1299-08-18, Chertsey

the sheriff of Salop. The king learns by the information of R. of Hereford that whereas John le Berner, a clerk of his diocese, for sanctuary to the church of the Austin Friars near Ludelowe for a committed by him against the king's peace, certain men of the of Ludelowe pursued him and withdrew him by force and arms from and bound him with chains, and sent him thus bound to the of Shrewsbury castle by the coroner of the county, and that he is for this and for no other reason in that prison, to the injury of of the church, for which reason the bishop has besought the to provide a remedy: the king orders the sheriff, if he ascertain that as stated, to cause the clerk to be delivered from the aforesaid prison to be taken back under safe escort to the said church, and to be in the same condition as he was in at the time when he was thence.