October 15, Sleaford
Mandate to the same, on petition of the Augustinian prior and canons of Cartmel, to declare invalid a custom that has grown up in their church, whereby, on the death of a prior, two persons are presented to their patron, that he may choose one of them, with the approval of the bishop of the diocese, June. To Master John, called Blund, canon of Chichester, declaring that the cancelling by the pope of his election to the see of Canterbury is not to be considered an obstacle to his being elected to a bishopric.
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