REX Justiciario Hiberniae salutem. Cum fuerit hucusque pex inso∣lentiam* 1.1 tam diebus Patris nostri, quam nostris, de Collatio∣nibus Ecclesiarum quae nobis vacabant in Hibernia, plurimum juri nostro et dignitati derogatum, utpote cum aliqua earum vacare con∣tigisset, statim nobis inconsultis inde fieret collatio. Nolumus quod ex hinc quae sic in nostrum dispendium sunt attemptata, ex nostra permissione convalescant. Mandamus igitur vobis et firmiter in fide qua nobis tenemini praecipimus, quatenus cum de caetero ali∣quam Ecclesiam quae de nostra sit advocatione vel ad nostram spectat donationem vacare contigerit; vos eam nullo modo conferatis, nec inde sine nostro assensu et voluntate quicquam faciatis. Teste H. apud Northampton. xxiiij. die Septembris. Per eundem.
Idem etiam vobis dicimus de Ecclesiis Cathedralibus.
This year the Earl of Albemarle refusing to deliver up to the King some of his Lands and Castles committed to his custody, at the time prefixed to him in the Kings Court, and fortifying them with Armes and Victuals without the Kings consent, for which he was excommunicated by the Bishop of Norwich, the Popes Legate, together with his Complices; thereupon the King issued this Prohibition to all his Barons and Subjects in Lancashire, and 5. Counties more, not to ayd, assist, or keep company with him or his Complices, but to avoid them as excommunicated persons, till they submitted to the King; and to be ready to obey the Kings commands if he still con∣tinued obstinate, under pain of forfeiting their goods, seizing their lands, and impri∣sonment of their persons: Ecclesiastical censures being by the Popes and his Legates Usurpations, commonly inflicted in that age for Temporal offences and Rebellions, to reduce men to obedience to the King, as well as to the Pope or Church.