deo preces, ut tenemur, specialiter efFundentes, de concern en tibus statum vestrum, et ejus- dem felici prosperitatc, non modicum afiectamus ascul- tarc multipliciter bona nova. Et si vos hujusinodi desideria nostra velitis ponere ante oculos mentis vestrse, in brevi nos erimus, median tibus vestris litteris pa- tcniis, effecti lasti paviter et jocundi. Adhuc pater reverende, Frater Ricardus de Icham, Celerarius Ec- clcsiiB vcstree, vigoris seu potentiic corporalis virtute quodainodo destitutus, michi conqueritur, cum angustia CANTUAEIENSES. 107 sui spiritus vicibus itevatis, qiiod in suo officio tcBcliiun hands. The sustinet inimmensuin, et idem Frater, prout michi fod'fceble* videtur, non potest pro coramuni utilitate labovarc, for his prout idem officium exigit et reqxurit ; i)ropter quod fvitluhe juxta conscienciam meam, consideratis omnibus in hac Aich- parte, expedit ut dictus Frater Ricardus ab onere sui jg^ve the officii absolvatur; pro cuius fratris absolutione facienda, T n • ^ n' • • L remove ac etiam alio fratre m eodem omcio prout moris est him and instituendo, michi dionemini committere vices vestras ; appoint ' . T , . , . . another — et, ut michi videtur, est expediens quod m commis- and in the sione vestra super huiusmodi destitutione et institu- .-^ . sion it will tione, si vobis placuerit, inseratur, ut vestram habeani be conve- auctoritatem non tantum Celerarium vestrum, sed omnes ti,g"Yj.yji et singulos vestros obedientiarios, si michi rationa- bishop biliter visum fuerit, amovere, et alios prieficere in locis pg*,fgi!al eorundem. Ita tamen quod consuetudo Ecclesiie vestrtu power of super istis nullatenus oftendatur. Sed si placet in fi°Jg^to"be hujusmodi commissione, si quam michi mittere decre- i^y veritis, absolutio et destitutio vestri Supprioiis vobis, ^\ien''°' ex causa, specialiter reserventur. Et advertere dig- necessary, netur vestra paternitas reverenda, quod generalem com- convent missionem appeto, ut est scripum ; quia sic obedientiarli is.^^addkd vestri, prout sum probabiliter informatus, delinquere pensi™n"i^ in suis officiis intensius formidabunt, et ad proficien- 'eceiyed on • 1 if •• Ti- • Kings dum in eisdem officiis extendeiit dihgentius vires suas, lecommen- quamvis hujusmodi coinmissio penes me retenta dor- f/j'i'i'^g't'J,"'' miat, et in actum minime perducatur. Istud quod Arch- vobis notifico i^er hiec scripta poteritis, cum vobis vacaverit, meditari. Aliud est pro quo vestrje reve- is iil. AD tenendum LOCUM SeNESCALLI NOSTRI. J. de Sto- Honurs et toutes reverences. Trescher Sire, endroit counsel of "^i*^ vous me parlastes entre altres busoignes, et ' Frc//»f( = petite moil naie d' ar- I - Stonor was C.B. of the geiit. 1 elicquer from 1339 to 1341 . OANTUARIENSES. 109 nominatur, vobis, pro vestra informatione plenius opti- nenda, raitto in quadain cedula praesentibus interclusa. Haec vobis, quae contingunt, mei cordis secreta vel intima manifesto, ne, temporibus succedcntibus, ineum silentium super i)raeniissis per vos vel alios quoscunque aliqualiter reprobetur. In oinni tranquillitatis gaudio vigeat vestra salus. Beneplacitum vestrum super hiis digneraini remitters michi vestro. Script., etc. 585. To liis moat honourable Lord, if he may say so, honours and all manner of salutations. As to your letter that you sent by Dom. Robert, concerning sixty pounds weight of odd coins, that you would like to be changed for current money ; I "inform you, that if the metal be pure the pound is worth twenty-one sliilliiigs, if otherwise it be only of standard quality it is only worth nineteen shillings and sixpence, if it be of lower quality than standard it is only worth eighteen shillings. Understand that the matter (is pressing?), and if you wish that it shall be changed send it to me at Loudon between now and Friday, for I shall remain in town only on account of this. Be sure that I will act for the best in j^our interest. Written at London, on Sunday before the Assumption of Our Lady. 586. Honoui-s and salutations. Very dear Sii-, as to what you debated with me about, along with other matters, 110 JJTER^ the Con- empriant me chargeastes qe jeo vous purveouse dun ports that, homme de cui jeo me affiasse, et qi serroit pur vous atenier leu de Seneschal, et ieo vous promvs, Sire, qe quested by . • i i p . o- , • , t the Prior, jeo me peneroie del iaire ; oire, par lavisemeut James foumr" Fiysel et moy, ay parle ove Johan de Hildesle, pur qi fit person jeo ose emprendre qil fra bien et lealment, a honur de *° ^^.^ vous et al profist de vostre Esglise ; et coment Sire office of . ^ o ' steward of qil se sente charge daler vers celes parties, come of*^ Christ^ James Frj^sel vous savara plus pleynement dire a ma Church, roqueste, il lemprendra sowe merci. Et, trescher Sire, cndroit de ceo fjil prendra, James Frj'sel serra a vous par temps, si Dieu plest, et a sa venue veullez ordiner entre vous et luy ceo qil vous semble qe soit a honur de vous, et il se agreera bonement. A Dieu, trescher Sire, qi vous gard et vous donit bone vie et longe par sa merci. '1335* — Hildesle eecepto ad tenendum L. 107 b. LOCUM Senescallt NOSTRI. jSlemoran- Memorandum quod xxvjto die Octobris anno Domini theap- Mocccxxxvto Johannes de Hildesle receptus fuit ad pointmeut tenendum locum Senescalli nostri, et fiiit hujusmodi fees of the receptio facta die et anno supradictis ad nostrum scac- P^''^"'^^ d consensu Prioris, Supprioris, et aliorum fra- to be trum, videlicet, Hugonis de Sancta Margareta Edmundi Steward of Adcsliam poenitentiariorum, Thomae de Bourne, the Manors of Christ et aliorum. Et habebit dictus Johannes pro solidatis Church on ^ . r^^num X. marcas, et erit cum suo clerico, ita the recom- 1 ' , _ ' mendation quod in toto pro se et clerico suo et harnasio habebit Stonore "J* ^quos ; per annum ij. robas pro se, unam vero de gratia ; et cum fuerit infra Monasterium ferratura de thesauraria ; alia vero recipiet juxta suam diseretionem^ prout a nobis exigere voluerit. Ita tamen quod non CANTUARIENSES. Ill and entreating me charged me that I shoiild provide you with a person in whom I miglit trust and who would take the place of your Seneschal, and I promised you Sir, that I would be at pains to do so ; Sir, on the opinion of James Frysel, and on my own, I have spoken with John dc Hildersle, for whom I dare to pledge m} self that he will act well and loyally to your honour and to the pi^ofit of your Church ; and as Sir he feels himself bound to journey to those parts, as James Frysel will be able at my request to tell you more plainly, he will undertake it with thanks (?). And very dear Sir, as to his remu- neration, James Frysel will be with you betimes, and, if God will, at his coming please to settle between you and . him what is likely to do you credit, and he will heartily accept it. God be with you, very dear Sir, and keep you and grant you by his mercy a good and a long life. amplius exiget quam, temporibus retroactis, a nostris Senescallis qui milites non erant fuerat acceptnm, ae etiam approbatum. Et memorandum quod forma coin- missionis dicti Johannis est siipra in folio xxxiijto sub data Cantuariie xxiiijto die mensis Octobris anno Domini Mocccxxxvto, valitura quousque duxerimus earn revocare. 588. — LiTTERA CONSULTATOim. (133.5.) Reverentiam et houorem. Pater et domine revercnde, a rector dilectus nobis in Christo Dominus J. de B., rector '"'•slies to ecclesifB de C, vestrse dioecesis, vobis, ut nobis dixit, thrArch- habet aliqua coinmunicare sua viva voce super sua ^^^^^^ non i-esidentia facienda in ecclesia sua supradicta, et, licence of cum ilium in liac parte audierit vestra reverenda ^ paternitas sibi graciosus esse velitis et favorabilis ; ita the Prior 112 LITER.*: gives him tamen quod juris fequitas seu justitiae nullatenus duction^° offendatiir. Valeat vestra paternitas reverenda in (1335.) 589. — LlTTERA DE ATTORNATU AD IXTERESSENDUM L. 108 h. ELECTIOXI BaLLIVI DE ROMENAL. The Chap- -A-S toutz ycevix qi cestes lettres oiTont on verront, t'^'' '^PP"'"' Richard, par la soeffraunce Dieu Priour, etc. salutz en a person to J: . represent JJicu. hacez nous avoir ordme et as.signe nostra them at j^j^j^ amez R. de H., serfjeant de nostre manoir de the elec- , , , ' & tionofa Aghene, destre, en nostre nom, a la eslection faire baihfifof Bailliff de Maroys de Romenal ; aiantz ferm et :Marsh," estable ceo qil ferra en la avantdite eslection. En La^" knd^ tesmoignaimce, etc. Escript a Cauntorbris le xx"*® jour de Octobre Ian, etc. 25 Nov. 590. — COMMISSIO AD CUSTODIENDUM BO'SCOS NOSTROS IN WaLDA PERTINENTES AD MANERIUM NOSTRUM L. 180 />. DE ESTRYA. A wood- A toutz yceux as quieux cestes lettres vendrout, reeve is Richard par la soeftVaunce, etc. salutz in Dieu. Pur appointed / to protect ceo qe damage nous est avenuz avant ces houres trop the timber sovent en noz boys de Rolvyndenne, Walkherst, 01 the * Chapter Cranebrok, Tenterdenne, et Benyndenne, par defaute growing in bone parde illeosqes faite, nous veulleautz tiel the woods a i > of the damage eschure/ sachez qe nous avoms ordinez et Kem^'' '^^ establiz nostre bien amez Johan de Maplesdenne gar- dien de noz boys avantditz ; donantz a luy plener poair a destreyndre et de gagier toutz yceux qil trovera fesantz damage en noz ditz hoy%, et affaire et user, en noun de nous, tout ceo qe a la bone et sauve garde des boys avantditz appartient, ou devroit, et descoustume purra, apparteyner ; maundantz as toutz noz ministres et subjetz, qe a ceste chose faire et ac- * esclure? CANTUAlllENSES. 113 Christo, qui vestras dies multiplicet cum salute. Scriptum Cantuarite, &c. 589. To all who shall see or hear these letters, Richard by God's pex'mission Prior &e. greeting in the Lord. Know ye that we have appointed and assigned our dearly beloved R. de H., Serjeant of our manor of Aghene, to be present in our name, at the election of a Bailiff for Romney Marsh ; holding as firm and stable all which he may do in the matter of the above mentioned election. Written, &c. 590. To all those to whom these letters shall come, Richai'd (fee. greeting in the Lord. Whei'eas damage has hitherto too often occurred to us in our words at Rolvenden, Walkherst, Cranbrook, Tenterden, and Benenden, for want of a good watch there, know ye that we have appointed and established our well beloved John de Maplesden, keeper of our said woods ; giving to him full authority to distrain and to hold to bail all those whom he shall find committing damage in our said woods ; and to do and to perform in our name, all such acts as pertain to the effectual and safe protection of the said woods, or as should or by custom may so pertain ; commanding all our officers and subjects that they shall aid and obey the said John to do and accomplish this whenever need shall arise, as long as he may remain in the said office. In witness whereof, &c. XT .52122. XT 114 LITER.^; coinpliei" soietit al (lit Johan aiJanfcz et entendantz, toute la foith qe mester serra, puv tout le temps qil demorra en eel office. En tesmoignaunce, etc. Donez a Cauntorbirs le xxv^ jour de Novembre Ian de grace MCOCXXXV. Memorandum quod Willelmus Goldyng habuit commis- sionem proximam prfescriptam sub date Cantuaria; xxvj'° die Septembris anno Domini mcccxl™". Memorandum quod W. de Maplesdenue habuit commissionem praedictam sub dato Cantuaria3 xij" die mensis Febniarii anno Domini mcccxlix"". 591. — [ROTULUS JOHANNIS HOTHAM NUPER ElIENSIS Jan. EpISCOPI.] 1336. Cart. Ant. tt • • ... . . i t Universis summse trmitatis ac relieionis catnolicfe E. 191. . .... cultoribus, Johannes Prior Ecclesiae Cathedralis Eliensis Themor- totius eiusdem loci humilis Conventus, salutem, et tuary roll , . ' ' sent round post ferumpnas prsesentis vitse ad futuram iramortalita- tis e'loriam felici cursu transmeare. Humanje soeietatis religious o _ houses of et unitatis catholicse foedus exposcit, et innatee virtutis Cou^ries™ mentisque bene dispositsa clarum est indicium, gratum after the et meritorium ante conspectum divirife majestatis. Bishop lamentabilis casus anxietate et acei'bi subitique mcB- Hotham of roris pondere quassatis manus porrigere subsidii spiri- tualis, et levamen adhibere pire consolacionis ; nam qui ad raisericordiam prona mente flectitur in beatorum sorte computatur. Decessum igitur eximii patris pas- toris et pontifici nostri, Domini Johannis de Hothom, qui nuper ab liac valle peregrina, deposito carnis onere, ad beatam patriam, inter apostolicos sacerdotes aggre- gatus, transmigravit, ut speramus, plangimus planctu magno nos filii ; desolati filii inquam moestissimi patrem piisimum ; oves pastorem optimum ; monaehi Abbatem dignissimum ; clerici prsesulem serenissimum ; CANTUARtENSES. 115 plebs prselatuni ; et navicula Petri gubernatorem pru- dentissimum ; filii denique patrem qui nos fovit et aluit, quemaduiodum gallina cougregat pullos suos sub alas. Grex pusillus pastorem plangimus, qui nos de ore leonis et a luporum rapacitate liberavit. Plan- gimus eum quasi unigenitum, et vox turturis viduat;v audita est in terra nostra. Vox inquam Rama audita est ploratus et ululatus Rachel nostra, plorans non fdios set sponsum, non parvulos set patrem parvulo- rnm, tutorem orphanorum, pauperum recreatorem, afflictorum consolatorem, miserorem refugium, protec- torem viduarum, Ecclesiam Dei impugnancium expug- natorem validum, impiorum persecutorem, patrife defensorem, qui superborum et sublimiura colla potente virtute calcavit, et omnibus ad se clamantibus afFuit prompto juvamine in tempore tribulacionis. Talis erat dilectus tuus 0 Rachel nostra pulcherrima mulierum ; confortatc filii man us matris nostrse dissolutas, quse delicium ' suum desiderabilc osculorum suorum jam ablatum, quod dum tenuit et osculabatur nemo de- spexit earn, pro eo quod jam abiit et recessit, et idtra jam non comparet, plangit et plorat, et non est qui consoletur eam ex omnibus caris ejus. Plangimus ecce nos filii Israel patriarcham nostrum ; alterum Jacob qui die noctuque gelu urebat et a!stu, pro amoris magnitudine serviens pro Rachele. Hie velut alter Moyses dux populi nos a servitute gravi liberavit. Hie alter Aaron, vir eloquens, saeer- dos magnus erat, qui in diebus suis plaeuit Deo et inventus est justus. Hie alter Mathathias legis Dei zelator strenuus. Alter Machabeus patrias protector fortis viribus a juventute sua. Hie Jonathas amabilis, et Symon vir consilii, ac David manu fortis, potens in opere, et sermone fidelis, in omni regno in omnibus dilicium, MS, 116 LITERS prudenter agens, ingrediens, et egrediens, et progre- diens, ad imperium regis domini sui terreni, cui, licet in quibusdam officiis auleis et negotiis fiscalibus, ac postmodum in dignitate cancellariatus et thesaurariatus strenue militasset, tota tamen animi intencione in Deum ferebatur, et, in quantum moles carnea per- misit, omnes actas suos pro utilitate reipublicse et ecclesise suae, ad honorem Creatoris sui, dirigerat. Hie talis et . . plangitur quia similis ei superstes vir reperitur. Hunc denique de medio sublatum merito plangimus, quia dum ipsius mores, vitam, actus, sobrietatem, et virtutum m.ultitudinem quasi in quodam vasculo gracioso aggregatam, ab setate sua tenera usque in diem quo migravit a corpore, ad memoriam revocamus, a fletibus suspiriis et gemitibus abstineie nequimus. Erat nam que honestis parentibus procreatus ; in domibus regum et procerum educatus ; morum generositate et magnorum operum aggressione nobilitatus; studiis liberalibus, et philosophicis dis- ciplinis, ac utriusque juris prseceptis imbutus ; volumi- neque legis divinse cibatum implevit eum Dominus spiritu sapiencise et intellectus. In annis quippe ado- lescencise coepit Deo devotus existere, honeste vivere, alterum non Ifedere, coetaneos et sodales suos in Christi dulcedine diligens, ut decebat ; superioribus suis promp- tum famulatum, paribus bonitatis incentivum, mino- ribus pium subsidium, et omnibus impendebat seipsum speculum et exemplar virtutum ; et propterea magni- ficavit eum Dominus in conspectu regum et regni magnatum, diffuditque gratiam in labris suis ; et propter veritatem et mansuetudinem et justiciam deduxit eum mirabiliter dextera Dei, et gi'adientem de virtute in virtutem, prserogativa meritorum in Ecclesia sua merito prorogavit. Cui fama bonitatis scienciae et pietatis, sicut odor agri cui benedixit Dominus, ita per regni ' A short word at the end of j -word could not be the non which a line is here obliterated, but this | the sense seems to require. CANTUARIENSES. 117 climata redolevit, quern exaltavit Dominus electum de plebe sua, et statuit illi sacerdocium magnum, collocans eum cum principibus populi sui ; et a filiis Israel, velud alter Samuel, in principem et prsesulem, non assumens sibi honorera sed, Domino vocante, canonice et con- corditer sublimatus est in nostra Elyensi Ecclesia, post obitum felicis recordacionis Domini Joliannis de Ketene Episcopi ejusdem loci. Adepta siquidem tantre digni- tatis apice, Deo devocior coepit existere, jnutatus in alium virum eleraosinis, jejuniis, vigiliis sacris, et ora- tionibus sedulo insistens, non obstante quavis occu- pacione mundana, psalterium Daviticum cotidie ex intcgro Regi regura decantavit. Justicia judicio miseri- cordia et veritate semper gaudebat sobrie et juste, et prfemuniendo pius, prudens, humilis, pudicus, sobrius, castus fuit et quietus, vita dum pra3sens vegetavit ejus corporis artus. Erat quoque vir tocius prudenci?R, in sermone verax, in judicio justus, in consilio pro- vidus, in commissis fidelis, in rebus bellicis strenuus, in probitate conspicuus, in omni morum venustate prfe- clarus ; et erat ei species digna iraperio. Erat utique in Ecclesia angelicus ; in aula splendidus ; in mensa dapsilis ; in capitulo severus, arguens, increpans, et obsecrans subditos in omni paciencia et doctrina ; majoribus devotus ; rainoribus blandus ; omnibus aHa- bilis et benignus ; in spiritualibus et temporalibus valde circumspectus. Et enucleacius bonitatis sute prreemi- nencia elucescat potificali decoratus infula ; omnibus se amabilem exhibuit, omnibus omnia faciens ut omnes lucrifaceret in Christo Jhesu, complens illud Ecclesias- tici : ^ princi2iem te constituerunt noli extoUi, sed esto in illis quasi unus ex illis. Quum qujedam prajliba- vimus quao venerabilem patronum nostrum memoratum tituiis prfficoniorum extollunt ct resonant laudes tanti viri ; nunc autem excitat nos dilectio spiritalis, ad vos ' The actual text of the Vul- | Noli extolli si:d esto in /7/e.? quasi C'dtc is : liectorem te pnmcrunl ? \ uims ejc ipsis. Ecclus. 32. 1, 118 LITERS O filii Syon stilum suppiicacionis convertendo, imiver- sitatem vestram devote deprecari, ut aniniam dicti Johannis, qui biennali languore corporis correptus (ut si qufe ei maculpe de terrenis contagiis adhreserunt tain diutina virga dementis Dei castigentur) in senectute bona, sicut varus catholicus ab hac instabili luce ad lucidas et quietas transivit uiansiones, ut credimus, quinto-decimo die mensis Januarii^ anno gracife mil- lesimo CCC™oxxxvjto, in communibus beneficiis vestris recipiatis. Et aliquid specialis remedii quod decreverit dileccionis vestrae benignitas superaddatis ; cum sancta et salubris sit cogitacio pro dcfunctis exorare ut a peccatis solvantur. Nescit enim homo utrum odio vel amore dignus sit, seu opera illius sint accepta coram Deo ; nee ullus adeo perfecte stat in bono dum nexibus carneis detinetur quin aliquando labatur ; nam sepcies in die cadit Justus, et ^nemo mundus a sorde, nec in- fans quidem unius diei. Et ob hoc, ineflabilis Dei miseracio humanse fragilitati pie prseordinavit, ut qui sibi non sufficit pro suis leatibus satisfacere, de suf- fragiis alienis reconciliacionis remedium misericorditer consequatur ; uiide iterato, vestris pedibus pietatis in- tuitu provoluti, crebris gemitibus, preces precibus humi- liter accumulamus, quatinus beneficiorum remedia, quee unicuique vestrum spiritus caritatis inspiVaverit, eidem Johanni velitis imjwtiri. Et qua3 vel quanta fuerint devocionis vestrse munera, cum titulis vestris, in scripto redigi devotissime supplicamus. Quotquot siquideiii alicujus beneficenciae ei gratiam erogaverint, specialem fraternitatis nostrae, et omnium beneficiorum in Ec- clesia nostra de cetero agendorum, participes constitui- raus et consortes, et idem ab eis recipere zelo caritatis nobis concedi ardenter postulamus, ut alter alterius 1 In the margin vij° die mensis Jimii is written in a rather more modern hand. For Junii substitute Januarii, and then this note will probably give the real date of the Bishop's death. See Le Xeve's notice. CANTUARIENSES. 119 onera portantes, legem Christi adimpleamus. Creator omnium rerum faciat vos seipsum rcvelata facie cou- tcmplari. Anima Domini Johannis de Hothom quon- dam Episcopi Elyen.sis ct animte omnium fidelium defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen. Nostri defuncti sint vobis in prece juncti. Titulus Ecclepise Sanctaj Marise et Sancti Benedicti Rameseise. Anima Domini Johannis Episcopi Elyensis et animfe omnium fidelium defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen. Oramus pro vestris, orate pro nostri s. Titulus Ecclesise Apostolorum Petri ct Pauli de Burgo. Auima Domini Johannis Episcopi Elyensis et animfe, etc. in pace requiescant. Amen. Oramus pi'o, etc. Titulus Ecclesise Sanctse Mariae Sanctique Botulphi Thorneyae. Anima Domini Johannis Episcopi Elyensis, etc. re- quiescant. Oramus, etc. Titulus Ecclesiai Sanctse Maria?, Sancti Bartholomei, ct Sancti Guthlaci Croylandia^. Anima Domini Johannis Elyensis Episcopi, etc. re- quiescant. Vestris nostra damns, pro nostris vcstra rogamus. Titulus Ecclesiai Sanctfe Marite et Sancti Nicholai de Spalding. Anima Dompni Johannis, etc. requiescant. Oramus pro vestris, etc. Titulus Ecclesiai Sanctrc Marise de Swynes(heved). Anima Dompni Johannis, etc. requiescant. Vestris nostra damus, etc. 120 LITERiK Titulus Fratrum Ordinis Beatse Mariee de Monte Carmeli de Sancto Botulpho. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Vestris nostra damus, etc. Titulus Ecclesiai Beatae Mariae Virginia et Sancti Edmundi Regis et Martiris. Anima Domini Joliannis, etc. requiescant in pace. Oramus pro vestris, etc. Titulus Ecclesise Beati Georgii Martiris monialium de The(t)£ord. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. in pace. Oramus pro vestris, etc. Titulus Ecclesise Beatty Mariye de Swafham mona- chorum. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. in pace. Oramus pro vestris, etc. Titulus Ecclesite Beatse Maripe de Angliseye. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Nostri defuncti sint vobis in prece juncti. Titulus Ecclesiai Canonicorum Sancti Egidii de Berne well. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Nostri defuncti sint, etc. -f-Titulus Ecclesise Sanctse Marise de Burnham juxta Windesore. 4- Titulus Ecclesise Fratrum Minorum Cantebrigise. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Titulus Ecclesite Fratrum Heremitarum Ordinis Sancti Augustini Cantebriggise. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. 4-Titulus Ecclesise Fratrum Ordinis Beatae Marise de Monte Carmeli de Cantebriggia?. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Vestris nostra damus, etc. CANTUAUIENSES. 121 Titiilus Ecclesise Beatje Marise et Sancti Jacobi Ajjostoli dc Waleden. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Nostri defuncti sint, etc. Titulus EcclesiEe Beati Johannis BaptistcB de Stow. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. in pace. Nostri de- functi sint, etc. Tituhis Ecclesise Fratrum Heremitarum Ordinis Sancti Augustini Clara). Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Titulus Ecclesise Beatfe Mariie de Ixeworth. Anima Dorapni Johannis, etc. requiescant. Vestris nosti'a damus, etc. Titulus Fratrum Ordinis Prsedicatorum The(t)fordia3. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Vestris nostra damus, etc. Titulus Ecclesia) Sancti Scpulcri de The(t)foid. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Vestris nostra damus, etc. Titulus Ecclesise Sanctse Mariae Monachorum de Thcffbrd. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant. Vestris nostra damus, etc. Titulus Ecclesiaj Beatai Marian de Westderham. Anima Domini Johannis, etc. requiescant.^ • These tituli, each by a dif- ferent hanil, some ehiboiatelj' en- grossed and others scribbled earc- lessl}', were written, as is requested in the text of the roll, upon the bhink spaces of the velhim (both on the face below the text, and on the back) before the BrtLiiirriiliis left the several nionasterifs at which he announced the Bishop's death. 122 LlTERiE If. April o92. — LitterjE Regis, in quibus concedit quod Prior 1336. ET CONVENTUS NON TENEANTUR ALICUI CON- Cart. Art. C. S8. CEDERE PENSIONES SEU CORRODIA. King Eel- Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Angiise, etc. salutem. Thi^d^re- Sciatis quod nos, ob speeialem devocionem quam ad nouuces all gloriosum Christi Martirem Sanctum Tiiomam, cujus quarter his C'^i'P^'^ Ecclesia Clu'isti Cantuariensi est translatuui, noDiinees necnon ob dilectionem sinceram quam ad personam Convent venerabilis patris Johannis Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Cl^^Tb '^^"'^ meritis exigentibus, optinemus, volentes Ecclesiam compelling ipsius Archiepiscopi prcedictam ac Priorem et Con- to*^cou°f°r^ ventum ibidem gratioso favore prosequi, et indempni- corrodics tati eorundem providere, concessimus, pro nobis et or pen.sions heredibus nostris, quod concessiones per pnefatos upon them. ^ . . '■ ' Priorem et Conventum loci prsedicta, seu eorum pra3- ■April 593. — LlTTERA MISSA PeTRO LE HAYWARD ET Th0M-(E ^^^''* DE SaNCTO NiCHOLAO pro WARDA MARIS IN L. 65 a. Insula de Taneto. The Prior Salutz et clieres amystes, Chers amys, mout vous protests to . . . i , • i . the Com- mercioms de ceo qe vous parlastis a nous nadgaircs missioners amvable manere, de choses qi touchent la garde de of the » Coast la meer en vos partj^es ; et voyeies saver, qe puys Guard that yQg^re departir nous avoms parle et trete ove nos the Mouas- ^ t i teryhas freres de la garde avantdite, les queux ount veu lan- neverbeen g^gjjg manere de nostre Eglise. Et nous diont seure- compelled ^ to keep ment, qil ount veu sovent garde de meer en la lele ^a*(hi^the Tanet, mays unqe ne veu qe le Priour et le Covent persons of trovereut yleoques forsqe un home darmes a chyval, et nants). ceo fut de lour bone veue, purceo qe nous tenoms nos terres en pure et perpetuele amoyne. Par quey vous prioms cherement, qe vous plese accepter lanciene CANTUARIENSES. 123 clecessores, aliquibus, cle pensionibus corrodiis aut .su«- tcntacionibus de domo preedicta quoquo modo perci- piendis, ad rogatus progenitorum nostrorum seu nostros factcB, non trahantur in consuetudinem sen conse- quenciam, nec eorundem Prioris et Conventus, aut successorum suorum, seu domus suvc prsedictse cedant ill praejudicium aliqualiter in futuruui ; nec quod ipsi Prior et Conventus, aut successores sui, ad hujusmodi pensiones, corrodia, seu sustentaciones, de domo sua prasdicta percipienda, aliquibus ad rogatus nostros vel heredum nostrorum, contra voluntatem suam conce- denda seu invenienda, de cetero compellantur nec teneantur; salvo semper juro nostro, si quod nobis competat in hac pai'te. In cujus rei, etc. Teste meipso apud Turrim Londoniensem, sextodecimo die Aprilis, anno regni nostri decimo. 593. Greeting and sincere friendship. Dear Friends, we thank you exceedingly for what you lately told us, in so gentle a way, conceruing the matters which relate to the watch-by-sea in your district ; and bo pleased to learn that, since your departure, we have spoken and discussed the subject of the aforesaid watch with such of our brethren as have had experience of the ancient custom of onr Church. And they tell us confidently, that they have often seen watch-by-sea performed in the Isle of Tlianet, but they never saw the Prior and Con- vent provide there more than one mounted man-at-arms, and this much was only out of good will, inasmuch as that we hold our lands in pure and perpetual alms. Where- 124 LITERiE usage de nostre Eglise avantdite, la quele nous serroms prest, al ayde Dyeux, a parfumer. A Dyew qi vous gard, etc. 19 May 594.— De capa missa Ecclesi^ Christi Cantuariensi ^^^day"°" DOMINUM EPISCOPUM EXONTENSEM, CONSE- 1336. CRATOM CURIA KOMANA, PRO PROFESSIONE SUA. L. 65 a. Venerabili in Christo patri Domino J ohanni Dei Hisnop . .. . T-.-T •• Grandison gratia Exoniensi Episcopo Kicardus permissione ejus- ofExeter jg^^^ Prior EcclesicB Christi Cantuarieusis salutetn quani (consecra- . . ^ tud in the pepent virgo mater. Litteras vestrsB reverendae pater- sends^o i^itatis recepimus die festi Pentecostes, per manus Christ Domini Thomse de ])oultecote clerici vestri, et Wil- the"" dx;- Iclmi de Breybroke, quibus perlectis, eodem die, coram cent cope," nobis et aliis nostris confratribus, in nostro Capitulo, eve'ry suff- etiam intellectis, nos consequenter coi'am eisdem ragan confratribus, unam capam pretiosam candidi coloris, bound to qi-iam nobis et Ecclesife nostrpe, sub certa forma con- offer when tenta in vestris litteris, per dictos Dominum Thomam his profes- ^t Willelmum transmittere, vestri gratia, voluistis. (16 June 595. — De una ymagine oblata ad feretrum Beati ^^^^■^ Thom^ Martiris. L. 184 a. The Prior A treschere dame, Dame Mahout, Countesse de Valoy s,^ Cou°ntess ° Richard, etc. salutz, etc. Voillez savoir chere Dame qe ofVaiois le xiije jour de Juyn proschein passe receumes voz !^dve^''^^'^ lettres a Cauntorburs, par les mayns Piere messagier et image, Gylot SOU compcignon, les queux lettres nous avoms Ifter^exhi- bien entenduz; ct bien test apres voz dit vadletz hition in offrirent. pur vostre file qi Dieux assoille, al fiertre 1 Mahout, daughter of the Count of St. Pol and stepmother of Philip VI. It does not appear who aie meant by the deceased daughter and sou of the Countess. CANTUARIENSES. 125 fore we earnestly pray you that you will be pleased to adopt the aforesaid ancient custom of our Church, which, with God's help, we shall be ready to carry out. fecimus demonstrari ; una cum monili argenteo et gion of amallato, Annuntiationem Dorainicam figuraliter con- tinente. Et advertere velitis, quod pro hujusmodi Church of ornamentis in ecclcsia Cantuarieusi erit vestra me- ^u^^**''" moria, ad laudem vestram pariter et honorem, recentior teraporibus diutinis. Valeat reverentia vestra et sin- eeritas caritatis in Christo, per quern nos, de consensu fratrum nostrorum, vobis referimus grates multas [quod] nostrPB recreationis solatium et eorundem per scripta, manu vestra propria formata, multipliciter amplificastis. Datum Cantuarise die festi supradicti, anno Domini MCCC. tricesimo vjto. Littera Domini Episcopi Exoniensis quae est in desca Camera) plumbatffi videlicet in pixide ubi sunt testaraenta. Dominorum W. et S. [Archiepiscoporum] et prsedicta littera scripta est manu ejusdem Episcopi. 595. To his very dear Lady the Lady Margaret, Countess of Valois, Richard, &c., greeting, &c. Be ])leased to know, dear Lady, at on the 13th day of June last past, we received 3'our letters at Canterbury, by the hands of Pierre, your messenger, and Gy lot his companion, which letters we have thoroughly comprehended ; and immediately afterwards your said servants offered, in the name of your daughter, 126 LlTERiF: ter he has ^^'^'^^ Tlioiuas une ymagc dargent ove le pee, solonc affixed to la volente qest contenu en voz dites lettres ; la quele of st'"^'"*^ ymage nous moustrames as noz fraires en nostre cha- Tliomas. pitle le xiije jour dc Juyn avantdit ; et pur vous et les voz especialment avioms prie, et sumes en volente de cele devotion continuer. Et nous avoms mys la dite ymage devant le fiertre Seint Thomas, pres de une altre ymage dargent, qi nadgaires fuist offerte par vostre cher fitz qe Dieux assoille. A Dieu. etc. Escript, etc. 10 July 1330. L. 184 a. A suit of esquire's livery granted for life to an adviser of the Con- vent. 59G.— De Roba CONCESSA ThOM^ TERMINUM \nJE. ATTE HiJLLE AD Universis, etc. Ricardus, etc. Prior, etc. et ejusdem loci Conventus, salutem, etc. Probitatis et prudentiae dilecti nobis in Christo Thomre atte Hulle de Iclifim merita recolentes, [et] sperantes ejus consilium et auxilium nobis futuris temporibus fore non raediocriter (1336.) L. 184 a. Formula. A legal adviser is asked to come to Canter- bury to have a persoupl interview with the Prior. -597. — [LiTTERA INVITATORIA.] Salutz, Pur ceoqe nous avoms grantz diverges bu- soignes a ti'etier et a terminer, qi touchent nous et Icstat de nostre Esglise, les queux ne poont cstre tretee ne terminez sanz vous, ct sunies au point destre grantement endommagez ; vous prioms cherement, sicome voillez nostre pro fist et vostre honui' sauver,. qe, vewe ceste lettre, soiez a nous a tieu jour ; issint qe nous no soioms surpris par defaute de aide, sicome nous fyoms pleynement en vostre aide et conseil. Et voillez savoir qe les dites busoignes ne purrent estre respitez outre tieu jour. A Dieu, etc. CANTUARIENSES. 127 whom God assoil, at the Shrine of St. Thomas, a silver image with a base, in accordance with the wish expressed in your said letters ; which image we exhibited to our brethren in our Chapter House the 13th day of June aforesaid ; and we have especially prayed for you and yours; and propose to continue our devotion in this particular. And we have placed the said image in front of the Shrine of St. Thomas, close to another silver image which was formerlj' offered by your dear son, whom God assoil. Adieu, &c. opportuna ; dedimus et concessimus, de nostra gratia speciali, eidem Thomre, pro fideli et diligenti consilio suo et auxilio nobis exhibitis et exhibendis, unam ro- bam cum furura ad supertunicam de secta armigerorum nostrorum, ad terminum vitte suse annuatim percipien- dam. In cujus rei, etc. Data in Capitulo nostro xmo die mensis Julii anno Domini MOCCC°XXXVJto. 597. Greeting. Whereas we have in hand important and various affairs to discuss and despatch, which concern us and the dignity of our Church, and which cannot be brought to an end without you; and as we are in peril of being greatly injured, we earnestly pray you, as you desire to preserve our property and your own honour, that, on sight of these letters, you will be with us on (such and such) a day, so that we may not be taken unawares for lack of support ; so much do we trust in your help and advice. And please to observe that these said matters cannot be postponed beyond the appointed day. Adieu, &c. 128 LITERiE (1336.) 5 98. — LiTTERA EXCUSATORIA DE NON VENIENDO AD L. 184 6. SEPULTURAM. Formula. The Prior, Salutz, etc. Puv ceo qe nous avoms entendu par pleading lettres, les queux nous receumes nadtraires a Can- the neces- ° sity for torbirs par vostre vadlet, qe nostre bien amez en Dieu his pre- vostre Seiornur est a Dieu commaunde, qe sence at _ _ 'J home on a Dieux assoille, et serra enterre ^ a tiel lieu lendemeyn excuses' Almes proschein suyant, et vous nous avez prie qe himself for nous voussisoms estve al dit enterrement, pur faire honur aiTinvita- ^ ^'^^^^ ^ vostre dit Seignur ; voillez savier, qe par tion to the ceste sollempne feste de Toutz Seintz, et nomeement some per- P^^' altres diverses impedimentz et busoignes, qi touchent son of nous et nostre Esglise, nous ne pooms de nostre dite Esglise a ceste foith absentier. Et pur ceo nous voil- lez, endroit de vostre requeste, avier excusez pur les impediments avantditz. Adieu, etc. 16 July 599. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO ArCHIEPISCOPO QUOD (1336.) CeLERARIUS NON POTEST MINISTRARE IN OFFICIO ^- 65 b. guO SICUT IDEM OFFICIUM EXIGIT ET EEQUIRIT. The Prior Quicquid obedient iae, reverentiee poterit, et honoris, (who does Pater et Domine reverende, memoriter retinetis qua- sess'the liter alias vobis scripsi, quod Frater Ricardus de Icham, power of vester Ceierarius, impotens est ad ministrandum in or de- officio suo, prout idem officium exigit et requirit ; qua priving ratione prsefatus Ceierarius, de consensu nieo, et con- the Cellarer ^ . . ' . . of the silio vestri Supprioris, ac aliorum iratrum seniorum. Convent) YiuxiC in dicto officio nullatenus administrat : et non iniorms _ .... the Arch- mirum ut videtui nobis, quia sui vigoris seu potentife the^actual* corporalis virtute est multipliciter destitutus. in tantum Cellarer is iucompe- ' eji terre, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 129 598. Greeting, &c. Whereas we have understood by your letters, which we lately received at Canterbury by the hands of your servant, that our well beloved in God N. de S. your Lord (whom God assoil), is called to God and that he is to be buried in such and such a place, on the morrow of All Souls next coming, and you have prayed us that we would be i:)leased to be present at the said burial, so as to pay respect to you and your said Lord ; be pleased to learn, that we cannot just now absent ourselves from our Church, on account of this present solemn feast of All Saints, and especially on account of various other hindrances and affairs which affect us and our said Church. And therefore in the matter of your request, in consideration of the aforesaid hindrances, be pleased to hold us excused. Adieu, &c. quod in hujusmodi officio ad honorem et utilitatem tent and Ecclesia^ vestrae non potest, quod nobis displicet, la- *^g*jJ,Q„i^ borare ; sed de hujusmodi labore intromittit Subcele- be ap- rarius Ecclesiaj vestrse supradictse, et hoc facit de con-- P<""''^'l- sensu meo ac etiam alionim fratrum meorum, de quibus feci superius mentionem ; et hoc fieri oportebit quous- que Celerarius prsedictus, auctoritate vestra, ab officio suo fuerit absolutus et alius in idem officium, juxta vestram discretionem, prsefectus fuerit, ut est moris. Adliuc pater reverende, mitto vobis dilectum michi in Christo Johannem de Hildesle, latorem prsesentium, pro quibusdam negotiis ecclesiam vestram specialiter contingentibus, cui fidem indubiam dignemini adhibere super hiis quae vobis ex parte mea dixerit ista vice. Semper in Christo feliciter valeat et vigeat meus ]jater. Scriptum Cantuarife xvjo die Julii. U .52122. I 130 LITERS (July 1336.) L. 65 h. The men of Thauet and those of Sand- wich have quarrelled, and violent rioting is expected ; the Arch- bishop is therefore beofged to interpose. 600. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO ARCHIEPISCOPO PRO DIS- CORDIA INTER HOMINES DE SANDWICO ET HOMINES DE TaNETO. Quicquid obedientite, leverentise poterit, et honoris. Pater et Domine reverende, ex relatu fidedignorum, die confectionis prsesentium, iutellexi quod magna dis- cencio seu discordia est exorta inter multos viros portus de Sandwico ac etiam alios homines de Taneto ; et in tantura est istius diseordife materia cognita et dis- persa, quod utriusque communitatis bonum pacis et quietiS; quod vobis dolenter refero, totaliter est sopitum. Et advertere dignetur vestra paternitas reverenda, quod nisi per vestram discretionem congxuum remedium super hujusmodi discordia ocius procuretur, de magno et gravi periculo, ac etiam dampnoso ut communiter dicitur, in brevi ventm'O in dicta insula est timendum. Min^ vero quoque furiosse a quibusdam viris de Sand- wico procedunt multipliciter, ut refertur, quod ipsi preefatam insulam, per incendia subitanea vel alia nocu- menta improvisa, intendunt, modis varis quibus pote- runt, perturbare. Et si hujusmodi periculum eveniat, quod absit, vobis et Ecclesise vestrae Cantuariensi mag- num et notabile dampnum, ut dicitur, inminebit in insula supradicta, cum vos, benedictus Deus, sitis ditati multis possessionibvTs in eadem. Causam vero dictse discordise vobis hac vice non scribo, quia suppono quod ille earn vobis exprimet seriose qui vestra? reve- I'endae paternitati meas litteras tradet istas. In Christo, pacis auctore, valeat meus pater. (1336^)" — CeRTIFICATORUM PRO CONGREGATIONE, CUM ALUS L.6oi. ' CONTENTIS. The Pr 'o*" Quicquid obedientise, reverentije poterit, et honoris. "writes peevishly Pater et Domine reverende, Dominus Johannes de to the Toneford lector ecclesios do Prestone, ex parte vestra, CANTUARIENSES. 131 litfceras credencise detulit niiper niichi, et tria sua Arch- credencia continebat : Primum est : quod pactum inter compLiu- vos et me initum non servavi. Secundum est : quod ?"g that he de illis quae vestram visitationem contingunt intromit- construed, tere non deberem. Et tertium est : quod vestra peudet ^^j^^^"'^"*^ visitatio. Et hoc sciam quo ad primum et secundum, Pariia- ut firmiter oppinor, vobis in mea absentia aliquid est suggestum quod est contrarium veritati. Quo ad ter- tium : sicut fuerit voluntas in coelo sic fiat. Adhue, pater reverende, licet vos propter qufedam relata, ut intellexi, aliqualiter sitis moti, tamen illius Domini habetis memoriam efficacem de quo dicit propheta : cum iratus fueris onifiericordice recordahis ; ' qua ra- tione vos bac vice humiles confidentius preces fundo, quatinus in instanti congregatione cleri habere velitis meam personalem absentiam excusatam ; quaedam vere infirmitas me detinet, in tantum quod prsedictte con- gregationi non valeo commode personaliter interesse, Procuratores pro me et Capitulo vestro sunt ydonei constituti, prout fieri consuevit. Valeat vestra pater- nitas reverenda semper in Christo, pro cujus cultu, ad rogatum meum, salubriter ampliando in quadam capella de Garwinton, vestrse dioecesis, credere dignemini dilecto michi in Christo Magisti'o Thomse de Cantuaria, praesentium portitori. Scriptum Cantuarife xxij^o die Septembris. 602. — LiTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO JOHANNI ArCHIEPI- 21 Oct. scopo PRO negotio de Ryssebergh, et quod PERSONS RECIPI POSSINT INDUI HABITU MONA- ^* CHALI SINE VISU ARCHIEPISCOPI. Venerabili in Christo patri Domino Johanni Dei '^^^ Prior, gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, etc. devoti nhi caused a Ricardus Prior et Capitalum Ecclesitc Christi Can- number » Habac. 3, 2. 1 2 132 LITERS of the tenants of Monks Ris- boiough to be seized and brought to Canter- bury, asks the \rch- bishop to protect him against their at- tempts at revenge. Also he asks to be allowed to admit some new monks without having previously, according to old custom, presented them per- sonally to the Arch- bishop. tuariensis, salutem, cum omni obedientia, reverentia, et honore. Quod a sapientibus provideatur cum ad actum pervenit facilius toleratur, sic enim providere cautius nititur unusquisque, ut perniciosa jacula non liBdant omnino, vel saltem noceant eo minu.s. Nuper, pater reverende, occasione captionis nativorum nostrum de Ryssebergh, variis comminationum insultibus sumus prseventi, pro eo quod eadem captio vi et armis con- tra pacem dicitur esse facta ; propter quod coram Justitariis Domini nostri Regis quidam nos irapetere nioliuntur ; sed vestram paternitatem considei'ante.s nobis benignam, dum sub vestris alls quiescamus, ad tempus invadere nos non audent, sed, in seculi imita- tione, non modicam spem dissimulant et expectant, ut nobis temporibus futuris latius et liberius dampnum inferant seu gTavamen. Quod aliqui de sajiientibus providentes vestram reverendam discretionem et provi- dam in agendo, quam Deus ad Ecclesise regnique regimen diu serviat, per nos super prsemissis reputant consulendam ac etiam postulandam. Nos igitur dictorum sapientum consiliis inhserentes, cordibus et corporibus inclinatis, vobis humiliter supplicamus, ut, sicut Eccle- siae vestrse sponsae multa mansura commoda procurastis et ad effectum, per Dei gratiam, produxistis, sic, pro futuris incommodis repellendis, dignemini vestram pro- videntiam adhibere. Et si vestrte dominationi sit visum quod, propter vim et arma jDrtedicta, gratia seu perdonatio Domini nostri Regis, per suas litteras patentee, nobis sit utilis et roganda; deprecamur humiliter et instanter, quatinus dignetur vestra pia paternitas hujusmodi perdonationem seu gratiam nobis, prout decreveritis, efficaciter procurare ; ut si in even- turn patiamur impulsum, habeamus provisum contra comminantium jacula nobis scutum, quod per vestram providentiam habebimas, ut speramus ; quia licet ioca- liter a vobis distemus, eritis vestris Immilibus cordi- aliter nobis prope. Adhuc, pater reverende, vobis CANTUAKIENSES. 133 innotescimus, per hfec scripta, quod nos quasdam ydoneas personas ad nostrum habitum monachalem in vestra Cantuariensi Ecclesia portandum recepimus, juxta raorem ; et ad vos recognoscimus pertinere ut hujusmodi personas debeatis videre antequam habitibus monachalibus induantur ; et ulterius acceptare exami- nationes seu probationes dictarum personarum, tarn in moribus quam scientia, quae per vestrum Capitulum extant factie, prout fieri consuevit. Jam vero inter vos et nos est distantia loci tanta, quss potest, ut nobis videtur, rationabiliter vos movere ut nobis, de vestra gratia, concedatur quod sine visu vestro prte- dictae personte in vestra Cantuariensi Ecclesia supra- dicta habitibus praenominatis valeant indui, ista vice. Super bac materia, ac aliis vobis difFusius expi-imendis, credere velitis dilecto confratri nostro Eoberto Hathe- brand, prsesentium portitori, Valeat vestra paternitas reveranda in Christo, qui cum pacis et quietis tran- quilitate multiplicet dies vestros. Scriptum in Capitulo nostro xxjmo die Octobris. 603. — LiTTERA DIRECTA WaLTERO DE LAPPESFLODE UT 1336. NOS CERTIFICET DE STATir BONORUM NOS- TRORTJM APUD DOCKOMBE. ^- In Christo salutem. Amice, nos ex relatu fide- "^^^ ^"""^ asks the dignorum intelleximus, quod Henricus de Lappesflode, son of the pater vester, qui pro nobis et nostris multum, cum ^ggf^^g^^^*^ diligentia efficaci, per seipsum ac etiam alios, sui agent of gratia, fideliter, laboravit, viam universse carnis, ad ^gnj^aj'^" quam nos cotidie tendimus, est ingressus ; cujus Docomhc, animfe propitietur Ille cui est proprium misereri. Et g^jli^J'^^""" quia vos prpefatum Henricum, pro nostris temporalibus give him laborantem apud Dockombe, vestri gratia, specialiter Hon ahout supportastis, vobis confidentius scribimus ista vice, ex the state of . T , i • T 1 • the manor, anectu non modico vos rogantes, (juatmus de bonis coding nostris pnedictis, ac de eonmdem statu, quorum Canter- bury, if 134 LITERiSi possible, plenam notitiam dictus pater vester dum vixit habuit purpose, et vos, ut supponimus, habetis, velitis viva voce vcsti'a nobis referre in brevi, quamcitius poteritis, bona nova. Et si ad nos commode accederc non posfiitis person- aliter, qnod noUemus, tunc, si placet, super custodia dictorum bonorum nostrorum id quod vobis videtur esse melius faciendum, citra festum Omnium Sanc- torum proximo futurum, nos per vestras litteras informetis ; scientes, qucd sine vestra prsesentia cor- porali, vel informatione quam a2')petimus literali, non intendimus de hujusmodi bonis nostris, vel eorum custodia, aliquid extraneum ordinare. Et quando ad nos accedetis, prout prius desideramus, seu mittetis, sic, si placet, ordinetis, quod debitum quodcunque ad nostram Ecclesiam, ration e dictorum bonorum nos- trorum, pertinens, citra dictum festum vel ad tardius in eodem, totaJiter habeamus. Et si pro nobis tantum volueritis laborare, nos sic de vestro labore cogitabimus, Deo danto, quod vobis nostra cogitatio, ut speramus utilis apparebit. Valete in vero Salutari, ct valeant qui vos desiderant intueri. Scriptum Cautuarise iij° die Octobris sub nostro sigillo privato. 31 Oct. QOi. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO ArCHIEPISCOPO PRO (1336). DISCORDIA NUPER EXORTA INTER FAMILIAM L. 66 a. NOSTRAM ET SeNESCALLUM EJUSDEM DoMINI Archiepiscopi. The Arch- Venerabili, etc. ut supra. Pater et Domine reve- bishop's rende, sicut convenit rationi satisfacere pro commissis. Seneschal . ' . - , -i , ^• has de- ita durum videretur quibusdam delinquentes recog- claredthat j^oscerc non convictos, de quorum exeessibus uon con- vants and staret, seu satisfaciendo pro ipsis, delictum quodam- onhe^^^"^ modo confiteri. Quod nos vestri supplices attendentes, Arch- cum nuper homo valens et prudens Dominus J. de palace at Hampton, vester in temporalibus Senescallus, assereret Canter- familiares suos et palatii vestri custodem Isesos esse CANTUARIENSES. 135 per quosdam de nostris^ prseeedeiite nostrorum ipsorum l»""y ^ave insulfcu, prout invenisse se dixit per inquisitionem saultc'd by factarn per suos familiares juratos, ipsi pro parte nos- °^ tra fuit oblatum, quod de laostris similis inquisitio vants of strvaretur, et qvii posset culpabilis inveniri emendam .^^^gj faceret competentem. Tandem inquisitione per nostros two ex super negotio praedicto i urates sic facta, quia nostri ^'^f*.^ r o 1 ^ ^ ' L quines non fuerunt culpabiles (ut nobis videbatur inventi) have been obtnlimus vestro Senescallo prsedicto, quod ipse viam aliquam mediam inveniret, per quam posset rationa- Seneschal, biliter Veritas inveniri et delictum puniri ; quod ipse ^rvan/"'of Senescallus admittendum non duxit, sed, per aliquos thcMonas- forsitan provocatus, prfecise postulavit emendam. Nos foun(7'''^'' autem. non videntes nostros delictum sic impositum guilty, and commisisse, tres de nostris confi-atribus, videlicet, by'^t^*"^ Hugonem de Sancta Margareta Poenitentiarium, W. de Chapter Coventre, et S. de Sancto Petro, misimus ad Senes- servants callum eundem, per ipsos offerentes, ut prius, quod si yere found rationabilem viam videret quomodo posset de pr£e- the matter missis inquiri, in ipsa via staremus, et convicti satis- ^^^^ facerent delinquentes, prout juris seu rationis Veritas settled, exigit et requirifc : quod admittere non curavit, sed, '•^^'^ , . . t iseueschal ut prius, petit emendam, ceterum asserens quod nesci- demands mus. Propter quod, ne subito patemitatem vestram pecuniiny ' 1 . . . amends. moveat volans rumor, dominationi vestrse per prtesentes To pro- litteras intimamus, quod, quantum in nobis est, pacem t^cVri'or ° in omnibus affectamus, et prsesertim cum vestris unam asks the et unanimem familiam reputari. Et quamcitius ali- ^gj^o'p to quem de nostris invenerimus culpabilem in prsemissis, interpose, emendam faciet vel recodet. Rogamusque quatinus nos excusatos habere dignemini donee plenius inquiratur ; mallemus enim aspera multa pati quam rebelles vobis fovere, qui parati sumus vestris beneplacitis obedire, et pro vobis et vestris facere libenter quod possimus. Valeat, etc. Scriptum in Capitulo nostro ultimo die Octobris. 136 LItER.E 4 Nov. 605. — LiTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO J. DE OXENE PRO (1336). DUOBUS CANONICIS ADMITTENDIS AD HABITUM I'- 66 b. MONACHALEM. Cmons of Salutem in Christo. Karissime frater. recepimus St. Fides- nupev litteras vestras,' commendationes duorum cano- wvdes at nicorum de Domo Sanctje Frydiswydce tarn in moribus Oxford are . . ^ ^ reported, quam scientia ac etiam statura, prout scitis, specialiter theTnonks continentes ; quibus per nos aliqualiter intellectis, in- who is travimus hora nona nostrum Capitulum, ubi nostris in"oxfofd fr^t,ribus intimavimus seriose ea quae vestrge litterse to be desi- continebant ; et consequenter nobis et eisdem confra- enterin 7 7 . ■ from the tandiim susG%p%at sine consensu Abbatis ejus aid 'eene'dift*' ^^^^^^"^^ commendotionis ; quia scriptum est, " quod he requires" tihi non vls fieri altevi non feceris." Nostrse re- obtain the sunt verba, qupe a nosti*is fratribus sunt permission aliqualiter recitata, et placet quod ad nos veniant own pre- cauonici supradicti, ita tamen quod verba nostras sent regulae quae sunt praescripta nullatenus ofFendantur, Superior, jj^j^^ totaliter observentur in eorum accessu, quern appetunt multi fratres. Valete in Christo : scientes ulterius, quod fratres nostri desiderant esse certi quo- modo ad sacros ordines praedicti canonici sunt pro- moti, si (|uos retroactis temporibus receperunt. Scrip- tum Cantuariae iiij*o die Novembris sub sigillo nostro privato. ' qua ins. MS. CANTUARIENSES. 137 606. — LiTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO J. DE PaXTONE PRO ("gfg^/ QUODAM Henrico canonico admittendo ad L. 66 6. HABITUM MONACHALEM. Salutem, etc. Amice, recepimus litteras vestras The Prior . . . Hgl'CCS to apud Cantiiariam, die Veneris, videlicet, octavo die receive Noveinbris, continentes materiam commendandam, et, '"^ , TT • I o V Order and ut nobis scnbitis, concernentem Henricum de beiver- Convent a tone, qui in Prioratu de Kenille worth tanquam novi- ^'^^^f^ '■ '■ who has cms moram traxit. Quibus litteris vestris per nos been totaliter intellectis, vocavimus nostros fratres, qui una nobiscum consensum unanimem in nostro Capitulo ofKenil- prsebuerunt ut prpedictus H. vobiscuna veniat ut optatis, ^i^o^e'^"'^ et etiam in nostra Ecclesia Cantuariensi recipiat habi- ness is turn monaclialem, quem ibidem ad salutem animpe su?e -^^ Dom. J. portare concedat Omnipotens Deus noster. Et adver- de Pax- tere velitis, quod nos et nostri confratres in vobis cant'er- fidem tantam habemus quod nolletis quod prsedictus burymonk, H. ad nos accederet, ut scripsistis, nisi suus accessus warned in hac parte nobis et Ecclesire nostrse cederet in ho- *° ' 11- commend norem. Et antequam versus nostras partes, pro habitu him to inter nos portando, arripiat iter suum, examinetis eum ^^S^^ . . . Journey super articulis contentis in quadam cedula praesentibus until he interclusa ; per quam viam examinationis vos, prout a'^qualify'^'^ scitis, alias transivistis ; sic vero pro nobis et vobis ing ex- accedat securius ut videtur. In quo habitu veniet, dilectus confratcr noster W. do Chertham, ut suppo- ninms, vobis scribct, una cixm aliis qua? vos contingunt pariter et praemissii. Valcat, etc. Scriptum Cantuarise xmo (jje Novembris. 138 LITERS 25 ^ov. (307 — LiTTERA MISSA DOMIXO J. ArCHIEPISCO, PROPTER (1336). suggestiones sibi facias, UT AUDIRE velit Capitulum suujr antequam nimia:m fidem adhibeat eisdem suggestioxibus. The Arch- bishop has had tales told to him about the I'rior aud Chapter •which the latter assert are not true. But they offer to submit the whole matter to the Arch- bishop's own arbi- tration. Venerabili in Christo patri, etc. Pater et Domine reverende, membra capiti naturaliter coaptantur, ut capud dirigat sua membra, ac ipsa capiti sint in- tenta ; et sic dilectionis vinculis colligantur quod nesciant adinvicem non amare. Deus autem, cuncta dis- ponens et naturam ad nutum sua potestate transcendens, nos vestros supplices, vestra membra licet insuffi- cientia, vobis nostro sano capiti et felici, prout sibi placuit sic copulavit ; et nos pro hujusmodi capitis cum membris placabili unione veraciter dicere possu- mus congaudentes, quia nostrum capud est sanum cetera membra gaudent. Sed nostras laetitise in hac parte humani generis inimicus invidens, ac etiam unitati, quod via directa non potuit nitens facere per obliquam, propter quorundam conflictus extrinsecos bellum inducere voluit intestinum, quibusdam svigges- tionibus gravibus, ut audivimus, vobis factis ; super quibus parcat Dominus suggerenti. Et advertere dig- netur vestra patdrnitas reverenda quod sapieiitis est dictum : alteram 2>(i-"i'icm audi ; unde, vestrae conside- rationis temperie confidentes, cum humiHtate qua possumus supplicamus, quatinus pro excessibus aliorum nusquam a vestro Capitulo benignitatis si placet oculos avertatis, sed ipsum ut prius dignemini dirigere et fovere, et inchoata negotia consummare, et majora pro tempore, secundum quod decreveritis, procurare. Pro- mittimus vero, quod speramus fideliter et firmiter observare, quod siquis de nostris fuerit inventus in culpa, ad ordinationem vestrae paternitatis benignae, parata fiet emenda, vel festinanter a nobis recedet si per nos valeat removeri. Nos etiam juxta praefatam CANTUAKIENSES. 139 oi'dinationem vestram stare promittimus in toto si vestram paternitatem reverendam offenderimus quovis- modo, et parati sumus, sicut tenemur, vestr^e domina- tioni pro viribus complacere. Adhuc pater et Domine reverende, mittimus ad vos dilectum fratrem nostrum Robertum Hathbrand, prtesentium portitorem, cui cre- dere velitis super hiis quse vobis ex parte nostra dixerit ista vice. Dominus omnipotens et Rex noster qui regit coelum et terram dirigat vos in regiiiiine sute plebis. Super prsemissis beneplacitum vestrum, quod nobis non modicum confortamen afferet ut spera- mus, vestris litteris si placet mediantibus, audiemus. Scriptum in Capitulo nostro xxv'o die Novembris. G08. — Alia littera missenda^ per Priorem, tan- 25 Nov. GENS materiam proxime PR^SCRIPTAM. L. 67 a. Quicquid obedientise poterit et honoris. Pater r^^^ p^joy karissime, intellexi, per verba, quod multas querelas personally, me concernentes audivistis ; propter quod vobis humiles Jhe^abo"vo- preces fundo, ut hujusmodi auditis non nimiam fidem mentioned adhibeatis,^ si placet, donee me decreveritis auscultare, especially qui sum, prout scitis^ pars altera in hac parte. Et apply, offers oil si me per vos ut prsedicitur auscultatum culpabilem his private valueritis invenire, promitto stare in toto, ac facere account, , . . . ^ accept consequenter prout volueritis ordmare ; quia, ut fir- the Arch- miter spero, non ordinabitis nisi bene. Adhuc pater '"'■[W . . . _ ^ arbitration. karissime, vos rogo quatinus velitis favorabiliter ac etiam efficaciter exaudire dilectum confratrem meum R. Hathbrand, super hiis quse ex parte vestri Capituli vobis dicet, sic vero ipsum Capitulum multum poteritis confortare. Valeat, etc. Datum ut supra. • sic MS. I - adhibete, MS. 140 LITEU^ 8 Nov. aucl 12 Dec. 1336. gQQ — LiTTERA PRIORI PER DOMINUM ArCHIEPISCOPUM L. 67 a. ^, . , PRO QUODAM PALFREDO FORISFACTO. This letter, ^ Avhich did not reach Saliitem, cum benedictione et gratia Salvatoris. Ex tion for^a' liberalitate regum et eonsuetiidine hactenus iisitata, mouth Arcliiepiscopi Cantuarienses, prsedecessores nostri, per- after its . ^ ^ i i • ^ j. date cipere consueverunt et habere omnes lorisiacturas shows rerum mobilium et immobilinm ■per totum dominium the sugges- ^t libertatem Ecclesise nostrse Cantuariensis, et do j/ons^which jpyis forisfacturis dis})onere prout eorum cederet volun- made to tati. Sed nuper vos, ut accepimus, quendam palfre- the Arch- (j^^-^ [y^ dominio et liber tate Ecclesise nostrae prsedictte bishop to . - the disad- lonsfactum, qui ad uos spectat et spectare debet, ut Chapter^*^ est dictum, vestris usibus applicastis, ipsum ministris A horse nostris reddere non curantes, licet vos pro parte fbrfelteT ^O'^tra ssepius interpellaverint ; de quo miramur quam- ou one of plurimum, prsesertim cum vos jurium nostrorum tene- ramus ante lisec tempora prtecipuum defensorem. Vos Church, igitur hortamur in Domino, in caritatis visceribus horse'the suadentes, quatinus, memores salutis seternse et sanam Prior took conscienciam resumentes, quod nostrum est nostris arhead'of ministris sine difficultate restituere non tardetis. Do the Chap- go veio quod facere volueritis in hac parte, nos vestris the' Arch- velitis littoris, sine mora, reddere certiores. In Christo bishop feliciter valeatis. Scriptum apud Eboracum sub sigillo claimed it . • • • o t tvt t • as head of nostro privato vuj. die JNoverabris. theChurch, . .... and hence Istas litteras recepi apud Cantuariam, die Jovis ni vigilia a misap- Sanctas Lucite virginis, videlicet, xij'"" die Decembris, quibus B^^Hs'°'^' ^'^sP^^'li™^^ forma siibsequenti. letter the Arch- bishop demands the horse. CANTUAEIENSES. 141 blO. — Ltttera responsalis missa Domino Archi- i-t Dec. 1336. EPISCOPO SUPRADICTO PRO PALFREDO FORIS- J^^CTO. L.67«. Suo patri obedientiam debitam cum honore. Pater The Prior, et Domine reverende, nuper niihi vestras litteras tj^g^"j°fj transmisistis, continentes quod ununi palfredum in bishop that vestro dominio forisfactum, et ad vos, ut est dictum, ^J^^no" spectantem ac per me contra voluntatem ministrorum neverthe- vestrorum detentum, eisdem ministris vestris resti- trsiu^*^'^ tuere non tardarem. Pro hac materia advertere dig- render the netur vestra paternitas reverenda, quod super dicta "^^ ' forisfactura f'uit et est magna altercatio quo tempore debeat vobis liberari vel alii cuicumque, et hujusmodi altercatio fuit et est in(ter) illos qui vestri Capituli et mei sunt consiliarii specialiter deputati. Verump- taraen, juxta vestrarum litterarum exigentiam prse- dictarum, dictum palfredum libera vi Domino J. de Hainptone, vestro in temporalibus Senescallo, sub spe tali firma ut prsedicta altercatio, per vos, cum ad vestram Ecclesiam Cantuariensem decreveritis person- alitei' declinare, total iter et feliciter sit decisa. Valeat in Christo semper karissimus meus pater. Scriptum Cantuarise in crastino Sanctse Luciae Virginis. Gil. — De responsione panis a celeraria de gra- 133c. NARIA TEMPORE TliOM^ DE SaNDWYCO GrA- L. 107 h. NETARII. Memorandum quod primo quarterio anno regni '^j^f '^'^'Sh T mi I c. 1 of bread- Regis Edwardi 1 nomas do bandwyco Granetarius stuff sent 142 LITERJJ (Jra^c/rt ^^^"^^ Celerarium tie quolibet genere panem per riiis to the suuiTi asseis ' quantum inferius nominatur. Cellerar's depart- ment during the winter quarter of the year. De pane Conventus XX. - xxij. denariatos. De smalpeys XX. XX. !) De feytys - XX. - xxvij >1 De pleynpeyn XX. - XXX. XX. !> De pane coquiniB - vij. >) 1336. 612. — De nova fenestra in Capei-la Apostoloeum L. 107 b. Petri et Pauli. Memoran- dum of the expenses incurred in insert- ing the great de- corated ■window in St. An- selm's chapel in Canter- bury Ca- thedral. The win- dow is usually wi'onglj' ascribed to Prior Eastry. Memorandum quod anno Domoni iMocccxxxvito facta fait una nova fenestra in Ecclesia Christi Can- tuariensis, videlicet, in Capella Sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, pro qua sub forma quse sequitur ex- pens'ce fuerant ministrata^. In primis : pro solo artificio seu labore cementario- rum, xxj. li. xvij. s. ix. d. Item : pro muri fractione ubi est fenestra, xvj. s. ix. d. Item : pro zablo et calce, xx. s. Item : pro m^mi fern empta ad dictam fenestram, iiij. li. iiij. s. Item : pro artificio fabrorum, Ixv. s. iiij. d. Item : in lapidibus de Cain emptis ad eandem, c. s. Item: pro vitro ae labore vitrarii, v^li. xiiij.s. iiij. d. Summa totalis pro dicta fenestra, xlij.Zi. xvij.s. De quibus subtractis viij. li. xij. s. iiij. d. datis a quibusdam amicis ad dictam fenestram remanet summa pecunife ministratse per Ricardum Priorem pro eadem, xxiiij. li. nj. s. x. d. ' sic, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 143 G13. — Eecognitio faciexda juxta modum Lumbar- (1336.) DORUM PRO PECUNIA MUTUANDA, VIDELICET, ^ j CORAM QUODAM ClERICO CANCELLARI.E. Nos Frater R. de B. Prior Ecclesiie de C. recog- Formula, noscimus, pro nobis et successoribus nostris, nos pj°^g^" debere A. de D. tot libras sterlingorum, solvendas ad form of tale tei'minum ; et nisi fecerimus, concedimus quod so°™notc prcedicta pecunia levetur de terris et catallis nostris such as in Comitatu tali et alibi. Teste R., etc. bythe^*^ Lombard money- lenders. 614. — PeTITIO AbBATIS de BoXELEYA, videlicet, quod (133G.) POSSIT TENERE de nobis VIIJ. ACRAS VEL CIR- ^ uOa. CITER QU^ PERTINENT AD MANERIUM NOSTRUM DE HOLYNGBOURNE. Quoad petitionem factam Priori [et Capitulo] Ec- Counsel's clesise Christi Cantuariensis per Doniiuum Abbatem op^^^o" 1-r.i 1 •! 1 • ^ 1 answer de Boxeleya, de quibus adquirendam licenciam postu- to be given labat, sic respondendum est: Abbot of Primo : sic respondetur, si idem Dominus Ab,bas who'*^^ ' facere possit quod Prior Ecclesia3 Christi et eiusdem ^'^bed to loci Capitulum habeant tanta tenementa de feodo ejus- eight acres dem Domini Abbatis, vel alterius, eiusdem valoris sicut H'"^ the tee ot tenementa de feodo prsedicti Prioris ad prtesens exis- Christ tunt, dumtamen sint ad aysiamentum ipsius Pi'ioris ^^"j^^^^ sicut et alia sunt eidem Domino Abbati, videtur an- bourne, nuere in liac parte votis ipsius Abbatis, Also on the ^ ^ answer to Secundo: respondetur sic: quia advertenda est jac- onf who '° tura proveniens quo ad relevium et escaetam ; si idem "^-^^^^^^ to Abbas concedere velit, de consensu Capituli sui, quem- share'of 144. LITER.E Mill in Ickhiim the monas- dam annuum redditum, onerando se et domum suam tery in . . . . Seaton de eoclem, prout per consilium ejusdem Prions juxta formam juris ordinabitur, ita quod prtedictus redditus annuatim sic persolvendus, cedere possit in recompen- sationem gratuitam releviorum et escaette sic amitten- doruni. Quoad petitionem Tlioma? le Bad de molendino de Setene sic est respondendum : Quia medietas ejusdem molendini est in seisina Prioris Ecclesipe Christi Cantuariensis, et illam tenet ut de jure Ecclesise suaj prsedictfe, quod quidem jus in omnibus tenetur observare et inviolabiliter manu- tenere ; non est licitum ea qufe juris EcclesitB sunt alienare, neque in aliquo diminuere, sed potius ea ]no viribus augere. 26 Feb. G15. — LiTTERA DOMINI J. ARCHIEPISCOPI DE ABSOL- VENDO AlEXANDRUM DE RyDELYNGSWEALD L. 107 a. AB OFFICIO PCENITENTIARIyE. The Arch- Johannes permissione divina Cantuariensis Arcbi- Disnop as- ... serts his episcopus dilectis filiis Priori, etc. Quia confratrem ot right to commonachum Alexandrum de Rydelyno-sweld, Poeniten- remove, _ . . and, with tiarium nostrum in Ecclesia supradicta, etc. ab officio tTons'^'to poenitentiarise bujusmodi duximus absolvendum, vobis appoint a mandamus, quod juxta consuetudinem nostras Ecclesise ^'"'thrcon- supradietaj, tres jfersonas ydoneas vestri collegii nobis vent of nominare curetis, ad officium pra3dictum, de quibus Church, unam illarum, prout nobis videbitur, ad ipsum offi- cium assumemus, juxta consuetudinem memoratam ; jure nostro, quo ad prsemissa et alia nobis competentia, futuris temporibus semper salvo. Datum apud Lam- hutb iiij. kalendas Martii anno Domini mcccxxxvjo, et nostr?e translationis iiijto. in CANTUARIENSES. 145 G16. — LlTTEKA MISSA DOMINO J. ARCIIIEPISCOPO PRO 5 Mar. 1 337 THIBUS PERSONIS NOMINATIS AD OFFICIUM PIN- CERNARIJ5. ^- Quicquid obedientise, etc. Pater et domine reve- '^^^ rende, vestrum Capitulum et ego nuper recepimus Chapter vestras litteras, continentes quod vos Fratrem Alexan- XrTe'per- drum de Evdelvne-swealde, etc. ab oflScio poenitentiarige sons from ■ ? , 1 -r. . - -J. -I whom the fore decrevistis absolvendum. h ratres igitiir mei, etc. ^rch- vobis Dominant ad officium prtedictum tres fratres, bishop may cnoosti one videlicet, Joliannem de Sandwyco, Willelmum de Mai- to fill the lyng, et Thomam de Holyngbourne de quibus unum, ^'^^^^g^^^. etc. assumetis. Valeat et vigeat mens pater in Illo to the quern peperit virgo mater. Scriptum Cantuari.-e yto Convent. ... Entered iu die Martu. the regis- ter 1337. 