REX Eborum Archiepiscopo, Karl. Episcopo, & W. de Cantelupo, salutem.* 1.1 Cum per experientiam didicimus, quod quamplures Dominae Regni nostri, spreta securitate, quae per * 1.2 legem & antiquam consuetudinem Regni Angliae capi solet, & debet ab eis, ne se maritari permitterent sine consensu et vo∣luntate nostra, non requisito super hoc nostro assensu, quibuscun∣que voluerunt indistincte se fecerunt maritari, unde tam nobis quam Coronae nostrae et dampnum et opprobrium emerserunt. Et quia no∣bis et dignitati nostrae volumus acrius a similibus praecavere, ne futuris temporibus nobis et Haeredibus nostris, per hujusmodi prae∣sumptionem et insolentiam dampnum inevitabile generetur: Vobis mandamus firmiter injungentes in fide qua nobis tenemini, quatenus sine dilatione a Margeria sorore quondam Comitis War. quae est una de generosoribus mulieribus Reg∣ni nostri, & Castrum habet ingentis fortitudinis & situm versus partes Marchiae, pro quo nobis nullatenus expediret, quod aliquem in virum acciperet, nisi de ipso tan∣quam de nobis ipsis confiderem, Castrum de War. & de terris suis, quas ipsi eligetis in plegium capiatis, praeter securitatem debitam, quod ipsa nulli viventium, sine licen∣tia nostra in matrimonio copulabitur. Ita quod si forte temerar io ausu contra hoc fe∣cisset, Castrum praedictum & terrae in plegium similiter captae, nobis perpetuo & Haere∣dibus nostris incurrantur. Teste Rege apud Burd. 27. die Martii.
The Archdeacon of Oxford, exacting an annual Procuration from the Kings Church of St. Crosse, without Oxford, which was not used to be payd in former times; The King reputing this New exaction (as all others of this kind or Nature, are and ought still to be reputed, imposed by Ordinaries, Archdeacons or other Ec∣clesiastical, as well as Temporal Officers, upon any of his subjects) a derogation to his own Prerogative and Liberty, and a new unaccustomed servitude to his sub∣jects; thereupon strictly enjoyned the Guardians of the Realm during his abode in France, to use special care, diligence and vigilance to prevent and redresse it, as this memorable Writ attests.