July 1, Avignon

To the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of Win- : chester. Mandate to proceed according to former letters addressed to the said archbishop touching the priory of Pritelwelle. James de Cusantia, monk of Lewes, acting under orders of the prior, John de Monte Martini, turned out William de Avernas, prior of Pritelwelle, and took his place. After ; divers appeals, as related in the former letter, and violence used by two monks of Lewes in the church of Pritelwelle, William died, and the monks dispersed themselves, James occupying the priory ; on which the pope ordered the archbishop to replace them in it. That the matter may be carried out with due caution the bishop is added to the commission. To William de Spalding, canon of Sculdham, of the order of Sempingham. During a game at ball (ad pilam), as he kicked the ball (ewm pede), a lay friend of his, also called William, ran against him aud wounded himself on a sheathed knife carried by tie canon, so severely that he died within six days. Dispensation is granted, as no blame is attached to William de Spalding, who, feeling deeply the death of his friend, and fearing what might be said by his enemies, has applied to the To the king, cn the complaint of Galhardus, cardinal of St. Luey s, touching the appointment made by the king to Robert de Baldok ofa prebend of Lincoln, papal provision of which had been made to the said cardinal. By authority of Nicholas IV. in August 1290, the prebend of Lincoln, called Ayllesbury, with the chapel of Milton, was divided; and Milton becoming void by the death of Gilbert de Segrave, canon, and archdeacon of Oxford, was given by Clement V. to the said cardinal, who held it and the archdeaconry for seven years. The division having been made without royal authority, and the 5 JOHN XXII. 215 prebend in its entirety belonging, in the voidance of the see, to the king's collation, it was given to Robert de Baldok. On the see being filled, the bishop, by the king's order, cited the cardinal to show cause why he should not be removed from the prebend, on which appeal was made to the pope. The notary who was required to draw up the necessary instrument refused, on the pretext of some royal edict, by which such appeal would be construed as a violation of the king's right. The division having been made in the reign f the king's father, and having been allowed to stand to the present time, the pope, considering that the king's right is in no way infringed, prays him to revoke what has been done against the said cardinal. Concurrent request to the archbishop of Canterbury to use his influence with the king, sending him a copy of the above letter. To Bertrand de Assevio. Provision of the canonry and prebend of Bedewind, in Salisbury, void by the promotion of Rigaud, bishop of Winchester, to whom they were given on the death of Peter de Sabaudia; Master Nicholas de Tragewy then unlawfully detaining it. Concurrent mandate to the archdeacons of Orleans and . Winchester, and another named. To Ralph, son of Robert called le dortorier,; papal agent in England. Provision of a canonry of Chichester, with reservation of a prebend. Concurrent mandate to the archdeacon of Winchester, Raterius de Miromonte, canon of Salisbury, and Gerald Cusantia, canon of London.