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Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, 1362-1404. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1902.

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'Regesta 253: 1363-1364', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, 1362-1404, ed. W H Bliss, J A Twemlow( London, 1902), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol4/pp36-47 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Regesta, Vol. CCLIII.

2 Urban V.



1363. 4 Kal. Dec. Avignon. (f. 85.)	To John de Bellocampo, knight, and Elisabeth his wife, of the diocese of Worcester. Indult to choose their confessor, who may also give leave to religious of mendicant orders to eat flesh-meat at the table of the said knight on lawful days. [Cal. Pet. i. 471.]
17 Kal. Dec. Avignon. (f.35d.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms for the repair of the chapel of Trimpeleie, Kedermynstere. [See Cal. Pet. i. 350.]
15 Kal. Dec. Avignon. (f.36.)	To the chancellor of Paris. Mandate to admit to lecture in the faculty of theology, in the university of Paris, William de Prato, S.T.P. a Friar Minor, native of Paris, who has studied and lectured for many years in the same faculty in the university of Oxford, and has obtained there the degree of master and the licence to teach in the same.
12 [Kal.] Dec. Avignon. (f.39d.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit the chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, in the poor hospital of Canterbury, commonly called ‘Estbruge,’ founded by St.Thomas the Martyr, for the poor, for persons going to Rome (Romipete), for others coming to Canterbury and needing shelter, and for lying-in women. [See Cal. Pet. i. 351.]
1364. Kal. Jan. Avignon. (f.42.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit the church of St. Mary Magdalen, Laufare, in the diocese of London.
Ibid. (f.42d.)	The like to penitents who visit the church of St. Nicholas Wolkstede, in the diocese of Winchester.
1363. 6 Id. Nov. Avignon. (f.43.)	To David Bossher, Augustinian prior of St.Catherine's, Waterford. Confirmation of his election to the said priory, confirmed by Thomas, bishop of Waterford, on the death of Andrew Edwart, a doubt having arisen whether it was not reserved to the pope. [Cal.Pet. i. 467.]
2 Id. Dec. Avignon. (f. 44.)	To the college of masters and scholars of the hall called ‘de Clare,’ Cambridge. Although the hall is sufficiently endowed in the faculties of theology, canon and civil law, medicine and philosophy, and other lawful faculties, and has four parish churches appropriated to it, and all or most of the clerks are in priest's orders, there is in the house itself no church or chapel where masses can be celebrated. Licence is therefore given for the foundation and construction of such a chapel. [Cal.Pet.i. 473.]
1364. 3 Id. Feb. Avignon. (f. 46.)	To the archbishop of York. Mandate to dispense Thomas and Joan Tone, of his diocese, who intermarried in ignorance that a woman with whom Thomas had cohabited before his marriage was related to Joan in the third degree of kindred, to remain in the marriage so contracted, declaring their past and future offspring legitimate.
1363. 2 Id.Nov. Avignon. (f.47.)	To Nicholas Abrahe, Cistercian monk of Ballynacurra (de Choro Benedicto), in the diocese of Cloyne. Extension of dispensation on account of illegitimacy, so that he may be elected to the dignity of abbot. [Cal. Pet. i. 469.]
1364. Kal.Feb. Avignon. (f. 48d.)	To Robert Sumpter, D.C.L. dean of Exeter. Indult to have a portable altar.
8 Id. April. Avignon. (f.51d.)	Decree whereby the present exemplification from the register of the appropriation to the abbot and convent of Croxton of the church of Thingdon, in the diocese of Lincoln, value 40l. made by Clement VI. 5 Kal. Aug.anno 9, shall have the force of the original. [See Cal. Lett.iii. 382; Cal. Pet.. i. 128.]
5 Non. March. Avignon. (f. 52d.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms for the rebuilding of the church of St. James, Garlekhete, London.
9 Kal. April. Avignon. (f. 54d.)	The like to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year, visit and give alms to the church of Coryngham in the diocese of London.
