1338-02-20, Westminster

To the justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place there. Westminster. Order to cause any presentation, to the church of Artach made after the quinzaine of Hilary, in the 8th year of the reign, to be revoked, and to permit the prior of Lanthon Prima in. Wales to have such state in the advowson of the church as his predecessor, John de Rufford, had there, as the king lately impleaded the prior of that place, before the justices of the Bench, Dublin, concerning the presentation to that church, void and in the king's hands; and afterwards, at the prior's suit, showing that there was an error in rendering judgment and in the record and process, the king caused it to be brought before him, and on its being viewed and examined, and the errors pointed out, because it was found before the king that Prior John died before judgment was rendered, and that John de Gloucestr[ia], the present prior, was then prior, and that a judgment against a dead man is null in law, it was determined in the court on the said quinzaine that the judgment should be annulled and that the prior should have a writ to the sheriff to place him in seisin of the advowson, as fully appears by the tenor of the record and process which the king caused to come before him in chancery, and now the prior has besought the king by his petition before him and his council in parliament, to provide him with a remedy, as the justiciary, after the judgment for annulling the previous erroneous judgment was rendered, has presented a clerk to the church, in the king's name, it being void by the resignation of William de Bardelby, clerk, the last rector. By pet. of C. Match 12.