1322-03-01, Coventry

W. archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop knows how certain of the realm have for a long time disturbed the king and his proclaiming that they did all these things for the honour and profit of king, and have now taken to arms and gone to the north and have themselves against the king with Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and it plainly in a transcript sent to the king of certain letters that have found in the north, a copy of which transcript is enclosed herewith, [although] the said rebels asserted they had done these things for the honour and the profit of the realm, they have conspired for the shame and the disinheritance and the destruction of his realm and people, that they are hastening a confederacy made by them with the Scotch contrary to their allegiance ; wherefore the king is journeying with and arms to the north, where the said rebels now are awaiting the The king orders the archbishop to cause the copy aforesaid to be and published in the cathedral and collegiate churches and other places in public convocations in his divcese as often as he shall see fit, and to a copy thereof to all his suffragans, ordering them to publish the same. By K. W. archbishop of York. Like order, substituting for the above letters in the north, certain letters in the archbishop's possession, a copy he has sent to the king. the sheriff of Lincoln.