617. — LiTTERA INDENTATA QUALITER MAGISTER R. DEL. 107 «. Haute tenet ecclesiam de Westerham de NOBIS SUB annua pensione vij. denariorum. Universis pateat per pra^sentes, quod nos Henricus An old re- permissione divina Prior Ecclesiaj Cliristi Cantuariensis thy^pen*- et ejusdem loci Capitulum recepimus et habuimus a sion due to discreto viro Magistro R de Haute annuam pensionem veut^from vij. denariorum, in quibus nobis tenebatur de ecclesia t^e Rector de Westerham, RofFensis dioecesis, pro primo anno ham exe'm- nobis appropriata per venerabilem patrem Dominum pWied. Hamonem Dei gratia RofFensem Episcopum, Capituli sui et prsedicti Magistri Ricardi interveniente consensu. Quam quidem ecclesiam idem Magister Ricardus no- mine nostro tenet sub hujusmodi annua pensione vij. denariorum nobis solvendorum. In cnjus rei testi- monium nos praedicti Henricus Prior et Capitulum U 52122. K 146 sigillum nostrum commune, et ego praiictus M agister Ricardus sigillum meum, huic scripto indentato ap- posuimus alternatim.^ Memorandum quod de hujusmodi solutione annuae pensionis habemus instrumeuta, ut patent, in Cancellaria nostra, ubi sunt orriginalia seu munimenta quee istam materiam concern- unt. 1 Mar. 133". L. 104 a. Call over of the books in the monas- tic Library. 618. — De defectibus librorum Ecclesi^ Cheisti Cantuariexsis, videlicet, die Sancti Gre- GORii ANNO Domini Mocccmoxxx's^Jo. Defectus librorum de prime detectione. Primo : deficit liber Tro/iisfigv/ratv^s in Crv^ifixum, ad quern est in noia Frater W. de Coventre. Item : deficit Avicenna Magistri Robert! de Co- nubia, ad quern est in nota Frater W. de Staple. Item : deficiunt liber qui dicitur Brito super pro- logos hiblicB Johannis de Boctone, et quinque libri Aiiselmi in uno volumine S. de Sancto Paulo, ad quos est in nota Thomas de Undirdoune Senior. Item : deficit liber qui dicitur Logica vetus et nova J. Everarde, pro quo respondere habet Frater W. de Tanneto. Item : deficiunt libri Cassiodori Senatoris et liber, videlicet, Grecissimus J. de Bocton, ad quos est in nota Frater Ricardus Merstham. Item : deficiunt libri Scriptum Thonics super teHium sententim'um, Scriptum Thomce super quaHum sententiarum W. de Hyebei-i, Scriptum Thomce super primUym et secundum sententiarum, et ' Tbi.« form of receipt, taken from one actually given to the Rector in Prior Eastry's days, was copied into the register in 1337, to justify the Chapter in claiming the pension at that date. CANTUARIENSES. 147 Aiigustinufi super libera arhitrio R. de Wyn- chelesse, ad quos est in nota Frater W. Hethe. Item : deficit liber qui dicitur Swnima super libriom phisicoricm Thomae Stoyl, ad quern in nota est Frater Philippus de Wickham. Item : deficit liber qui dicitur Vita Sancti Thomce Martiris de communi, ad quem in nota est Frater Willelmus de Cantuaria. Summa librorum qui deficiunt de prima demonstra- tione, xiij., pro quibus habent respondere fratres proximi prjescripti. Defectus librorum de secunda demonstratione in mangnis tabulis. Primo : deficit liber qui dicitur Tractatus de x. prce- ceptis Johannis de Hardris, ad quem est in nota Frater Ricardus de Ickham. Item : deficit liber Transjiguratus in Grucijixum Johannis de Hardris, ad quem est in nota Frater Thomas de Bourne. Item : deficit liber qui dicitur Vita et miracvbla Beati Thomce Symonis Supprioris, ad quem est in nota Frater Ricardus de Wylardeseye. Item : deficit liber qui intitulatur Vita et niiracula Beati Thomce Humfredi de Mallyngg, ad quem est in nota Frater Thomas de Godwyneston. Item: deficiunt libri Thomus R. Schede, et Miracula Beatce Marice in lingua Gallicana Johannis de Tanneto, ad quos est in nota Frater Robertus de Aledone. Summa librorum qui deficiunt de secunda demon- stratione in magnis tabulis vj., pro (juilnis hal)ent respondere Fratres proxiini praiscripti. K 2 148 LITER.E Slunma utriusque demonstrationis in manibus mona- chorum xix. Defectus librorum in parvis tabulis. Primo : deficit Diurnale G. de Waltunc, Frater W. de Coventre, est in nota. Item : deficit Diurnale Lamberti de Clyve, ad quern est in nota Frater Kicardus de Ickham. Item : deficiunt libri Psalteriuni Johannis de Wodecherche, Diurnale Johannis Pucyn, E.cequice Nicholai de Gore, ad quos est nomen Fratris Alani de Cruce. Item : deficit Diurnale Mathei Pynke, ad quern est in nota Frater Johannes de Sandwyco. Item : deficit Diurnale R. de London, ad quern est in nota Frater R. Aledone. Item : deficiunt Diurnale ad Signum et Exequice Henrici de Diepham, ad quos est in nota Frater W, de Mallyngg. Item : deficit Psalterium Thomse Andrewe, ad quem est in nota Frater Uyonisius. Item : deficiunt Exequice parvae R. de Prittlewelle, Frater Petrus de Sales est in nota. Item : deficit Orclinale de Camera depieta, Frater Robertus Hatthebrand est in nota. Item : deficit Psalterium Petri, ad quem est in nota Frater Thomas de Garwynton. Item: deficit Diurnale Nicholai cum Psalterio, ad quem est in nota Frater Rogerius de Thanneto. Item : deficit Ordinale Johannis de Boctone, ad quem est in nota Frater W. de Welles. Item: deficit Ordinale cum ymagine de Afscencione, Frater Laurentius do Prestone est in nota. CANTUARIENSES. 149 Item : deficit Processionale Ricardi Cantoris, Frater W. de Chartham est in nota. Item : deficit Processionale Willelmi Neyyford, Frater W. de Cantuaria est in nota. Summa librorum qui deficiunt in parvis tabulis xix. pro qnibus debent respondere Fratres proximi prse- scripti. Defectus librorum de omnibus tabulis ad quos mor- tui monachi sunt in nota. Primo : deficit liber qui dicitur Instituta Petri Liim- hardi, Frater Hen. Moth est in nota. Item : deficiunt libri Processionale Jordajii, et ExeqvAcc R. Prittlewell, Dominus H. Prior est in nota. Item : deficit liber qui dicitur Speculum judiciale R. de Clyve, Frater Thomas Stoyl est in nota. Item : deficiunt libri, videlicet, Sententiaj Longobardi W. de Ledebery, Collecta de multis J. de Lon- don, Missale Samuelis de Suffleton, et Exequice J. de Tannet, Frater J. Spycer est in nota. Item : deficiunt libri, videlicet, Hystoria manduca- toria Humfredi de Mallyngg, Psalterium Sancti Silvestri, et Exequiw R. Chai'Ies, Thomas Golston est in nota. Item : deficiunt libri, videlicet, Biblus Johannis de Chetham aut Roberti Sacrista?, et Processionale D. do Sancto Elj)hego, Joh. Wyngeclelie est in nota. Item : deficit Bruttus Gallice Ricardi Wynchepe, Alexander de Sandwyco est in nota. Item : deficit Psalterium Beatte Marice Willelmi Cherryng, Ricardus Rawe est in nota. Item : deficit Bryto super bihliam Johannis de London, Johannes de Wy est in nota. 150 LITERS Item : deticit liber qui dicitur Veritas theologica Jo- haanis de Haixlris, Walterus de Norwyc est in nota. Item: deficit Ordinale Cavierarii Prioris, Robeitus de Tanneto est in nota. Item : deficit Ordinale W. de Berkyngg Junioris, et PsaUerium Johannis de Bocton, Frater Stephanus de Faversham est in nota. Item: deficiunt Diurnale R. Foxele, et PsaUerium Olyverii, Robertus de Seleseya est in nota. Item : deficit Diurnale R. de Prittlewelle, Johannes do Malton est in nota. Item : deficiunt Diurnale G. de Romenal, et PsaUe- rium G. de Chillendenne, Thomas de Myddelton est in nota. Item : PsaUerium . . . novum, et Exequite Jo- hannis do Gore, Johannes Everard est in nota. Item : deficiunt libri, videlicet, PsaUerium Ricardi Cantoris, PsaUerium W. Ledebery et Exeqwite Stephani de Worthe, J. Waloynes est in nota. Item : deficit PsaUerium R. de PrittleweU, Daniel de Sutton est in nota. Item : deficit PsaUerium cum Ymjonario R. de Prit- tleweU, W. de Truleghe est in nota. Item : deficit PsaUerium Petri dc Bokkynge Lau- rentius de Cheyham est in nota. ■ Item : deficit Missale Anselmi de Eastria, Johannes de Chertham est in nota. Item : deficit Antiphonarium Willelmi de Knolton, Lucas est in nota. Item : deficit Processionale Bartholomei, Robertus Gattherst est in nota. CANTUAKIENSES. 151 Item : deficit Psalterium Beatce Marice parvum Willelmi de Berkyngg, Symo de Soles est in nota. Summa librorum ad quos monachi defuncti sunt in Dota xxxviij. Defectus librorum in manibus secularium de magnis tabulis. Primo : deficiunt libri, videlicet, Miracula Sancti Thomce Frontardi, Vitce Beati Thomce et Anselmi W. de Bourne, Dominus Edwardus Rex seeundus post conquestum est in nota. Item : deficit liber qui dicitur Digesta vetus, pretii xl. solidorum, S. de Cretyng, Thomas de Bonyng- ton est in nota. Item: deficit Codex, pretii iiij. marcarum, H. de Cretyng, Magister Henricus Shorne est in nota. Item : deficit Digesta vetus, pretii 1. solidorum, R. Lodelowe, Magister W. Wynderton est in nota. Item : deficit liber, videlicet Inford Roberti de Faversham, Codex ejusdera R., et Digesta vetus Magistri de Bereham, Magister Robertus de Bereham est in nota. Item : deficit Digesta vetus appreciatus pretio I. solidorum S. de Sancto Paulo, Robertus de Sand- wyco est in nota. Item : deficit Iniforciat' Magistri Humfredi, Ricardus de Haute est in nota. Item : deficit Digesta^ vetus Roberti de Faversham, Nicholaus de Dovoria est in nota. Item : deficiunt libri, videlicet, Bumma de viiiis et virtutibus W. Ledebery, et Epistolw Sancti 152 LITEKiE Thomce R. le Hecle, Magister Thomas Trussell est in nota. Item : deficiunt libri, videlicet, Digesta vctus Symonis de Leycestria, item Codex (pro quo codicc recepit Thesaurarius viijto marcas et H. de San eta Margareta xx. solidos) item Justicia, W. de Halberghe est in nota. Item : liber qui dicitur Johannes Grisostomus de Icmde Apostoli, per praeceptum Domini R. Prioris, et valet quinque solidos. Summa librorum in manibus secularium de magnis tabulis xvij. 12 Mar. (jlQ. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO J. ArCHIEPISCOPO PRO 1337 CAUSIS SPECIALITER CONCERM ENTIBUS DoVORfAM L- 67 b. ET RySSEBERGH. A letter of Venerabili in Christo patn, etc. Devoti filii Ri- from'prior cardus. ctc. Pater et Domine reverende, vestra redo- Oxenden lens gratitudo, quam in negotiis nostris feliciter ^jirc^- expediendis invenimus multipliciter efficacem, nos bishop. excitat et inducit vestrae reverendae paternitati grates jects men- devotas rependere quas valemus, licet vobis refundere tioned^in nequeamus gratiarum actiones debetas quas tenemur. are only Nos igitur, sic rationabiliter inducti ac etiam excitati, buf th ^^^^^'^ circa nos paternitati sollicitse et benignse grates Prior's quas possumus referimus cumulatas, quia in negotiis character- jjienioratis noster estis pater favorabilis et feliciter istic style . . • T% is well promovens eadem cum instantia diligenti ; Deus vobis displayed, j-gtvibuat qui est sufficiens retributor. Et advertere dignetur vestra paternitas reverenda, quod inter dicta negotia per vos, vestri gratia, cognita et promota specialiter includuntur ilia quae concernunt Monas- terium Sancti Martini dc Dovoria, et Manerium nostrum CANTUARIENSES. 153 de Ryssbergh, do quibus adhuc prout decrevcritis dignemini cogitare ; sic vero erimus salubriter consolati, necnon omnes alii in vestra Cantuariensi Ecclesia mo- nachi successuri. Et nisi hujusmodi consolatio nos vostris temporibus apprehendat, magnam dolendi mate- riam, ut timemus, habebimus, quod nolletis iit firmiter nos speramus. In Christo valeat vestra paternitas reverenda. Datura in Capitulo nosti'O xii™° die Martii. 020. — De libris Magistri R. de Haute necnon aliis (1337.) LEGATIS PER IPSUM CONV ENTUI ECCLESI^ ChRISTI. L. 105 a. In testamento legavit : " Lego religiosis viris Dominis Richard de Priori et Conventui Ecclesia Christi Cantuariensis Haute (rector or totum messuagium meum quod habeo in civitate Can- Wester- tuaria in quodam vico qui vocatur le Mercerye. Item i,^. to turn Corpus juris civilis. Item Decretalia et De- qucathed creta lona cum glossa Hostiensis in duobus volumini- c^^^to'^fhc bus. Item Summa copiosa et Speculum judicicde. Convent Item X. libras ai'genti sub eo pacto et conditione ut church'* ipsi pro eisdem rebus faciant celebrari imperpetuum, an extract 11 -CI • • • • horn his m capeila suse Elemosmana?, unum anniversarium pro con- anima bonse memorise Domini Roberti nuper Cantu- taining the ariensis Archiepiseopi, et pro anima Domini Willelmi which ^'thc de Haute militis et Julianas uxoris suae, ct pro anima Convent is „ T^. . , , , . , . 1 ■ . . interested mea. h,t istud legatura et ejus admissionem, per scrip- is copied turn suuin sigillo suo communi immunitum, fateantur, recognoscant, et se obligent. 021. — LiTTERA MISSA EIDEM ArCHIEPISCOPO PRO QUA- June DAM VIOLENTIA FACTA IN SUA EcCLESIA. , ^^l^P' h. 67 I). Quicquid obediential reverentiae poterit et honoris. During an Pater et Dominc reverende, pro viribus nititur unus- fh^^cathe- quisquc (juod, quatenus fieri possit, sit sine macula 'i^i 154 IJTEKiE Church- yard bloodshed (of a tri- fling cha- racter) has occurred, and Prior Oxenden in this verbose letter an- nounces the fact to the Arch- bishop, and asks him to allow the IJishop of Kochester to recon- cile the Church- yard. sua sponsa, et si per alicujus injuriam sit sponsa? facies maculata sponsus se reputat obfuscatum. Nu- pei" autem, videlicet, die Martis in ebdomada Peute- costes proximo prseterita, honorabilis Cantuariensis Ecclesia, sponsa vestra, niultis concurrentibus in pro- cessionibus, per violentam necnon iujuriosam effusionem sanguinis cujusdam presbyteri notorie et patenter fuit polluta, propter quam maculam in eadem celebrare non audeo sicut prius, quaravis multi de meis confra- tribus sic abstinendum non reputent in hoc casu, cum tamen hoc videatur expressum de jure. Unde cum circa praedictam ecclesiam ferveat specialiter amor vester, quod factum est dignemini facere reformari, vel meis confratribus ac etiam milii vestro vestram rescribere voluntatem, quid in hac parte duxeritis faciendum, ne vestri supplices periculis involvantur, qui nollent esse eanonis contemptores. Quidam vero, de quibus supra fit sermo, dicunt quod alias propter hujusmodi sanguinis effusionem patentem non fuit reconciliata ecclesia supradicta, propter quod reputant presumptive ipsam privilegio roboratam ; de quo mihi non apparet ad preesens, qui omnia et singula spiri- tualia privilegia in dicta ecclesia vestra existentia, T)ropter dictum casum, scrutari feci in quantum potui diligenter. Et idcirco pater reverende, 'super eodem casu velitis, prout decreveritis, remedium celeriter ordinare, quoniam scandalum ut videtur et periculum hie circumstant. Et si vobis esse expediens videatur, scribere dignemini Episcopo Roffensi, ut ipse, vice vestra, reconciliet vestram ecclesiam supradictam, nec- non alia onera vestra supportet, videlicet, quo ad pueros confirmandos, necnon ecclesias dedicandas, et aliter in vestra dioecesi vos supportet prout volueritis ordinare. Non sine causa magna banc materiam vobis scribo. Adhuc pater reverende, sunt in Ecclesia vestra quinquc novitii laudabiliter viventes, videlicet. CANTUARIENSES. 155 Thomas dc Gillynghara, Jacobus Ic Hwyte, Heiiricus cic Selvertoiie, Robertus de l)afFeld, et Johannes do Excestre, qui nondum compleverunt annum probationis et petunt instanter admitti ad professionem facien- dam; propter quod vos rogo quatinus veJitis com- mittere mihi vices vestras ad recepiendum professiones suas, aliter vero aliquis eorum, ut timeo, nisi habcat (|Uod petit instanter, ad seculum de facili poterit evo- lare ; ex quo facto deberet, prout scitis, manifestum obloquium exoriri. Vestra revercnda paternitas in prosperis sit longajva. Scriptum apud Broke xix^o die Junii. 622— LiTTERA RESPONSORIA DOMINI J. ArCHIEPISCOPI AD LLTTEKAJVI PROXIME PRESCRIPTAM. Sahvtom cum benedictione Dei et nostra. Displicent June nobis multum ea quae de pollutione nostra; ecclesia^ et vestris novitiis, non cum debita brevitate sed inutili ^' ^' verbositate, nobis vestris litteris intimastis ; unde, re- The Aicli- jectis opinionibus coutentis in eis, utpote juri contrariis proves the et ineptis, in ipsa ecclesia antequam reconciliata i^rior fuerit, unacum ipsius cimiterio eidem contiguo, cele- '^^y^ ana' brari divina, et in dicto cimiterio aliquem sepeliri, consents nullatenus permittatis ; et vobis commissionem nostram calling in transmittimus pro reconciliatione hujusmodi facienda. "^^^^^"^ ^ Et licet plurimum distrahauiur et etiam occupemur Rochester, circa negotia Ecclesise atque regni, si tamen alium Episcopum ad id nequeatis habere, quod nobis non modicum displiceret, ad voh ea occasione personaliter veniemus, omnibus aliis proetermissis. De novitiis vestris existentibus infra annum probationis sute, et volentibus statim ad professionem adinitti vel redire ad seculum, sicut dicunt, non prtBSumimus, sicut nec est prcesumendum, quod ex bona intentione fuerunt 166 LITERiE religionem ingressi, nec quod iinquam jiroficient in eadem ; unde, si ex dicta causa velint exire, statim exeant cum maledictione Dei et nostra ; ne ex mora eorum detei'ius forte contingat. Karissime attendite ct videte si ha^c fiant in viridi in arido quid fieri praesumemus ; et an mittens manum ad aratrum et respiciens retro aptus dicatur in Evangelio regno Dei. Hoc tamen vestrae et eorum conscienciis duximus re- linquendum ; sed pro ipsis vestris novitiis per vos petitam a nobis licentiam, ex causis praemissis, ratio- nabiliter denegamus. Semper in Domino feliciter valeatis. Scriptum apud Oftyntone juxta Stanford, sub nostro sigillo privato, xxiiij die Junii. Recepta fuit ista littera apud Wcstwell xxvij" die Junii. Et die Li;ua3 pi-oxime sequenti ejusdem littera) fuit facta oxocutio. (June 1337 ') T 623. — Consilium peritorum quid seccjrius facien- Jj. 67 b. Some of ^^^^ '^^'^ SUPER LITTERA PROXIME PR^NOTATA. the monks, thaTthe'"^ Super hao littera quid facere debemus nobis quidam priest's periti in jure suum consilium autumabant ; dicentes bled with- quod melius foret, nostris monachis foret per nos pub- out having YicQ inliibendum, ne in ecclesia nostra, sanguinis eflu- violenco, sione polluta, vel cimiterio eidem contiguo, transgre- continue Cerent canones et mandatum domini supradicti. Et si to perform t t • i ■ ^ n i •^ i- n ■ religious ita csset quod aliqui de eisdem iratribus dicerc vellent services in f^Qfj nescirent modum facti quod esse dicitur violen- thc Church, i . ....... ^ alleging tum, uude abstmere prout m litteris Domini Uan- flu^with'^*^ tuariensis continetur nuUatenus teneventur, hujusmodi out a blow fratribus sic volcntibus opinari, rationabiliter dici potest, produ'ce* quod vulgaris iclatio contestatur quod fuit per in- technical juriam sanguis fusus, et illud verisimilius sonat in pollution, „ hence the laCtO. Prior takes Counsel's opinion. CANTUARIENSES. 157 624. — De hiis qu^ providenda sunt ad RECONCILIA- ^gg® TIONEM ECCLESIvE ET CIMITERII. L. 68 a. Memoran- Primo, provideatur tentorium ad occidentalem par- ^pp^ratus*^ tern ecclesicB in ciraiterio, in quo episcopus et miuistri which sui se debent revestire. Postea, in ecclesia prope ^"^re!° magnum ostium occidentale provideantur aqua, sal, pared . ^ , . . .1 i t-T i. against the cineres, et vinum, m vasibus competent! bus, et una formula et quatuor ladel(i) parvi, cum ysopo ; et in comes to , . , . , . ...... . , . reconcile Singulis angulis ecclegife et cimitern ponantur et im- tjjg pleantur magna vasa aqua. Item, provideantur por- Church- tatores ad portandum aquam ad manus episcopi, quia turn debet circuire interius ecclesiam cum aqua, turn cimiterium, et totiens cum thurribulo et iucenso. 4 July 625, — ^LlTTERA CAUTIONARIA DOMINO H. ROFFENSI l^^''- EpISCOPO CONCESSA. ^- (t. Et memorandora quod die Martis in ebdomada Pentecostes, anno Domini millesimo ccc""'xxxvij""', Ecclesia Cantnariensis fnit polluta propter sanguinis effusion em violentam ; qua dc causa Dominus H. Roffensis Episcopus, ad rogatum Domini R. Prioris Ecclesia} Cautuariensis pr^dictte, accessit ad candem ecclesiam, quam, virtute commissionis Domini J. Cantuarien- sis Avchiepiscopi, reconciliavit, videlicet, iiij'" die Julii anno supradicto ; et, ne prfedictus accessus posset alias dici prceju- dicialis Ecclesia3 Roffensi, dc consensu prmdicti Domini R. Prioris et Capituli fuerunt eidem Episcopo litteraa coucessa), quarum tenor talis est : 626. — Quorum interest noverint universi, quod cum The Bis- Ecclesia Christi Cantuariensis fuif?set sano^uinis effusione ° Rochester, polluta, et per reverendum patrem Dominum J. Dei before he gratia Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum, totius Ano-lla? '^'^"'^'^'^ ° 1 ' s to reconcile Primatem, et Apostolicse Sedis legatum, commissio facta the church- fuisset, ut, a quocunque episcopo catholico executionem quii^e'd'to" sui officii optinente, reconciliari posset ecclesia supra- declare dicta ; nos Ricardus Prior ejusdem ecclesiam venerabili employ! patri Domino Hamoni Dei gratia Roffensi Episcopo "i^ut on 158 LITERJE this occa- supplicavimus veverenter, ut, ad reconciliandum ipsam sion does ecclesiam, ad eandem accedere dimaretur : qui. ob reve- not give ... . ' 1 - him a rentiam Sanctissimaj Trinitatis et aftectionem quam gerit hftl'ipose ^'S'^ Beatum Thoraam maiyrem gloriosum, ad nostras unasked in preces exposuit se labori, et ecclesiam reconciliavit of'the^"^^ prfedictam : quod profitemur et recognoscimus esse Monastery; factum, 11011 ad aliqueiu iiovam consuetudineiii, in entitte'the'^ ipsius aut EofFensis Ecclesise praejudicium, inducendara, Chapter to vel introductionem cujuslibet novi juris, seu lesionem demand n , . . i • his future quamcunque, sed ut omnia tam Cantuariensem quam services as Roflfensem Ecclesias concernentia ipsis integra perma- ^ ' neant sicut prius, noii mutata penitus per hoc factum. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum fecimus hiis apponi. Et nos Capitulum dietpe Cantuariensis Ecclesite, dictas professionem et recognitionem ratas habentes, eas in singulis suis articulis approbamus. In quorum testimonium, una cum sigillo dicti Domini Prioris, ap- poni fecimus praesentibus nostrum commune sigillum. Data in Capitulo nostro v^o die mensis Julii anno Domini millesimo cccmoxxxvijo. 4 July (1337). L. 68 a. The Prior asks the Arch- hishop to prevent the inha- bitants of Kent from being sent out of the county as soldiers, G27.— LiTTERA SUPPLICATOEIA UT HOMINES NON EXI- RENT DE KANCIA PROPTER GUERRAJ^I HABITAM INTER Reges Anglic et FRANCiiE. Littera misea Domino J. Archiepiscopo, de consilio et con- sensu Dominorum Episcopi EofFensis, et Abbatis Sancti Angns- tini Cantuariensis, necnon aliorum magnatuni comitatns Kancise, pro defensionc ejusdem et resistentia contra inimicos nostros. Pater et Domine reverende, cum proprer hostium congregatum navigium quod jam a diu mare lustravit et qute potuit mala fecit in partibus maritimis Kancia?, irreparabilia pericula verisimiliter formidentur ; suppli- cant paternitati vestrse vestri devoti viri provincial supradictfB, et ego compellor cum aliis supplieare, qua- tinus, juxta modum antiquum, possint homines de partibus illis in provincia remanerc, ad ecclesite con- CANTUARIENSES. 159 f-i 1 , • 1 1 • seeing servafcioncm et regni. Solet enim hoc non solum eis permitti, scd, in eomm adiutorium ad reipubliciB firmi- posed as ^ ' ' • TT 1 J. *° tatem, gens aliarum partium aggregari. Unde, pater, invasion, habere difrnemini provinciam illam cordi, cuius est ^^'^y , o I . . nion? likely vestra defensio specialis. Vestrte, si placeat, paterni- to be tati denuntio quod, secundum vira ct efFectum littera- J^Q^^g'^jj^'^ rum vestrarum, est per Rofiensem Episcopum recon- elsewhere cihatio ecclesi^ vestrae facta, Longsevos cum prosperis ^^Yf„[,"°"" custodiat Dominus dies vestros. Scriptum Cantuarire of the iiijto die Julii. Suus humilis yardls" R. Prior Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis. again noticed. G28. — ACQUIETANCIA FACTA DE BONIS LEGATIS VEL LIBERATIS EcCLESM: ChRISTI. ^^337^ Noverint universi nos Ricardum Dei patientia L. 180^. Pi'iorem, etc. \if Idus Julii anno Domini Mcccxxxvijo, The recipisse xl. solidos sterlingorum de Magistro Thoma acknow- Beek, canonico de Lyncoln, frati'c germano, et execu- ' . . receipt of tore testamenti Domini Johannia de Bcek, militis, forty shil- nuper defuncti, per manus Magistri Walteri de Stauren Igg^^'y^ ejusdem Ecclesise Lyncolniensis Thesaurarii, quos qui- from Sir dem xl. solidos idem Dominus Johannes Beek in ^^".""f ^ Beek to ultima voluntate sua ad feretrum Beati Thonife Mar- the Shrine tiris disposuit offerendos. De quibus xl. solidis dictos Q^^h^J^^s Magistros, etc. quietamus per prsesentes. In cujus, etc. Datum Cantuarise die et anno supradictis. 629. — Littera missa domino Archiepiscopo per s.iniy ("133"') Magistrum R. de Haute. ^ L. G8a. Quicquid obedientise potuerit et honoris. Pater re- The Rector verende memoriter retinetis, qualiter vestri Prior et ha^'^of Capitulum ecclesiae vestrte Cantuariensis et ego, jam whose .. . !•• I ^• L- • • ^• •, Church the diu est, submismius nos vestrje ordmationi, simpliciter Monastery ac etiam absolute, quo ad negotium concernens eccle- siam meam de Westerh am, prout scitis. Verum, quia reminds 160 LITERiE w^h^p*^^ a tempore submissionis praeclictae magnum tempus est that he elapsum, nec de ordinatione vestra quicquam apparet, long be- timent partes prsedictae dictum neffotium a vestrse pa- rore under- ..... took to ternitatis raemoria abiisse. Quocirca cum instet tem- terms orT messium placeat vobis dictum ■which the negotium ad memoriam revocare, et illud feliciter ex- rertor pedire. In Christo valeat vestra paternitas reverenda. might with- Scriptum Cantuarise viij^o die Julii. fhelionas- Suus humilis et devotus clerieus terysuc- Ricardus de Haute, ceedhim. 24 July 630. — Litters iNHiBiTORiiE Domini J. Archiepiscopi MisSiE Domino R. Priori, ne ipse admittat L. G8 a. ALIQUEM AD HABITUM MONACHALEM ABSQUE LICENTIA DICTI DOMINI ARCHIEPISCOPI. The Prior, Johannes permissione divina Cantuariensis Archiepi- informed scopus, totius Anglise Primas, et Apostolicae Sedis le- the Arch- cratus, dilecto in Christo filio Priori occlesise nostrse bishop that % . . . i t • he has Cantuariensis, salutem, gratiam, et benedictionem. admitted a L^tteras vestras recepimus, inter cetera continentes novice to z-^i • make his quod Magistrum Edmundum de Chimbeham, per vos profession confratres vestros admissum ad ordinem regularem as a monk ... . in Christ in nostra Cantuariensi ecclesia . . . ., nobis mittere reproved curavistis, ut se nostro conspectui prsesentaret. Verum by the quia nostroriun prtedecessorum et nostris temporibus feho'p, optentum, prout in registris eorum et nostris vidi- who tells mus contineri, quod nullum ad ordinem antedictum by ancient admittere debeatis, nec etiani solebatis, nisi a nostris custom, praedecessoribus temporibus eorum, et a nobis nos- before they tro tempoi'e, petita licentia et optenta, non est nostrae can take intentionis quod dicta vestra admissio subsistere de- the vows ^ . . . ,. . must be beat, contra morem antiquum in prsejudicium nostrum personally f^gta,. Uude, nobis inhibemus ne in hac parte ali- presented . . . ,. . to the quid ulterius in nostri pi aejudicium attemptetis, vol fa-ciatis aliqualiter attemptari. Ad cetera in litteris vestris coritenta nobis respondebimus cum plenius de- CANTUARIENSES. 161 liberavimus super eis. Et quid super hiis duxeritis bishop for faciendum, nobis, infra octo dies a tempore receptionis being, prsesentium, reseribatis per litteras vestras patentes harum seriem continentes. Datum apud Lamlmtht ix"" Kalendas Augusti, anno Domini M>noccc™°xxxvijo, et nostras translationis quarto. 631. — CeRTIFICATORIUM super hiis LITTERIS. 4 Aug. 1337. Venerabili in Christo patri ac domino suo reverendo, L. G8 a. Domino J. Dei gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, totius The Prior Anglite Primati, et Apostolicae Sedis Legato, suus processes humilis et devotus Ricardus Prior Ecclesiae Chris ti submission Cantuariensis, obedientiam tam debitam quam devotam, Areh- cum omni reverentia et honore. Litteras paternitatis bishop in . 1 . 1 T A , • , the matter vestrae reverendse recepi secundo die Augusti tenorem ^jjg qui sequitur continentes : Joannes 2^^'>^'>'''>'issione, etc. ut admission supra. Inspectis, pater I'everende, hiis litteris vestris per me, neenon diligentius intellectis, vobis humiliter intimo per haec scripta, quod nichil in vestri prtejudi- cium attemptabo, vel faciam aliqualiter atteinptari, nee feci temporibus retroactis. Et hoc vobis, si placet, manifestius apparebit per litteras vestri Capituli vobis missas. Valeat in Christo vestra paternitas reverenda. Data Cantuarise iiijto die mensis Augusti, anno Domini supradicto. 632. — LiTTERA PER PrIOREM ET CAPITULUM DIRECTA 4 Aug. eidem Domino Archiepiscopo pro negotio SUPRADICTO. L. 68 a Venerabili in Christo patri, etc. devoti filii R. The Trior Prior et Capitulum, etc. Pater et doinine reverende, te'r'com-^' nos dilectum nobis in Christo Magistrum Ed- bined assert mundum de Chymbeham et Willelmum de Hethe toTdmft ad ordinem et habituni nostrum nuper admisimus, :V'^ '"-'"ks ' ' they please, U .52122. L 162 LITERS hut they et plures admittere iutendimus in auginentum cul- t*hat^these ^^^^ divini. Et quia super hujusmodi admissione should aliquid audivistis, prout intellexiuius, quod est contra- comnwde '^'^^'^^ veritati, vobis scribimus, unanimiter et veraciter fieri potu- affirmantes quod, de aatiqua consuetudine nobis ^ liac- firstpre- ^^nus observata, ad Priorem et Capitulum ecclesitTii sented to vestrae supradictcB pertinet clei'icos ydoneos ad habitum bishopl'^' ®^ ordinum regularem in eadein Ecclesia Cantuariensi which is all admittere, quandocumque viderint expedire; et, ut sic bishop " faciant, a Domino Archiepiscopo qui pro tempore requires, fuerit licentiam petere non tenentur. Advertere etiam dignetur vestra paternitas reverenda, quod ad vos pertinet, et ad quern] ibet Archiepiscopum qui pro tem- pore fuerit, clericos ut praedicitur admissos, antequaui habitum recipiant regularem, quando commode fieri potuerit, intueri, et ipsos sine difficultate quacuuque benignis afFectibus acceptare, et aeceptationem vestram in hac parte Priori qui pro tempore fuerit, per verba seu litteras, intimare. H?ec in nostris registris antiquis totaliter continentur. Adhuc pater reverende, mittimus ad vos dilectum confratrem nostrum Jacobum de Oxene, prsesentium portitorem, cui credere velitis super hiis quae vobis ex parte nostra dixerit seu vos rogaverit ista vice. Vestra paternitas reverenda valeat in Christo, qui multiplicet dies vestros. Scrip- turn in Capitulo nostro iiij*" die mensis Augusti. 20 Sept. 633. — LiTTEKA DIKECTA DOMINO J. AkCHIEPISCOPO PER Prioeem et Capitulum super pr.s;sentatione l. 68 b. personarum receptarum per eosdem ad nos- trum ordinem. In conse- Venerabili in Christo patri, etc. Pater et domine ^heunder reverende, quia ad Dominum Archiepiscopum Can- standing tuariensem qui pro tempore fuerit jiertinet videre ' vos, MS. OANTUARIENSES. 163 personas ad nostrum ordinem, per nos in eadem eeclo- mentioned sia vestra, admissas, antequam habitibus regularibus letteAhe induautiir, idcirco nos, per dilcctum confratrem nos- Chapter trum Thomam de Bourne, priesentamus vobis Magistros thrArch" Edmundum de Chymbeham, et Johannera Body, Domi- ^'^l^op f""^ persons num Thomam de Bockyng Capellanum, et Willelmum already de Heth, ad nostrum ordinem, ut priedicitur, receptos, P^fessed ' . . . -"^ . as monks. ut eosdem, prout ad vos pertinere dinoscitur, videatis. In Christo valeat, etc. Scriptum in Capitulo nostro xxnio clie Septembris, anno Domini ii'>ccG^°xxxviJo.' 634. — LiTTERA DIRECTA EIDEM PER PrIOREM SUPER 24 Sept. HUJUSMODI PR.ESENTATIONE. (1337). L. 68 h. Obedientiam, etc. Pater et domine reverende, dilec- rj^j^^ tus frater mens Thomas de Bourne, ex parte vestri bishop has Capituli et mei, nuper vobis prjesentavit iiij"'^ personas pfjin'^gd'of " ad nostrum ordinem, in ecclesia vestra Cantuariensi, an infor- per nos admissos, ut easdem videretis juxta morem ; J^g m^anner sad quia prjedictus Frater Thomas super hujusmodi in which pi"0esentatione facienda vobis litteras vestri Capituli monks nullatenus ostendebat, prtedicta prsesentatio, ut audivi, ^^""^^j^' vobis aliqualiter displicebat. Pro hac materia adver- him, and tere velitis, si placet, quod fratres mei seniores michi '■ sends a dicunt expresse, quod ad nostrum ordmem per nos messenger recepti, de quibus idem vestrum Capitulum alias serio- f°y^^Y^^ sius vobis scripsit. Domino Archiepiscopo qui pro letters of tempore fuerit, ut eosdem receptos videat, debent [^o^„^^"gaie(j preesentari per unum de confratribus vestri Capituli ; with the et hoc fieri consuevit sine litteris quibuscunque. Ve- 8°™™°"}, rumptamen, ut vestrum praefatum Capitulum et ego as the vobis displicere minime videamur, mittimus vobis ^g^op litteras sigillo nostro communi signatas, quas a prte- demanded. dicto fratre nostro Thoma de Bourne nuper exegistis, et eidem Fratri Thoaiai praecepistis ut per unum de nostris vobis in brevi hujusmodi littera) mitterentur. L 2 164 LITERS In Christo valeat mens pater. Scriptiim Cantuarife xxiiijt" die Septembris. 2, Sept. 635, — LiTTERA DIRECTA EPISCOPO RoFFENSI PRO PER- (1337). sona ydonea priesentanda ad vicariam de ^- ^® Westerham. The Bishop Reverentiam et honorem. Pater reverende, de ves- teTis asked ^^ '^^ gratuitis beneficiis nobis et nostrte ecclesise per to nomi- vos frequenter irapensis vobis raultiplices gratiarum vkaAo referimus actiones, vestrpe reverendae paternitati corditer the Church supplicantes, quatinus illam personam ydoneam, de qua ham (ap- ' P^'^ vicaria ecclesige nostroB de Westerham per unum pr'^riated de vestris, prout scitis, tetigistis frati'i nostro Thomae Church), tie Bourne, nobis quamoitius potueritis mittere veliti?, This nomi- placet ; advertere volentes, quod per huiusmodi nation he . \ \- + does not missionem vos et nos Deo placebimus, ut speramus, claim as a necnon parochianis ecclesife de Westerham supradictfe; right, but . , . . . , , . the Chap- quia nobis auquem non mittetis pro ejusdem ecclesiaj th'U ho*^'"" ^'icaria nisi talem qui Deo pro eodem beneficio, se- has a good cuiidum vestram conscienciam, est acceptns. In Christo candidate, y.^|gr^^ salus vestni. Remittere dis^neniini super praj- nre wiUing _ _ . to aceept missis voluntatem vestram prsesentium per latoreiii. Scriptum Cantuaripe xxvjo die Septembris, sub sigillo nostro privato. De eadem vicaria memorandum : quod Johannes Charman de "Westerham nos rogavit pro capellano suo, nomine Leghat, ut nos eundem praesentaremus ad vicariam ecclesiee nostra? de Westerham ; et respondimus sic roganti, quod Dominus Roffensis Episcopus, cui multum tenemur, nos prius rogavit pro eadem vicaria, ut nos ad eandem unum ydoneum de suis prffisentaremus ; et nisi eidem opiscopo annueremus iu hac parte nos tamquam ingratum ' posset rationabiliter reputare. Et idcirco prasdictum J. Charman rogavimus litteratorie, quod nos haberet hac vice excusatos, super suis precibus, pro dicta vicaria nobis per eum infusis, nullatenua, videlicet, exauditis. ' ingratum, s^c. Priorcm. CANTUAIUENSES. 165 636. — LiTTEKA MIISSA FrATRI ThOM^ D£ BoURNE PRO 24 Sept. VICARIA DE WeSTERHAM. L. 69i!d^-nt -^^^^^ Martini, inodo assumeudi Priorem ad regimen monastery ejusdem Monasterii, prjeficiendi Suppriorem, recipiendi Martin of ^0^'^^^°-'' etiam professionem monachoram ejusdem Dover, the Monasterii, necnon etiam super jure correctionis in Chapter of (;ji(>^Qg monaclios Beati Martini per Priorem Ecclesit^ Canter- _ _ ^ _ bury Christi Cantuariensis exercendte, multiplex orta fueiit "o abide^by ^^^^.teria questionis ; nos Ricardus Prior dictte Cantua- the award riensis EcclesiEG et ejusdem Ecclesice Capitulum, con- .^ch-^ siderantes reverend! patris nostri et domini Domini bishop. Johanuis Dei gratia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi pro- videnciam circumspectam, et aft'ectionem qua suLditos suos gerit in visceribus caritati.s, nos ejusdem patris ordinacioni et dittinicioni, quo ad omnia supradicta et circumstancias eorundem, submittimus, jure Ecclesiie nostras salvo ; supplicantes humiliter ipsi patri, ut, ad ipsius Domini nostri Jhesu Christi honorem, sic super praimissis ordinare dignetur, quod sponsae suae justicia conservetur. Promittimus autem nos Ricardus Prior et Capitulum prasdicti, quod quicquid dictus pater ordinaverit in praemissis ratum servabimus atque tirmum. In cujus rei, etc. Data in Capitulo nostro, vicesimo secundo die mensis Novembris, anno Domini MOCCC° tricesimo septimo. Pro ista littera proximo praescripta uichil fecit Dominiis J. Arcliiepiscopus, unde totaliter vacavit et vacat.' Jan. 1338. 642. L. 197 «... . . The Abbot Universis, etc. quod nos Johannes permissione divina of Favers- Abbas Monasterii de Faversham, per venei-abdem colk'ctor of patrem Johannem Dei gratia Cantuariensem Archiepi- a clerical scopum, etc. decima" triennalis omcium bonorum et having ex- beneficioium ecclesiasticorum in civitate et dioecesi ' This note occurs at the fcot cf the letter in the Eegister D 4, but not iu A 147. cantuahienses. 173 Cantuariensibus, ac deeanatibus exempti.s immediata'; commum- . . . 1 .,. . T • • • cated all junsdictioni.s venei'abius patris praedicti, existentiuin, who have per prselatos et clerum Cantuariensis provinci?e Domino "j^'^j^^^jj'^ Regi concessce, collector deputatus ; quascumque sen- stalments tentias excoinmunicationis, suspensionis, vel interdict!, per nos nuper provide latas contra non solventes die- absolves tarn deciraam, vel partem ejusdeni, certis terminis ^g^^^'^'*'^' assignatis, quatenus Dominos Priorem et Conventum Christ Ecclesife Chi-isti Cantuariensis et Ecclesiam ipsam fJoJJ[°he concernunt, relaxamiis ex causa, et penitus revocamus. senter.ce, In cujus rei, etc. Datum apud laversham die Martis jm^ng proximo post festum Conversionis Sancti Pauli anno ^^^^ '"' . . eluded in Domini MOCCCOXXXVIJO. the general terms of the fulmi- nation. G43. — LiTTERA PrIORIS RoFFENSIS super SENTENTIA 12 Feb. LATA IX NOX SOLVENTES DECIMAM BIENNALEM DoMixo Regi concessam. l. i99 a. Reverentias et honores. Quo ad procurationes Do- The Prior minorum Cardinalium solvendas, nullus adhuc poenam Koches- . . . '■ ter, collec- alicujus censurfe nicumt, nec incurret infra istos tor of octo dies. Et licet nos illaui sententiam revocare- 1'?^** f King s mus jam latam, hujusmodi revocatio modicum valeret, tenth and pro eo quod Cardinales monuerunt, et quodam- nar/p"o!'' modo sententias aggravarunt. Scire etiam velitis ves- curations, tra dominatio reverenda, quod in hiis quje vestro re-assure possent statui derogare vos libentissime prajmunirem. him. f'e Et iterate vestrae paternitati significo, quod quidam canter- de vestris nuper jactabat, quoad decimam biennalem hury> i» Domino nostro Regi concessam pro hiis quse habetis cagc,°but'^^ in jurisdictionibus exemptis nichil solvistis, et, salvo judicio saniori, sic jactans dixit minus discrete, quia latter, non est dubium quin in non solventes sint latse sen- tentifie satis graves. Vestram dominationem reveren- dam diu conservet Dominus Jhesus Cliristus. Scriptum 174 LITERiE apud Roffam die Jovis proximo post festum Sanctse ScolasticfB. Hanc litteram recepit Prior Ecclesite Christi Cantuarleiipis die Veneris proximo ante festum Sancti Valentini, anno Domini 3i"ccc"vij., circiter horam primam ejusdem diei. Prior Cautna- riensis scripsit Priori Roffensi pro contentis in littera prosima notata, et respondit Prior Eoffensis Priori Cantuariensi in hac forma. 27 Dec. G44. — Littera missa Priori per Dominum Archi- (1337). EPISCOPUM PRO PROCURATIOXE DOMDfORUM L. 70 a. CaRDINALIUM. The Arch- Amlce carissime, Domini Cardinales, nunc in Anglia vi'seiTthe^' existentes, habent potestatem a Domino nostro Papa Prior to ita amplam, procurationem recipiendi pro mora eorum the Con- Anglia, sicut alii Cardinales antea receperunt. vcntual Verum, quia nescimus quid in casu hujusmodi solvere in order to solebatis, scrutemini registra vestra, et nobis distincte ascertain mittatis summas maiores et minores, et pro quanto ^vhat sums /-i t i- • i • • ■were used tempore, pro Cardmalium procuratione somstis tera- from thT^ poribus retroactis ; ut cum ipsa procuratio fuerit Monastery exigenda, sicut exigetur in brevi, certum et verum, Nuntii"*^ ad vestram et nostram onerationem, babeamus respon- sum. Super hiis nos autem celeriter certificare curetis. Semper in Domino valeatis. Scriptum apud Otteford sub nostro sigillo privato, xxvijo die Decembris. 4 Jan. 64-5. — Littera respon'salis litters proxime pr^e- script.e super procuratione diversorum L. 70 a. CaRDINALIL^I IN AXGLIA MISSORUM. The Prior Obadientiam, reverentiam, et honorem. Pater re- on enquiry ygpende, nuper recepi litteras vestras, et ratione mandati finds tnat ^ . . . , , . • i . -t. Cardinal vestri contcnti m eisdem vobis, si placet, rescribo: ^^ceived"^ quod tempore preedecessorum meorum, Priorum Ecclesire two pence vestrae Cantuariensis, videlicet, Thomse et Henrici, mark^of Domiiii Cardinales Albanensis et Penestrinus, in CANTTTARIENSES. 175 Angliam per Dominum Papam missi, receperunt, pro ecclesia- MARICHIRCH IN LONDONIA. ^- '0 ^• Reverentiam cum honore. Pater reverende, recepi- The Prior mus litteras vestras xxviii^o die Januarii apud Can- ''^ ''^''•ged . ^^ to dechne tuariam, quibus per nos intellectis, vobis, si placet, to prefer remittimus per hsec scripta, quod nos una cum Con- tory'of ventu nostro habemus multos provisores a Domino Aidermari- Papa qui nunc est nobis transmissos, quorum bulks ^^^lerk et processus acceptavimus bono modo; et eisdem lecom- 176 mended by provisoribus non est adhuc per nos et nostnim Con- Stratford ventum, juxta exigentiam suarum bullarum, provisum- cfChiches- Et quia in suis processibus continetur, sub poena ex- ha^ng communicationis necnon aliarum multiplicium cen- many papal surarum, ne infra mensem a tempore vacationis s'till un-"^ beneficii inchoantis aliquem presentemus, non possu- satisfied. mus, ut vellemus, ilium pro quo nobis misistis vesti-as litteras prsesentare, %"idelicet, ista vice. Propter quod, si placet, nos, votis vestris, nobis per bujusmodi litteras vestras expressis, annuere non valentes, habere digne- mini excusatos. In Christo Jesu valeat salus vestra. Scripta Cantuari?e xxix'io die Januarii sub nostro sigillo privato. 8 Feb. (1338). L. 70 6. The Prior intercedes with the Arch- bishop for the men of Romney, ■whose town has been put under in- terdict. 647. — LiTTERA MissA DoMixo J. Archiepiscopo PRO RELAXATIONE IN'TERDICTI FACIEXDA VIRIS DE ROMEXAL. Obedientiara, etc. Pater et Domine reverende, me- moriter retinetis qualiter ecclesife villa? vestne de Romenal, ex culpa minime vos latente, sunt suppositfe interdicto. Et quia, prout scitis, Deus humilibus dat gi-atife incrementum, quidam boni viri villae vestrje prjedictse, immunes a dicta culpa ut dicunt, hujusmodi interdictum humiliter servaverunt, ut vobis in hac parte displicei'e nuliatenus viderentur ; propter quod patemitati vestrae supplico reverenter, quatinus si prae- dicti viri ratione interdict! ad vos accesserint me- morati, cum humilitatis bono spii'itu et devoto, volentes a vobis gratiam postulare, velitis eisdem, prout value- ritis, bono modo sinum misericordi?e aperii-e. Spero enim firniiter quod de cetero ibidem similia, quod absit, perpetrare volentibus totis viribus obA*iabunt. Yaleat meus pater in Christo, qui est humilibus specialiter gratiosus. Scripta Cantuaria? viij-^o die Februarii.^ ' Thi> date appear* to be wrongly I shows, the interdict was not pro- written, for. as the following letter | nounced until Feb. 19. CANTUARIENSES. 177 648. — LrxTERA missa Domino Priori per Magistrum Jan. N. DK Tarenta. L. 70 a. Obsequium quod poterit tam remotus. Lsetatus sum a legal ad- in hiis qute .dicta .sunt mihi, quia jam est adjutorium ^^^^"^^"^ '^"^ simile vobis factum ; ille videlicet qui transactis tern- seems to poribus vos dilexit, et vos iam, ut spero, in caritate, per J^?^® 1 _ ' J > f ' .. him advice, Dei gratiam, supportabit, et sic, ut spero, alii vos in studi- unanimiter subsequentur, ut sit consonantia vobis ^^^^'^ dulcis ; unde multipliciter obligamur ad referendum words, re- Deo gratiarum sedulas actiones, qui, sicut credo, vos go'^^^*". visitavit ex alto, ut apud vos pateat via pacis. Ad cord in the quod solidius observandum oportet motus voluntarios cohibere, et communicatis consiliis adhaerere. Circa quod Thomse martyris gloriosi dignemini recordari, qui ad discerneiidum propria facta sua insufficientes pro- prios oculos indicavit, et propter hoc adhibuit alienos, adjiciens quod " circumspectiu.s quatuor oculi vident quam duo." Michi non rescripsit vestra, si dicere au- deam, gravis manus, ubi, sicut spero, benevolentia non defecit. Paratus sum pro viribus si quid possim. Sit Dominus vobis consiliarius et protector. Scriptum Lyncolnise die Dominica post festum Epiphanise. Suus humilis N. de Tbarenta. 049. — LiTTERA RESPONSALIS ad LITTERAM MaGISTRI N. so Jan. DE Tarenta. <^^^•■^^^• L. 70 b. Salutem in Domino qui est auctor, ut credimus, The Poor's verse paeis, et nos, prout nobis scribere voluistis, ^^^^^ ^.^ misericorditer visitavit, in tantum quod signanter ceding dicere pos.sumus cum propheta — utinam devote : Bene- dictus Dominus qui mirijicavit misericordiam suam Geu. ly, mihi. Et quo ad motus voluntarios reprimendos, nee- non alia quaj scripsistis, juxta vestrum consilium nos, ut proponimus, per Dei adjutorium, faciemus. Et advertere velit vestra amicitia dilecta, ({uod in U 52122. M 178 LTTER* instanti tempore habemus spem firmam, qviod inter nos et frati-es bona; pacis et quietis unitas inchoata con- tinuabit feliciter, Deo dante. Aliter vero, quod absit, Ps. 44, 73. dicere poterimus cum propheta : facti sumus oppro- brium vicinis nostris, suhsannatio et illusio Mis qui in circuits nostro sunt. Valete in Christo, qui vos cus- todiat in salute prospera et felici. Et vos salutat noster Supprior R. Hathbrand, qui, ut suspicamur Yos scire, nostri oneris est oceasio aliqualis, propter quod Deus, ut voluit, disponebat ut ipse in nostro onere nos supportet. Seripta Cantuarise, penultimo die Januarii, sub nostro sigillo private. L. 71 a. ^133?" 650.— COPIA LITTERS DOMINI ReGIS PRO MOLENDINO NOSTRO DE BORLE IN STATU DEBITO SUSTI- NENDO. The Con- BurV^ Edward par la grace de Dieu Roi Dengleterre, Sei- St. Ed- gneur Dirlande, et Dues Daquitaine, as nos chers en have*^ ^ Dieu Abbe et Covent de Saint Edmond, saluz, Parceo diverted a qg nous avoms entenduz qe vous avez fait faire bes- co'urse, tourner le droiterel cours de leawe ql va avi Molyn cai^singrtie (jg Borle, qest as noz chers en Dieu Priour et Capitre Chapter of de la Eglise de la Sainte Trinite de Canterbirs, par Church cause de un molyn quel vous biez faire de novel juxte atBorley le dit molyn de Borle, en prejudice et grant dam- stilf^°By Priour et Capitre, et de lour eglise this writ of avantditz ; vous mandoms qe, cessantes totes excusa- theKing^ cions et mals engyns, facez faire hastive redreseement requires as ditz Priour et Capitre des pertes et damages queux atoMfor ount soeffert en celle parti e ; et surseir deshormeis their tres- (Jg tiele chose comencer et faire, en prejudice de nous, et les ditz Priour et Capitre, ou de lour eglise ; issint qils neyent mestier de soi pleindre autrefoiz de vous. Et ce ne lessez en nulle manere. Donez souz nostre prive seal a Westmostier le xiij. jour de Feverer Ian de nostre regne duzisme. CANTUARIENSES. 179 G51.— CopiA LITTERS Domini J. Archiepiscopi de is Feb. EADEM MATERIA PROXIMA PR^SCRIPTA. (1338). L. 71 a. Carissime, cum non solum quod malum esse dinoR- An appeal citur sed etiam omne quod speciem habet mali sit a T . . . , vent of personis, maxime religiosis, evitandum ; vosque molen- Bury made dinum quoddam apud Borle nitamini, ut accepimus, de '^^^^^ novo construere, ac ea occasione cursum aquae cujusdam bishop on molendini aquatici quod dilecti filii Prior et Capitulum tiic same _ . 1 subject as nostrse Cantuariensis Ecclesice de Domino nostro Rege the prece- Angliae illustri tenent subvertere, in juris injuriani, ac ^"p^-^y*^ ipsius Domini Regis dictorumque Prioris et Capituli seal, in prsejudicium mauifestum ; rogamus ut quicquid per^g^fy^^g. vos in hac parte factum est sic studeatis cautius revo- sembling 1 i , . . , . , those of care, quod an vestrse religionis opprobrium non redun- ^j^g det, nec cuiquam afferat nocumentum : scituri quod that this dictis Priori et Capitulo in sua justitia deesse nolumus senfe aTa^ nec valemus. In Christo semper valeatis. Scriptum translation apud Lamuth sub nostro privato sigillo, quintodecimo latter, die Februarii. 652. — LiTTERA Domini J. Archiepiscopi ad dendn- 19 Feb. 1338 TIANDUM EXCOMMUNICATOS ESSE QUOSDAM homines de RoMENAL ET AD SUPPONENDUM ^- ^■ ECCLESIASTICO INTERDICTO ECCLESIAS EJUSDEM VILL^. Johannes permissione divina Cantuariensis Archiepi- Some of scopus, totius Anglise Primas, et Apostolicge Sedis Romney"^ Legatus, dilectis filiis Priori Ecclesije nostrie Cantua- l>ave ill riensis, et Commissario nostro Cantuai'iensi Generali, priest for salutem, gratiam, et benedictionem. Horrendi sceleris which flagitium notorium nostris auribus patefecit, qualiter Arch- eentes villse nostras de Romene, nostras dioecesis, ec- ^'shop has • • , . excom- clesiaeque nostrae Cantuariensis tenentes, quae utique, municated tanquam filii Ecclesiae, ejus jura et clerum prae ceteris *^Q^ed their exteris tueri deberent, sed, ut Sathanje satellites in churches, M 2 180 LITERS entrusting profundutQ maloruin productae, in contrarium labo- tD6 GXGCU"* tion of the rantes, et clericali privilegio minime deferentes, quem- Prior'oT *° Dominum Willelmutn de Daytone, presbyterura Christ Beatae Maria; Virginis dictaj villie et in possessione and'the pi'esbyteratus notorie existentem, in festo Divi Thomse Commis- Martyris gloriosi, patroni nostri, proximo jam elapso, raPoniiT' dicta villa, ex odii fomite, contra ipsius voluntatem diocese. ceperunt, et eum, in opprobrium totius ordinis cleri- calis, Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae contemptum, et divini nominis ofFensam, per medium dictss villse cum can- tilenis et tripudiis inhonestis, majore parte populi dictae villae sequente et hujusmodi facinus approbante, per manus et brachia ignominiose traxerunt, ac per plateas et vicos, ut tieret spectaculum intueri volenti- bus, irreverenter duxerunt, lutumque in posteriora sua nudata viliter projecerunt, colaphis, in modum pas- sionis Ohristi, indesinenter caedentes, et conspuentes in eum, ac vulnera gravia et tormenta aliaque enormia terribilia inferentes eidem. Hiisque maleticiis non con- tent], eundem presbyterum extra dictam villam crude- liter occiderunt, et ipsius corpus inhumaniter, ne reperiri posset, in locum abditum projecerunt, ut sic careret ecclesiastica sepultura ; ceteris de communitate ipsius villae de Romene pro majori parte scientibus, conniventi- bus, et tolerantibus haec praemissa ; quos etiam, qui non ut ferirent sed ut hujusmodi malefactoribus opem ferrent si forte impedirentur per violentiam aliorum, paulo mi- nori pcena debent multari. In canone cam sit scrip- tum : Qui hominem a morte liberare potuit et non liberaverit occidit eundem : constat eos de communitate praidicta ab homicidii reatu hujusmodi immunes non esse, qui dictis occisoribus contra alios opem praes- tare venerunt ; nec carent scrupulo societatis oc- cultae qui desinebant dicto manifesto facinori obviare. Cumque malefactores prtedicti, cum eorum fautoribus et coraplicibiis consilium praebentibus auxilium vel favorem, occasione praemissorum fuerunt et sunt i CANTUARIENSES. 181 excommunicationis majoiis sententia, a Sanctis Pa- tribus promulgata, ipso facto dampnabiliter invo- luti, in suarura grave periculum animarum, et alio- rum pemieiosum exemplum ; nolentes tarn detestabile facinus remanere impunitum, vobis et cuilibet ves- trum committimus et mandamus, in virtute obedi- entiae firmiter injungentes, quatinus omnes et sin- gulos hujusmodi detestabilis maleficii patratores, cum suis complicibus et fautoribus quibuscunque con- silium prsebentibus auxilium vel favorem, primo, vos Prior et Commissarius, in nostra Cantuariensi Ecelesia supradicta, assumptis una vobiscum religiosis, recto- ribus, vicariis, et capellanis omnibus nostrje civitatis Cantuariae, sacris vestibus indutis sacerdotalibus con- decenter, ac deinde vos Commissarius modo consimili in singulis ecclesiis nostras dioecesis supradictae, et potissime in ecclesiis de Romene ubi hujusmodi hor- ribile delictum fuerat perpetratum, ac etiam in omni- bus et singulis ecclesiis Sandwyci, Dovorriae, et de Heth, et aliis locis maritimis, cum major in ipsis ecclesiis fuerit populi multitudo diebus Dominicis et festivis, cruce erecta, pulsatis campanis, et candelis accensis etiam et extinctis, ac aliis solenipnibus con- suetis, sicut praemittitur, excommunicatos fuisse et esse, publice et solempniter in genere nuntietis et faciatis per alios nuntiari ; a denuntiatione hujusmodi non ces- santes donee a nobis aliud super hoc habueritis in mandatis. Verum quia dignum est ut tam nefandi ratione flagitii amplioris ultionis severitas extendatur, vobis et cuilibet vestrum, sicut prius, committimus et mandamus, quatinus villam de Romene supradictam, absque cujus conniventia et degentium in eadem tan- tum facinus tam j^^blice tam notorie factum non potuit perpetrari, et ecclesias parochiales ejusdera, donee satisfactum fuerit in praemissis, ecclesiastico in- terdicto canonice sujoponatis, quas etiam villam et ecclesias ex nunc ecclesiastico supponimus interdicto. 182 LITER Ji: Ad qufe omnia et singula facienda et exercenda vobis, et cuilibet vestrum, vices nostras comniittimus, cum cujuslibet censura? ecclesiasticse potestate. De prse- dictorum autem malefactorum nominibus et cogno- minibus, nostra auctoritate, etiam inquii-atis. Et si quos reos inveneritis in hac parte, ipsos citetis, seu citari peremptorie faciatis quod compareant coram nobis vel Commissario nostro vicesimo die post cita- tionem liujusmodi eis factam, si fuerit juridicus, alio- quin proximo die juridico tunc sequente, ubicunque in nostris civitate dioeeesi seu provincia Cantuarien- sibus tunc fuerimus, super hiis excessibus, quatenus (Mar. 1338.) L. 71 b. The Lord Chief Jus- tice is in- formed that cer- tain per- sons are appointed attornies for Christ Church in the suit concerning the advow- son of St. Martin's of Dover, and the judge's favour in the case is plainly asked for. 653. — LiTTEKA DIRECTA G. LE SCBOPP PRO ATTORNATU EECORDANDO IN NEGOTIO DoVORIiE. A honurables lioms et sages Monsire G. le Scropp, Kichard par la soefFraunce de Dieu Priour de Esglise de Canterbires, salutz, et quant qil sciet et puist de treschers amistez, Tresclier Sire, pur ceo qen le record et proces touchantz la voessoun de la Prioure de Douvre, et qe pendent devant vous par ascuns errours assignez en yceux, nous ne avoms mye attorne pour meismes les errours maintiner et pour le dit record faire reversier et le jugement de sur ceo ad- nuUier, vous enveoms, sil vous plest, eu une bille enclose de deinz cestes, les nounz de ces qe nous vouclioms saufs destre noz attornez de ceo faire ; si vous requeroms molt especialment qe vous plese de les retenire et recordier pur noz attornez en la bu- soigne avantdite, fesantz a nous en y cele busoigne, quiele nous avoms molt tendrement al cuer, la grace et le favour qe vous pourrez bonement, solonc ley et droiture, si qe Dieux et Seint Thomas se puissent appaier, et le droit de nostre Esglise soit maintenuz et sauviez. Entendantz, Sire, adesstes,^ qe si le cas : Ital. adesxo ? CANTUARIENSES. 183 lorum coneernunt ecclesiasticum, ex officio responsuri, et poenain pro demeritis recepturi, juriqvie in omnibus parituri. Et quid feeeritis in prsemissis nos citra lapsum dictomm vigiuti dierum distincte et aperte certificare curetis, per littei'as vestras patentes harum seriem continentes. Data apud Lamhith xiiij. kalendas Februarii anno Domini millesimo ccc™°xxxviJ'"io, et nostree translationis quarto. Et memorandum, quod die Dominico, videlicet, die Conver- sionis Sancti Pauli anni preedicti, uos E. Prior Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis, et Magister Thomas de Cantuaria Commissarius, iucepimus exsequi in Ecclesia Cantuariensi dictum mandatum, juxta exigentiam ejusdem. 653. To the honourable and wise Sir G. le Scroop, Richard by God's permission Prior of the Church of Canterbury, greeting, and all he knows and can of true friendship. Very dear Sieur, whereas in the record and process touching the advowson of the Priory of Dover, which is pending before you in consequence of certain allega- tions of error therein, we have not appointed attornies for supporting those allegations, and for upsetting the record, and annulling the judgment, we send you, if it please you, in a schedule enclosed within these, the names of those whom we vouchsafe to be our attor- nies for these purposes ; and so we require you most strictly, that you will be pleased to retain them, and to enrol them as our attornies in the aforesaid business ; thus doing for us, in a matter which we have most tenderly at heart, the grace and favour that you easily may according to law and right, and so that God and Saint Thomas may be able to be content, and the riglit of our Church may be upheld and preserved. Understanding, now, Sieur, that if the case at any 184 LITERS en ascunt temps puis avenier qe a vous on as les voz nous puissoms plaire ou profitier nous serroms toutz jours prestz de ceo faire, sanz faintisse, solom nostre poair. Le Seint Esprist vous itiaintiegne longement en bone vie. Escript, etc. (Mav. 654. — LiTTEKA MISSA DOMIMO R. DE WyLEBY ^^^^■^ PRO EODEM NEGOTIO. L. 716. Another ^ .sages homs et son amy, si luy plest, fiable Judge of Monsire Richard de Wileby, Richard par la soeffraunce, Bendi'^f * proximc supra usque ad ilia verba : maintenuz addressed et sauviez. Et, Sire, nous pour tant voloms estre in the same , , • «• • i terms as teuuz a VOUS en temps avenier aiiaire chose qe vous the Chief serra plesaunte et profitable. Le Seint Esprist soit garde de vous. Escript, etc. Consimilis littera du-ecta fuit Domino Eoberto Schardeborgh et pro negotio supradicto. 655. — LiTTERA MISSA PER DOMINUM ReGEM PrIORI ET CONVENTUI, SUPER LICENCIA HABENDA UT ■ Magister R. DE Bynteworth, Electus Lon- doniensis, possit consecrari extra ecclesiam Cantuariensem. asksrtie^ Edward par la grace de Dieu Roi Dengleterre, Chapter to Seignur Dirlande, et Ducx Daquitaine, a noz chers en the conse- Dieu Priour et Covent de la Triuite de Caunterbires, cratbn of salutz. Come nostre cher clerk Mestre Richard de of Loudon Bynteworth soit eslit de Loundres confermez, et sur cTTer^'" ceo lui eoms fait restitucioun de ses temporaltees, (de) bury, re- qi service et presence nous ne pooms, ne ne voloms, themTo^ IbS''*^^' ^6 desportier en nule manere, pur taunt qe send a nous sumes en alantz vers les parties de Orewell, ou ^alibfnndeT ^ous passeroms hastivement as parties de dela, ove their com- laide de Dieu ; et voudrioms volentiers qe le dit mon seal. -£,slit puisse estre sacre quiel lieu qil nous plerra de- CANTUARIENSES. 185 time shall arise that we may be able to do a courtesy to you or yours, we shall always be ready to do it, without feigning to the best of our power. The Holy Spirit, &c. 65i. To that prudent person and, if it please him, his trusty friend Sir Richard Wileby, Richard by God's permission, &c. as in the last letter as far as the ivords : upheld and preserved. And, Sir, for this cause we are willing to be bound to you in time to come, that we will do whatever shall be pleasant and pi'ofi table to you. The Holy Spirit, &c. 655. Edward by God's grace King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to our beloved in God the Prior and Convent of the Trinity at Canterbury, greeting. Whereas our dear clerk Master Richard de Bynteworth is elected and confirmed as Bishop of London, and thereupon we have made to him restitution of his temporals, and whose service we cannot and will not spare nor dispense with in any way, inasmuch as we are making our way to the coast of Suffolk, whence we shall speedily pass over sea, with God's help ; and because we should be pleased if the said Elect could be consecrated in such place as we may choose within the 186 LITERiE deins la province de Caunteibires, veullez assentier bonement, pur amour de nous, et sur ceo envoier a nous vos lettres patentes, sealees de vostre com- muu seal, sicom nous nous fioms de vous ; issint tout foith qe le dit Eslit face a vous et a vostre Esglise ceo qil est tenuz affaire. Et en meisme la manere avoms parlez al honurable piei'e en Dieu Lercevesqe de Caunterbires, qi nous ad responduz, qe, quant il savera vostre volente, il nous donra tiel respons quel nous devera agreer. Donez sous nostre secret seal a nostre Thour de Loundres, le xxiiij. jour de Maij, Ian de nostre regne douzesme. (June 65 G. — LlTTERA PrIORIS DIRECTA DOMINO ELECTO LON- 1338.) DONIENSI, SUPER MISSIONE LITTER.E PATENTIS L. 72 a. CONTINENTIS LICENCIAltl UT POSSIT CONSECRARI EXTRA ECCLESIAM CANTUARIENSEM. Et EADEM LlTTERA PrIORIS REGRATIONES PER EUM DeO FACTAS PRO SUI STATUS NOVITATE CONTINET. The lice7ice Reverentiam et honorem. Domine reverende, nos of ahbi IS spii-itualiter Ifeti efficimur et iocundi, quod Summus transmitted ^ ... to the Bis- Pastor vestram personam in suum vicanum assumere of^London disponebat, in tantum quod vices Apostolorum de ce- Avith much' tero VOS gercre specialiter oportebit ; et speramus quod ta^^^^tter eosdem Apostolos nitemini taliter imitari, ut cum eisdem, added. post hujus vitse cursum completum, in felici patria con- eaudebitis in summa Isetitia, Deo dante. Et Domine reverende, quia nos ex verbis intelleximus fidedignis, quod certa de causa munus consecrationis vestrse extra Ecclesiam Cantuariensem accipere corditer affectatis quod bene fieri non potest sine nostra et confratrum nostrorum gratia speciali, nos et iidem nostri con- fratres vobis, cui, meritis vestris exigentibus, multi- ])liciter obligamur, litteras luitiiiiiis i)atentes, ut vcstrtc aftcctioni prsedictie de nostra gratia quantum in nobis CANTUARIENSES. 187 province of Canterbury, be kind enough to consent, for love of us, and to send to us your letters patent there- upon, sealed with your common seal, as we trust in you ; providing always that the said Elect shall perform to- wards you and your Church those services which he is bound to perfoi'm. And we have spoken to the same purpose with the honourable father in God the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, who has replied to us, that, when he knows your will, he will give us such an answer as ought to please us. est unanimiter annuamus. Et nostras voluntatis est, ac etiam eorundem nostrorum confratrum, quod vos nobis, sub sigillo vestro vel alio modo autentico, rescri- batis, preesentium per latorem, protestationem prov;t decreveritis bene conceptam, quod hujusmodi gratia nobis seu nostrre Ecclesise Cantuariensi non cedat in futurum in aliquod prtBjudicium seu gx'avamen ; et hoc facere intimis affectibus vos rogamus, aliter vero, ut timemus, nostri confratres turbabuntur non modi- cum, quod nolletis. Et scire velitis si placet, quod dicta3 litterse patentes hac vice de nostro Capitulo nullatenus emanassent, nisi certa spes a fratribus nostris habita fuisset, ut nobis scribere velletis sixb forma quie superius est notata. Valeat in Christo vestra amicitia nobis cara. Dat. etc. 657. — LiTTERA DicTi Electi Londoniensis responsa- LIS LITTERS PrIORIS QU^ EST IN CAPITE HUJUS 9 j^ng FOLII. 1338. Id quod poterit obsequii et honoris. Regratior vobis ^' "■ quantum sufficio, quod tam gratiose consensum Capi- The Bishop tuli vestri super licencia optinenda, quantum ad con- °^ don's 188 LITERiE letter of secrationis muniis michi in quocumque loco vdoneo thanks. n l ■ ■ ... l^antuanensis provmcise impendendum, procurare ])ro- curastis ; reputans michi ad magnain gratiam quod fecistis. Ceteriim pater et Domine reverende, de pro- testatione quam me facere voluistis, prout litterse vestrse michi transmissse commemorant, scire velitis quod jDrotestationem hujusmodi vobis mitto, cetera omnia paratus facere quae facere debeo, et quae Ec- clesiae vestrae cedere poterunt ad honorem, quae me, sicut prius multipliciter ob beneficia impensa, obnoxium habebit ex nunc sic merito de tanta gratia arctius obligatum. In votivis successibus vos conservet Altis- simus in longaevum. Scripta apud Lopham ix° die Junii. Per vestrum Ricardum de By nte worth, Electum Londoniensis Ecclesiae Confir- matum. 9 June 658. — InSTRUMENTUM CONTINENS PROTESTATIONEM FAC- TAM PER DICTUM ElECTUM QUOD LICENCIA PER ^- ^2 Priorem et Capitulum sibt concessa super consecrationis munere sibi impendendo ex- TRA eandem Ecclesiam non cedet in pr^- jUDiciUM ejusdem Ecclest^ Cantuariensis SEU GRAVAMEN. Cautionary In Dei nomine, Ameu. Per praesens publicum in- b^^he^'^^" strumentum cunctis appareat evidenter quod, anno ab Elect of Incarnatione Domini millesimo ccc™oxxxviijo, indic- ensM^ng tione sexta, pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris the Chap- et domini Domini Benedicti divina providentia Papae Chris^t xiJi^o anno quarto, mense Junii, die ixno^ reverendus Church vir et discretus Magister Ricardus de Bynteworth, pny''udice Electus Londoniensis Confirm atus, infra manerium de in conse- Lopham Norwycensis dioecesis, in mei Notarii publici quencc testium infrascriptorum praesentia, personaliter con- CANTUARIENSES. 189 stitutns, quando protestationem in scriptis redactam ^^^^^^^ publice recitavit, fecit, et legit, sub hac forma. In granted a Dei nomine, Amen. E^o Ricardus de Bynte worth, ''f","'^'^ "-^ -nil r IT nllbl. Electus Londoniensis confirmatus, protestor quod, licet reverendi et religiosi viri Prior et Capitulum Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis michi concesserint, de sua gratia speciali, quod extra Ecclesiam Cantuariensem supra- dictam munus consecrationis accipere valeam, in loco quern infra Cantuariensi provincia Dominus Archiepi- scopus ejusdem Ecclesife Cantuariensis pro hujusmodi consecrationis munere impend endo fore duxerit con- gruum et devotum ; ita tamen quod hujusmodi con- cessio gratiosa dictis reiigiosis viris seu Ecclesiae suse Cantuarien.«i non cedat in futurum in aliquod prteju- dicium seu gravamen, prout in Uteris ipsorum patenti- bus inde confectis plenius continetur, non intendo nec volo quod hujusmodi concessio, per reverendos et reli- giosas viros Priorem et Capitulum supradictos michi facta, ipsis, vel eorum Ecclesise sa^pedietae, in aliquo cedat futuris temporibus in praejudicium seu gx-avamen. Acta sunt hsec quae supradixi anno, indictione, ponti- ficatu, mense, die, et loco supradictis ; prfesentibus Magistro Willelmo de Derby auctoritate apostolica notario publico, Ranulpho Moigne Exoniensis, et Ro- berto de Redyngg Sarum dioecesium clericis, testibus ad praemissa vocatis et rogatis. Et ego Johannes Ricardi de Ecclesale clericus Co- ventrensis et Lychfildensis dioecesis, publicus aposto- lica auctoritate notarius, protestationis prsedictse reci- tationi, et lecturse ejusdem, ac omnibus et singulis prsemissis, prout scribuntur, anno, indictione, mense, pontificatu, die, et loco prsescriptis, una cum testibus prsenominatis prajsens interfui, eaque sic fieri vidi et audivi, scripsi, et in banc publicam formam redegi, meoque signo consueto in testimonium praemissorum signavi, rogatus. 