October 15, Sleaford

Mandate to Pandulph, bishop elect of Norwich, papal legate, to enquire and report to the pope touching information laid against the bishop of Glasgow, by Master William of the church of Glasgow, that, when chaplain of the king of Scotland, he gave 100 marks to Philip de Valon, the king's chamberlain, and promised a much larger sum to the queen to procure his appointment to the see by the king, and that he gave 40 marks to Master Ralph Malovicinus, canon of Glasgow, to induce him to resign his prebend. [Theiner, 13.] Indult, on the testimony of 8. cardinal archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops of Salisbury and Rochester, and cardinal Gualo, to R. de Nevillis, the king's vice-chancellor, to be ordained and promoted to church dignities, notwithstanding his illegitimacy. [Shirley s Royal Letters, i. 534.]