Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3, Volume 2 · Book · Chapter 2 · Document 197 – Document 198
REX Prioribus de Thurgarton & de Derb, & Archid. Stafford. ſalutem. Monſtravit Clauſ. 30. H. 3. m. 5. dorſo.nobis Radulphus de Leyceſtr. Rector Eccleſiae Sancti Michaelis de Coventr. quod cum decedente H. de Pateſhull quondam Coventr. & Lichf. Epiſcopo, dicta Eccleſia Sancti Michaelis, tàm de jure quàm de facto vacaret. ſicut per Inquiſitionem quam inde fieri fecimus nobis conſtitit, & conſtat manifeſtè, licet magiſtri A. de H. quendam Archid. Coventr. Th. de Wymundeham, & Petrus de Radenour, Archid. Salop. post mortem ipſius Epiſcopi de Eccleſia ipſa ſic duxerint ordinand. videlicet, quod triginta marcae de eadem Eccleſia cederent in uſus communes Canonicorum Lichfield. & alia triginta marcae in uſus Monachorum Coventr. & reſiduum ejuſdem Eccleſiae in uſus vicarii qui pro tempore deſerviret eidem; Nos fraudem illam dignitati Regioe factam uſque ad tempus oportunum diſsimulare volentes, & invenientes per Inquiſitionem praedictam Eccleſiam illam eſſe vacantem, praefatum R. Clericum noſtrum ad dictam Eccleſiam vacantem ratione Epiſcopatus Coventr. & Lichfield. vacantis & in manu noſtra exiſtentis, duximus praeſentandum. Qui quidem R. vicario per dictos Magiſtros ad deſerviend. illi Eccleſiae aſſignato poſſeſſioni ejuſdem tunc incumbente, ad Judices delegatos literas Apoſtolicas impetravit, pe… quos poſſeſſionem dictae Eccleſiae finaliter eſt adeptus. Et quia Collationes tam Eccleſiarum Parochialium quam Praebendarum ſpectantes ad Epiſcopū ipſo ſuperſtite, ad nos ſpectant ſede vacante, et manifeſte derogaretur dignitati noſtrae, ſi Eccleſia praedicta, quam poſt mortem praedicti Epiſcopi vacantem invenimus, a praefato Clerico noſtro, cui eam ratione regiae dignitatis contulimus, evinceretur, vobis prohibemus, ne in cauſa illa de caetero procedatis. Teſte ut ſupra.
Eodem modo ſcriptum eſt Decano & Capitulo Lichfield. ne proſequantur, & Judicibus Hereford. per eadem verba, & Henrico de Crok Praeſbytero, ne proſequatur, ut ſupra continetur.
By theſe Writs it is apparent; 1. That the King himſelf may by his Writs command Biſhops to recall, and not to publiſh illegal Excommunications of his Officers, Clerks, Subjects; and command other Biſhops to abſolve them, and ſeiſe their Temporalties if they refuſe to do it: 2ly. That ſuch Excommunications are againſt his Crown and Dignity, as well as his Subjects Liberties. 3ly. That he, his Counſil and Court are the proper Judges of the Legality of ſuch Excommunications. 4ly. That no Eccleſiaſtical Courts can hold Plea of Advowſons or Churches after inſtitution, and if they do, a Prohibition lies to hinder them.
The King to gratify the importunity of two of his Clerkes notwithſtanding the Popes Proviſions were odious in England, granted liberty to the Archbiſhop of Canterbury and his official, for this time only, that they ſhould confer Livings on them by Authority of the Popes Proviſions directed to them; ſo as this Licenſe of the King ſhould not be drawn into conſequence for the future.
MAndatum eſt Magiſtro H. de Mortuo mari, officiali Cantuar. Archiepiſcopi,Clauſ. 30 H. 3. m. 7. dorſ. quod licet proviſiones Domini Papae per quas mandat provideri Clericis in Regna Angleae, odioſae ſint in Anglia, tamen concedit Rex ad inſtanciam Clericorum ſuorum, *Their names diſcover them to be foraignersGuidonis de Ruſsillun et Guidonis de Palude, quod hac vice provideat Hugoni Breſhett, Clerico authoritate Summi Pontificis Domino Archiepiſ. et ipſi officiali commiſſa, Ita quod illa licentia Regis in conſequentiam non trahatur. Teſte Rege apud Woodſtock. 27. die Auguſti.
The King having intelligence that the Pope intended by all means to diſpoſe of the Archbiſhoprick of Ardmath in Ireland, by way of Proviſion, to prevent his deſign, authoriſed his Cheif Juſtice at this time to grant a Licenſe in the Kings right to the Dean and Chapter, to elect a Biſhop, and to conſent to his election, and that they ſhould demand ſuch a Licenſe from him, ſo as he tooke caution from them by their Letters Patents, that it ſhould not prejudice the King at any other time.