Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 3, 1385-1389. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1921.
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'Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1385', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 3, 1385-1389, (London, 1921) pp. 26. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol3/p26b [accessed 19 April 2024]
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December 1385
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| Dec. 16. Westminster. |
To the official of the court of Canterbury for the time being. Writ forbidding him to send over to the chancellor of Cantebrigge university for the time being or to his representatives inhibitions and citations in contempt of the king, in breach of the liberties of the university and to the disturbance of the chancellor's cognisance and execution of all manner of personal pleas, so behaving that no second complaint come to the king's ears; as by reason of his desire for increase of the clergy in the realm the king by charter has granted that the chancellor and his successors and their representatives shall have cognisance of such pleas, as well for debt, account, other contracts whatsoever and torts as for trespass against the peace and misprisions not amounting to mayhem or felony within the town and suburbs of Cantebrigge where a master or scholar, a scholar's servant or a public minister of the university shall be one of the parties, that they shall hold them where they please within the town and suburbs, making execution thereof according to law and to their customs, and making inquisition concerning such trespasses as well by virtue of office as at suit of a party, that the justices appointed to hold pleas before the king, the justices of the Bench and other the king's justices whatsoever shall without let or difficulty allow them all such pleas in the king's presence and absence, and that no justice, judge, sheriff, mayor, bailiff or minister shall meddle therein, nor put a party to answer before him, but that such party shall be justified and punished before the chancellor etc. as aforesaid; but in contempt of the king and in breach of the said liberties the said official is sending to the chancellor etc. from time to time inhibitions and citations to prevent them from making execution and taking cognisance of such pleas. | ||||