1299-03-24, Westminster

To the abbot of St. Albans. Like request. [Jbid.] The like to twenty-five other abbots. [Lbid.] To Edmund, earl of Cornwall. Summons to be with the king as above. [Jbid.] The like to nine earls and Aymer de Valencia. [Jbid.] To John de Hasting . Like summons. [Jbid.] The like to forty-five others, [Jbid.] 30. To the archbishop of Canterbury. The king during the late voidance of the church of York by the death of J. late archbishop of that church, and when the church was in the king's hands, conferred the prebend of Massam which was lately held by Bogo de Clare, deceased, in that church, and which the king found had been divided by the archbishop into several portions after Bogo s death without his assent being asked in its entirety with all its rights and appurtenances upon a clerk of his, as pertained to him by his full royal right, and caused the clerk to be inducted into corporal possession of the prebend by the chapter of that church, according to custom; and when the said clerk had enjoyed the prebend peacefully and quietly for two years and over, John de Columpna, son of Landulph de Columpna subsequently suggesting to Pope B oniface] VIII that the prebend was due to him and was void by a provision of Pope Nicholas IV, saying nothing of the king's right by suppression of the truth obtained from Pope Boniface letters apostolic to certain executors to induct him or his proctor into possession of the prebend by himself or by others, and to defend him after induction; which, if it had succeeded, would have indeed redounded to the weakening of the king's royal right and disinheritance ; and the king, being unable to tolerate this, prohibited the executors aforesaid from attempting, or from causing to be attempted, anything in this behalf in any way that should result in his disinheritance or the prejudice of his royal right, and from proceeding to the execution of this matter without consulting him. As letters apostolic are now said to have come to the archbishop, wherein it is contained that he shall admonish on the pope's behalf the king's chancellor, by whom the prebend is alleged therein to be detained contrary to justice, and any other detainer or detainers of the prebend to leave it in peace to the aforesaid John de Columpna, or to his proctor, within a certain time, or otherwise that the archbishop shall cause them to be cited to appear before the pope, nothing being therein said of the king's royal right or of his collation of his said clerk or of the possession and continuation of possession by the clerk as expressed above: the king prohibits the archbishop from attempting, or from causing to be attempted, in any way anything in this matter to the disinheritance or diminution of the king's crown, or to the prejudice of his collation aforesaid, and from proceeding to the execution of this matter, informing him that he intends sending shortly envoys to the pope concerning this matter for the excuse of the king and of the archbishop. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 800.) . 301 Schedule. that on Monday before St. Martin in winter, 25 Edward T, in the presence of A. bishop of Durham and Sir John de specially deputed by the king for this purpose, Sir William de acknowledged that he owed to Sir Roger de Moubray and to his for the marriage of John de Moubray, Roger's son and heir, ; and he granted that if he should fail in making payment at the specified terms, the king might levy the arrears from his lands and cause him to be distrained until he should satisfy Roger's And be it known that, on 29 March, in the twenty-seventh of the reign, at Westminster, John de Crepping and his fellows, of Roger's will, assigned to. the king 100 marks of the aforesaid the money to be first levied.