VII. Confirmatio Alexandra pape quarti de aliera medietate de Blakeburn.

LEXANDER episcopus seniua seruorura Dei, dilectis filijs, (ut supra,) salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Deuotionis augmentum vobis Deo propitio proueuire con- fidimus. Si super hijs que digne cupitis nos inuenisse beniuolos gaudeatis. Exhibita siquid nobis vestra petitio continebat, quod cum quondam Johannes, comes Lincoln, constab. Cestrie, ius patronatus ecclesie medietatis de Blak. Couentr. diocesis, consuete per duos gubernari rectores, quod tune spectabat ad eum, vobis liberaliter contulisset, intuitu pietatis, tandem bone memorie Alex ander episcopus Couentr., id approbans, vobis de consensu capituli Couentr. medietatem ipsam rectore vacante in qua rectoris iustitutio spectabat ad cum duxit vobis liberalitate grata et prouida in vestros usus proprios perpetuo concedendam. Postmodo vero eodem nobili ius patronatus relique medietatis ecclesie memorate ad eum pertinens, vobis liberalitate pia et prouida concedente obtentu retributions diuine venerabilis frater noster Rogerus* Couentr. episcopus, successor episcopi supradicti, hoc approbare, ac demum de assensu ipsius capi tuli, huius reliquam medietatem que rectore vacabat, cum in ipsa rectoris iustitutio spectabat ad eum, vobis in usus eosdem diligenti deliberatione perhabita conferre curauit, reseruata vicario in eadem ecclesia perpetuo seruituro de prouentib} ipsius ecclesie congrua por- tione, de qua commode sustentan valeat, et episcopalia ac alia

* Roger de Mculand, alias Longespèe consecrated March 10, 1256, and died December 12, 1295. He was third son of William Longespèe, carl of Salisbury, although Dr. Pcgge considered him to be a natural son of the earl, and not, as it has been stated, the nephew (nepos) of Henry III. and Richard, earl of Cornwall, as Henry was not at the time old enough to have either a grandson or nephew. See his Life, by Dr. PcRgc, 17B1.

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incumbentia sibi oncra supportare, prout in patentib} literis episcopo- rum et nobilispredictorum confectis exinde ac sigillis ipsorum signatis plenius dicitur coutinere. Nos itaq. vestris supplicationib} inclinati, quod ab eis super premissis prouide factum est, ratum et firmum habentes, id auctoritate apostolica confirmamus, ct presentis scripti patrocinio communimus. Nulli vero, (ф?., ut supra.) Data Lateran vj. kaln. Martij pontificatus nostri anno septimo.