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[001] because that would be manifestly contrary to our crown and dignity etc. Witness etc.’
[002] [That things properly done in the court of the lord king ought not to be nullified.]1
[003] Where a certain clerk has been agreed upon, in as much as the heir of one of the parties
[004] is under age, and clerks earlier presented wish to implead the clerk instituted, let a
[005] prohibition issue in this form.

Prohibition where action is taken to annul what has been properly done in the king's court.


[007] 2‘The king to such judges, greeting. We forbid you to hold in court christian the plea
[008] as to the church of N., with respect to the advowson of which there was recently a
[009] plea in our court before our justices etc. between A. the plaintiff and B. the guardian
[010] of C., son and heir of D., the impediant, by reason of the right which the same B. said
[011] that the same C. had in the aforesaid advowson, as to which the same A. and B. agreed
[012] in our court before our justices that each of them would consent to E., the chancellor
[013] of such a place, since the proceeding could not proceed because the aforesaid C., who
[014] is said to have a right in the aforesaid advowson, cannot answer to the charters of his
[015] ancestor (or the like) since he is within age, and because, if the plea which is before
[016] you in court christian should proceed, the same C. while under age might incur the
[017] loss of his advowson, and [because] pleas as to advowsons belong to our crown and
[018] dignity. Witness etc.’ There is also3 another kind of prohibition by reason of temporalities
[019] which could belong to the king by reason of his custody of vacant archbishoprics
[020] and bishoprics, which furnish the occasion for prohibition, as on behalf of
[021] St. Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury.4 The prohibition is drawn in this form.

Of things which pertain to a lay fee by reason of some advowson, as gifts or rents which may belong to the crown.


[023] ‘The king to the prior and convent of Rochester, greeting. By the word of certain
[024] people we have recently learned that, though the venerable father E. Archbishop of
[025] Canterbury has the custody of the bishopric of Rochester, now vacant, with all the
[026] profits and issues belonging to the said bishopric, you are drawing the same archbishop
[027] into plea in court christian by authority of letters of the lord pope with respect
[028] to certain gifts which are to be made from your5 manors, in the same accustomed
[029] manner in which other annual rents



Notes

1. Rubric: belongs infra 258

2. Supra iii, 241

3. ‘etiam’

4. Canonized 16 Dec. 1246

5. ‘vestris’


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