Document 2/139/64 (Melr. Lib., no. 308A)
- Description
- Pope Honorius III writes to the abbot of Newminster, the prior of Brinkeburne (Northumberland) and the archdeacon of Northumberland, Durham diocese, noting that the prior and convent of Kirkham has impetrated certain letters to him against the abbot and convent of Melrose concerning lands, teinds, pastures and other things, submitted to the prior of St Trinity of York and his colleagues. Because the abbot and convent had been brought to court outside their diocese for more than two diets, against the statutes of the General Council, the judges had proceeded very little into the case. Whereby, the prior and convent have asked the case be delegated to others. He thus commands them to call together the parties, hear the case, and terminate it without appeal, causing what is decreed to be observed firmly by ecclesiastical censure. If the witnesses named shall have withdrawn out of favour, hatred or fear, they shall compel them by the same censure, without appeal, to provide testimony of the truth. If all of them cannot take part in carrying this out, let two of them do it.
- Firm date
- 21 May 1222
- Dating Notes
- 12 kal. June, pontifical year 6
- Place date (modern)
- Alatri
- Place date (document)
- alatri
- Related Place
- Alatri
- Source for Data Entry
- Melrose Liber, i, no. 308A
- Trad. ID
- Melr. Lib., no. 308A
- Calendar number
- 2/139/64
- Charter type
- Papal letter
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- Ferguson, Medieval Papal Reps., App. I, no. 59
Cooper, Select Scottish Cases, no. 17