October 15, Sleaford

Mandate to the deans of York and Norhimbria and the archdeacon of Norhimbria to enquire and report under seal to the pope touching the division of the possessions and rents of the church of Carlisle between the bishop and the prior and convent, made by virtue of a papal mandate to this effect to the abbot of Holeultram and his colleagues. Certain houses below the infirmary and other offices have been by them improvidently assigned to the bishop; and the sub-delegates divided certain proceeds, formerly belonging to the prior and convent, between them and the bishop, both parties being absent ; the bishop also usurps the collation of churches in the gift of the prior and convent. Monition to the bishop of Worcester to cease from burdening the abbot and convent of Theokesbiry by celebrating ordinations there, and by himself, his archdeacons, and officials holding synods and other chapters, to the disturbance and injury of the monastery. Indult to the abbot and convent of Theokesbiry that they shall not be compelled to receive the bishop or archdeacon coming to visit their churches and parsons, or pay procurations to them beyond the amount allowed by the Lateran council. Injunction to the cardinal archbishop of Canterbury, to the earls Ranulf of Chester, William of Pembroc, the king's marshal, William of Warenne, Gilbert of Gloucester, William de Mandeville of Essex, and William of Albemarle, to Hubert de Burgo and others of the king's council, to see that what the pope is writing to the king about the reconciliation of Falkes de Breauthe and the restitution of his goods and his wife with her dower shall speedily take effect. [Shirley, i. 547.) Concurrent mandate to the bishops of Coventry, London, and Salisbury, directing them to urge the king to restore to the same Falkes what has been taken from him, Letter to the king touching the same matter. Monition to the cardinal archbishop of Canterbury to give his assistance that what the pope writes to the king in the matter of Falkes de Breaut may be carried out. 10-11 HONORIUS III. 113 Monition to the king of France to revoke his letters of banishment against the archbishop of Bordeaux, written on the oceasion of the war between king Lewis and Henry, king of England, and R. his brother, and restore to him his possessions and rents which were seized at that time by the king's bailiffs.