LEgato Rex, salutem. Cum sicut audivimus Prior Sancti Jerusalem Anglioe, The∣saurarium* 1.1 Ehoracensis Ecclesiae, super quadam Piscaria sua, coram vobis trahat in causam, quae quidem causa terminari debet in Curia nostra: Et nobis ex hoc possit praejudicium generari: Paternitatem vestram attente rogamus, quatenus cum plenam fiduciam de vobis reportemus, quod ea quae spectant ad Coronam et digni∣tatem nostram velitis plenius conservare, praedictam causam non sustineatis coram vobis de caetero ventilari. Et taliter has preces no∣stras exaudias, quod vobis ob hec teneri debeamus ad grates. T.
Consimiles Literas habet Radulphus filius Nicholai de catallis & debitis.
Consimiles Literas habet Magister de Ripar. de debitis.
The Bishoprick of Landaffe becoming void, the Pope by his own Papal Authority and Provision conferred it on John de Monmouth, who was consecrated Bishop thereof by the Archbishop of Canterbury, after the Kings Royal assent to the Popes: Provision, Anno 1239. (not 1296▪ as Godwin in his Catalogue of Bishops, p. 427. mistakes) whereupon the King issued this Writ to the Earl of Gloucester and Hert∣ford, to restore the Temporalties of the Bishoprick to this new Bishop, he having formerly granted them to him, and Jone the Kings sister for their lives, during the vacancy.