REX Dilecto Clerico suo Magistro Willo de Bakepuz, Escaetori suo in Hibernia,* 1.1 salutem. Cum vacante dudum sede Elphini Ecclesiae Capitulum ejusdem lo∣ci Ven. patrem Thomam tunc Abbatem de Buellio Cistercien. ordinis sibi in patrem & pastorem eligissent. Ac Venerabilis Pater Tuamensis loci Metropolitanus ipsam confirmaverit electionem munusque consecrationis impenderit eidem, prout ex li∣teris accepimus Metropolitani praedicti, nobis supplicantis, ut eidem Elfin. Episcopo temporalia sui Episcopi restitui faceremus. Cumque pars quaedam Capituli supra∣dicti Milonem Archid. Clo. tempore vacationis praedictae in loci illius Episcopum elegissent, qui postmodum per Archiepiscopum Ardmacan. Hiberniae primatem confirmatus & munus consecrationis adeptus à nobis temporalia obtinuerat. Episcopi memorati se coram nobis praefato Thom. Episcopo personaliter opposuisset, propter quod ipso superstite absque discussione juris utriusque coram suo Judice facienda, Temporalia praedicta ipsi Thomae Episcopo restitui non poterant nec debebant; Ac jam, ut dicitur, et sicut ex testimonio Literarum praefatis Tuamensis Archiepiscopi patentium accepimus, dictus Milo Episcopus diem clauserit extremum. Vobis mandamus, quod cum occasione hujus∣modi electionis, confirmationis, et consecrationis de dicto Milone, dudum factarum per primatem praedictum, et similiter pro restituti∣one temporalium quam sibi fecimus hactenus distulerimus, eidem Thomae Episcopo temporalia assignare praedicta, nec aliud obstaculum intellexerimus propter quod ei non debeant restitui; vos si praefa∣tus Milo naturae debitum exsolverit, et de hoc vobis constiterit, prae∣fato Thomae Episcopo temporalia praedicta sine dilatione plena resti∣tuatis. Recepto prius ab ipso nomine nostro hac vice, de gratia nostra speciali, juramento fidelitatis, quod ipse nobis, veluti caeteri Episcopi et Praelati terrae nostrae, praestare tenetur. In cujus, &c. Te∣ste Rege apud Westm. 10. die Aprilis.
Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury having incurred great debts, and much impo∣verished his See in defence of the Rights and Priviledges of the Church of Canterbury, as was pretended, (but in truth in the Popes and his Brothers Wars and quarrels) as he procured an Ayde of First-Fruits from all the Clergy of his Diocesse by the Popes grant, so he obtained this Patent and Letter of recommendations from the King, to the Tenants of the Archbishoprick, to grant him an Ayd to discharge these debts, which he ill deserved from them, being seldome resident in his Arch∣bishoprick, and taking no care at all for his peoples souls or b••dies, minding only his own filthy lucre.