

A DORSET ROYAL PECULIAR. 97 



special chapel belonging to the King and is known to pertain to his 

 patronage ; in order that they should not confer any prebend or church 

 in the said deanery upon the said W. or other, the King inhibits them, 

 commanding them to revoke what they have attempted : and that they 

 go no further he appeals to the apostolic see and appoints Philip de 

 Salfeteby as his proctor to make such an appeal.* 



1307, March 28. To the collectors of the procurations of ... 

 cardinal of the Roman Church. Order prohibiting them from exacting 

 procurations for the use of the cardinal or any exactions by reason of 

 which it may be necessary for the king to apply a heavier hand as his 

 free chapels (Wymbourn, &c.) are exempt from all exactions, contri- 

 butions and procurations whatsoever : and the king learns that they 

 exact procurations as above from the dean and chapter and coerce 

 them to pay them. J 



In 1312 it is described as a royal free chapel : 



June 24. Protection for one year for Stephen de Malo Lacu, deffn 

 of the King's free chapel of Wyburne Minstre. 



In the Patent Rolls are constantly to be found notification 

 of grants made of the deanery of the king's free chapel at 

 Wymburnemynstre (or Wyborne Mynstre) in the diocese of 

 Salisbury, e.g., to Richard de Swynnerton, king's clerk, in 

 1335fto Richard Murymouth in 1338, to Robert de Kingeston 

 in 1342, to Thomas de Clopton in 1349, to Thomas de Brembre 

 in 1350, fec., &c. 



1315, April 15. Order to the dean of the free chapel of Wimburn, 

 &c., &c. . . , to appoint certain persons in whom he can confide to 

 collect a tenth of the beneficies (sic) pertaining to the chapel which 

 are exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinaries. || 



1318. Feb. 7. To Master Roger de Asserio, Canon of Orleans. 

 Order forbidding his attempting anything to the prejudice of the king 

 or of the free chapels of ... Wymburne mynstre, &c. 

 and to revoke any thing he may have attempted in this behalf 

 as the king understands he exacts from the dean and prebendaries 

 of the chapels intolerable impositions and payments, and compels them 

 to pay by ecclesiastical censure, whereas they are free chapels of the 



* Patent Rolls 22, Henry III., m. 2. 

 Close Rolls, 35 Edward I., m. lid. 



Patent Rolls, 5 Edward II. 

 f Patent Rolls, 8 Edward III., m. 5. 

 |j Close Rolls, 8 Edward II., m. 9. 



