[001] parson to the same church on their presentation. But if the same A. is unwilling to [002] consent to such a parson, as he agreed, then notwithstanding the claim of the same A. [003] admit to the church on the presentation of B. and C. the suitable parson they have [004] chosen. Witness, etc.’ Let the same be done with respect to several parceners if they [005] agree to present in turn successively, and let the entire form of concord be inserted [006] in the writ. If four sisters, parceners, two of whom are married and two not, claim [007] (with their husbands) seisin of a presentation against others and recover by the [008] assise, let the writ to the bishop be in this form.
A writ concerning four sisters, two of whom have husbands and two not.
[010] ‘The king to such a bishop, greeting. Know that A. and B. his wife, C. and D. his [011] wife, and E. and F. the sisters of the same B. and D. have recovered in our court etc. [012] seisin of their presentation against G. by an assise of darrein presentment there taken [013] between them, H. and I., being present with the aforesaid G. [and] opposing that [014] assise, granting to the same A. and B., C. and D., E. and F. their presentation to the [015] same church. Therefore we order you, on the presentation of the aforesaid A. and C. [016] presenting by reason of the aforesaid B. and D. their wives, and on the presentation [017] of the aforesaid E. and F., to admit a suitable parson to the same church.’ If after the [018] assise has been taken it is agreed among the parties by a concord that the pension be [019] augmented1 by the grace and direction of the bishop, let a writ be drawn in this [020] form.
Writ.
[022] ‘The king to such a bishop (or his official), greeting. Know that after an assise of [023] darrein presentment between A. the plaintiff and B. the impediant, concerning such [024] a church taken by our justices assigned ad hoc by our order, an agreement was reached [025] as to that same church by the same A. and B. in our court before us by which the [026] aforesaid B. acknowledged the advowson of that church to be the right of the same [027] A., saving however to the same B. the abbot (or ‘prior’) and his successors a certain [028] annual payment of six marks, which the same B. and his predecessors were accustomed [029] to take from it, and which the aforesaid A. acknowledged to the same B., [030] as B. says, and which the same A. wishes to be raised to one hundred shillings, if [031] without violating decency [and]
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