1315-11-26, Clipston

To the official of the court of Canterbury and his commissary. Order to do what pertains to the ecclesiastical law in the case before them in court Christian between Walter de Cantilupo, parson of the church of Snytenfeld, diocese of Worcester, and Master Robert de Leycestre, parson of a sixth part of the church of St. Mary, Warwick, concerning the tithes of all the land of the lord of Snytenfeld, called inlonde and cotmonlonde, in Snytenfeld, and of two virgates of land that William Pardeu and Stephen Hervy hold in that town within the limits of the parish of Snytenfeld church, which tithes Walter and his predecessors, parsons of that church, have been wont to receive time out of mind, and of which the said Master Robert has despoiled him, if the action be one of simple spoliation, notwithstanding the king's prohibition on behalf of Guy de Bello Campo, late earl of Warwick, setting out that Robert holds a sixth of the advowson of St. Mary's of the earl's advowson, and that Walter, claiming a third of the said sixth part of the advowson of John de Cantilupo, impleads Robert in court Christian, and that they should not hold that plea in court . Christian until it should be decided in the king's court to which of them the advowson of the said third part pertains, as if a plea of the advowson of the said tithes and not of spoliation had been moved before them in court Christian. Schedule, dorse. Enrolment of letter of Louis, king of France and Navarre, dated at Paris, 14 July, 1315, reciting the breaches by the Flemings of the peace made between them and his father, whereby they have incurred, according to the agreement, sentence of excommunication and interdict, which they have ignored; that it has been decreed in the king's court at Paris by the peers of France that they had incurred the sentence and forfeiture contained in the peace owing to the contumacy of their count Robert; and the king therefore denounces them as rebels and enemies, and deprives them of all their honours, lands, ete., ete., and condemns to death any of them found within his realm after the octaves of St. Mary Magdalene, and prohibits trade or communication with them, etc. [edera.] Enrolment of letter of the said king addressed to the king of Ergland, requiring him, by virtue of his fealty and love and of the alliances made between them, to arrest the Flemings and to cause their goods wherever found to be forfeited as the slaves of the king of France, who sends him herewith the judgment and condemnation pronounced ayainst them, so that the king of England may cause them to proclaimed in his land. Dated at Crecy, 28 (?) June, 1315. French. [Ibid.]