190 LITERiE G59.— LiTTERA EXCUSATORIA MISSA DOMINI ReGI PRO loon.) L. 72 a. CARIAGIO NON MITTENDO SIBT. The Prior in answer to a de- mand for transport for the royal army, pleads poverty, and begs to be excused from con- tribution. A tresexcellent prince et sou tresbonurable Seignur, Sire Edward par la grace de Dieu Roi Dengleterre, Seignur Dirlande, et Dues Daquitaine, son chapelleyn Richard Priour del Esgjlise de Caunterbires, ceo qil puet donur ove continuaunce des devoutes prieres. Tresbonurable Seignur, vostre Viscounte de Kent me ad monstre la volente de vous, qe fuist davoir de moy chivalx cbarettiers ove lour barneys, des queux vous me maundastes nadgaires par voz iettres, en aide de vostre cariage vers les parties de dela; quiea chose jeo coveiteorie faire par grant desir au plesaunce de vous, si inon poair pout a ceo, sicome ne puet, bone- ment extendre. Car veraiement, qil ne displese a vostre tresnoble Seignnrie dentendre, qen cest an, outre manere ascustumee, ay este diversement chargez, tant devers les Cbardinals come daultres multes maneres, imposiciouns, et adversitees, qe me sont avenues casuel- ment ; qe ceo qe mest remise et a mon Covent ne puet suffire pur nostre sustinaunce sanz nous grevouse- ment endettier. Et pur ceo, vous prie, tant humble- ment come jeo puis, a vostre reale benignite qe mon non poair en ceste partie deigne avoir pur excuse. Tresbonurable et tresredoute Seignur, Luy Tout Puis- sant vuelle touts jours encrestre vostre honur real in prosperite de jours et de sauncte. Escript, etc. 133T 660. — LiTTERA RESPONSALIS AD LTTTERAS REGIAS\ ^' A lour trescber Seignur, Sire Edward par la grace The Chap- Jjieu Roi Dengleterre, Seignur Dirland, et Ducx little^ coy-^ Daquitaine, ses chapeleins Richard Priour del Esglise ness, assent ^^^^ Canterbires et le Covent de mesme le lieu, salutz. King's ove la joye qe dure sanz fjn. Trescber Seignur, request ■ ' See p. 184. CANTUARIENSES. 191 659. To the most excellent prince and his right honourable lord, Sir Edward, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, his chaplain Richard Prior of the Church of Canterbury, all that he can of honour, with perseverance in devout prayers. Right honourable Lord, your Sheriff of Kent has ex- plained your will to me, namely that you would have from me some waggon-horses fully harnessed (concerning which you lately wrote to me in your letters) in aid of your transport towards the countries over sea ; which thing I should long to do, on account of my great desire to please you, if my means would only stretch so far (which they do not). For in truth, and let it not displease your most noble Lordship to hear it, it is so that be- yond what is usual I have this year been so despoiled in various ways, what with the procurations of the Cardi- nals and several other ways, impositions, and misfortunes which have fortuitously befallen me, that what is still left for me and my Convent cannot suffice for our mere main- tenance, without we run deeply into debt. And therefore I pray your royal benevolence, in the most humble way I can, that it will deign to accept my impotence in this case as a valid excuse. Right honourable and most dread Lord, may the Almighty be pleased ever to increase your royal honour with length of days and vigorous health. 660. To their most dear Lord, Sir Edward, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, his chaplains Richard Prior of the Church of Canterbury and the Convent of the same place, greeting, with the joy which endures without end. 192 LITERS in the case nous receutnes voz lettres le vj™e jour de Juyn, les Bishop of H^ieux nous avoms bien entenduz. Et endroit de London, ceo qe vous nous maundez par voz dites lettres, qe nous voussissioms assentier qe vostre cher clerk Mestre Richard de Bynteworth, Elist de Loundres Confermez, puisse estre sacre quiel lieu qe vous plerra de deinz le province de Caunterbires ; tresclier Sire, savez qe le droit de nostre Esglise meuz serroit con- tinue et mesme la Esglise plus honurez si le dit Eslit purroit illeoqes estre sacre ; nepurquant, pur reverence de vous, nous assentoms, quant en nous est, qil soit sacrez en lieu qe vous meuz plerra de deinz la dite province. A ceste chose de nostre grace assentoms, issint qe le dit Eslit-confermez face a nostre Esglise ceo qil est tenuz de faire de droit ; a qi nous avoms maundez nostre lettre patente de la grace avantdite, la quele lettre vous purrez ver a vostre volente, solonc vostre desir contenuz en voz lettres susdites. A Dieu, trescher Seignur, qi vous main- tigne en sauvite, et vous donit gracious esploit en toutes vos buaoignes. Donez a nostre Chapitle le vj. jour de Juyn, Ian de grace mIcccxxxviij. 10 July QQl — COPIA COMMISSIONIS FACT^ CiCESTRENSI EPI- 1 338 SCOPO PER DOMINUM J. CANTUARIENSEM SUPER PR.EFECTIONE PrIOUIS ECCI.ESI^ ChRISTI. Commis- Johannes permissione divina Cantuariensis Archi- sion by episcopus, totius Anglife Primas, et Sedis Apostolicse ^jg^^ Legatus, venerabili fratri nostro, Domino Roberto Dei bishop gratia Cicestrensi Episcopo, salutem, et fraternam in John Strat- • -j. j. n j. j x- ford, going Domino caritatem. CJum, propter qusedam negotia abroad, ardua, extra regnum Angii£e ad partes longinquos ac- empowers , -i ■ ^ • ; • cedere proponamus, et ibidem agere m remotis, posset- CANTUARIENSES. 193 Very dear Lord, we received your letters on the sixth day of June, and have quite understood them. And as to what you require of us in your letters, namely, that we should consent that your dear clerk Master Richard de Bynteworth, elect and confirmed Bishop of London, should be able to receive consecration in any place within the province of Canterbury wdiich you may choose ; very dear Sire, know that the rights of our Church would be better observed, and the Church itself would be more honoured, if the said Elect could be consecrated therein ; nevertheless, out of respect for you, we agree, as far as in us lie^, that he may be con- secrated in any place which shall best please you within the said province. To this thing we assent, as granting a favour, provided that the said Elect and Confirmed perform towards ouf Church those services which he is bound by law to perform ; to whom we have sent our letters patent conveying the afoi'esaid favour, which letter you can see when you wish, according to your desire expressed in your above-mentioned letters. God be with you, very dear Lord, and maintain you in prosperity, and grant you favourable success in all your undertakings. Given, &;c. que, nobis existentibus inibi, prioratus Ecclesife nostra? Robert Cantuariensis Priore fortasse vacare ; ad interessen- g^jj^op'of dum in eo casu, pro nobis et nomine nostro, electioni Chichester, et nominationi faciendis de futuro Priore nostrse Ec- theTlection clesise antedictae ; et ad scrutandum in liac parte vota of n new omnium et singulorum monachorum ejusdem Ecclesite Christ qui electioni et nominationi hujusmodi iuteresse debe- Church, bunt, et ea per vos redigenda in scriptis ; et ad norai- nandum, prfeficiendum, et dandum monachis dicta? Ecclesife Priorem ydoneum, ac ad injungenduni eisdem omnibus et singulis, in virtute sanct?e obedientite qua U 52122. N 194 LITERiE nobis tenentuv, quod ipsi sic nominato, prrefecto, ct dato, sint in spiritualibus et tcmporalibus intcndentes ; et ad installandum Priorem eundem ; et ad providen- dum eidem prioratui de Priore ydoneo, in casu quo ipsius collatio, provisio, datio, seu ovdinatio, ad nos debeat de jure seu consuetudine pertinere ; et ad prse- missa ac omnia alia neeessaria vel opporfcuna in ea parte, etiam si mandatum exigant specials, pro nobis et nostro nomine facienda, ac etiam exercenda, eisdem modis et formis sicut ea faceremus et exerceremus, vel facere et exercere possemus, si personaliter praesentes essemus, vobis generalem et liberam concedimus po- testatem ; necnon in prseraissis omnibus et singulis vobis committimus vices nostras, cum cujuslibet cen- surpe ecclesiasticfe potestate. Data in Monasterio Sanctse Radegundis juxta Dovoriam vj*° Idus Julii, anno Domini Mocco™oxxxviijto, et nostras translationis quinto. 662. — littera nuntiatoria ad prandium in cele- bratione prim.e miss^ domini roberti Prioris. Salutem cum sincera? caritatis afFectu. Quia nos die Sancti Edwardi proximo futuro ' piimam missam nos- (Sept. 1338,) L. 72 b. The new Prior in- vites a (Sept. 1338.) L. 72 b. 664. — LiTTERA SUPPLTCATORIA MISSA J. FeRMOR SUPER WARDA MARIS NON FACIENDA IN PARTIBUS ESSEXI^. Salutz, etc. Pm- ceo qe nous avoms entenduz qe remindT' S^^itz de vostre baillie, noz tenantz et altres, nous font the King's grant duresse, de nous cliacer destre sin- la garde de Commis-^^ la mier, et unqore entcndent defaire, si nous ne soioms siouer has charge aidez ha.stivement ; vous prioms cherement, sicome tection of"" ^^^^ fioms de vous qe vous, mettez vostre diligence the coast 'Oct. 13. CANTUARIENSES. 195 tram solempnem in ecclesia nostra Ohristi (Jantuari- f»"^"'^ *° ^ , . . „ .be present ensi, divina favente dementia, celebrare proponimus ; when he dilectionem vestram votivis precibus rogamus, quatinus j^l^'^l^'^^'^'* dictam solempnitatem venerabili prtesentia vestra dig- mass after nemini decorare, ut ipsa solempnius perficiatur ; I'e- cepturi cum gaudio pro vobis ct vestris quod divina largitas duxerit erogare. Semper in Domino feliciter valeatis. Script., etc. 663. — FAltera forma ejusdem litter^.] (Sept. ^ ^ 1338.) Salutz, etc. Cher Sire, pur ceo qe nous entendoms ^- "^^ ^■ le jour Seint Edward proschein avenier fair nostre a transla- entre, et ove laide de Dieu nostre messe solempne en ^^^^ ' ^ _ -C^ same mvi- nostre Esglisc de Caunterbires meismes le jour chaun- tation into tier ; vous prioms cherements, qe vous plese portier ^'reuch. compeignie a nous et as noz altres amys a mangier, le jour avantdit ; issint qe par vostre presence nous et nostre dite Esglise puissoms le plus estre lionurez et confortez. A Dieu, Sire, etc. Escript, etc. 664. Greeting. Whereas we have heard that the men of your bailiwick, our tenants and others, are putting great pressure upon us to compel us to perform watch-by-sea, and still mean to continue doing so, if we be not speedily helped ; we earnestly pray you, as we put our trust in you, to be diligent and active, so that we may not be N 2 196 LITERS that the Convent is not used to chose qe puisse estre prejudiciele a nous be called E^gjise en nostre upon to ° contribute to the Garde de la mer. et travoil, qe nous ne soioms cliacez defaire nulle et a nostre en nostre temps ; sicoms vous savez bien meismes qe nous ne solioms unqes estre mj^s a tiele garde avant ceste heure. sicome vous amez lonur Ceste chose px-enez al cuer, et lestat de nostre Esglise sauver.^ A Dieu, etc. Escript, etc. 27 Oct. (1338). L. 72 h. Adam de Mury- nionih asked tc obtain original letters from the Court of 665 — LiTTERA MISSA MaGISTRO A. MURYMOUTH PRO LITTERIS ORIGINALIBUS HABEXDIS SUPER PRJE- FECTIOXE ROBERTI PrIORIS EcCLESI^ CaNTU- AKIESSIS. Dilectissime. Super status nostri pra?fectione facta in vestra prsesentia, sicut scitis adhuc nicliil habemu.s, sed vellemus quod processus et preefectio in hac parte concepta, vestra circumspectione provida, taliter ordi- narentur, quod imposterum nullatenus revocaretur iu dubium status noster. Vos igitur rogamus ex corde, (Oct. 666. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA MISSA COMITI HUNT- YNGDON PRO W. GlOVERE DE LANIS NOK 72 6. DUCENDIS ULTRA iLAJlE. The Earl Salutz et quanqil .sciet et puist des treschers of Hun- amistez. Tre.scher Seignur, vous plese savoir qe breff* Kendsb' ^ de la Chancellerie est venuz as cullours des lajTies ^k^^r* counte de Kent, sicome nous avoms entenduz, qe intervene un de les ditz cullours passe la mier ove les dites a°profit^°* layne.s, et les uns procurent qe Willeam Glover, nostre able ser- Sergeant qad grant partie de noz biens en sa garde, duist prendre cele charge et peril; le qui el Willeam ' savoir, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 197 compelled to do anything which may turn in our time to tlie prejudice of us or of our Church; inasmuch as you yourself well know that we have never before now been set to keep this watch. Take this affair to heart, as you are desirous of saving the honour and dignity of our Church. Adieu, &c. quod in praemissis manum velitis apponere adjutricem, Arches et videre et examinare ea quae sunt facta et ordinata to^^jfj'"^ necdum in mundum redacta, meliori modo quo sci- regularity verit vestr.i discretio nobis cara. Ita quod vobis Harti^-""^ teneamur pro hiis et aliis pro nobis impedendis tern- brand's poribus profuturis, libenter enim vellemus commis- sionem originalem ct litteras dupplicatas habere. Semper in Domino valeatis. Scripta apud Estriam sub nostro sigillo privato xxvij'"" die Octobris. 6G6. Greeting and all the close friendship that he may of can. Very dear Lord, be pleased to know that a writ from the Chancery is come to the collectors of wool for the county of Kent, and, as we have heard, one of the said collectors has to go over sea with the said wool, and some of them ai'e scheming that William Glover, one of our sei'jeants who has the care (;f a great deal of our property, may be forced to undertake this responsibility 198 LlTERjt; from being appointed agent for carrying, for sale over sea, the wool taken by the KinK as a sub- sidy. nest pas suffisant, ne sachant des tieles busoignes maintenier. Pur quey, trescher Seignur, vous prioms et requeroms, qe vous veullez mettre vostre mayn qe le dit Will earn ue soit mye chassez pur sa simplesse par tiel procurement, ne chargez de si grande bu- soigne, qe serroit defessaunce a luy et a nous perte et damage. A Dieu, Seignur, qi vous donit bone vie et longe. Escript, etc. 0338) — I^^'''™^-^ EXCUSATORIA MISSA DOMINO J. AECHI- EPISCOPO PRO ADMISSIONE CiCESTRENSIS EpI- L. 72 b. SCOPI IN ELECTIONE PrIORIS EcCLESI^ ChRISTI. The Arch- Venerabili Christo patri Domino J. Dei gratia Can- bishop tuariensi Archiepiscopo, etc. devoti filii Robertus Prior abroad"^ Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis et ejusdem loci Capitu- six months obedientiam cum honore debito patri suo. Litteras before the . . ^ . . . . . , date of this reverendse paternitatis vestrse recepimus iiijto die letter, ap- Decembris, et iuxta tenorem earum dilectum clericum pointed lus . ^ kinsman vestrum Dominum S. de Charyngg in dicendis ex of CW-*^*'^ parte vestra audivimus reverenter, quibus jam con- chester venit ut possumus respondere. Miramini, pater, ut Vicar^'^ accepimus nos reverendum patrem Dominum Cices- General, in trensem, post mortem bonjB memorite Domini R de rlcter he " Oxendenn nuper Prioris nostri, ad interessendum, vice presided in yestra, electioni et pi'ovisioni faciendis de future the Chapter ^-v . t • t , i • • House at Praore una nobiscum concorditer admisisse, contra the election formam et modum inter nos hactenus observatos, in of a new .. . Prior of non modicum juris vestri praejudicium, ut dicitis, et Christ ofFensam : eo quod interesse nobiscum electioni faci- f hurch. -n, . . T • 1 • The Arch- eiidse de Priore m casu prsedicto sit vobis proprium has^de personale ; super quo nos apud reverentiam clared that vestram excusat, et reddit immunes a culpa, specialis Avasan*in ^^^^ potcstas, quam, ante recessum vestrum ab Anglia, vasioc of dicto Domino Cicestrensi in ncgotio provisionis hujus- ofhisoffice i"odi conccssistis,^ cum cujuslibet cohercionis canonical CANTUAMENSES. 199 and risk, for which business he is not qualified, not knowing how to manage such matters. Therefore, very dear Lord, wc pray and require you to he pleased to take it in hand, that the said William may not, owing to such scheming, be oppressed through his simplicity, nor be charged with so great a responsibility, which can only lead to a failure for him and loss and injury for us. Adieu, &c. potestate ; provident es forsan in spiritu casum veri- and the similiter ut accidit contingentem. Unde, si jus vestrum (>^^<;ps iij^j. Itudatur in isto, in dispendio juris nostri patet quod self for an , 1 -, , r,' uninten- est Isesum, eo quoa personam extraneam, vobis com- jj^jj^i mittentibus, in vestri favorem admisimus in prsemissis. breach of Nec credatis, pater reverende, in dicto provisionis bishop's negotio nos inconsulte seu leviter processisse, cum privilege, dictum negotium partim a majoribus nostri consilii et quasi totaliter processit a vestris. Alia quse fuerunt in hac parte dicenda vobis in jocundo adventu vestro, qui utinam immineat in brevi. Domino comitante, plenius exponemus. In pacis auctore valeat pater noster, nuntius ipse pacis. Seripta vjto die De- cembris. 668. — LiTTERA EXCUSATORIA MISSA EIDEM DOMINO Archiepiscopo PER Priorem de NEGOTIO ^,11^^: PROXIMO PRyESCRIPTO. L. 73 a. Patri suo et domino devotus filius salutem cum The Prioi's omni obedientia reverentia et honore. Intimante ^p°^°&y '° • 1 • 1 • f-i 1 ^1 ^'^^ matter michi, pater reverende. Domino h. de Charyngg, ves- treated of tras super hoc credencise litteras deferente, co£-novi .... ' & ' ceding verisimiliter, vos, ex eo non modicum admirationis et letter. indignationis concc[)issc iiiotivuni quod Capituluiu vestrum, contra debitam obscrvautiam et consuctudinem 200 liters; hactenus approbatani, alium praelatuiii ad pr?efi- ciendum ibidem novum Priorem admisit, vobis totaliter iucousultis. Verum, licet per venerabilem patrem Dominum Cicestrensem Episcopum, vestrum Vicarium in spiritualibus generalem et Commissarium ad hoc specialter deputatum, ut patet per tenorem commissionis sua? (cujus copiam prtesentibus interclu- sam vobis mitto), per modum eligendi solitum invitus, ibidem in Priorem prtefectus, ad presens teneam, sub vestia tamen tollerantia, regimen prioratus indignus ; nunquara tamen Deus scit de mea voluntate processit quod alius quam vos hujusmodi expediret negotium, vel intraret Capitulum hac de causa, sed ad deferen- dum hujusmodi negotium, contra voluntatem fratrum, donee vos certiticati super hoc vestrum scriberetis beneplacitum cui'am apposui quam valebam, ex quo nonnulli, cum festii)atione dictum prosequentes nego- tium, me suspectum aliqualiter habuerunt. Placeat igitur vestrai reverendas paternitati patienter in prte- missis habere meam innocentiam excusatam ; et prse- sentim super hoc, quod ad certificandum vos de moite nostri Prioris non misi tempestive ; misissem enim veraciter si hoc possibilitas permisisset. Valeat semper in Chi'isto vestra reverenda paternitas, qui vos ad propria cum prosperitatis gaudio dirigat et reducat. Scripta Cantuariae ix'^° die Decembris. 1338. 669. — Articuli bull.e Domini Papje Benedicti contenti in prima bulla. L. 105 b. A summary Quod Capitulum u'num, tarn Cantuariensis quam ofBOTie- Eboracensis provincise, de triennio in triennium cele- dict XII. bretur, in loco assignatido per primos executores ; ad nilesfor q^iocl vocari debent tarn Abbates quam Priores the con- cathedrales. CANTUARIENSES. 201 Item : quod executpres prsedictarum const itutionum iluct of citare debeut vocandos, per litteras diem et locum chapters certius exprimentes, cum continatione dierum. ^ t^io. Item : quod prsedicti executores ordinabunt per ting order, quem in primo capitulo sermo debeat fieri et missa celebrari. Item : quod, sermone missaque completis. faciant executores prsesidentes eligi, qui omnia impleant quse hujusmodi prsesidentibus incumbunt. Item : quod, electis praesidentibus, executores publi- care habent ordinationes et statuta. Item : quod, post publicationem statutorum, debent executores prjedicti monere, et compellere si oporteat, tam prselatos prsesentes quam absentium procuratores, lit copiam statutorum recipiant sub autentica scrip- tura, et secum ad monasteria propria deferant, et legi ibi faciant et diligenter custodiri. Item : quod per primum capitulum debet px-ovideri de loco congruo et securo ubi libri statutorum, bullae, [et] munimenta, futuris, perpetuisque temporibus debent conservari. Item : quod prassidentes electi in primo capitulo faciant omnia statuta olim in utraque provincia facta ad capitulum proximum deportari, per eos qui ilia habuerint, et personas ydoneas deputari, ut ilia dili- genter examinent, et quae de illis in posterum obser- vari debent, quae statutis Domini Papae non obvient, in sequenti tunc capitulo ordinentur. Item: quod dicti executores, conjunctim vel divisim, personaliter accedant ad ecclesias cathedrales et alia loca conventualia per diversas partes provinciae, prout adinvicein convenerint, ad inquirendum quot monachi esse solebaat in eisdem, ac de ipsorum facultates, necnon membrorum suorum quot monachi, supportatis oneribus, de ipsis commode valeant sustentari ; Do- minum Papain certificantes, relatione fideli, plenarie 202 LITERiE de prsemissis, ut ipse in eisdem numerum cei-tuin monachoruin statu at perpetuo duraturiim. Item : quod dicti executores in singulis domibus assignent certos redditus pro magistris et scolaribus, necnon pro suppletione officiorum insufficientium. Item : ordinat Dominus Papa pro expensis cujus- libet executoris, pro diebus singulis quibus post primum capitulum fuerit in prosecutione executionis praedictfe, eundo, morando, et redeundo, octoginta turonenses argenti duntaxat, ab ecclesiis, monasteriis, et membris eorum ; congrua per executores distribu- tione facta inter monasteria et eorum membra. Item : quod possint iidem executores omnes con- tradictores compel lere per censuras ecclesiasticas, non obstantibus quibuscunque privilegiis, statutis, scu consuetudinibus, ecclesiarum cathedralium. (Jan. 670. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA PRO NEGOTIIS J. DE ^^^^■^ Wymborne EXPEDIENDIS. L. 73 «. The Prior . A honurables home et sage, Monsire J. de Stonore, asks a Robert par la soeffraunce de Dieu Priour, etc. salutz. Judge be- , -i • ^ i • i_ \ j_ i fore whom et quantqii sciet et puist aes trescners amistez. V'^Tto'be Trescher Sire, enveoms a vous Mestre Jon de Wym- heardto borne, nostre cber et bien amez clerk, portour de show cestes, le quiel ad grandement affaire devant vous, favour to , . , one of the tout soit il par malice de ses enemys et countre parties. j-eson et droiture. Pur quey, nous vous prioms, auxi cherement come nous pooms, qe vous luy veullez estre amy, et aidant en ses busoignes solonc le ley ct droiture ; issint qe nous soioms Ic plus tenuz a vous, et le dit nostre cher clerk par ceste nostre priere le plus graciousement esploitez. Et vous prioms trescher Sire, qe vous plese estre amy a nous et a nostre Esglise, de si avant siconio vous avetz e.ste devant CANTUARTENSES. 203 Item : quod Dominus Papa debet informari ple- navie, per litteras dictorum executorum, quid fecei int circa assign ationem reddituum pro pensionibus, appli- eandis Magistro claustralium, ac studentibus^ et offi- ciis insufficientibus, et de aliis circumstantiis. Item : quod si ambo executores prsemissis exequendis interesse non potuerint, alter eorum ista nichilominus exequatur. Item : pnecipit Dominus Papa, tarn executoribus, quam prsesidentibus CapitvUi generalis et ceteris prte- latis, quod solvant duobus Prioribus, prosecutoribus istarum constitutionum in Curia Romana, sumrnam ab ipsis taxatam, videlicet, trecentos florenos auri de Florencia. 670. To that honourable and prudent person Sir J. de Stonore, Robert by God's permission Prior, &c. greeting and all that he knows and can of true friendship. Very dear Sieur, we send to you Master John of Wymborne, our dear and well beloved clerk, bearer of these presents, who has an important affair pending before you, arising from the malice of his enemies, and contrary to justice and law. Wherefore we pray you as earnestly as we can that you Avill be a good friend to him, helping him in his business according to law and right ; so that we ourselves may be the more obliged to you, and our dear clerk the more graciously helped by means of this our prayer. And we beseech you, very dear Sieur, that you will be pleased to be a good friend to us and to our Church, in the future as you have hitherto been in times past. And 204 LITERS ces houres. Et si rienz veullez. Sire, par devers nous, fyablement nous vevillez maunder, et nous esperoras, al aide de Dieu, qe nous le ferroms bonement solonc nostre poair. Le Seint Esprist, Sire, vous maintiegne longement en bone vie. Escript, etc. 16 Feb. 1339. L. 73 b. The Chap- ter settle a peusiou upon one of their counsel. 671. — Litter A pensionaria concessa domlno j. de Sancto Paulo. Universis Oliristi fidelibus pniesens scriptum visuris vel audituris, Robertas permissione divina Prior Ec- clesiiE Christi Cantuaiiensis, et ejusdem loci Capitu- luni, sahitem in Domino sempiternam. Probitatis et prudentiae dilecti nobis in Cliristo Domini Johannis de Sancto Paulo merita recolentes, sperantesque ejus consilium et auxilium nobis et Ecclesise nostrse prae- dictae futuris temporibus fore non mediocriter oppor- tuna, dedimus et concessimus eidem Jolianni, de nostra (Feb. (372. — LiTTERA MISSA R. DE HaTTECOMB PRO NATIVIS 1339.) -r, NOSTRIS DE RySSEBERGH. L. 73 6. The nativi Salutz, etc. Cher amy, veullez savoir qe noz vilayns ofRis- cle Ryssebergh, qi sont a Ryssebergh, nous priont de are anxious jo^^^" en altre qils puisseiit faire reconissaunce de lour to make a vileionage, ciuiele houre qe nous voloms et devant qi formal re- ^ l ^■ a -i • 4. • i cognition nous plest ordiner, et qiis puissant retourmer en lour, of their vivre solonc lour, estat. Pur quey, vous prioms servile cou- i ,• , *i t , (lition. cnerement qe vous pensez nastivement dordmer coment ils puissent faire reconissaunce, en discharge de nous, et pur nostre estat sauvoir et nostre Esglise sanz peril ; kar ceste chose ont ils promys certeignement .sanz nuUe feintisse, solonc nostre ordinaunce. Ceste CANTUARIENSES. 205 if, Sieur, there be anything which you can ask from us please to send to us with confidence, and, with God's help, we hope to be able to perform it satisfactorily to the best of our power. The Holy Spirit keep you, Sieur, in good and long enduring health. gratia speciali, pro fideli et diligenti consilio suo, et auxilio, nobis exhibitis et exhibendis, annuam pen- sionem Ix. solidorum, in thesauraria nostra apud Can- tuariam singulis annis quamdiu vixerit persolvendam, videlicet, in festo Purificationis Virginis gloriosEe. Si vero contingat priefatum Dominum Johannem ad aliquera dignitatis gradum promoveri, extunc, cessante dicta pensione, cassum sit hoc serijitum, irritum, et inane, et pro nuUo, imposteruiii habeatur. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune prsesenti- bus est appensum. Datum in Capitulo nostro xvjo die mensis Februarii, anno Domini Moccc™oxxxviijo, 672. Greeting. Dear friend, know that our bondmen belonging to Risborough who live at Risborough are from day to day entreating us that they may be allowed to make a solemn recognition of their servile condition whenever and before whomsoever we may choose, so that they may be able to return to their own degree and live in accordance with it. Wherefore we earne.stly pray you that you will quickly settle how they may make this recognition so as to free us from responsibility and so as to secure our rights and to keep our Church out of dangei', for tliey have promised to do this 206 LITERS chose veullez prendre al cuer, et I'airc bone fyn tic cestc busoigne, pur nostra lionur et le vostrc sauver, tanqe come cele volente en eux dure. Et come vous avez temps qe vous viegnez a nous a Caunterbires de nous visitier, sicome vous nous prosmistes a vostre dareyn depart de nous. A Dieu, etc. 25 Feb. 673. — ACQUIETANCIA DE BONIS LEGATIS. 1339. L 180 1) Pateat, etc. quod nos Robertus, etc. recepimus et „ . habuimus de executoribus home memoriaj Magistri The Prior . , . ... aelmow- Pliilippi de Turvile, quondam canonici ecclesije ledges the eatbedralis Lychefeldeosis, ac rectoris ecclesiiB par- veceipt 01 . . '■ a legacy of ochialis de Westwell Cantuariensis dioecesis, nuper fifty shil- (Jefuncti, 1. solidos sterlingorum, in testament© dicti lings, of / . . . which defuncti nobis legatos ; videlicet, xxx, solidos ad Feb. 1339. ^^4. — LiTTERA MISSA J. FeRMOR PRO WARDA MARIS ^ NON FACIENDA IN PARTIBUS SUFFOLK. L. 73 b. ,„ „ Salutz. Veullez savoir cie nous est fait entendre, 1 he Chap- ^ ter ask a qe nous sumes ordmez et commaundez, par le Counte patron to ^| Qxeneford et alteres gentz del counte de Suffolk, procure _ ° ' their ex- de foumier deux homes armez sur la garde de la from^the ™i6r ; de quiele charge nostre Esglise nul temps ne duty of soleyt estre ti'avoillez. Pur quey, nous vous prioms two'men^ cherement, come nous fyoms de vostre bon aide, qe for the vous veullez estre nostre defens et escu, qe nostre dite in Suffolk. Esglise ne soit mye chacee de faire chose qonqe ne fessoit avant cest houre ; et par ceste resoun qe nul peril ne pieit pas unqore sur la mier. Ceste chose voillez prendre al cuer, sicome vous amez lestat de nostre Esglise et, vostre honur sauver. A Dieu, etc. OANTUARIENSES. 207 cftectually without any deceit, in the manner which we may presci'ibc. Please to take this matter to heart, and bring the business to a good end for the sake of our honour and your own while this good intention of theirs lasts. And when you have the time, come to pay us a visit at Canterbury, as you promised to do when you last left us. Adieu, &c. distribuendum inter pauperes Cantuarienses, juxta thirty arc -,. , . , . , . to be given ordmationem nostram, pro annua bonse memorite j,, ^jjp ^oo^. Domini Henrici quondam Prioris Ecclesite nostras pree- a me- dictfe, prsedecessoris nostri ; et xx, solidos ad fabricam aims for ecclesiae nostras memoratse. De quibus quidem 1. ''^t*^ Prior solidis, etc. fatemur, etc. prsefatos executores quietos Eastry. per prtesentes. In cujus rei, etc. Datum Cantuarias in crastino Sancti Mathiie Apostoli anno Domini MOCCCOXXXVIIJO, 674. Greeting. Please to know that we have been given to understand, that we are appointed and commanded, by the Earl of Oxford and others of the County of Suffolk, to furnish two armed men for the watch-by-sea ; for which charge our Church has never been used to be troubled. Wherefore we earnestly pray you, as we rely upon your help, that you will be pleased to be our defence and our shield, so that our Church may not be compelled to do that which it never did before, and, this the more for the reason that no farther danger is apparent from the sea. Please to take this matter to heart, as you love our Church, and would keep your own honour safe. Adieu, &c. 208 LITERS?: 30 Mar. 07o. — COMMISSIO AD CAPIENDUM ET PROSEQUENDUM FUGITIVOS NORTROS CUM EORUM BONIS ET ^- CATALJJS, ETC. An agent As toutz y ceux qi cestes lettres verront ou orront, powered to Robert par la soeffraunce, etc., salutz en Dieu. Sachez seize waifs, nous avoir ordinez et assignez nostre cher et bien othe^ pe" amez Henry de Bereham dasserclier, poursvre, et ares- quisites toutz les biens et chateux qi sont ditz ivey fs, belonging . i /■ 7 7 to the estraiz, chateux des felons, et threzor trovez, qi a nous Lords'of^'^ appendent par diverses franchises appertinantz a nostre Manors. dite Esglise, et quieux nous sont alloignez, a ceo qest dist, en le counte du Kent ; donantz al dit Henry nos- tre pleyu poair de clialenger, ])oursvre, et arestiei*, les avantditz biens et chateux ou qils soient trovez; des quieux nous voloms qil de ceo respoigne a nous com appent. En tesmoignaunce de quieu chose nous luy avoms fait cestres noz lettres patentes, adurier a nostre volente. Donez a Eastry le dreyn jour de Marz Ian de grace mille cccxxxix. 10 Apr. 676. — Commissi© ad reintrandum Kectoriam de 1339 AsscH tentam ad firmam propter terminos ^- ^- NON SERVATOS. niesrftbe' Robert par la soeffraunce de Dieu Priour, etc. as Convent noz chers et bien amez J. Ferm(or) et W. Hughele, powe^dto salutz en Dieu. Com nadgaires nostre predecessor et re-enter le Covent lesserent a Robert vicaire del esglise de parsonage Avssch, Willeam de Boys, Thomas du Chaump, lesglise of Ash Dassch ove le personage de meme cele, ensemblement witlfalf'its ove grosses dismes, terres, et tenementz, ovesqs toutes profits, in litres choscs appartinauntes a y eel personage, davoir quence of et tenier a certeigne terme des aunz, rendantz ent a breach of o j^nuelment dix marcz as deux termes ; sus tiel con- covenant . . committed dicion qe si la dite lerme, ou partie de ceo, par quinze lessees jours proschein apres ascun des termes du paiement CANTUABIENSES, 209 675. To all those who shall see or hear these letters, Robert by God's permission, &c. greeting in the Lord. Know ye that we have appointed and assigned our dear and well beloved Henry of Barham to seek out, follow, and take possession of all the goods and chattels which are known as tuaifs, strays, felons' goods, and treasure trove ; which are ours by virtue of divers franchises belonging to our Church, but which, so it is said, are fraudulently kept from us in the County of Kent ; giving to the said Henry our full authority to claim, follow, and detain tlie said goods and chattels wherever they may be found ; requiring him to answer to us for the same as is proper. In witness whereof we have made these our letters patent, which will remain in force at our discretion. Given, &c. 676. Robert by God's permission Prior, &c. to our dear and well-beloved J. Fermor and W. Hughele, greeting in the Lord. Whereas our predecessor and the Convent for- merly leased to Robert the vicar of the church of Ash Bocking, to William de Boys, and to Thomas du Champ the rectory of Ash with the parsonage of the same, together with the great tithes, lands, and tenements, and all other things belonging to the same parsonage, to have and to hold for a certain term of years, paying to thence ten marks a year by two half-yearly payments, with the condition that if the said rent, or any parcel thereof, fell into ai'rear for fifteen days after any one of the days U 52122. o 210 LITERiE limitez fuist avere, ou ascun des alteres pointz des covenantz en les endentures du lees de ceo foits ne fuissent tenuz, qe, adonqs, bien lyroit as ditz Priour et Covent et a lour successours lavantdit personage, et les terres, et tenements, et toutes les altres choses y appartenantz, reentrier, et reseiser, et en lour mayn retiner, par qiconqs lours attornes, ove toutz les biens et chateux de deinz trovez, tanqe gree (soit fait) as ditz Priour et Covent de qantqe fuist aderere, ou meins bien tenuz, sicome en les endentures avantdites est continuz pluspleynement ; nous, pur cause qe la dite ferme ja par un temps est soubstrete, et ascuns des altres pointz des covenantz enfreyntes, voloms faire reseiser le dit personage, ensemblement ove terres, tenementz, dismes, et toutes alteres choses, auxi entiere- ment com ils fuierent lessez, sicom resoun demande, (et) vous avoms ordinez et establiz nos attornes, joynte- ment et en severalte, areentrier et reseiser, en nostre noun, le dit personage et qant y appartient com avant est dist, et en noz mayns retiner, ensemblement ove les biens est chateux dedeinz trovez, tanqe nostre gree soit fait selom la fourme des avantdites endentures. Et vous fesoms savoir qe nous tendroms ferm et estable ceo qe vous deux, ou un de vous, frez en ceo cas en nostre noun, en la fourme susdite. En tesmoi- gnaunce de quieu chose nous vous avoms fait cestes noz lettres patentes. Donez a Canterbires le x™e jour Daveryl, Ian de grace Mcccxxxixe. (Apr. 1339.) L. 74 a. The Prior intercedes with the Earl Warenue for a G77. — LiTTERA MISSA COMITI GaRENNE PRO W. ATTE Herst FELONE EIDEM ACCUSATO. A treshonurable Seignur, nostre trescher (et) bieu amez en Dieu Monsire J. Counto de Garrenne, Robert par la soeffrance de Dieu Priour del Esglise de Caun- terbiies, salutz, honurs, et reverences. Trescher Seignur CANTUAIUENSES. 211 appointed for payment, or if any other of the covenants in the indentures of lease made on this occasion were not observed, that then it should be lawful for the said Prior and Convent and their successors to re-enter, and to resume possession of, and to retain in their hands the afore- said parsonage and the lands and tenements and all other things thereto appertaining, by any attornies of theirs, together with all the goods and chattels therein being, until full satisfaction should be made to the said Prior and Convent for whatever amount might be in arrear, or for infraction of covenant, as is more fully con- tained in the said indentures ; we, in consideration that the said rent has now for some time been with- held, and certain other of these covenants violated, wish to have the said parsonage, together with the lands, tenements, tithes, and all other things as entire as when they were leased, recovered, as justice requires ; and we have appointed and made you our attornies, jointly and severally, for re-entering and recovering, in our name, the said parsonage and whatever belongs to it, as is before said ; to retain them in our hands, to- gether with all the goods and chattels therein found, until satisfaction is made to us according to the form contained in the said indentures. And we give you to know that we will hold as firm and stable all that you two, or one of you, shall do in our name in this case in the form above rehearsed. In witness of which thing, &c. 677. To the right honourable Lord, our very dear and well beloved in God Sir J. Earl Warenne, Robert by God's permission Prior of the Church of Canterbury, greeting, honours, and homage. Very dear Lord, whereas we o 2 212 LITERS trespasser pur ceo qe nous avoms entenduz qe Walter atte Herst, who, in the , ^ , , , ^ writer's nostre \iOYre tenant de Wodeton, est ascusez a vous opinion, malicioussement par ses enemys de damagfe fait en vos- has cleared i j o himself by tre garrenne, en vostre seignurie de Lewes ; le quel oath°o? Walter nous avoms examinez devant nous, a Estrie innocence, pres de Sandwyz, pai- serement sur Seintes Evangyles, et nous ne pooms trovier qil soit coupable de nul manier trespas devers nous ; pur quey, trescher Sei- gnur, plese a vostre Seignurie prendre euqueste de ses veLsins del dit trespas ; et sil soit trovez coupables, veullez prendre a luy a vostre volente ; et sil trovez soit par enqueste qil soit sans coupe, luy veullez de vostre bon resoun et grace resounable avoir en ceo cas escusez. Ceste nostre priere et requeste plese a vostre Seignurie al cuer prendre, issint qe nostre dit tenant ne soit countre resoun et sanz coupe par poair grevez. A Dieu trescher Seignur, qe vous donit sauncte de corps et dalme par la priere Seint Thomas Martyr glorious. Escript, etc. (June G78. — LiTTERA EXCUSATORIA PRO SUSTENTATIONE NOX CONCEDEXDA QUAM J. GrIFFON HABUIT DUM L. 74 a. vixrr. The Prior Excellentissimo principi et domino suo reverendo, resists the Domino Edwardo Dei gratia Regi Angliae, Domino the King to Hibernife, et Duci Aquitaniae illustri, sui humiles et appoint^ ^ devoti Prior et Capitulum Ecclesiae Christi Cantu- servants to ariensis, debitam ad preecepta regia parendi prompti- a corrody. tudinem, cum omni reverentia et honore. Magnificfe vestrae serenitatis litteras, pro Nicholao de Wycombe vestro vigili nobis missas, reverenter recepimus, con- tinentes quod ipsum Mcholaum in domum nostram admitteremus, et talem sustentationem in ipsa quo ad vixerit percipiendam concederemus eidem, qualem Jo- hannes Griffoun defunctus, ad rogatum Domini Ed- CANTUAKIENSES. 213 have heard that Walter atte Herst, our poor tenant at Wodeton, is by his enemies maliciously accused to you of trespass done in your warren of your lordship of Lewes, which Walter we have examined personally, at Eastry near Sandwich, by his oath taken upon the Holy Gospels, and we can in no way find that he is guilty of any kind of offence against you ; therefore, very dear Lord, may it please you that an inquest be held of his neighbours concerning the said offence, and if he be found guilty, then deal with him at your pleasure, but if by the inquest he be found without fault, then please, by your ti'ue justice and reasonable favour, hold him excused in this case. May it please your lordship to take this our prayer and request to heart, so that our said tenant may not be oppressed by the strong hand, contrary to justice, and being without fault. God be with you, very dear Lord, and may he grant you health of body and soul through the intercession of the glorious Martyr Saint Thomas. wardi nuper Regis Angliaj patris vestri, dum vixit habuit in eadem, litterasquc nostras patentes, com- mixni sigillo nostro signatas, mentionem de hiis (pife de dicta domo nostra sic percipiet facientcs, sibi fieri faceremus. Et de eo quod ad rogatum vestrum hu- jusmodi faceremus vobis rescriberemus per ipsarum bajulum litterarum, vel saltem causam vobis signifi- caremus quare mandate vestro, alias inde directo, minime paruimus cum effectu. Nos vero, vestri humi- les capellani, considerantes intime specialem vestram devotionem et sanctam quam ad gloriosum Christi Marty rem Sanctum Thomam, cujus corpus in ecclesia Christi pr^dicta solenmiter est translatum ; necnon dilectionem sinceram quam ad personam venerabilis patris Domini Johannis Dei gratia Cantuariensis Ai- chiepiscopi, pastorem et primatem nostrum, hactenus 214 LITERS habuistis, et adhuc indubitanter habere speramus ; ob quas pife intentionis vestrpe fuit, et adhuc est ut credimus in pr^esenti, ipsam Ecclesiam et nos velle gra- tioso favore prosequi, et indempnitati nostrpe salubriter et utiliter providere. Confidentes insuper de vesti-a gratia speciali et provisione benigna, quibus, ob causas preedictas, nobis alias per cartam vestram pro vobis et vestris heredibus concessistis, quod concessiones per vos et prsedecessores vestros factpe aliquibus de pensionibus, corrodiis, aut sustentationibus, de domo nostra prse- dicta quoquo modo percipiendis, ad rogatus progeni- torum vestrorum seu vestros, non trahantur in consu- etudinem vel consequentiam aliqualem, nec in nostrum, seu domus nostrse prsedictae, cedant prsejudicium ali- qualiter in futurum ; nec etiam quod nos aut succes- sores nostri ad hujusmodi pensiones, corrodia, vel sustentationes, de domo nostra percipienda aliquibus, ad rogatus vestros vel heredum vestrorum concedenda, compellamur decetero, vel etiam teneamur ; per quas gratiam et provisionem hujusmodi nobis factas, satis evidenter appavet vestrse intentionis non esse, ut per concessiones hujusmodi in domo nostra prgedicta, etiam ad rogatum vestrum vel successorum vestrorum, aliquibus faciendas in debit e prsegravemur. Cum con- cessio hujusmodi de sustentatione ipsius Nicholai in domo nostro prsedicta fieri non possit ad praesens, absque nostro gravi prtejudicio et intollerabili detri- mento, istis prsesertim discriminosis temporibus quibus nos oportet, pro defensione regni vestri contra inimi- corum insidias, quamplures homines armatos, etiam prag aliis, continue super mare tenere, pro quorum expensis et sustentatione congrue faciendis nostras non sufiiciunt facultates, vestrse Dominationi benignae, de- votis precibus, humiliter supplicamus, quatinus nos ad pragsens ab hujusmodi onere pie relevare digne- mini, et habere quoad hoc rationabiliter excusatos. Ad regimen vobis a Deo datum vos conservet Altis- simus ut optatis I'eliciter guberiiandum. Data in Capitulo nostro. CANTUARIENSES. 215 679. — LiTTERA Domini J. Archiepiscopi de pros- 26 Aug. PERITATE ET EXALTATIONE STATUS DOMINI (1339.) ROBERTI PrIORIS AC DE MODO CREATIONIS ^- "• SXJJE. Salutem, gratiam, et benedictionem. Status vestri . bishop prosperitatem et exaltationem, a tempore quo vo.s Stratford, bene novimus, affectavimus toto corde ; sperantes per '■ '■ ing some vos Ecclesiam et fratres nostros multum juvari in- doubt of futurum : et ideo, licet de modo creationis vestrse '^gu- ' ' lanty of aliqualitcr turbati f uimus, ex eo quod modus antiquus Prior Hath- in ca parte non fuit omnino observatus, tamen per- gig^J^,^„ sonam vestram, quam inter ceteros fratres nostros ad gives him statum quem optinetis habilem reputamus, acceptam advice°'^'it semper habuimus et habemus in prjesenti. Positi appears igitur in agrum Dominicum, urticas discordise evellite, letter that caritatis radices plantate, religionem sanctam custodiri during the , . . . . Arch- facite, ut Ecclesia Christi ortus deliciarum appareat, bishop's et religio vestra, quae capud est totius provinci^, in absence . . . T-^ fro"^ Eng- omni veritate et sanctitate aliis nat in exemplum ; land, the vos specialiter rogantes, quatinus pro nobis exorare ^''^ . . , „ . takmg care Altissimus, et ad id faciendum fratres nostros inducere of his velitis afFectione qua potestis ampliori. Vobis insuper ^^yg''^^^. regratiamur de pueris nostris quos vobiscum tenetis, perhaps his et in brevi .speramus vos videre, Domino concedente ; qui vos in prosperitate conservet tempora per long- seva. Scriptum ValencianV xxvjo die Augusti. Per Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem. 680.— LiTTERA REGRATIATORIA MISSA DOMINO ArCHI- EPISCOPO CUM ALIIS CONTENTIS IN EADEM. L 74 6 Pater reverende, de vestra consolatione benigna, The Prior' quam michi status vestri incolumitatem vestris litteris ^t^*^ letter • The Prior was elected in 1338, | 1338-9, which will account for the and the Archbishop was in attend- j letter being written at Valen- ance upon the king in Flanders in I cicnnes. 216 to the Arch- bishop, in which he asks leave to admit uovices without the usual presenta- tion of them to the Arch- bishop ; and he wishes to be allowed to remove from their offices cer- tain offi- cials, ap- pointing others in their places, notwith- standing that the patronage of these offices be- longs to the Arch- bishop. intimando, fecistis, vobis sicut possum regi'atior toto corde, cujus tameu plenius sentirem augmentum si ves- tra venerabili prsesentia, visione, et allocutione mutua, tirmaretur. Verum sicut experientia didici quod pe- culiaris gregis vestri Piioris et Capituli Ecclesite ves- trae Cantuariensis (qui continue pro vobis insistunt, pi'out tenentur ex debito, devotis orationibus apud Deum) salutis, prosperitatis, et gratise vere diligitis incrementum, exigit eorum utilitas ut qufedam negotia iufrascripta, qu^ plurimum in vestra dispositione con- sistunt, vestro consilio et auxilio expeditione celeri terminentur ; scire veiitis, quod, cum nonnulli de nu- mero confratrum meorum postquam de partibus reces- sistis sint feliciter in Domino viam universae carnis ingressi, sitque conveniens et honestum ut in aug- mentum cultus divini et fratrum numeri competentis alii loco eorum assumentur in brevi, et ob hoc dc personis ydoneis per me et vestrum Capitulum, qua- tenus ad nos pertinet, sit provisum, ad ordinem et regularem habitum admittendis ; qui tamen priusquam regrdari habitu sint induti, si fieri posset commode, vestrie reverendee paternitati pr?esentari deberent, ut personas eorundem possitis paternis oculis intueri ; placeat paternitati vestrje praedicta? cum praesen- tatio hujusmodi nimis foret difficilis in prtesenti, ipsis, pro sic praesentatis habitis, dictum habitum libere sumendi concedere licentiam ista vice. Adhuc, pater reverend e, expedire crederem pro utilitate com- muni, ut aliquos de vestris obedientiariis ibidem ab admini.stratione sibi commissa celeriter faceretis absolvi. Supprior enim, praefectus de novo, de statu sue hu- jusmodi non contentus, ad studium dirigens mentis oculos et affectum, in scolis magis proficere creditur quam in claustro. Sunt etiam duo alii de obedien- tiariis vestris eisdem, quorum unum novi prorsus inutilem, famam propriam et Ecclesiae denigrantera, et communi utilitati communiter adversantem, aliurn vero reputo penitus impotentem. Unde si vestraB re- CANTUARIENSES, 217 verendae paternitati placerefc, ut de ipsis absolvendis, et aliis loco eorunJem subrogandis disponerem, vice vestra, in pra3missis facerem secundum Deum et bonaui conscienciam quod pro utilitate communi ma^'is cre- derein opportunum. Ad Ecclesiam suam sanctaui et vestram cum gaudio vos dirigat virtus Christi. Script., etc. Vaster humilis et devotus Robertus Prior Ecclesite Christi Cantuariensis, 681. — De porta Curiae data Alexandro de Stret- 29 Dec. FORD per Dominum J. Archiepiscopum. L. 74 6. Johannes permissione divina Cantuariensis Archi- ^.^.j^. episcopus, (etc.) dilectis in Christo filiis Priori et bishop Capitulo Ecclesia3 nostrse Cantuariensis, salutem, gra- app^ofn/s\i tiam, et benedictionem. Cum nos Alexandro de Stret- kinsman to ford officium Janitoris prioratus nostras Ecclesiga ante- of Keeper dictae ipsiusque custodiam, ad nostram coUationem of the spectantes, ad ipsius vitam libere possidendas, contule- of Christ rimus, cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis, vobis Church, injungimus et mandamus, quatinus eidem Alexandro, vel procuratori suo ejus nomine, omnia et singula jura et feoda consueta quae pertinent ad officium supradictum faciatis plene et integre liberari. Et quid facere duxeritis in praemissis uos certificare cu- retis, per litteras vestras patentes harum seriem con- tinentes. Datum apud Maydenstan iiij^o kalendas Januarii, anno Domini Moccc. tricesimo nono, et trans- lationis nostrae sexto. G82. — Certificatorium super hujusmodi donation E. 2. ran. 1340. Venerabili in Christo patri et suo domino Domino j^. 74 ^ Johanni Dei gratia, etc., sui humiles et devoti rpj^^^j^ et Capitulum Ecclcsiae Christi Cantuariensis obedien- tcr assents tiam tarn debitam quara devotam, cum omni reverentia '° '^'^ 218 LITER.*: Arch- et honore. Mandatum vcstrse reverendfe paternitatis bishop s . . , , ^ , '■ gift. nuper recepimus in hsec verba : Johannes, etc. (ut supra). Ad quod quidem mandatum, omnia et sin- gula jura ac feoda consueta quaj ad dictum offi- cium pertinent eidem Alexandro, ad totum termi- num vitte sufB, plene et integre fecimus liberari. Sicque eidem vestro mandato parere curavinius hu- militer et devote. Data in Capitulo nostro ij > • to confpr pertineat hujusmodi personas videre antequam dicto the monas- habitu induantur, prout fieri consuevit ; vestrai pater- ''"^ .... 1. 1 11 . ^ upon some nitati supplico reverendse, quod, absque visa vestro novices 246 LITER j« without a hujusmodi, dictae personfe in vestra ecclesia praedicta futroduc- habitu prfedicto indui valeant ista vice, de vestra tion to the gratia speciali, super hoc si placet vestrum benepla- bishop. citum rescribendo. Vestra reverenda paternitas in prosperis sit longpeva. Script., etc. 13 Sept. (1341). L. 77 a. A friend, who has sent a clerk for admis- sion as a monk, is told that the list is full, but that his candidate shall stand first on the next occa- sion. 712. — LiTTERA DE PERMISSIONE AD RECIPIENDmi W. DICTUM Trewelove ad habittbi monachalem. Amice, recepimus litteras vestras die Jovis hora vesperarum, ex quibus collegimus quod Willelmus dictus Trewelove ad habitum monachalem in Ecclesia nostra portandum quod posset admitti multum affecta- bat. Verum quia ante adventum dicti Willelmi tot erant recepti inter nos quot ista vice fuerant admit- tendi, promisimus sibi quod in proxima receptione nostra, quae erit in brevi ut speramus, erit primus ; de .sua affectione, necnon dignitatis gradu quern ali- quando optinebat, considerationem habentes. Ita tamen quod de cetero honeste se gerat, et studio se offerat, ut scientise intellectus et corporis statura per- fectius augeantur. Semper in Christo valeat carus meus. Scrip turn Cantuarise xiij". die Septembris sub nostro sigillo privato. SP!^\ 713. — Littera missa Archiepiscopo tangens clericos 1341 .) ADMISSOS ad habitum MONACHALEM. The Arch- bishop is told that the admis- sion of monks at Christ Church be- longs to the Chapter, and that Venerabili in Christo patri ac domino suo reverendo. Domino Johanni Dei gratia Cantuariensis Archiepi- scopo, etc, sui humiles et devoti Prior et Capitulum Ecclesi^e vestrae Cantuariensis, obedientiam debitam, cum omni reverentia et honore. Ex eo, pater reve- rende, quod in vestris nuper litteris contentum vidimus non modica sumus admiratione turbati ; videlicet, quod admissionem illorum qui ad habitum et ordinem CANTTTARIENSEB. 247 as a of course. nostrum regularem debent recipi vel admitti ad ves- when the tram avchiepiscopalem pertinere praetenditis dignitatem, ar^p'rlT*'^'^ cum Prior et Capitulum sint, et semper fuerant, in scnted to possessione pacifica liujusmodi admittendi personas, a b^s*jj^' tempore, efc per tempus, cujus contrarii memoria non ought to existit, scientibus Archiepiscopis, qui pro tempore ^^onf a fuerant, tollei'antibus et non contradicentibus quovis- thing of modo ; qui duntaxat ipsorum debent Addere personas, et sine difficultate qualecumqe cum benedictione re- mittere, in eadem Ecclesia regularem habitum I'ecep- turas ; prout in Capitulo nostro, non est diu, ad plenum fuistis super hoc informati. Quocirca vestram reverendam paternitatem devote requirimus et rogamns, quatinus hujusmodi consuetudine nos uti velitis per- mittere, sicut hactenus solebamus ; et gratiose concedere quod octo personte, per nos ad portandum dictum regularem habitum in eadem Ecclesia, juxta dictam consuetudinem, jam admissse, indui possint eodem habitu regulari, absque praesentatione personarum earum vobis, ut prsemittitur, facienda, quse nobis esset difficilis ista vice ; vestrum, si placet, nobis super hoc rescribentes beneplacitum Deo gratum. Ad regimen Ecclesise suae sanctte pi'opicietur indies vobis Christus. Dat., etc. 714. — LiTTERA RESPONSORIA EIDEM DIRECTA SUPER QUE- (Oct. RELA ReCTORIS DE RySSEBERGH. ^ ^341.") L. 77 a. Pater et domine reverende, scire velitis quod querela o/'^-^^g*''^ Rectoris de Ryssebergh de Thoma Queynterel vobis rough facta veritatem non continet, sicut credo. Verumta- ^. ' plained to men, si aliter informatus praemissa invencrim esse the Arch- vera, emendas super hoc faciet ad vestrum beneplaci- ^nd the turn competentes. Valeat et prospere vigeat vita Prior says , o • i. i that his vestra. fecript., etc. - complaint is without foundation in fact. 248 LITERiK (Oct. 715. — LiTTERA RESPONSORIA ET EXCUSATORIA MISSA ^^'^^'^ DUCI CORNUBI^, DE MEREMIO IN HeSELYNG ^- '^^ NON CONCEDENDO. The Black A lour ti'eshonurable Seignur Sire Edward, eisnez Prince has a noble Roi Dengleterre et de Fraunce, Dues de asked for . timber Comeweill, et Counte de Cestre, ses Chapelleyns Convent P^'io^ii" 6t Covent del Esglise de Cauntorbires, ceo qils but is poent donurs ove toutes maneres de reverences. Tres- Prbr^tha^*^ honurable Seignui-, nous avons receuz vcz lettres, qi the timber sont commaundementz as nous en tant come bone- has^been'**" ^^^^^ purrons, de giaunter a Pierres de Guldeburgh, saved up vostre Tresorier, xxiiij. cheynes, bones et convenables tor the use j. u i tt i of the pour mereym, en nostre boys de Heselyngg, a re- Monastery, pareiller ascunes ses mesouns en les parties de Kent, qil ad voluz faire. Et por ceo qe nostre dite Esglise est si fiebles et ruinousse, cele petite place de Hese- lyngg grant temps a. estee sauvement gardee saunz destruccioun faire, en espoir de grant socour et aide as nous a busoigne ; qe en bref temps ne puist estre eschuy, et en tiel meschief aillours dedeinz xx. lewes en tour nous ne nous purrions chevier. Pur quey nous vous prions liumblement et requerons, qe plese a vostre haute seignurie, qe (de sicome le tenour de vostre dit cominaundement chorroit a perpetuel dam- age de vostre myere esglise susdite) nous veuUez endroit de la dite place avoir pour escusez. Et, a grande reverence et plesaunce de vous, aillours en nostre grant, ne seiTa mye si trop chargeaunte, nous ferrous qe Sire PieiTes vostre Tresorier de resoun se doit aggTeer. Dieu meyntiegne, Sire, vostre treshaute seignurie pour long temps adurier. Donez, etc. CANTUARIENSES. 249 715. To their most honourable Lord Sir Edward, eldest son of the noble King of England, &c. the Convent of the Church of Canterbury, all that they can of honour and every kind of respect. Most honourable Lord, we have received your letters (which are for us, as far as we are able, equivalent to commands) asking us to give to Peter of Guldeburgh, your Treasurer, twenty-four oaks, sound and suitable for building timber, in our Wood of Heselyng, for the repairs of certain of his houses in Kent which he wishes to do. But, because our said Church is so inse- cure and dilapidated, this small wood of Heselyng has for a long time been reserved from cutting, in the hope of great help from it in the time of our need ; which cannot be postponed more than a short time, and in that unfortunate case we should not be able to supply ourselves within twenty leagues around. Wherefore we humbly pray and beg that it may please your exalted Lordship (seeing that the tenor of your said command- ment would issue in the perpetual injury of your afore- said Mother Church) to have us excused as far as the said wood is concerned. And, through our great reve- rence and desire to please you, in anything else in our power to grant, be.it never so weighty, we will act so that Sir Peter your Treasurer must in reason hold him- self content. May God long maintain; Sire, your most exalted Lordship. Given, &c. 250 LITERS (Mar. ^IG. — LiTTERA RESPOXSALIS MISSA EPISCOPO ROFEENSI 1342.) SUPER SECURITATE XX. LIBRARUM FACIENDA ^' PAUPERIBUS HOSPITALIS SANCTI AnDREJ2 IN Hethe. It IS pro- Pater reverende, quia, vlsis et intellectis vestn.s posed to ..... raise a litteris noDis missis, satis apparet nullam aliam esse tvrenty esitationem super tractatu inter nos alias habito, de pounds for quo faciatis in vestris litteris mentionem, nisi de oHhe Hos- f^rnia securitatis per nos prjestandse super solutione pital of St. XX. librarum sterlingorum pauperibus Hospitalis Saneti Hylbe'' Andi"eae de Heth ; scire velitis, quod parati sumus omnem in ea parte securitatem prtestare, juxfca con- silium vestrum et nostrum, quae in prfejudicium nostras Ecclesiae Cantuariensis non tenderet in futu- rum. Sed quia talia fieri non possent sine maxima deliberatione et solempni tractatu, et^ ideo mittemus vobis unum vel duos de consilio nostro sufficienter inctructos, ad tractanduni vobiseum et consilio vestro super securitate in praemissis prsestanda, prout nobis et vobis opportunum [videatur]. Nec displiceat paternitati vestrse reverendae quod securitati sub forma alias per paternitatem -s'estram petita consentire non possumus, pro eo quod talis securitas nobis et Ecclesiae nosti-ae foret praejudicialis pariter et dampnosa. Valeat, etc. (Sept. 717. — LiTTERA MISSA MaGISTRO N. DE TaRENTA UT AD NOS ACCEDAT PRO CAUSA DOVORI^. L. 77 b. The Coun- Scire velitis karissime, quod in illo dispendioso gel of the negotio inter nos et religiosos viros monachos Sancti SedTo Martini Dovorijfi, ipsorum reclamatione calumpniosa confer pendente, placet, tam Domino Archiepiscopo quam Prior in nobis et ipsis, quod omnis controversia et cujuseunque the matter materia per aliquam compositionem amicabilem Dover suit. _ — — ' el redundant. CANTUARIENSES, 251 terminetuv. Et ad plene tractandum super hoc, habe- raus proximum diem juridicum post festum Sancti Mathei Apostoli proximo nunc ventun^m, per dictum dominum, de consensu partium, assignatiim ; ([uocirca vestram dilectionem sinceram requirimus et rogamus quatinus, opportunitate captata ad nos veniendi citra diem prjedictum, velitis dirigere gressus vesti-os, nobis- cum super dicto negotio deliberatione debita tractaturi et vestrum sanum consilium impensuri. Et ista cordi, si libeat, habeatis, sicut commodura nostrum diligitis et honorem. In pace votiva vos custodiat pacis ^.uctor. Dat. etc. 718, — LiTTERA RESPONSALIS MISSA DOMINO J. ARCHI- (1342.) episcopo quod parati erimus ad ratifican- l. 77 b. dum litteras concessas apparitori in curia Cantuariensi de officio SUO. Pater reverende, quia, sicut ego et confratres mei The Chap- vestris intelleximus litteris, apparitoris officium in ves- by the tra Cantuariensi Curia exercendum ipsarum litterarum Arch- bajulo, ad terminum vitje suae, concedere intenditis ratify^the gratiose, si nos statum suum nostris litteris ratificai'e 'ipp"^'"t- duxerimus in hac parte ; scire velitis vestra reverenda one of his paternitas, quod parati sumus et erimus, quatenus ad ^® "gyt'^g nos pertinet, hujusmodi perficere beneplacitum reve- do so. i-enter. Valeat vestra reverenda paternitas semper in Christo cum prosperitate votiva. Script, etc. 719. — De ordinacione Hospitalis de Eastbrygg in 23 Sept. „ 1342, civitate Cantuaria et appropriacione ECCLEsi^ Sancti Nicholai. ^■ Johannes permissione divina Cantuariensis Archi- Arch- episcopus, etc. dilecto in Christo filio Domino Rogerio gtratfbrd'- dc Rondes, Magistro Hospitalis pauperum de Est- refoma- bregg in civitate Cantuariae, patronatus nostri, salutem^ statutes of 252 St. Tho- etc. Etsi votivu« iioster invalescat att'ectus decus Becket's commoda locorum, ad misevabilium personarum et hospital of pauperum recepcionem ac su.stentacionem divinique kTcanter-^ cultus augmentacionuin provide deputatorum, nobis ^"•■y- potissime subditorum, quatenus possiimus procurare ; tamen conservacio et relevamen necessarium Hospi- talis de Estbrugg praedicti, per beatum et gloriosum Martirera Thomam olim Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum, prsedecessorem nostrum, fundati antiquitus et dotati, ob ipsius Martiris, qui suis veneratoribus opem porri- git, honorem prsecipuum, pra? ceteris locis hujusmodi incidunt nobis cordi. Sane tua peticio, nuper nobis exhibita, continebat : quod idem ho.spitale, per Beatum ^lartirem antedictum pro pauperum peregrinorum Cantuariam confluenciuin, et recepcione nocturna et sustentacione aliquali, ab olim et pro jam incumben- tibus eidem oneribus dotatum exiliter, per ipsius hos- pitalis incuriam Magistrorum, qui ejus prostrarunt nemora, eaque, et alia jui'a, possessiones, et bona ipsius, tam mobilia quam imraobilia, modis alienare variis temere pr?esumpserunt, ad supremam egesta- tem/ [et] inopiam est deductum, et feris alieni, per ipsos factis et contractis, plurimis oneribus, ad quorum solucionem bona dicti hospitalis, absque remedio et auxilio extrinceco, hiis diebus non sufficiunt, premitur manifeste ; in suis etiam domibus et fiedificiis, olim suflacienter constnictis, deform itates evidenter intan- tum patitur et ruinam, quod nisi ejusdem hospitalis provideatur indigenciffi aliunde, illud nedum peregri- nos hujusmodi, ad ipsum post gloriosum triumplium et canonizacionem dicti Sancti plus solito confluentes,''^ admittere non valebit, sed desolacionis tantpe subjici- etur opprobriis, quod vix aliquis, aut nullus idoneus, invenietur qui recipere velit hujus regimen hospitalis. Quapropter nobis humiliter supplicasti, ut ad rele- vamen omnium prsemissorum, et pro sustentacione 1 eislatem, MS. - confluentium, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 253 pauperum peregrinorum illuc copiose indies conflu- encium pleniori, ecclesiam parochialem Beati Nicholai de Herbaldoune, nostne dioecesis, cujus ad dictum hospitals jus spectare dignoscitur patronatus, eandem tibi successoribusque tuis, ipsius hospitalis Magistris, ex causis prsemissis, in proprios usus imperpetuum concedere annectere at unire ^ vellemus ; nos siqui- dem hospitalis prtedicti, quod nuper visitavimus, de- fectum notorium quem patitur intuentes, tarn circa divina obsequia quam alia caritatis opera inibi exer- cenda, sub forma competenti et indubia, sicut convenit, minime ordinati, ipsiiisque indigenciis evidentibus paterno compacieiites affectu, tuis etiam justis in ea parte supplicacionibus inclinati, super causis superius expressatis ac veritate ipsarum, vocatis ad hoc omni- bus evocandis de jure, per fidedignos, in forma juris juiatos et singillatim examinatos, sufficientera prae- missorum noticiam optinentes, auctoritate nostra, inquisicione juxta exigenciam juris facta, demum super hiis cum religiosis viris filiis nostris Priore et Capitulo nostrte Cantuariensis Ecclesife in ipsius Capitulo tractatum diligentem habuimus et solemp- nem, prout requiritur in concessionibus hujusmodi perpetuis et alienacionibus de jure ecclesiarum ; et quia dictas causas, et per te nobis in hac parte sug- gesta, omnia et singula invenimus esse vera, legitime- que approbata, necnon justa, et sufficiencia fore ad appropriacionem dictfe ecclesise faciendam, cum urgens necessitas ac evidens subsit utilitas in hac parte, prse- fatam ecclesiam Beati Nicholai de Herbaldoune, inter- veniente in ea parte quorum interest consensu, cum Priore et Capitulo nostris praedictis tractatu, ut est dictum, super hiis solempni et diligenti prsehabito, ac de eorum consensu, concurrentibusque omnibus et singulis quae in prsemissis et ea tangentibus requii^e- bantur de jure, prsedictisque ex causis, auctoritate i^eiiire, MS. 254 LITER.'K nostra ordinaria, hospitali prajdicto, tibi, et tuis suc- cessoribus Magistris ejusdem ministraturis in eo, appro- priamus, annectiinus, et unimus ; ipsiusquc ecclesiaj fructus, redditus, et proventus in dicti hospitalis usus pro- prios, et tuos, ac successorurn tuorum Magistrorum ejus- dem, et peregriaorum pauperum ad illud confluenciuin, juxta modum inferius annotatum concedimus perpetuo convertendos ; salva idoneo sacerdoti dictie servituro ec- clesite in divinis, qui etiam animarum curam exercebit in ea, tuo successoruinque tuorum Magistrorum ibidem arbitrio de permutanda et amelioranda, propter exilli- tatem ecclesia^ antedictte ad perpetui vicarii sustentacio- nem et onerum relevamen hujusmodi minime sufficientis, pro suis victualibus et sustentacione, de ipsius ecclesiaj fructibus, redditibus, et proventibus congrua porcione ; alia siquidem onera eidem ecclesise incumbencia per Magistrum hospitalis praedicti volumus supportari. Ceterumque, (cum) super modo divina celebrandi ofticia in hospitali prsedicto, et caritatis opera, ceteraque pera- genda inibi exercendi, clara, sufficiens, et indubia ordi- nacio mmime reperitur, licet qufedam observancice in hiis, et praecipue in provisione pauperum, usitatae in eo nobis fuerint intimatae, nos, ad pei"petuam rei memo- riam, super hiis certos modum et formam in hospitali prsedicto perpetuo observandos edere seu constituere duximus. et taliter ordinamus. Videlicet, quod in dicto hospitali per nos et per successores nostros, Archiepi- scopos Cantuarienses, ponatur seu praeficiatur Magister, qui tempore quo ponetur seu prseficietur eidem sit in sacerdotali online constitutus, cui, per nos et per successores nostros hujusmodi, dicti hospitalis regimen committatur, prout canonicis convenit institutis. Ma- gistrum eciam quemlibet hujusmodi, cum ipsum hos- pitale primo adeptus ^ fuerit, infra mensem sequentem proxime, de ipsius hospitalis bonis, sigillo suo sigilla- tum et speciticuiu inventarium plenum conficere, ipsi- ad opiis, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 255 usque copiam infra mensem eundem Priori nostra) Cantuariensis EcclesiiB tradere ; ac eidem, vel Suppriori ejusdem dicto prioratu vucante, seu alteri ad hoc de- putando per ipsorum alterutrum suo casu, in ipso prioratu, vice Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi et auctoritate praesencium, annis singulis inter Sancti Micliaelis et Omnium Sanctorum festa, de administracioue sua red- dere plenam et distinctam, volumus, racioneni. Ordi- namus insuper quod Magister ipse qui erit tempore unum alium a se habeat continuo secum in dicto hoa- pitali idoneum Capellanum secularem ponendum et amovendum prout eidem Magistro videbitur expedire ; quodque Magister et Capellanus hujusmodi in hospitali pv9Bdicto matutinas et ceteras horas canonicas adin- vicem, legitime impedimento cessante, secundum usum Saresburiensis Ecclesiaj psallere vel convenienter dicere et devote ; ac divina, videlicet, unus eorum missam Be die, alius vero diebus Dominicis De Sancto Nicliolao, diebus Martis De Beato Thoma Martire antedicto, diebus Jovis De Beata Virghu Katerina, ceteris vero diebus ebdomadatim missam Pro defunctis et pro benefactoribus hospitalis pi'sedicti, teneantur diebus singulis celebrare, ac ^ eorum quilibet oratiouem Rege quceso Domine Pontificem nostrum, etc. pro nobis quamdiu agimus in hac vita, et post solutum nostra) carnis debituiii orationem Deus qui inter apostolicos sacerdotes, etc. diebus ad hoc aptis et competentibus dicere ; necnon in canone missae pro nobis specialiter horare, nostrique habere memoiiam specificatam in celebrandis suis missis singulis imperpetuum sit astric- tus. Ordinamus praeterea, quod ad dicti Magistri dis- posicionem et curam solicitam fructus, redditus, et proventus, dictique tocius hospitalis regimen, quamdiu Magister ibidem fuerit, cum moderamine pei'tineant infrascripto. Quodque Magistro et Capellano hujus- modi celebraturis et ministraturis pro tempore in hos- pitali praedicto, singulis communibus diebus de uno 256 ferciilo duplicate ; in Dominicis vero diebus et, festis duplicibus ac solempnibus, cum liujusmodi fereulo de una pitancia non minus sumptuosa deserviatur in mensa. lD(h)ibemus insuper et interdicimus, ne com- mune sigillura in hospitali praedicto habeatur amodo, vel existat. Peregrini siquideni valetudinarii pauperes, quos arripit infirmitas in suae peregracionis itinere, non leprosi, in hospitali recipiantur eodem ; et in fata decedentes ibidem in cimiterio nostrte Cantuariensis Ecclesise sepelliantur, in loco ad hoc antiquitus assig- nato ; sani autem peregrini accedentes ibidem per noctem unam in eo recipiantur dumtaxat ; in quorum, tarn valetudinariorum quam sanorum peregrinorum hujusmodi, usus, ad ipsorum vitse subsidium, diebus singulis ad quatuor denariorum sestimacioneni de bonis hospitalis prsedicti volumus et ordinamus expendi. Peregrinos tamen valetudinarios pauperes, illuc conflu- entes cum sanis, tarn ad moram quam ad vitae subsidia in aestimacione praedicta percipienda, sanis volumws ante- ferri. Quod si dierum aliquo in usus peregrinorum de bonis hospitalis ipsius, propterea quod nullos vel paucos peregrinos hujusmodi contigerit declinare, ad aestimaci- onem non expendatur eandem, ordinamus et volumus, quod diebus aliis, seu temporibus copiosioris adventus peregrinorum hujusmodi, juxta modum superius anno- tatum, suppleatur taliter cum effectu, quod in usu tarn pio et laudabili de bonis hospitalis ad summam quatuor denariorum, pro numero singulorum dierum in anno, disposicione praevia integraliter et fideliter erogatur. In hospitali eciam praedicto duodecim lectos competentes ordinamus debere perpetuo consistere, ad visum confiuencium pauperum peregrinorum ibidem ; ac mulierem honestae vitae aliquam, quae quadraginta 22N0V. 720.