13 Kal. March. Avignon. (f. 57d.)	To the chancellor of Paris. Mandated to admit John Romani, an Augustinian friar, to lecture on the Sentences in vacation, and within two years from the vacation next following to admit him, upon examination, to the degree of master in the faculty of theology and to the licence to teach, he having been deputed by the diffinitores of the chapter-general of his order to lecture on the Sentences in the university of Oxford, and having been advised by the physicians to return to France for the recovery and preservation of his health.
6 Kal. May. Avignon. (f. 58d.)	To Thomas, prior of St. Oswald's, Nostell. Faculty to dispense six canons of his monastery to be ordained priests in their twenty-second year, many having died of the pestilence.
Kal. Feb. Avignon. (f. 59.)	To the provost and college of masters and scholars of Queen's Hall, Oxford. Licence to build a chapel within their house, where mass and other divine offices may be celebrated. [Cal. Pet. i. 479.]
3 Id. April. Avignon. (f. 61.)	To Matilda de Lancastria, Augustinian canoness of Campesse, in the diocese of Norwich. Grant, on petition of John, King of France, to transfer herself to the order of St. Clare, which she, before her marriage with Ralph Dufford, knight, deceased, had purposed to enter. She has, in order to escape the number of nobles coming to Campesse, where she has made her profession, caused herself to be enclosed therein, and now for peace of her conscience desires to enter the order of St. Clare. [Cal. Pet. i. 488.]
Ibid. (f.61d.)	To the minister provincial of the Friars Minors in England. Mandate, on petition of John, king of France, to transfer thirteen or more nuns of the order of St.Clare, of whom one is to be abbess, from Deney, or other monasteries of the order, to the new monastery, which Lionel, duke of Clarence, is about to found and endow in his manor of Brusird, in the diocese of Norwich. [Cal. Pet. i.488.]
Ibid.	To Lionel, duke of Clarence, second son of king Edward. Licence, on petition of John, king of France, to found and build a monastery for thirteen or more nuns of St. Clare, of whom one is to be abbess, in his manor of Brusird. [Cal. Pet. i. 488.]
11 Kal. April. Avignon. (f.65d.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms to the chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, built between the two gates of the Cistercian monastery of Kyngeswode, in which chapel, as it is asserted, miracles are done by her intercession, and to which many blind and lame come from England, Wales, France, Ireland, and Scotland. [Cal. Pet. i. 483.]
13. Kal.—. Avignon. (f. 66d.)	To Eleanor, countess of Arundel. Indult to enter the monasteries of enclosed Minoresses in England, with four honest matrons, but not to eat or pass the night therein. [See Cal. Pet. i. 519.]
6 Kal. May. Avignon. (f. 61.)	To John de Cressy, rector of Thorp, in the diocese of Lichfield. Extension of dispensation granted to him as the son of a priest, so that he may exchange his benefice for another.
5 Non. March. Avignon. (f. 68d.)	To the prior of St. Botulph's Colchester. Mandate to dispense Thomas Munde, canon of St. Botulph's, to be ordained priest on reaching his twenty-second year.
6 Non. May. Avignon. (f. 69.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit the church of the Augustinian priory of Heverynglond, in the diocese of Norwich. [Fœdera.]
6 Id. May. Avignon. (f. 69d.)	The like to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms to the chapel of St. Mary in the church of Sapcot. in the diocese of Lincoln, founded by Ralph Bassett, knight, for two chaplaincies. [Cal. Pet. i. 496].
7 Id. May. Avignon. (f.70.)	The like to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms to the church of St. Peter, Berwedon, in the diocese of Lincoln.
5 Id. May. Avignon. (f. 70.)	Relaxation of three years and three quadragene to penitents who on the feasts of the Blessed Virgin visit the church of St. Mary, Warwick, in which the ancestors of Thomas de Bellocampo, earl of Warwick, founded a college for a dean and seven canons; and one year and forty days to those who visit and give alms for the repair of the same on the other principal feasts of the year. [Cal. Pet. i. 498.]
7 Id. April. Avignon. (f. 71d.)	To Nicholas, prior of Newenham. Faculty to dispense six canons of his priory to be ordained priests in their twentysecond year.
