1345-07-26, Southwick

Order date: inferred Regnal year 19 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 21d

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Dated in source: “July 26” · Place: Southwick (Wiltshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 21d (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

the prior and convent of St. Swithun's, Winchester. Order not to to the election of a bishop of Winchester in place of Adam the late without the king's special licence, although at their notification of death, after the king set out to sea, shown before the council at who believed that the king's stay in parts beyond the sea be lengthy, certain letters of licence to elect a new bishop, to avoid perils, are in the custody of one of the monks, who brought their to stay until warrant thereupon should be sent to the chancellor the king's son, keeper of England, but the king has returned to wherefore the licence is not valid, and the king has revoked it. By C.

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