— LiTTERA RESPONSALIS MISSA DUCI CORNUBI^ (1442). ^ , SUPER CC. LIBRIS MUTITANDIS DOMIXO ReGI. L. 77 h. The Prior, A trcshonurable Seignur Sire Edward, eisnez fils a asked by tresexcellent prince et Rois Dengleten-e et de Fraunce, CANTUARIENSES. 257 annorum setatem excesserit, ministerio peregrinorum liujusmodi, tam in lectis quam vitse necessariis ut praemittiLur ministrandis, esse volumus intendentem ; cui mulieri de bonis hospitalis prredicti ministretur in singulis vite suae necessariis competenter. Et ad ordinacionem praesentem in singulis suis articulis, prout est possibiie, observandam, et quatenus in se est facere fieri observari, necnon do corrodiis, pencionibus, possessionibus, nemoribus, aut bonis imniobilibus, seu juribus ipsius hospitalis non vendendis, concedendis im- perpetuum, vel ad tempus donandis, vel alio quovis alienacionis titulo non alienandis, nobis aut successori- bus nostris Archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus non consultis et non consencientibus ad hoc expresse. per quosdam Magistros hospitalis praedicti quibus ejus regimen committetur in posterum, priestare volumus et ordi- namus, in commissionibus de ipso faciendis eisdem, coi'porale ad Sancti Dei Ewangelia juramentum. Com- missionem autem hospitalis preedicti, si facta fuerit alteri quam in sacerdocio constitute, vel prsedicto non exacto seu prse.'itito juramento, fore volumus, ipso jure, irritam et inanem. Reservata nobis et succes- soribus nostris, Archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus, hujus- modi ordinacioni nostra? addendi, detrahendi, eamque mutandi, et corrigendi prout expedire videbitur ple- nariam potestatem. Acta et data in Capitulo dictai The nostne Cantuariensis Ecclesiae, xxiij° die mensis Sep- ^Ratification tembris, anno Domini M^CCC quadragesimo secundo. of the ^ ' ..... Arch- Et nos Frater Roberfcus permissione divina Prior bishop's Ecclesia? Christi Cantuariensis, etc. approbamus, I'ati- reforma^ fleam us, ac etiam confirmamus, etc. Data, etc. die et Eastbrifige anno supradictis. statutes. 720. To the most honourable Lord Sir Edward, eldest son of the most excellent piince and King of England and U 52123. R 258 LITERS the Black Ducs de CorneAveiUe, Counte de Cestre, et Gaidien to lend Dengleterre, ses cliapelleins Priour et Covent del Esglise 200/. to the Caunterbires, ceo oils poent de dewes reverences et King, . offers to houurs. Sire, nous receumes voz graciouses lettres le 100/*^^ xxij. jour de Novembre, par les mayns Sire Eadmund de Grymesby, clerk nostre Seigniu- le Roy, quieux por- tent plesauntes noveles a noi;s du viage nostre Seignur le Roy en parties de Britaigne, pour quieles, nemye sanz enchaisou. liumblement nous vous enmercioms. Et avoms, Sire, entenduz par voz dites lettres la grande necessitee dargent, qe durement nous poise, qe nostre dit Seignur en ad, et voudrez qe nous lui faissoms avoii' cc. livres dapprest, en fourme continewc en voz dites lettres ; nous voillantz, par toutes les voies qe purroms, faire a plesaunce les prieres nostre Seignur le Roy et de vous (qi nous sont commaundementz), a vostre bone Seignurie fessoms savoir, qe nous fer- roms clievaunce ove noz amis de c. livres, quieles nous enveieroms par ascun de noz a la faiste Seint Nicho- las ; et si nous pooms de plus clievir nous le fex'roms a nostre poair, issint toute foiz qe dewe acquitaunce nous soit faite de la porcioun qe nous attint de la disme darrein grauntee par la clergi, solonc la pro- messe de la credence le clerk susdit. Dieu, Sire, nous tiegne vostre bone Seignurie par long temps adurer. Escript a Canterbires le xxij. jour de Noverabrc avantdit. Consimilis littera Directa fuit Dominge Philippae Eegintc dc c. libris dicto Domino Kegi mutnandis. (1342.) 721. — Littera directa Doiiini Archiepiscopi Can- l. 77 /.. cellario de supersedendo ad tempus quoad decijias yendicatas per novum vicarium de Prestone de manerio nostro de Hamjie. The Chan- Amice karissime, quia no\Tis vicarius ecclesias de cellor of ... , . . the Arch- Prcstone citan procuravit, ut audivimus quendam CANTUARIENSES. 259 France, &c., Regent of England, his chaplains the Prior and Convent of the Church of Canterbury, all that they can of i-everence and honour due. Sire, we received youi' gracious letters the 22d of November, by the hands of Master Edmund de Grimsby, clerk of our Lord the King, and in them are brought to us comfortable news of the expedition of our Lord the King in Brittany, for which, and not without I'eason, we humbly thank you. And we have learned, Siro, by your said letters the great need which our said lord has of money (which greatly grieves its), and that you desire that we should furnish him with two hundred pounds by way of loan, after the scheme contained in your said letters ; now, we, wishing in eveiy way we can to show compliance with the requests of our Lord the King and of yourself (which to us are commands), inform your good Lordship that we will raise among our friends one hundred pounds, which we will send to you, by one of our people, by the Feast of St. Nicholas ; and if we can raise more we will do so to the best of our power ; providing always that a proper acquittance be made to us out of our payment towards the last disme granted by the clergy, according to the promise contained in the credence of the above-named clerk. May God, Sire, preserve to us your good Lordship in long life. Written, &c. ])allivum nostrum, hominem valde siiuplicem, ct, ut bishop i«: tiineuius, ea intentione ut ab eo cxisferet aliouas deci- . ° ^ restrain mas, majores vel nnnores, de rebus in locis qui bus the Vicai ])nTeest provenientes, quamvis ab omni tempore nos neft'^ra-"" ot monasterium jiostrum fuimus in nossessione iuris re- versbam tinendi ct percipiendi omnes decimas hujusmodi, tam demanded 11 2 260 LITERS tithes from majores quam mlnores, in locis prjefatis qualitercunque belongiDo- provenieutes, vestram amicitiam carissimam, de qua to the non inexperti fiduciam gerimus pleniorem, attentius ' deprecamur quatinus, auditis per vos benigne hiis quae Nicholaus Dagb, clericus noster, lator prsesentium ad vos hac occasione transmissiis, ad vestri informa- tionem majorem, ex parte nostra super praefata materia vobis dicet, velitis, viis quibus licite et honeste pote- ritis, vicarium inducere supradictum, quod a fatigatione ballivi nostri hujusmodi inchoata omnino desistat, aut saltern supersedeat quousque, tempore competenti post festum instans, cum domino nostro et vobis possimus super hiis habere colloquium personale ; alioquin obtento libel lo, lit est moris, detur ad deliberandum terminus tam prolixus, quod inter dominum nostrum prfedictum et vos alloqui ut prsefertur commode valeamus. Li- benter faceremus aliqua quae possent esse placita votis vestris. Script., etc. (Dec. 722. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA DIRECTA EPISCOPO LON- DONIENSI, QUOD IPSE NON INQUIRAT SUPER ^- SPONSALIBUS INTER KOGERIUM DE BeRNERS ET QUANDAM MATILDEM VIRTUTE CUJUSDAM BREYIS regii, nisi essemus pr^muniti; per quod BREVE PR^DICTA MATILDA VENDICAT DOTEM SUAM DE TERRA BeRNERS APUD HoRSLE. Tlie Cum omni honore et reverentia, se paratum ad London^is tanti patris beneplacita et mandata. Pater et Domine asked not veverende, quia qujedam Matilda, asserens se fuisse to proceed -n •• \ -r, -l inanec- uxorem Kogerii de Berners, traxit nos in causam in suu'affecT' ^^^'^^^ regia, peteus a nobis dotem suam quarunc'am ter- iug a per- rarum qufe, ut dixit, fuerant ipsius Eogerii dum vixit, do\wry{\f ^0^*1^® cidem opposuimus quod nunquam extitit eidem she be en- Rogerio in legitimo matrimonio copulata, cujus cogni- L'^'n'the '^'^ vobis, tanquam Oi'dinario, ut audivimus, per breve fee of the rcgium est remissa; vestram reverendam paternitatem Convent. CANTUARIENSES. 261 aff'ectuosius quo valemiis requirimus ot rogamus, qua- tinus in inquisitione sen processu in hac parte, per vos seu Commissarioh? vestros, si quos aut qiiom ad id constituere decreveritis, t'aciendo, talem dignemini maturitatem facere et pra3cipere observari, quod, nobis non vocatis vel non prsemunitis modo debito, ad ex- peditionem negotii hujusmodi vobis sic remissi, vel ad certificandum Curiam regiam in nostri vel Ecclesiaa nostrpe Cantuariensis, quam sub vestra recoramenda- tione special! experimentaliter fore didicimus et sup- poniraus recollectam, [prjejudicium] minime proceda- tis. Prajfatus etenim Kogerius, ante omnem adhse- sionem quam cum dicta Matilde illicite habuit, per plures annos fuit rector ecclesiaj de Westhorsle, Wyntoniensis dioecesis, et in sacerdotio constitutus, ac missas ibidem, tanquam rector hujusmodi et sacerdos, palam et publice celebravit ; de quibus vobis in forma juris fidem plenariam faciemus. Super hiis autem, si placet, vestrum propositum benevolum et benignuui rescribere, et nobis in hiis qu?e per nos poterunt ex- pediri fiducialiter preecipere, dignetur vestra reverenda paternitas, quam conservet Altissimus Ecclesice suae sanctse regimini salutari. Script., etc. 723.— LiTTERA REGRATIATORIA MISSA EPISCOPO SUPRA- (Dec. DICTO SUPER BONA RESPONSIONE LITTERyE ^'^"^--^ PROXIME PRiESCRlPTyE, UNA CUM ALUS CON- '^^ «• TETTTIS IN EADEM. Ad tanti et tam reverendi patris beneplacita et A letter of prfecepta promptum obsequium hfec scribentis, cum S ^°J^? 1° , „ the Bishop reverentia et honore. rater et Domine reverende, de of Londou gratiosa et benigna responsione ad litteras nosti'as compH ultimo vobis missas per vos facta, ac de beneficiis ance with multiplicibus in pecuniaj vestraj eSusione nimia, et Jontamed'' aliis nuntio nostro ex vestra largitate impensis, vobis 'he quas valemus gratiarum referimus actiones ; vestramque Teuen"* 262 LITERiE benevolentiam, quam vos eiga no.s gessisse ac ge- rere, ex tenore litteranim vestrarum nobis per eun- dcra nimlium remissarum, comperimus, absque vestri displicencia attentius quo possumus depreeamur, qua- tinus executionem gratise Johanni HanekjTig, paxipeii clerico infra nostrum monasterium educato, latori prsesentium, ab Apostolica sede factfe, super qua vobis litterae apostolicEe diriguntur, dignemini venerabilibus viris Magistris Henrico de Idesword et Johanni de Earnet, OfSciali vestro, et utrique eorum, conjunctim ct divisim, committere gratiose, intuitu caritatis ct nostrorum precaminum interventu. Ad tuitionem Ecclesise vestrre praedictse vos conservet Altissimu.s diu et feliciter ut optamus. Script., etc. 9 Dec. 724. — De camera CONCESSA ad VITAM ALICIiE DE Hertlep apud Sanctum Jacobum. L. 78 a. Grant of Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos pr^esentes litterio lodging in pervenerint, Christina Priorissa domus Sancti Jacobi HospitaHo j^^^*'^ Cantuariam et ejusdem loci sorores, sakitem in a lady, Domino. Noverit universitas vestra nos de unanimi with rever- , ■, , . sion to her consensu nostro, necnon de assensu venerabnis in sister. Christo patris et domini Domini Roberti Prions Ecclesife Christi Cantuariensis, custodis nostri, di- misisse et coneessisse dilectaj nobis in Christo Alicije de Hertlepe, ad totam vitam suam, quandam cameram quam inhabitavit Domina de Fynel dum visit, scitu- atam infra mansum domus nostrte juxta portam nos- 27 July 725. — LiTTERA RESPONSALIS FACTA DOMIN^ ISABELL^E (1343). ReGIN^ super ElEMOSINA PER NOS FACIENDA L. 78 b. FrATRIBUS Mlf^ORTBUS IN CANTUARIA SICUT FACERE SOLEBAMUS. The Queen trcsnoblc dame, Dame Isabelle, par la grace de having Dieu Roigoe Dengleterre, Dame Dirlaunde, et Countesse CANTUARIENSES, 263 tram, cum inclaustura ct omnibus aliis aisiameutis ad tlictam cameram spectantibus, cum libero ingrcssu ct egressu ad eandem pro se et suis pro libito sue tem- poribus oportunis. Et si contingat dictam Aliciam decedere vivente Johanna sorore sua, extunc volumus et concedimus eidem Johanne, ad, totam vitam suam, praidictam cameram, cum dicta inclaustura, et omnibus aliis aisiamentis suis, cum libero ingressu et egressu ad eandem pro se et suis ut preemittitur, sine con- tradictione quacunque nostri vel nostrorum quorum- cunque, Ita tamen, quod ipsa Alicia vel Johanna nullam personam inhonestam in dicta camera, seu infra clausturam prjefatam, secum morari, nec aliquid quod in scandalum nostrum vel domus nostrse tenderc valeat, perpetrari faciant vel perraittant. Prfedicta^ vero Alicia et Johanna prsedictam cameram emenda- bunt et reparabunt cum necesse fuerit, durante tempore suo, suis sumptibus et expensis. Et nos Christina Priorissa et soi'ores prsedictse dictam cameram, cum dicta inclaustura, et omnibus aisiamentis suis, et libero ingressu et egressu ad eandem, prsedictis Alicise et Johanna?, ad totam vitam suam, ut prsemittitur, warrantizabimus per prsesentes. In cujus rei testi- monium, tam sigillum nostrum commune, quam sig- illum prtedicti venerabilis patris Prioris Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis, custodis nostri, prresentibus sunt appensa, die Lunse, videlicet, in crastino Concepcionis Beatte Marise, anno Domini millesimo ccc. quadra- gesimo secimdo. 725. To the most noble lady the Lndy lsal)el, hy the grace of God Queen of England, &c., her humble and devout 264 LITEKjE asked the dc Pontuf, ses humblcs et devoiitz chapelleins Priour continue Covent del Esglise de Caunterbires se recom- '•"nua! manndent, appareillez a ses douz plesiers. Tres- heTdatthe lionurable Dame, nous reccumes voz graciouses lottres date) to the le xxiiij. joul" de Juyl, par les mains Thomas de of Canter- Stourtone vostre vadlet, affaire noz almoignes as hury, he bones gentz de religion Fraires Meneurs de Caunter- cause why bires, qont estez una piece soubtraites, en manere he should (.qjjj nons les avoms fait de e-race avant ses lioures, not do so. . ° et le plus courtoisement par cause de vostre requeste. Et per ceo, tresgraciouse Dame, qe vous ny estes cnfoui-mez de la cause de la soubtraite des dites al- moignes, si pleser vous soit, vous fessonis savoir qc les ditz Fraires ont enclos a lour mansion une gran- disme place qi doit rente a nous, com de droit dc nostra Esglise, ou nous ne poom? entrier a destreindro por arrerages qi sont grandes ; quele enclousture en temps avenir, sanz faire ceo qils deivent de reson, purroit terminer a disheritisoun de nous et de nostra dite Esglise, a quey nostre conscience ne puist ne nc doit assantir ; por quey, nostre chai'itee puis nadmye este si overte da vers eux come davant. Mais tresnoble Dame, en reverence de vous et a vostre dite requeste, qest commaundement a nous, nous graunteroms as ditz fraires la dite almoigne, qest purement de nostre grace, sauvantz toute foiz le droit de nostre Esglise, et issint qils facent a nous et a nostre dite Esglise ceo qils deivent de resun ; a quele chose faire vous requeroms, tresamez Dame, qe vous les veuUez com- maunder. Dieu vous maintiegne. Dame, et vous donit hone vie et longe. Escript en nostre Chapitre le xxvij. jour de Juyl susdit. CANTUARIENSES. 265 chaplains the Prior and Convent of the Church of Canterbury recommend themselves, prepared to do all her good pleasure. Most honourable Lady, we received your gracious letters on the 24th of July by the hands of Thomas de Stovirton your servant, (asking us) to give to those good religious men the Minorite Friars of Canterbury our alms (which for a time have been with- held) in the same manner as we formerly did ; and this the more courteously, because of your request. And, very gracious Lady, because you have not been told of the cause of the withdrawal of the said alms, if it please you we let you know that the said Friars have enclosed in their precinct a considerable piece of ground which is charged with a rent to our Church, so that we cannot enter to distrain for the arrears which are of large amount ; which enclosure in time to come, unless they do what in justice they ought to do, might end in the disherison of us and of our Church, a thing to which our conscience neither can consent nor ought it to do so ; wherefore, since that time our charity towards them has not been so ready as aforetime. But, very noble Lady, out of reverence to you and your said request, we will give the said alms to the said Friars (this being purely a matter of favour), the right of our Church being always reserved, provided they act towards us and our Church as they are bound by justice to do ; and we beg that you Avill please to command them so to act. May God keep you, Lady, &c. 266 LITER^E 726. — LiTTERA MissA Fratri Jacobo de Oxene, quod IPSE INFORMET FILIUM H, ChAUMPENEYS APUD OXONIAM STUDENTEM. . /t"d ° t 'a Kfirissime frater, ad rogatum dilectissimi amici nostri Canter- ' Hugonis Chaumpeneys pro filio suo Oxoniie studente, hi Oxford ^^^^^^^^^'"^ 'V-^^ possumus in Domino vos ortamur, (pia- is asked to tinus filium ipsius prsefatum ad vos frequentius con- act as vocantes velitis eum, modis et viis quibus potueiitiy, tutor to a . . . . . young consolari, ct ipsum ad proficiendum tarn in scientia ora'fi-ien'd ^1^"^^^^'^ moribu.s cou.siiltius cxcitarc, et, prout scive- ofthc ritisj informarc. In adquisitionc virtntum et scientite semper felicitcr prospeiemini ut optamus. Script., etc, (1343.) L. 78 (t. (1343.) 728. — LiTTERA SUPPLTCATORIA PRO SORORIBUS SANCTI ^ , Jacobi, videlicet Domino E. de Grymesby. . L. 78 0. A person Amy fyable, por ceo qe le povre Hospital de Seint askcdTo J^cob, qest de nostre fundacioun en perpetuele amoigne, deal et desouz nostre garde, grevoussement ad estez chargez whh the P°^' (liverses contribuciouns faitz au Roy entre lez laiz, Hospital of ou les biens et les facultes de la dite mesoun ne suf- ki* the mat- ficient mye a la sustenaunce de la Priouresse et des ter of a seoures de meisme cele, come par une enqneste retournee subsidy. ^^^^ Channcellerie a la suyte les dites Priouresse et seoures ouvertement piert ; vous prioms cherement, qe vous veullez estre tendre de lestat du dit Hospital, et tant faire, que les dites Priouresse et seoures puis- sent suyr lour proces queles ont comensez destre CANTUARIENSES. 267 727. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO ARCHIEPISCOPO DE LIT- (1343.) TERIS CONFIRMATIONIS ECCLESIARUM DE StRAT-L. 78«. EORD ET SANCTI NiCHOLAI DE HeRBALDOWN EIDEM PER NOS TRANSMISSIS. Ad tanti patris beneplacita paratum obsequium cum Chap- omni reverentia et honore. Pater et Domine reve- nounce to rende, litteras confirmatorias ordinationis vestnie super the -Aich- . . -"^ bishop tliat cantaria in eeclesia de Stratford, ac etiam litteras they have confirmatorias appropriationis ecclesite Sancti Nicholai J- , . his loiin- de Herbaldone hospitali vestro Sancti Thomse de East- dation of a bregg in Cantuaria, per vos factse, sigillo Capituli con- s^j^fo^cT* signatas, per Magistrum J, de Wymborne latorem (on Avon) prgesentium, vobis mitto. Si quae autem alia per me propriation volueritis expediri, cum fiducia dignemini scribere of the . 1 . , . i • J. • Church of micDi vestro, semper enim ero paratus, juxta mei pos- g(_ jjjgj,^,. sibilitateni, exequi reverenter quee michi prsecepcrit i»s at Har- , . • 1 1 1 A 1 1 • • bledown to vestra paternitas reverenda ; quam conservet Altissmius Eastbridge Ecclesite suae sanctre regimini salutari. Script., etc. Hospital. 728. Trusty friend, whereas the poor Hospital of St. Jacob, which is of our foundation and under our protection has been grievously burthened by divers contributions granted to the King by the laity, and the goods and re- sources of the said House do not even suffice for the maintenance of the Prioress and her sisters of the same House, as plainly appears by an inquisition, lately returned into Chancery, at the suit of the said Prioress and sisters ; we heartily beseech you that you will deal gently with the property of the said Hospital, and so act that the said Prioress and sisters may follow up the suit, which they have begun for 268 LITERiE deschargez, datfceindie unc fyn convcnable ; et le plus gratiousscment par rcsoun de ceste nostie priere. A Dieu. Escript, etc. 1 Or.t. 729. — Procuratorium Magistri Roberti de Thresk IN Curia Romana, L. 78 b. Conimis- Univcrsis pateat per presentes quod nos Robevtu.s, rroct'or^^ etc. Prior, etc. et ejusdem loci Capitulum facimus, etc. acting for dilectum nobis in Christo Magistrum Robertum de Christ Thresk procuratorem nostrum in Curia Romana, ad Churoh in ^ ... . . . the Curia, impetrandum privilegia, et tarn litteras legendi speci- alem gratiam seu justitiam continentes, (|uam contra nos impetratas seu impetrandas, contradicendum, etc. Datum in Capitulo nostro primo die mensis Octobris, anno Domini MCCCXLiiJo. Prsesentibus valituris quous- que eas duxerimus I'evocandas. (1343.) 730. — LiTTERA EXCITATORIA ET REGRATIATORIA MISSA 78 AD AMICUM PRO BENEFICIO ECCLESIASTICO OPTINENDO. A person Amice karissime, de grata diligentia vestra, in ex- fluencV" citando dominum nostrum Dominum Archiepiscopum with the ut, bene ero-o eum mei'ito et nobis dilecto, Roberto de Arch- bishop is Wellesborne de aliquo beneficio ecclesiastico provi- askedto^^ disset, zelo commendabili nuper adhibita, vobis regra- bene^ce of tiamur ex corde ; attentius quo possumus vos rogantes, EleighMo- Q^g^^j^yg amore nostri, viis et modis quibus potueritis nachorum ^ . . , , . , t'oranomi-et decrsveritis, erga eundem dommum nostrum in- uee of the j^^^re velitis, ut praefato Roberto de ilia modica ecclesia Chapter. ^ . . de Illegh providere dignetur, intuitu caritatis ; et credimus quod in hoc nedum opus pium sed etiam meritoriura exercebit, prout sibi, apud Maghefeld, tem- pore quo secum fuimus, diximus viva voce. Vos ad CANTUARIENSES. 269 obtaining their dischai-ge, until they obtain a favourable settlement. Adieu, &;c prospera dirigat et conservet dementia Salvatoris. Script., etc. 731. — LiTTERA PRO W. DE SAUNDEFORD INCARCERATO (1343.) IN CASTRO DE SALTWODE. GALLICJ:. L. 79„. Cher amy, por ceo qe nous sumes priez de par W. T'l*-- I'l'iof de Saundeford, qe nous vous voirioms prier qil ne aifofficial soit si durementes tenuz en prison deinz le Chastel deo^'^*" Arch- Sal twode, et qil puisse oyer sa messe, et aler sus et bishop uis de deinz le dit chastel, prenantz de lui auxi sure ^'^^ P."' 1 . . T 1 ■! soner in garde come vous vorriez meismes ordmer ; kar sil Salfwood soit tenuz en le dit prison en la manere com il est il C'lstie '■ _ whose con- ne puist, a ceo qil dist, longmentes endurer. Por finemeut is quey, si vous poez bonement et surement faire sa dite requeste, y nous semble qe vous en averez almoigne close, et charite de lui aiser. A Dieu, etc. 732. Item pro eodem W. in Latinis. (1343.) Amice carissime, ex parte Willelmi de Sandford ^' multipliciter ct instanter rogati, qui, pro (juibusdam ^ P''*'"''*- rausis, sicut scitis, apud Castrum de Saltwode, in fhe'above quodam loco stricto et minus honcsto, continue deti- •'^"^"^ netur inclusus, adco quod nisi cum eodem agatur mitius " et in brevi de vita et sanitate sua poterit, ut idem W. asserit, desperare, vestram amicitiam duximus exorandum, quatinus pro eodem instare velitis erga dominum nostrum communem precibus oportunis, ut sic do statu suo pro corporis et animal sua3 salute 270 LITER.E disponere gratiose dignetur, ut ad audiendam missain, infra miu'os saltern dicti castri, et capiendam aerem competenter poterit aliquotiens spaciari. Et ad hoc excitandum dictum dominum, intuitu caritatis, rogave velitis Dominum J. Cook, ut ad sui hujusmodi releva- men faciat id quod potest. De statu vero dicti domini et vestro, ac suse visitationis expeditione felici, audire cupimus bona nova. Semper in Domino feli- citer valeatis. (1343.) 73.3._LlTTERA DIRECTA DOMIXO PRIORI NoRWYCEXSI L. 78 h. SUPER EXACTIONE PR^SUMPTA PER EUM FACTA PRO PROCURATIONIBUS DOMINORUM CARDINA- LIUM. The Prior Domine, miramur non modicum de hoc quod vos et Church*^ fratres vestri, pro collectione procurationum Domi- remon- norum Cardinalium deputati in dicecesi Norwycensi, with the et Ecclesiam nostram Cantuariensem, super inde- Prior of hiiz. exactione procurationis huiusmodi pro spiritualibus Norwich . . . . ■who has ' temporalibus nostris quae iu villa de Deepliam, l^een^ex-^ dictse dioecesis, optinemus, nitemini, plus quam collec- in his ' tores aliarum dioecesium, in quibus etiam spiritualia office of temporalia habemus consimilia, singulariter infestare ; collector of '■ . , the procK- prsecipue cum, sicut et vos et alu religiosi ita et nos, tiiedeinitv P''^ ^^ingulis spiritualibus et temporalibus ubicunque ofthePap'al et in quibuscunque dioecesibus habitis, unum certum, Nimtii. nomine procurationum hujusmodi, nos, videlicet, viij. libras duntaxat, solvere teneamur ; de quibus quidem octo libris Domino Abbati Sancti Augustini Cantua- riensis satisfecimus competenter, prout per litteras acquietanciae super hoc confectas, quas vobis inspici- endas dirigimus, plenixis poterit apparere. A nullo enira nisi a vobis aliqualiter infestamur. Quocirca, vestram circumspectionem requirimus et rogamus, quatinus, rei veritate pensata, velitis ab hujusmodi exactione prgesumpta omnino desistere, vel saltern CANTUARTENSES. 271 eandem et ipsius executionem suspendere, quousque per majores nostros discussum fuerit quid in hac parte facere teneamiir ; scituri quod parati semper erimus facere quicquid repertum fuerit fore consonum rationi, Vosque volumus, quoad suspensionem execu- tionis pr?edictam, indempnes per omnia conservare. In prosperitate votiva Altissimus vos conservet. Script., etc. 734. — PeOCUEATORIUM MaGISTEI TnOMiE StYVE DE 12 May VINEIS ET VINIS NOSTEIS FeANCLE. L. 95 b. Universis pateat, etc. quod nos Robertus permis- pQ^g^ sione, etc. facimus, etc. Magistrum Thomam Sty ve attorney clericum procuratorem nostrum, etc. Dantes eidem fhe*^" gnt potestatem ad petendum, etc. vina et omnia alia who has bona nostra, etc. in regno Franciae, etc Data in tjjg p'reuch Capitulo no.stro, xijo die mensis Maii, anno Domini vineyards MocccoxLiiijto. Prsesentibus valituris donee eas duxe- of the rimus revocare. Convent. 735. — LiTTEEA DIRECTA AbBATI MONASTEEII SANCTI (May DioNisii Francis pro vinis nostris ibidem. ^^^^'^ L. 95 b. Venerandte religionis viro Domino .... Dei gratia ^ Abbati Sancti Dionisii in Fi-ancia, Robertus permissione of St. divina Prior Ecclesiaj Christi Cantuariensis, salutem ^enys is T\ • • -n 1 asked to et smceram in Domino caritatem. Reverende domme, promote at scribimus exeellentissimo principi Domino Philippo c^^^*^^"*^'' Regi Francije, bumiliter supplicando, quod cum dudum petition Celebris memorise Dominus Ludowycus quondam rex center"" Franciae, ob devotionera sanctam et dilectionem sin- bury ceram quas liabuit ad beatum et gloriosum martirem Kiug^f'^'^ Thomam, dudum dictse Ecclesife nostras Archiepisco- France to pum, nobis et Ecclesi^e nostrse prcedictse centum arrears^ of niodios vini, in castellaria Pissiaci percipiendos an- the Wine nuatim in puram et perpetuam elemosinam concessit, mas' 272 LITER.E through ciuosj propter guerrarum dispendia, per decern annos wars. jam elapsos percipere nullatenus potuimus, placei-et suae celsitudini reverendse, pro honore et dilectione votiva dicti martiris gloriosi, suis prsecipere servitori- bus et ministris ut de arreragiis dictorum centum modiorum vini, de dictis decern annis sic a retro ex- istentibus, nobis satisfacerent competenter. Quocirca vestrae reverenciae, de qua ^ in inmensum confidimus, humiliter supplicamus quatinus, negotia dicti martiris cordi pro nobis habens,- ipsa erga Dominum Regem praedictum promovere dignetur, et pro eorundem expe- ditione felici consilium vestrum et auxilium impendere graciosum. Super quibus negotiis vobis seriosius exponendis, credere velitis, si placet, dilecto nostro domicello Simoni Monyn praesentium portitori. Et si quae fuerint vos vel aliquos de vestris tangentia, quie per nos in nostris partibus poterunt expediri, nobis 26 June 737. — COMMISSIO FACTA ThOM^ DE BeTENHAM PRO 1 344 QUrBUSDAM ARDUIS NEGOTIIS IN CuRTA NOSTRA I^- 79 «• DE MeRSTHAM PLACITANDIS, PER QUAM ASSO- CIATUS EST BALLIVO NOSTRO IBIDEM PRO NEGO- TIIS SUPRADICTIS. A skilled Robert par la soeffraunce de Dieu Priour del Esglise lawyer IS Caiinterbircs as noz Baillifs, et as toutz noz mi- associateil as assessor nistres de nostre manoir de Merstliam, et as toutz Bailiff of s^utres as quieux cestes lettres vendront, salutz en Merstham Jesu Crist. Come donez nous soit entendre qascunes whTby busoignes de haute matire soient pendauntes en nostre virtue of Court de Merstham, quieles sont ja apleder en y cele, is abouTto est avys qe, le plus qe celes busoignes portent try a case en eux meismes charge, de tant est plus esploit et weii^htv busoign dafForcer nostre Court illeosqes affaire droiUire ' quo, MS. I ' habentes, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 273 fiducialiter rescvibatis, et erimus sine fictione parati facere quse poterimus bono modo. Valeat semper in Christo vestra dominatio reverenda. Script. Cantuar. 736. — ACQUIETANCIA FACTA ThOM^E LE MAY DE STRE- 1 June PIAMENTO COQUIN^ DE WaLLEWORTH. L. 181a. Universis, etc. quod nos Robertas Prior, etc. remi- ^ i^^^^^ sitnus et condonavimus, etc. Thomse le May, civi released Londoniensi, omniraodas actiones, etc. quas erga eum possibility habere potuerimus ratione strepiamenti cujusdam co- for waste , • L ±- • • i. 1 committed quinaj nostras nuper existentis m manerio nostro de Walleworth, etc. In cujus rei, etc. Data Cantuai'ise buiW'ngs primo die Junii anno Domini M"ccc" quadragesimo Manor quarto. ' Wahvortu. 737. Robert by God's permission Prior, &:c. to the Bailiffs and all our officials of our manor of Merstham, and all others to whom these letters shall come, greeting iir Jesus Christ. Whereas it is given to us to understand that certain matters of high import are pending in our Coui-t at Merstham, which are to be at the present time pleaded there, and we are aware that the more weighty these matters are in themselves the more duty and need there is to urge our Court there to do right and justice to all parties ; hence we have for this reason 274 LITERS et I'eson dc toutes pavs ; si, avoms par tant ordinez et establiz nostre clier et bien amez Thomas de Be- tenham, qest de nostrc conseil, destre illeosqes en noun de nous en aide a tenier la dite Court, associez a lui nostre Baillif de nostrc dit manoir sil entre- viegne, ou si ceo nonn li meismes de la tenier, auxi bien por la mayntenaunce et sauvete de nostre estat et de la fraunchise de nostre dite Esglise, com por le hastif droit et equitez des parties par devant lui illeosqes pledantz ; eiantz de sus ceo ferm et estable tout ceo qe le dit Thomas en tenaunt la Court sus- dites en nostre noun ferra, ou ordeignera destre fait ; sauve toutes voies lestat de nous et la fraunchise de nostre dite Esglise de toutz pointz nyent blemye. En tesmoignaunce de quieu chose nous lui avoms fait faire cestes noz lettres patentes. Donez en nostre manoir de Broke pres de Wy, le xxvj. jour de Juyn, Ian du reigne le Roy Edward tiers apres le Conquest dizoytisme. 2 July 738.- — LiTTERA NOBIS DIRECTA PER PrIOREM WyNTONI- (1344). ENSEM CUPIENTEM SCIRE ET AUDIRE PROSPERA L- 79 b. DE STATU NOSTRO. A letter of Salutis et gaudii plenitudinem. Consors amantis- ments'sent ^i^®' ^® status vestri continentia scire et audire by the prospera nobis foret Isetitise magna materia, dilectio- Winches- '^^^^^ vestram corditer rogamus quatinus de eisdem ter to the certitudinem, per dilectum filium nostrum Fratrem Christ Willelmum de Sparsholte, latorem prsesentium, qui Church as causa devotiouis ad Sanctum Thomam ex nostra auction licentia accedit, nos si libeat certiorare velitis ; scientes pi[gHm ^'^^ grata corporis sospitate vigere, quod de vobis ac who vestris [audire] pleno desideramus afFectu, parati sem- brought pgj^. votorum vestrorum beneplacitis, in hiis qu£e CANTUARIENSE«, 275 appointed and empowered our dear and well beloved Thomas de Beteubnm, who is one of our counsel, to be present there in our name, in order to assist in holding the said Court, our Bailifi' of our said manor being associated with hira if he be present, or if he be not then to hold the Court himself, both for the maintenance and security of our dignity and the privileges of our Church, and also for the speedy administering of law and equity to the parties there pleading ; holding moreover firm and secure all that which the said Thomas shall do in our name whilst holdino; the afore- said Court ; our dignity being always assured and the privileges of our Church in no way infringed. In witness whereof, &c. potuerimus, inclinato animo condescendere. In votivis vestra amicitia feliciter prosperetur. Scriptum Wyn- tonige ij"^io die mensis Julii. 739. — LiTTERA RESPONSALIS PER DOMINUM ROBERTUM 7 ji.iy PrIOREM ad EANDEM REGRATIATORIA. (1344). Domine et amice carissime. Ex eo quod de status ^'^^ ' nostri continentia scire desideratis prospera et audire, i!^p^y'f(^ gratias vobis referimus puro corde, [vos] scire volentes, the labt quod eo plenius corporis sanitate gaudemus quo de persona vestra, per Fratrem Willelmum de Sparsholte, commonachum vestrum, latorem prfesentium, et per vestras litteras nobis in hac parte directas, nova per- cepimus nobis placida, pariter et optata; affectantes s 2 276 LITEE^ non modicum, quatenus potuerimus, vestrse placere in omnibus beneplacito voluntatis. Valeat in Christo vestra sincera dilectio prospere cum salute. Scripta Cantuarife sub nostro sigillo private in festo Trans- lationis Beati Thomse Martiris. (1344.) ij^Q — LiTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO J. ArCHIEPISCOPO L. 79 a. PRO MAGISTRO J. DE G. RATIONE PROMOTIONIS SU.no ti^e dis- pute ■with die Apnhs. St, Mai- Per vestros devotos Prior ec Gapitulum Ecclesias vestrae Cantuariensis. tin s, Dover. 783. — PrOCUKATORIUM de DoCKOMBE. 17 July 1350. Pateat universis quod nos Robertas, etc. Prior Ec- l. 83 h. clesige Christi Cantuariensis et eiusdem loci Capitulum ^ „ •> _ i Vowel' ot dilecfcum nobis in Christo Dominum Philippum Wan- attorney tort, rectorem ecclesiae de Morton Exoniensis dioecesis, l^^^^t^jg**' nostrum verum et legitimum procuratorem, negotiorum Rector of gestorem, et mintium specialem facimus, ordinamus, ^jja^'p" et constituimus, etc. ; dantes eidem generalem potesta- stead) to tern, etc. f ructus, redditus, et proventus, ac emolu- D^gnt foj. menta quaecumque manerii nostri de Dockumbe, in t^'^ Cou- comitatii Devoniensi situati, colligendi, exigendi, etc. Devon- In cujus rei, etc. Data in dome nostra capitulari xvij. die raensis Julii anno Domini WCCQ^ quinqiia- gesimo. 784. — Prima acquietancia facta Priori et Conven- ^9 Sept. Tui DovoRiiE de annua pensione nobis debita, L. 84 rt, Tenore prsesentium noverint universi nos Robertum, Receipt etc. Priorem Ecclesice Christi Cantuariensis, nomine P'^' V . payment nostro ct Capituli nostri, recipisse et habuisse, dieofthepen- confectionis prtesentiura, de religiosis viris Priore et fj.°°^'^g\^ Conventu Sancti Martini Dovoria) quinquaginta solidos Martin's, sterlingorum, in partem solutionis cujusdam annui red- Christ' ditus centum solidorum annuatim, exeuntis de manerio Church, as eorum de Sybertesweld, ad duos anni terminos nobis composi*-^ solvendi, videlicet, Beati Michaelis^ et Pascha, juxta 304 LITERJJ oi'dinationem venerabilis patris et domini Domini Si- monis Dei gratia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi in hac parte nuper factam. De quibus quidem quinquaginta solidis, terminum Beati Michaelis instantis anni contin- gentibus, fatemur nobis esse satisf actum, et ipsos reli- giosos vims Priorem et Conventum Beati Martini prtedictos acquietamus per prjesentes. In cujus rei, etc. Datum Cantuarise xxixo die mensis Septembris, anno Domini Moccc°L™o regni vero Regis Edwardi teitii a conquestu Anglife xxiiijt^^. 12 Oct. 785. — Certificatorium visitatioxis Domini Simonis DE YsLEP Archiepiscopi Caxtuariexsis. L. 84 a. The Chap- Revevendo in Christo patri Domino Symoni Dei ter ac- gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, totius Anglii^ the receipt Primati, et Apostolica3 Sedis Legato, sui humiles et of the devoti Prior et Capitulum Ecclesiaj Christi Cantua- Arch- . bishop's riensis, obedientiaiii, revetentiam, et honorem. Manda- mandate paternitatis vestme reverendse recepimus tenorem appointing ^ . / . thetime continens mirascriptum : bymon permissione divina tation^and C(i'>^iuariensis Archiepiscopus, etc. : cujus auctoritate they re- mandati, quosdam commonachos nostros absentes, qui t^hevhare "^'^strae visitationi hujusmodi interesse debebunt, per- taken all emptorie citavimus quod compareant personaliter ^'hichThe coram vobis, die et loco in vestro mandate praelibato circum- contentis, dictm vestraj visitationis officium humiliter qi^re^' suscepturi, facturi, et recepturi, cum continuatione et prorogatione dierum sequentium, quod tenor vestri mandati pr^escripti exigit et requii'it, cui etiam mandate, quatenus nos concemit, secundum ^im et offectum ejusdem parebimus ut convenit reverenter. Nomina et cognomina citatorum omnium qui ^•estr^e visitationi prsedictae interesse tenentur, in cedula hiis annexa seriosius continentur. Datum in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi xij™o die mensis Octobris, anno supra dicto. OANTUARIENSES. 805 78G.— COMMISSIO AD AUDIENDUM COMPOTOS ^4 Oct. 1350. SERVIENTIUM, L. 84 a. Robertus, etc. Prior Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis dilectis nobis in Christo Willelmo de Hathl'eld, J. ^o™"u-' BaillifF, et Thomse atte Helle, salutem in Domino powering sempiternam. Sciatis quod, de diligentia et sagaci auditors to industria vestra plene confidentes, assignavimus vos examine auditores nostros, et plenam potestatem vobis com- counts of mittimus per prajsentes, ad audiendum compotos ^^'^ IT,. . 1 . . . grers of omnium balhvorum, prsepositorum, et aiiorum minis- the manors trorum nostrorum in regno AnHiae, vel in comitatibus ^^^'i estates ° ° ' of the Mo- bonorum nostrorum quorumcumque receptorum ; et ad nastery, onerandum ipsos de omnibus exitibus, proventibus, ^akinl-'all firmis, et de omnibus aliis bonis receptis nos et lawful de- Ecclesiam nostrain qualitercumque contingentibus. to'giw"'^' Necnon ad feciendum eisdem debitas allocationes de aequit- oranibus liberationibus, solutionibus, et ralionabilibus expensis factis ad utilitatem nostram et ecclesije nostree prsedictse ; et ad omnia alia, quae ad auditores com- potoram facere pertinent secundum legem et consuetu- dinem regni Anglise, facienda. Et si vos tres simul et semel circa prtemissa vacare non potueritis duo vestrum qui commode potuerint prsemissa omnia faciant et exequantur. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Data Can- tuarire xxiiij. die mensis Octobris anno regni Regis Edvvardi tertii post eonquestum vicesimo iiij*". 787. — LlTTERA ANTIQUA SIGILLO NOSTRO AD CAUSAS 1 July DE NOVO SIGNATA, QUIA VETUS SIGILLUM DI- ^mf IIUPTUM FUIT, CONCESSA AbBATI ET MoNACHIS (1350). DE VOTO, ORDINIS CiSTERCIENSIS ANNO DoMINI l. 36 b. M°CCCO QUINQUAGESIMO, SUB DATA INFERIUS NOMINATA. Omnibus Christi fidelibus, etc. Prior et Capitulum The seal EcclosifP Christi Cantuariensis, etc. Noverit universitas beenTorn 306 LITERS oflF a letter vestra, iu privilegiis Eomanorum Pontificiim, vide- gianted^to licet, felicis recordacionis Urbani, Celestini, Honorii, of^Tjn''"' et Innocencii, nobis indultis, inter cetera quje in eisdem terue in privilegiis sunt expressa banc clausulam de verbo ad Ireland, verbum contineri : Indulgemus eciam vobis ut, sicut a uew seal . ° ' -was ap- dictum [est], ad profectum Capituli libere possitis ^ and'the' ^^^^^ vestris, et quiete disponere, et sigillum vestrum letter sine contradictione cujuslibet retinere ; nec idem tbe'r^a-is-° Archiepiscopus, vel alia qutevis persona, disposicioni ter. vel administracioni possessionum aut aliarum rerum vestrarum, contra privilegia quse vobis Apostolica Sedes indulsit et contra Ecclesiee vestrte consuetudi- nem, se audeat immiscere " ; item cartam inclitse re- cordacionis Domini Johannis quondam Regis Angliae illustris de verbo ad verbum eciam penes nos esse sub hac forma : " Johannes Dei gratia, etc. Ai'chi- episcopis, Episcopis, etc. et omnibus ministris et fideli- bus suis tocius Hybernige, salutem. Sciatis nos susce- pisse in manum, et custodiam, ac protectionem nostram Priorem et omnes monachos Ecclesise Cliristi Cantua- riensis, [et] ubicumque fuerint omnes homines et terras eorum, et possessiones, et redditus, et omnes res, tarn ecclesiasticas quam laicas ; quare volumus et prjecipi- mus firmiter, quod prtefatos Priorem et monachos, et omnes homines et terras eorum, et possessiones, et redditus, et omnes res eorum, tarn ecclesiasticas quam laicas, manuteneatis, custodiatis, et protegatis sicut nostras proprias ; nec aliquam injuriam, vel grava- men, aut molestiam eis inferatis vel inferri permittatis. (1350.) 789. — COMMISSIO FACTA AD CUSTODIENDUM MANERIUM L. 45 b. CUM CLAUSULIS ET ONERE, ETC. A ^rmuia As toutz yceux qe cestes lettres verront ou orront, indicating Robert par la soeffraunce de Dieu Priour del Esglise ' friii is probably omitted. CANTUARIENSES. Et si aliquis eis forisfacerc prfesiunpserit plcnariam de eis justiciam ^ sine dilacione faciatis. Prohibemus eciam ne de iillo tenemento suo nec de aliqua re ponantur in plaeitum, uisi coram nobis vel coram Capitali Jus- ticiario nostro. Teste Willelmo de Braosa, etc." Et ne praemissa alicui veniant in dabium huie prae- senti seripto sigillum nostrum ad causas duximus apponendum. Data apud Cantuariam, anno Domini Moccco quadragesimo sexto in Kalendis Julii. 788. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA DE SUPERSEDENDO CAU- (1350.) SAJNI USQUE AD ADVENTUM AD DOMINUM Ar- CHIEPISCOPUM. Amice carissime, quia Domino Henrico de Moun- A person brey, harum bajulo, propter notitiam scolasticam affectione speciali afficimur ; ac eidem pro innumeris asked to beneficiis, quse in nostra adolescentia Parisii.s nobis actfontu a impendidit, merito anticida astringimur rependere vices cause to grates ; vestram dilectionem intimi cordis afFectu ro- oW school gamus, quatinus ulteriori execution! negotii ipsum and college .... 1 . 1 . . , . friend of contmgentis, vobis per eundem seriosius exponendi, the Prior usque ad nostrum celerem adventum ad dominum a party, nostrum communem supersedere dignemini, nostris precibus et am ore ; ut has preces nostras, fiducialiter impetratas, sibi sentiat fructuosas. Successus pros- peros et votivos tribuat vobis Altissimus ad honores. Script., etc. 789. To all those who shall sec or hear these letters, Robert by God's permission Prior of the Church of ' justiciuriam, MS. u 2 308 LITER.?; '^I'^v*]^^ de Cantorbirs salutz en Dieu. Sachez nous avoir ofbaihtFs j- /• • charged ordinez fait et assignez nostre cner et bien amez A. with the (jg g nostre baillif de nostre manoir de C, de faire cultivation . ' of farms illeosqes les terras arrer, semer, ot gayner, composter directly arrever, et toutz les bestes des charettes et charues for the pro- illeosqes, ensemblemeDt ove berbj-s, agneaux, porks, Convent^ et toutes maneres austres estor illosqes ordiner, et and not let arreyer, solonc ceo qil verra qe mieux soit affaire pur to tenants. j^Qg^j,g pj-ofist, rendant ent acompte a nous come [a] baillifs ateint, prenant pur lui et pur son garsonn come autres baillifs aiauntz eel oflBce avaunt ces heures ount feat. En tesmoignaunce, etc. Donez a Cantorbirs tiel jour, tiel an, etc. 10 July 790. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMINO SiMOXI ArCHIEPISCOPO, (1352). QUOD NOX CREDAT SINISTRIS RELATIBUS DE S5 a. Priore et Convextu, donec suggesta pro- cess ERTT DISCUSSIO VERITATIS. The Prior Pater et domine reverende, intelleximus cum lamen- Arch- ^ tabili cordium amaritudine, quod quaedam sinistra de bishop not nobis vestrte doniinationi reverendfe, non ex caritate credit^to ^^^t zelo justicije, sed temeritate typo malitite, sunt rumours relata. Quamobrem circumspectarn vestrse modera- injunous ... , . to the tionis gratuitatem, quae est statera bom et asqui, jDre- tenants. cibus votivis rogamus, quatinus, si libeat, non credatis sinistris relatibus minus veris, donec suggesta prseces- .serit Celebris discussio veritatis ; cum, secundum Apo- iEp.Joh. stolum, orani spiritui non sit credeiuluni, sed est prohandum an spiritus sit ex Deo. Ac exbabundanti, ad informandum vos plenius, vivse vocis oraculo, de veritate indubia praeraissorum, confratres nostros Johannem de Hedecrone Suppriorem, et Johannem de Frome Lectorem vestras Ecclesias Cantuariensis, ad vos duximus destinandos ; quibus in ea parte fidem credulam adhibere dignetur, si placeat, vestra pater- CANTUARIENSES. 309 Canterbury, greeting in God. Know ye that we have appointed, made, and assigned our dear and well beloved A. of B. our Bailiif for our manor of C, there to cause the laud to be ploughed, sown, and reaped, manured and cultivated, and all the waggon and plough cattle, together with the sheep, lambs, hogs, and all other kind of stock there to be managed and tended, according as shall seem best to him for our profit, rendering thereof such an account as it behoves Bailiffs to render, and receiving, for him and his man, what other Bailiffs, holding the same office in times past, have received. In witness whereof, &c. nitas reverenda, quam conservet in prosperis miseri- cordia Jesu Christi. Scriptum in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi x^o die Julii. Vestri humiles et devoti Prior et Capitulum vestrse Ecclesise Cantuariensis. 791. — [CONFIRMATIO TRANSLATIONIS MEREMII A MANE- 16 Sept RIO DE Wrotham usque Maydestane.] H. 40 6. SanctiB Matris Ecclesise filiis pateat universis, quod dum reverendus ^ in Christo pater Dominus Sy- ous state' mon Dei gratia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus, etc. T • T-> 1 • /-( J • • r< 1 . T buildings de ipsa iLcclesia Cantuariensi per bedem Apostolicam of the provisus extitit, ipse dictam Ecclesiam fere alieno i^J^' , , . bishop s onustam gravissimo, culpa seu facto suis id non cau- manor of santibus, et alias multipliciter collapsam reperiit et depressam ; necnon in variis locis, maneriis, et posses- quence of siouibus ad ^ archiepiscopatum Cantuariensem spectan- {^^ce and tibus, domus et eedificia quampluriraa, antiquitus desolation ' reverendo . . . patri, etc., MS. | ^ ac, MS. 310 LITER/E of 1348-9, sumptuose constituta, vetiistate^ diruta et corrupta duccTthe i^ifiiiifeste patebant, qufcclam etiam ruinam minabantur Arch- irrepabilem et deformem, quorum refectiones seu re- u'se^the*" paraciones necessarise, ac sustentaciones perpetuse, procul materials dubio requirerent tarn grandem provisionem et impor- ruius for tabilem expensarum qufe dicto patri, attentis praefatis repairing omnlbus, non forent possibiles ; nee etiam domorum seu stone ?edificiorum hujusmodi dirutorum quamplurimre re- house By '^P^'^^^^"^^ reparaciones, variis attentis aliis circiim- these let- stanciis, EcclesicB SUES si fierent utiles esse possent : unde, deliberacione dilisenti nobiscum, Priore et Capi- Chapter ' .. '. t> approve tulo Ecclesias suae Cantuariensis prsedictfe, aliisque Wshop's^" peritis super hiis habita frequenti, juxta peritorum Act. hujusmodi et nostrum canonicum consilium et tracta- tum, meremii materiam qu^ remanserat de domibus et sedificiis manerii sui de Wrotham, prope et inter maneria sua de Otteford, per quatuor, et Maydestane, per octo duntaxat milliaria ^ distantis ab eisdem, ad moram et inhabitacionem Archiepiscoporum, propter pro- pinquitates prajdictas, ruinam ejusdem, et alias causas, a plurimis i-etroactis annis total iter derelicti, demolliri fecit, et in refectionem ac reparacionem manerii sui de Maydestane praedicti transferri utiliter, et converti ; quibus quidem demolicioni et meremiorum tvansla- cioni, tanquam sibi et Ecclesiae sute magnopere com- modiferisj ponderatis in hac parte debite ponderandis, nos Prior Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis et ejusdem loci Capitulum prsedicti nostrum consensum prsebuimus et prasbemus unanimiter et assensum. In quorum omnium testimonium, etc. Datum in Capitulo no.stro Cantuariensi sextodecimo die mensis Septembris, anno Domini mocccolij<5o. 1 Jan. 792. — COMMISSIO AUDITORUM SUPER COMPOTIS. 1353. L 49 a Robertus, etc. Prior, etc. dilectis nobis in Christo Comims- Johauni de Hake et Jolianni de Ryssebourne, salutem. sion of the ' vetustata, MS. | - meliar, MS. CANTUAKIENSES. 311 etc. Sciatis quod, do fidelitate et diligentia vcstra -^^diiores plene considerantes, assignavimus vos Auditores nostros, mm of the conjunctira et divisim, et plenam potestatom vobis committimus per prtesentes audiendi compotos omnium secular ballivorum, praepositorum, bedellorum, et aliomm minis- ants"and trorum nostrorum quorumcumque in comitatu Kanciee, not monks, bonorum nostrorum quorumcumque receptorum, et ad onerandum ipsos, etc. de omnibus exitibus, etc. secun- dum legem et consuctudincm regni Anglite, etc. In cujus, etc. Data Cantuarias, primo die Januarii anno regni "Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum Anglise vicesimo sexto. 793. — ACQUIETANCIA FACTA DOMINO SiMONI ArCHI- 23 Mar. , 1353. EPISCOPO DE ANNUA PENSIONE VTIjto LTBRARUM, EECEPTA PER ThESAURARIUM SUUM, PROVE- ^- ^■ NIENTE DE MANERIO SUO DE RaCOLVRE. Universis pateat, etc. quod nos Prior et Conventus Receipt for Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis recepimus, etc. de rcve- to the rendo in Cbristo patre. Domino Simone Cantuariensi Convent from Archiepiscopo, etc., per manus Thomte de Woltone Eecuivcr Rectoris Ecclesiae de Eynesford Thesaurarii sui, x. libras ^''^'lo'^' sterlingorum, in partem solutionis xxiiij. librarum nobis debitarum de tribus annis prseteritis, etc. ratione cujusdam pensionis annuse octo librarum, nobis de ma- nerio de Racolvre dicti reverendi patris debitse singulis annis. De quibus quidem x. libris, etc. Data Can- tuarise xxiij" die mensis Marti i, anno Domini MOCCC'O quinquagesimo secundo. 794. — LiTTERA INDENTATA INTER ElEMOSINAEIUM 4 April 1353 EccLESiiE Christi et Rectorem de Estry SUPER DIVISIONE CUJUSDAM PLACED. ^' Cunctis Christi fidelibus has litteraa indentatas ^f^™- inspccturis, Prior et Capitulum Ecclesise Cantuariensis which up 312 LITERS to the date porcionem decimarum bladorutn ad ecclesiam paro- in'com-'^ chialem de Estry Cantuariensis dioecesis pertinentium mon to the canonice optinentes, ac Willelmus de Scothou Rector ^fChrist f1icta3 ecclesise parocliialis de Estry, salutem, ct per- Church petuam memoriam rei gestse. Cum dudum nobis and the -d • • , i t • Rector of "nori et L apitulo prredictis nostrisque prfedecessori- Eastry, is ex parte una, et miclu pr^efato Willelmo Rectori bycommon . . ^ consent ac meis pnedecessoribus, ipsius ccclesise de Eastry betttxen Rectoribus, ex altera, super usu cujusdam placese seu them. areje pro partibus indivisis nobis communis, jacentis ante divisionem subscriptam infra clausura communem mansi rectoriai pra^dictae ecclesi?e de Estry et mansi ibidem ad Ecclesife Cantuariensis elemo&inariam pertinentis, et ipsius placese seu arese occasione gravia pervenis- sent incommoda a longis retroactis temporibus suc- cessivis ; tandem nos, partes prjjedictjB, considerantes attencius quod communio parit discordiam, et quod divisio dictse placese seu aresa evidenter utilis foret nobis et ecclesiis prselibatis, ac ipsius Ecclesise Can- tuariensis elemosinarise, in cujus utilitatem porcio decimarum hujusmodi [h]actenus prout debuit con- verti solebat ; habito cum reverendo in Christo patre Domino Symone Dei gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, etc., patrono dictse ecclesiee parocliialis, tractatu primitus diligenti, pro evidente utilitate nostra nec- non ecclesiarum et elemosinarise praedictarum, de consensu et assensu praefati reverendi patris, pro nobis et successoribus nostris, ex unanimi nostro consensu et assensu, divisimus placeam seu aream memoratam ipsam per partes divisas, juxta formam divisionis hujusmodi, possidendam perpetuo sub hac forma. Videlicet, quod nos prsedicti Prior et Capitu- lum, et successores nostri, habeamus et teneamus de cetero totam partem prsedictae placege seu axese jacentem ex parte occidentali cujusdam terranei muri, prsetendentis se in longitudine, directe a quodam bundo ligneo fixo inter cimiterium dictse Ecclesise CANTUARIENSES. 313 parochialis et clausum praedictum, versus Austrum, usque ad alium bundum ligneum fixum super regiam stratam, qure ducit a villa de Dele per medium villa3 de Estry versus Cantuariam, ut nostram propriam, et dictse Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, ipsiusque elemosinariae imperpetuum, pacifice, et quiete. Qui quidem murus sustentabitur exnunc nostris coramunibus sumptibus efc expensis. Et quod ego Rector praedictus, et suc- cessores mei, habeamus et teneamus totam alteram par- tem ejusdem placea3 seu areee, ex altera parte dicti muri versus Orientem, ut propriam ecclesi^e meee prfedictfe imperpetuum, pacifice, et quiete. Dedimus eciam et assignavimus uos Prior et Capitulum prre- dicti, dicto Rectori et successoribus suis, quandam placeam seu aream de terra propria nostra, Jongitu- dinis triginta pedum et latitudinis viginti novem pedum, capitando versus Austrum super regiam stratam prsedictam, ut propriam ecclesise de Estry prfedicta), in recompensacionem amplioris partis nobis in divisione hujusmodi assignatte, imperpetuum, paci- fice, et quiete. In quorum testimonium nos Prior et Capitulum prgedicti sigillum nostrum commune feci- mus hiis litteris indentatis apponi ; et ego prtefatus Willelmus sigillum meum praesentibus apposui, et quia sigillum meum pluribus est ignotum, sigillum venera- bilis viri Commissarii Cantuariensis generalis apponi prsesentibus procuravi ; et nos Commissarius prtedictus, ad personalem rogatum Domini Willelmi de Scothou Rectoris prsedicti, sigilium officii nostri praesentibus duximus apponendum. Data Cantviarise, quarto die mensis Aprilis, anno Domini moccc°liijo. 314 LITERiE 14 May 795 — LiTTERA RESPONSORIA MISSA DOMINO ReGI DE (1353). PACE ORDINATA INTER VENERABILES PATRES ^' ^' DoMiNos Archiepiscopos Cantuariexsem ET Eboracensem, coxcernens bajulatioxem cru- cis Eboracensis. The Prior Tresnoble et tresredoute Seignur, plese vostre informs the ...... , Kino- that tresnatite seignurie savoir qe nous resceumes nad- hc has not gaii'es voz honurables lettres, par les quieles nous form of avoms conseuz et entenduz, qune pees convenable est composi- ordinez 6t establie eutre les treshonurables picres en terod into Dieu Lercevesqes de Cantorbirs et Deverwyk ; a la xVh*^ quiele pees vous voirez qe nous voussisoms assentir, bishops of et a la volente nostra Sovereyn Lercevesqe confour- bury*^ami Tresreverent Seignur, vous plese entendre qe York, and de la dite pees ensi ordinee, ne de la fourme navoms tharbeTs ^^^^^^^'^ I'ien oy en certein ; purquey, tresgracious not in a Seignur, humblement vous prioms et requeroms qe confirm' it° ^^^^ plese oi'diner et commaunder qe la fourme de la pees susdite nous soit envoie, issint qe nous puis- soms sur y cele plenerement aviser et respoundre, solonc ceo qe Dieus nous durra de sa grace. Escript a Cauntorbirs le xiiij^ jour de May. Voz humbles chapelleins et devoustz Priour et Covent de Cauntorbirs. Cauda. A Tresnoble Seignur, Sire Edward par la gi-ace de Dieu Roi Dengleterre et de Fraunce, et Seignur Dirland. (1353.) — LiTTERA RESPOXSORIA FACTA DOMIXO' SiMOXI I'- 86 a. ArCHIEPISCOPO CaNTUARIEXSI DE MORA SUA FACIEXDA IX ECCLESIA SUA PER XIJ. DIES, etc. The Prior Pater et Domine reverende, litteras, manu vestra glad to see propria scriptas, recepi ; inter alia continentes, quod, Wshop at" aliquos requisiti, intenditis ad vestram Ecclesiam Canter- decliiiare, saltern per duodecim dies moram facturi 0 CANTUARIENSES. 315 795. Most noble and most dread Lord, may it please your most exalted Lordship to know that we lately received your honourable letters, by means of which we have learned (conceived) and understood that a suitable peace is arranged and established between the right honourable fathers in God the Archbishops of Canter- bury and York ; to which peace you desire that we should give our assent, and conform to the will of our superior the Archbishop. Much revered Lord, please to under- stand that we have never yet heard anything certain about the said so arranged peace, nor about its form ; whei'efore, very gracious Lord, we humbly pray and require you that you will arrange and command that the form of the aforesaid peace may be sent to us, in order that we may be able thereupon to consult fully and to answer, as far as God shall give us power by his grace. Written, &c. ibidem, dum tamen michi videtur quod aliqua utilitas bury, but inde poterit pervenire ; et vohiistis quod super hoc Jlot'thiuk deliberarem, et deliberationem meam in ea parte, mea that at the propria manu, vobis rescriberem tempore opportuno. *^'^jj°g Intellectis vero litteris vestris hujusmodi, raateriam a visit of contentam in eis in animo meo studiose revolvi, etl^^yj'^ finaliter michi videtur, quod magnum honorem vestrfe would lead Ecclesife impendetis si ad eandem frequenter person- g^oj"''' 316 LITERiE aliter declinetis ; sed qu?e utilitas ex vestra prfesentia ibidem hac vice poterit pervenire penitus pro certo ignoro ; et si scirem in quo vestra prsesentia hujusmodi potucrit esse iitilis ista vice vobis boo scriberem Iteto corde. Et si aliquid aliud voluerit vestra dominatio reverenda, quod per me potuerit expediri, michi, si libeat, fiducialiter rescribatis ; et vestris prseceptis obediam juxta vires. Ad Ecclesife vestrce regimen vos conservet Trinitas indivisa. Scriptum Cantuariae manu mea propria. left to the Convent. ^353^ 797. — ACQUIETANCIA FACTA EXECUTORIBUS MaGISTRI J, DE BeLGRAVE DE XL. SOLTDIS LEGATIS EcCLESIiE. L. 86 a. Receipt for Universis pateat per praesentes, quod nos Robertus a legacy permissione divina Prior Ecclesise Christi Cantuarien- sis et ejusdem loci Capitulum recepimus et habuimus, die confectionis praesentium, ab executoribus Magistri Jobannis de Belgi'ave, Lyncobiiensis dioecesis et Exa- minatoris Curise Cantuariensis Generalis, xl. solidos sterlingorum, quos idem Magister Johannes in testa- mento suo EcclesiaD nostrae Cantuariensi prtedict^e legavit ; de quibus xl. solidis fatemur nobis et eidem Ecclesise nostras fore plenarie satisfactum, et praefatos executores esse quietos. In cujus rei, etc. Datum in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi primo die mensis Junii, anno Domini MocccoLiiJO. 24 June 13.53. L. 48 a. A person who has committed trespass in the woods of the Con- vent at Headcorn 798. — [Relaxatio generalis.] Pateat, etc. quod nos Robertus, etc. Prior, etc. re- misimus et relaxavimus, etc. in perpetuum Petro de Wytheringbrok omnimodas actiones, querelas, et demandas, quas versus ipsum Petrum habuimus seu habere potuerimus, ratione cujuscunque transgressionis in boscis seu drovedennis nostris in villa de Hede- CANTUARIENSES. 317 crone, nobis seu prsedecessoribus nostris ante diem makes his confectionis praisentium illatee. Ita quod nec nos nec receives"^ successores nostri aliquam actionem versus prafatum this gene- Petrum, occasione prasmissa, de cetero habere vel ven- dicare poterimus nec debemus in futurura. In cujus rei, etc. Datum Cantuarije in festo Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistse, anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum vicesimo septimo. 799. — De PENSIONE LX. SOLTDORUM CONCESSA MaGISTRO 3 Nov. MiCHAELI DE NORTHBURGH, LeGUM DoCTORI. L g6&. Universis, etc. Robertus . . Prior, etc. et eiusdem loci . A peusiou Capitulum, salutem, etc. Probitatis et prudentise dilecti settled nobis in Christo Mag-istri Michaelis de Northbura-1)/ "P°? - _° ' adviser of Legum Doctoris, merita recollentes, sperantesque ejus the Cou- consilium et auxilium nobis et Ecclesise nostras pra3- dictse futuris temporibus fore non mediocriter oppor- tuna, dedimus et concessimus eidem, etc. annuam pensionem Ix. solidorum, in thesauraria nostra apud Cantuariam singulis annis, quamdiu vixerit, in festo Pascha persolvendam. Si vero contingat praefatum Magistrum Michaelem ad aliquem dignitatis electivje gradum promoveri, extunc cessante dicta pensione, etc. In cujus rei, etc. Data in Capitulo nostro Cantuari- ensi tertio die mensis Novembris, anno Domini MCCCLIIJ". 800. — COMMISSIO AD CUSTODIENDUM PASSAGIUM NOS- ^ Dec. TRUM APUD AQUAM DE ReDYNGG IN COMITATU KaNCIA. 87 a. Robertus permissione divina Prior EcclesisB Christi The mono- Cantuariensis, dilecto nobis in Christo Roberto Bro- P<*'y ^ kere de parochia de Ebbene salutem in omnium d^enused. ' He became Bishop of Londou in 1354. 318 LITERyE Salvatoro. Ad custodiendum et exercendum, nomine nostro et Ecclesise nostrse prsedictse, passagium nostrum apud aquam de Redyngg in comitatu Kancia, et emolu- menta inde provenientia percipienda, et cetera facienda quae necessaria fuerint in hac parte, vobis committimus vices nostras quousque eas duxerimus revocandas. In cujus rei, etc. Data Cantuarise xj""" die mensis De- cembris anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii . . vicesimo septimo. 17 Dec. (1353). L. 87 a. Nomina- tion of monks for the office of Peni- tentiary. 801. — De peesonis nominatis Domino S. Archiepi- scopo pro officio pcenitentiari^. Reverendo in Christo patri ac domino suo Domino Symoni, etc. Robertas Prior, etc. Ad officium poeni- tentiarise vestrse Cantuariensis Ecclesise, vacans ad prsesens, fratres mei habito super hoc consueto tractatu, in Fratres Jacobum de Oxene, Tliomam de Guodwynes- ton, et Michaelem de Cornubia ad hujusmodi dictum officium vobis nominandos unanimiter consenserunt, etc. Valeat dominus meus, etc. Scriptum Cantuarise xvij" die mensis Decembris. (17 Dec. 802. — Anima missa pr^dicto Domino Archiepiscopo interclusa in litteea secunda. L. 87 a. Pater et domine reverende, scire dignetur vestra o?s ^[v'ate I'^verenda paternitas, quod Frater Jacobus de Oxene, opinion as primus ad poenitentiarise officium nominatus, illud ac- fittest ceptabit gratanter, si tamen nominationi prsedictfe candidate, vestra benignitas voluerit consentire ; per certas etenim evidentias hoc accepi quas vobis viva voce explicabo. (17 Dec. 803. — LiTTERA. MISSA MaGISTRO W. DE BrADELE PRO 1353.) EODEM NEGOTIO. L. 87 a. ^ . Amice carissime, scripsimus domino nostro communi letter on^ pro Fratrc Jacobo de Oxene, qui est primus jam de CANTUARIENSES. 319 novo ad poenitentiarire officium nominatus, quod prsefi- the same cere eum velit ; quia licet alias ad instantiam suam siii>ject ad- ^ , . . . dressed to fuerat a dicto officio absolutus, jam nunc, spiritu the Arch- novo visitatus, animo benevolo illud idem acceptabit. gj^^^il^jy Si tamen non placeat Domino, vellemus quod Frater Thomas de Guodwyneston, qui in dicto officio satis sufficienter est expertus, prseficeretur ista vice, Fratrem Thomam de Cornubia, tertium nominatum, totaliter excludendo, Scriptum- ut supra. 