5 Id. May. Avignon. (f. 73d.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms for the rebuilding of the church of the priory of the cell called ‘de Insula’ (Lindisfarne), in the diocese of Durham, where rested the body of St. Cuthbert, by whose merits and intercession God works many miracles; the said church having been burned in the wars.
3 Id. March. Avignon. (f. 74.)	The like to penitents who visit and give alms for the repair of the church and chancel of St. Botulph in Hoyland (Boston), in the diocese of Lincoln.
1363. 12. Kal. Dec. Avignon. (f.74d.)	The like to penitents who visit and give alms for the repair of the church and bell-tower of St. Mary's, Donington, in the diocese of Lincoln.
1364. 10 Kal. June. Avignon. (f. 75.)	The like to penitents who visit and give alms for the repair of the church and chancel of St. Peter and St. Paul, Gosberkirk, in the diocese of Lincoln.
16 Kal. June. Avignon. (f.78.)	The like to penitents who visit and give alms to the church of. St. Mary, Sculcotes, in the diocese of York.
7 Id. Feb. Avignon. (f.79d.)	To John, prior of Spalding. Faculty to dispence six of his monks to be ordained priests on completing their twentysecond year; many Benedictines having died of the pestilence.
5 Non. March. Avignon. (f. 79d.)	To William, prior of Coventry. Faculty to dispense six of his monks to be ordained priests in their twenty-second year; many Benedictines having died of the pestilence.
7 Id. May. Avignon. (f.80.)	To Walter Meysi, of the diocese of Hereford. Extension of dispensation on account of illegitimacy so that he may be ordained priest and hold a benefice. [Cal. Pet. i. 500.]
4 Non. Jan. Avignon. (f.80.)	To the bishop of Glasgow. Mandate, on petition of David, king of Scotland, to dispense John Wolleys (Wallace), donsel, and Elisabeth de Eglinton, damsel, of his diocese, to intermarry, the former wife of John, and a woman with whom he cohabited, being both related to Elisabeth in the fourth degree of kindred. [See Cal. Pet.. i. 476.]
1364. 10 Kal. Feb. Avignon. (f. 85.)	Relaxatilon, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms to the church of St. Martin, Hereford.
Non. May. Avignon. (f. 85.)	To John Saunford, canon of London, scholar of arts. Extension, on petition of queen Philippa, of dispensation on account of illegitimacy, so that he may hold additional benefices without cure of souls. [Cal. Pet.. i. 496.]
16. Kal. April. Avignon. (f. 85d.)	To the abbots and convents of Cistercian monasteries in England and Ireland. Renewal of the exemption granted by Alexander IV. dated at Viterbo, 6 Id. July, anno 3, with exemplification, from the payment of tenths of grass and hay from their meadows, groves, and lands.
7 Id. May. Avignon. (f. 89.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms for the repair of the church of St. Dominic of the Friars Preachers, Worcester. [Cal. Pet.. i. 499.]
Ibid.	The like to penitents who visit the church of St. John Baptist, Bokton, in the diocese of Lincoln. [Cal. Pet. i. 500.]
Ibid. (f. 90.)	To the bishop of Worcester. Mandate, after consideration of the circumstances touching the fitness of John de Bellocampo, scholar, of illegitimate birth, to dispense him to be ordained and hold two benefices. [Cal. Pet. i. 498.]
Kal. May. Avignon. (f. 92.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who give alms for the repair of the church of Ingham, in the diocese of Norwich.
3 Non. June. Avignon. (f. 93.)	The like to penitents who visit and give alms for the repair of the church of the Augustinian priory of Newenham, in the diocese of Lincoln.
5 Id. May. Avignon. (f. 93d.)	To Francis de Cardaliaco, S.T.P. a Friar Minor. Mandate to bestow, with the assent of the minister-general of the order, and after due examination in one of the houses of study of the said order, the degree of master and the licence to teach in the faculty of theology upon Philip Toryton, who has toiled in the said faculty in the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and has been long a lecturer in many other convents of the said order. [Cal. Pet. i. 497.]
