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REx dilectis sibi, Thomae de Fou. Waltero de Braund. Willielmo Braund. Gilberto* 1.1 del Punt. Rogero filio Benedicti, Johanni de Luda. Osberto filio Egidii, Johan∣ni de Paris, Jacobo del Punt. Jordano filio Egidii, Henrico filio Egidii, Thomae filio Roberti, Petro fratri Henrici Gupil, Waltero de Croyland, Nicholao Mundae, Nicholao Stoyle, Willielmo de Holgate, Willielmo de Hepham, Johanni Coiti, Thomae le Parmni∣ter, Johanni de Lanc. Johanni del Soler. Martino le Corwunder civibus suis▪ Lincoln salutem. Cum post turbationem nuper habitam in regno nostro de consilio Baronum nostrorum Judeos nostros Lincoln. sicut & caeteros Judeos nostros Angliae ad eorum corporum & rerum suarum tuitionem & conservationem in nostram protectionem specialem susceperimus, ac quidam de civitate praedicta, sicut ex eorū querimonia didi∣cimus, sibi de corporibus & rebus suis minas inferunt manifestas, per quod nimium sibi dampnum & grave periculum evenire formidant. Nos indempnitati eorum prospi∣cere volentes, Vobis mandamus firmiter injungentes, quatenus praefatos Judeos Lin∣coln. viriliter protegentes, & contra quoscunque manutenentes, eis in personis vel bonis suis non inferatis vel ab aliquibus inferri permittatis injuriam, &c. Et si quid, &c. Et hoc sicut vos & vestra diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. In cujus, &c. Duraturam per annum Teste Rege apud Glouc. 6. die May.
Some Marchers of Wales, having entred into a Solemn agreement, with Simon de* 1.2 Monteford, Earl of Leicester, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and other Nobels, to go over into Ireland for some time, for the Peace of the Realm, and ra••ified it with their Oathes, which they perfidiously violated, by staying in England, raising new Forces, Wars, drawing the Earl of Gloucester, and he the Prince, into the Confederacy and Rebellion against the King, openly slandering and defaming him; the King thereupon, by the Earl of Leicesters perswasion, as the Subscription and other circumstances evidence, commanded the Bishops of the Province of Canter∣bury, jointly in their several Diocesses to excommunicate all of them, small and great, without sparing any, and all their adherents in general▪ and to vindicate the King from their slanders, by publishing the truth of things, to unblind the people whom they seduced.