October 15, Sleaford

Mandate to Master James, papal legate, on the showing of the archbishop of Cashel, to inbibit a corrupt custom which obtains, whereby, if an Englishman loses anything, and swears tbat an Irishman has stolen it, his oath being supported by six Englishmen, the Irish, although innocent and ready to purge themselves by thirty or more witnesses, have to make restitution, while their oaths are not received against English thieves. The legate is to see that equal justice is done without respect of persons. [Theiner, 16.]