804). — LiTTERA DE CANTARIA IN ECCLESIA DE ReY- 23 Mar. COULVRE FUNDATA PER DOMINUM ThOMAM NyWE DE WOLTONE. H. 86 b. Universis, etc. Thomas Nywe de Wolton, Rector Thomas ecclesise de Aldyngton, dudum Vicarius ecclesite paro- ^-^"jton"^ chialis de Recolvre Cantuariensis dioecesis, salutem in founds a 60 quern peperit uterus virginalis. Dum humante vitae g^autry^'of brevitas et vana mundi fallacia bonis temporalibus oue priest enutrita solerter attenduntur, nichil eorum possessori p° rish censetur salubrius, quam, causa et soUicitudine bonorum church of hujusmodi contemptis, ipsa in leterna, felici commercio, f/^'hich' permutare. Quamobrem ego Thomas supradictus, ad chantry honorem Summse Ti'initatis, Percelste Genetricis Dei Ordhm- Marife, et Sanctorum omnium, pro salute venerabilis in Christo patris et domini Domini Simonis Dei gi-atia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, etc., et mea, Ada?, Marge- rise, Willelmi, Roberti, et Lucje de Watyndon dum vixerimus, et animabus nostris cum mortui fuerimus^ animabus etiam Johannis et Emmee parentum meorum, Nicholai de Tyngewyke, Tliomse de Asteleye quondam rectorum dictse ecclesice, dominorum meorum, Hamonis Underwalle, Johannis Cok, Thomje, Emma?, Johannis Blower, Roberti Shephurde, Cristinpe, Sarra3, Margerise, Willelmi, Johannis, Jacobi, Christinas, Johannis, Henrici, Johannis, Matildis, et omnium qui mese. administra- cionis tempore in parochia dictte ecclcsire de Recolvre decesserunt, et qui in subsidium sequentis cantarife 820 LITERS aliquid contulerunt et conferent in futurura, ac eciam aliorum parenium, benefactorum meorum, et omnium fidelium defunctorum, de rebus meis temporalibus, in ipsa parochiali ecclesia unam perpetuam cantaviam de Beata Maria Virgine facio, fundo, doto, et ordino, in forma infrascripta. Ego prjedictus Thomas, jam in principio et quociens eam postmodern vacare contigerit, dum vixero, infra mensem a die vacacionis ejus michi notse, dicto venerabili patri Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi seu ejus suceessoribus Sede Cantuariensi plena, et Priori et Capitulo Sede Cantuariensi vacante, presbi- terum idoneum prsesentabo ; et post mortem meam Do- minus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus qui pro tempore fuerit, dictique Prior et Capitulum sede Cantuariensi vacante, infra mensem a die vacacionis hujusmodi sibi notse, ydoneo eam conferet et conferent sacerdoti. Qui sacerdos sic institutus erit perpetuus, nisi, juxta discrecionem dicti Domini Archiepiscopi sede plena aut dictorum Prioris et Capituli sede vacante, criminosus, incorrigibilis, seu alias intollerabilis habeatur ; qui, cum talis, dicti patris auctoritate vel dictorum Prioris et Capituli sede vacante, repertus fuerit, et post moni- clones trinas se non coi*rexerit, summarie et de piano, absque figura judicii, eadem auctoritate a dicta canta- ria, per sentenciam vel alio modo si placeat, amovea- tur perpetuo, et alteri ydoneo cantaria hujusmodi con- feratur ; amoto hujusmodi, justa tamen racione prtevia, nullo appellacionis in integrum restitucionis aut im- petracionis beneficio, seu alterius juris communis seu specialis cujuscumque remedio sibi aliqualiter valituro. Celebrabit vero sacerdos ille libere diebus ferialibus, cum commode celebrare poterit, in Australi latere dict£e ecclesise de Recolvre, [missam] de Beata Virgine matutinali hora, pro salute et animabus prjedictis ; ut ejus missam parochiani audire valeant priusquam ad occupaciones transeant seculares ; nisi quando sponsalia aut funeralia magnarum personarum ipsius parochise in ipsa eclesia in alta missa facicnda aut celeln-anda CANTUARIENSES. 821 luerint, in qua, propter matutinalem celebraciojiem hu- jusmodi, oblaciones aliquae in vicarii loci prsejudicium poterunt verisimiliter minorari ; aut eciam [quando], propter aliquain justam causain, i]>se ^ in niajori altari, ad vicarii seu ejus vices gerentis innutacionem, missam aliqnam voluei'it celebrare. Diebus vero solerapnibns Dominicis et festivis, in choro dictpe ecclesifB, divinis officiis, per vicarium aut ejus ministros cum nota dicendis, sacerdos ipse debet, cum poterit, pcrsonaliter interesse, et suara missam diebus talibus ante offer- torium in magna missa decantatum non celebrabit, nisi de vicarii, aut gerentis vices ejus, licencia speciali. Prfeterea, nullus sacerdos ipsius cantarise oblaciones aliquas in suis missis faciendas sibi applicabit, nec ali({uid faciet scienter, clam, vel palam, quod in vicarii prsejudicium, aut ejus ecclesiiie, cedere poterit aut gi'a- vamen. Sa,cerdos insuper quilibet ipsius cantarije infra dictam parochiam moram trahet corporalem, nisi quando, pro suis recreacione et negociis [ad] socioi'um liminum et amicorum visitacionem, se ad tempus dux- erit absentandum ; ita tamen, quod sua absencia annis singulis, sive una vice sive jjluribus absens fuerit, in iiniverso quinquaginta duorum dierum spacium non excedat. In ejus tamen absencia, nisi propter solam infirmitatem aut causaui aliam inevitabilem, a cele- bracione divinorum nullatenus excusetur. Obla- ciones siquidem, elemosinas, et redditus, faciet et solvet, per se aut alium, inferius expressatos : in festis vero Oblacionis Beatse Marine (qupe xi™" kalendas Decembris in quibusdam locis celebratur) et in singulis aliis quinque festis ejusdem Virginis imperpetuum, offerat sacerdos ille, in magna missa in dicta ecclesia decantanda, quinque denarios, per se aut alium, ac distribuat inter ministros ipsius ecclesiiB in singulis U 52122. ' ipsum, MS. X 322 LITERiE festis Assumpcionis Beatfe Virginia imperpetuum duos solidos, prout sibi videbitur expedire. Pascat insuper, in singulis dictis festis imperpetuum, infra mansum habitacionis suae quinque pauperes in una refectione competenti. Detque communitati Burgse de Recolvre, intuitu pauperum degencium in ea, in singulis prse- fatis festis imperpetuum duos solidos ; non in usus singulorum, set in subsidium commune tallagiorum et onerum imponendorum eidem Burgse, convertendos. Vi- carius insuper dictse ecclesise, aut gerens vices ejus, in dictis festis exorare, et parochianos suos ad ipsam eccle- siam confluentes ad orandum, pro salute et anima- bus prsedictis inducere teneatur. In festo insuper ^ Sancti Jacobi annis singulis imperpetuum, offerat, pei- se aut alium, in magna missa in ecclesia prrefata tre"^ denarios ; et distribuat inter pauperes denarios tresde- cim, pro animabus Willelmi et Margerise et omnimn fidelium defunctorum. Reddet etiain quilibet sacerdos, dictfe deserviens cantarise, annis singulis imperpe- tuum. Domino Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, per manus collectoris reddituum manerii sui de Recolvre, infra quindenam Paschee, duodecim denarios annui redditus, in dampnorum recompensacionem quae Ecclesia sua Cantuariensis, propter licenciam amortizandi prsedictas possessiones, contingat incurrere, ultra redditus et ser- vicia inde debita et consueta. Quilibet pr^terea sacerdos ipsius cantarije cedens vel decedens quadra- ginta solidos sterlingorum, unum par Becretoriim precii quadraginta solidorum, unum par Decretalium precii duarum marcarum, quatuor libros Sentenciat'wm in uno volumine precii viginti solidorum, unum librum grammaticalem qui Adamas dicitur precii duarum marcarum, Historias ScolaMicas precii viginti solidorum, librum qui dicitur Aurora simper exposi- ' itaqtie, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 323 done Biblice metrice compositum precii unius marciae, Proplietas quosdam glossatos in cluobus voluminibus precii unius marca^, unum parvura Psalteritim ma- nuale precii quadraginta denariorum, quae omnia primo sacerdoti dictte cantariae dabo actualiter, in par- tem dotis perpetuse dictfe cantariaB, sen dicta precia eorundem librorum, quatenus ipsi Jibri aut ipsa precia ad quemlibet eorum pervenerint suo teneatur dimit- tcre suceessori. Ad prtemissa autem onera subpor- tanda, in dotem perpetuam cantarise ampliorem. Dom- ino Ricardo But (quern primo, juxta ordinacionem istam, dicto patri intendo prfesentare) de licencia Domini Regis, et dicti Domini Archiepiscopi, domini immediati dictarum possessionum, do et concedo unum tenementum, quod adquisivi de Johanne Underwalle in Recolvre ; viginti tres acras terree arrabilis quas adquisivi in Hyerne, quaj nuper fuerunt Willelmi Stud ; terras etiam et teneraenta mea quae de Tlioma atte Sole, heredibus Thomte Schiphurde, Johanne Parker de Fordwico, Willelmo Bargulon et fratre ejus, Thoma filio Willelmi de Recolvre, Adain Spysoui', Jobannc le May [adquisivi] ; cum omnibus et singulis reversionibus plenis terrarum et tenementorura quas de Dominis Thoma Kcmpe, Thoma atte Brome de tenemento quondam Hamonis Underwalle post obitum i]")sius Domini Thomse atte Brome, terrarum etiam Johannse Cok post mortem ejus, terrarum insuper^ et tenementorum quondam Johannis Blowere post mortem Johanna? relicttb ejusdem, tenementi insuper Jacobi Pysyngge in Recolvre post mortem ejus, tenementi praiterea et unius pecise terrse, quse adquisivi de Gal- frido Fowe, post mortem ejus et Johanna3 uxoris sua;, simul cum omnibus aliis terris tenementis pasturis et itaque, MS. 324 redditibus, quiu in parochiis de Recolvrc et Hyerne adquisivi ; liabenda et tenenda omnia prtedicta terras et tenementa, redditus, pastur??, et reversioner pr?e- dicto Domino Ricardo et suis successoribus, Capellanis ejusdem cantarife, imperpetnuni, de capitalibus dominis feodi, per servicia eis inde debita et consueta. Si vero terras, redditus, et possessiones prsedictas vicaripe dicta) ecclesije, sen alteri beneficio, a cjnoquam, quavis anctoritate adunari, vol quovis alio modo in prtejudi- cium hujus ordinacionis mese disponi aut ordinari con- tigerit de eisdem ; nisi Dominus Cantuariensis Archi- cpiscopus, super hiis informatus, remedium efficax adhibuerit infra annum a tempore informacionis liu- jusmodi continue numerandum, volo quod, statim post lapsum anni hujusmodi, custodes fabi'icte ecclesiii> de Recolvre prfedictte, qui pro tempore fuerint, absque judicis ecclesiastici seu alterius cujuscumque auctori- tate, licencia, seu consensu, omnes possessiones ipsas (tion ut earum domini set ut ministri in tali casu per me specialiter assignati) libere ingrediantur, et teneant quousque advocaciones, disposiciones, et ordi- naciones hujusmodi, prsesenti ordinacioni mece adver- santes, ac omnia alia impedimenta perfecta et statuta contra eam realiter subducantur ; ac etiam eidem cantari* provideatur salubriter, ut est dictum. Ob- venciones siquidem et proventus omnes ex ipsis possessionibus (stantibus et durantibus adunacionibns, disposicionibus, ordinacionibus prjejudicialibus, et ini- pediraentis hujusmodi) ac eciam in singulis vaeacionibus memoratse cantarife, provenientes, custodes ipsi col- ligent et percipient, ac ex eis oblaciones, distribuci- ones, elemosinas, et redditus omnes supradictos, in pr<3efatis testis, quatenus ipsa in ministerio eorum evenerint, exhibeant fideliter atque solvant. Habeant autein custodes ipsi de obveniencionibus illis, pro eorum laboribus quos circa execucionem prajmissorum CANTUAUIENSES. 325 impendei'int,' in casibus supradictis, ad taxacionem Vicai'ii et duornm parochianorum dictte occlesise, se- cuuduiu labores eorum impensos, decentem et debi- . tani [)ccunice quantitatem. Residuum vero obvcnoi- onum et provencionum earundem in libi'os et oma- menta dictie ecclesise providendos, secundum consilium dicti vicai'ii et duorum parochianorum, convertant integraliter sine fraude. Si vero, quod absit, fraudem scu negligenciam dampnosam fecerint in pra3niissis, eorum fraudes et negligenciae per loci Ordinariuni modo debito reformentur. Volo insuper quod sacerdos quilibet cui sic dicta eautaria conferetur in insti- tucione sua, ad observandum, faciendum, et solvendum omnia et singula quaj sic, et prout superius, ordinan- tur, ad Sancta Dei Ewangelia corporale praestet jura- mentum ; alioquin sit eis institucio nulla ipso jure. Dicat etiam ssepius et devote mortuorum otticia, septem poenitenciales et quindecim psalmos graduales, ut sic aliqualiter suppleat negligenciam, quani in di- vinis contraxi officiis postquam ad gradum sacerdocii fueram sublimatus. Nolo tamen quod propter eorum officiorum aut psalmorum omissionera ad pcenam perjurii aliqualiter obligentur. Volo insuper quod dic- tus Doininus Ricardus prsedicta tencmenta, terras, et })osscssiones aliis dimittat in feodum, pro certis et competentibus redditibus, sibi et suis successoribus annuatim persolvendis imperpetuum. Supplico igitur dicto vcnerabili patri et domino meo reverendo, (piod istam (jrdinacionem lueam in priescripta forma accep- tare, approbare, et confirmare dignctur. Et nos Simon The Arch- Archicpiscopus Cantuaricnsis supradictus, inspecta f^icta ^^^^'^^ ordinacione, etc. earn, prout superius scribitur, in mation. omnibus suis clausulis approbamus, etc. Data apud Maghfeld, vicesimo tercio die Marcii, anno Domini iiiipiulcriiit, MS, 326 LITERS {cat Urn' MoccCLiiijto. Et nos Prior ot Capitulum, etc. istam of the ordinacionein, etc. in omnibus suis clausulis ratilica- Chaptcr. quorum omnium testimonium, etc. Data Cantuaria3, etc. vicesimo primo die mensis Octo- bris, anno Domini MocccoLvto. (1354.) 805. — Petitio concedendi Fratri ad arciorem or- -. DINEM TRANSVOLARE. A Canter nomine : Amen. Cum ego Frater Jacobus bury monk Whvtc, monachus Ecclesi0e Christi Cantuarien.sis, Head of OJ'dinis Sancti Benedicti in eadem Ecclesia expresse his House professus, cupiam, celitus inspiratus, ex cai'itate et non to^ ex temeritate vel levitate, vitam ducere arciorem, ac, migrate ex devotione majoris religionis propter frugem vitse bridge"^'*^" i^slioris, ad arciorem ordinem Cisterciensem, annuentc Deo, transvolare, et in Monasterio de Ponte Roberti, ejusdem ordinis, .Cicestrensis dioecesis, conversari, Domino virtutum obsequium impensurus ; peto humi- liter a vobis, Domino Roberto permissione divina Priore Ecclesite Christi Cantuariensis, quatinus michi licencia transeundi, ex causis pra^dictis rationabili])US atque veris, ad ordinem Cisterciensem, ac in habito regvilari ejusdem ordinis, in Monasterio memorato meo perpetuo conversandi, sine difficultate et pravitate quacumque, concordatur. Aug. 1354. 800. — Licencia concessa fratri super hujusmodi T .„ PETITIONE. L. 60 a. The licence XJniversis, etc. Robertus, etc. Prior Ecclesiae asked for Christi Cantuariensis, etc. Noveritis quod cum, etc. above. plater Jacobus Whyte noster commonachus, etc. cu- piens ut asserit, etc. {sicut in 'petitione proescripta). Nos, etc. ipsius piis affectibus annuentes, etc. licenciam concedimus. Data Cantuarite . . die mensis Augusti anno Domini MOCCC* quinquagesimo quarto. CANTUAKIENSES. 327 807. — LiTTERA DE LICENCIA UNIUS FRATRIS TRANSEUNDI ^^S- AD ARCTIOREM ORDINEM. L. 87 «. Universis, etc. Robertus . . . Prior Ecclesife Christi Cantuariensis salutem in omnium Salvatore. Noveritis same quod, cmn dilectus nobis in Christo Frater J. Whyte, licence, noster commonachus ordinem regularem Sancti Bene- dict, in dicta Ecclesia expresse professus, coram nobis personaliter constitutus, cupiens, ut asseruit coelitus inspiratus ex caritate et non ex temeritate vel levitate, vitam ducere arciorem, ac devotione majoris religionis propter frugem vitse melioris, ad alium arciorem ordinem transvolare. Domino virtutum obsequium impensurus, a a nobis humiliter postulasset, quatinus sibi licenciam transeundi ad ordinem Cisterciensem, ac in Monasterio de Ponte Roberti, ejusdem ordinis, Cicestrensis dioecesis, suo perpetuo conversandi concedere dignaremur; nos, attendentes quod ea quae spiritu Dei aguntur non sunt sub lege nec debent facto liominis impediri, ac prajiati Fratris J. laudabilc propositum merito com- mendantes, causamque prsedictam per ipsum coram nobis assignatam vcram et rationabilem reputantes, ipsiusque piis aflectibus annuentes, sibi ad dictum ordinem Cisterciensem transeundi, et conversandi ut appetit in Monasterio memorato, licenciam concedimus per priesentes. In cujus rei, etc. Data Cantuarise . . . . die mensis Augusti anno Domini MCCC. quin- quagesimo quarto. (Aug, 1354.) 808. — PeTITIO PRiEFATI FrATRIS JoHANNIS. j,, g? b. In Dei nomine : Amen. Cum ego Frater Johannes T'^^ P^*i- White, monachus Ecclesife Christi Cantuariensis, ordi- monk who nem Sancti Benedict] in eadem Ecclesia expresse pro- ^^hed to fessus, cupiam, coelitus inspiratus, ex caritate, et tillfchri's- non ex temeritate vel levitate, vitam ducere ar- 1^^^ ^^^'^ , . . . bemg Clorem, ac devotione majoris religionis, propter changed. 828 LITERiE iVugcin vitu3 melioris, ad arcioiem oidincni Ci.stci- ciensein, annuente Domino, transvolare, et in Monastc- rio de Pontc Roberti, ejusdeni ordini.s, Ciccstrennis dicecesis, convcrsaiij Domino virtutuni obsequium iui- peiisurus ; peto humiliter etc. ut supra. M Aug. 809. — Procuratorium Magistri Willelmi de 1354 • Tyderleye Canonici Wellensis in Curia ROMANA. sion'of the Universis pateat per piajsentes quod nos Robertus I'roctor of • . Prior Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis et ejusdem loci venHa°the C^apitulum dilectum nobis in Christo Magistrum Willel- Curia. mum de Tyderleye, Canonicum Wellensem et procura- torem nostrum in Curia Romana, nostrum verum et legi- timum procuratorem in omnibus litibus facimus, etc. ad Romanam Curiam legitime devolutis seu devolvendis, et in quibus artamur vel artati essemus, ex ciLatione legitima juris vel hominis, in Romana Curia litigarc, et non in aliis vel ultra. Dantes et concedentes cidem procuratori, etc. In quorum testimonio, etc. Data in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi xiiijo die men- .sis Augusti, anno Domini MoccCLiiijto. 28Jau. 810. — LiTTERA MaGISTRI WiLLELM[ DE TyDERLEYE ^35^- PROCURATORIS NOSTRI IN CURlA RoMANA L. 87 b. SUPER QUIBUSDAM CONTENTIS IN EADEM LITTERA UNA CUM ALIIS TANGENTIBUS BACULUM PASTORALEM, ETC. The Prior Reverendissime pater ct domine, visis litteris \ es- his"daims tris, feci supplicationem vestram, secundum tenorem uponsimi- i^^jg inclusum, de consilio peritorum in Curia refur- lege^"^' raari, [iro cujus oxpeditione Dominus Electus Londoni- ^'^'the^*^ ensis promisit diligenter instare cum opportunitatem Prior of viderit supplicandi, licet timet quod non expedietur Worces- |_^.^^ ^j^i^ asscrit, pisesertim cum non sit spcs de titions the pacc mtcr reges, ct rapa revocavit mag nam partem CANTUAKIENSES. 329 privilegii Prioris Wygorniensis super quo fundatur ropo for snpplicatio vestra. Quod tamen vclitis, si placet, |*' "j™^^**'"" silentio committere, quousque per alios publicetur certain ex causa. Quantum vero ad eausam ciuam movet episcopal _ . . ^ . vestmcuts, contra vos Episcopus Lyncolniensis non habetis &c. timere, quia adhuc non produxi procuratorium ex parte vestra, nec producam, ut spero. Prseterea, Rex Romanorum jam habet totum imperium in pacifica possessione, et recepit coronam argenteam in Mediolano in festo Natalis Domini, et coronabitur in Imperatorem, corona aurea, per manus Cardinalis Hostiensis infra paucos dies, ut dicitur. De aliis vero qua3 prfesens pagina non continebit, lator pnesentium vos novit plenius informare. Paternitatem vestram reverendam conservet Altissimus per tempora longiora. Scriptum Avinonise cum magna festinatione xxviijvo die Januarii. 811, — COPIA SUPPLICATIONIS REFORMATS IN PR^DICTA (jj^y LITTERA INTERCLUSJi;. 1355.) Pater sanctissime, cum Priori Ecclesitie Cantuaricn- sis, qui est pro tempore, vigore indulti Sedis Aposto- i^fdres- licse mitra, dalmatica, cirotliecis, et anulo pontificalibus ^ed to the uti liceat, quibus decenter ornatus cunctos priores ihe'^same An^^liie, .sicut dignitate praieminet, ita etiam et honore subject, praeemineat, ae Priori Wygorniensis Ecclesii^, eidem Cantuariensi metropolico jure subjectie, ut mitra, anulo, Ijaculo, tunica, et dalmatica pastoralibus uti, fet bene- dictionem solempnem in missa et mensa dare valeat, ab eadem Sede indultum existat ; dictocpie Priori Cantuariensis Ecclesia^ ex eo non modicum dedecus videatur inferri, quod idem Prior Wygorniensis, in consiliis provincialibus et aliis locis in quibus habent insimul convenire, pluribus ornamentis ponti- ficalibus ((uam dictus Prior Ecclesisc CanUiaricnsis, qui cum sicut dignitate pi'ajeminet sic honore et 330 LITERS ornamentis prseeminere debet, hujusmodi indulti vigore [sit] ornatus ; supplicat apostolatum vestrum liumilis et devotus suus vester Robertus Prior dictse Ecclesiye Cantuariensis, quatinus ei et successoribus .suis ut etiam baeulo, tunica, et sandalibus pastoralibiis uti, et benedictionem solempnerD in missa et inensa dare valeant, dignetur indulgere, cum omnibus non ohstan- tihus et titulo oppoHunis. (1355.) 812.— Petitio facta Domino Pap^, quod Prior Ec- L. 45«. CLESL^ CaNTUARIENSIS POSSIT PONTIFICALIBUS UTI CUM BACULO PASTORALI, ET BENEDICERE IN MISSA SIMUL ET IN MENSA ET ALIBI, ETC. Another Cum sit ab antique Priori Ecclesise Christi Cantua- petition riensis metropoliticse per Sedem Apostolicam indultum sent to the quibusdam insigniis uti pontificalibus, videlicet, mitra, the Pmr, dalmatica, cerothecis, et anulo, quibus decenter ornatus, alarmed by pj.gg cunctis aliis Anglias prioribus hactenus dignitate privileges *■ ^ • i t-i i • • granted to praeemmebat et honore, sicut liiCclesia Cantuariensis, ofWorces prfeest, ceteras totius Anglige noscitur ecclesias dig- tcr. nitate prsecellere ; et nunc Priori Wygorniensis Ec- clesise cathedralis, qute Cantuarife subest, conceditur ab ipsa Sede Apostolica pontificalibus insigniis uti quibuscunque, et sic Priorem Cantuariensem in tribus prrecellere, videlicet, pastorali baculo, tunica, et san- dalis, quod ipsi Priori Cantuariensi, ad sinodum quan- doque, sicut oportet, cum Priore Wygorniensi conveni- enti, dedecus non modicum videtur inferre. Quapropter, idem Prior Cantuariensis supplicat humiliter, sibi per Sedem Apostolicam indulgeri, quatinus omnibus posset pontificalibus uti, cum baculo pastorali, et benedicere in missa, simul etiam in mensa, et alibi quotiens pon- tificalibus indutus ecclesiasticis officiis interfuerit. CANTUARIENSES. 331 813. — Petitiones fact^ Domino PAPiE pro baculo 1355. PASTORALI UNA CUM ALUS OPTINENDIS AD ^ , usuM Domini Prioris. In primis : petit quod Prior Ecclesise Christi Can- A petition similar t( the last. tuariensis, qui pro tempore fuerit, po.ssit portare baculum pastoralem in Cantuariensi civitate, dioecesi, et provincia ubicumque, cum habeat qupedam alia pontificalia, videlicet, mitram, anulum, tunicam, et etiam cerothecas. Item : quod idem Prior possit dare benedictiones solempnes sujier populum in missa, et alias in processionibus, et in mensa, pra?sertim scde vacante, et in absentia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi sede plena. 814. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA MISSA DOMINO EPISCOPO NORWYCENSI AD PROMO VEND CTM HUJUSMODI PETITIONES. (1355.) L. 45 b. Pater et domine reverende. Petitiones quas tradi- xhe Bishop dimus Domino Duel Lancastrise, per ipsum domino of Norwich nostro Summo Pontifici porrigendas, et ulterius eff'ec- favour tile tualiter promovendas, vobis transmittimus prpesentibus petitions of interclusas. Unde vestram dominationem reverendam ve^arding- intimi cordis afiectu rogamus, quatinus pro felici expe- pontifical T,. • ^ 1- , vestments ditione m nac parte, tarn ei'ga dominum nostrum Papam, ,vhich he quam prtiefatum dominum Ducem, instarc corditer si }ias|oii lor- Pontitici porrigcndas, et ulterius eflectuaiitei' \)ro- Miird the movendas, vobis tiansmittimiis pnesentibus interclusas. matter oi ' _ _ i _ _ tiio above- Uiide vestraui dilectionem, de qua liduciam geriimis specialem, attente vogamus, quatiuus pro t'elici expe- ditione petitionum hujusmodi, tarn erga pvsefatuni Doininura Ducenij quam Dominuni Episcopum Londo- niensem nostrum integrum doniinum et amicum, cui littei^as pro expeditione hujusmodi dirigimus per prse- sentium portitoreni, efficaciter instare velitis, nostris precibus et amore ; ut vestra soUicitudine indcfessa mediante, dictce petitiones nostrse, quaj multum insi- dent nobis et Capitulo nostro cordi, sortiri valeant prosperum exitum et felicem. Script., etc. 2.5 Feb. 810. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA DOMINI S. AUCHIEPI- SCOPI PRO MONACHIS MITTENDIS AD UnIVERSI- TATES, ET PRO QUODAM SOLUTIONIS TERMINO PROROGANDO J. NOBLE AD TEMPUS. L. 88 a. The Arch- Salutem cum benedictione Dei et nostra. Dilecte iircres^thc ^^^> decor nostri Monasterii in monacbis litte- I'rior to rarum scientia prseditis consistat, maxime hiis diebus, monks an improperaverintqiie nobis rnulti quod juniores mon- eaucation achos in Universitatibus studentes non habemus ; ne versity,and cum dictis monachis litteratis, juxta carnis conditionem he asks mundo subtractis, perieret in nostro Monasterio dic- I or respite , • i for a tus decor, vos rogamus, quatmus de nostris monacliis debtor. aliquos ydoniores ad studia littcrarum quamcitius potueritis destinetis ; nc monasteria alia, etiam minora, nionachos studentes habentia nostro Monasterio in talibus prseferantur. PrEsterea, si nostra nobis velimus dimitti debita consequens est ut nostris debitoribu.s similiter dimittamus. Cum igitur quidani Johannes Noble, pauper ut apparuit, qui vobis jam ad medium quadragesimae x. pecuniai libras soluturus existit, quoa suie, ut asseruit, exhaurirent substanci;e portionem, ad nostram accesserit prsesentiam, lamentabili suppli- CANTUARTENSES. 333 cans intervontn, quod pro eo apud dilectionom vestram intercedere curaremus ; nos, snte inopiro et praitensis moeroiibus condolente.s, affectavimus in aliquo suam moestitiam delinire. Licet igitiir vostram [non] appete- mus jacturam, vos roganius, ([iiod dictte solutionis termi- num usque ad quinque septimunas post instans festum Pasclia, nostri consideratione rogaminis, dicto pauperi prorogare cuvetis. Aliam vero causam precis nostrre vobis dicemns plenius cum vobiscum habnerimus tiac- tatuin personaleni, quod in brevi fieri exoptainus. Valeatis prospere in Virgine gloriosa. Scriptum apud Maghefeld xxv° die Februarii. 817. — Memorandum qualiter Priorissa et moniales (1355.) SaNCT/E SeXBURG^ ViRGINIS in SoAPEYA ad- L. 103 b. MISERUNT VENERABTLEM PATREM DoMINUM RO- BERTUM PrIOREM EcCLESItE ChRISTI CaNTU- ariensis in confratrem et BENEFACTOREM. Memorandum quod, die tali et anno, nos Domina Johanna de Cobeham Priorissa domus monialiutn Sane- to oon- ta! Sexbui'gty in Scapeya et eiusdem loci Conventus, fraternity • 1 ° , . , „ with the consideratis bonis et benenciis per venerabilem patrem Nuus of St. Dominum Robertum Dei gratia Priorem Ecclesite Sexburga. Christi Cantuariensis nobis, intuitu caritatis, impensis, volentes sibi propterea spirituale prtemiuui elargiri, ipsum Dominuin Priorem in confratrem Capituli nostri et benefactorem nostrum admittimus ; promittentes quod, tam in vita quam in morte, pro eo faciemus perpetuo quicquid pro confratribus et benefactor! bus no.stx-is [et] domus nostriie, in orationibus et aliis piis operibus, fieri consuevit. 384 LITER^E 1355. 818. — LiTTEEA PRO SUSTENTACIONE THOMiE DE LONG- L.94i. CHAMP. A conody Universis pateat per prsesentes, quod nos Robertus dass^"and pemiissione divina, etc. Ad noticiam vestram dediici not accom- volumus per prsesentes, quod nos, unanimi assensvi ct any office, consensu nostro, concessimus et concedimus, ac etiani conferred prreseiiti scripto confirmamus, dileeto nobis in Christo mas"sonof 'Jl^omfe, filio Henrici de Longchamp militis, armigero Hen. de nostro, ad terminum et per totum tempus vitfe suae, champ. quandam annnam pensioneni xl. solidorum, singulis annis tota vita ipsius Thonife de thesauraria nostra Cantuariensi percipiendam, in festis Natalis Sancti Johannis Baptistse et Natalis Domini sequis porcioni- bus solvendam ; primo termino solucionis incipiente in festo Natalis Sancti Johannis Baptistse proximo futuro post confectionem prgesencium. Volumus etiam et concedimus eidem Tliomte, quod quamdiu vixerit a nobis, et nostris in Ecclesia nostra prsedicta suceessori- bus, habeat et percipiat in monasterio prsedicto sus- tentacionem honestam statui suo competentem, ut in esculentis et poculentis, pro se et uno famulo suo, in camera, videlicet, nostra vocata Camera Prioris, vel in Aula Hospitum in monasterio preedicto ; et si, ex causa infirmitatis, impeditus fuerit quominus ad ipsas ^ Cameram Prioris seu Aulam Hosintum, temporibus convivacionum inibi faciendarum, accedere non valeat prout vellet, vel de licencia Prioris absens fuerit, tunc esculentorum et poculentorum ministracio sive liberacio congrua sibi fiat de celario et coquina nostris, juxta exigenciam et decenciam status sui, percipienda per quoscumque suos, et ubicumque dux- erit assignandum difFerenda. Item volumus et con- cedimus, quod quolibet anno quamdiu vixerit per- cipiat et habeat, a nobis et successoribus nostris prse- fatis, unam robam pro se de seeta armigerorum, et ' ipsos, MS. CANTUARIKNSES. 335 aliam robam pro famulo suo de secta garcionum nobis et successoribus nostris deserviencium ; et etiam qua- libet nocte dum vixcrit idem percipiet et habeat libe- racionem unius lagemc serevisise de celario nostro, per quoscumque sues, ut prsemittitur, ubicumquc duxerit assignandum difterendam ; et tempore yemali qua- libet nocte liberacionem candelarum et lignorum fo- calium, prout moris est et ipsius necessitas exiget et requiret, ubicumque voluerit, deferendam. Volu- mus etiam et concedimus prsBfato Thomaj quod per totum tempus vitfe suEe a nobis, et successoribus nos- tris qui pro tempore fuerint, iiabeat et percipiat, pro unius equi sui, in stabulo ipsius Prioris custodiendi, continua sustentacione congrua et deceuti, foenum in quantitate sufficienti et avenas ; videlicet, pro qualibet nocte dimidium bussellum avenarum ; et ferraturam pro eodem equo cum opus fuerit competentem ; quae quidem fcenum, ferratura, et avense, eidem Thoinffi per illos voluraus ministrari,^ per quos talia custodibus equorum ipsius Prioris in stabulo suo hujusmodi ex- istentibus pro ipsis equis fuerint ministranda. In cujus rei, etc. Datum anno Domini MocccoLVto.^ 819. — De visitacione. ic Oct. 1355. Simon permissione divina Cantuariensis Arcliiepi- scopus, etc. dilectis filiis in Christo Priori et Capitulo, etc. salutem, etc. Cum nuper vobis mandavimus, quod ^"^^ vos, secundum juris exigenciam, visitare vellemus, ac The Arch- timentes quod per quasdam conventiculas, conven- Yarns' the ciones, seu pactiones, quin verius si ita esset conspira- Chapter tiones illicitas et nephandas, elFectus nostras visitacionis conspking hujusmodi potuerit impediri ; tenore praasentium, primo, defeat secundo, et tercio, personas omnes et singulas Capitulo oni*is^'^^*^ nostri prsedicti peremptorie monemus, ne quid in pr£e- Pfopo^^ed judicium visitacionis nostras, sic, vel alio modo illicito, ' ministrare, MS. | - Cf. the graut on p. 298. 336 attemptent vel attemptet, per se, alium, vel aliow, pupplice vel occulte, sub poena sentenciae excommuni- cacit)nis niajoris, quani in illos vestrum qui post in- tiiiiacionein prjysenciuni sibi factam ciilpabiles fuerint in prsemissis seu aliquo prsemissorum, dicta trina monicione nostra prfBmissa, iiroferimus in hiis scriptis ; absolucionein vero omnium et sinfjulorum qui nostram sentenciam hujusmodi incurrerint nobis specialitev re- servantes. Quocirca vobis in virtute obediencije man- damus, quatinus prsesentes litteras nostras in domo vestra Capitulari, omnibus et singulis monachis dicta> Ecclesia3 nostrfe propterea specialiter convocatis, plene et distincte, celeriter pupplicetis, ita quod nullus de Capitulo se valeat in liac parte per ignorenciam ex- cusare. Datum apud La Forde, xvj" Kalendas Novem- bris, anno Domini M'^ccQOLvto. (1355.) 820. — Credencia. Ij 88 h Pater et dominc reverende, vestram paternitatem r«!om-"^ reverendam intimi cordis affectu rogamus, quatinus mendation netiotia dilccti doniicelli nostri TliompB de Lono-- f^'iv 11 to T dtTLoii"- chaumpp, liarum bajuli, nostri s obsequiis continue champ for insistentis, vobis per eundem seriosius exponenda, tiou to^*^" babei'e dignemini, si libeat, specialiter commendata ; the Arch- go favorabilius quo vestra; dominationi reverendae " preces infundimus pro eodem, ut bas preces nostras fiducialiter impetrntas sibi sentiat efficaces. Semjier ad Ecclesiie suae regimen vos conservet in prosperis Jesus Christus. Script, etc. (13.5.'j.) 821. — LiTTERA CREDENCIA, CUM DELIBERATIONE PRO- gg^ VIDA NEGOTIORUM, QUID SALUBRIUS ULTERIUS SIT AGENDUM. Letter of Pater et domine reverende, accedit ad vestram orames- dominationem reverendam Johannes Elys de Can- CANTUAKIENSES. 337 tuaria, harum bajulus, super quibusdaiii negotiis senger statum et salutem Dominse Margerise Child, monialis fhe^Aich- Monasterii Sancti Sepulchri Cantuariensis, contingen- bishop i,, the inte- tibus, vobis per eundem bajulum seriosius expo- rests of a nendisj plenius inforniatus ; cui in dicendo dignemini, si liboat, fidem credulam adhibere, ac vestra delibera- chre's. tione provida ulterius ordinare quid in hac parte salubrius sit agendum. Ad Ecclesiae vestra? regimen vos conservet Trinitas indivisa. Script, etc. 822,— LlTTERA REGRATIATOllTA. (13.5.'i.) Pater, etc. De eo quod vicariam ecclesiae paro- ^' ^' chialis de Lyttleborne vacantem Domino Thomfe de Thanks to 11 0 . . the Arch- Gravenc capellano conierre, iiostrarum precium canta- bishop for tivarum instantia, concessistis, sincerse vestrse dilectioni » collation cordiales gratiarum referrimus actiones, ofFerrentes vicarage vobis ad majora vel consimilia nos paratos. Valeatis ^^jj^^^'^" in Domino prospere annis multis. Script, etc. 823. — De domibus pauperum de Herbaldoune et e Feb. NORTHGATE. H. 93 b. Omnibus, etc., Eobertus, etc., Prior, etc., salutem. . T-w • • o- • Theancient Noverit, etc., nos litteras patentes, etc., Domini bimonis Hospitals Dei gratia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, etc., inspexisse, "[j^^*'^^"'''" tenorem qui sequitur continentes : Harble- " Omnibus, etc.. Simon, etc. Noverit universitas ^"Jg^ vestra, quod cum pauperes hospitalium de Herbal- John of doune et de Northgate, Cantuariensis dioecesis, super et ^"^'^w^^^' de elemosina Cantuariensium Archiepiscoporum fund- with uo/. atorum, ab olim, necnon ab omni tempore, et prseser- l^^^^e tim cujus contrarii memoiia hominum non existit, de Arch- elemosina Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium qui fuer- g^^^JfyP^'lJ ant centum et quadraginta libras, necnon de Ecclesia 20/. from de Recolvre, jam mensje Archiepiscopali auctoritate of'^TcuU^ apostolica novitei- unita, et rectoribus ^.^^''^^^'^ JuffJ'^!)!*" U .52122. Y 338 JJTER^ incouveni- viginti libras sterlingorum, tam pro sustentacione sUca uucer-""^ et aliorum infirmorum ad ipsa hospitalia confluencium, taiiily paid quam aliis sibi incumbentibus oneribus comraodius ' durin^'- supportandis, continue percipissenfc ; principes insuper viicaucies excellentissimi Reges Anolise onus prsestacionis dic- of the See ^ * n . ^ i-i • t- of Cauter- tarum centum et quadraginta librarum, quociens ct ^"■y- quando sedes archiepiscopalis vacasset, et temporalia bishop dictorum Archiepiscoporuni, ea occasione seu alias, iu Ishp, fol- g^jg manibus, iure regio, extitissent, pro temporibus lowing up , .° ' . ^ • J. i. the begin- quibus temporalia hujusmodi tenuerunt agnovissent, et Arch°* easdem centum et quadraginta libras, pro rata ter- bishop minorum in eisdem vacacionibus seu temporibus qui- by'char^- eorum manibus temporalia prsedicta extiterunt iug the qualitercumque currencium, insuper persolvissent, ab come^o'f " o^i^i tempore supradicto ; bonaj tamen memoria; the Hos- Dominus Johannes de Stratford, noster prajdecessor, the'church couspiciens dictos pauperes super dietis prsestacionibus of Kecul- nuUam probacionem aliam quam possessionem pr?edicti movJs' temporis habuisse, quod^ eis di versa afFerebant in- their comm.oda,^ dum singuli Archiepiscopi in singulis grievance. .. .... . ... ,. creationum principus, pro suis consciencns serenandis, probaciones de hujusmodi temporibus exigebant, qute sine magno ipsorum paperum incommodo, pneter expensas non modicas, nequierunt expedire ; quodque contingentibus vacacionum temporibus quandoque im- mo percrebrius, prtecaptanda solucione pr£edict£e sum- mae centum et quadraginta ' librarum, ipsius partem magnam expendebant ; et quod Magister Thomas de Astele, ultimus rector ipsius ecclesise, quibusdara qusesitis coloribus super prsestacione dictarum viginti librarum, molestaciones varias eisdem pauperibus in- tulisset ; volens pietatis intuitu dietis pauperibus uberius et utilius prospicere, et de prgefatis summis securitatem facere, per quam possent Domino quiecius ' commodiis, MS. I ivcommodo, MS. - qnce, MS. | CANTUARIENSES. 389 famulari, et ne a quoquam successorum suorum i im - posterum de eisdem possit quicquam in dubium revocari, prsedictara ecclesiam de Recolvre, ut dc fructibus ejusdem imperpetuum solverentur summae niemovatce, tain ad exoneracionein Archiepiseoporum Cantuariensiiim sede ipsa plena, quam nobilium Reguni Anglorum .succedencium vacaciouum hujusmodi tem- poribus, in recompensacionem consensus regii, in appropriacione praedicta et sub eadem condicione, ad- liibiti, sibi et mensse su?e archiepiscopali imperpetuum, auctoritate apostolica, appropriari optinuit et uniri. Sed idem pater reverendus ante finalem expedicionem securitatis hujusmodi, sicut Domino placuit, ab hac luce migravit. Nos vero Simon Archiepiscopus prse- dictus, sibi, qviamvis immeriti, succedentes, conside- rantes haec, ad laudem Dei, [et] necessitatum^ pauperum prsedictorum sublevaeionem piissimam, de intencione purissima processisse ; ipsius patrls cupientes studiosis inhserere vestigiis, receptis primitus super prsemissis omnibus certis informacionibus atque veris, tractatu insuper cum Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi diligenti, eo propterea convocato, babito specialiter super prsemissis, causis prfedictis discussis, et decreto per nos inter- posito super cis ; ad laudem Dei, et quietem dictorum pauperum, necessitatumque suarum relevacionem congru- am, exoneracionemque Cantuariensium Archiepiseopo- rum ; de fructibus ecclesia) prsedictre memoratas summas, videlicet ad centum et quadraginta ^ libras se extendentes, per nos et successores nostros ipsa sede pleaa, et ipsa sede vacante per manus eorum qui fructus et emolumenta dictse ecclesia3 et capellarum eidem annexarum sunt peixepturi, juxta dis- tinctionem inferius annotatam, quamdiu mensa3 archi- episcopali appropriata duraverit, fore decernimus im2:)er- petuum exsolvendas ; ad quarum quidem summarura ' nostrorum ? | se.raijhifci ? '- 7iecesstlalem, MS. j Y 2 340 LITEKiE solucionem, quahior anni tempovibi;s per requales porciones, videlicet Sancti Martini in yeine, Purifica- cionis Beatce Marife Virginis, Apostolorum Piiilip])i ct Jacobi, et Sancti Petri quod dicitur ad Vincula, de fructibus ecclesise prsedictfe quamdiu mensse archi- episcopali sic nnita fuerit fideliter faciendam, delibe- racione provida praeoptenta, de consensu prsedicti Capituli nostri, propter causas pra^dictas et utilitatem archiepiscopatus evidentem, obligamus dictam ecclesiam de Recolvre, sic mensfe nostrje archiepiscopali ut praj- mittitur unitara, nos eciam, et successores nostros, prpefatis (h)ospitalibus, et pauperibus in eisdem degen- tibus, et qui sibi succedent iraperpetuum quocumque nomine cenceantur. Prsefata vero appropriacione qua- litercumque cessante, seu, quod absit, revocata, vel qualitercumque dissoluta, decernimus, volumus, et eciam ordinamus, quod temporalia dicti archiepisco- patus ad solucionem dictarum centum et quadraginta librarum, et praefata ecclesia de Recolvere ad solucionem viginti librarum, [sicut] primitus fuerant, redeant et remaneant onerata ; hospitaliaque prjedicta, et pauperes tunc degentes, in eis quocumque nomine cenceantur, ad ius suum recipiendi et habendi dictas sumraas, ut praefertur, redeant antiquum, et eo extunc libero utantur et gaudeant, sicut ante ipsius ecclesire unione et appropriacione pi'semissis uti solebant qualitercumque seu gaudere, dicta appropriacione et temporis fluxu non obstantibus nec impedimentum aft'erentibus quo- vismodo. Et ne, propter mortem Archiepiscoporum diversis temporibus decedencium, de solacione in prae- fatis terminis facienda dubium aliquod oriatur ; vo- lumus et ordinamus, quod quicumque Archiepiscopus, post perceptas per eum annuales fructus dictse eccle- sifB et capellarum eidem annexarum, post festum Sancti Michaelis et ante festum Paschae tunc proxime sequens, exnunc decosserit, quod ipse et executores sui ad prsestacionem dictarum summarum, quatuor terminis CANTUAUIENSES. 341 dictaui percepcionem immediate seqnentibus, integralitcr teneatur; liceatque Priori dicti Capituli, qui, pro tempore fuerit, fructus dumtaxat in dicta ecclcsia et ejus capellis existentes tempore mortis suae, si cd solucionem prsedictam sufficere potuerint, summarie, alioquin cetera bona dicti Archiepiscopi, ubicumque existencia, usque ad coucurrentera quantitatem pro ipsis terminis aretro existentibus, sequestrare, et sub arto custodire sequestro, quousque dictis pauperibus de prsefatis summis fuerit integraliter satisfactum. Si vero Archiepiscopus hujusmodi post festum Paschse et ante festum Sancti Michaelis proxime tunc sequens decesserit, cum in hoc casu, de consuetudine Ecclesias Cantuariensis notoria, fructus majores et autumpnales ejusdem anni ad ipsam pertinere debebunt, si ejus executoi'es fructus ecclesise et capellarum hujusmodi juxta consuetudinem ipsam integre perceperiiit, et de eis habuerint facultatem liberam disponendi, ad solu- cionem, pro quatuor terminis percepcionum hujusmodi immediate sequentibus, quatenus fructus hujusmodi ad hoc se extenderint et non ultra, insuper, defuncti no- mine Archiepiscopi, teneantur. Quod si solucionem hujusmodi non fecerlnt, liceat tunc dicto Priori, si vacacio ipsa usque ad percepcionem fructuum hujus- modi duraverifc, porcionem fructuum eccJesire prajdictfB dictum defunctum contingentem, et nulla alia bona dicti defuncti, sequestrare, etc. Et si porcio dictum defunctum contingcns non sufBciat, residuum de por- cione futuri Pontificis suppleatur. Nostraa taraen intencionis non existit, quod si, sede plena, tempo- ralia dicti archiepiscopatus quacumque actione ad manus regias applicentur, ita quod Archiepiscopum de spiritualibus vivere et regi oporteat, pro tempore hujusmodi eciam ad solucionem aliquam dictis pau- peribus faciendam Archiepiscopus qui pro tempore fuerit aliqualiter teneatur ; sed in eo casu temporal ia sicut [debent] rcmaneant onerata. In cujus rei, etc. 342 LITER.E Data apud Otteford, viijo Idus Februarii, anno Do- mini Moccc'OL quinto." Nos vero Prior Eccle-siaj Cliristi, etc. ordinacioni pr?e- senti, etc. nostrum prfebemus consensumj pariter et as- sen.sum. Data in Domo iiostro Capitalari, . . . . die mensis Februarii, anno Domini supradicto. 19 May 824. — CORROmUM COXCESSUM ThOM^ SpROT ET JULI- 1356. AN^ UXORI SVJE. H. 93. The Chap- Univer.sis, etc. Robertu.s, etc. Prior Eccle.sife terpranta Christi, etc. salutem. Noverit universitas vestra, mainte- ^^^> sincerffi dilectionis intuitu, no.stro con.sensu et n^nce to assen.su unanimi, concessisse, etc. dilcctis nobis in Sprot and Christo Thomte Sprot de Merseham et Juliana? uxori forlTfe'^ sure quoddam corrodium, ad totam vitam utriusque whilst to ipsorum, sub modo et condicionibus quae sequuntiir the man IS percipiendum ; videlicet, quod iidem Thomas et Juliana conceded a ^ . . lay office habeant et percipiant de celario nostro, in Monasterio Mona'^terj- ^^ostro Cantuariensi, de die in diem, per ministros suos, unum panera conventualem, et unum panem vocatum smalpays, et unam lagenam servisiae et dimidiam conventualis servi.sipe melioris,-^ et unam lagenam et dimidiam secundoe servlsife vocatae cantekde ; et de coquina, nostra in eodem monasterio, ad prandiuin cotidie duos parseys ; et in principalibus festis tres parsys, videlicet, de quolibet ferculo conventuali unum par.say - coctum cum potagio, prout alicui confi'atrum nostrorum in refectorio nostro illo die deserviri con- tigerit. Et quando Conventus coenat pupplice in refectorio, similiter percipiant sicut unus de confra- tribus nostris ibidem coenantibus, prjeter pietanciam, de qua nichil percipiant nec ad prandium nee ad iThis should probably stand unam lagenam et dimidiam servisite con- ventualis melioris. - Parsiare = partager Ducange. CANTUARIENSES. 343 coenam. Volumus ctiam et concedimus eidem Thomse, ct confirmamns per prsesentes, ofEcium custoditi? portae nostra) interioris in monasterio nostro, juxta Aulam Hospitum scituatse, una cum camera, consueta deputari officiario custodife ejusdem, et annexa dictse portae, cum annua pensione duodecim solidorum, per manus Celerariorum nostrorum qui pro tempore fuerint annuatim, pro custodia prsedicta, pereipienda ; pro ^ qua quidem pecunia duodecim solidorum concedimus eidem Thomse, ad totam vitam suam, unam robam de secta arraigerorum nostrorum, annuatim percipiendam ; ifca quod ad ea qu?e officio custodife prredictfe ex con- suetudine incumbunt, jier se vel per aliam personam ydoneam, sit intendens. In cujus rei, etc. Data, etc. in festo Sancti Dunstani Arcliiepiscopi anno rcgni Regis Edwardi tertii, etc, tricesimo. 825.— [De camera in HOSPITALI de EASTBREGG con- 21 June • 1356. H. 92 h. CESSA RATIONE ANNUI REDDITUS DATI EIDEM.] ' Sanctaj Matris EcclesijB, etc. Simon permissione Tlie Mas- divina, etc. Noveritis nos inspexisse litteras infra- ter of script! tenoris : EastLririge " Universis, etc. Thomas de Wolton, Magister seu in consicie- Custos Hospitalis Sancti Thomaj Martiris de Eastbregg J^^^p" Cantuarife, salutem. Noveritis, quod cum Dominus rent of Ricardus de Medeborne, Capellanus, contulerit michi ^""/j marks ■1 ■ • 1 -I ■ settled et successoriDUs meis quatuor marcatas annui redditus upon him- imperpetuum, in Civitate Cantuaria in parochia Sancti ^^if and his i i ' _ _ . . successors, Petri, in subsidium sustentacionis nostrse, et pro grants a elemosinis in eadem hospitali uberius largiendis ; in*a^gj|l*^. egoque, eo ])raetextu sibi volens vices gratuitas aliqua- ber of the liter compensare, de consensu venerabilis patris Do- ami^'a mini Simonis Dei gratia, etc., patroni ejusdem, do stable, and et concedo eidem usum et inhabitacionem cujusdam siouVf ' cum ? LITEU.i: to'"' camei'cfc! in dictu liospitali, in (luodaiu solario juxta firinariain, extendentis se ad curiam pvaefati lios- pitalis versus Est, et alias cameras dicti solarii versus West, cum libero ingressu efc egressu ad cam et ab ea Do etiam eidem quatuor marcas aiinuie pensionis in dicto hospital!, in testis (consiietis) ; habenda et tenenda omnia prjedicta prsedicto Ricardo ad totum terminum vitse suae. Et ad solucionem dictiu pensionis, etc. obligo et subjicio districtioni et coliercioni ejus omnes terras, etc. dicti hospitalis, etc. Concedo prseterea eidem receptaoulum pro equo suo in stabulo infra dictum hospitale, quociens per vices ad Civitatem Cantuariam eum declinare contingat, ad totam vitam suam. Data Cantuarise xjo Kalendas Julii anno Domini moccclvj*"." Confirmationes Archiepiscopi et Capituli soquuntur in forma consueta. Eisdem anno et die concessa? suut aulam, cameram, stabulum, et annuam pensionem decern librarum, cum foca- libus competentibns in camino aula3 praedictae utendis, Ada) le Eyr, Civi Londoniensi, ratione redditus perpetui decern librarum ab eo concessi. (1356.) 82 6. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA MISSA EPISCOPO ElY- L. 61 6. ENSI QUOD SIT ADJUTOR SICUT PROMISIT IN NEGOTIIS EcCLESIiE AGENDIS ET SUBVENIENDIS. Tlic Piioi- Pater et domine reverende. Memor promissi vestri Bi^ho^'^of ^^^^^ michi facti, quod in agendis meis impenderetis (1356.) 828— LiTTERA REGRATIATORIA MISSA DOMINO PrINCIPI L. 89 ii. DE SUA FELICI EXPEDITIONE IN PARTIBUS FRANCIiE ET GaSCONI^, ETC. The Black Tresredoute Seignur ct tresgracious, jeo me recom- con^atu- iiia.und a vostre tresgrande seignurie, et vous mercie CANTUAKIENSES. 345 consilium ct juvamen, pro quo vobis regratior toto EI3 to corde ; jam quia indioeo et spero vestro adiutorio i^'*'*'^'^ . . , ° . , , . . , in sonic rclevan, et ideo negotia mea, quae valdc mcidunt matter not iniclii corde, per latorem praesentium, vestro audita, exF^*^^*-''*- si placet, exponenda, specialiter recoramendo : vestraui paternitatem carissimam humiliter deprecans et re- quireus, quatinus michi dignemini subvenire, ut finein prosperam capiant et felicem ; prajcipientes michi cum fiducia si qute tacere potero placita votis vesLris. Paternitatem vestram carissimam dirigat et conservet Altissimus in prosperis sicut desiderat totus vester. Script, etc. Noia bene istam supplicatiouem. 827. — LiTTERA TESTIMONIALS DE SATISFACTIONE Do- (1356.) MiNO Priori per illum qui libertates g,, ^ ECCLESI^ VIOLAVIT ET DE PCENITENTIA SIBI INJUNCTA PERACTA. Amice carissime, scire velitis quod harum bajulus, The Prior qui libertates Ecclesise nostrae (.^antuariensis temere . , • 1 • ^ • 1 1 • T . „ . the Official violavit, nobis de excessu hujusmodi congrue satisiecit, of the ac poenitentiam, auctoritate domini nostri communis . .... ®'op P'o- ea occasione sibi injunctam, peregit ; unde vestram ceedings dilectionem rogainus, quatinus contra ipsum ulterius ^^^p"if,^'l,o occasione prsemissa nullatenus procedatis. Ut valere has made desideramus semper in Domino feliciter valeatis. Script., etc. 828. Most dread and most gracious Lord, I recommend my- self to your most mighty Lordship, and thank you with 346 LlTERaS lated on tout moii cuer et mes seenz de vostre tresgi'acionsse aTroit^rs. humilite, qe vous deignastes iin tiel simple vostre moigne et oratour visiter et conforter par voz tres- eraciousses lettres, de vostre bon estat et honurable esploit qe Dieux vous ad donez de sa grande miseri- corde, et si mervoilloussement qe nul nad oy parlir ne trove en escript ; de quey je sui sovereignement tenuz Dieu de ciel toutz jours loer, plus qe je ne suy de seen et de poair, pur la grande joye qe jeo navoy quant je resceu de vostre mervoillousse esploit les noveles. Treshonuree Seignur et treshumble, je suy apris de grantz clerks, et par Seinte Escripte, qe la liumilite de la Benoite Vierge Marie fuist a Dieu ^ilus plesauncte qe sa vii-ginitee ; pur quey tresreverent Seignur, come je os vous supplie sau.nz displesaunce de vous, qe toutz vos cevres ^ et . travaux sicom vous lez avez par humilite commenseez les vuillez usir et finir en y cele. Tresexcellent Seignur, vous plese entendre qe toutz mes fraires et moy prioms nuyt et jour devoutement pur salvacion de vostre corps et alme, et sauvement en Engleterre retournir, al per- petuele joye de vous et profist du roilme. Tresnoblc Seignur et treshonurables, Dieu, par qi toutz beins et perfections des busoignes viegnent, vous donit par sa gTande merci et misericorde tiel fyn et effect des toutes voz busoig-nes come vous desirez. Escript a Canterbirs, etc. Par vostre humble cbapellein Priour del Esglise de Cantorbirs. 6 Oct. (1356). 829. — LiTTEEA PrINCIPIS. L. 59 b. The Black Trescher en Dieu, nous pensons bien qe tondis les 'P^']^.^^> vous merciez ^ orrier bones novelles de nous et de siting ... „ from Toi- ceux de nostre compaigme, si vous tesons savoir qau tiers;, in- forms the Prior that , ,„ . o j ■ n he and his ' oeprex, MS. I " que vous desirez ? CANTUARIENSES. 347 all my heart and mind for your gracious condescension, in that you deign by your gracious letters to notice and console your poor monk and bedesman ; (telling him) of your good condition and the honourable exploit which God has granted to you of his great mercy ; and that so marvellously, that none has ever heard of such or read in history ; for which I am always supremely bound to praise the God of Heaven, more than I have skill or power to do, in recompense for the great joy I felt when I received the news of your marvellous exploit. Most honoured and most humble Lord, I have learned, from eminent scholars and from Holy Writ, that the humbleness of mind of the Blessed Virgin was more I)leasing to God than even her virginity ; wherefore, most reverend Lord, if I may dare to ask it without displeasing you ; as you have begun all your acts and labours with humility, you will continue and end them with the same. Most excellent Lord, be pleased to understand that all my brethren and I myself devoutly pray night and day for the preservation of your body and soul, and for your safe return to England, for the l)erpctual joy of yourself and profit of the realm. May God, from whom all good and all perfect undertakings come, by his great mercy and pity give you in all your affairs such end and result as you desire. Written, &c. 829. Beloved in God, we fully believe that whilst you desire to hear good news of us and those of our company, so we give you to know that at the sending off of these fu agooli f^cP^^'tii' ceattis nous et tiestoute nostre conipaignie condition estoins cn boll point, loiez ensoit Nostrc Seignur ; battle'''" ^i^ii'i'aunt tondis assavoir y cc luesines de vous. fought Nostre Seignur vous gard. Donez souz nostre signet weeks ^ nostre Viile de Poitiers le vje jour Doctobre. before). (1356.) L. 59 b. A mer- chant in- forms the I'rior that he has de- livered groceries and dried fish to a servant of the Con- vent, and that he has given to the ser- vant an invoice of the goods. 830. — [LiTTERA Mercatoris.] Honurs et reverences. Trescher Sire, voillez savoir qe jay delivere a Richard Penne vostre servant, solom vostre lettre qe vous moi mandastes par le dit Richard, en espycerii, pesson sale, et stokfiche, a le mountauntz de xlvij. livres xiij. souds ix. deniers, de queux choses le dit Richard vous apport les parcells escripts en une cedul. Seynt Espritz vous eyt en son garde. Trescher [Sire], si agune chos voiellez qe jeo faire puse, affiablement moy voiellez mander. 1 Nov. 8S1. — [COMMISSIO SeNESCALLORUM DE DOCKOMBE.] 1356. L.49a. As toutz ceux qi cestes lettres vorrount ou orrount Power of Robert, etc. Prior, etc. Sachez nous avoir ordinez et attorney mys en nostre lieu Nicholas Whyting et Johan Gate- 't\vo°sene°'' path de Chuddelegh noz attornez, a tenir noz courts schalsfor nostre manoir de Doccombe en le counte de De- ofDoc- ve(n)schir, et affaire de par nous ce qils voient qe Devon i^ieuz fait affaire en cele partie. Et ce qiles ferront, fehire. OU un de eux ferra, de par nous a nostre profist, averoms [et] tendroms ferm et estable. Par quoi nous voloms qe toutz noz tenantz et autres de nostre manoir susdit soient as eux entendauntz et respon- dentz com as nous meismes. En tesuioignaunce, etc. Donez a Cantorbiis Ic Mardy en la feste de Toutz Seiniz, Ian du regne, etc. xxx"'-'?. CANTUARIENSES. 349 we and all our company are in a good state, praised be Our Lord for it, desu'ing at the same time to hear the same of you. Our Lord keep you. Given under our private seal in our city of Poitiers the Gth day of October. 830. Honours and reverence. Very dear Lord, please to know that I have delivered to Richard Penne, your servant, in obedience to your letter which you sent to me b}^ the said Richard, in groceries, salt-fish, and stock- fish, to the value of forty-seven pounds, thirteen shillings, and ninepence, of which goods the said Richard is bringing you the items in a schedule. May the Holy Spirit have you in his keeping. Veiy dear Lord, if there be anything which you wish that I may do, please to send to me with confidence. 831. To all who shall see or hear these lettei's, Robert, &c. Prioi-, &LC. Know ye that we have constituted and put in our place Nicholas Whyting and John Gatepath of Chudleigh, as our attornies for holding our courts in our manor of Doccombe, in the County of Devon, and for doing on our behalf whatever in this matter they see best to be done. And whatever they, or one of them, shall do on our behalf for our profit we will have and hold lirm and sure. Wherefore we desire that all our tenants and others in our aforesaid manor shall be obedient and answerable to them as to ourselves. In witness, &a 350 LITERiE 1356. 832. — LiTTERA WiLLELMI BrAUNCHE DE HOSTIO H- 96 b. CLAUSTRI. A layman Universis, etc. Noveritis nos unanimi assensu et keeper'of consensu nosti'O concessisse, etc. dilecto nobis in Christo the Cloister Willelmo filio Joliannis Bi-aunclie de Cantuaria, ad dut[es"in'^ totam vitam suani, officium liostiarii claustri nostri 2 Feb. 1357. n. 97 b. A compro- mise in settlement of a law- suit be- tween the Chapter of Christ Church .md the citizens of Canter- bury, the subject of dispute being the inconve- niences arising from the nearness of two mills, one above the other, on the same stream. 833. — COMPOSICIO INTER NOS ET CiVES CaNTUARIENSES DE MiLDRETHEMELL. Ceste endenture, faite parentre Robert, etc. Prieur del Esglise de Crist, etc. dunepart et Esmond Cokyn et Estephene de Sellyngg, BaylifFs de la Cite de Canterbirs et la Comminalte de mesme la Cite daltre- part, tesmoigne : qe come mesme ceux Prieur et Covent tenent lour molyn de Mildrethmell en la dite Cite de Canterbirs come en le droit de lour Eglisc avantdoite sur la ryvere qe lem appelle Jja Sture, et les ditz Bayliffs, etc. tenent lour molyn appelle Kynggsmelle en mesme la Cite sur mesme la ryvere par aval come lour droit ; et coment par cause dun estang de novel levee au dit molyii de Kynggsmell auvisaunt al dit molyn de Mildrethmell, come estoit suppose, pur estopier del cours de la dite rivere et refoler tamqe al roe du dit molyn de Meldrethmell, plee damisaunce estoit meu (entre le dit Priour, pleyn- tif, et Johan Elys et Estevene de Hoo, nadgaires Baylyffs, etc., defendantz) en la Court nostre Seig-nur le Roi. Nientmoins, pur apeser le debat susdit, entre les partyes susditz, lour successours, et heyrs entemps avenir, si sount ils acordes en manei'e quensuyt, cest a savoir : que les avantdits Priour et Covent facent estopier par amont lour molyn de Meldrethmell la ware juste Canterbirspol ; et apres ceol estopier qe la CANTUARIENSES. monasterii nostri Cautuariensis, cum omnibus et sin- the lefcc- gulis proficuis, etc. ad officium prsedictum pertinenti- t,) bus ; ita quod ad ea consueta officio hostiarite tiie office, prsedictaa quae sei'vicio suo in refectorio nosti'O ex consuetudine incumbunt, per se vel aliam pei'sonam idoneam, etc. sit inbendens. In cujus rei, etc, anno Domini M^ccco quinquagesimo sexto. 838. This indenture, made between Robert, &c. Prior of Christ Church, &c. on the one part and Edmond Cokyn and Stephen of Selling, BaililEs of the City of Canter- bury, and the Commonalty of the same City on the other part, witnessetli : that whereas the same Prior and Convent hold their mill called Mildred's Mill in the said City of Canterbury as in right of their Church aforesaid on the river which is called the Stour, and the said Bailiffs, &c. hold their mill called King's Mill in the same City on the same river downstream as their right ; and whereas owing to a new millpond lately embanked for the said mill of King's Mill neighbouring unto the said mill of Mildred's Mill, as was alleged, for the purpose of crippling the course of the said river and of throwing it back upon the waterwheel of the said mill of Mildred's Mill, an action of damage was brought (between the said Prior, plaintiff, and John Elys and Stephen of Hoo, formerly Bailiffs, Szc, defendants) in the Court of Our Lord the King. Nevertheless, in order to appease the aforesaid dispute between the beforesaid parties, their successors, and heirs in time to come, they have thus agreed, that is to say : that the aforesaid Prior and Convent shall cause the weeds to be destroyed upstream from their mill of Mildred's Mill as far as Canterbury 352 LITERiE Comminalte dc la dicte Cite face moundier et purgier nettement la dicte rivere des schameles, et coilettes de terre, et autres ordures queconques a lour propre custages, solom lancienne cours parentre mesmes les deus molyns, avant la feste de Seynt Michel qe serra de la feste de Seynt Michel proschein ensuaunt apres la fesaunce de cestes en un an. Et apres ceux estopier, moundier, et purgier les avantdicts Priour et Covent, deyns mesme le temps, facent moundier paramount le dit moleyn la ou lour terre est, ensy qe en lour defalte lour dit molyn ne soit desturbe amoudre. Et apres ceste choses acomplys, les avantdits Baylyffs et Comminalte, pur eux, lour hyers, et lour succes- sours, de mettre deyns mesme le temps un poUaid parentre mesme le molyns de tiele hautesse, par renable level, come attyent ; et mesme le poUard meyn- tener a tous jours esteant la dicte Cite en lour meyns afitme. Et qe ils ferront auxint lour esclusses de lour molyn de Kynggesmelle de donqes de mesme la hautesse, par renable level, issint qe outre le siam- met de mesme eel pollard et escluses nul ewe il ^ soit retenuz par les estongues du dit molyn de Kynggs- melle ; ne par schameles, ordures, ou autre collectes de terre parentre de deux molyns en la dicte rivere par amont'^ le dit molyn de Mildrethmell soit en ascune manere distourbe a moudre, come il soleyt avant qe le dist molyn de Kynggsraelle qore est estoit de novele leve. Et les avantdicts Priour et Covent grahtent, pur eux et lour successours a tous jours, de mettre deynz mesme le temps un pollard par amont lour dit molyn, par renable level, come atient, et mesme le pollard, esteaunt lour molyn, pur tous jours meyutener ; et qils ferront les escluses de mesme le molyn de adonqs de mesme la hautesse levelee, issint qe nulle ewe illusqes soit retenuz. Et a cestes rANTUARIENSES. .353 Pool ; and after this destruction the Commonalty of the said City shall cause the said river to be cleansed, and thoroughly purged of flams, collections of sand, and other filth of all kinds at their proper costs, following the ancient course (of the stream) between the same two mills, and this before the feast of St. Michael fol- lowing the feast of St. Michael next ensuing after the making of these indentures in a year. And after this destruction, cleansing, and purging the said Prior and Convent, within the same term, shall cleanse above the(ir) said mill where their land lies, so that through their own default their said mill may not be interrupted in grinding. And these things completed, the aforesaid Bailiffs, for themselves, their heirs, and their successors, (are) to fix within the same term a post between the mills of such a height, at a reasonable level, as is proper ; and maintain the said post for ever as long as the said City is held to farm in their hands. And that they shall then also make their floodgates of their mill of King's Mill of the same height, at a reasonable level, so that above the tops of the said post and floodgates no water shall be kept back by the pond-banks of the said mill of King's Mill ; nor shall the said mill of Mildred's Mill be in any manner hindered in grinding by flams, filth, or other gatherino-s of sand between the two mills in the said river upstream, as things used to be before the said mill of King's Mill which now is was rebuilt. And the aforesaid Prior and Convent concede, for them- selves and their successors for ever, that they will, within the same term, put in a post upstream froiu their mill, at a reasonable level, as it behoves, and, as long as the mill remains theirs, they will always main- tain it ; and that -they will then make the flood- gates of the same mill of the same height and level, so that no water shall be there kept back. And for the z 854 LITER.*; covenaunfcz lealment tenier et performer, si bien les avantdictes Priour et Covent, eux et lour successours, come les avantdictes Bayliffs et Comminalte, eux, lour heyrs, et successours soy obligent par icestes, entre- chaugeablement, de lour commune seal asseales. Donez a Ganterbirs, le jour de la Purificacioun de Nostre Dame, Ian du reign nostre Seignur le Roy Edward tierce apres la conqueste trente-primere. Effectiis istius composicionis executus est, iu purgacione scamelorum et Sturae a Mildredemell usque Kyngismell, in noTa reparacione ejusdem Kyngismelle facta anno Domini 3i°cccc°xxxj"" ; quo anno cires Cantuariffi omnia schameles, Sturam, et omnia praemissa mundaverunt suis propriis sump- tibus et expensis, per banc composicionem astricti. 1 Mar. 1357. L. 48 h. 834. — ACQUIETANCIA DE BONIS ORDINATIS ECCLESI^. The execu- tors of a Universis pateat, etc. quod nos Robertus, etc. person pay Prior, etc. recepimus et habuimus die confectionis twenty praesentium de executoribus Domini Roberti Burbaclie pounds to i . , . . Christ defuncti xx. libras m nobilibus aureis de bonis be^em-' *° ipsius defuncti pro anima ejusdem, etc. In cujus rei, ployed for etc. Datum Cantuarise prime die Martii, anno Domini ttf:ufof>f°CCCOLV.jto. the de- funct. 21 April 835. — LiTTERA SIGNATA PER SIGILLUM COMMUNE PRO 1357. UNO PANE ET UNA JUSTA SEREVISI^ CONCESSA H. 94 b. Magistro T. Masoun. A daily Tenore prsesencium nos Robertus, etc. Prior, etc. ^'u^^oTale ^0^^^ facimus universis, quod nos, reducentes ad are granted exactje coiisideracionis examen, quod venerabilis vir the^'waf Magister Thomas Masoun, juris peritus, nobis et advisers of Ecclesiie nostrse frequenter, provido consilio et opere ter when- efficaci, variis profuit in agendis, sicut multipliciter ever he is experti sumus temporibus retroactis in nostris nego- OANTUARIENSES. 355 loyal observance and performance of these covenants, as well the said Prior and Convent and their successors as the aforesaid Bailiffs and Commonalty, they, their heirs, and successors bind themselves reciprocally by these presents, sealed with their common seals. Given, &c. ciis feliciter expeditis, ipsum omnium piorum on the spot rc ■ i. 1, r n i to receive sutiragiorum et bonorum [operumj per nos et tjjgm . ^nd nostros successores, quse in nostra Cantuariensi at the Ecclesia fient imperpetuum, participem constituimus, he is ad- Deura pro ipso internis affectibus, cum clarae devo- mitted to . T . T spiritual cionis promptitudme, exorantes, ut ipse eum custodiat coufrater- et ad salutem animse suae dirigat in agendis ; ac etiam, nity with considei'antes multa alia benencia fructuosa nobis et vent. Ecclesise nostrse prsedictse impensa, excitamur et inducimur ut ipsius personam prserogativis et recom- pensacione amplioribus favorum et gratiarum tempo- ralium merito persequamur. Hinc est quod, ex unanimi consensu, assensu, et voluntate nostris, con- cessimus, pro nobis et successoribus nostris, eidem Magistro Thomse, qualibet die ad terminum vitae suae, unum panem conventualem et unam justam cerevisiae conventualis, percipiendos et habendos ubicumque fuerit, de prioratu nostro praedicto.^ In cujus rei, etc. Data xxjo die mensis Aprilis anno Domini MOCCCOLVIJ™o. ' Probably this clause should stand quandoamqiie fuerit in prioratu 7in!tfro, 7. 2 356 LITERJ5 10 July 836. — COPIE DE LA LETTRE MANDE A JOHN GaTEPAT(h) NOSTRE Seneschal de Doccombe. L. 49 a. One of the Salutz. Coiiic nadgaires vous mandames par noz iievvlj- ap- lettres qe vous cessatz de destresse faire sour nostre Seneschals ^''^'^^o^ Doccombe pur nostre rente illeoqes, par of Doc- cause qils ont empris de nous servir loialement, et combe has „ • i , • j. • acted op- P^^^r dan en an en temps avenir ; et puis avoms en- pressiveiy tenduz qe vous avez grevousement distreint un Thomas tenants, ^^^gg, et enchace sa femine et ses enfauntz hors de even turn- sa meson, pur rendre a vous nostre rental et paier a inff a man , , , • , i and his VOUS nostre rent, et auxuit a rendre a vous acompte ■wifeand Jq ycele de temps passe, et dautres profistz sour- children 1. 