1302-01-30, Linlithgow

To the sheriff of Kent. Although the king lately ordered the sheriff, h on the denunciation of R. archbishop of Canterbury signifying by his letters patent to the king that Reginald Flocker, Godeleva Deye, Thomas Bate, Cicely Stier, John Ketel, Mariota de Essele, Alice Pipestr , William Thormod, Agnes the handmaid (ancilla) of the relict of Godegrom, Robert de Sutton, Joan la Wyte, Godeleva Dobel, Robert Bailli, Mabel daughter of Adam Attebrok, Alice de Petyndenne, Joan the handmaid of William Hugelyn, Stephen Ricard, Agnes Posschelestr , Stephen Touncherd, Agnes de Bello, Joan sister of John Monek, Christiana Schitte, Robert Loims, Joan Tredestr and Magota de Pirie were excommunicate for their contumacy, and would not permit themselves to be justiced by ecclesiastic censure to justice the said men and women by their bodies until Holy Church should be satisfied for the contempt and wrong done to her: the king now, because the abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, asserts that they are subjected to him and are wholly exempt from the archbishop's jurisdiction by virtue of an exemption lately granted to him by the pope, concerning which an ordinance was made before the king and his council in parliament at Lincoln, orders the sheriff to deliver the said men and women from prison upon their finding security to be before the king at his will to answer in this behalf. By K. To Walter de Gloucestria, escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the prior and convent of Holy Cross, Waltham, by the charters of the king's progenitors -[ Incomplete.