Folios: 405v-406. County of Yorkshire. Charters or muniments found in the castle...

Folios: 405v-406. County of Yorkshire. Charters or muniments found in the castle of Pontefract, Yorks, in a box, marked by a sign. Concerning the institution and destitution of the prior of Pontefract.

First party: S., prior of Karitate [La Charite-sur-Loire].

Second Party: Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln.

Place or Subject: Whereas a controversy had arisen between S., prior of La Charite-sur-Loire and the convent of that place, by their attorney, Robert, prior of Colongiis, on the one side, and Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, on the other, concerning the institution and creation of the prior in the priory of Pontefract of the earl's patronage, the attorney, in the name of the prior and convent, was proposing that they had been in possession, from time out of mind, of making the institution and deprivation of the prior in the house of Pontefract, and had presented to the earl, the patron, Brother William de Bruges to the priory of Pontefract in the name of the prior and convent of La Charite-sur-Loire, with the earl asserting to the contrary for several reasons that he had refused to admit the presented man. And upon this, at the instance of the attorney, Edward, king of England, had commanded the earl to receive the man who had been presented by the prior as prior, otherwise he should be before the king, wherever he should be in England, on the octave of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary 14 Edw. I, to show why he ought not to admit the man presented by the prior of La Charite-sur-Loire, to that priory, which is of the earl's patronage.

Dated at Westminster.

Friday, the feast of St Peter in Cathedra, 1285.

For original deed see: DL 27/215