5 Id. May. Avignon. (f. 93d.)	To Thomas de Aston, rector of St. James's, Garlekhethe, London. Extension, on petition of queen Philippa, of the value of the benefice reserved to him, in the gift of the archbishop, dean, and chapter of York, from 18 to 23 marks. [Cal. Pet.. i. 498.]
Non. March. Avignon. (f. 95.)	To Robert de Stratton, cannon of Lincoln, papal chaplain and auditor. Decree confirming a recent reservation made to him of a canonry and prebend of Lincoln, being rector of Stretham in the diocese of Ely, and having provision of a canonry and prebend of Auckland. The see of Chichester being void by the translation of the bishop to that of London, was to have been filled by the promotion thereto of Thomas, now bishop elect of Rochester, whose canonry and prebend of Wells the pope reserved to the said Robert; but as the bishop of Chichester refused the translation to London, Thomas could not be promoted to Chichester. Afterwards the pope appointed the said Thomas to the see of Rochester; and now, whilst confirming the reservation of the canonry and prebend of Lincoln, he orders that on obtaining the canonry and prebend of Wells, those of Auckland, if obtained first, are to be resigned. [See Cal. Pet. i. 470.]
16 Kal. May. Avignon. (f. 96.)	To the master and scholars of Balliol College, Oxford. Indult to have mass and other divine offices celebrated, even on the greater feasts, summissa et alta voce, in their chapel, which they are bound to attend; saving the rights of the parish church. [Cal. Pet. i 489.]
3 Non. June. Avignon. (f. 97.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit the church of St. Mary, Horton, in the diocese of Rochester, which is in need of repair, [Cal. Pet. i. 502.]
6 Non. May. Avignon. (f. 100.)	The like to penitents who give alms for the repair of the church of St. Nicholas, Blanchebuliston, in the diocese of Ossory.
3 Kal. July. Avignon. (f. 101d.)	The like to penitents who visit the church of Frampton in Holand, in which there are said to be an arm of St. Stephen and a finger of St. Margaret.
3 Kal. March. Avignon. (f. 108d)	To Thomas, prior of Walsingham. Faculty to dispense four of his canons, provided that they have completed their twentysecond year, to be ordained priests, there being but few by reason of the pestilence.
3 Non. Nov. Avignon. (f. 111.)	To William de Neuton, M.A. priest, of the diocese of Ely. Indult to study and lecture in canon law at Cambridge, or another university, he having been deputed to do so in civil law; notwithstanding the statutes of Clare Hall, Cambridge, founded for the sustentation of a college of fifteen masters and scholars in divers faculties, of which he is a member, by which statutes it is provided that one only of them shall study and lecture in canon law, and two in civil law, five years having elapsed since the person last deputed to study and lecture in canon law was made bachelor in that faculty.
11 Kal. Nov. Avignon. (f. 111.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit and give alms to the church of the monastery of Winchcombe, which has suffered damage by a whirlwind.
3 Kal. March. Avignon. (f. 111d.)	To Richard, prior of Hikeling. Faculty to dispense four of his canons, provided that they have completed their twenty-second year, to be ordained priests, there being but few by reason of the pestilence.
7 Kal. March. Avignon. (f. 115.)	To Walter de Chiltenham, Augustinian canon of Bristol. Extension of dispensation on account of illegitimacy so that he may be elected to any office of his order. [Cal. Pet. i. 481.]
3 Kal. May. Avignon. (f. 115.)	Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year visit the church of St. Mary Magdalen, Cobham, in the diocese of Rochester. [Cal. Pet. i. 492.]
2 Non. Nov. Avignon. (f. 116.)	To William Todeworth. Grant authorising the bishop of Salisbury to execute the papal mandate previously issued to him, and, after due examination, to give to the said William the church of Essewater, in the diocese of Exeter, void so long ago by the death of Richard Giffard that it had lapsed to the pope; a doubt having arisen since the issue of the said mandate whether this was so, and whether the said church was not void in some other way. [See Cal. Pet. i. 472.]
7 Kal. Sept. Avignon. (f. 118.)	To the bishop of Lichfield. Mandate, if the facts are as stated, to dispense Richard Scharesbreck, donsel, and Matilda de Burchetar, to remain in the marriage contracted by them in ignorance that the late Gilbert de Goseforthsiche, who had cohabited with Matilda before her marriage, was related to Richard in the third and fourth degrees of kindred; declaring their past and future offspring legitimate.
