MAndatum est singulis Vicecomitibus A••gliae, quod in singulis Civitatibus, Burgis* 1.1 & aliis Villis Mercatori••s de Balliva sua publice clamari faciant, quod omnes Crucesignati diligenter addiscant trahere cum Balistis, & hoc non omittant, quia Dominus Papa ad instantiam Regis, singulis Crucesignatis mo∣dum trahendi cum Balistis addiscentibus xl. dies indulgentiae con∣cessit. Et omnes Crucesignati Civitatum, Burgorum & Villarum praedictarum poni faciant in constabulariis per Decenas sub aliquibus Capitaneis, qui eos ad trahendum modo praedicto diebus festivis & aliis diebus quibus ad hoc vacare poterunt, intendere faciant. Teste &c.
Some servants of John Baylol being excommunicated and imprisoned upon a Capi∣as Excommunicatum by the Bishop of Durham, for entring forcibly into the Church of Long-Neuton, other of them by way of revenge assaulted the Bishop & his men with horse & armes, as they travelled by a wood, irreverently abused the Bishop, & carryed four of his men prisoners to the Castle of Bernard, and there detained them, till the Bi∣shop should release the persons excommunicated: upon the Bishops complaint of this riot and injury, the King issued this Writ to Iohn Baylol, to release the Bi∣shops men, who was ready to absolve and deliver his; threatning severely to punish this offence, if he did not enlarge them, and give the Bishop & his servants, competent satisfaction for the injury which he neither would, nor ought to passe by without due punishment.