1 1 T • into the dauntz de nostre dit homage ; quel chose, si ensy soit, street ; he yoloms qe VOUS cesses de tiels destresses faire, car IS there- ^ fore nous voloms par lour meyns dan en an estre servy de the'^Prior"^ nostre rent, en manere com ils ount empris, et de toutz to abstain autres profistz sourdauntz par an de nostre dit homage ; the™ severe P^^' nous voloms qe VOUS nous envoiez, souz vostre measures, seal, chescun an del an passez, les copies de les extrectes des Courts par vous tenuz, et les autres evidences des profistz annuels qi eschecent, issint qe nous les puissoms charger resonablement a lour venue. Et en- droit de une marc de vostre empension, qe vous prendrez par an de lour meyns, nous lour feroms due allowance. Et vous chargeoms qe vous sourveillez ^ nostre bois illoqes, en cas qe nous puissoms prendre j)rofist, et nous certifiez quel profist et la value pa,r voz lettres. A Dieu. Escript a Cantorbirs le x™^ jour de Juyl. suuvenez, MS. CANTUAKIENSES. 83(3. Greeting. Whereas we lately ordered you by ouv letters that you should cease from distraining upon our tenantry at Doccombe for our rent there, because that they have undertaken to treat us loyally, and to pay up from year to ) ear in time to come ; yet since then we have heard that you have harshly distrained upon one Thomas Legg, and turned his wife and his children out of tTieir house, in order to (make him) pay you our rent, and also reckon with you for that of past times, and other profits which accrue from our said tenantry ; which thing if it so be, we desire that you cease from levying such distresses, for we desire at their hands from year to year to be furnished, as they have undertaken, with our rent, and the other profits which yearly accrue from our said tenantry ; wherefore we desire that every year you send to us, under your seal, copies of the entries for the preceding 3' ear in the rolls of the Courts held by you, and all other proofs of the annual profits whicli come in, so that we may charge them reasonably when they come. And as to the mark of your salary, which you annually receive at their hands, we will make them due abatement. And we charge you that you keep watch upon our woods tiiere, in case we may make any profit from them, and certify us in your letters what profit we can make. Adieu, &c. 358 LITERS 23 July 837. — LiTTERA PRO TENENTIBUS EcOLESIiE DE TELONEO (1357). L. 89 a. NON SOLVENDO IN MERCATIS, ET DE DISTRIC- TIONE SUPER EOS FACTA IN EISDEM DELIBE- RANDA. The meu of Rye having levied a distress for toll upon a tenant of the Con- vent, they are re- minded that all tenants of Christ Church are exempt from this payment. Chers amys. Por ceoqe vous avez pris un chival sur Robert de Penyntone, nostre tenaunt de Holyng- bourne, en noun destresse ; par quiele destresse vous le chassez de paier toln en vostre ville de la Rye, et nuUe deliveraunce vuillez faire de y cele ; si devez entendre de certein qe toutz y ceux qi prennent de noz tenauntz lavantdit toln, ou destreinent, sont en sentence descomege donez par le glorious Martir Seint Thomas et confermez par Lespostoille de Rome ; et auxint sont toutz de noz tenauntz frauncs par graunt du Roys Dengleterre, et ount estez de temps dount y nead memoire. Si, vous prioms cherement (qe), avantz regard a la dite fraunchise grauntee pur toutz noz tenauntz, vuillez deliverir la destresse avantdite, et soefFrir qe lui et autres noz tenauntz puissant venir fraunchement as marchees et as faires, saunz empechement de vous ou de voz ministres, de bi avaunt, come ils ount usez avaunt ces houres ; issint qe nous ne aioms matire de mettre cestes choses plus avaunt en damage de vous ou travoil. Kar nous ne vorrioms en nulle manere avoir debat ovesqe vous en cas qe nous purrioms sauver le droit de nostre Esglise et fraunchise. A Dieu, chers amys et veisins, qi vous donit grace toutz jours de bien faire. Escript en nostre manoir de Holyngbourne lendemeyn de la Seinte Maudeleyne, CANTUARIKNSES. 359 837. Dear friends. As you have seized a horse from Robert of Penyntone, our tenant at Hollingbourne, by way of distraint ; by which distraint you compel him to pay toll in your town of Rye, and refuse to surrender the same ; so you should know for certain that all who demand the aforesaid toll from our tenants, or who levy distresses upon them, fall under the sentence of excom- munication provided by the glorious Martyr St. Thomas and confirmed by the Popes of Rome ; moreover all of our tenants are exempt by grant from the Kings of England, and have alwavs been so from time out of mind. We therefore earnestly pray you that, having respect to the said exemption granted to all our tenants, you will please deliver the aforesaid distress, and permit that lie and our other tenants may freely frequent your markets and fairs, without hindrance from you or your officers, henceforth, as they have used to do hitherto ; so that we may have no reason to carry these matters farther to your injury and vexation. For in no way do we wish to have controversy with you, if (without it) we may be able to protect the rights and privileges of our Church. May God be with you, dear friends and neighbours, and may he ever give you grace to do what is right. 3G0 LITERJ2 25 Aug. 838.- 14 Sept. 1357. L. 89 b. -Certifioatorium factum Domino S. Archi- episcopo super visitatione sua in ecclesia Christi Cantuarienst auctoritate aposto- LICA ET sua, etc. The Prior's acknow ceipt of the Arch- bishop's citation to a visita- tion ; the words of the cita- tion re- cited. Reverendo in Cliristo patri ac domino, Domino Si- moni Dei gratia Cantuariensi Arcliiepiscopo, totius ledgem'eut Augliaj Primati, et Apostolicse Sedis Legato, vestri hu- ofhisre- jjiiles et devoti Prior et Capitulum Ecclesiaa Cliristi Cantuai'iensis, obedientiam, reverentiam, et honorem, Mandatum paternitatis vestrse reverendaj nuper rece- pimus, tenorem continens infraseriptum : " Simon pro- " videntia divina Cantuariensis Archiepiseopus, etc. " dilectis filiis Priori et Capitulo Ecclesise nostriB Can- " tuariensis, salutem, gratiam, et benedictionem. Quia " nos, certis et legitimis de causis, nostram Cantua- " riensem Ecclesiam, cui prse ceteris ecclesiis nostrse " Cantuariensis pi'ovincise specialius obligamur, vosque " ac ceteros conversantes in ea personaliter, Domino " duce, intendimus visitare, et corrigere si qufe in ea " fuerint corrigenda, prout, tam litterarum Apostoli- " carum, quas vobis alias ostendemus, auctoritate ex- " citati sumus, quam ex nostri officii debito ad nos " dinoscitur pertinere ; tenore prajsentium, peremptorie " vos citamus, et si qui sunt absentes, qui nostra) " visitationi hujusmodi interesse debebunt de consue- " tudine vel de jure, per vos peremptorie citari volu- " mus et mandamus, quod quintodecimo die instantis " mensis Septembris, in domo vestra Capitulari Can- " tuariensi, compareatis personaliter et compareant " coram nobis, dictte nostrte visitationis officium sus- " cepturi, facturi, et recepturi, cum continuatione et " prorogatione dierum sequentium, juxta qualitatem dicti negotii et naturam, quod justitia suadebit. Et quid duxeritis faciendum et feceritis in praemissis CANTUAllIENSES. 361 " iios dietis die et loco, cum nominibus et cognomini- " bus citatorum et omnium aliorum qui visitationi " nostrpe pr£edictce tenentur, ut pvtemittitur, interesse, " distincte et aperte certificai'e curetis, per litteras " vestras patentes harum seriem continentes. Data " apud Maghefeld viij^o kalendas »Septembris, anuo " Domini MocccoLVijnio, et nostrse consecrationis viij^o." Cui mandate, quatenus nos concernit, secundum vim, formam, et effectum ejusdem parebiraus ut convenit reverenter. Nomina vero et cognomina citatorum omnium qui visitationi praedictse interesse tenentui', prseter Fratres Johannem de Frome, Willelmum de Cantuaria, et Michaelem de Cornubia, nostros commo- nachos absentes et in remotis agentes, quos propter temporis brevitatem et locorum distantiam citare ne- quivimus, ut mandatur, in cedula hiis annexa seriosius coutinentur. Data in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi xiiijo die mensis Septembris anno supradicto. 20 Sept. 1357. 839. — ACQUIETANCIA. ^- The Con- Sacliez nous avons resceu, par les meins Piers de received, Kyngwell et Willeam de Coresete, viii. livres de nostre lays o 'J m advance, rente et autres profitz de nostre manoir de Doccombe the amount de cest an present, quieux deners ne sont pas dues ^l^^^^^ de paier tanqe a la feste Seint Michel prochein Doccombe avenir, a ce qils dient; pur quei nous avoms grauntez j™^^"'' et donez pouair as eux de levir, destreindre, et re- give the cevire, noz dites rentes, et toutes autres maneres ^^^f, m'lde profitz del an susdit. En tesmoignaunce, etc. Donez the ad- a Cantorbirs Ic xx™" jour de Septembre, Ian du regne (profit- le Roi Edward tiers apres la conqueste xxxi. able .?) ^ 1 J privilege of collect- iug the rents tliem- selves from the tenants. 362 LITERiE -ether with eight drivers and grooms for the management of the same waggons ; so that we may be able to have them ready at West- minster, without fail, at next Easter. And inform us, by the bearer of these and by letter, of what you will do in the matter of our present request, which we make in this our great need. So we pray that you will in no wise fail us in this matter, for it seems to us that no one of our subjects ought to practise evasion or to excuse himself in this case. Given, &c. audivimus moti, et sibi in hac i)artc inclinati, ter assent eidem Domino Thoma; omnimodas actiones et 'il!,^,'^,,;, calumpnias villenagii et servitutis remisimus, et siou. ipsum inde, quantum in nobis est, acquietamus im- ])erpetuum, et statum suum sacerdotalem omnino liberum et quietum, pro nobis et successoribus nos- tris, iicceptamus et confirmamus, per praesentes litteras nostras, sigillo nostro signatas. Data apud Maghefelde, vicesimo sexto die Januarii, anno Domini moccc"^" quinciuagesimo octavo, etc." Nos autem remissionem, etc. approbantes, etc. ratificamus. Data in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi ultimo die Januarii, anno supradicto. 378 LITERS 24 Feb. 85*. — LiTTKKA ]{ESl'ONSALlS AD LITTEKAM PR^DICTAM. (1359). L. 'Jirt. Tmsiioblc ut tresmloute Seignur, vous plesc .savoir 'J'lic I'lior 4« je rcsceu voz tresreverentz lettres y ce Saina time. commaundement, grauntez deux chariotes ove toute le apparail, pur la neeessite de chariages pur vitailles et autres choses busoignables pur vostre -viage as par- ties de dela, si me avez de vostre tresbone et tres- graciousse seignurie et consideracion del une des chariotes excusez, de quey je vous mercie si entiere- ment com je sui sovereynement tenuz. Et plese a vostre treshaute seigTiurie entendre, qe je envoieroy \me chariote a AYestraoustier a la feste de la Pente- coste proschein avenir, ensemblement ove tout lappa- rail, solonc ceo qe voz dites tresreverentz lettres pur- portount. Eseript a Cauntorbii-s le Djnnenge susdit. Vostre humble Chapellein Priour de vostre Esglise de Cauntorbirs. 31 May ^58. — LiTTERA DIRECTA WiLLELMO DE HaTHFELDE PRO TERRIS SUBSCRIPT rS LIBERANDIS ROBERTO DE MeRSH. The Prior Salutz et bon amistez. Por ceo qe nous avoms demised grantez et lessez a Robert de IMersh vj. virges de some land j-gj-j-g demie de nostre terre en Bretewell, cest CANTITARIENSES. 383 usquam aliis ostendatur; ut pudorem mittentis tegatis claraide caritatis, et benedietionem Seem et Japhet a vestro Noe capiatis, quam vobis tribuat cujus figuram primus Noe gessit. Manu vestri J. Exoniensis. 857. Most noble and most dread Lord, he pleased to know that I have received your gracious letters on this day, Sunday the 8th day of April, and by them I have suffi- ciently undei'stood that, whereas I had formerly by your command consented to furnish two waggons Avith all their fittings, to supply your need of transport for provisions and other necessaries for your expedition to foreign parts, so you have, of your most kind and most gracious lordship and consideration, excused me from providing one of these waggons, for which I thank you as unfeignedly as I am supremely bound to do. And may it i)lease yom most exalted Lordship to understand that I will send a waggon to Westminster l)y the coming feast of Whitsuntide, together with all its ajiparatus, in accordance with the purport of your said much-to-be- respected letters. Written, Szc. 858. Greeting and true friendship. Whereas we have granted and leased to Robert at the Marsli six rods and a half of our land at Brightwell ; that is to say, two 384 Bright- assavoir, deux vii-gcs de tcrre qe Robert Badekoc tient, T/^'^ N . Newemansland, Proudesland, Bonebrekesland, Hobbes- (Oxon) to ' ' . ' a free herteslond, et Capeyeslond, a tenir de nous les dites requires terres tanqe nous puissoms bailler meismes les terres his official as ascuns autres tenauctz illeoqes a tenir solonc le th/demise "•'^^^g^ manoir, fesaunt le dit Robert dan en an upon the pin- les terres susdites les overeynes ussueles et cus- maiior-^'^*^ tumes a nostre manoir de Newenton pur toutes ma- court, neres de services ; vous maimdoms, empriantz qe nostre grant susdit facez enrouller, et a dit Robert les dites terres liverer solonc le purport de cestes noz lettres. Escript a Cauntorbirs le darrein jour de May, Ian du regne le Roy Edward tiers apres le conqueste xxxiii. 4 June 859. — De corrodio dato et concesso Thom^e de WODELOND, AD CUSTODTENDUM PORCARIAM, UNA CUM ALUS, IN DoMO DeI DOVORIENSI. 1359= L. 51 a. A formal commis- sion, ap- pointing a servant, to do all the odd jobs of the House, given by the Master of the Do- mus Dei of Dover. Hsec indentura testatur quod ita convenit inter Fratrem Simonem, Magistrum Domus Dei de Dovoria, et ejusdeiu loci confratres, ex parte una, et Tliomam Wodelonde ex altera : videlicet, quod pi'fedicti Magister et confratres, iinanimi assensu et voluntate, dederunt et coneesserunt prsefato Thomre moram sitain in pva^- dicta domo, juxta portam aquaticum, ad illam portam custodiendam, et ad servendum eis in pistrino cnm necesse fuerit, et ad custodiendum porcariam infra septa praedict^e domus, ac etiam ad faciendum omnia alia servitia, tarn infra clausum quam extra, secundum posse suum, a festo Sancti Johannis Baptistre proximo futuro post datum prtesentium quamdiu idem Thomas potest laborarc sive deservire. Habebitque idem Thomas quoddam corrodium in pr^edicta domo, et deservietur eidem mensa in cibariis ]irout decet pro tali officio ; percipietque idem Thomas annuatim de rAKTirARTENSF.S. 385 rods of land which Robert Badcock held, (namely) Newman's land, Proude's land, Bonebreaker's land. Hobby Hart's land, and Capeye's land, to hold from us the said lands until we may be able to deliver the same lands to some other of our tenants there, to hold accord- ing to the custom of the manor, the said Robert per- forraino- from year to year for the said land the services usual and customary in our manor of Newington for all manne)' of dues ; we command you and request you to cause our aforesaid grant to be enrolled, and the said lands delivered to the said Robert according to the pur- port of these our letters. Written, &c. prfedicta domo sex solidos et octo denai'ios, pro servitio suo quamdiu potest laborare. Et si contingat prae- dictum Thomam in tantam eegritudinem incidere, quod spes convalescentire non habetur, tunc prpedictus Thomas habebit mansum suum exti'a liraites domus sumptibus suis propriis, et percipiet cotidie, ad ter- minum vitai sua-, unum panem, et unam lagenam serevisipD, et esculenta prout decet pro tali laboratore.^ Habebitque idem Thomas quolibet anno unum por- cellum. Ad qua; omnia et singula praemissa bene et fideliter facienda et tenenda, tam praedictus Magister et confratres, quam prsedictus Thomas obligant se et omnia bona sua mobilia et immobilia ; huic prtesenti scripto, penes prfedictum Thomam remanenti, prae- dicti Magister et confratres sigillum eorum commune apposuerunt. Datmn Dovoria? die Martis proximo post festum Sanctne Petronillae Virginis, anno regni Regis EdAvardi tertii post conquestum tricesimo tertio, regni vero sui Franciae vicesimo. ' laborare, MS. U 52123. B R :186 LTTKR.K 23 Sept. 860. — LiTTERA MISSA DOMIXO PrIXCIPI BE CENTUM (1359). MARCIS SIBT ACOMODATIS. L. 92 a. „ . Treshonnrez Seignur, plese a vostre treso-racious.se The Prince . o ' i o of Wales seignurie savoir qe je resceu voz lettres ove ime asked for a credence, par Johan Pecche, }• ce Mekerdy derrein loan, passez, piir certeignes liusoignes qe vous aviez pris a the'pr'ioT ' ^1^^^^ J^^^'j ^^J> navoj' m3'e le.s repons, clioses pvestes de.s queles il menparla, mais puis jlrovWed. .1^^ ^^^^y clieviz ove ines araj's, i.ssint qe je les avci prestes y ce Samady proschein passez, al quiel jour je resceuz vos autres lettres par le dit Johan pur les clioses .susdites, a qi jay deliverez las dites chcses pleinement, solone ce qe fuist continuz en voz dites lettres et credence. Mon treshonurable Seiiinur, vous plese savoir qe mon tresrevei-ent Seignnr le Roy, vostre piere, fist son pelrinage y ce Saraady a Seint Thomas proschein passez, et je espoir qe vous visiterez le dit corps seint aA^ant vostre pa.s.sier ; pur quey humblement vous requir sil vous plest de moy cer- tifier de vostre venue. A Dieu mon tref?honurez Seignur, qi vous dnnit joye de quanqe vous amez, et de bien esploiter toutes voz busoignes. Escript a Cantorbirs y ce Lundy le xxiij. jour de Septembre. 9 Xov. -'^Cil. — LiTTERA TRAXSMISSA PER DOMINUM ArCHIEPIS- (1359)- COPFM SUPPRIORI ET CaPITULO PRO FRATRE L. 92 a. M. ET PRO HU.TUSMODI XEGOTIO. A monk Filii in Domino proeearissimi. Tractavimus cnm -whose Fratre ]\Iichaele, confratre nostro communi, qui sup- stadies _ _ . ' _ _ > i i have been ponit se humiliter votis vestris, ut labores scolasticos ted wishes subeat,^ et actus sibi congruos expediat, prout A'obis ' ^ubiat, MS. CANTirAKIENSES. 387 860. Much honoured Lord, may it please your very gracious Lordship to know that I received your letters, with one of credence, hy John Pecche, on Wednesday last, treating of certain matters which you have at heart ; on which day, in faith, T liad not at hand what you spoke of, but since then J have drawn upon my friends, so that I had it ready by last Saturday, on which day I received 3'our second letters, by the said John, on the same subject ; to whom I have delivered in full the things spoken of, as was contained in your said letters and letter of credence. My right honourable Lord, may it please you to know that my most reverend Lord the King your father made his pilgrimage to Saint Thomas on Saturday last, and T have a hope that you yourself may visit the said holy body befoi'e your transit ; wherefore I humbly beg you, if it please you, to gi\e me notice of your coming. Most honoured Lord, may God keep you, and give you pleasure in all that you love, and a good success in all your undertakings. rationabiliter videbitur faciendum ; conjicimus tamen resume quod temporis discontinuatio animum suum nimis ""'^ tabftfecit, sed credimus firmiter quod fcrventior dili- bishop t-entia breviter deT)artita restaurabit. Quamobrein specialissnne vos rogamus quatinus eundem iratrem alldw him ad universitatis studium redire quantocius faciatis ; ut ^" sic honor Ecclesise nostras per ejus expeditionem pros- peram augeatui-, vobisque, debitura vestrum facientibus, ad gratiarum actiones uberius teneamur. In caritate perfecta confirraet vos Trinitas sancta. Scripta apud 15 B 2 Charyngg ix"o die Novembris. Re.seribatis insuper nobis .super lioc quamcitius poteritis vota vestva. 0 Nov. 862. — LiTTF.RA MISSA DOMIXO PRIORI CaNTUARIENSI PER DoMixuM S. Archiepiscopum super re- commendatioxk Fratris Michaelis de Cor- nubia, kt quod desttxetur ad scolas quam- brevius potertt pro iionore ecf'lest^. A lettPi 111 YW'i in Domino pnecarissime. Recomniendo vnbis .■ill respeof-i ^ n ■iuiilarto specialitev ivatreni nostrum commnnein ^IichfiPleni, ceding^ prsesentium portitorem providum, inquam viruni sim- plicem atque pinm, atque vestriim honoi'em sinceritor diligentem, qui libenter se confi^i-mabit votis vestris, et se subjiciet laboribus scolasticis, ob honorem Eccle- sirf, quantum sua possibilitas exiget et requiret : Et (1.360.) 8G3.— [De caxtaria Domixi Prixcipis.] L. ^9 h. Tre.shonure Sire. Porceoqe Sire Peres de Lacy et A member j yioms destre a Cauntorbirs ceste Mekerdi pro- ( ,t the Black schein, pur Ic demise de la chauntrie ordene par holisehold tresredoute Seigmir le Prince deinz vostre Esglise asks the illoqes, quele chose ne purra estre en efFecte mis Prior to appoint a saunz vostre presence a la demission ; requere a vou.s, lay for a Sire, qc vous moi voillez certifier si votis purrez to7ettlf meisnie le jour estre illoqes, on lendemeyn; et, Sire, thechan- si ascun bon mason soit pres en pais, de qui vous tr\- which . • i i • ^ • the Prince ^^^^ conisaunce, qi vodi-a cele overaigne tair, pur qui proposes to vous ple.se maxmder meisrae le jour y estre. Le Seint found. . . , 1 '.11 1 E.sprit vous ottroie i en honur a - lunge durree. Escript a Loundres le xiij. jour de Novembre. > utoroie, MS. | - " i*^ superflnou*. CANTUARIENSES. 380 icveici lili dilccii.s.siiiK', (.laiii])nmH niinis maynuiii loiet si tauta; liabilitafcis sufticieutia iu clau.stro abscondita reinaueret. Quamobreia spccialissiuie vos rogamus, (|Uatiuu,s, hoininimi relata nequaquani [iondcrantcs, qua? forte cum sinceritate clara mininic processerunc, velitis eundein fratrem ad exercitiuiii studii quaui- brevius poteriti.s, pro honoris Ecclesiiu nostra3 auguiento. durante praesenti terinino, destinare ; lit eo citiiis re- cuperet jam amissa quo ejus redditus celerior habe- atur ; et hoc sicut de vobis confidimus nullatenus omittatis; rescribentes nobis quid super hoc duxeritis faciendum. Capitulo insuper nostro super hoc scri- binuis seriose. Qui sanat languidos ad salutem pros- peram vos reducat. Super apud Charyngg ix»o die JSovembris. Ora pro me Frater. 863. Most honoured Loi'd. Wliereas Sh- Peter de Lacy aud I intend to be at Canterbury on next Wednesday, lor the establishment of the chantry founded by our most dread Lord the Prince within your church there ; which thing cannot be effected without youi presence at the ceremony ; I beg you, my Lord, that you will inform me if you can be there on that day or the next. And, my Lord, if there be any good mason at hand in those parts, in whom you have conhdence, who would be wilUng t j undertake this work, please to send to him to be there on that day. May the Holy Spirit grant you long con- tinuance iu honour. Written, &c. 390 LITI'.K.I-: (l.ioo.) 804-. — LlTTEUA MISSA UoMlNO PlUNCIPl TEH EPISCOPUM WVNTOXIENSEM, PRO HEREDIliUS MaGISTRI W. DE BrADELK, quod JUSTITIA FIAT EISDEM. L. 5!) b I'liu next Reverendc douiiue ct amice prajcarissime. Prol)orum (leccuscd ^^'^ valentium jam tai'cle ^ audivimus per relatiu- cioikwho neiJi, (luod MaQ-ister Willelmus de Bradele, nuper l.eid lau.l 1 . . 1 . °. . ,^ , . . . \ miller the clericus Arcliiepiscopi uantuariensis, amicus vester Chapter of ^\xxl\\ vixit iiitiinus, cujus animiB propitietur Deus, iiury is a ccrta.s tciTas et tenementa, infra dominium vestrum native of ^.^ Domini Rogerii de North wode militis existeutia, tor, and, siDi et herediDUS suis adquisivit, relinquens post se Iviui official 'i<^^'c<^lem sibi proximiorem Aliciam Cacchelove, neptem proofs of suam, in civitatc nostra Wyntoniensi oriundam ; et I'dcntitj ^ycQ^ ip'Sa Alicia, quie consanguinea et heres Magistri has applied Willelmi in partibus nostris Wyntouieusibus commu- si'outoUi7<:(> iiitcr veputatur, cum litteris testimonialibus Majoris lands, but et Couuiiunitatls civitatis nostme pnedictcB ad prte- t'ainecrit?'^ uiissa probanda, ad vestri et prajfati Domini Rogerii The Bishop prgesentiam, non absque gravibus labore et expensis of Win- -^i'ly fSG5. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA PRO CLERICO PR/ESEN- TANDO AD ECCLESIAM SaKCTI MlCHAELlS ^'-^ ^- LONDONI^. Some gn at Houurs et revercnce^. Threscher Sire, porce qe imprtd)'ai.i} J'" eiiteudu (je la esglise de .Seint JVlicliel de Londres the I'rinee en la Cruketlane est voide, ou toust serra come of Wales) , . • ^ , asks the 'lomme su pense, ,si vous prie cherement de cuer, (jc I'rior to vous plese granter a un de mes clercs une presente- mve hmi ^ ° . •■■ the next ment, en cas qensi soit (je Ja due esglise se voide, et presenta- ^^^^ j.^, procurer a Covent de lour volunte tocliaunt la tioii to .St. . Michael's, dite matiere co qe lour plese faire. De vostre ' turdi iu these letters always has the sense of laleli/. CANTUARIENSEb. uuper persunaliter accessisset, vus taiiiuu liujusiuodi t;li<^^st^''' terras m doiuimo vcstru cxisteiites, ([U. 50 b. In Dei nomine, Amen. Die Dominica proxima ante .„ ^festnm Sancti Laurentii, anno Domini millesimo J lie will of • aclerkwlio, cccoLXJ'no; ego Joliamiis attc Nolme do Cantuana, intor aha, giQi Jc^if^ Sana mcnto ct in bona mcmoria raea, condo leaves the ' sale value testamentum mcum in hunc modum. In primis : ot a tone- J animam meam Deo et Beake Marifo et omnibus iTieut in c _ Caiitei- Sanctis, et corpus nieum ad se])eliendum in cimiterio TrioiMo'"^ monachorum, si Domino Prioi'i placuerit. Item : lego maintain Doiiiino Johanni Pep[pev] unum coopertorium do inory'iii cliekcre. Item : lego Magistro Johanni Mawere cul- the Church, tellum nicuui, et xuiam pelvim cum lavatorio. Item: lego Fratri Ancelmo Maynard unum tapetum nigrum. Item : lego Johanni Luckc unum computorium. Item : lego Alexandro Hanekyn, Koberto Hore, et Nicholao atte Celer, vel cuicumque alio quern dominus meus Prior Ecclesite Christi eligere voluerit, totum capitale 1361. 876. — LiTTERA. L. 50 «• , . , Cher amy. Pur ceo ue nous avoms entenduz qe A tenant *' \ _ ^ of the Johaii de Loundres, nadgaires nostre fermier de South- Essex hi" churche, est a Dieu commande, le quel fist ses execu- died, aud a tours Johau de Prittlewell et Hugh Schennan, et CANIUARIENSES. 407 tenenientum ineum integiuiii, .situatuui in parochia Beatae Mariiy atte Brednian, ut luettu et l)un(Ue umliquc .sc ostendunt et dcinonsti'ant, liabciidinii et tenendum priedictum tenenientum cum pertinentiis suis pnedictis Alexandre, Roberto, et Nicholao, vel cuicuraque nt pnemittitur ^ per dictum Dominum Priorem [cligendo], ad vendendum dictum tenenientum cum pertiucntiis, quibuscumquc vel cuicumque sibi placuerit, et pscunia inde levanda liberetur et tradatur rcverendo domino meo Priori et ejusdem loci Capitulo, ut idem Capi- tuliiin, si domino Priori [ilacuerit, habeant in eorum memento animas Hugonis le Wodere, Willelmi Cotyng, et meam, si eis placuerit. Set, de licencia dicti Do- mini Prioris, concessi MargaretiVJ de Ely cui - tenere firmam illius tenementi per unum annum integrum, .si dicta Margareta tamdiu vixerit. Item : lego Johanni Lucke, executori meo, xx. solidos. Item : lego Kate- rinae ancillse meai lectum meum cum apparatu, unam pelvim cum lavatorio rotundo, unam ollam aeneam majoiem, et unam patellam, unum lectum pliunale secundum meum, Hujus autem testamenti mei exe- cutores meos ordino facio et constituo, videlicet, Jo- hannem Lucke et Margaretam de Ely. Residuum omnium bonorum meorum lego executores meos prge- dictos.- 876. jDear Fiiend, whereas we have heard that John of London, late our tenant at South church, is called to God ; who made John of Prittlewell and Hugh Sherman his executors and administrators, not only of his wife's j» rtteiiditiir, MS. I - sic JIS. 408 LITERJi person has administratour.s auxi bien des biens sa femme com mterrered with tlie de ses biens demeignes ; et puv taut qe les ditz Hou'orthe" executoufs se doutent dc vous, et anxint nous deceased's siimes ent'oriuez, qc vous estes entouf dc grevir et Prior ' destourbir les dc la administration dcs ditz biens, therefore, quele cliosc sciToit damage as almes du dit Jo- latter to ^^"^^ ^'^ femme et a nous ; vous prioms clierement iihstaiu qc vous les veullcz soffrir faire loui- administration lest'iii^thc ditz biens, saunz delay ou destourbancc faii'c ]iar executors, vous ou par nul autre pur vous, puv lamour dc nous ; issint qe nous neymes matire nencheson de prendre contre vous pur cele chose. (1361.-) — PiioCUEATORlUM ATTOKNATI NOSTKI DE PASSAUlO L. 50 a. APUD WyTHSAND. The Cluip- Omnibus, etc. Robertus, etc. Prior, etc. Noverit poini'a universitas vestra quod nos constituimus dilectum proctor to imhifi in Christo Willelmum Ic Kien de Wythsand the duties procuratorem nostrum, etc. ad exigendum, recipiendum, "*^,'^°"^"h)roteo;cndum, et manutenendum, jura et libertates lor them at ^ ° i • . . Wi.-^saut, at nostras et Ecclesise nostras Cantuariensis, apud Wyth- which port alibi in reono Franciee, quotienscumque con- their wuc . . . ° ^ . ^ . of St. tigerit nos seu aliquem nostrorum, clericos, servientes, waswii- procuratores, seu nuntios, et homines nostros, pro barked, passagio vel arraagio, seu aliis consuetudinibus seu they^aT'^ demaudis molcstari. In cujus, etc. Datum in Capi- other in- tulo nostro Cantuariensi, etc. anno, etc. Pi'cesentibus terests. valituris donee ipsas duxerimus rcvocare. 1 1 Aug. 878. — Procuratorium de vinis Francli: factum WiLLELMO LE KeEN DE WyTSAND. L. 50 a. The same Universis pateat, etc. quod nos Robertus, etc. Prior, empowered ^'tc. constituimus dilectum nobis in Christo Willelmum CANTUARIENSES. 409 goods but ol" his own ulwo ; and, inasmuch as the said executors are suspicious ol' you, and also \vc ourselves are informed that you arc al)out to oppress and o})posc them iu the administration of the said goods, which thing- would he perilous to the souls of the said Jolin and his wife, and to us also ; we beg you earnestly that you will, out of love to us, permit them to perform their administration of the said goods without delay or any opposition, from yourself or from others on your behalf ; so that we may have no cause nor opportunity for taking part against you for this reason. le Keen procuratorem nostrum, etc. ad petendum, etc. to colkct vineas, et vina, et omnia alia bona nostra, etc. in gj*^ regno Franeiio. Datum in Capitulo uostro Cantu- nii's. ariensi xj. die mensis Augusti, anno Domini M"CC'C. sexagesimo primo. 879. — LiCENCIA REGIA SUPER FUNDACIONE CoLLEGII 20 Oct. Cantuariensis in UxM1ver.sitate Oxoni.*;. B. 374 a. Edwardus, etc. Sciatis quod, de gratia nostra spe- .^j^^ King's ciali, et ad devotam supplicacionem venerabilis fratris licence em- Simonis Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, etc. pie desideran- ^Tch-"'^ tis incrementum salubre cleri regni nostri, propter multi- plicacioneni doctrinse salutaris, qua3 jam, per priBsentem found'and epidemiam, noscitur plurimum defecisse, concessimus et licenciam dedimus, pro nobis et heredibus nostris, quan- lege in turn in nobis est, eidem Archiepiscopo, quod ipse in Oxford. Universitate Oxoniee, quandam Aulam sive Domum, Au- 1am Cantuariensem vulgai'iter et communiter voci tan- dam, in qua certus erit numerus scolarium, tam religi- osorum quam secularium, actibus scolasticis insistencium, 410 LlTERj; et Deo pro nol)is et salute regui uustri specialiter exo- raucium, secimJum ibrmarn ordinacionis inde per eundein Archiepiscopuiii super hoc faciend;B, suis snmptibus erigeve poterit et fuudare, et eisdem scolaribus imperpe- tuuni assignare ; et, in eventu quo Domus sive Aula sit funda'a et .scolarcs iu ea assignati fuerint, advocaci- onem EcclesicB dc Pageliarn, sut>i jurisdictiouis imme- diato, ([live est de advocacione sua propria de jure suo arcliiepiscopali, et qum de nobis tenetur in capite ut dicitur, eisdem scolaribus et successoribus suis dare possit, et eciam assignare ; liabendaui et tenendam pr.-efatis scolaribus et successoribus, suis de nobis et hereddjus nostris, in liberam puram et perpetuam ele- mosinam imperpetuum ; et eisdem scolaribus quod ipsi tam Aulam qiiam advocacionem prsedictas, a prtefato Archiepiscopo recipere, et ecciesiam illam appropriare, et earn sic appropriatam in proprios usus tenere pos- sint, sibi et successoribus suis prpedictis, pro nobis et' salute regni nostri oraturis, juxta ordinacionem pne- dicti Archiepiscopi, de nobis et heredibus nostris, etc. Similiter, licenciam dedimiis specialem, statuto de terris et tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis edito non obstante, nolentes quod prajdicti Archiepiscopus vel successores sui, aut preefati scolares seu successores sui, ratione prcemissorum, seu statuti prfedicti, aut pro eo quod dicta advocacio de nobis tenetur in ca- pite sicut prtedictum est, per nos vel heredes nostros, Justiciarios, Escheatores, Yicecomites, aut alios ballivos seu ministros nostros quoscumque, occasionentur, mo- lestentur, in alitjuo seu graventur. Salvis tamen nobis et heredibus nostris, ac aliis capitalibus dominis feodi illius, serviciis inde debitis et consuetis. In cujus rei, etc. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium, xx™o die Octobris, anno regni nostri tricesimo quinto. Per breve de privato sigillo. CANTUARIENSES. 411 880. — CoNFIRMATlO. (CeRTEN BONDMEN.y 20 Jan. 1363. Novciint universi nos R. pennissionc, etc. et eju.s- 1'- j1 i>- dcni loci Capitulum litteras vevercndi in Christo rpj^^^ patris et doinini Domini Siniouis Dei gratia Cantu- t^^i' confiim ariensis Avchicpiscopi, etc. mspexisse, tenorcni (pii njij;j,io,i by sequitur continentcs : " Oiiniibus ad quos prresentes thu Aich- littene pevvencrint, Simon permissione, etc., salutcm. ^onfijnyn Sciatis nos, pro bono scrvitio quod Nicholaus atte ""'^ . ~ SOUS ilt" Broke de Frcmfeld nobis et Ecclesise nostrte impen- tached to dit et impendet in futurum, ii^suni, priesentis scripti the Manor . . , . . . . , or hoiitli tenore, manumittimus, et ab omni jugo servitutis ab- Mailing, solvimus, perpetuajque libertatis titulo decoramus, . . . youngur ac Ricardum, Johannem, et Willelmum, filios ejus- son of the dem Nicholai, antea nativos nostros, cum omnibus ' ^ ^ reserved sequelis suis imposterum procreandis. Et volumus in servi- quod iidem Nicholaus, Ricardus, Joliannes, et Wil- t}I^'^^xfu|xs lelmus, cum sequelis suis, liberi sint imperpetuum, (princii):i- et liberuni statum, plenamquc et liberam adminis- onhc ''"''^ trationem omnium bonorum et catallorura suorum, tenants are ubicunquc, et licite, sine calunqinia nostra vel {° the'"" succcssorum nostrorum, perpetuis tetnporibus liabe- Lord, ant in futurum. Ita tamen, quod VValterus, filius ipsius Nicholai, qui omnibus aliis filiis suis pr83- dictis jam minor est, nativus noster et successorum nostrorum, sum omni sequela sua, sit et remaneat imperpetuum ; quia unum exitvim priiedicti Nicholai, quem prsefatum Walterum eligimus, penes nos et nostros successores imperpetuum nativum nostrum, cum sequela sua, volumus rescrvari, ct ilium, tenore pnesentium, uti vel gaudcrc nolumus aliqua liber- tate. Et quia certa catalla, qua3 in partibus illis irrincipidia nuncupantur, super singula tenementa nostra, qufe tenentur in villenagio de manerio nostro de South Mallyngg (ad quod prsefatus Nicholaus ' These two woids are in a hand of the Ititli euiiturv. 412 LITERiE fuerat prius tatit|u;iui pcrtiiiens nativus noster) per consuefciidinem in manerio nostro prsedicto liactenus usitatam, semper remanerc dcLcnt, et in codeni niorari, post mortem vcl rcdditioncm cujuslibet hujusmodi tenentis in villcnagio dc manerio prte- dicto, ad usus proximi tcneutis idem tcnemcntum priori tenenti immediate siiccedentis. Et forte sup- ponerent aliqiii quod, pro eo quod praidictus Nicliolaus, qui nunc tenet duo tenementa nostra de manerio no.stro praedicco in villenagio, quorum qui- dem tenementorum conditionera nolumus aliquo modo pnesentis concessionis occasione mutari, et (^ui jam, pro persona sua et catallis, a servitute liberatus est, et alii similiter qui per prsesentes liberi fiunt in forma pnedicta, licite disponere possent de quibuscunque bonis et catallis suis, et sic ilia in testamentis suis legare vel alio modo elongare, ita quod ilia ccrta catalla, quee prmcipalia dicuntur, in forma }>rte- dicta super tenementa nostra prsedicta, ad opus tenentis seu tenentium sibi, vel eis seu alteri eorum, succedentis seu succedentium, non remanercnt (quod mere nobis et successoribus nostris foret prsejudiciale) et esset consonum rationi, maxime cum hujusmodi catalla seu 'pvincvpalia non pertinent solum ad personas tenentium, set pocius ad tenemeiita nostra quae tenent in forma priTedicta, ex quo quilibet eorum primo introitu suo hujusmodi catalla seu principalia ibidem recipit et invenit ; quare volumus, ac omnibus et singulis innotescimus per prtesen- tes, quod; licet pnefatus Nicholaus, Ricardus, Jo- hannes, et Willelmus filii sui prsedicti jam liberi iiant in forma pra3dicta, idem tamen Nicholaus, Ricardus, Johannes, aut Willelmus filii sui preedicti, quamquam ad tenementa nostra, ilia, videlicet, quBS prajfatus Nicholaus jam tenet in villenagio, vel ad alia qusecumque qute de manerio nostro tenentur in forma prsedicta quocumque titulo deveniant in CANTUARIENSES. 413 eventii, nuliam liabeant liccnciam vel potestatem aliqualiter elongandi in tantiim catalla siia prsedicta, quominus catalla ilia ((ua2 principalia dici debent remaneant siii)er luijusniodi tenementa nostra pra3- dicta, in forma supradicta, succedentibus tenentibus, ut praedictum est, liberanda. In cujus rei, etc. hiis testibus : Andrea dc Sakevill, Johanue de Waleys, militibus, Andrea filio Johannis de Waleys militis, Johanne de Schedwell, Rogerio filio Thoma3 de Dallyngrygg, Petro Erch, Roberto de Hemstede, et aliis. Datum apud Magbefeld, vicesimo die mensis Junii, anno Domini millesimo CCC^^OLXJO, et conse- crationis nostrte duodecimo." Nos autem Prior et Capitulum memorati prsemissa omnia et singula in litteris praidictis contenta ratificamus, apin'obamus, et tenore i)rresentium confirmamus. In cujus rei, etc. Data in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi, vicesimo die mensis Januarii, avmo Domini supradictn. 4 Mar. 88()A.— Obligatio. ^ L. 52 b. Universis, etc. quod ego .... de ... , ^^1^°^^ de eomitatu Kancia) teneor et fateor me obligari Do- of a loan, mino Roberto Priori, etc. in quadraginta liliris sterlin- goruui quas in ci\'itate Cautuaria recepi mutuo ab debtor has eodem, etc. Dat. Cant, quarto die mensis Martii anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii, etc. ti ioesimo sexto erased with a knife, but it can be read as fJenriciix 881. — De Fratre Rtcatido Turpyn. ''"^^"J"'^' 23 ,Iau. -r, • 1362. Tenore preesentuim nos R., etc. Prioi-, etc. notum l 51 „ facinuis universis quod religiosus vir Frater Rieardus a monk of Tin-|)yii, monaclius monasterii do Ilathfield Regis Lon- ^.^'j'^e'*' 's doniensis dicecesis, crelitiis iiispiratus cupit ut asserlt, sent of his ferventi desiderio, cum clai'ee devotionis promptitudine ^^^1^" 414 LTTERJ'- received into the congre- fjatiou of Christ Church. qiiam habet evga beatum Thomam Martirem gloriosum, qui specialius in dicta nostra Ecclesia veneratuv, ad ipsam ecclesiam se transferre, et in eadem, tanqnani monaehus ejusdem, divinii obsequiis mancipari, ac ibi- dem, vitam artiorem ducendo, in Sancta Religione perpetue conversari. Nos, prrefoti Ricardi laudabile propositum in Domino commendantes, ipsum, cum de 8S2. — LiTTERA MISSA JOHANXI LyTLE PRO XEGOTIIS (1362.) L. 52 h. The Prior (writing to his Stew- TANGENTIBUS MaRGARETAM FaUCOXN. ard at onler^'hliu^ Trescher amy, nous vous envoioms une bille enclose to sur- deinz cestes touchaunte Margarete Fauconn, qi fuist lands 'iJft*^ la fille Johann Fauconn ; et si voiis savez qe la dite hy a father bille contiegne verite, lui facez deliverir la dite terre. daughter. Et en ca.s qe vous ne savez point, adonqs facez en- if the ^ (juere en nostre Court de Wallewortli, par bons et has any leals de noz lenaunts illeoqes, content la chose est ; et doubt of solonc la fourme qe vous enquerrez on trovez de toute the daugh- i i ^ • • f ter's right ohose touchante ceste busoigne, noiis certmez par voz lie IS to lettres overtement, issint qe nous puissoms trestier cause an ^ inquevt to cve uostre conseil, pur nous descharger de peril et he taken m j^ggjgjjgg_ Et veullez entendre qe nostre sei^nur le the Manor- . ^ ° Court. Roi nous ad escript autre foiz pur ceste busoigne, qe The Pnor j^Q^g fassoms a la dite femme di'oit et resoun. A says that the King Dieu cher amy qi vous meig[n]tiegiie en bone vie. has in- terested himself in this matter. 5 Mar. 883. — PrOCURATORIUM. 1362. L. 52 6 Alice Pateat universis, et(\ quod ego Alicia Hathebrand, HaThhrand Cantuarieusls dioecesis, in omnibus causis, coram qui- appoiuts buscunque judicibus ordinariis delegatis, aut eorum two gene- . .. ,., ral attor- commissams, motis seu movendis, me qualitercunque CANTUAEIENSES. 415 licencia et consensu communi venerabilium [et] religio- sorum vironun Prioris ct Conventus clicti monasterii, per eorum litteras patentes nobis ])lena extiterit facta fides, recipienius in nostrum commonachum et confratreni. In cujus, etc. Data in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi, xxiij" die mensis Januarii anno Domini 882. Very dear fi-iend ; we send you a writing enclosed in these letters touching Margaret Fauconn, who was daughter to John Fauconn, and if you recognise that the said writing contains a true statement, do you cause the said land to be delivered to her. And in case that you do not know (if it contain the truth), then call an in- quisition in our manor-couit of Walworth, to ascertain, by the oaths of good and lawful men, how the matter stands ; and inform us jiuljlicly by your letters of the l)rocess of your enquiry or its result, so that we may be able to discuss the matter with our counsel, and thus to avoid risk, and to clear our conscience. And please to understand that our Lord the King formerl}' wrote to us on this business, ordering us to do right and justice to this woman. Adieu, fcc. contingentibus, quibuscunque diebus et locis, quotlens nies,oneof me abesse contigerit vcl adesse, dilectos niichi in '"^ ^ notary ciii- Christo Adam Clerk de Assch et Ricardum de Mersey, ployed hy clericos, Cantuariensis ct Londoniensis dioecesium, *.^nt^°"" meos veros et legitimos procuratores, etc. ordiao facio Christ et constituo, etc., etc. In cujus rei testimonium, yJe'Ss 41G LITERil. quia sigilluni meum pliiribus est ignotum, sigillum officii disereti viri Decani Cantuariensis apponi pra3->entibu.s procuvavi. Et nos Decanus antedic- txis sigillum officii nostri, ad personalem rogatum prrefatjB Aliciae, pnesentibus duximiis apponendum. Data CantuarifQ quinto die Maitii anno Domini MOCCCOLXjmo. 884. — NOMINATIO CUSTODIS AuLiE CAXTUARIENSTS NOVITER FUNDATiE IX UxiVERSITATE OXONI- EXSI PER REYEREXDUM PATRE5I DOMINUM S. DE ISLEP ArCHIEPISCOPUM CaXTUARIEXSEM. Reverendo in Christo patri ac domino, Domino uomiuates Simoni Dei gratia Cantiiariensi Archiepiscopo, totius Warden of Anglioe Primati, et Apostolicje Sedis Legato, vestvi Canter- humile.s et devoti Prior et Capitulum Ecclesire Christi College. Cantuariensis, obedientiam, reverentiam, et honorem. Ad curam et officium custodise Aulje Cantuariensis, in Univeritate Oxoniensi per vos noviter fundatae, Fratres Henricum de Wodhulle sacrte paginte doc- torem, Jobannem de Redynggate, et Willelmum Rychemond, nostros confratres et commonachos, vobis, juxta formam et efFectum ordinationis vestrse facta) in hac parte, tenore praesentium nominamus; suppli- cantes quatinus unum ex illis tribus, sic nominatis, quern volueritis, in Custodem dictae Aulae praeficere, et eidem curam et administrationem, tam spiritualium quam temporalium ad ipsam Aulam pertinentium, committere dignetin- vestra paternitas reverenda ; quam ad Ecclesiae suae regimen conservet in prosperis Trinitas indivisa. Data sub sigillo nostro communi, in domo nostra capitnlari Cantuariensi xiij. die mensis Mai'tii, anno Domini Moccc°LXijdo probably sister of Robert Ilath- brand, at the date Prior of Canter- bury. 1.3 Mar. 13C2. L. 9.3 a. CANTUARIENSES. 417 885. — NOMINATIO fAl/rERAl ClTSTODIS AVLM CaN- 20 April *■ ■' (13G7). TIJARIENSIS. L. 93 a. Reverendo in Chi'isto patri, etc. Ad curam ct ^""^''^jj^^ officium custodian kxiive Cantuariensis in XJniversitate san I me. Oxoniensi, per beatte memorire Dominum Simonem nuper Archiepiscopiim Cantuarieii.seni pi-pedecessorem vestrum immediatum fundat?e, Fratres Henricum de Wodeliull sacroe paginal professorem, Willehnum de Rj-cliemond, et Ricavdum Hathfeld, nosti'os confratres, etc., (ut supra) noininanius. Scripta Cantuariae xx. die mensis Aprilis.^ 88.'5a. — Verba ordinacionis adCustodiam hujusmodi. l. 93 n. Et debet ipse praifici sicut ceteri monachi officiarii Process by dictse Ecclesiae per Dominum Archiepiscopum prfefici- Warden is endi ; videlicet, Prior ct Capitulum elio;ent de toto to . .... selected. Capitulo tres personas ydoneas et meliores in religione ' ct sciencia ad dictam curam, et eas,^ in scriptura communi, Domino Arcbiepiscopo nominabunt, quorum unum, ex illis sic nominatis et quern vokierit, Ai'chi- episcopus prteficiet in Custodem, curam et administra- cionem, tam spiritualium quam temporalium ad ipsam Aulam pertinentium, sibi committendo.^ 88G. — ACQUIETANCIA. 26 Mar. 13Gf(. Pateat, etc. Nos Robertum Priorem, etc. allocasse L- S3 a. Ricardo atte Wealdo, firmario manerii nostri de East- Ti^e farmer Peclvham, novemdecem liljras argcnti, pro divei'sis re- Pecklmni parationibus faclis iier eundem Ricardum apnd Braunt- ^ T A ., . , . . iillowed off bregge, de parte nrma; mm ibidem vigmti et unius iiis rent r. sum cf ' These two nominations, divided in date by five years, are neverthe- less put together in the Register; the second being, probably, the form U 52122. used when Wodhull was re-iu- stated in 1370. - ens, MS. This ordinatiun is included iu the revised statutes of the college. D D 418 LITERiE twenty one spent iu repairs upon Bi ami Bridge (by which the high road is carried over the Medway). 19 April 1362. L. 53 b. libiarum, de terminis Annunciationis Beatoe Marife Yirginis et Nativitatis ejusdem de anno tricesimo sexto, etc. Datum Cantuarie, die Sabbati in cras- tino Annunciationis Beatie Marias, auno regni Regis Edwai'di, etc. xxxvjto. 887. — ACQUIETAXCIA FACTA I\ THESAURARIA. Pateat, etc. quod ego Ricai'dus Pedefor, rector ec- clesiae de Stanford, Londoniensis dicecesis, executor 7 April 888. — LiTTERA DIRECTA W. DE HaTHEFEI.D, SUPER BONIS ET CATALLIS PaDULFI BoCH FUGITIVI L. 54 b. INJUSTE CAPTIS PER MIXISTRUM DOMIXI PrIN- CIPIS INFRA [mANERIUM NOSTRUM] DE NeW- ENTON. The offi- Cher amy. Pur ceque nous avoms entendu.^, ore cersofthe tard, dun felonie fait en nosti-e manoir de Newenton, Waks (It P3,r quey les chateux fureut pris et saisiz par noz Prince's ministres, com de no?tre droit, sicom piert ])ar chai-tre rou^h) dez Roys ; si vint un Thomas de Standhull, ministre have le Prince, et prist hors de nostre dit manoir les ditz seized tlie ■ • goods of a chateux par force, et autres chateux qi furent seissiz felon bo- iUeoscies deinz nostre bondage, com le portour de longing to '■ 7 t i i i the neigh- cestes vous savera outrement dire de bouche ; mais bounng ^g^^ quiel colour nous ne savoms: pur quey, nous manor r i x ± ^ of ivewing- A'ous pvioms et chargeoms, en quant com nous pooms, to'the^*'"' vuus enquerez, si en haste com vous poez, toute damage of la verite par quiele cause ou colour il ad fait ce tort the Con- ^^^^ ^ nostre Esglise, et nous certifier, si tost TCDt 01 _ _ Christ com VOUS purrez ; issint qe nous puissoms trester de the^Lorcis ceste busoigne ovesqe nostre conseil, et par eux estre of Newing- enformez eoment nous purrioms aver remedie de cest tort et misprision. A Dieu, etc. Escript le vij^ jour Daverill CANTUAKIENSES. 410 testamenti Willelmi de Dereham defuncti, recepi et J^fj^^^^^"^ habui die confectionis praesentium, de venerabilis re- tieceascd ligionis viris Priore Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis, coi[-°^ etc. decern libras sterlingorum, in pevsolutionem quin- vent, to , J T • -1 •• 1 whom 500 gentarum marcarum sterlmgoruni, m qui bus udem ,^^^^^.1^^. .^^.^ Prior et Conventus tenebantur prfedicto Willelmo de due, ac- Dereham duin vixit, etc. Data CantuariiB nonodecimo po'i,n,is*'as die mensis Apvills, anno regni Regis Edwardi tertii, fi'H P^y- o ment. etc. XXXVjK 888. Dear friend. Wliereas we have now lately heard of a felony committed in our manor of Newington, in consequence of which the (felon's) goods were taken and seized by our officers, as in our right as appears by royal charters ; and then came one Thomas of Standhill, an official of the Prince, and by force took out of our said manor the aforesaid chattel*!, and with them others which had been there taken from our villeins, as the bearer of these will be able to tell you farther by word of mouth ; but'under what pretence this was done we know not ; wherefore we beg, and charge you as strictly as we can, that you search out, as speedily as you can, all the truth as to the cause or pretence by which he has done this wrong to us and our Church ; and inform us as soon as you aie able ; so that we may discuss this matter with our counsel, and from them learn how to obtain redress for this wrong and contempt. 4-20 LITER.E 3 May 889. — Ltttera missa DoMixo CoMiTi Arundell pro (13C2). PETRA SIBI CONCEDEXDA PRO FERRO FACIEXDO. L. 54 a. Treshonuree Seignur, vous plese savoir qe nous re- of Ariindei ceumes VOZ houural'les lettres y ce Mard}* en la feste finds that (Je a Seinte Crovs, par les queles nous avoms enten- ^erkthe V ^^'^ piere-pur-fer pres de vous, qi vous iron ore at purra faire grant ijrofist. Trescher Seignur, vous plese Merstham, ^ , ° ^ ° . ^ one of the entendre qe nous sumes et serroms toutz jours pre.st ohri°r fsiiT^Q voz volentez en quant com nous pooms ; si, Church, avoms ordinez nostre Gardien de venir par devers ?o as to vous de parfourraer voz dites volentez : sicom nous make a _ ^ ^ ' profit, he avoms dit pluspleinement al portour de voz dites ha^five lettre.--. Trescher Seignur, le Seint Esprit soit garde to try the de VOUS. Escript a Cauntorbirs le Mardy susdit. the experi- ment. 18 .May S90. — LiTTERA EXCUSATORIA FACTA QUIBU.SDAM COESE- 1363. CITTORIBUS PROFT MEMOPJ*.TUR IN LITTERIS ^ ^' ApOSTOLICTS, ETC. SUPER COLLA'nOXE ET PRO- VISIOifE FACIEXDA THOiLE DE ChERDESLE CLERICO LtXCOLXIEXSIS DICECESIS. The Pope, Robertus permissione di^dna Prior Ecclesire Christi thatTc^rk Cantuariecisis, executor ad infrascripta a Sede Apo- shall be ap- stolica specialiter deputatus, venerabilibus et i-eligiusis rbenefice ^'^^^'^ Abljati Mona^terii Sancti Augustini, et Priori in the Sancti Gresorii, Cantuarien.sibu.=, coexecutoribus nostris, Arcli o ' ' ' bi«hop"s salutem in Domino. Yobis, et vestrum cuilibet, tenore patronage, prajsentium innotescat, quod nos Prior Ecclesia; point^ the Christi pifeetcnti)jus, ac retroacLis tcmporibus pro in- gressu nccularium cousuetis. ('omcdent etiam iusimul in aula sua cum perfecta fuerit, iu ipsorumque camera et non alibi requieseent. Ad lnuc dicti sacerdotes vestimei ta et alia ornamenta dictai capella) assignauda fidelitcr conservabunt, et cum mundacione aut re- CANTUARIENSES. 429 paracione aliqua indigerent, pripdicti religiosi viri Prior et Oapitulum, siiis sumptibus, facient reparari, et alia nova quociens oj)us fuerit invcteratis ot iniitilibus subrogabunt. Pcrcipict quideia uterqiie eorundem sa- cerdotum anuis singulis, a Priore ct Capitulo pnedictis, viginti marcas, ad duos anni terminos, videlicet, ad festa Sancti Michaelis ot Pasehai, per porcionos sequales ; necnon ab eisdom Prioro et Capitulo n)inis- trabitur ipsis Capollanis de pane, et vino, et cei'a, ad sufficienciam pro divinis officiis celebrandis. Ita, videlicet, quod in matutinis et vespertinis horis sit continue cercus unus accensus, et missa qnacumqne duo alii eerei, ad utrumque altarium ^ prredictovum. Quod si pra^fiiti Prior et Crt])itulum dictas pecuniae summas in ali(pio dictorum tenninorum, cessante causa legitima, solvere distulerint ultra triginta dies ad ina- gis, extunc sint ipso facto a1) execucione divino- rum officiorum ^iuspensi, quousque ipsis Capellanis de arreragiis fuerit plenaric satisfactuni. Pro sub- portacione vero prtedictorum onerum, dictis Priori et Capitulo, ut pra;raittitur incumbencium, de licencia Exeellentissimi Principis [et] Domini patris nostri supradicti, dedimus, concessimus, et assignavimus, eisdem Priori et Capitulo eorumque successoribus, maneriuni nostrum do Faukeshall juxta Londonias, prout in cartis ejusdem patris nostii et nostris plenius continetur. Jurabit insuper uterque eorundem sacer- dotum, coi'am Archicpiscopo qui pro tempore fuerit, in admissione sua,, quod banc ordinacionem nostram observabit, et faciet, quantum eum concernit et sibi facultas pKX3stabitur, in omnibus obscrvari. Jura1)uut insuper iidem saccrdotes Priori ejusdem loci obedien- ciam ; et quod nullum dampnum infercnt dicto monas- terio, vel personis ejusdem injuriam seu gravamen. Rursum, si in prresenti ordinacione nostra, processu 430 LITERS temporis, inveniatur aliquod dubium seu obscurum, illud interpretandi, innovandi, corrigendi, et eidem ordinacioni nostrre addendi, diminuendi, et decla- randi, nobis dum vixerimus, et post mortem nostvam reverendo patri Domino Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi qui pro tempore fuerit specialiter [potestatem] reservamus. ThePiiov's Cui quideiii ordinacioni sic salubriter compositje tenore confirma- . , , tion 10- prossencium nostrum prieboraus assensum ; onera no- sumed. jiji^ jn eadcm im})Osita agnoseimus et cetera in eadem ordinacione contenta, quatenus ad nos attinet vel attinere in futurum poterit, approbamus, ratificamus, ac etiam confirmamus. In quorum omnium testi- monium, etc. Data, etc. xvjto die mensis Septembris anno Domini M°ccc° sexagesimo secundo.^ 30 Sept. 894. — Procuratorium pro capis exigendis de pro- FESSIONIBUS EPISCOPORUM, ETC. L. 5G b. A Pateat universis, etc. quod nos Robertus. etc. Prior An attor- . . . ' ney is Ecclesiie Christi Cantuariensis et ejusdem loci Ca- to demand pitulum, in omnibus causis, etc. dilectum nobis in from Christo Mao-istrum Ricardum de Wodelond, Reetorem Bishops" ecclesite de Lamheth, nostrum, etc. procuratorem, etc. and their ordinamus. Dantes et concedentes eidem procuratori thepo/.^'- nostro potestatem generalem et mandatum speciale, sioiial nomine nostro et Ecclesia? nostras praadicta?, petendi, ofVKich exigendi, et rccipiendi, a quibuscunque episcopis dictte rach Ecclesit\3 Cantuariensis suffraganeis superstitibus, ac makinfi his cpiscoporum suffraganeorum hujusmodi defunctorum protossion ^gstamentorum executoribus, capas professionales, ra- of canoni- . , . ^ , . ral obe- tione professionum ipsoruin nobis, dictse Lcclesije nos- hSrcon'i^e ^^'^ nomine, de praerogativa ejusdem Ecclesise, et cratinn, laudabili consuetudine legitime pr.iescripta, ac a tempore tTotfei-'tcf P^^ tempus cujus contrarii memoria hominum non Canter- existit, in provincia Cantuai'iensi pacifice observata Cathedral, tlebitas ab eisdem ; ac cum eisdem et eorum quolibet, ' Printed in Stanley's memorials of Canterbury. CANTUARIENSES. 431 si ei expedire viderit, componendi in hac parte, et traiisigendi, et de capis hujusmodi, sen eorum sesti- mationibusj receptis acquietancias sive apochas faciendi, etc., etc. Datum in Capitulo nostro Cantuariensi ultimo die mensis Septembris anno Domini millesimo sexajresimo secundo. 895. — Nova cantaria facta per Domtnum Pkincipem ^i'*' IN CRIPTIS. ACQUIETANCI^ FACT^ PER CaPEL- LANOS DE EORUM PENSIONIBUS SIBI SOLUTIS DE ^' ^" ^■ PRIMO TERMINO. Tenore prsesentium noverint universi me Willelmum Receipt Bateman de Gyddyngg-, perpetuum pvesbyterum ^^'pg^j cantarise Sanctaj Marite in Ecclesia Cbristi Can- the first tuariensi noviter ordinata?, recipisse et habuisse, die by'^the'^'^" confectionis })V0esentium, a venerabilibus et religiosis Chap- viris Priore et Conventu dicta? Ecclesia? Cantuariensis Jhe newly- decem raarcas sterliugorum, in particularem solutionem founded • • • • • Prince's annua? pensionis vigmti marcarum ab eisdem Priore chantry, et Conventu, ad duos anni terminos infrascriptos, micbi annuatim, nomine pnedictte cantariae, solvendaj ; videlicet, ad festa Sancti Michaelis et Paschae, prout in ordinatione dicta? cantarije plenius coiitinetur. De quibus quidem x. marcis termini Sancti Michaelis praesentis anni contingentibus fateor michi esse plenarie satisfactum, etc. In cujus I'ei testimonium sigillum meum prassentibus est appensum. Et quia sigillum meum pluribus est ignotum, .sigillum officii Commis- snrii Cantuariensis Generalis apponi praesentibus pro- curavi. Et nos Commissarius pra^dictus sigillum officii nostri, ad personalem rogatum praefati Domini Willelmi, praesentibus apposuimus in fidem et testi- monium solutionis pra^dictre. Data Cantuariae xx^o die mensis Octobris anno Domini mocccolxij^'o et anno regni Regis Edwardi, etc. Et memorandum quod Dominus Johannes Styward, per- petuus presbyter cantariiB SanctfB Trinitatis, socius praedicti 432 LTTER^ Domini Willelmi, feoifc nnain acqnictaiiciam de^ poiiRiojic pna sibi Roluta sub forma ct data proximis pra^SCTiptis. 25 Oct. 890. — LiTTERA LTCENCIAUR FrATTITS BARTIIOLOMEI DE LeVELONDE CANONICI DE LeBES'qUOD POSSIT 98 b. MONACHARI IN ECCLESIA CaNTUARIENSI. A licence Venerandse veligionis viro ac domino, Priori Ecclesite fiom the Cliristi Cantuariensis ct ciusdem loci Con ventui, Fi-ater rnor or . _ Ledes in Tliomas Prior Ecclesiic conventual is de Ledes et ejus- Keut per- ^ j (Jonventus, salutem, cum omni reverentia et mittiiig one ' ' ^ ofiiis honore. Cum dilectus nobis in Cin isto Frater Thomas hrcomoa* ^'^ Levelonde, confrator et concanonicus nostei-, in Honedic- ecclesia no.stra prsedicta stdj ordinis nostri disciplina :it"ciir?st'^ ])er (|uatuordecem annos et amplius inter nos honeste cnuirch. fuerit conversatns, nulla sententia excommunicationis seu 15 Nov. 897. — De materia concernente Domtntjm Arciit- 13G2. episcopum et Dominum Comitem Arundel de IT. 85 a. DAMIS. A conipro- Universis, etc. Prior et Capitulum Ecclesipe Christi, whic'h^the Litteras indentatas sigillo nobilis Arch- viri Comitis Arundell et Surrei fjuarum fpiidem litterarum tenor sequitur Arnudel in hcBC Verba : agree to « Ceste cndenture, faite entre le honurable piere Sire commute _ ' _ >- for a Simond par la grace de Dieu Ercevesqe de Canterbirs payment Primatc de tout Engleterre dune part, ct le noble an annual hom Monsirc Ricliard Counte DarundcU et de Surreie rian'e ° dautre part, tesmoigne : qe come de graunt temps eicnt quantity of este debatz entre les predecessors le dit Ercevesqe, ei;i'iim-d by Erccvesqes de Canterbirs, et les auncestres le dit Counte ; les predecessors du dit Ercevesqe demandantz latter. des auncestres le dit Counte un annuel rente de tresze CANTUAllIENSES. 433 suspensionis inuodatus, nuLloque criinine irietitus, nunc demum propter frugem mclioris vitae, ut asserit, arto- rem religionem se asserat afFectare, ordinemque vestrum, intrandi licentiam nobis humiliter petierit et instanter ; nos, ipsius devotionem attendentes, ne pi'opositum sibi ut credimus, divinitus inspiratum impedire, canonicisve iustitutis in hac parte aliquatenus obviare videamur, tarn ipsi Fratri Bartholomeo praedicto ordinem vestrum intrandi quam vobis ipsum adraittendi, quatenus ad nos attinct et jura exigunt, per praesentes concedimus facultatem, et ipsum a nostra obedientia absolvimus quantum ad nos pertinet in hac parte. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras sigillo nostro ad causas consignatas fieri fecimus patentes. Data apud Ledes vicesimo quinto die mensis Octobris anno Domini MOCCCOLXIjdo. 897. To -dU, (fee. the Prior and Chapter of Christ Church &c. gx'eeting, &c. We have diligently examined indented letters sealed with the seal of the noble Earl of Arundel and Surrey, of which letters the tenor foUoweth in these words : " This indenture, made between the honourable Father the Lord Simon by the grace of God Archbishop of Can- bury and Primate of all England on the one part, aad the noble Lord Kichard Earl of Ai'undel and Surrey on the other part, witnesseth : that whereas for a long time there have been disputes between the predecessors of the said Archbishop, being Archbishops of Canterbuiy, and the ancestors of the said Earl ; the predecessors of the said Archbishop demanding from the ancestors of the U 52122. E E 434 LITERS The pre- deyms ou cevfs ea temps de grece, et de tresze L^the*co°u- -i t i cited qui sequitur continentes : ' Omnibus, etc, Johannes containing jj[[ixs Roberti Fraunceys de Romenale, Cantuarien- a copy ol . . . *' those of sis dioecesis, salutem, etc. Noverit universitas John CANTUARIENSES. 437 in the same manner as they were on each side before the date of these presents. In witness of Avhich thing to these indented writings as well the said Archbishop as the said Earl have interchangeably set their seals. And hereupon the said Archbishop consents to allow this release to be confirmed by the Prior and Convent of his Chapter of Canterbury. Given at Lambeth, the fifteenth day of November, in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King Edward the Third of England." vestra, quod olim recolendfe memorise Adam de Fraunceys, Cherryng' quoddam hospitale leprosorum, in honore ing the Beatorum Martirum Stephani et Thom{e quondam foundation. Cantuai'iensis Archiepiscopi, in dicta Villa de Eo- menale dudum fundatum, terris, redditibus, et possessionibus variis dotavit et promovitj ac, pi'o sustentacione perpetua quorundam leprosorum in eodem degentium, et unius Capellani in ipso hos- pitali divina imperpetuum celebrantis, pro salute animje suae animai'umque successorum suorum, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam terras, redditus, et possessiones hujusinodi eidem hospital! dedit, et concessit, ac eciam assignavit ; prout per cartas ~ ipsius Adae, et litteras Romanorum Pontificum ac Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium, qui pro tempore fuerunt, et praecipue per litteras bonaj memoriie Domini Baldewini dudum Cantuariensis Archiepi- scopi inde confectas, plenius poterit apparere. Set temporum malicia succedente, et eo maxime quod nulli leprosi reperiebantur, nec longis temporibus 438 LITERS retroactis potviernnt I'eperiri, qui in dicto hospitali voluerunt aliqualiter coramorari, stetit dictum hos- pitale penitus derelictum, et hominibus totalizer desolatum ; sicque periit elemosina antiquitus inibi fieri consueta ; et divinus cultus in eodem hospitali diu extiterat et existit omnino dirainutus et sopitus ; sedificiaque hospitalis prredicti, qua; sumptuosa manus construxerat, funditus sunt coUapsa. Unde ego, Jo- hannes Fraunceys supradictus, verus dicti hospitalis nunc patronus, motus pietate, volens et intendens ipsum hospitale, ut prtemittitur totaliter desolatum, de bonis michi a Deo collatis saltim. et prout michi possibile fuerit, per Dei gratiam relevare, et divinum cultum ibidem diminutura et sopitum, ut pi-^efertur, suscitare ; ordino, volo, et dispone, quatenus in me est et de jure possum in hac parte, et priscijiue propter causam suprascriptam, quod de cetero, in loco virorum leprosorum qui in eodem hospitali raorari consueverant, sint ibidem duo sacerdotes idonei, divina in ipso hospitali, pro animabus funda- torum, patronorum, et benefactorum ejusdem, per- petuis femporibus, celebrantes, quorum unus erit dicti hospitalis Magister sive Gustos ; qui quidem Magister sive Gustos, ibidem sumendus sive eligeudus, quociens ipsum hospitale vacare contigerit, ad pi-a?- sentacionem patroni ejusdem hospitalis cujuseumque, qui pro tempore fuerit, per Dominiun Archiepiscopum Gantuariensem et ejus auctoritate sede Ecclesife Can- tuariensis plena, et, ipsa vacante per Priorem et Gapitulum dicta) Ecclesise, instituetur et inducetur in eodem. Et eciam quod in dicto hospitali residen- ciam faciat corporalem, nisi pro negociis ipsius hos- pitalis, vel alias ex causa racionabili, ipsum oporteat aliquociens absentari. Qui eciam Gapellanus, in Ma- gistrum sive Custodem dicti hospitalis admissus, in institucione sive admissione sua hujusmodi, seu sal- CANTUARIENSES. 439 tim in sua induetione in possessionem corporalem hospitalis supradicti, corporale, ad Sancta Dei Evan- gelia, prpestet jurauientiim, quod domes, terras, red- ditus, possessiones, et jura ipsius hospitalis, tarn nova quam antiqua, juxta posse suum viriliter conservabit et defendet, et sine vasto salvo custodiet, ordina- cionemque prsesentera in omnibus fideliter observabit. Ordino insuper et volo, quod quilibet Magister sive Gustos hujusmodi, qui pro tempore fuerit, unum ad se capiet Capellanum idoneum, quern in socium suum duxerit eligendum, ad morandum cum eo in hospitali prjedicto, qui suus erit commensalis ; cui quidem Capellano, ultra victum suum, quadraginta solidos sterlingorum, de bonis ipsius hospitalis, in moneta currenti idem Magister ministrabit annuatim. Totum vero residuum bonorum et emolumentorum dicti hos- pitalis habebit et percipiet Magister supradictus, pi'o sustentacione sua, et suorum ac hospitalis antedicti jurium, ac aliorum onerum sibi incumbencium occa- sione hospitalis antedicti. Ita quod ibidem non fiet vastum vel destructio ut prsefertur. Liceat insuper Magistro dicti hospitalis, suum socium Capellanum, quociens opus fuerit et causa racionabilis hoc ex- poscerit, a dicto hospitali penitus amovere, et alium idoneum loco suo ibidem subrogare et prseficere. Ita tamen quod semper sint ibidem duo Capellani com- morantes, videlicet, Magister et socius suus commen- salis, ut est dictum ; qui pro animabus fundatorum patronorum, et omnium benefactorum ipsius hos- pitalis, cessante impedimento legitimo, cotidie cele- brabunt, et simul in capella ipsius hospitalis matu- tinas, et alias hoi'as canonicas. Placebo, et Dirige, cum commendacione animarum dicent, nisi raciona- biliter fuerint excusati. Praeterea ordino et volo quod quilibet Magister sive Gustos hospitalis prse- dicti, infra decem dies proximos postquara inductus 440 LITER fuerit in possessionem ejiisdem, tarn de visu et sciencia patroni ipsius hospitalis vel alicujus per ipsum ad hoc deputati, quam de visu et sciencia alterius Capellani, sui, videlicet, commensalis, fidele I'aciat et plenum inventarium indentatum de om- nibus et singulis bonis, rebus, et catallis ipsius hos- pitalis, inibi existentibus et repertis, ad illud perti- nentibus qualitercumque ; cujus una pars penes dictum Magistrum et Custodem, et alia pars ejusdem penes ipsum patronum remanebit ; qui quidem Magister, singulis bienniis, de omnibus bonis, et rebus, ac catallis supradictis, ac eciam de administracione sua ibidem facta, loci Ordinario, vel Domino Archiepi- scopo Cantuariensi qui erit pro tempore, vel alicui ad hoc deputato per eundem, juxta' juris exigenciam compotum reddet sive racionem. Item : volo et ordino quod cum Magister dicti Hospitalis in fata decesserit, vel per permutacionem seu alias ab ipso hospitali se transtulerit aut amotus fuerit, bona et catalla omnia ipsius hospitalis, seu ad illud qualitercumque perti- nencia, penes ipsum hospitale integre remaneant ad usum et utilitatem ejusdem, futuro Magistro sive Custodi hospitalis antedicti in eventu plenius libe- randa. De aliis vero bonis et catallis ipsius Magistri sive Custodis, sibi aliunde obvenientibus seu per ipsum adquisitis, disponat idem Magistei-, tarn in vita sua quam in morte, juxta sufe libitum voluntatis. Insuper volo et ordino, quod quilibet patronus hospi- talis antedicti, qui pro tempore fuerit, unum Capel- lanrmi idoneum, quociens ipsum hospitale vacare con- tigerit, infra duos menses a tempore notee vacacionis ejusdem. Domino Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi qui pro tempore fuerit Sede Cantuariensis Ecclesire plena, ipsa vero sede vacante Dominis Priori et Capitulo dicta) Ecclesise, ad dictum hospitale praesentabit ; per ipsum, seu ipsos, in Magistrum ct Custodem dicti hospitalis CANTUARIENSES. 