1300-11-01, Linlithgow

To ae sheriff of Kent. Although the king lately on the information (denunciacionem) of R. archbishop of Canterbury that Thomas de Combrok, 7 Walter (?) [de] Hugham, Juliana atte Fispole, Elias de la Thegh, Joan 4 le Couhird, John Russel and John le Delver were excommunicated for contumacy and would not permit themselves to be justiced by ecclesiastical censure ordered the sheriff to justice them by their bodies according Fto the custom of England until they should satisfy holy chureh for 3 the contempt and wrong; he now, because the abbot of St. Augustine's, - Canterbury, asserts that the said men and women are subject to him and ; are wholly exempt from the archbishop's jurisdiction by virtue of an exemption newly granted to the abbot by the pope, concerning which an j ordinance was made before the king and his council in his parliament at Lincoln, orders the sheriff to supersede the taking of the said men and 7: women until the octaves of St. Hilary next, which day the king has given i . 473 cont. archbishop and the abbot, so that there may then be done what king shall cause to be ordained by his council, upon the said men women finding the sheriff security to be before the king at his will If he have arrested them by virtue of the said order, he shall them from prison in the meantime by such security. By C.