LEACH. — NORWEGIAN AND ENGLISH CHURCHES, 1066-1399. 541 



traders, sometimes as state envoys, their names appear in the English 

 Rolls. 



King John, in 1212, ordered the bailiffs of all ports to allow a ship 

 of the Abbot of Lyse to export from England duty- free. 48 In 1217 

 the Abbot of Lyse concluded a treaty of trade and friendship between 

 England and Norway, and remained in England some time after 

 Henry III (or the regency) sent favorable answers to King Hakon and 

 Earl Skuli. 49 Richard, a " Cistercian monk," spent the winter of 

 1218-1219 in London as Hakon's ambassador, receiving presents of 

 money and clothing by order of Henry III, November 8 50 and Febru- 

 ary l. 51 On November 9, 1218, Henry ordered the bailiffs of Yarmouth 

 to protect the monks and men of Lyse Abbey, " according to the letters 

 of King John." 52 Richard was serving again in 1221. 53 In 1223 a ship 

 of the Abbot of Lyse secured two years' leave to export free from any 

 English port. 54 In 1225 the king ordered the bailiffs of Lynn, " de- 

 spite the export prohibition," to allow Brother William " de Luse in 

 Norwegia " to buy in Lynn fifty quarters of corn to take home. 55 In 

 1229 Henry III ordered £20 for a present to be sent King Hakon by 

 Prior Andrew of Lyse, nuncius of that king ; 56 and late in the year he 

 requested the bailiffs of Yarmouth to deliver to the same prior a ship 

 detained in their port which had brought new year's presents from 

 Hakon to Henry, so that the prior might return home in her. 5 ? In 

 1233 the sheriff of Norfolk was directed to release two ships detained 

 at Lynn, to Brother Ernisius, Cellarer of Lyse, and Brother Nicholas, 

 "canon of Teseberia in Norway," provided they could prove owner- 

 ship. 58 About 1275 one Richard was Abbot of Lyse. 59 He served 

 Edward I on intimate state business, securing the arrest in Norway of 

 a man supposed to be the fugitive Guy de Montfort, and brought tid- 



48 Rotuli Litterarum Patentium, p. 95, col. a. 



49 Rymer's Foedera, 1816 ed., I, 149; Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum, I, 

 336 b. 



50 Rot. Litt. Claus., I, 382 a (two letters). 



51 Ibid., I, 387 a. 

 62 Ibid., I, 382 a. 



53 January 23, the king ordered clothing for him (R. L. C, I, 446 a); 

 April 23, money for journey home (Ibid., 454 b). 



54 Patent Rolls, 1216-1225, p. 384. 



55 R. L. C, II, 61 a. 



56 Close Rolls, 1227-1231, pp. 218, 219. 



57 Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, I, No. 1058; Close Rolls, 

 1227-1231, p. 277. 



58 Close Rolls, 1231-1234, p. 247. 



59 Lange, p. 350; Munch, IV, 2, 86 



