October 15, Sleaford

Mandate to the abbots of Cirencester and St. Augustine's, and the priors of Bristol and Stodley, in the diocese of Worcester, on petition of the prior of Lanton, concerning the discipline of his house. Whereas certain of the brethren abstained from eating flesh meat in the refectory, some taking it in secret and unbecoming places (in abditis receptaculis et conventiculis inhonestis), so that the common table was half deserted, and quarrels and breaches of the rule ensued, H. late archbishop of Canterbury, coming to visit the priory, ordered the brethren to conform to the rule of St, Augustine, and on certain days to eat flesh meat together in the refectory, but some of them grumbling, the old abuses returned in greater force than ever. The pope therefore orders the observance of the archbishop's decree.