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xliv PREFACE. expelled from the chancel.' He at once appealed for the rights of the church of Worcester (p. 495). The bishop was soon after formally resisted when at Worces- ter to receive as usual the profession of some monks, so as to be prevented from doing anything to prejudice the question during the appeal ; the prior told him that their profession was made not to him, but " to God and " the church." He came, he said, " to correct their " daily excesses." This he tried again in the following January ; the prior bade him enter, according to the composition - [i.e. of 1224], in the Lord's name, as he and his predecessors had done ; but the bishop refused, and both appealed ; the convent giving a copy of their appeal to the bishop, but the bishop refusing to do the same to the convent (p. 497). However, two days afterwards, the bishop sent two of his clerks with his seal, and after a payment of twenty marks at once by the priory, and a promise of forty more to be paid afterwards, granted that all the spiritualities should be in the same condition as they were before the scene at Westbury, and that the composition should have its ancient force.^ In spite of this, at an ordination in 1289 at Broms- grove, the bishop would not allow the precentor to act, " immemor pacis factse," says the chronicler, " quam cre- " dimus esse Wallicam et inanem " (p. 498). The West- But the great struggle between the bishop and the heSs^*^^" convent arose from the prebends in the church of West- ' The bishop gives a diflferent " episcopum et conventiim Wigor- account to this, when it was made " niae," Thomas's Worcester, Ap- one of the thirty-six charges against pendix No. 62, p. 48. The bishop him. He says that the archdeacon, promises that he will not receive, or any person appointed by the and states that he never has received, bishop, had always been the proper any amercements from the prior's person to summon the candidates, tenements at Alveston. (Annals, (Thomas. Appendix, p. 64.) p. 497.) There is also a compo- 2 See this in Wharton, Anglia sition, dated 1274, between the Sacra, i. p. 543 ; and see the Annals bishop and the priory given in the (1224), p. 417. document No. 48, p. .'52 of Thomas's 3 Seethe " l^eformatio pacis inter Appendix.