October 15, Sleaford

Mandate to the archbishop of Canterbury to publicly excommunicate, with lighted candles, certain persons, if they be found to be laymen, who have taken and held the possessions of the abbot and brethren of Theokesbiri, left to them by will, or who have presumed to issue sentence of excommunication or interdict against the said abbot and brethren, or who have exacted from them tithes of labour of their possessions, held before the general council, cultivated by their own hands or at their cost, or of their fodder : if those who have done this be clerks, canons regular, or monks, he is to suspend them. Indult to the abbot and convent of Theokesbiri to retain to their own uses, when void, the church of Fereford, granted to them by pope Lucius, but which their predecessors have negligently granted to secular clerks, and which is now held by Master Gottfrid, papal notary.