ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



Archdeacon of Richmond, the archbishop's vicar-general, issued his mandate 

 to the vicar of Mansfield, Dean of Nottingham, to induct the new Dean of 

 Lincoln with possession of the church of Mansfield. A similar mandate was 

 also issued as to the induction of the dean into possession of the church of 

 South Leverton. 48 



Archbishop Romayne, in a letter dated 4 September 1291, to the warden 

 of the Friars Minor at York, expressed his intention of preaching in York 

 Minster on behalf of the crusade on the day of the Exaltation of the Holy 

 Cross, and asked him to send three friars to preach for the same object on 

 the same day at Howden, Selby, and Pocklington, promising a hundred 

 days' indulgence to those who joined or supported the expedition. A like 

 commission was sent to all the houses of Dominican and Franciscan friars 

 throughout the diocese to send out three, or at the least two, of their 

 members to preach the crusade on that day. The Franciscans of Nottingham 

 were to supply preachers for Nottingham, Newark, and Bingham. 47 



This renewed but abortive crusade preaching was caused by Pope 

 Nicholas IV giving the tenths of the papal tax on benefices to Edward I for 

 six years, towards a fresh expedition to the Holy Land. 



The vicarage of Hucknall Torkard was sequestrated for a singular reason 

 in 1292. Adam de Hoknale the vicar had taken a special oath of residence 

 at his vicarage, but in spite of this he had departed covertly to the Holy 

 Land, alleging a vow. The archbishop was willing to overlook the perjury, 

 but instructed his diocesan official to sequestrate the profits of the vicarage 

 from the time of his departure until his return from the Holy Land, providing 

 meanwhile a priest to serve the parish. 48 



Philip of Willoughby, Dean of Lincoln, was summoned in 1292 by the 

 official of York diocese to pay canonical obedience to the archbishop for the 

 churches in York diocese annexed to his deanery, as had been done by his 

 predecessors. From the tenor of Archbishop Romayne's mandate to his 

 official, dated 28 November, it is evident that the dean had treated previous 

 intimations with disdain or contempt, for the terms of the mandate are most 

 peremptory ; the dean was to be at once personally cited to appear to yield 

 obedience to the archbishop, if the official could find him, and if not the 

 official was to cause the matter to be proclaimed distinctly and openly in 

 each church of the diocese held by the dean, at high mass, on some solemn 

 day where most people were assembled, summoning the dean to appear per- 

 sonally or by proxy before the archbishop in his manor of Hexham on the 

 next court day after the Circumcision. 49 The dean disregarded this solemn 

 summons, and, on 14 February 1292-3, the archbishop again issued a citation, 

 entrusting the delivery of it on this occasion to the official of the Archdeacon 

 of Nottingham. 10 



Careful provision was compassionally made for Nicholas the vicar of 

 East Markham, on his resignation in 1293, when bowed down with old age. 

 The archbishop arranged that he was to have for life the greater tithes of the 

 vill of Tuxford which belong to East Markham vicarage. Nicholas was to 

 bear his share of any extraordinary burdens. A new vicar was inducted into 

 the vicarage of East Markham, but the archdeacon's official, on the same day 



44 York Epis. Reg. Romayne, fol. 73. " Letters from 'Northern Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 93-5. 



48 York Epis. Reg. Romayne, fol. 79. 49 Ibid. " M Ibid. fol. 80. 



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