10 Kal. Feb. Avignon. (f. 119d.)	To John Kenedi, donsel, of the diocese of Glasgow. Rehabilitation of his children, so as to enable them to hold ecclesiastical benefices, they having been disabled therefrom by reason that he caused a certain priest, who had slandered him to David, king of Scotland, after further provocation, to be killed, thereby incurring excommunication, from which, and from the guilt of homicide, be was absolved, his children remaining unable to obtain benefices unless dispensed by the pope.
1363. 2 Non. Dec. Avignon. (f. 121.)	To the abbot of Battle, the prior of Hastings, and another named. Mandate to carry out the ordinances touching apostates in regard to Andrew Sergeaunt, monk of Robertsbridge, bearer of these presents, who, having left his order, desires to be reconciled to it.
1364. 4 Non. March. Avignon. (f. 123d.)	To Nicholas, bishop of Tusculum. Faculty to compel all prelates, secular and regular, of France and England—to which realms he, then cardinal of St. Vitale's, and Talairand, bishop of Albano, were sent by Innocent VI.—to pay the procurations due to them, which were refused by the said prelates.
2 Id. Jan. Avignon. (f. 125d.)	To the bishop of Chichester, and Robert de Stratton and Richard de Wynewike, canons of Lincoln. Mandate, on petition of the prior provincial and the prior and friars of the London house of the Augustinian order, to publicly order the restoration of the books and other goods taken by John de Ardern, of the said order, from their London house, and deposited by him with divers persons, and to excommunicate all those who detain the same beyond a given time.
12 Kal. April. Avignon. (f. 126.)	To the bishop of London, the abbot of Westminster, and the prior of Christ Church, London. Mandate, on petition of Geoffrey de Herdeley, prior provincial, William de Ainukelan, prior, and Thomas Letse, sub-prior of the London house of the Augustinian friars, to summon those concerned, and compel John de Ardern, who has on false grounds appealed against the said prior provincial, prior, and sub-prior, and John de Chellery, who has also carried off goods and jewels from the said house, to return to the same and to the obedience of the said priors and sub-prior, and to restore what they have taken.
13 Kal. March. Avignon. (f. 127d.)	Decree, on petition of William [de Lenne], bishop of Chichester, replacing the process begun by him against canon John de Dounton, or Dorneton, in the position in which it was before the said John appealed to the pope and obtained provisional absolution from the excommunication issued against him by the said bishop. On the bishop, to whom provision of the see was made by Innocent VI. coming to be installed, the said canon opposed him, and afterwards hindered the production of certain muniments, or copies of them, for the defence of the rights of the bishop concerning the mensa episcopalis, about which there was a suit. He, moreover, stirred up other subjects of the bishop to rebel, refused to obey the bishop's order to tender canonical obedience in regard to his church of Bonn', and proceeded to issue sentences of excommunication and suspension against subjects of the bishop, and to put sequestrations in some places, causing them to be enforced by lay power. On the bishop's calling on him to desist, he refused to his face to obey, and when the bishop summoned a chapter, the said John impetuously got up, refused to answer, and went out, disobeying the bishop's order to remain until the business for which the chapter was summoned was finished; upon this he was excommunicated, and after his appeal heard before the official of Canterbury he appealed to the pope, who gave verbal commission to hear the cause to Peter, bishop of Albano, then cardinal of Sancti Quatuor Coronati, before whom appeared proctors, Master John de Ulmonte for bishop William, and Master Peter de Bononia for John Dounton. On the ground of the bishop's translation to London the cardinal was commissioned by the pope provisionally to absolve the said John from the aforenamed sentence of excommunication, provided that Thomas de Trelok, dean of London, appointed bishop of Chichester, consented thereto, which it is said that he did in presence of the said cardinal, who therupon provisionally absolved the said John. But as William did not consent to the translation, neither the appointment of Thomas to the see of Chichester nor his consent to the absolution had any effect. [Cal. Pet. i. 481.]