441 admittendum. Alioquin, si patronus prjedictus Capel- lanum hujusmodi infra dictum tempus non prfcsen- taverit ut priefertur, volo et concede ego, Johannes filius Roberti Fraunceys scepedictus, pro me heredibus et assignatis meis, quod Jurati Villse de Romenale supradictae, vel major pars eorum, potestatem prfesen- tandi personam idoneam ad dictum hospitale habeant ea vice. Ita tamen quod infra mensem proximam tune sequentem Capellanum hujusmodi prjesentent modo supradicto. Et si contingat quod Magister sive Gustos prsedictus non ceperit sibi alium socium Capellanum, vit est dictum, tunc idem Magister dis- tribuet inter pauperes villjB supradictoa, pro quolibet quarterio anni quo Capellanum socium non habuerit, viginti tres solidos et quatuor denarios, per visum Juratorum villcO antedictse. In quorum omnium et singulorum testimonium ego Johannes filius Eoberti Fraunceys prsedictus sigillum meura pra3sentibus ap- posui, et nichilominus sigillum commune Baronum Villai de Romenale pniedictse hiis apponi procuravi. Data apud Romenale quoad consignacionem prtesencium vicesimo die Junii anno Domini Moccc^ sexagesimo tercio, etc. Hiis testibus Henrico Lewe«, Willelrao Holynbroke, Jacobo Colebrond, Johanne Colebrond, Johanne Roger, Johanne Lynot, Jacobo atte Capele, Matheo atte More, Daniele Rouge clerico de Rome- nale, et multis aliis.' Post quarum quidem littera- rum lecturam et mtellectumj luimus cum ingenti letters re- et devota instancia deprecatorie requisiti, quatinus sumed. ordinata et contenta in litteris memoratis, omnia et singula, ratificare et confirmai'e, quatcnus ad nos attineret, pro majori firmitatis robore dignaremur. Nos igitur, devocionem sinceram dicti Johannis Fraunceys intuentes, consideraiitesquc per praimissa divini cultus augmentum provide procurari, judi- cantes insuper longe fore laudabilius fructus, redditus, 442 LITERiE et proventus dicti hospitalis in usus cedere cantarise hnjusmodi perpetuse, seu pi-esbiterorum divina imper- petuum inibi celebraturorum, quam in privates usus aliorum, pi'ffisertim minime salutares, converti, quin pocius consumi, sicufc inultis retroactis temporibus fieri nequiter est consuetum ; et potissime cum, propter causas in prfefatis litteris expressatas et alias, teneri nequeat ^ ulterius in dicto hospitali, juxta primievam ordinacionem ejusdem prsetensam, hospitalitas leprosorum, litteras prsedictas, omniaque et singula in eisdem ordinata et contenta ut praD- mittitur, propter preemissa et alia motiva suffici- encia nos ad hoc inducentes, auctoritate nostra ordinaria, quantum in nobis est, ratificamus, appro- bamus, et, tenore prtesencium, confirmamus. In cujus rei, etc. Data apud Ciierryng idibus Novem- bris, anno Domini M°ccco sexagesimo tercio, et Tton^by ^^^''^"^ consecracionis quartodecimo. Quibus quidem the Chap- confirmacioni, ratificacioni, et approbacioni, per ter le- reverendum natrem supradictum factis ceterisque prae- sumen. . ' . \ missis omnibus et singulis, quatenus ad nos attinet, nostrum prsebemus assensum, tenore prsesencium. In cujus rei, etc. Data in Capitulo nostro Cautuari- ensi, decimo die mensis Februarii, anno Domini MOCCCOLXIIJO." 13 April 899. — Tenor fundacionis Collegii Cantuariensis 1363. ^ Cart. Ant. O. 129. Arch- Sapiencia Dei patris per uterum Beatse Virginis bishop volens prodire in publicum, sicut jetate proficere Islip an- , . . .... , , . nounces voluit SIC gracise et sapiencise suse munera paulative tenere nequeant, MS. CANTUAEIENSES. 443 aliis proficiendo, secundum processum retatis suae, the founda- magis ac magis realiter ostendebat, ut aliis qui ab ejus plenitudine fuerant particulariter sapienciam re- ment of his cepturi, prius humiliter addiscerent et proficiendo ^^^^ f^°^' crescerent in doctrina, postquam quod sic didiscerint Oxford, aliis salubriter revelarent. Quia igitur per sapienciam sic, non absque sudore et laboribus, adquisitam re- guntur regna, et in justicia confoventur, Ecclesia militans germinat et sua diftundit tentoria, nos Simon, permissione diviua Cantuariensis Arcbiepiscopus, etc. ad hsec sajpius revolventes intima cordis nostri, ac con- siderantes viros in omni sciencia doctos et expertos in epidemiis pneteritis plurimum defecisse, paucis- simosque propter defectum exhibicionis ad prsesens insistere studio litterarum ; de magnificpe Trinitatis gracia et meritis Beati TliomsQ Martiris patroni nos- tri firmiter confidentes, de bonis nobis a Deo collatis, Aulam quandam scolarium, in Universitate Oxonige et nostrie provincise, de consensu et licencia serenis- simi Principis nostri Edwardi . Regis Anglise illustris, in loco quem ad hoc nostris sumptibus comparavimus, construximus et fundavimus, quam pro duodenario studencium numero duxiraus ordinandam. In partem igitur dotis et sustentacionis ipsius Coilegii octo hos- picia conductiva, juxta situm loci in quo habitacio- nem habemus studencium assignavimus consistentia, qufe gravibus sumptibus nostris et expensis propterea specialiter adquisivimus, per banc cartam nostram con- ferimus et douamus et eciam assignamus ; manerium de Wodeford Lincolniensis dioecesis, ad prsedilectum nepotem nostrum Willelmum de Islep spectans, cum omnibus suis pertinenciis eidem Collegio procuravimus insuper assignari. In cujus, etc. Data apud Maghefeld, idus Aprilis, anno Domini M°CCC^°I.XUJ° ; et nostrge consecracionis xiiij^ao. 444) liteRjE (1363.) 900. — LiTTERA. MISSA AD PROLONGANDUM DIEM SUPER ^" ^® NEGOTIIS TANGENTIBUS MarISCUM APUD PrOM- Some per- son ill au- HULL, thority (the Lord Cher amy, pur ceo qe nous avoms entenduz qe havi'ng ap- vous avez assignez un jour a Promhull, cast assavoir pointed a y qqq Mardy prochein, davoir un veredist sur les meetiiio", at •/ i the usual busoignes tochauntes le marreis illoqes ; al queil jour place for nous ne pooms y estre ne envoier, pur certeins en- holding- the . , ' Romuey chesons qi especialment nous toucnent, vous prioms Courts on clierement, qe vous \n.aillez delaier le dit jour par a day in- une quinzeme, issint qe nous puissoms meuz estre to the"'^°* avisez de la dite matiere, pur lamour de nous. A Prior, he is Dieu. asked to postpone it for a fort- night. (13G3.) 901. — LiTTERA ROGATORIA MISSA AMICO PRO BENEFICIIS 5g ^ ECCLESIASTICIS AD INVICEM PERMUTANDIS. A letter Reverentiam et lionorem. Carissime, quia amicus sent to meus, huius lator, Dominus Thomas Kendale rector some man ' j ... of in- ecclesiffi Sancti Augustini juxta ecclesim Sancti Pauli, Chr?st^'° et Dominus Thomas Arch rector ecclesise Sancti Leo- Church, nardi in Estchepe, Londonipe, cujus quidem ecclesite him"to Sancti Leonardi Domini Prior et Conventus Ecclesiae induce the Christi Cantuariensis patroni existunt, intendunt, cer- Chap-'^"*^ tis de causis legitimis, ad invicem perrautare ; vestram ter to con- amicitiam ex corde requiro, quatinus erga dictos do- exchange iiiinos Priorem et Conventum instare velitis, et^ of bene- hujus latoris sic negotium promovere, ut ipsum ad dictam ecclesiam Sancti Leonardi velint ex causa permutationis hujusmodi prsesentare. Tantum, si pla- cet, facientes, quod hunc latorem non oporteat erga 1 iw, MS. CANTUAllIENSES. 445 900. Dear Friend, whereas we have understood that you have assigned a meeting-day at Promhill, that is to say next Tuesday, for the purpose of obtaining decisions on matter's touching the Marsh ; on which day we shall neither be able to be present or to send a proxy, on account of certain reasons which especially affect us, we pray you earnestly that you will be pleased, for love of us, to postpone the said meeting-day for a fort- night, so that we may be better informed on the said matter. Adieu, &c. ipsos Prioreui et Conventum decetero laborarc. Vos conservet Altissimus per tempera diutina. Script., etc. 902.— littera appropeiacionis de ecclesia de h may Pagham. II. 101 6. Universis, etc. Symon permissione divina Cantuari- ^^di- ensis Ai-chiepiscopus, etc., salutem, et perpctuani i>isiioi) rei gestaj memoriain, cum benedictione dexteraj Dei the better Salvatoris. Quociens ad penuriam studencium in c'ldow- fainosa et peraniabili Universitate Oxonitu, nostra; Canter- Cantuariensis provinciie, mentis iiituitum dirigimus, '^"''J" tociens cordis nostri viscera doloris gladio sauciantur. oxfoni^ Ha?c enim, sicut stella coeli, vernancia ssminis sui "■l^F'^' 1 i • 1 • , • , . T , . . pnatos to germina multiplicare, et sicut vmea Israelitica, quon- it the dam de iEgypto. translata, palmites suos et propagines p,|^||^(j^"^ per universum orbem difiundere, paucis ctiam annis Sussex, transacts consueverat, formositate Rachel simul et 446 LITERS foecunditate Lie clivitius adornata ; sed, provocantibus demeritis nostris, aggravata nianus Domini, tam copiosam tamque fructuosam propaginem quasi in nianipuluin frondium, geminato ruina) pestilencialis impetu, redigebat. Nos igitur peramabili filia3 nostras, adeo lacrymosa infoecimditate laboranti, interno com- pacionis aftectu, et in aliqualem ipsius consolacionem aliquot sibi soboles ad[d]icere cupientes, quandam Aulam collegiatam, sub certo studiencium numero, vocabulo Auke Cantuariensis stabilitam, infra tentorii sui metas fundavimus, possessiones temporales, prop- terea per nos adquisitas, eisdera Aulse et Studentibus in dotem perpetuam assignando ; sane ex parte dictae Aulse Custodis et Studencium nobis extitit significatum, quod possessiones prsedictcB pro ipsorum Studencium sustentacione congrua, et aliis ejusdem Aulte seu Collegii supportandis oneribus, non suffioiunt nec sufficere poterunt in futurum ; propter quod nobis humiliter supplicarunt, quatinus ecclesiam parochialem de Pagham, nostrorum patronatus et jurisdictionis immediatse, eis et eorum Collegio in usus proprios concedere dignaremur. Nos igitur, volentes eorum necessitati consulere et utilitati providere, ipsorum supplicacionibus, tanquam justis et racioni consonis, inclinati, prsehabito super prremissis et ea concernen- tibus solempni ac diligenti tractatu cum reverendis et religiosis viris Priore et Capitulo Ecclesias nostrte Cantuariensis, jurisque ordine qui in hac parte require- batur in omnibus observato, de cousilio consensu, et assensu eorum, prsefatam ecclesiam de Pagham, cum suis membris, juribus, et pertinenciis universis, prsefatis Aultv, Collegio, et Studentibus, eorumque successoribus appropriamus, annectimus, et unimus ; ipsamque in usus proprios eorundem concedimus in perpetuum possidendam ; adjicientes et concedentes ipsis Cus- todi et Studentibus plenam potestatem et liberam ut, cedente vel decedente seu alias qualitercumque CANTUAKIENSES. 447 dimittente rectore dicta; ecclesipe qui de prtesenti incumbit, ipsam ecclesiam et ejus possessionem aucto- ritate prsesenciuui, per se, alium, vel alios, ingredi, obvenciones, redditus, et proventus ejusdem quoscum- que percipere ac de eisdem libere disponere valeant ; nulla alia licencia seu auctoritate, loci Ordinarii aut alterius cujuscumque, super hoc petita aliqualiter seu obtenta ; salvis tamen vicariis perpetuis dictee paro- chialis ecclesije, et capellse de Berghstede, capellaniee- que perpetuje de Boganore, eidem ecclesite annexis, porcionibus ab olim eisdem perpetuo assignatis, reservataque nobis et successoribus nostris utriusque vicar ia3 et capellanite liujusmodi coUacione, prout ad nos et prsedecessores nostros pertinere solebat tempori- bus retroactis. In quorum, etc. Data in Domo nostro Capitulari Ecclesise nostrje praedicta?, quinto idus Maii, anno Domini moccc™olxiijo. Et nos Robertus Prior et Capitulum Ecclesite Christi Cantuariensis prfedictse, etc. ex certa sciencia, approbamus, etc. Data in Domo nostra Capitulari mense die et anno supradictis. 903. — Carta Wii.lelmi Islep de maneeio suo de 4 June "WODEFORD DATUM AD COLLEGIUM NOSTRUM OxONIwE. ' Cart- Ant. O. ]28. Sciante prsesentes et futuri, quod ego Willelmus de William Islep, ad instanciam domini mei Domini Simonis Dei ^^''P ,■/-,, • • A T • • • I IT . bestows his gratia Cantuariensis Arcniepiscopi, etc. dedi, concessi. Manor of et hac pr^senti carta mea confirmavi Custodi et W'^dford, Clericis Aulae collegiatse Cantuariensis, per ipsum amptou- dominum meum in Universitate Oxonise noviter fun- 1'"''^ "P°° Arcii- datae, manerium meum quod habeo in Wodeford, cum bishop omnibus suis pertinenciis in Coraitatu Northamtonite ; banter habendum et tenendum prjedictum manerium, cum bury Col- omnibus suis terris, pratis, pascuis, pasturis, reddi- Oxfoal tibus, homagiis, serviciis, stagnis, vivariis, aquis, mo- lendinis, gardinis, columbariis, cum omnibus aliis suis 448 LITERiK pertinenciis priedictis, Custodi et Clericis et eorum successoribus imperpetuum ; tenendum de capitalibiis domiuis feodi per servicia inde debita et de jure con- sueta. In cujus rei, etc. Hiis testibus : Venerabili in Christo patre Domino Willelmo Dei giacia Roffensi Episcopo, Magistro Nicholao de Chaddesden Legum Doctorc Caucellario, Domino Johanne Waleys Milite, Domino Thoma de Wolton Senescallo tenarum, et Willelmo Islep Cruciferario dicti Domini Archiepi- scopi, et multis aliis. Et ad majorem securitatem prsemissoruui, ego Willelmus de Islep supradictus prsesentem cartam subscripcione et signi apposicione Magistri Ricardi Wodelond, clerici, Notarii aucto- ritate apostolica publici, etc., ad requisicionem meam specialem feci et optinui communiri. Data apud Maghefeld, quarto die mensis Juuii, anno Domini MOCCCOLXIIJO. Et ego Ricardus Wodelond, etc. dictam cartam audivi, etc. et hie me subscripsi, et signum meum apposui prsesentibus consuetum, etc. Procuratorium factum per Robertum Pri- OREM VENERABILIBUS VIRIS MAGISTRIS ThOM^ DE Paxtone Sacri Palacii Apostolici Audi- tori, Johanni Dyggs, et Petro de Hakenesse CLERICIS LyNCOLNNIENSIS ET CaNTUARIENSIS dicecesium in Curia Romana sub manu publica, pro oapitulo generali. In Dei nomine, amen. Cunctis appareat evidenter per prffiscns publicum instrumentum, quod anno ab incarnatione Domini millesimo ccc^oLxiijio, indictionc prima, et pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domiQi nostri Domini Urbani divina providentia Papaj quinti anno primo, mense Junii, die xiijo, in aula manei'ii de Southchurcb, jurisdictionis immediataa Domini Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, etc. ; reverendus 13 June 904.— 1363. Ti. 93 b. CANTUARIENSES. 449 et religiosus vir Dominus Robertus Prior Ecclesife Christi Cantuariensis personaliter constitiitus, in omnilnis litibus, etc. ad Romanam Curiam legitime devolutis, etc. venerabiles viros Magistros Thomam de Paxtone sacri palatii apostolici Auditorem, Johannem Dyggs, et Petrum Hakenesse, clericos Cantuariensis et Lyn- colniensis dicecesium, suos veros et legitimes procn- ratores, etc. ordinavit fecit et constituit, etc. etc. 90.5. — LiTTERA MISSA MAGISTRO JoHANNI DYGGS in 1.5 June Curia Romana commoranti, oontinens Ca- (i^e.?). PITULUM GENERALE ET PROCURATORTA SUPRA- L- 9-^ "• DICTA. Amice carissime. Scire velitis quod felicis recoi'da- The in- tionis Dominus Innocentius, predecessor immediatus stnictions ,.. .-r, • .. ,1 '^ent to the uomini nostri Papae qui nunc est, ad petitionem Ab- Proctor oi batis Sancti Albani, declaravit, quod ea quae tenentur in constitutionibus Benedictinis, editis circa statuni Curia, nigfrorum monacborum, de Prioi'ibus ecclesiarum catho- dralium ad Priores etiam ecclesiai-um meti'opolitanaruni extendantur, et in eis observentur. Cujus declarationis prfetextu, prsefatus Abbas et ceteri praesidentes Capitulo provinciali nigrorum monachorum in Anglia nitunt nos artare in dicto Capitulo comparere, et in eodem cum aliis Abbatibus et Prioribus convenire ; licet om- nes pnedecessores nostri, Ecclcsiie Cantuariensis Priores, fuerunt et nos fuerimus, a tempore et per tempus cujus contrarii memoria non existit, libei-i et immunes a jurisdictione, auctoritate, et potestate quacumque prsesidentium dicti Capituli, et in possessione juris, vel quasi libertatis et immunitatis luijusmodi, pacifice et quiete omni tempore supradicto. Et videtur nobis quod declaratio hujusmodi nos nullo modo concernit, quia : quos se habent per niodum principvi non inclu- duntur sub aliquibus verbis nisi nominatini seu spe- 450 LITER cialifer exprimantitr ; sed Ecclesia primatialis, qualis est Ecclesia Cantuariensis, et legationis Sedis Apo- stolicse etiain insignita, est princeps ecclesiarum metro- politanarum (xxj. distinctio, capitulum Cleros. xij. distinctio, capitulum xVos consuetudinem) ; ergo Ecclesia Cantuariensis primatialis sub nomine ecclesiarum me- tropolitanarum non includitur quovismodo, et sic nos, Prioi'em Ecclesiae primatialis, dicta declaratio non con- cernit; junctis legibus quse faciunt, quod ea quae se habent pro modo capitis seu principis, etc. (c. de aquje ductu. 1. eos. 11°. xj". pp. de le. iij. 1, ambobus. x. de praebendis. c. quamvis. 11°. vj, cum finibus). Scituri, quod pleniores allegationes, et informationes in hac parte, una cum appellatione, per nos ad Sedem Apo- stolicam interponenda, a gravaminibus per dictos prae- sidentes nobis, ut comminantur, celeriter inferendis, vobis ad Curiam, opportuno tempore, transmittemus ; mittimus insuper vobis, per harum bajulum, duo pro- curatoria, unum pro audientia causarum, aliud pro audientia contradictarum, in quibus A'enerabilem virum Thomam de Paxtone sacri palatii Auditorem, vos, et Magistrum Petrum de Hakenesse, cum quibus com- municetis praemissa, nostros constituimus procuratores, conjunctim et divisim, prout in eisdem procuratoriis seriosius continetur. Successus prosperos et votivos tribuat vobis Altissimus ad honores. Scriptum apud Southchurch xv^ die mensis Junii. Consimilis littera fuit missa Magistro Petro de Hakenesse, etc. 10 July 906. — ACQUIETANCIA FACTA EXECUTORIBUS EPISCOPORUM 1363. PRO CAPIS PROFESSIONALIBUS SOLUTIS ECCLESI^. L. 57 a. The Chap- Robertus, etc. Prior Ecclesiai Christi Cantuariensis ter ac- ejusdem loci Capitulum, omnibus pi'sesentes litteras the'phy-^^ inspecturis salutem, etc. Cum de praerogativa Ec- CANTTTARIENSES, 451 clesife nostrae Cantuariensis, ae de consuetudine legi- "nent of time prsescripta, a tempore et per tempus cujus sional contrarii memoria hominum non existit inconcusfse et V tllti GXCCU" pacifice observata, omnes et singuli suftraganei Cantua- tors of two riensis provinciae unam capam, professionalem commu- ^J^hops • j. 1, „ . . , . who were niter appellatam, ratione proiessionis eorundem, nobis dead at the et Ecclesiae nostras Cantuariensi solvere teneantur ; ^ . payment, noveritis nos recipisse discretis viris Magistro Thoma Bradewell rectore ecclesiae de Schoreham, immediataj jurisdictionis reverendissimi patris nostri Domini Archi- episcopi Cantuariensis, [et] Dominis Roberto de Plesele et Stephano Randulff de Southflete et Coudenn eccle- .siarum rectoribus, RoSensis dioecesis, executoribus testamenti bone memoriae Fratris Johannis de Scapeya nuper RofFensis Episcopi defuncti, dictse Ecclesia? nos- • tne Cantuariensis suffraganei dum vixit, imam capam professionalem hujusmodi competentem, decentem, et honestam, nobis et Ecclesiae nostrae Cantuariensi, ratione professionis suae, debitam ab eodem defuncto. De qua quidem capa praefatos execu tores acquietamus, ac omni actioni quam habuimus erga eosdem occasione capae ejusdem renunciamus. In cujus, etc. Data in Domo nostro Capitulari Cantuariensi vj*<' idus Julii, anno Domini MCCCLXiu. 11 July Consimilis aequietancia facta fuit executoribus Domini (1363). Michaelis de Northburgh nuper Episcopi Londoniensis, de 59 «. una capa professionali. From the Prior of Christ Church 907. — HiBERNIA. to ^ monk (Treasu- Salutem et prosperos ad vota successus. Scire veli- Tynterne tis, quod quidam Frater Willelmus Welsche, asserens ^ Ireland, se ^ in Abbatem Monasterii De Voto in Hibernia, in describing nostra praesentia et confratrum nostrorum consti tutus, ^^^^l^ '^^ Elect of Tyntern, ' election is probably omitted. has by F F 2 452 LITERS word of bona fide promisit, fiuod tie cetero annuam i^ensioncm promised ^i'.)- mai'cavum, a vobis et vestro monasterio nobis et to pay the EcclesipB nostra? Cantuariensi, debitam, termino consueto, pension in . . , , . which ac arreragia ejusdem, celeriter, saltern infra breves ter- Tvnterne minos, nobis persolvet, absque morse diffugio et fraude IS bound to , . * Christ quacumque ; iinde vobis consulimus, et vos in Domino and"the're- ^^^rtamur, quatinus ea quie ipse promisit, ad graviora fore the pericula in hac parte vobis imminentia consultius evi- qiiirTsthe ^''^^^'^^^^ studeatis absque dissimulationis commento effica- monk of citer adimplere ; scientes pro certo, quod in prosecn- see'that" ^° tioue negotii nostri liujusmodi, quod insidet nobis this pro- cordi, deinceps non erimus tepidi aut remissi, sed idem kept,'^ negotium fastidiosis laboribus ferventius celeriter ^ per- ""'^'^I't f sanctse religionis augmentum semper farther ° Domino feliciter valeatis. Script. Cant, xj^o die proceed- Julii. ings. (13c3.) 909. — littera regratiatoria et supplicatoria pro ^^9^ clerico recipiendo ad habitum monaciialem. Pro R. Stystede. A person (probably Kaillffof the Con- vent at Stisted), recom- mends a candidate for the monastic habit. Treshonure Seignur, jeo moy recomaunk a vous en qantque jeo say on puisse, come cely qest, et touts jours serra, entierement tout le vostre. Treshonure Seignui", pur ceo qe Richard de Stistede, portour de cestes, desire entierement de tout son quoer de estre un moigne en vostre maison de Cantorbirs, et illoqes de mener reli[gi]ous vie en le honour de Dieu et de Seynt Thomas toutz les jours de sa vie ; il mey })ria, en oevre de charite, qe jeo vous voley maunder une lettre de la matiere susdite. Pur quey, treshonure Seignur, vous requoer, auxi entierement comment jeo celitn, ]SrS. CANTUAlUENbES. 453 908. — HlBEllNIA. (July 1363.) Pater ct domine reverende, vestram doniinationein L 5') b reverendam attente rogamus, quatinus negotia Abba- teui De Voto in Hibernia contingentia, vobis per The Prior eundem seriosius exponenda, dignemini, si libeat, cari- duces tatis intuitu, expedire favorabiliter et benigne ; pro- ^ videntes si placeat, secundum suggesta in hac parte, Tynter'ne, do renicdio opportune, ut dignis laudibus in Domino ^^^^ valeatis merito commendari. Semper ad Ecclesiyc suae bishop, regimen vos conscrvet in prosperis Trinitas indivisa. 909. Most honoured Lord, I recommend me to you in all that I know and can, as one who is, and will always be entirely yours. Most honoured Lord, whereas Richard of Stis- ted, bearer of these, desires earnestly with all his heart to be a monk in your House at Canterbury, there to live a life of religion, in honour of God and of 8t. Thomas, all the days of his life ; he has asked me, as an act of charity, to be pleased to send you a letter on the above-mentioned subject. \\'hei'efore, most honoured Lord, I pray, as earnestly as I can, that you will, if you please, receive him graciously, so that he may be able LITERiE jiuisse, qe vous lui voilletz, si vous please, lesccyvcr graciousement, qil porra viver sayntement come il clesir ; qar son quoer est entierement donez a vos- tre mayson. Treshonure Seignur Dieu par sa houte puissaunce vous ottroie bone vie ct longe ; ct come jeo suy osee de vous prier, vous requer qc vous moy voillez maunder vos voluntes, par le portouv de castes. Escript, etc. 3 Nov. 910. — LlTTERA LICENCI^ FACTA GlLBERTO DE HlLJ.ES ET Hajvioni atte Halle pro CANTARIA FACI- H. 100 b. ENDA. The Chap- ter of Can- terbiirj', as Lords of the Manor, grant a licence permitting a rent and a messuage at Chal- lock to be appro- priated to a new t'bautry in God- niersham fhurch. Noverint universi, etc. quod nos Prior et Capitulum, etc. licenciam dedimus Gilberto atte Helles, quod ipse dare et concedere possit duas marcas annui et per- petui I'edditus in dominio nostro apud Challokc Domino Johanni de Folkyngbam, capellano perpetuae cantarise Beatae Marise in ecclesia de Godmersham noviter ordinatae ; et Hamoni atte Halle, quod ipse dare et concedere possit duo messuagia in Godmersham apud Le Forde, et unum messuagium, centum et quater viginti acrarum terrm, bosci, et pasturse, cum suis pertinenciis, quas de nobis tenet apud Challoke, prgefato Domino Johanni Capellano dictse cantariee ; habenda et tenenda, etc. eidem Johanni capellano ct successoribus suis imperpetuum, per servicia nobis inde debita et consueta ; reddendo etiam nobis annuatim, de dono et consensu dicti Hamonis, ad festa Paschse et Michaelis, in Curia nostra de Godmersham, tres solidos et quatuor denarios de novo redditu, per jequales porciones, pro nostra licencia antedicta ; pro CANTUARIENSKS. 455 as he desires to live holily ; for his heart is wholly dedicated to your House. Most honoured Lord, may God by his mighty power confer upon you a good and a long life ; and, as I have now ventured to ask you this favour, I beg that you will inform me of your will by the bearer of these. Written, &:c. quibus nobis libere licebit distringere, dc consensu ejusdem Hamonis, etc. cum post praedicta festa, etc. aliquid eorundem a retro fuerit, etc. Data apud Cantuariam, in crastino Commemoraciouis Animaruni, anno regni Uegis Edwardi tercii xxxvij^o. 8 Jan. 911. — Prima pr.esentacio cantari^ de Godmersham. „ xi. iUl b. The Chap- Reverendo in Christo patri, etc. Domino Simoni, ^^^> , • 1 whom the etc. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, etc. vestri humiles presenta- et devoti Prior et Capitulum, etc. Ad cantariam ^'gi°^„g perpetuam Beatse Mariae in ecclesia parochiali de God- the terms mersham, etc. noviter ordinatam, ad nostram priesen- ^^^^^^^ tacionem, per ipsius cantarite ordinacioncm, spectantem, tiou deed, dilectum, etc. Johannem de Folkyngham, etc. prsesen- first caiVp-*^ tamus, etc. Data, etc. viij'^° die Januarii, anno Domini to the Godmei- MOCCCOLXIIJ. sham chantry. 456 LlTEU.t: ( 1363.) L. 58 b. The Prior (?) iisks the couute- nance of some influential friend in the in- terest of one of his servants. 912. — LlTTEKA .SUPPLICATOKIA MISSA AMICO TKO KE- GOTIIS SUIS EXPEDIENDIS. DOMINO WALTERO DE AlDESBY. Treseher et tre.sfiable amy, porce qe Janekyn Fro- mont, nostre cher vadlet, portour de y cestes, ad aftkire de vous pur certeignes busoignes qi especiale- ment lui touchent, quieles il vous savera pleinement dire par bouche, droit effectuoussement vous requer- roms, qen meismes les busoignes lui vuillez estre aidant et conseillant, pur lamour de nous ; issint qil puisse entierement sentir qe mieux lui soit par en- cheson de ceste nostre requeste. Et treseher Sire, a mal ne vuillez prendi-e qe nous vous chargeoms taunt, et si sovent, de prieres. Cher Sire et amy, Dieu vous donit sauncte, et joye de quantqe vous amez, ct vo- lunte, bien par temps, visiter le glorious martir Seint Thomas. Escript, etc. (1363.) 913. — Beneficia et largitiones Capituli Ecclesi^ Christi Cantuariens] J. Wymborne clerico. ^ Christi Cantuariensis concessa Magistro Letter of Universis, etc. Robertus permissione divina Prior iik"'"^''^ Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis et ejusdem loci Capi- grauted to tulum, salutem in Domino senipiternam. Beneficio- a secular laroitiones quas nobis Magister Johannes de person wno o -i has been Wymborne, clericus, frater et benefactor noster, fre - the Mouas- quenti devotione contulit nos movent et inducunt, tcry, pro- ^t in retributionem spiritualem sibi respondeamus in k'gafad-^ orationibus devotius astricti. Noveritis igitur, nos viser. concessisse eidem, quod, cum dies vocationis suse nobis innotuerit, officiura solempne f3et pro eo in conventu sicut pro uno Archiepiscopo nostro fieri consuevit, et quilibet sacerdos Ecclesije nostrse cantabit pro eo, CANTUAKIENSES. 457 912. Very dear and right trusty friend, whereas Janekyn Froinont, our dear servant, bearer of these, has business with you on certain matters which especially concern him, which he will be able to tell you plainly by word of mouth ; we beg you most affectionately (?), that, for love of us, you will help and advise him in the said matters ; so that he may with certainty feel that his case is helped through this our request. And, very dear Sieui", do not take it ill that we so much and so often trouble you by asking favours. Dear Sieur and friend, may God give you health and joy to your utmost desire, v.'ith an inclination within a short time to visit the glorious Martyr St. Thomas. Written, &;c. eadera die si fieri potest, vel die altera competentiori, missam specialem ; ceteri vero inferioris ordinis psalmos dicent quinquaginta ; et sic de anno in annum anni- versarii ejus dies in ecclesia nostra imperpetuum cele- brabitur. Concessimus etiam eidera, ut particeps sit omnium bonorum et beneficiorum qufe in nostra fiunt, et imperpetuum fient, Ecclesia. Statuimus etiam, ex singulari devotione, quod nomen ipsius in Martilogio nostro annotabitur, singulis annis recitandum, et sicut pro vino fratre defuncto per totam Angliam deferen- dum ; ut in singulis capitulis religiosorum anima ejus plenius absolvatur. Concessimus etiam eidem, quod die anniversarii sui expendentur in refectorio nostro quadraginta solidos in usus Conventus, quos idem Convenfcus recipiet per manus Custodis anniversari- orum annuatim. In cujus. etc. Dat., etc. Anno, etc. 458 (1363.) 914. — LiTTERA SUPPLICATORIA PRO AMIOO. L. 59 a. rpjjg Trescher Sire et cher amy, nous vous priomps en- Prior (?) tierement de qoer come nous plus poomps, qe a nostre mends a chei' et bien amee clerk James Palmer, portour de friend who cestes, a qi nous sumes grantement tenuz, voilletz estre, suit in par reson de nous, bon Seignur et entier amy, eydaunt, hanfl to gracious, et favorable, de ceo oil ad affaire devers the iudge o ' i ^ (probably VOUS par resoii dun debat parentre lui et le Mestre the Com- ^jg Meson Dieu et Dovorre : issint, trescher Sire, qe missary of . , . the dio- le dit James, parmy vostre graciouse eyde eit reson wiiftry^t^ et favour, et qe soun honur soit sauve, par reson de The com- ceste nostre priere ; car certeynement, Sire, nous osomps described* bien dire et tesmoigner de dit James, qi ad demore as being ovesqe nous plus de ses ditz ' anns a nos robes, qil est the sendee ^^^7^ ^t de bone part, et qil ne soi voleit pleyndre of any of de nulli saunz graunt cause et resonable. Et, trescher the Kent- o- ^ r- • i tj. ish gentry Sire, outre ceo, nous vous lassomps asavoir, qe le dit who have James est auxi come un comun servaunt as touz les the roval bons seignurs et gentz de Kent qi ount affaire en lesche- Exchequer. qjgj, nostre Seignur le Roy, pur quel, trescher Sire, si pleisir vous soit il coment qe vous pregnez sa bosoigne le plus a qoer. Treschere Sire, le Seynt Esprit vous eit toutz jours en sa garde, et. Sire, come nous affioms en vous, nous vous prioms entierement de qoer qe ceste nostre priere voilletz mesner a bon fyn, al honur et profist le dit James, nostre clerk. 12 Jan. — LiTTERA ATTORNATUS EN FrAUNCEYS. 1364. L. 60 b. As toutz ceux qi cestes lettres verront ou orront. The Bailiff Robert par la soeffraunce de Dieu Priour del Esglise and Bedel ' CCS dix annees ? - Lat. Icnix 'i CANTUARIENSES. 459 914. Very dear Sieur and dear friend, we pray you most heartily, as earnestly as we can, that you will, for oiu' sake, be good Lord and true friend to our dear and well beloved clerk James Palmer, bearer of these letters, to whom we are under great obligation ; and be helpful, gracious, and favourable to him in the business which he has to transact before you, in the matter of a con- troversy between him and the Master of the Maison Dieu at Dover ; so that, very dear Sieur, the said James, through your gracious help, may obtain jus- tice and favour ; and that his honour may be saved as a consequence of this our prayer. For truly, Sieur, we venture to say and to testify concerning the said James, who has dwelt with us for more than these ten years as keeper of our wardrobe (?), that he is gentle and well disposed, and that he would never complain of any- one without great and just cause. And, very dear Sieur, besides this, we give you to understand that the said James is as good as a general agent to all the good gentry and the people of Kent when they have business in the Exchequer of Our Lord the King, wherefore, very dear Sieur, may it please you to take his business the more to heart. Very dear Sieur, may the Holy Spirit ever have you in his keeping ; and, Sieur, since we trust so entirely in you, we earnestly pray you from our heart that you will kindly bring this matter to a good end, for the honour and profit of our clerk, the said James. 915. To all those who shall see or hear these letters, Robert by God's permission Piior of the Church of Canterbury 460 LITEll^ of Merst- de Cauntoibirs, salutz en Dieu. Sachcz (jc nous avonis arc cm- ordinez et assignez noz chers en Dieu Johan atte powered to Theghe, nostra Bailliff de Merstham, et Johan Payn, ments due i^ostre Bedel illeosqes, noz attouroez, juntement et Church' ■'^everalment, a demandiei' et recevire argent ou or, par Surrey. acquietaunce, taille, ou endenture, faitz ou levez des ministres le honurable Seignur Counte Darondell, et des autres quecunqes, pur ysor^ as eux venduz en nostre seignurie de Cherlewode en le counte de Surrie ; eiantz frem et estable ceqe les ditz Johan et Johan ferront, ou un de eux ferra, en noun de nous de routes choses susdites. En tesmoignaunce, etc. Donez a Cauntorbirs le xij® jour de Janivoir Ian du reigne le Roi Edward tiers, etc. xxxvij. (1364.) 916. — Petitio facta Domino Regi pek Johannem Clerk" de Apuldre super quibusdam gravaminibus sibi illatis. ^ man of A nostre Seignur le Roi et son Conseil monstre et in a peti- ' sG pleint Johan Clerk de Apuldre, qe come un tionto the Richard atte Reche, Johan son fitz, Thomas Wolblad, King, de- scribes an Willeame Beaufront, Johan Southlond, Thomas ordinary Goldon, Richard Toune, Thomas Bokhurst, Thomas legal dis- ' . . traint upon Benet, Henry atte Wauter, Piers Pikebon, et autres as^H^""*^^ desconuz, le jour del Epiphanie darrain passe, au soir, riotous vindrent a la meson du dit Johan Clerk, en la villc upon'liis Apuldre cl Countec de Kent, et Juliane la femme house. du dit Johan Clerk, et Johanne sa tile, de lour meson traierent, baterent, naufrerent, et malement treterent, les bus des chaumbres de la ditc meson bruserent, et ses biens et chatelx, cestassavoir, chivalx, pores, draps, lynges, emporterent et amenerent, et autres pores ' Sic MS., srr p. 420. CANTUARTENSES. 461 greeting in God. Know ye that we liave appointed and assigned our beloved in God John atte Teghe, our BailifT of Merstham, and John Payn, our Bedel there, to be our attornie.s, jointly and severally, for receiving gold or silver, by way of acquittance, tally, or indenture, made or drawn upon the officers of the honourable Earl of Arundel and all other persons, for iron ore sold to them in our lordship of Cherlewood in the County of Surrey ; undertaking to ratify all that the said John and John, or either of them, shall do in our name, in connexion with the aforesaid matters. 910. To our Lord the King and his Council John Clerk of Appledore showeth, that whereas one Richard atte Reche, John his son, Thomas Wolblad, William Beau- front, John Southlond, Thomas Goldon, Richard Toune, Thomas Bokhurst, Thomas Benet, Henry atte Wauter, Peter Pikebon, and other persons unknown, on last Epiphany day, in the evening, came to the dwelling of the said John Clerk, in the town of Apjdedore in the County of Kent, and dragged Juliana the wife of the said John Clerk, and Joan his daughter, from their house, beat, wounded, and maltreated them ; broke the doors of the rooms of the said house, and carried off and led away his goods and chattels, that is to say, horses, hogs, cloth, (and) linen ; and other hogs they killed, and 462 LITERS tuwerent, et antres diverses choses et chatelx erapov- terent; a damage du dit Johan de cent livres ; pleise a nostre dit Seignur le Roy et son Conseil, pur les dites persones maundier destre devant vous a ve- spoundre au dit Johan de la matiere susdite, et de faire restitucion de ses biens avantditz, ensemblement ove les damages qeux il ad eu et soeffevt par cause del dit trespas. 15 Feb. 917. — LiTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO PRIORI PER CON- (136'1)- STABULARIUM CaSTRI DE DOVOR TANGENS L. 57 h. PETITIONEM SUPRADICTAM. The Con- Honurez Sire, voillez savoir qe un Johan Clei'k de stable of Apuldre, portour dicestes, ad de jour en autre pur- Castle as suwy a nostre Seignur le Roy et a son Conseil, a the King's ceste parlement a Westmoustier, fesant tresgrant tive,^has*'*" pleinte de certeins gentz de Apuldre de vostre sei- been or- gnurie, de certeins trespas faites a lui et a sa femme, dered to . . . . enquire come pluis pleinement piert en une bille ; la quelle into the -bille nostre dit Seignur le Roy mad mandez encloz above- ° Z mentioned demz ses lettres desouz son pnve seall a moy directes, not, but, as commandant de lures fayre pleine droit et acomplice- tbe scene . . i i is iu the ment de justice en ceo cas, solunc ceo qe ley et Convent^ reson demandont, parens! qils naveront matere de he declines lurs pluis pleindre pur defaute de droit. Et, Sire, fere°*^'' P^^ cause qe le lieu, ou ils soi pleinent le trespas a eux estre fait, est deinz vostre franchise, de qi jeo ne vorroi nuUement prendre jurisdiction a moi par mon office, pur chose[s] qi purront estre prejudice a vostre franchise, sil ne serroit en defaute de droit ; vous envoi loure dite bille encloz deinz cestes, quelle voillez survier, et sur ceo commander a voz ministres [de] celles parties leurs faire pleine droit, si qe greindre clamour de ceo ne vieg-ne a nostre dit CANTUARIENSES. 463 clivers other things they carried away ; to the damage of the said John to the amount of a hundred pounds ; may it please our said Lord the King and his Council to command the said persons to appear befor you, to answer the said John in the aforesaid matter and to make restitution of his goods aforesaid, together with the damages which he has had and suffered by reason of the said trespass. 917. My honoured Lord, be pleased to learn that one John Clerk of Appledore, bearer of these letters, has from da}' to day importuned the King and his Council in this present parliament at Westminster, raising a great com- plaint against certain men of Appledore, in your domain, in the matter of certain trespasses committed upon him and his wife, as more fully appears in his petition ; which petition our said Lord the King has sent to mo enclosed in letters directed to me under his privy seal, commanding me to do them full right and complete justice, such as law and reason demand, so that they may no more have grounds for complaint through de- fault of law. And, my Lord, seeing that the place wherein they complain the trespass was committed upon them is within your franchise, in which I would by no means assume jurisdiction by reason of my office, on account of matters which might be prejudicial to your liberties, even if it were not contrary to law ; I send you their said petition enclosed in these letters, which please to inspect, and thereupon to command your officials in those parts to do them full right, so that no farther complaint may come to our said Lord the King in the 404 LITERS Seignur le Roy. Honuve Sire, Dieu vous voille tonz garder. Escript au Chastel fie Dover xv jour de Fcverier. (1364.) 918. — LiTTERA RESPONSORIA PRiEFATO CONSTABULARIO L. 57 b. SUPER MATERIA PROXIMA PR^SCRIPTA. The Prior Trescher Sire et tresfiable amy, vous plese savoir assures the ' ^ Constable qe nous resceumes voz lettres nadgaires, pur un Johan distraint ^^^^^ et Juliane sa famine, pur tort et damage as mentioned eux fait, auxibien par noz ministres, com par noz preceding:*' ^^nauntz de Apuldre, sicom ils desount ; pur qei vous letters was nous mandastes et consailastes pur mailour, qe nous withair*^ feissouns droit eb resoun as ditz Johan et Juliane legal pro- de damage as eux fait ; et ce par commandement that*he has nostre Seignur le Roy. Si vous plese entendre dc caused all eertein, qe nous avoms fait deliverer as eux toutes the chattels , • , i i i i i which the choses qils savoient demander ou chalenger par tes- petitioner moignauHce de bones gentz du pays ; sachantz, cher can legally . ° . * . claim to be Sire, de verite, qe lar[r]est ^ et proces faitz en nostre restored to Qourt de Apuldre countre le dit Johan et sa femme, si furent faitz par ley de la terre, et ce en lour tort, sicom nous sumes enformez par noz ministres. Et si avoms, cher Sire, acomplys ' vostre commaundement, a reverence de nostre Seignur le Roy et de vous ; si vous requerroms, trescher Sire, qe vous voillez avoir recommande nostre Esgiise de Cauntorbirs, qest vostre miere Esgiise, et ses fraunchises, sauvauntz toutes foiz vostre honur et justice. A Dieu. 7 Apr. 919. — Per Episcopum Wyntoniensem pro uno peta- GOGO SCOLAS EXERCENDO. L. 59 h. The Bishop Domine et amice in Christo carissime ; amicitise lex che^er ^docet ei consultissime vulnerum incommoda detegi qui la rpxt. MS. I - " rnnip/i/.'t. MS. CANTUARIENSES. 405 matter. My honoured Lord, may God deign to keep you all. Written at the Castle of Dover the 15th of Feh]'uary. 918. Very dear Lord and most trusty friend, please to imderstand that we have lately received your letters on behalf of one John Clerk and his wife Juliana, relating to wrong and damage done to them as well by our officials as by our tenants of Appledore, as they allege ; wherefore you have directed and advised us, as for the best, that we should do right and reason to the said John and Juliana for the damage done to them, and this by command of our Lord the King. Now, please to understand certainly, that we have caused to be delivered to them everything which they can in any way demand or claim by tlie testimony of the good men of the place ; being assured. Our dear Lord, that of a verity the distraint and process awarded in our (Manor) Court of Appledore, against the said John and his wife, were so awarded by the law of the land, they being in the wrong, as our officials tell us. And thus, Our dear Lord, we have fulfilled your com- mand with all respect to our Lord the King and to you ; and so we beg you, Our very dear Lord, that you will favourably remember our Church of Canterbury (which is your own Mother Church) and her liberties, always without prejudice to your honour and justice. opem adhibet seu medelam, et in opportunitatibus asks the suffragia expetit amicorum. Sane, referentibus nobis i^"the new dilectis filiis parochianis nostris Villaj de Kyngeston, School- pridera accepimus, quod ipsi mformatore seu magistro Kingston- puerorum eorundem, et aliorum in dictam villam ubi on-Thames. U 52122. G G 466 LITERS have the consueverant scoIib cxercci i confluentium, tsediose ^Wcii^the carentes, cum quodam Hugone de Kyngeston, clerico, Almoner of de dicta villa oriundo, nuper scolarium in domo Ele- Church has i^iosinarioe vestrte dignemini/ sicut dicitur, pedagogo, detainpci in ut informationi et doctrinse dictorum puerorum et th^School- aliorum scolarium in dicta villa intenderet, et seolas master publicas gubernai'et, primo circiter festum Sancti gagecfhim- Micliaelis, et postmodum in festo Natalis Domini self to the proximo prpeterito, conventionem fecerunt et pactum Almonry ... . Schooi.and fidele inierunt, dicti Hugonis fidei datione vallata ; in^'ief^^' dietus Hugo, in nostra prfesentia constitutus et without ad Sancta Dei Evangelia juratus, publice fatebatur ; giving pro- Qfferens se praeraissa omnia fideliter impleturum. per notice. ^ >■ Verum cum vester commonachus, Elemosinarius domus vestrse prsedictEe, de dicti Hugonis recessu ut accepi- mus anxius et molestus, qusedam ejusdem bona modica arrestaverit seu sequestraverit, et ea detinuerit seques- trata, credens per hoc ipsum Hugonem ad sua obsequia revocare, vestram paternitatem, amicitiae de cujus in- tegritate fiduciam indubiam reportamus, requirimus et rogamus, quatinus dictum Elemosinarium salutari- bus monitionibus dignemini prjecipere, ut dicto Hu- goni, vel harum bajulo nomine sue, praefata bona restitui et liberari faciat, et eundem Hugonem super non-redditu suo habere velit propentius excusatum ; advertentes, si placet, quod de jure creandi sunt de vico populi magistratus, et de eodem loco dandi sunt populi vinitores. Et si quas penes nos volueritis ves- tra beneplacita fiducialiter nuntietis. Tribuad ^ vobis Omnipotens in omni prosperitate vitam incolumem et lingneam.^ Scriptum apud Essche vijo die mensis Aprilis. • digno ? " sic, MS •* longam ? CANTUARIENSES. 467 920. — Processus electionis Prioriss^ Sancti Se- ' J Mar. ^ ^ 13GG. PULCRI CANTUARIENSIS, FACTyE PER DOMINUM R. Priorem Ecclesi^ Christi Cantuariensis, ^" ^' PER COMMISSIONEM SIBI DIRECTAM PER DOMI- NUM S. Archiepiscopum. Venerabili in Christo patri ac domino, Domino Si- The Prior moni Dei gratia Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, etc. vaster [i^c^X'rch" humilis et devotus Robertus Prior Ecclesiae vestrse Wshoptimt, Cantuariensis, obedientiam, reverentiam, pariter et (Hence to honorem debitos tanto patri. Vestrse reverendse pater- his man- nitatis mandatum nuper recepi, tenorem continens selected sub.sequentem : "Simon permissionc divina Cantua- '^^^ in- riensis Archiepiscopus, etc. dilecto filio Fratri Roberto prioress of Priori Ecclesiae nostrae Cantuariensis, salutem, gra- f'^i^o ' . . vent of St. tiam, et benedictionem. Cum nuper Suppriorissa et Sepulchre, Conventus monialium Ecclesiae nostrte Sancti Se- ^^^y''^'^" pulcri Cantuaria?, ordinis Sancti Benedicti, nostri ^^^^ patronatus, per liberam resignationem Dominse Ce- bishop's cilice de Tonford ultimre Priorissse eiusdem, in raanus ™<'*°'i^te ' , recited. nostras factam, et per nos acceptam, vacantis, ad eligendum idoneam personam in Priorissam dictfe Ecclesige, hac vacationis vice, et earn ipsi Ecclesise ac dicto Conventui et personis ejusdem, per nos seu alium, canonice providendi de eadem plenam et liberam nobis concesserint, et in nos unanimiter, nulla contradicente, transtulerint potestatem ; vobis, de cujus circumspectione et puritate consciencise plenam in Domino fiduciam obtinemus, ad eligendum personam idoneam de Conventu supradicto in Prio- rissam Ecclesiae antedicttje, sic vacantis, et eidem Ecclesiae et Conventui ejusdem providendi canonice de eadem, ipsamque personam sic electam in Prio- rissam ejusdem Ecclesise confirmandi, et prsefici- cndi, et cam in sede sua ponendi, et installandi, ac in corporalem possessionem dicti prioratus in- ducendi, sive induci demandandi, et ipsam sic in- G G 2 r 468 LlTERiE ductam defendendi, necnon alia omnia ct sin- gula in prsemissis, et circa ea necessaria sen oppor- tuna, cum suis emergentibus, dependentibus, et connexis, faciendi, expediendi, et exercendi, etiam si mandatum exigant speciale, committimus vices nostras et plenam potestatem ; raandantes quod, ex- pedite negotio memorato, nos de toto processu ves- tro habito in hac parte curetis clare et distincte reddere certiores, per litteras vestras patentes harum seriem continentes. Data apud Magliefeld, xjo ka- lendas Marcii anno Domini MocccoLXvto, et nostraj The Prior's ^(^j-^ggppg^^jQj-^jg xvii"." Huius igitur vestri mandati report re- . V • ?i i • r, • n suined. auctontate, ad prioratum sive Lcclesiam bancti be- pulcri antedictam personaliter accedens, omnibus et sin- gulis monialibus dictae Ecclesipe, ut prtemittitur vacantis, in domo capitulari ejusdem, v^o nonas Marcii proximo pi'jeterito, coram me .personaliter constitutis, Johannam de Chiriton, monialem et sororem in eadem Ecclesia expresse professam, et personam utique providam ct honestam in spivitualibus, et temporalibus circum- spectam, retatis legitimje, et de matrimonio legitimo procreatam, et talem cui nichil de canonicis in hac pai'te pro tunc obviabat institutis, ceteris omnibus et singulis quae de jure sive consuetudine requirebantur in hac parte coneurrentibus, in Priorissam prioratus sive Ecclesiffi prffidictje, Spiritus Sancti gratia pri- mitus invocata, elegi, nviUaque ipsarum monialium in hac parte opponente sen contradicente quovismodo; contirmavi, _ et prtefeci tunc ibidem, ac dictis prioratui et conventui, necnon personis in eisdem existentibus providi de eadem, administrationemque dicti prioratus sive Ecclesire in spiritualibus et temporalibus eidem plenarie commisi, subsequenterque eandem in sua sede posui et installavi, ac in corporalem possessionem dic- torum ^ prioratus sive ecclesire induxi, et ipsam sic in- ductam defendam in futurum juxta vires. Et «ic • sic, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 4U9 vestree paternitatis reverendge mandatum reverenter sum executus in prcemissis. Data Cantuarise, sub sigillo prioratus Ecclesias vestrse Cantuariensis prae- dictae, vt" idus Marcii, anno Domini supradicto. 921. — DeCRETUM ELECTIONIS PPJORISSiE SUPRADICTyE. Tn Dei nomine : Amen. Cum imper vacante Mo- nasterio sive Ecclesia monialium Sancti Sepulcri Cantuariensis, ordinis Sancti Benedicti, per liberam The Prior's resignationem Dominre Cecilia^ de Thoneford, ultimae augstiJf,,^ Priorissge ejusdem, in manibus venerabilis patris the facts of Domini Simonis Dei gratia Cantuariensis Ai'chiepi- j.gported'^' scopi, sponte factam, et per ipsum venerabilem patrem election, postmodum acceptatam, Suppriorissa et totus Con- ventus dicti monasterii sive Ecclesiae et singulae personse ejusdem, ad eligendum et praeficiendum, per se vel alium, certam et idoneam personam, de gremio praedicti monasterii sive Eccles'.ae, in Priorissam ejusdem, et cidem monasterio et personis ac conventui ejusdem canonice providendum de eadem, pro ea vacationis vice, plenam et liberam, unaniraiter et singillatim, ^ transtulerint et concesserint potestatem, nulla earum reclamante, seu renitente, aut contradicente qualiter- cunque ; dictusque venerabilis pater subsequenter nobis, Fratri Roberto permissione divina Priori Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis, ad eligendum [et] ])r8eficiendum certam personam hujusmodi in Prioris- sam dicti monasterii sive Ecclesiae, et eidem monasterio sive Ecclesiffi providendi canonice de eadem, cetera- que omnia et singula in liac parte necessaria vel opportuna, cum suis emergentibus, dependentibus, et connexis, faciendi, exequendi, et expediendi, speci- aliter dederit in mandatis, et nobis commiserit vices suas et sufficientem potestatem, prout per com- raissionem ipsius patris nobis inde factam apparet manifeste. Nos volentes mandatum dicti patris nobis in hac parte factum, et commissionem hujusmodi, 1 eidem Domino Archiepiscopo is wanting here. 470 TJTERiE exequi, efc utilitati dicti monasterii sivc Ecclesise, ut pra^mittitur vacantis, ct personis ac conventui pra;- dictis de persona hujusmodi et Priorissa utiliter, per Dei gratiam, providere, ut tenemur, Dominam Johan- nam Chyryton dicti monasterii monialem et sororem, in eadem expresse professam, personam utiquc pro- vidam et honestam in temporalibus, et spiritualibus circumspectam, de matrimonio legitimo susceptam, et talem cui nicliil de canonieis in hac parte obviat institutis, in Priorissani dicti monasterii sive Ecclesite Sancti Sepulcri et ejusdem loci conventus, vice et auctoritate dicti venerabilis patris nobis, ut priemitti- tur, commissis, eligimus, prteficimus, ac dictis monasterio et conventui et personis ejusdem providi- mus de eadem, administrationemque dicti monasterii sive Ecclesiie, tarn in spiritualibus quam ^ temporalibus, eidem plenarie committimus per prsesentes. 24 Api. 922. — Recompensacio ecclesiarum Londoniis Domino 1365. Archiepiscopo a nobis facta. H. 63. The Arch- Omnibus, etc. Robertus permissione divina Prior haviug re- Ecclesite Christi, etc. Noverit universitas vestra, quod stored to^ q^^^ venerabilis in Christo pater Dominus Simon Dei of Christ gratia Cantuariensis Arcbiepiscopus, nobis et Ecclesise Ctiurch jhe nostrss hactcnus benevolus fuerit atque plus, multaque of the beneficia nobis contulerit, praesertim ex hoc, quod ipse S^Eastry ^.dvocaciones ecclesiarum de Estry et de Mouketon, quje and Monk- olim nobis pro elemosinaria nostra et ipsi elemosinarije which^for app^opriatse fuerant, una cum capellis eisdem ecclesiis many years annexis, et dependcntibus ab eisdem, quas nonnuUi prse- cessors*^^" dcccssores sui, aliquibus temporibus, sicut eis placuit had de- tenuerunt, et ipsas ecclesias clericis suis contulerunt, themt the medietates fructuum ipsarum ipsis clericis suis » et, MS. CANTUAKIENSES. 471 assignarunt, ipsique cleiici sui easdem medietates Chapter, in aliquamdiu perceperunt, habuerunt, et tenuerunt, aliis pe^°™'i,y medietatibus dictarum ecclesiarum penes nos et dictam this deed elemosinariam nostram semper hactenus a tempore ||rch-° dictse appropriacionis pacifice remanentibus, nobis et bishop tiie Conventui nostro et elemosinarije prredictse, ad usus orthree^^ ejusdem, px'o uberiore sustentacione ejusdem, recepta -"^j^"'^^" primitus super hiis informacione debita et sufBciente, reserving' de licencia et assensu excellentissimi Principis Domini to them- StjlvGS Edwardi Dei gratia Regis, etc., plene restituerit, re- the pen- dintegraverit, et readiunxerit ; habendas et tenendas P'"*^ . . . from these nobis et successoribus nostris, pro elemosmaria praB- churches dicta et ad usus ejusdem, bene et quiete imperpetuum, ^F^™ ^^"^ adeo plene et integraliter sicut eas unquam habuimus et tenuimus a tempore appropriacionis prsedict® ; prout heec omnia liquent per litteras ejusdem reverendissimi patris nostri et Domini Regis super hiis plenius con- fectas. Nos vero ad prsemissa consideracionem ha- bentes, quanquam idem pater justiciam meram et debitam nobis in praemissis fecerit, tamen ne ipse per labia semulorum detractorum aliquorum videatur aut censeatur sme dignitati archiepiscopali, per concessio- nem et redintegracionem suas hujusmodi, in aliquo derogare; nos, tractatu diligenti super hiis praehabito, et Capitulo nostro propterea specialiter evocato, de consensu nostro unanimi et assensu, intervenientibus omnibus qui in hoc casu de jure seu consuetudine requiruntur, advocaciones ecclesiarum Sancti Pancratii, Sancti Dunstani, et Omnium Sanctorum in Bredstrete Londoniarum, quse jam ad nos pertinent, de licencia domini nostri Regis et assensu, eidem venerabili patri et successoribus suis imperpetuum, in recompensacionem aliqualem dictorum beneficiorum, pro nobis et suc- cessoribus nostris concedimus per prpesentes; habendas et tenendas eidem venerabili patri et successoribus suis, de dicto domino nostro Rege et heredibus suis per servicia inde debita et consueta : sal vis nobis et 472 LITERjK successoribus nostri>s imperpetuum pensionibus, quas ab eisdem ecclesiis percipimus et percepimus ^ ab an- tiqiio. Eb nos Prior et Capitulum et successores nos- tri prfefatas advocaciones, quamdiu dicta? ecclesiaj de Estry et de Monketou elemosinarise nostrse remanserint integi'e et pacifice reannexge, prsedictis venerabilibus patribus contra omnes gentes warrantizabiniiis et de- fendemus imperpetuum per prsesentes. Data in Ca- pitido nostro, sub sigillo nostro communi, vicesimo quarto _ die Aprilis, anno Domini M°CCC^° sexagesimo quinto. ^136*5!' 923. — [De Ecclesiis de Estry et Monketon Ecclesi^ 11^ 64 ^_ Christi restitutis.] rial^act*by Universis, etc. Simon permissione divina Cantua- which riensis Arcliiepiscopus, etc. salutem, etc. Ad noticiam bishop vestram, etc. deducimus et volumus pervenire, quod, Islip re- (j^g^ cum dudum religiosi et reverendi viri Prior et stores to the Chap- Capitulum Ecclesise Christi, etc. quandam peticionem, terthead- g^g_ nobis, etc. fecerint, formam qu86 sequitur conti- vowsons ' ^ _ of the nentem : " SimiScat reverendo in Christo patri Simoni, Eastry and coram ipso in forma juris proponit procurator, Monkton, etc. Prioris et Capituli, etc. quod olira, citra tempus same'^time oi^moria', ecclesia? parochiales de Eastri et Monke- appro- tone, vestrse Cantuariensis dicBcesis, per quemdam theofat memoriae Bicardum, prsedecessorem vestrum, the first cum capellis eisdem annexis ac omnibus juribus et to^he*^"^^ pertinenciis elemosinarise ipsorum Prioris et Capituli, Monastery, pj.Q gg, ac ad uberiorem sustentacionem pauperum He notices ■"• the patron- ibidem confluencium, fuerant canonice appropriataj ; (fity*'^*^^ quae quidem appropriaciones subsequenter extiterant churches per diversos Summos Pontifices ex certa sciencia et given to simpliciter confirmatee. "Vigore quarum appropria- percipiemus, MS. CANTUABIENSES. 473 cionura cfc confirmacionum iidem^ Religiosi, in bim supportaclonem officii elemosinariaR prredictse, easdcm pg^i^^by ecclesias sic appropriatas per nonnuUa tempora tenu- the Chap- eruufc paclfice et (j^uiete, usque ad tempus cujusdam l^^' ^ . Baldwini, prsedecessoris vestri, qui vir erat magnas petition re potencies tarn secularis quam spiritualis, et qunsdam maneria ad mensam dictoruin lleligiosoruui spec- tancia, et una cum eis dictas ecclesias, virtute potencite sute bujusmodi, ad manus suas recepit ; proniittens dictis Priori et Capitulo, quod in suis necessariis, eo quod temporibus illis nimium simplices fuerant et pauperes, eis paterno more compaciens ut dicebat, sufficienter exhiberet. Set ipse, promis- sionis suae quasi immemor et eandem negligens observare, ipsis Religiosis tantse egestati supposuit et supponi permisit, ut fere deficerent, non habentcs quid manducarent seu unde alia eis incumbencia onera supportarent. Unde iidem Religiosi, necessi- tate ac egestate compulsi, ad audienciain felicis recordacionis Urbani tunc Summi Pontificis ob dicta gravamina appellarunt ; prjesertim cum ipse Archi- episcopus nec promissionem suam implere curavit, nec restitucionem facere de maneriis et ecclesiis sic per eum occupatis, congrue et cum instancia dcbita requisitus. Idemque Dominus Papa, dictis Reli- giosis paterno compaciens afFectu,- peticioni eorum, tanquam justre, favorabiliter annuens, dicto Do- mino Archiepiscopo suis litteris demandavit ut eisdem Religiosis dictas ecclesias restitueret, ct illis nullam molestiam occasione appellacionis eorun- dem inferret ; tandemquc commisit potestatem qui- busdam judicibus delegatis, quatinus eumdem Balde- winum Arcliiepiscopum monerent et inducerent ad hujusmodi restitucionem debite faciendam. Subse- quenter, litteris et mandatis Apostolicis hujusmodi ' idem, MS. I ' effectti, MSS. 474 L1TER.E minime executis, uichilominus prjefati monachi in sua simplicitate permanentes et in una paupertate depress!, contra dictum Archiepiscopum, tarn poten- tem et arnicis secularibus constipatum, non audebant ulterius procedere, sed, intervenientibus amicis qui plus Archiepiscopo favebant quam Keligiosis, ne deterius eis contingeret verbotenus promiserunt quod starent dicti Archiepiscopi judicio in prsemissis, idem Archiepiscopus maneria sic occupata per eumdem restituit, sed collacionem dictarum ecclesiarum, non obstantibus prsemissis, penes se retinuit et medieta- tem fructuum utriusque ecclesife dictis Keligiosis pi'o elemosinaria prajdicta reliquit ; reliquam vero medieta- tem eciam utriusque ecclesite suis clericis, per eum- dem in dictis ecclesiis institutis sicut sibi placuit, assignavit, cujus facto hujusmodi, licet injusto, dicti Religiosi, ipsius Archiepiscopi potenciam perhorres- centes, pro tunc expresse contradicere non audebant. Successoresque ejusdem Baldewini, Ai-chiepiscopi Cantuarienses, hujusmodi promissionis non ignari, possessionem ejusdem Baldewini violentam ^ et vici- osam, ipsius vicio non purgato, continuarunt, dicti- que monachi, propter suam simplicitatem nimiam, et propter dominacionem et potenciam suorum prpefatorum Archiepiscoporum, hactenus eis displicere non audentes,^ possessionem hujusmodi toUerarunt, nullum consensum sen assensum prjsmissis liberum adhibendo tacite vel expresse, set de dissensu et contraria voluntate ipsorum sufficienter et seepius, quatenus ausi fuerant, protestando. Unde supplicat paternitati vestrse reverendse procurator prsedictus, etc. propter timorem divinum et justiciam quam tenemini singulis vestris subditis exhibere, quatinus dignemini super prsemissis vos debite informare, sufficientique super prsemissis, pro parte ipsorum Religiosorum, vobis fide facta, easdem ecclesias ad violenciam, MS. ^ audencium, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 475 dictos Prioreni et Capitulum officiumque elemosina- rise prgedictee pertinuisse, pertinere, et pertinere debere, ipsosque et dictam elemosinariam suam ad statum et possessionem quern et quam habuerunt in dictis ecclesiis, sicut pi-aemittitur, reducendos et res- tituendos fore, et ab impeticione, impedimento, sen molestacione eorundem Prioris et Capituli sive officii elemosinaiiEB prsedictsa circa prsemissa, tarn per vos quam per quoscumque successores vestros, desis- tendum et omnino cessandum fore, sentencialiter et diffinitive pronunciare et declarare, cessareque et desistere cum effectu, et ulterius, juxta probanda et producenda coram vobis omnia et singula contra ipsos in hac parte indebite attemptata, eisdeni redin- tegrare ac plenam justiciam facei'e in prtemissis cum favore, etc." Nos vero peticionem et proposicionem jj-g^op'r^ ipsas diligenter considerantes, et advertentes per letters re- ipsarum effectum dignitati nostras archiepiscopali ex parte una jacturam non modicam imminere, quantum ad collaciones et provisiones dictarum ecclesiarum de Estry et Monketone, in quarum possessione nos et prgedecessores nostri a longis temporibus fueramus, quse possessio nobis in dictis ecclesiis titulum canoni- cum tribuere videbatur ; et ex altera parte, scilicet Prioris et Capituli nostri, perpendimus evidenter, per preces eorum, tantam vim et violenciam suis prse- decessoribus, in dictis ecclesiis et circa eas, in im- mutacionem status eorum quem habuerunt in eisdem, et ipsis illatas, quod durante dicta violencia et occu- pacione injustis, ipsis non sanatis, nec aliqua bona fide, qum Archiepiscopis titulum aliquem tribuere potuerit, superveniente, set semper possessione hujus- modi injusta, per dictum Baldewinum et suos succes- sores, jure potestatis et dominacionis suse, quas super dictum Capitulum habuerant hactenus continuata, nulla prsescripcio vel longa possessio ipsis Archiepi- scopis, quoad collaciones et provisiones dictarum 476 LITERS ecclesiarum, de jure valere poterat aut prode.sse. Quocirca volentes eis justiciam debifcam exhibere, et dignitati nostrse Arcliiepiscopali de saluberiori remedio caucius providere, super contentis in dicta peticionc ; vocatis in hac parte vocandis, et specialiter rectoribus ipsarum ecclesiarum posscssioni earundem incumbenti- bus, et omnibus aliis in geuere quorum intererat vel interesse poterat, coram nobis comparentibus, vicibus iteratis, nec aliquo alio cujus interesse poterat coram nobis comparente, nulloque ipsorum aliquod canonicum quod peticiouem dictorum Religiosorum absorbere seu excludei'e potei'at aliqualiter proponente ; pro- ductisque, per partem ipsorum Religiosorum,. non- nuUis testibus, et ipsis in forma juris receptis, juratis, et examinatis ; exhibitisque postmodum pro palate ipsorum Religiosorum rescriptis ])apalibus, et litteris prfedecessorum nostrorum eorum sigillis in hac parte consignatis ut prima facie videbatur, et aliis instrumentis, ac documentis variis, registrisque publicis, ad quem recursus haberi solebat tanquam ad publica et necessaria documenta, sicut in hac parte legitime dictum ^ fuerat coram nobis ; attestacionibusque dic- torum testium et omnibus aliis exhibitis et i)roductiR, per nos rite et legitime publicatis, ct copia eorum, tam dictis rectoribus in specie quam cuicumque alteri cujus interesse poterat in genere, publice [et] solempniter per nos decreta, nichilquo contra ipsa aut eorum ali- quod per aliquem dicto seu proposito ; sed tandem in dicto negocio per nos concluso, et via quicquam ulte- rius proponendi omnibus, tam in specie quam in ger.ere, per decretum nostrum judicialiter pneclusa, etc. tandem ad sentencia^ nostrfe prolacionem et diffinicionem The Arch- finalem procedimus, in hunc modum. Quia invenimus bishop's pgj. acta exhibita et probata nobis dictas ecclesias cie sentence • . • . Estry et de Monketone, cum capellis sibi annexis ac suis ' doctum, MS. CANTUARIENSES. 477 I'uribus universis sicut in peticionc praadicta plenius continetur, dictis Priori et Capitulo fuisse et esse, ad iisum elemosinarire prjedictre canonice appi'opriatas, et ipsos Priorem et Capituluni per quemdam Balde- winum prjBdecessorem nostrum, cujus potencise et dominacioni dicti Religiosi, pro tunc pauperes et sim- plices, resistere non poteraut nec audebant, per vim et potenciam suam, dictis ecclesiis spoliatos fuisse, in quarum possessione canonica tunc fue- rant, prout satis liquet per prseinissa exhibita et producta, et possessionem hujusmodi violentam nun- quam purgatam fuisse, set semper hucusque, sic viciose, continuatam, prout narratur in peticione pr^dicta : idcirco prsedictas ecclesias de Estry et Monketone (cum pertinenciis) ad dictos religiosos viros Priorem et Capitulum Ecclesite nostrte prsedictse, officiumque ele- mosinarite ejusdem, virtute appropriacionis supradictte et confirmacionum inde habitarum, pertinuisse et per- tinere debere, dictosque Reb'giosos restituendos fore et reducendos ad jus et possessionem quod et quam in dictis ecclesiis habuerunt, tempore dicti Baldewini et ante, prsesertim bonre memoria3 Ricardi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi qui dictas ecclesias prjefatis Priori et Capitulo dedit et concessit in usus proprios, ut prte- fertur, ipsosque in jure et possessione hujusmodi tuendos fore, sentencialitei- et diffinitive promuiciamus, decernimus, et declaramus ; et ipsos quantum in nobis est ad statum eundem reducimus et restituimus per decretum. Ita quod cedentibus vel decedentibus rec- toribus dictarum ecclesiaruip, qui nunc sunt, liceat prsedictis Priori et Capitulo, per se seu alios vel alium eoruna nomine, ecclesias prsedictas, etc. et corporalem possessionem earundem libere ingredi, intrare, et ad- quirere, et eas, etc. in proprios usus retinei'e ; necnon fructus et proventus omnes et omnimodos eorum in- tegre habere et percipere imperpetuum, et de eisdem libere disponere, pro usu elemosinarise supradictte; 478 LITERS nostra et successorum nostrorum reclaraacione non obstante. Ad quce quidem facienda et exercenda ipsis religiosis viris tenore prsesencium plenam et liberam coneedimus facultatem et licenciam specialem, reservata nobis et successoribus nostris libera facultate vicarias et porciones ipsis congruentss, cum rectores ipsarum ec- clesiarum eisdem cesserint vel ipsi decesserint, taxandi, statuendi, et ordinandi, quarum vicariarura collaciones et provisiones nobis et successoribus nostris, jure per- petuo, volumus et decernimus pertinere. Et ut nulli successorum nostrorum decetero materia [sit] con- querendi seu murmurandi, iidem Prior et Capitulum nobis et successoribus nostris advocaciones ecelesiarum Sanctorum Pancracii, Dunstani, et Omnium Sanctorum in Bredstrete London, licencia regia prreoptenta, suis sumptibus et expensis, liberaliter perpetuo concesserint, etc., etc.