October 15, Sleaford

Notification date: uncertain Edward III · Papal Registers

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Dated in source: “October 15” · Place: Sleaford (Lincolnshire)

Notification to the bishop of Durham that, in answer to his repeated requests, and those of his chapter, the pope has directed the legate to commute his vow of the crusade, made before he was bishop, for a certain number of soldiers to be sent to the Holy Land. Letter in pursuance to Pandulph, bishop elect of Norwich [papal legate]. Induit, at the request of Lewis, eldest son of the king of France to Vincent and Robert, priests, Giles, Ralph, and Reginald, masters, and Martin, Thomas, Giles, and William, 3 HONORIUS IU. 63 clerks, that the penance imposed upon them by G. cardinal of St. Martin's, when papal legate, for entering England with the said prince, shall not be a bar to their advancement to higher orders.

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