4 Id. June. Avignon. (f. 129d.)	To the bishop of Winchester, the official of Salisbury, and another named. Mandate to carry out the ordinances touching apostates in regard to John Audenete, Cistercian monk of Hayles, in priest's orders, bearer of these presents, who, having left his order, desires to be reconciled to it.
2 Non. March. Avignon. (f. 131d.)	To the bishops of Pamepluna and Nimes, and another named. Mandate to publish the decree touching the cause between William, bishop of Chichester, and John de Dounton (as above). [In this document Thomas de Trelok is described as bishop of Rochester, to which see, in fact, he was promoted on this day.]
15 Kal.June. Avignon. (f. 133d.)	To the bishop of Lichfield. Mandate to summon those concerned, and make order touching the case of Isabella de Scaresbrok, of the diocese of York, who in her tenth year was espoused to Henry Molineux, and was carried off, with knowledge thereof, by John de Yorke, citizen of York, more desirous of patrimony than of matrimony, and was terrified by him into a clandestine contract of marriage. Afterwards, being freed from the said John by her relations, she remained with them until she became of marriageable age, and, keeping to her first espousals, publicly married Henry. John then, falsely asserting that she was contracted to him first, brought an action against her as his lawful wife, before the official of York, and so treated her advocates and proctors that no one dared to defend her, nor did she dare to appear in person before the archibishop, being in fear of John, who, with a multitude of armed men, lay in wait for her.
9 Kal. July. Avignon. (f. 134.)	To the bishop of St. Asaph. The like mandate in regard to John de Cherleton of Appelleye, of the diocese of Lichfield, who intermarried with Joan de Langheley, after which John Cudington, clerk, and John son of John de Trilowe, donsel, with their accomplices, despoiled John de Cherleton both of his wife and of her dower in lands and goods, causing her to be carried off.
7 Id. July. Avignon. (f. 134d.)	To the bishops of Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Ross. Mandate, on petition of the clergy of Scotland, to compel the abbot and convent of Dunfermline to exact no more tolls or passage dues from ecclesiastics than they do from nobles or their servants, at the port called Queensferry (portus regine) in the diocese of St. Andrews. [Theiner, 326; Cal. Pet. i. 443.]
1363. Kal. Dec. Avignon. (f. 139d..)	To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate, if the facts are as stated, to sequestrate all the lands, possessions, and manors belonging to Margaret de Boslingthorpe, relict of Roger de Croyeby, donsel, in right of inheritance and dower, and to give a sufficient portion of the fruits thereof, during the hearing of the cause between them, to Roger Haunstredi (Hannsard or Haunsard), knight, who, alleging a previous contract of marriage, has seized the whole income, amounting to 400 marks, destroyed buildings and manor walls, wasted the woods, and alienated Margaret's lands and possessions. In the time of Innocent VI. the cause was heard by Peter, precentor of Valence, papal chaplain and auditor, and is now pending before Master John Robinelli, papal chaplain and auditor, before whom Henry Spyker has appeared as proctor for Margaret, and Robert Fraunceys for the knight. [Cal. Pet. i. 471.]
1364. 2 Sept (sic). Avignon. (f. 142d.)	To the bishop of Hereford. Mandate, on petition of John David, chancellor of St. Davids, to summon those concerned, and inform himself touching the chancellorship, said to be of the value of 31 marks 3s. 4d. to which John, archbishop of York, when bishop of St. Davids attached, on the death of David Baret, chancellor, who with the chapter had previously consented, the duty of lecturing in theology, either personally or by deputy, no pension or provision being made for the same; bishop Adam is now attempting to make John David lecture. A fit sum for the said lecture is to be assigned to the chancellor, who is not to be compelled to support it out of the rents of the chancellorship, if these are found insufficient.
