1327-12-10, Coventry

To W. archbishop of York. Summous to attend a parliament at York on Sunday after the Purification next, warning the dean of York and the archdeacon to be present at the said day and place, and the chapter of York and the clergy of his diocese to be present by their proctors respectively, as the king wishes to have deliberation upon the articles put forth in the treaty for peace at Newcastle-on-Tyne between the envoys of the king and of Robert de Brus and other magnates and others of Scotland, and upon certain other things touching his crown. [Fadera; Rept. Dign. of Peer, iv. 378.] By K. The like to the keepers of the spiritualities of the archbishopric of Canterbury, the bishopric of Hereford, and the bishopric of Exeter, these sees being void, and to fifteen bishops, the elect of Worcester, and R. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, or his vicar-general, he being absent in remote parts. [Rept, Dign. of Peer.] To the abbot of Westminster. Summons to attend the above parliament. Did.) [ The like to eighteen abbots. [Ibid.] The like to Thomas, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England. Summons to attend the above parliament. [Zbid.] The like to five earls and fifty others. [Jbid.] To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause two knights of that shire, two citizens from every city, and two burgesses from every borough in the county to be chosen to attend the above parliament. [Jétd.]