1351-08-08, Henley

Whereas the king by divers letters patent lately granted te Robert de Kildesby the prebend of Southcave, in the church of St. Peter, York as void by the death of cardinal Neapoleon and in his gift by reason of voidance of the archbishopric of York, and afterwards learning that the cardinal was alive at the time of the grant but had since died revoked the first grant and on 8 April, in his sixteenth year, collated the prebend then actually void and in his gift by reason of the archbishopric being then also in his hands to Master Paul de Monte Florum, the said Robert without his knowledge and against his will surreptitiously caused the letters patent of his collation to the prebend to be renewed under a new date after the cardinal s death, subsequent to the date of the said revocation and collation of the prebend to Master Paul, of which the said Robert was not ignorant, on hearing of which the king was greatly disturbed insisting on the removal of Robert from the prebend as the chancellor could not renew letters patent without his order. But the said Robert is now dead and the king considering that the collation to Master Paul never took effect and as the prebend is still in his gift has collated the same to Henry de Ingelby, king's clerk, and on his prosecuting before the justices of the Bench for a declaration of the king's right herein, there were produced there, as is said, letters patent under the king's seal, dated 80 May, in the twenty-second year, reciting among other things that the king had collated the prebend, void by the 20191 I death of the cardinal in the time when the archbishopric was void, to the said Robert, and that he by virtue of such collation had been canonically admitted to and was in possession of the prebend and so the king ratified his estate therein, by pretext whereof the justices deferred rendering judgement for the king; in the interests of truth the king wills that it be publicly known that the letters of renewal as well as the letters of confirmation were surreptitiously obtained because it was never his intention to recite that the said Robert was canonically admitted to the prebend by virtue of the king's collation or to approve his title, although perhaps, at the request of some, he consented to tolerate his holding the prebend in his time; and so the king declares those letters of renewal and ratification were made against his will and are entirely without force and useless. By K. & C. 10.