8 Kal. Nov. Avignon. (f. 143.)	To the abbot of Alnewik, and the prior and archdeacon of Durham. Mandate, on petition of Robert de Aukeland, vicar of Hertburn, to summon those concerned and make order respecting the jurisdiction of the archbishop of York in regard to an appeal in the archbishop's court by Robert de Bontuel and Richard Sperman of Akwelif, priests of the diocese of Durham, touching certain greievances suffered by them at the hands of the official of Durham, on the instance of Matthew, vicar of St. Nicholas's, Newcastle. In the said appeal John Ereis, commissary general of the official of the archbishop's court, ordered Robert de Aukeland, then rural dean of Newcastle, to cite as witnesses William Alman, clerk, and Hugh Hawkin of Newcastle, layman, both of the said rural deanery, and on his not doing so, cited him to appear himself, and on his non-appearance publicly excommunicated him as contumacious, on which he appealed to the pope.
2 Id. Oct. Avignon. (f. 144d.)	To the bishop, dean, and archdeacon of Clonmacnois. Mandate, on petition of Henry de Ferers, knight, and Joan de Tuyt, of the diocese of Meath, to summon those concerned, and make order touching the case. Walter Cusak, donsel, who had cohabited with a woman related to Joan in the third degree of kindred, married Joan, who, on being certified of this, applied for a divorce from him, and for a licence to a marry another. Thomas Pers of Meath, under commission from the bishop, gave sentence in favour of Joan. Although Walter did not appeal, and Henry married Joan, the said Walter afterwards, on a visitation of the archbishop of Armagh, suggested to him that the former marriage was valid, and the archbishop, abruptly acting on this false suggestion, and without summoning Henry and Joan, declared the former marriage valid, and ordered Joan to live with Walter as a wife. From this sentence Henry and Joan appealed to the pope. [Theiner, 327.]
1363. 15 Kal. Dec. Avignon. (f. 145d.)	To the prior of Durham, the chancellor of Salisbury, and another named. Mandate, on petition of William de Norwico, rector of Sthanhop, in the diocese of Durham, to place him in the position in which Thomas de Brudebroke was before his death in regard to three sentences obtained by him in the papal court in the time of Innocent VI. in his cause against the bishop touching the tithe of calves and colts from the houses called Bowe-houses in Hyngeantwell (Hanging Wells), Westiacis (West Gate), Westiatflodiat (West Gate Flood Gate), Trybrister, Dahous, Sunderlandschell, Langley, Estiacis (East Gate), Horsiley, Scell (Ash Shield), Bilingschell (Billing Shields), Ovestanhopburn (Westernhopeburn), Quitwelschell, Yebraiersley, Yehorshongs, Suwinhopstell (Swinhope), in the said parish; further, to execute the said sentences in accordance with the mandate of the said pope, which mandate they have disregarded.
1364. 2 Kal. Oct. Avignon. (f. 146d.)	Prorogation of the citation of Richard, earl of Warundel, in the cause between him and William, bishop of Chichester, touching certain injuries caused to the bishop by the said earl and Richard Win, prior of the Friars Preachers at Chichester; John Messier, Benedictine prior of St. Nicholas, Arundel; John Vincent, rector of Dichennigg (Ditchling); John Burlee, rector of Terryngg (Tarring); William de Horewik, rector of Buri; John Wilcock, rector of Toliton (Tillington); Walter de Linderinggs, rector of Hammes (Hamsey); John de Lovente, priest; Edward de Sancto Johanne and Andrew de Peverel, knights; Robert de Halsham, Nicholas de Wilcombe, or Wilcomke, John atte Hyde, John Bilknape, Thomas Ackemore, Richard Schetmille, Robert de Rackeseye, Robert in the Hale, Philip Wichard, Geoffrey Norden of Lewes, Richard Chaning, laymen of the diocese; Adam Husee, Ralph Gulias, Roger Chenny, Roger de Baketon, Robert de Blundele, William Rexergue, Geoffrey Hawe, or Halbe, citizens of Chichester; Richard de Sthaniclifford, clerk, of the diocese of Canterbury; William de Honygitton, of the diocese of London; and Adam de Bury Ermery of London. The cause was committed to an auditor at the Roman court, before whom the earl and his adherents were ordered personally to appear on the first of October, but as the cause cannot be so quickly terminated, the personal citation is, with the bishop's consent, revoked, and the earl is ordered to appear by his proctor in a year from this date.