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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
The archbishop's vicar-general's writ for the convocation
[65r] Robertas, permissione divina episcopus Cicestrensis, reverendi patris Domini Iohannis, Dei gratia Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, totius Angliae primatis et apostolicae sedis legati, a suis civitate, diocesi et provincia Cantuariensibus absentis et in remotis agentis, vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, venerabili patri Domino Richardo, eadem gratia Londoniensi episcopo, salutem et sinceram in Domino caritatem. Grandia, insolita et periculosa negotia emergentia nunc de novo, quae totum statum et honorem regni Angliae et Ecclesiae Anglicanae iura et libertates eorum notorie qua iustitia impugnata concernere dignoscitur, in quibus commune et singulare cuiuslibet dicti regni vertitur interesse multipliciter nos compellunt, licet anxios quodammodo et invitos, praelatos et clerum Cantuariensis provinciae convocare, et ad hoc etiam faciendum literas regias recepimus sub hac forma:
Edwardus, Dei gratia rex Angliae, dominus Hiberniae et dux Aquitaniae, venerabili in Christo patri Iohanni, eadem gratia archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, totius Angliae primati, salutem. Cum nuper, assumpto passagio nostro ad partes exteras, de assensu praelatorum, procerum, et magnatum, cleri ac populi, pro arduis negotiis nos et statum nostrum, ac salvationem et honorem sanctae Ecclesiae Anglicanae et dicti regni contingentibus, volentes ut pax et quies dictorum ecclesiae et regni, in absentia nostra, inviolabiliter observaretur, et, ea de causa vobiscum habere colloquium et tractatum, vobis, in fide et dilectione quibus nobis tenemini, firmiter iniungendo, mandaverimus, quodpensatis tanta nostrum et dicti regni arduitate, et periculis imminentibus, absque excusatione quacunque, vos apud Northampton, in crastino Sancti Iacobi Apostoli iam praeterito [26 July 1338] personaliter interessetis, cum Edwardo duce Cornubiae et comite Cestriae, filio nostro carissimo, quern custodem dicti regni nostri constituimus, et cum ceteris praelatis, proceribus et magnatibus praedictis, super dictis negotiis tractaturi, vestrumque consilium impensuri. Et quia negotia praedicta salvationem dicti regni et ecclesiae sanctae, ac universorum et singulorum ipsius regni specialiter concernebant, mandaverimus vos, rogantes quod praemuniretis decanum et capitulum ecclesiae vestrae Cantuariensis ac archidiaconos, totumque clerum vestrae diocesis, quod iidem decanus et archidiaconi in propriis personis suis, ac dictum capitulum per unum, idemque clerus per duos procuratores idoneos, plenam et sufficientem potestatem ab ipso capitulo et clero habentes, dictis die et loco interessent ad tractandum et consulendum super praemissis, una vobiscum et aliis per nos illuc tune mittendis,
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