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[001] to the same church, saving the right of each when the same A. who is now under age
[002] comes of full age. And therefore we order you to admit, on the presentation of the
[003] same A. and B., saving the right of each of them when the same A. comes of age, in
[004] accordance with what was said above, a suitable parson to the same church. Witness
[005] etc.’

Another form of writ on the same subject.


[007] ‘The king to such a bishop, greeting. Know that when A. the guardian of the son and
[008] heir of B. was summoned in our court before our justices etc. to answer such an abbot
[009] as to why he impeded the same abbot from presenting a suitable parson to the church
[010] of N., which is vacant, the same A. said that the advowson of the church belonged to
[011] him by reason of the said heir, [whereupon] the abbot appeared in the same court and
[012] produced the charters of such a one, the ancestor of the said heir, on the evidence of
[013] which he asserted that the right of advowson of the same church belonged to him.
[014] Finally a settlement was reached between the abbot and A. by common consent that
[015] they would together choose a clerk and present him to you, saving however to each
[016] of them, the abbot and the heir, his right for the future, both on the possession as
[017] on the property, so that neither of them may lose any of their right of possession or
[018] property when the aforesaid heir comes to his inheritance. Therefore we order you
[019] to admit, on the presentation of the aforesaid abbot and A., a suitable parson to the
[020] same church, saving the right of each when the aforesaid heir comes of age, in accordance
[021] with what was said above. Witness etc.’ And that when the heir is a minor a
[022] clerk ought to be chosen by common consent and jointly presented is shown [in a case]
[023] of Michaelmas term in the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth years of king
[024] Henry, in the county of Derby, an assise of darrein presentment concerning the
[025] church of Ilkeston.1 Another writ on the same matter, where a clerk is presented by
[026] the common consent of those who are of full age, where the plea was by writ of right.

Concerning the admission of a clerk where one is presented by the common consent of several who are of full age.


[028] ‘The king to such a bishop, greeting. Know that it was agreed in our court before our
[029] justices etc. between A. the plaintiff and B. the deforciant with respect to the advowson
[030] of the church of N. with the appurtenances, as to which there was a plea between
[031] them in the same court, that the aforesaid A. and B. should choose a suitable parson
[032] and together present him to the same church, saving the right of each. And therefore
[033] we order you to admit, on the presentation of the same A. and B., saving the right



Notes

1. B.N.B., no. 480; C.R.R., xiv, no. 978; Hall in E.H.R., lxxix, 155-6


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