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choose a third clerk as umpire. This matter was to be completed 

 between the date of the agreement and Pentecost, and the Earl 

 was to give reasonable notice to the Bishop to have his clerk 

 ready. None of the Earl's friends, whether clerics or laymen, 

 who were engaged in this matter, and none of the people of 

 Cornwall were to be molested or aggrieved on the part of the 

 Bishop or of anyone belonging to him, by penalty, at any time, 

 or by reason of any article exhibited by the Bishop against 

 William de Moneketone on account of any distress levied by him 

 by the King's orders, or for defamation, or for any cause or 

 action which the Bishop had, or could have instituted up to the 

 present time. And that this settlement might be strictly and 

 without default adhered to, the aforesaid Bishop gave his 

 promise in good faith. And as to the distress he holds the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, or his Official, harmless in matters 

 touching the spirituality ; and matters affecting the Earl and his 

 belongings which could be and ought to be, tried and determined 

 in the King's courts, were to be entered on the rolls of the Chief 

 Justices, so that he could proceed with the distress without 

 dispute or disturbance to the j)ermanent accomplishment and 

 settlement of the whole of this business. In witness whereof the 

 Bishop set his seal to this deed, together with the seals of 

 Master John de Pontisara, Archdeacon of Exeter, and Sir Ealph 

 de Engham, the King's Justice, at London on the morrow of St. 

 Martin in the sixth year of King Edward (i.e November 12, 

 1278). On the 17th of April, 1283, by an ordinance in which he 

 recited that his predecessor Walter (Bronescombe) had planted a 

 garden at Grlasney desiring his successors to water it, and that it 

 was difficult to carrj^ out properly the wish of Bishop 

 Bronescombe on account of the distance of Glasney from Exeter 

 which prevented efficient personal government, Bishop Quivil, 

 with the consent of the Chapter of Exeter, ordered the appoint- 

 ment of a resident Provost of Glasney. And since, as it is 

 written, it is not lawful to muzzle the ox that treadeth out the 

 corn, and to him who sows spiritual things the temporal are but 

 a just tribute, the Bishop annexed to the Provostship the Church 

 of Probus. Difficulties seem to have arisen over this appropria- 

 tion, and on the 23rd day of February, 1288, the Bishop gave a 

 decision against the College. On the same day the church of St, 



