October 15, Sleaford
Mandate to Master James, papal chaplain and penitentiary, apostolic legate, on petition of the prior and convent of St. Andrews, to call before him these on the one part, and on the other the bishop and certain clerks of St. Andrews, called Keledei (Culdees), and Masters H. de Meleburne, Adam Ovidium, and Adam de Scone, and Henry de Weles, and Roger de Huntinfeld, clerks, also the bishop and archdeacon of Dunblane, and the prior of May, D. de Pert, knight, Hugh de Nidin, and Henry lord of Inchetort, and certain other clerks and laymen of the dioceses of St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Dunblane, who have laid violent hands on the churches, possessions, pensions, rents, liberties, and other property of the said prior and convent ; and to decide the matter, causing the depositions of witnesses to be produced, and confirming, when necessary, the sentences pronounced on various points by judges formerly commissioned by the pope to try them. [Theiner, 16.]
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