1304-06-18, Stirling

To the dean of St. Mary le Bow (de Arcubus), and to his commissary. Whereas the king recovered in his court before his justices at York against Master Robert de Lacy his presentation to the church of Great Hale, in the diocese of Lincoln, which was void and pertaining to his gift by reason of the temporalities of the abbey of Bardenay, which were lately in his hands, and the said Robert propounded, as the king learns, before them in Court Christian in a case of unjust detention and occupation of the church, which is pending (vertitur) between Robert de Askeby, the king's clerk, whom the king presented to that church, in excepting against the king's said clerk that the presentation to the church did not pertain to the king on this occasion, which, if admitted, would tend to the weakening (enervacionem) of the king's right and of a judgment properly rendered in his court, especially as the right of presentation acquired by the king ought not to be quashed without his being consulted; he inhibits the dean from attempting, or permitting anything to be attempted, before him in Court Christian that may prejudice the king or his right in any way, proceeding as befits in other things touching this cause whereof the cognisance pertains to Court Christian. [Prynne, Records, ii, p. 1025.]