Writ of prohibition ostendit nobis, drawn by the justices according to the complaint.
[002] ‘The king to such judges, greeting. A. shows us that though he at one time presented [003] B. to such a vacant church, C., bearing himself as patron of that church, has presented [004] his clerk D. to the same, and that though the same A. recovered seisin of the presentation [005] in our court etc. against the same C., and on our order the clerk B. was admitted [006] at his presentation, the same D. is drawing him into court christian before you by [007] authority of letters of the lord pope by reason of the presentation made of himself. [008] And because things properly done in our court ought not to be overthrown, we forbid [009] you to proceed in that cause so as to nullify things properly done in our court. Witness [010] etc.’ There is another form of the same writ, by a writ similar to Indicavit.
Writ of prohibition against one who sues against a judgment given in the king's court.
[012] ‘The king to such a prior and his fellow judges, greeting. A. prior of N. shows us that [013] though in our court before our justices etc. he recently recovered against B., prior of [014] such a place, the advowson of the chapel of N. as an appurtenance to the mother [015] church of the same A. by the recognition of a grand assise there taken between the [016] same priors, and though the same A., prior of such a place, holds the same chapel to [017] his own use by permission of the ordinary of the place, to whom by the judgment of [018] our court we ordered the record of that plea [to be sent], that he do what was required [019] therein, C. a clerk of N. is drawing the same A., the prior of such a place, into plea [020] before you, claiming that chapel as parson of the same by virtue of the advowson and [021] gift of the aforesaid B., prior of such a place, who lost that advowson in our court by [022] the recognition of a grand assise, as one despoiled, though he never was instituted [023] therein, as the aforesaid A. says. And because the aforesaid B., prior of such a place, [024] through whose advowson the said C. claims that chapel, has no right in that advowson, [025] as was recognized by the assise, and things properly done in our court ought not [026] to be nullified by any one in the ecclesiastical court, we order you, if it is made clear [027] to you by the mandate of the said ordinary that the aforesaid C. the clerk was never [028] instituted in the same chapel at the time, or before the time, at which the aforesaid A., [029] prior of such a place, recovered the aforesaid advowson in our court, not to proceed in [030] that cause, which is before you, as it is said,
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