^ Data et acta in nostro manerio de Maghe- feld anno Domini MocccoLXvto mensis Octobris die decimo. 924. — LiTTEKA DIRECTA DOMINO PHILIPPO ReGI FRAN- CIS SUPER VINEIS N0STRIS.2 1367. Petition to Phillippe VI. plead- ing the discontin nance of the gift of the Wine of St. Tho- mas, and Excellentissimo principi Domino Philippo Dei gratia Eeo-i Francite illustri, sui humiles et devoti Eobertus Prior Ecclesise Christi Cantuariensis et ejusdem loci Ca- pitulum, orationum suffragia devotarum. Celebris memo- rise Dominus Ludowycus, quondam Rex Francise,^ praa- decessor vester, ob devotionem sanctam et dilectionem 1 The remainder of the record is made up of a copy of the Commis- sion of the Proctor of the Chapter, certified by the notary who com- posed the act, and of the usual wordy notarial attestations, all of which, being matters of common form, are here omitted. - Foreseeing the rupture of the seven years peace which followed the convention of Bretigny, the Prior sent the petition here printed, and caused copies of the most im- portant charters to be furnished to the French King, at the same time inserting transcripts in his register. 3 Louis VII. CANTUARIENSES. 479 sinceram quas habuit ad beatura ct gloriosum martirem asking for Thomam, dudum dictoe Ecclesire nostrre Arcbicpiscopum, tion.^^"™'' nobis et Ecclesia; nostrfe prfedictre centum modios vini, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, in castellaria Pissi- aci percipiendos, libere annuatim concessit. Et licet sse- pius nuntios nostros pro hujusmodi vinis recipiendis miserimus speciales, propter tamen guerrarum dispendia ab ipsorum perceptione fuimus ct sumus per decern an- nos vel circiter totaliter impediti. Quocirca, Serenitati vestrte regiae bumiliter supplicamus, quatinus, pro amore et bonore dicti martiris gloriosi, praecipere dig- netur vestris ministris ibidem, iit de arreragiis dic- torum centum modiorum vini de dictis decern annis proximis prseteritis a retro existentibus, sine morse majoris dispendio, nobis satisfacere non omittant. In- venimus enim quod bonee memorise excellentissimus princeps Dominus Philippus quondam Rex Franciee/ prsedecessor vester, pro dampnis et arreragiis dictorum centum modiorum vini per quatuor annos a retro existentibus, tempore guerrse mot^ inter ipsum et Regem Anglise pro terra Vasconise, dedit nobis cc. li- bras turonenses, et fecit efficaciter liberai'i. Et quam- vis per decern annos prsedictos vina non percepimus cum efFectu, non tamen eessavimus, nec in prsesenti cessamus, pro pace et incolumitate vestra Deo et dicto Martiri preces efFundere speciales, qui Celsitudinem vestram regiam prospere dirigant et conservent. Data in Capitulo nostro, etc. 925. — LiTTERA CREDENCIiE AMICO DIRECTA PRO HUJUS- (1367.) MODI NEGOTIIS EXPEDIENDIS. t L. 96 a. Amice karissime, de statu vestro scire prospera The Prior cupientes, mittimus ad vos dilectum doraicellum ves- 'V'^^'^^®' trum et nostrum Simonem Monyn, latorem prsesentium, monk of > Philippe IV. 480 LITERS St. Denys qui vobis ex parte nostra oretenus aliqua specialiter favour *he i^^timabit ; cui credere velitis, si placet, in prsemissis, has before et plenam fiduciam adhibere. Et scire velitis, quod vTitten to , •! • • • • • • x-k • T>i • the Abbot) I'everenter sci"ibimus serenissimo pnncipi Uommo rni- to use his lippo Regi Francice, pro vinis nosfcris in Francia, et influence in .. , , . . , , m , the matter arrcragiis eorundem aretro jam dm existentibus, prout oj]^^*^ ^'""5 later praesentium plenius vobis dicet, et similiter Do- Thomas, mino Abbati vestro, ut liuraanius nostra negotia erga dictum Dominum Regem efficaciter promoveret. Unde vestram amicitiam, de qua plene confidimus, corditer deprecamur, quatinus pro celeri expeditione negotiorum nostroi'um humanius erga dictum Dominum Abbatem instare velitis, si placet, loco et tempore opportunis ; ad vestram reducentes memoriam, qualiter alias eidem Simoni, in pnesentia nostra, de aliqua certa pensione providere curialiter promisistis, percipienda a vobis, vel a Priore de Dyerherst vestro successore quocunque. Quam quidem promissionem velitis, si placet, efficaciter adimplere ; et veraciter crediraus quod plus expedivisset Ecclesite de Dyerherst quod statum prioratus habuis- setis ibidem quam ille qui nunc eidem incumbit. Ad- hue carissime, quia Dominus Comes Huntyngdou plu- ries tetigit nobis de illis xx. libris, in quibus eidem tenemini, sicut scitis, pro quarum medietate sumus etiam fidejussor, pro honore vestro multum esset si de ipsis eidem esset integraliter satisfactum. Et si aliqua sint in partibus nostris quae pro vobis facere potuerimus bono modo, nobis per dictum Simonem fiducialiter rescribatis. Valeat amicitia vestra sicut optamus in Christo. Script, etc. 1^"^- 926. — Caeta Ludovici Regis Fkancorum de centum ^: \- , MODUS vixi datis Ecclesi^ Christi Cantu- Cart. Ant. R 90. ARTENSI. The Char- nomine sanctse et individuse Trinitatis, amen ; LouU YII., Ludovicus Dei gratia Francorum Rex. Pium est ut CANTUARIENSES. 481 quae ad pias eroofantur causas litterarum beneficio,^ ad V y^^pm hoc mdencienti memoria, tribuantur, ne Deo servi- was first entium quies perturbetur inposterum, et elemosina S'^'^n. devote facta, per oblivionem postmodum sopita depereat. Noverint itaqvie universi prtesentes pariter ac futuii, quod, intuitu beatissimi martiris Thoma! quondam Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, ad cujus tumu- luui, pro salute auiuite et corporis in multa devotioiie profecti sumus impetrandra, Conventui monachorum Sanctse Trinitatis inibi Deo faniulantium centum modios vini, ad mensuram Parisiensem, singulis annis tempore vindemiarum, in castellaria Pissiaci accipien- dos, in elemosinam concessimus. Conventui etiam prpedicto indulgimus, quatinus de pnescriptis centum modiis vini, et de omnibus quaj ad esum et potum suum pertinere Sacramento unius servientis, do mandato alicujus monachi de eodem Conventu, probari potuerit, in omnibus passagiis nostris, quantum ad nos attinet, sint omnino liberi et immunes. Quaj omnia, ut perpetuam stabilitatem optineant, sigilli nostri auctoritate, ac regii nominis karactere subanno- tato, pra3sentem cartam priecepimus conimuniri. Acta Cantuai'ite, anno ab incarnatione Domini millesimo centesimo octogesimo.^ Astantibus in palatio nostro quorum nomina supposita sunt et signa. Signum Theobaldi Comitis dapiferi nostri. Signum Guidonis butieularii. Signum Reginaldi camerarii. Signum Raduphi constabularii. Data per manum Secundi Hugonis Cancellarii. 927. — Carta Philippi Regis filii ejusdem Ludovici iiso. DE EODEM. . L. 96 h. Cart. Ant. In nomine sanct^e et individu?e Trinitatis, amen. ^' Philippus Dei gratia Francorum Rex. Ea quaj ante- tion of liL ' 1179 ill the origin;i! chnrtcr. U 52122. n H 482 liters: father's cessoribus nostris, et px^jecipiie quae a patve nostro iniiHppeYl. Ludowyco Rege Francorum, pietatis intuitu, Sanctis ecclesiis vel aliis locis venerabilibus sunt indulta nou est nostri propositi, aliquo modo, extenuare, set opera misericordiaj immobili firmitate conservare. Noverint igitur universi prtesentes pariter et futuri, quod, intuitu beatissimi martiris Thomse quondam Cantuari- ensis Archiepiscopi, ad cujus tumulum pro salute animae et sanitate corporis impetranda, in multa devotione fuerat profectus, Conventui monachorum [Sanctse] Trinitatis ibidem Deo servientium centum modios vini, ad mensuram Parisiensem, singulis annis teu)pore vindemiarum, in castellaria Pissiaci accipi- endos, in elemosinam concessit. Conventui etiam prsedicto indulsit, quatinus de pnedictis centiuu modios vini, et de omnibus quse ad esum et potum suum pertinere sacramento unius servientis, de man- date alicujus monachi de eodem Conventu, probari potuerit, in omnibus passagiis suis et nostris, quantum ad ipsum attinebat, sint omnino liberi et immunes. Quod factum patris nostri, ne aliqua possit oblivione (leleri, vel aliqua malignantium invidia violari, manu nostras confirmationis apposita, praecipimus inviolabiliter custodiri ; unde et sigilli nostri auctoritate, ac regii nominis karactere inferius annotato, praesentem cartani volumus communiri. Acta Maduntae anno incarnationis Domini millesimo c™olxxxo, regni nostri anno primo ; astantibus in palatio nostro quorum nomina supposita sunt et signa. Signum Comitis Theobaldi dapiferi nostri. Signum Gwydonis buticularii. Signum Regi- nald! camerarii. Signum Radulphi constabularii. Acta per manum Secundi Hugonis Cancellarii. CANTUARIENSES. 483 928. Mathei carta Comitis Boloni^. de libero pe- ^^so. dagio et alus libertatibus apud hwytsand, l. 97 h. BOLONIAM, ET NeWEN, CONCESSIS MONACHIS EccLEsi^ Christi Cantuariensis. Matheus ' Comes Boloni?e omnibus hominibus et minis- Matthew Count 01 tris suis de Hwytsande, et Bolonia, et Newene, tarn Boulogne prsesentibus quam post futuris, salutem. Sciatis quod pa^sagl'^*^" ego Matheus Comes, pro honore Dei et Beati Thomae and export Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis et gloriosi martiris, et pro salute animse meae et uxoris mefe et heredum meorum, Thomas, perdonavi fratribus meis, monachis, scilicet, Conventns Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis, imperpetuum theloneum et omnes consuetudines quae exigi solent in Hwyt- sande, vel Bolonia, vel Newene, a transeuntibus. Volo ergo et prtecipio, ut ipsi, et nuntii, et omnes servientes eorum liberi sint et quieti a me et ab omnibus heredibus meis imperpetuum, a theloneo, sive pedagio, sive omni alia consuetudine. Et prohibeo ut nullus hominum vel ministrorum meorum eos pro hac re vexare prsesumat. Testibus Arnulfo de Cayo, Rogerio de Gauchyn, Gilberto de Monfichet, Henrico Chamunt, Ysaac de Estru, Thoma de Avrenches, Alulpho de Boctone, Anselmo de Hedem, et aliis pluribus. 929.— ACQUIETANCIA FACTA DOMINO ThOM^ DE WOL- l Nov. TON MaGISTRO SEU CuSTODI HoSPITALIS DE ESTBREGG CaNTUARIvE, DE COMPOTO ADMINIS- L. 99 a. TRATIONIS SUiE FACTiE IN BONIS PR^DICTI HOSPITALIS. Nos Robertus permissione divina Prior Ecclesiae '^^^ ^rwv, ^„ . . J T • .as Auditor, Christi, etc. omnibus prsesentes litteras luspecturis, passes tlx- ' William XII., Count of Au- 1 county at the date, but they assert vergne and Boulogne, is said by the authors of L'arl de verifier les dates to have been in possession of the it with a reserve which is justified by the present charter. H H 2 484 LITBRJi burv. thrMaster ^^l^^"^' Priorem dictje Ecclesise pertinet of East- autlitio compoti Magistri seu Custodis hospitalis Sancti Hotphal Thomse de Estbregg in Ci\-itate Cantuaria qui pro in Canter- tempore fuerit, per ordinationem bome memorite Do- mini Johannes de Stratford nuper Cantuariensis Archi- episcopi, et Dominus Thomas de Woltone, Magister seu Gustos hospitalis pi-?edicti, se sufficieuter optulerit ad reddendum nobis compotum administrationls suae in bonis prsefati hospitalis, nos siifficienter didiscimus quod ipse pauperibus ad id confluentibus hospitalitatem capellanis et aliis ministris requisitis in eodem neces- sariib ministravit, novas construxit domos, et reparavit collapsas, possessionesque ejusdem hospitalis, in prsediis, redditibus, [et] in bonis aliis, notorie et in multo ex bonis aliis, ut fii-miter credimus, quam ipsius hospi- talis, ampliavit, et conatur indies, ut asseritur, am- pliare, non cui-avimus ipsius audu-e compotum, quern in praemissis eidem hospitali tarn utiliter intelleximus pro^'identem ; set, ut eum excitemus ad similia in futuris temporibas promptius facienda, ipsum Custodem, quantum possumus, ab ulteriore compoto dictse suae administrationls pro tempore transacto quietamus per praesentes. In cujus rei, etc. Data Cantuariae prime die mensis Novembris anno Domini M''ccc<>LXViJo. (1308.) 931. — COPIA TESTAMEXTI SIVE ULTIMO. VOLUNTATIS L. 99 a, Domes"! Johaxxis de Beauchamp militis, de MANERIO SUO DE ESOLE LEGATO BeAT^E MaRI.4: IX CRIPTIS IN ECCLESIA ChRISTI CaXTUARIEXSI. Memoran- Fait a remembrer coment Monsu-e Johan de Beau- dum of the champ, frere au Counte de Warwyk, eait enfeffe manor of ^ -i-, i -»r • t i Ea^oie be- Moiisire Rogier de Beauchamp, Monsu:e Johan ntz a ^^^f'J;^J*monsire Giles de Beauchamp, Thomas Hongerford, et CANTUARIENSES. 485 930.— LiTTERA MISSA AbBATI ET CoNVENTUI DE FAVER- 28 Jan. SHAM ET EJUSDEM LOCI CONVENTITM DE LICEN- CIA OBTINENDA AB EISDEM, UT WaLTERUS DE ^- 98 ^• Maydestan MONACHUS VESTER RECIPI POSSIT IN MONACHUM ET CONFRATREM NOSTRUM. Reverendfe religionis viro Domino Willelmo Dei The Prior gratia Abbati monasterii de Faversham et ejvisdem Abbot of loci Conventui, ordinis Sancti Benedicti, Cantuariensis FaveisUam dicecesis, Robertus ejusdein permissione Prior Ecclesit G one of his ( "hi'isti Cantuariensis, salutem in atnplexibus Salva- toris. Quia Frater Walterus de Maydenstan monacliiis Christ monasterii vestri, orcMnem, regularem Sancti Benedicti Q^Jj^gJ*' expre.sse professus in eodem, coram nobis personaliter bury, constitutus, cupiens ut asserit ex caritate, etc. ad ec- clesiam nostram ejusdem ordinis et religionis migrare, Domino virtutum obsequium impensurus, etc. ; nos volentes ejus piis supplicationibus quatenus in Deo possumus inclinare, etc. dumtamen licenciara a vobis super hoc obtineat, etc. paratos nos reddimus per prae- sentes. In cujus rei, etc. Data Cantuarise quinto kalendas Februarii anno Domini m°CCColxvijo. 931. Memorandum that Sir John de Beaucliamp, brother of the Earl of Warwick, has enfeoHed Sir Roger de Beauchamj), Sir John son of Sir Giles de Beauchamp, Thomas Huugerford, and John Rouse tlie younger, in 4S6 LITEK^", of St. Mary jQ^an E.OUS le iiuisnez, del manoir de Easole en Undercroft, ^ ' ' Cairter- Couiite de Kent, entre autres manoirs ; sur tiel con- si'r John dicion, qils enfefferont les Priour et Covent do la de Beau- Seynte Trinite de Cantirbirs, en le honur del ymage champ. Nostre iJame Seinte Marie Ondercroft de Cantirbirs, del dit manoir de Esole ove les appartenances a toutz jours ; pur avoir perpetuelment memorie en le dit Covent del alme le dit Monsire Johan, et ces piere, meire, et frere, en lours messes et orisons ; solounc lavys de ditz enfeffez, et par licence nostre Seignur le Roi, sil ent busoigne pur eux impetrer. ??2^J^/ 932. — LlTTERA DIRECTA DOMINO PRIORI PER DOMINUM (^1368). COMITEM DE WARREWYK, TANGENS MANERIUM L. 99 a. DE EASOLE PRiEDICTUM. The Earl Trescher et reverent Sire en Dieu. Pur ceo qe nous asks the"*^^ ^'^'0^^'^ entenduz qe le darreine volunte nostre trescher Prior if he uncle jadys Monsire John de Beauchamp, qe Dieux to acceirt assoiUe, estoit qe le manoir de Easole en le Countc the manor Kent serroit donez a vous et a vostre Covent, sur of Easole, . , . biirthened tiel condicioun, qun des moignes lUeosqes serroit per- with the petuelment par especial ordinez et deputez a chaunter, of a daily revestuz en les armes de Warrewyk, devant lauter mass to be ]Nfostre Dame souz la valte, priantz pur les almes sung by a . priest nostre dit uncle et noz auncestres ; pur quiele chose a'vStmeut ^^^i'*' envoioms par devers vous, et vous prioms qe, embroi- par le portour de cestes et par voz lettres, nous en- the*^arms^ voiUez certifier pluis aplein vostre volunte ; cest assa- of War- voir si vous vuillez accepter le dit manoir fassauntz sacramente de la charge susdite. Kar autrement nous pensoms, par le bon avj's de nostre conseil, ordiner en ce cas come mieutz serra par autre manere au meryte des almes susdites. Trescher et reverent Sire CANTUARIENSES. 487 the manor of Easole, in the County of Kent, together with other manors, on these conditions : namely, that they should enfeoff the Prior and Chapter of Holy Trinity in Canterbury, in the said manor of Easole, with its appurtenances for ever, in honour of the Image of Our Lady Saint Mary Undercroft of Canterbury, in order to have a perpetual commemoration in the said con- vent of the soul of the said Sir John, and of his father's, mother's, and brother's souls in their masses and prayers ; after tlie discretion of the said feoffees, aud by permis- sion of Our Lord the King, if there should be need for them to ask for it. 932. Very dear and reverend Father in God. Whereas we have understood that the last will of our very dear uncle the late Sir John de Beauchamp, whom God absolve, was that the manor of Easole, in the County of Kent, should be given to you and your Convent, upon these conditions following ; namely, that one of youi' monks there should be perpetually specially assigned and deputed to sing mass, at the Altar of Our Lady in the Crypt, wearing vestments decorated with the arms of the Warwick family, and praying for the souls of our said uncle and our ancestors ; on which account we are now sending to you, and praying you that, by the hands of the bearer of these and by your letters, you will please to acquaint us more fully with your wishes ; that is to say, whether you arc willing to accept the said manor, whilst promising by oath to undertake the above-mentioned charge. For, if you are not so willing, we intend, by the good advice of our counsel, in that 488 LITER y^: en Dien, le tivint Esprit soit tout/ jours i;arde de vous. Escript a Loundres lo xxix. jour de May. Le Counte de Warrewyk. oJimc 933.--RESPONSIO FACTA DICTO DOMINO COMITI SUPER (1368). ^ ^ PR^DICTAM LITTERAM. L. 99 a. The Prior Tres honui'ez Sire. Nous avoms receuz voz lettres, with ex- par quieles vous nous avez offert a doner le raanoir cHrfesto" Easole, solonc la darreine volunte nostre tres accept the lionurez amy iadis Monsire Jolian de Beaucliamp charge of . , , . , , . . the masses, vostre uncle, sur tiele condicioun, a ce qe vous nouz *nh^°^^* avez escript, qe nous serrioms chargez dordinier ct manor deputer perpetuelment un de noz commoignes par smalfto" especial a chaunter, revestuz en les armes de Warre- furnish the wyk, devant lauter Nostre Dame souz la valte de services, nostre esglise, pur les almes le dit Monsire Johan et des voz auneestres. Sur quey, Sire, vuillez enten- dre, a ceo qe nous est avys, qe le damage de nous no purroit aucunement procurer merite as almes susdites ; entendantz verroiement qe porter et faire tiele charge pur si petite chose, ou gaires nad de profist, nous serroit trop grevable ; pur quey, Sire, nous vuillez en ce cas avoir pur excusez. Et Dieu vous endoigne faire tielement, qe soit a loenge de luy et allegement des almes avant dites ; et vous ottroie auxi, Sire, honur, et bone sauncte au longe durree. Escript a Cauntii-birs le v. jour de Juyn. Vostre Priour de Cauntirbirs. }J^^' 934. — HiC INCIPIT LIBER SUBSIDII DATI NOVO OPERI 13o9 to 1 Jan. ANTERIORIS ECCLESI^ ChRISTI CaNTUARIENSTS A PRIMO DIE JaNUARII ANNO DOMINI MCCCLXIX. Iv. 101 (/. USQUE AT) PRIMUM DIEM .TANUARII ANNO Domini mccclxxj. The first In priinis dedit Johannes Bekenore - xx. libras. oTt'he re-° Item : Thomas de Sarum - - xl. solidos. CANTUARIENSES. case (o arrange as shall seem best in some other manner for the benefit of the above-named souls. Very dear and reverend Father in God, may the Holy Spirit ever keep you. Written, Szc. 933. Most honoured Lord. We have received your letters, by which you have offered to give us the manor of Easole, after the last will of our late much honoured friend Sir John de Beauchamp, your uncle, upon the condition, as you have written to us, that we shall be bound to assign and depute specially one of our monks to sing perpetual masses, at the Altar of Our Lady in the Crypt, wearing vestments decorated with the arms of Warwick, for the souls of the said Sir John and of your ancestors. Hereupon, Sire, please to understand that, as we are awai'e, our loss cannot in any way purchase advantage for the aforesaid souls ; understand- ing truly, that to bear and perform such a charge for so small a repayment, where there is scarcely any profit, would be too burdensome for us ; wherefore, Sire, be pleased in this case to have us excused. And may God grant to you so to act that it may be to his praise and the solace of the aforesaid souls ; and may he also confer upon you honour and good health for a long- continuance. Written, &c. Item : Thomas Culy - - -l.s. Summa xxiiij. li x. s. Hanc summam recepit Dominus Johannes Guston Item : Alexander Hanekyn - - Ix. s. Item : Adam dc Herbaldoun - - xx, s. Item: Cecilia Blacbroke - . iij. s. iiij. c?. Item ; Margareta Godyngg - . ii j. s. iiij. d. building of the nave of Canterbury Cathedral, coDtained in a list of subscrip- tions col- lected for the purpose 490 LITER some years before the work was actually begun. Item : Doniina Johanna Fogge pro animabus Isabellas Johannse et Johannae - - - . cxiij. s iiij. Item: Walterus - - _ iij. «. in}, d. Item : Johannes Brewer - - ij. s. vj. d. Item : Johannes Mew - - ij. s. Item : Thomas Clialner - - xx. a. Item : Willelmus - - - vij. cZ. Item : Pro Petro - . - xx. d. Item : Robertus Grymstede - - vij. d. Item : Stephanus Carpenter - - xij. d. Item: Nicholaus Fox - - xij. boscis, redditibus, war- dis, maritagiis, releviis, sectis, et aliis pertinenciis suis, prout in quadam carta feoffamenti inde con- fecta plenius apparet. Quibus quidem Domino Au- gero et successoribus suis Priorissa et moniales pra;- dictse invenient perpetuo infuturum unum altare de- center paratum, calicem, vestimenta, panem, vinum, luminaria, et clericum, ac omnia alia circa celebra- cionem missse necessaria, diebus singulis, necnon mansum competentem pro mora sua, earum sumpti- bus propriis et expensis ; ita quod ob defectum ali- cujus prsemissorum nullius missse celebracio aliqua- tenus omittatur seu negligatur infuturum. Volo eciam et concede, quod liceat prsefato Domino Augero, et successoribus suis et eorura cuilibet, si eis hoc ' A \v()i forbids Christo Ipatri W(inelmo) eadem gratia Archiepiscopo ^hop Cantuariensi, etc., salutem. Nuper, occasione tractatus Whitteisey super pacificandis et sedandis dissensionibus et debat . . from the • • • exortis inter Johannem de Monteforti ex una English [parte] eb Karolum de Blesis ex altera occasione Du- tax^^for'^ti'ie catus Britanniae, beatse memorise Cardinalis Clunia- payment of censis, in regnum nostrum accedens et in tractatu ipso procura- -,. .... . . Hons to a medians, certam imposicionem, pro expensis suis appo- French gitis circa prsemissa, super vos et Ecclesiam vestram Cardinal, , . . , . . , . . ■, ■ , who has ac clerum provmcise vestrse imponi et exigi mandavit been em- fecit, dum vixerat ; ac vos eo prsetextu magnas ployed in . . ^ . . ° mediating pccunise summas de Ecclesia et ciero provincise vestrse in the prtedictis, dicto Cardinali, iam ab hac luce subtract© matter ot ^ • t t thesucces- ad opus exccutorum testamenti Cardmalis prasdicti, Duch°y of'^ quamquam pacificacio hujusmodi, eciam si facta fuisset Brittany; per mediacionem Cardinalis ipsius, sicuti facta non which"the fuerat, nos aut incolas regni nostri nullatenus tetigisset, English et per consequens ipsos artare vel obligare nullatenus people ^""^^ potuisset, pet cen suras ecclesiasticas exigere et levare have no nitimini minus juste, in nostri contemptum, et prse- judicium dictarum Ecclesise ac provincise vestrarum, ac regni nostri depauperacionem, depressionem, et prse- judicium manifestum. Nos, advertentes dampna et in- commoda quse, ex hujusmodi subtilibus exactionibus et novellis imposicionibus, nobis coronseque nostrse regise ac toti Ecclesise Anglicanee possint et debeant veri- similiter exoriri, pejorem consequenciam si processerint ad effectum futuris temporibus de facili paritura, no- lentes talia aut similia in regno nostro fieri sub conni- vencia tolerare, et specialiter quod aliis incumbencia onera subditorum nostrorum humeris ferenda ponantur, sed pocius tarn regnum, Ecclesiam, clerum, et poprdum Anglicanos prsedictos ab injustis oneribus hujusmodi et concern. CANTUARIENSES. 509 similibus regali, prout tenemur, ministerio defensare ; vobis, auctoritate nostra regia, tenore prsesencium, dis- trictius quo possumus prohibemus, in fide et ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungentes, ne, prse- textu tractatus, imposicionis, vel exacionis preedictorum, quicquid ^ quod in nostrorum Ecclesiae, cleri, aut populi Anglicanorum dampnum sen praejudicium cedere valeat, per vos aut alios quoscumque, quomodolibet attemp- tetis, nec attemptari facere prsesumatis ; sed ab exae- tione imposicionis hujusmodi et aliarum consimilium penitus desistatis, sicuti vos et Ecclesiam vestram indempnes erga nos volueritis conservari. Et si quic- quid ^ in contrarium facere prsesumpseritis in hac parte, nos contra vos, suadente justicia, tarn graviter capie- mus, quod vestra punicio cedet aliis ad terrorem. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium, vjto die Januarii, anno regni nostri Anglise quadragesimo sexto, regni vero nostri Francise tricesimo tercio. 942. — ObLIGACIO CUJUSDAM ANNUI REDDITITS facta 3 Feb. Priori OxONIiE. Priori et Conventui Sanct^e Fredeswyd.e jj^^^f^^^; Omnibus, etc. Prior Ecclesige Cbristi, etc. salutem, The etc. Vestra noverit universitas, quod, cum Gustos et Canter- Scolares collegii Aulae nostrte Cantuariensis in Oxonia b^^y Col- et eorum successores teneantur et obligentur religiosis bought a viris Priori et Conventui Monasterii Sanctae Fredes- p.^''* 'f^^^ wyde OxonifB et eorum successoribus in quodam an- College nuo redditu quadraginta solidorum, pro certis terris ^°™gg^' et tenementis, de licencia Domini Regis de prtefatis wide's Priore et Conventu eisdem Custode et Scolaribus in P^f^y- ... and, not Oxonia adquisitis, ad certos termmos imperpetuum having the percipiendo, prout in quibusdam indenturis inter ™ y^ufe*" eosdem inde confectis plenius continetur, per quas capital sum, he _ _ — . jjjji. charged his qmcquam, MS. ^ 510 LITERS College with an annual in- terest of forty shil- lings, giv- ing power of re-entry and dis- traint upon the land in case of arrears ; to which security the Chap- ter of Christ Church add a power of levying upon their manor of Monks Risbo- rough. (1373). H. 79 6. prsedictae temie et tenementa prsefatis Custodi eb Sco- laribus erant liberatfe ; volumus et concedimus, pro nobis et successoribus nostris imperpetuum, per prse- sentes, quod si dictus redditug, etc. in parte vel in toto, etc. a retro fuerit non solutus, ex tunc bene licebit dictis Priori et Conventui Sanctfe Fredeswyde, etc. in dicto Collegio cum suis pertinenciis. et in omni parcella ejusdem, ingredi et distringere, etc. Et si contingat quod dicti Prior et Conventus, etc. sufR- cientem districtionem pro redditu praedicto in dicto Collegio, etc. capere non potuerint, ex tunc bene licebit prfVidictis Priori, etc. in manerio nostro de Eiseborgh in comitatu Bukks, etc, ingredi et distrin- gere. In cujus rei testimonium, etc. Data Cantuarise, etc. in crastino Purificacionis Beatse Manse, anno Domini MocccoLXXlJtlo. 943. — LiTTERA MISSIVA DOMINO ArCHIEPISCOPO SUPER APPROPRIACIONE ECCLESI^ DE PaGEHAM ET CaPITULO GENERALI NiGRORUM MONACHORUM.l Letter ad- dressed to Cardinal Eang- ham (?) at Rome, asking his interven- tion in favour of the new College in Oxford, Pater et domine Reverendissime, languentes in pro- fundis laboramur suspiriis dum prtesenciam vestram, nobis hactenus mellifluam, tarn eminus perpendimus elongatam. Solet ipsa namque nos a cunctis prseser- vare adversis, vel saltem citra curacionem nostros sanare languores, pro quibus profusis munificoncius ^'estris laboribus et vigiliis circa Collegium Cantua- riense, opus manuum vestrarum, nuper impensis, cum 1 This title, which erroneously implies that the letter was addressed to Archbishop Whittelsey, is in a hand at least a century more mo- dern in date than the text of the letter. The subject-matter and the phrases used indicate that the peti- tions contained in it were made to a person of very great eminence re- siding at the Curia, and the hint at the supreme rule of the Church con- tained in the last clause could onlj' have a meaning if addressed to a member of the College of Cardinals, from among whom future Popes would be chosen. CANTUARIENSES. 511 rependere vices non sufficimus ad condignum, vestros and in the [nos] offerimus indefessos cunctis temporibus oratores. J'^e"*e'rse- Gaudet nempe nostra concio non modice, quod dictum cution ^ ^ Collegium, vestro singulari mediante prtesidio, stabi- Yrior litum est super firmam petram, floret eciam et viget ^^j^^^^^**' ad prsesens in Magistro et septem monachis, docilibus ^^s sufFer- et aptis ad studendum, caret tamen privilegiis et >"g ^on- . ., . .. . T . sequence exempcionibus sibi necessariis, vestra paterna solici- of his tudine ut speraraus impetrandis ; comminatum est 'efusal to tamen nobis, quod quidam femuli nostri in Curia ad monses to ecclesiam de Pagaham intendunt impetrare ^ ianquam gg^g^^/'^'' vacantem, nisi prius nostrte provisionis proposito chapter of frustrentur. Yerum cartam appropriacionis dictse eccle- Bg^edic- sife, ac cartam donacionis regire super forisfactura tines, patronatus dictse ecclesise nobis concessam, prfesencire vestne transmittimus. Ad hsec, pater amantissime, prtesidentes Capituli generalis Dominum Priorem nos- trum, occasione non-comparicionis in Capitulo ultimo generali, graviter multarunt, et multas Imjusmodi per censuras ecclesiasticas ab ipso et nobis levare com- minantur, et aliter multipliciter infestant. 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[9790— 750.— 5/88.] CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH, SCOTCH, AND IRISH RECORD PUBLICATIONS, REPORTS OF THE HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION, AND ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS, Printed for HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, And to be purchased, Either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.G., or ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, 6, North Bridge. Edinburgh; or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., 104, Grafton Street, Dublin. CONTENTS. Page Calendars of State Papers, &c. - - - • - - 3 Chronicles and Memorials op Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages ........ 9 Publications op the Kecord Commissioners, &c. - - - -27 Works Published in Photozincography - - - - - 29 Historical Manuscripts Commission - - - - - - 31 Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records - - - 35 Scotch Record Publkjations - - - - - . - 39 Irish Record Publications - - - - - - -40 ENGLAND. CALENDARS OF STATE PAPERS, &c. [Impbrial 8vo., cloth. Price \ of. each Volume or Part.] As far back as the year 1800, a Committee of the House of Commons rocom- mended that Indexes and Calendars should be made to the Public Records, and tliirty-six years afterwards another Committee of the House of Commons reite- rated that recommendation in more forcible words ; but it was not until the incorporation of the State Paper Office with the Public Eecord Office that the Master of the Rolls found himself in a position to take the necessary steps for carrying out the wishes of the House of Commons. On 7 December 1855, he stated to tlie Lords of the Treasury that although " the Records, State Papers, and Documents in his charge constitute the most " complete and perfect series of their kind in the civilized world," and although " they are of the greatest value in a historical and constitutional point of view, " yet they are comparatively useless to the public, from the want of proper " Calendars and Indexes." Acting upon the recommendations of the Com- mittees of the House of Commons above referred to, he suggested to the Lords of the Treasury that to effect the object he had in view it would be necessary for him to employ a few Persons fully qualified to perform the work which he con- templated. Their Lordships assented to the necessity of having Calendars prepared and printed, and empowered the Master of the Rolls to take such steps as might be necessary for this purpose. The following Works have been already published under the direction of the Master of the Rolls : — C ilendartom; G-enealogicum ; for the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward 1. Edited J?/ Charles Roberts, Esq., Secretary of the Public Record Office, 2 Vols. 1865. This is a work of great value for elucidating the early history of our nobility aud landed gCDtry. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, and James I., preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office. i?(Zie;n called the " Historia Major." - The chronicle here published, nevertheless, gives some information not to be found in the greater history. I 17 45. LiBKB MONASTERII DE HyDA : A OhRONICLE AND OhARTULAKY OF HyDE AbBET, WiNCHESTEK, 455-1023. Edited, from a Manuscript in the Library of the Earl of Macclesfield, hij Edwaed Edwards, Esq. 1866. The "Book of Hyde" is a compilation from much earlier sources which are usually indicated with considerable care and precision. In many causes, however, the Hyde Chronicler appears to correct, to qualify, or to amplify— either from tradition or from sources of information not now discoverable — the statements, which, in substance, lie adopts. He also mention?, and frequently quotes from writers whose works are either entirely lost or at present known only by fragments. There is to be found, in the " Book of Hyde," much information relating to the reign of Kinf? Alfred which is not known to exist elsewhere. The volume contains some curious specimens of Anglo-Saion and Mediseval English. 46. Cheonicon Scotorum : a Chronicle of Irish Affairs, from the Earliest Times to 1135 ; and Supplement, containing the Events from 1141 to 1150. Edited, with Translation, by William Maunsell Hennessy, Esq., M.E.I.A. 1866. There is, in this volume, a le^tendary account of the peopling of Ireland and of the adventures which befell the various heroes who are said to have been connected with Irish history. The details are, however, very meagre both for this period and for the time when histor.y becomes more authentic. The plan adopted in the chronicle gives the appearance of an accuracy to which the earlier por- tions of the work cannot have any claim. The succession of events is marked year by year, from A.M. 1599 to A.D. 1150. The principal events narrated in the later portion of the work are, the invasions of foreigners, and the wars of the Irish among themselves. The text has been printed from a MS. preserved in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, written partly in Latin, partly iu Irish. 47. The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft, in French Verse, from the earliest Period to the Death of Edward I. Yols. I. and II. Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A. 1866-1868. It is probable that Pieire de Langtoft was a canon of Bridlington, in Yorksliire, and lived in the reign of Edward I., and during a portion of the reign of Edward II. This chronicle is divided into three parts; in the first, is an abridgment of Geoffrey of Monmouth's " Historia Britonum in the second, a history of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings, to the death of Henry III. ; in the third, a history of the reign of Edward I. The principal object of the work was apparently to show the justice of Edward's Scottish wars. The language is singularly corrupt, and a curious specimen of the French of Yorkshire. 48. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, or The Invasions of Ireland by THE Danes and other Norsemen. Edited, with a Translation, by James Henthorn Todd, D.D., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, and Regius Pro- fessor of Hebrew in the University, Dublin. 1867. The work in its present form, in the editor's opinion, is a comparatively modern version of an undoubtedly ancient original. That it was compiled from contemporary materials has been i)roved by curious incidental evidence. It is stated in the account given of the battle of Clontarf that the full tide in Dublin Bay on the day of the battle (2.J April 1014) coincided with sunrise ; and that the returning tide in the evening aided consideralily in the defeat of the Danes. The fact has been verified by astronomical calculations, and the inference is that the autlior of the chronicle, if not an eye-witness, must have derived his information from eye-witnesses. The contents of the work are sulficiently described in its title. The story is told after the manner of the Scandinavian Sagas, with poems and fragments of poems introduced into the prose narrative. 49. Gesta Eegis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis. Chronicle of the Reigns OF Henry II. and Richard I., 1169-1192, known under the name of Benedict of Peterborough. Vols. I. and II. Edited by William Stubbs, M. A., Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford, and Lambeth Librarian. 1867. This chronicle of the reigns of Henry II. and Richard I., known commonly under the name of Benedict of Peterborough, is one of the best existing specimens of a class of historical comjiositions of the first importance to the student. 5). Munimenta Academica, or, Documents illustrative of Academical Life and Studies at Oxford (in Two Parts). Edited by the Rev. Henry Anstey, M.A., Vicar of St. Wendron, Cornwall, and lately Vice-Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford. 1868. This work will supply materials for a History of Academical Life and Studies in the University of Oxford during the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. 51. Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene. Vols. I., II., III., and IV. Edited by William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 1868-1871. This work has long been justly celebrated, but not thoroughly understood until Mr. Stubbs' edition. The earlier portion, extending from 7.33 to 1148, appears to be a copy of a compilation made in Northumbria about llCl, to which Hovedcn added little. From li tS toll69-avery valuable portion of this work— the matter is derived from another source, to which Hoveden appears to have supplied little, and not always judiciously. From 1170 to 1192 is the portion which corresponds with the Chronicle known under the name of Benedict of Peterborough (see No. 49) : but it is not a copy, being sometimes an abridgment, at others a paraphrase : occasionally the two works entirely ivgree; showing that both writers naa access to the same materials, but dealt with them differently. From 1192 to 1201 may be said to be wholly Hovedeu's work ; it is extremely valuable, and an authority of the first importance. U 5'Z122. b 18 52. WiLLELMi Malmesbiriensis Monachi de Gestis Pontificum Anglordm Libei QuiNQOE. Edited, from William of Malmeshury's Autograph MS., by N. E. S. A. Hamilton, Esq., oftheDepartmentofManuscripbs.BritishMuseum. 1870. William of Malmesbury's " Gesta Poiitificura " is the principal foundation of English Eccle- siastical Biography, down to the year 1122. The manuscript which has been followed in this Edition is supposed by Mr. Hamilton to be the author's autograph, containing his latest additions and amendments. 53. Historic and Municipal Documents of Ireland, from the Archives of the OiTY OF Dublin, &c. 1172-1320. Edited by JohnT. Gilbert, Esq., F.S.A., Secretary of the Public Kecord Office of Ireland. 1870. A collection of original documents, elucidating mainly the history and condition of the muni- cipal, middle, and trading classes under or in relation with the rule of England in Ireland, — a subject hitherto in almost total obscurity. Extending over the first hundred and fifty years of the Anglo-Norman settlement, the series includes oliartcrs, municipal laws and regulations, rolls of names of citizens and members of merchant-guilds, lists of commodities with their rates, correspon- dence, illustrations of relations between ecclesiastics and laity ; together with many documents exhibiting the state of Ireland during the presence there of the Scots under Rolaert and Edward Bruce. 54. The Annals of Loch Ce. A Chronicle of Irish Affairs, from 1041 to 1590. Vols. I. and II. Edited, with a Translation, by William Maunsell Hennesst, Esq., M.R.I.A. 1871. The original of this chronicle has passed under various names. The title of " Annals of Loch C6" was given to it by Professor O'Curry, on the ground that it was transcribed for Brian Mac Dermot, an Irish chieftain, who resided on the island in Loch 06, in the county of Roscommon. It adds much to the materials for the civil and ecclesiastical history of Ireland ; and contains many curious references to English and foreign affairs, not noticed in any other chronicle. 55. Monumenta Juridica. The Black Book of the Admiralty, with Appendices, Vols. I., II., III., and IV. Editedby Sir Tea vers Twiss, Q.C., D.C.L. 1871-1876. This book contains the ancient ordinances and laws relating to the navy, and was probably compiled for the use of the Lord High Admiral of England. Selden calls it the " jewel of the Admiralty Records." Prynne ascribes to the Black Book the same authority in the Admiralty as the Black and Red Rocks have In the Court of Exchequer, and most English writers on maritime law recognize its importance. 50. Memorials of the Reign of Henry VI. : — Official Correspondence of Thom as Bekynton, Secretary to Henry VI., and Bishop of Bath and Wells. Edited, from a MS. in the Archie]piscopal Library at Lambeth, with an Appendix of Illustrative Bocumenta, by the Rev. George Williams, B.D.,Vicar of Ring- wood, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Vols. I. and II. 1872. These curious volumes are of a miscellaneous character, and were probably compiled under the immediate direction of Beckynton before he had attained to the Episcopate. They contain many of the Bishop's own letters, and several written by him in the King's name ; also letters to himself while Royal Secretary, and others addressed to the King. This work elucidates some points in the history of the nation during the first half of the fifteenth century. 57. Mattu^i Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majoea. Vol. I. The Creation to A.D. 1066. Vol. II. A.D. 1067 to A.D. 1216. Vol. III. A.D. 1216 to A.D. 1239. Vol. IV. A.D. 1240 to A.D. 1247. Vol. V. A.D. 1248 to A.D. 1259. Vol. VI. Additamenta. Vol. VII. Index. Edited by Henry Richards Luard, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Registrary of tho University, and Vicar of Great St. Mary's, Cambridge. 1872-1884. This work contains the " Chronica Majora" of Matthew Paris, one of the most valuable and frequently consulted of the ancient English Chronicles. It is published from its commencement, for the first time. The editions by Archbishop Parker, and "William Watts, severally begin at tho Norman Conquest. 58. Memoriale Fratris Walteri de Coventeia. — The Historical Collections of Walter of Coventry. Vols. I. and II. Edited, from the MS. in the Library of Gorpus Ghristi College, Camh-idge, by William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Pro- fessor of Modern History, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 1872-1873. This work, now printed in full for the first time, has long been a desideratum by Historical Scholars. The first portion, however, is not of much importance, being only a compilation from earlier writers. The part relating to the first quarter of the thirteenth century is the most valuable and interesting. 59. The Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets and Epigrammatists of the Twelfth Century. Vols. I. and II. Collected and edited by Thomas Weight, Esq., M. A., Corresponding Member of the National Institute of France(Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). 1872. The Poems contained in these volumes have long been known and appreciated as the best satires of the age ia which their authors flouriehed, and were deservedly popular during tho 13th and 14th centuries. 19 60. Materials pob a History op the Eeign op Henry VII., prom original Documents PRESERVED IN THE Public Record Office. Vols. I. and II. Edited 6y the Rev. William Campbell, M.A., one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. 1873-1877. These volumes are valuable as illustrating the acts and proceedings of Henry VII. on ascending the throne, and shadow out the policy he afterwards adopted. 61. Historical Papers and Letters from the Northern Registers. Edited by James Raine, M.A., Canon of York, and Secretary of the Surtees Society. 1873. The documents in this volume illustrate, for the most part, the general history of the north of England, particularly in its relation to Scotland. 62. Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense. The Register op Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham ; 1311-1316. Vols. I., II., III., and IV. Edited by Sir Thomas Duppus Hardy, D.C.L., Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. 1873-1878. Bishop Kellawe's Register contains the proceedings of his prelacy, both lay and ecclesiastical, and is the earliest Register of the Palatinate of Durham. 63. Memorials of Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. Edited, from va/rious MSS., by William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 1874. This volume contains several lives of Archbishop Dunstan, one of the most celebrated Primates of Canterbury. They open various points of Historical and Literary interest, without which our knowledge of the period would be more incomplete than it is at present. 64. Chronicon Anglic, ab Anno Domini 1328 usque ad Annum 1388, Auctohe Monacho quodam Sancti Albani. Edited by Edward Maunde Thompson, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Assistant-Keeper of the Manuscripts in the British Museum. 1874. This chronicle gives a circumstantial history of the close of the reign of Edward III. which has hitherto been considered lost. 65. Thomas Saga Erkibyskups. A Life op Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Ice- landic Vols. I. and II. Edited, with English Translation, Notes, and Glossary by M. Eiri'kr Magnusson, M.A., Sub-Librarian of the University Library, Cambridge. 1875-1884. This work is derived from the Life of Becket written by Benedict of Peterborough, and apparently supplies the missing portions in Benedict's biography. 66. Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum. Edited by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, M.A. 1875. This volume contains the " Chronicon Anglicanum," by Ralph of Coggleshall, the " Libellus de Expugnatione Terrje Sancta) per Saladinum," usually ascribed to the same author, and other pieces of an interesting character. 67. Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Archbishop op Canterbury. Vols. I., IL, III., IV., v., and VI. Editedby the Rev. James Cbaigie Robertson, M.A., Canon of Canterbury. 1875-1883. Vol. VII. Edited by Joseph Brigstocke Sheppard, Esq., LL.D. 1885. This publication comprises all contemporary materials for the history of Archbishop Thomas Becket. The first volume contains the life of that celebrated man, and the miracles after his death, by William, a monk of Canterbury. The second, the life by Benedict of Peterborough ; John ol Salisbury ; Alan of Tewkesbury ; and Edward Grim. The third, the life by William Fitzstephen ; and Herbert of Bosham. Tlie fourth, anonymous lives, Quadrilogus, &c. The fifth, sixth, and seventh, the Epistles, and kno^vn letters. 68. Radulpi de Diceto Decani Lundoniensis Opera Historica. The Historical Works op Master Ralph de Diceto, Dean op London. Vols. I. and II. Edited, from the Original Manuscripts, by William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 1876. The Historical Works of Ralph de Diceto are some of the most valuable materials for British History. The Abbrcviationcs Chronicorum extend from the Creation to 1147, and the Tmagines Historiarura to 1201. 69. Roll op the Proceedings of the King's Council in Ireland, ior a Portion OP THE 16th Year of the Reign op Richard II. 1392-93. Edited by the Rev. James Graves, A.B. 1877. This Roll throws considerable light on the History of Ireland at a period little known. It seems the only document of the kind extant. 70. Henrici DE Bracton DE Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angli/e Libri Quinque IN Vaeios Tractaius Distincti. Ad Diveesorum et Vetustissimohum Codi- b 2 20 CUM CoLLATiONEM Typis Vulgati. Vols. I., II., III., rV.,V.,and VI. JUdited hy Sir Teaveks Twiss, Q.C, D.C.L. 1878-1883. This is a new edition of Bracton's celebratod work, collated with MSS. in the British Museum ; the Libraries of Lincoln's Inn, Middle Temple, and Gray's Inn ; Bodleian Library, Oxford : the Bibliothdque Nationale, Paris ; &c. 71. The Histokiaks op the Chuech op Yoek, and its Aechbishops. Vols. I. and II. Edited by James Eaike, M. A. , Canon of York, and Secretary of the Surtees Society. 1879-1886. This will form a complete " Corpus Historicum Eboracenso," a work very much needed, and of great value to the Historical Inquirer. 72. Eegisteum Malmesbueiense. The Eegistee op Maxmesbuey Abbey; Pee- SEEVEB IN THE PuBLIC EsCOED OPFICE. Vols. I. End II. Edited hy J. S. Beewee, M.A., Preacher at the Eolls, and Eector of Toppesfield ; and Chaeles Teice Maetin, Esq., B.A. 1879, 1880. This work illustrates many curious points of history, the growth of society, the distribution of land, the relations of landlord and tenant, national customs, &c. 73. Historical Woeks op Geevase op Canterbury. Vols. I. and II. The Chronicle of the Eeigns of Stephen, Henry II., aadEicHAED I., by Gee- vase, the Monk of Canteebuey. Editedhy "William Stubbs, D.D. ; Canon Eesidentiary of St. Paul's, London ; Eegius Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford ; &c. 1879, 1880. The Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury are of great importance as regards the questions of Church and State, during the period in which he wrote. This work was printed by Twysden, in the ' HistoriEB Anglicanae Scriptores X.," more than two centuries ago. The present edition has received critical examination and illustration. 74. Heneici Archidiaconi Httntendunensis Histoeia Angloeum. The Histoey op the English, by Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, from a.d. 55 to A. D. 1154, in Eight Books. Edited hy Thomas Arnold, Esq., M.A., of University College, Oxford. 1879. Henry of Huntingdon's work was first printed by Sir Kem-y Savile, in 1596, in his " Scriptores post Bedam," and reprinted at Frankfort in 1601. Both editious are very rare and inaccurate. The first five books of the History were published in 1848 in the " Monumenta Historica Britannica," which is out of print. The present volume contains the whole of the manuscript of Huntingdon's History in eight books, collated with a manuscript lately discovered at Paris. 75. The Historical Woeks of Symeon of Dueham. Vols. I. and II. Edited hy Thomas Arnold, Esq., M.A., of University College, Oxford 1882-1885. The first volume of this edition of the Historical "Works of Symeon of Durham, contains the "Historia Dunelmensis Ecclesiae," and other Works. The second volume contains the "Historia Begum," &c. 76. Chronicles op the Eeigns op Edward I. and Edward 11. Vols. I. and II. Edited hy William Sttjbbs, D.D., Canon Eesidentiary of St. Paul's, London ; Eegius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, &c. 1882,1883. The first volume of these Chronicles contains the " Annales Londonienses " and the " Annales Paulini : " the second, I. — Commendatio Lamentabilis in Transitu magni Regis Edwardi. II. — Geata Edwardi tie Camarvan Auctore Canonico Bridlingtoniensi. III. — Monachi cujusdam Malmes- beriensis Vita, Edwardi II. IV. — ^Vita et Mors Edwardi II. Conscripta a Thoma de la Moore. 77. Eegisteum Epistolarum Frateis Johannis Peckham, Aechiepiscopi Can- TUARiENSis. Vols. I., II., and III. Edited hy Chaeles Teice Maetin, Esq., B. A.,F.S.A., 1882-1886. These Letters are of great value for illustrating English Ecclesiastical History. 78. Eegistee of S. Osmund. Editedhy t'he'R&Y.yT.'E.. Eicn Jones, M.A.,F.S.A., Canon of Salisbury, Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon. Vols. I. and II. 1883, 1884. This Register, of which a complete copy is here printed for the first time, is among the most ancient, and certainly the most treasui-ed of the muniments of the Bishops of Salisbury. It derives its name from containing the statutes, rules, and orders made or compiled by S. Osmund, to be observed in the Cathedral and diocese of Salisbury. The first 19 folios contain the " Consuetu- dinary," the exposition, as regards ritual, of the " Use of Sarum." 79. Chartulary of the Ancient Benedictine Abbey op Eamsey, from the MS. in the Public Eecord Office. Vols. I. and II. Edited hy William Henry Hart, Esq., F.S.A., and the Eev. Ponsonby Annesley Lyons. 1884, 1886. This Chartulary of the Ancient Benedictine Monastery of Eamsey, Huntingdonshire, came to the Crown on the Dissolution of Monasteries, was afterwards preser> ed in the Stone Tower, West- minster Hall, and theuce transferred to the Public Eecord Office, 21 80. Chabttjlaries op St. Maky's Abbey, Dublin, with the Register of its douse AT DUNBEODT, COUNTT OF WeXFORD, AND AnNALS OF IRELAND, 11G2-1370. From the MSS. in the Bodleian Library and British Mnaeum. Edited by John Thomas Gilbert, Esq., F.S.A., M.R.I.A. Vols. I. & II. 1884 and 1885. The Chartularies and register, here printed for the first time, are the only surviving manu- scripts of their class in connexion with the Cistercians in Ireland. With them are included accounts of the other establishments of the Cistercian Order in Ireland, together with the eariieso body of Anglo-Irish Annals extant. 81. Eadmrrx Histobia Novorum in Anglia, et opuscula duo de Vita Sancti Anselmi et quibusdam Miraculis ejus. Edited by the Rev. Martin Rule, M.A. 1884. This volume contains the " Historia; Novorum in Anglia," of Eiidmor; his treatise " De Vita et conversatione Anselmi Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis," and a Tract entitled " Quaeclam Parva De- scriptio Jttiraculorum gloriosi Patris Anselmi Cantuariensis." 82. Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II., and Richard I. Vols. I. II., and III., Edited by Richard Howlett, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law. 1884-1886. Vol. I. contains Books I.-IV. of the "Historia Eerum Anglicarum " of William of Newburgh; Vol. II. contains Book V. of that work, the continuation of the same to A.D. 1298, and the " Draco Normannicus " of Etienne de Rouen. Vol. III. contains the "Gesta Stephani Regis," the Chronicle of Richard of Hexham, the " Relatio de Standardo " of St. Aelred of Rievaulx, the poem of Jordan Fantosme, and the Chronicle of Richard of Devizes. 83. Chronicle of the Ancient Abbey of Ramsey, from the Chartulary of that Abbey, in the Public Record Office. Edited by the Rev. William Dunn Macray, M.A., F.S.A., Rector of Ducklington, Oxon. 1886. This Chronicle forms part of the Chartulary of the Abbey of Ramsey, preseri'ed in the Public Record Office {see No. 79). 84. Chronica Rogeri de Wendover, sive Flores Historiarum. Vols. I. and II. Edited by Henry Gay Hewlett, Esq., Keeper of the Records of the Land Revenue. 1886-1887. This edition gives that portion only of Roger of Wendover's Chronicle which can be accounted an original authority. 85. The Letter Books of the Monastery op Christ Church, Canterbury. Edited by Joseph Brigstocke Shepfard, Esq., LL.D. Vol. I., 1887. The Letters printed in this volume were chiefly written between the years 1296 and 1S33. Among the most notable writers were Prior Henry of Eastry, Prior Richard Oxenden, and the Archbishops Raynold and Meopham. 86. The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Edited by William Aldis Wright, Esq., M.A. Parts I. and II., 1887. The date of the composition of this Chronicle is placed about the year 1300. The writer appears to have been an eye witness of many events which he describes. The language in which it is wntten was the dialect of Gloucestershire at that time. 87. Chronicle of Robert of Brunne. Edited by Frederick James Furnivall, Esq., M.A., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Barrister-at-Law. Parts I and 11. 1887. Robert of Brunne, or Bourne, co. Lincoln, was a member of the Gilbcrtine Order established at Sempringhara. His Chronicle is described by its editor as a work of fiction, a contribution not to English history, but to the history of English. 88. Icelandic Sagas and other Historical Documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles. Vol. I. Orkneyinga Saga, and Magnus Saga. Vol. II. Hakonar Saga, and Magnus Saga. Edited by M. Gudbrand Vigfusson, M.A. 1887. 89. The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, with other documents relating to that Saint. Edited biy Whitley Stokes, Esq., LL.D., D.C.L., Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford ; and Corresponding Member of the Institute of France. Parts I. and II. 1887. 90. WiLLELMi Monachi Malmesbiriensis de Regum Gestis Anglorum, libri V. ; bt Historic Novella, libri III. Edited by William Stupbs, D.D., Bishop of Chester. Vols. I. and II. In the Press. Icelandic Sagas, and other Historical Documents relating to the Settle- ments and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles. Vols. Til. IV. Translat<'d by Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.C.L., Oxon. 22 In the Press — (continued), Lestokie DBS Engles solum Geffeei GrAiMAH. Edited ly the late Sir Thomas DuFFUS Haudy, D.O.L., Deputy Keeper of the Public Eecords ; continved and translated hy Charles Trice Martin, Esq., B.A., F.S.A. Vols. I. and II. Chartulart of the Ancient Benedictine Abbey of Eamsey, from the MS. in the Public Kecord Office. Vol. III. Editedhy William Henry Hart, Esq., F.S.A., and the Rev. Ponsonby Annesley Lyons. 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List of Plans annexed to Inelosure Awards, 31 Geo. II.-7 Will. IV.— Calendar of Privy Seals, &c.. Hen. VI.-Eliz., for Cheshire and Plintshire. — Calendar of Writs of General Livery, &c., for Cheshire, Eliz.-Charles I. — Calendar of Deeds, &c., on the Chester Plea Rolls, Hen. III. and Edw. I.— List of Documents photozincographcd,Will. I.- Hen. VII. List of Awards of Inelosure Commis- sioners.— References to Charters in the Cartaj Antiqua; and the Confirmation Rolls of Chancery, Ethelbert of Kent- James I. — Calendar of Deeds, &c., on the Chester Plea Rolls, Edw. II. — List of Documents photozincographed. Hen. VIII. and Edw. VI. Fees in the Public Record Office.— Calendar of Fines, Cheshire and Flint- shire, Edw. I. — Calendar of Deeds, &c., on the Chester Plea Rolls, Edw. III.— List of Documents photozincographed, C. 2970 C. 3142 C. 331J C. 3492 C. 3717 C. 3839 32 Date. Number of Report. Chief Contents of Appendices. Sessional No. Price. Mary and Eliz., and Scottish, Part I. — Table of Law Terms, from the Nor- man Conquest to 1 Will IV. s. d. 1868 29 Calendar of Royal Charters. — Calendar of Deeds, &e., on the Chester Plea Rolls, Richard II.-Hen. VII.— Durham Records, Letter and Report. C. 4012 0 9 1869 .30 Duchy of Lancaster Records, Inventory. — Durham Records, Inventory, Indexes to Kellawe's Register. — Calendar of Deeds, &c., on the Chester Plea Rolls, Hen. VIII. — Calendar of Decrees of Court of General tiurvevors, 34-38 Hen. VIII.— Calendar of Roval Charters.— State Paper Olfice, Calendar of Docu- Tittf»Ti to t*a1 ti n (T tt\ frki^ TTi cf T"v tn lllclllB 1 claLili^ lU LUC ±±lol\}lj f 1800. — List of Documents photozinco- graphed, Eliz.- Anne. — Tower of Lon- don. Index to Documents in custody of the Constable of. — Calendar of Dockets, &c., for Privy Seals. 1634-1711, in the British Museum. Report of the Com- missioners on Carte Papers. — Venetian Ciphers. C. 41G5 3 0 1870 31 Duchy of Lancaster Records, Calendar of ■RrtT'ol OlloT.*-ol.c will TT T?in TT i\oj ai v^naner&j vv in. ii.— -tvic. ii. — - Durham Records, Calendar of Chancery Enrolments ; Cursitor's Records. — List of Officers of Palatinate of Chester, in Cheshire and Flintshire, and North Wales. — List of Sherifife of England, 31 Hen. I. to 4 Edw. III.— List of Docu- ments photozincographed, Scottish, Part II. [C. 187] 2 3 1871 32 Part I. — Report of the Commissioners on Carte Papers. — Calendarium Genea- logicum, 1 & 2 Edw. II. — Durham Chancery Enrolments. — Duchy of Lan- caster Records, Calendar of Rolls of the Chancery of the County Palatine. [C. 374] 2 2 1871 — Part II. — Charities ; Calendar of Trust Deeds enrolled on the Close Rolls of Chancery, subsequent to 9 Geo. II. C. A.Ji.A.Vl. [C. 374] I. 5 6 1872 33 Duch_v of Lancaster Records, Calendar of Roils of the Chancery of the County Palatine. — Durham Records, Calendar of the Cursitor's Records, Chancery Enrolments. — Report on the Shaftes- bury Papers. — Venetian Transcripts. — Greek copies of the Athanasian Creed. [C. 620] 1 10 1873 84 Parliamentary Petitions ; Index to the Petitions to the King in Council.— [C. 728] 1 » 33 Date. Number of Report. Chief Contents of Appendices. Sessional No. Price. Durham Records, Calendar of the Cursitor's Records, Chancery Enrol- ments.— List of Documents photozinco- graphed. Scottish, Part III. — Supple- mentary Report on the Shaftesbury Papers. s. d. 1874 35 Duchy of Lancaster Records, Calendar of Ancient Charters or Grants. — Palatinate of Lancaster ; Inventory and Lists of Documents transferred to the Public Record Office. — Durham Records, Calendar of Cursitor's Records, Chan- cery Enrolments. — List of Documents photozincogiaphed, Irish, Part I. — Second Supplementary Report on the Shaftesbury Papers. [C. 1043] 1 6 1875 36 Durham Records, Calendar of the Cursi- tor's Records, Chancery Enrolments. — Duchy of Lancaster Records ; Calendar of Ancient Charters or Grants. — List of Documents photozincographed ; Irish, Part II. — M. Armand Baschet's Report upon Documents in French ArchiTCs relating to British History. — Calendar of Recognizance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester, to end of reign of Hen. IV. [C. 1301] 4 4 1876 37 Part I. — Durham Records, Calendar of the Cursitor's Records, Chancery Enrol- ments.— Duchy of Lancaster Records, Calendar of Ancient Rolls of the Chan- ceiy of the County Palatme. — M. Bas- chet's list of French Ambassadors, &c., in England, 1509-1714. [C. 1544] 1 2 1876 — Part II. — Calendar of Recognizance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester; Hen. V.- Hen. VII. [C, 1544] I. 4 4 1877 38 Exchequer Records, Catalogue of Special Commissions, 1 Eliz. to 10 Vict., Calen- dar of Depositions taken by Commission, 1 Eliz. to end of James I. — List of Rep- resentative Peers for Scotland and Ireland. [C. 1747] 4 3 1878 39 Calendar of Recognizance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester, 1 Hen. VIII.- 11 Geo. IV. — Exchequer Records, Calendar of Depositions taken by Com- mission, Charles I. — Duchy of Lancaster Records ; Calendar of Lancashire Inqui- sitions post Mortem, &c. — Third Supple- mentary Report on the Shaftesbury Papers. — Anglo-Saxon Charters photo- zincographed.— M. Baschet's List of Despatches of French Ambassadors to England, 1509-1714. [C. 2123] 4 6 U B2122, 0 34 Date. Number of Beport. Chief Contents of Appendices. Sessional No. Price. 1879 40 Calendar of Depositions taken by Com- mission, Commonwealth- James II. — Miscellaneous Records of Queen's Remembrancer in the Exchequer. — Durham Records, Calendar of the Cursitor's Records, Chancery Enrol- ments.— Duchy of Lancaster Records, Calendar of Patent Rolls, 5 Ric. II.- 21 Hen. VII. — Rules and Regulations respecting the public use of the Records. [C. 2877] 3. d. 3 0 1880 41 Calendar of Depositions taken by Com- mission, William and Mary to George I. — Calendar of Norman Rolls, Hen. V., Part I. — Anglo-Saxon Charters photo- zincographed. — Report from Rome. — List of Calendars, Indexes, &c. in the Public Record Office on 31st December 1879. [C. 2658] 4 8 1881 42 Calendar of Depositions taken by Com- mission, George II. — Calendar of Nor- man Rolls, Hen. V., Part II. and Glos- sary.— Calendar of Patent Rolls,l Edw. I. — Anglo-Saxon Charters photozinco- graphed. — Transcripts from Paris. [C. 2972] 4 0 18B2 43 Calendar of Privy Seals, &c., 1-7 Charles I. — Duchy of Lancaster Records, Inven- tory of Court Rolls, Hen. III.-Geo. IV., Calendar of Privy Seals, Ric. II. — Calendar of Patent Rolls, 2 Edw. I.— Anglo-Saxon Charters photoziuco- graphed. — Fourth Supplementary Re- port on the Shaftesbury Papers. — Transcripts from Paris. — Report on Libraries in Sweden. — Report on Papers relating to English History in the State Archives, Stockholm. — Report on Canadian Archives. [C. 3425] 3 10 1883 44 Calendar of Patent Rolls, 3 Edw. I.— Durham Records, Cursitor's Records, Inquisitions post Mortem, &c. — Calen- dar of French Rolls, 1-10 Hen. V. — Anglo-Saxon Charters photozinco- graphed. — Report from Venice. — Trans- cripts from Paris. — Report from Rome. [C. 3771] 3 6 1884 45 Duchy of Lancaster Records, Inventory of Edw. I.-Geo. 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Stationery Ojjice, May 1888. 88 ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE DEPUTY KEEPER OE THE PUBLIC RECORDS, IRELAND. Date. Number of Report. Chief Contents of Appendices. Sessional No. k Price. 1869 I 1 1 Contents of the principal Record Repositories of Ireland in 1864. — Notices of Records transferred from Chancery Offices. — Irish State Papers presented by Philadelphia Library Company. C. 4157 s. 2 d. 3 1870 2 Notices of Records transferred from Chancery, Queen'r, Bench, and Exchequer Offices. — Index to Original Deeds received from Master Litton's Office. [C. 137] 1 0 1871 3 Notices of Records transferred from Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer Offices. — Report on J. F. Eerguson's MSS. — Exchequer Indices, &c. [0. 329] 2 0 1872 4 Records of Probate Registries [C. 515] 0 2i 1873 5 Notices of Records from Queen's Bench Calendar of Fines and Recoveries of the Palatinate of Tipperary, 1664-1715. — Index to Reports to date. 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