Close Rolls, Edward II: December 1325 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

'Close Rolls, Edward II: December 1325', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327, (London, 1898) pp. 534. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol4/p534 [accessed 20 April 2024]

December 1325



Dec. 26. Bury St. Edmunds.	To Ralph Basset of Drayton, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Dover. Order to permit the envoys of Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, who are going to the Roman court for certain affairs of the archbishop's with letters of the king and of the archbishop, to cross the sea from that port; provided that they carry or bring back with them no other letters concerning which suspicion may be had. By K.
Dec. 26. Bury St. Edmunds.	To the abbot of Cluny. Whereas Adam, prior of Lewes, has obtained that priory, which is of the patronage of John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, by the grace of the pope, and has received the temporalities of the priory from the earl, according to custom, and has held them for some time, labouring carefully for the improvement of the estate of the priory, which has fallen away in means and is wasted by the carelessness and bad government of those who ruled over it in times past, and the king now learns from the information of the earl that the abbot is endeavouring to draw the prior into suits to answer to him outside the realm concerning certain things touching the advowson of the priory, whereby prejudice may arise to the king, because pleas of advowson of churches and priories in the realm pertain to his crown and dignity, and danger of disinheritance of the earl may arise; for the avoidance whereof the king requests and orders the abbot to consider what inconveniences may come upon him and the priory from the premises if they be carried into effect, and that the king cannot pass over such prejudical things to him and his realm without providing a remedy, and to desist from his endeavours, causing to be revoked what has been attempted in his name, so that it may not behove the king to apply a heavier hand. The king has inhibited the prior from going out of the realm to answer concerning anything touching the advowson of the priory, and from sending any one on his behalf, especially as the king is prepared to do justice to the abbot and to all others wishing to complain of things whereof the cognisance pertains to the king in this realm.