An important contemporary source for fourteenth-century English history, in a pioneering edition from 1863-4.

. 1863 edition.: ...deducta, ut integro corda populi vestri possidetis, et ita clerici, sicut et laici, magis quam alicui progenitorum vestrorum manne porrexerunt adjutrices. Sicque sano mediante consilio, populi vestri suffragio, A.D. 1340. men for ecclesiastics. A.D. 1341. The Archbishop of Canterbury's Letter to the King. 1 After this word, reference is made in the Arundel MS. to the end of the volume, " quarre in fine"; where however, this Letter is not to he found. It has been supplied hero from the text of Hemingburgh, and MS. Harl. 655. The Letter, in the original French, is also given in the Chronicle of Avcsbury, and is printed in the New Fadera, II. p. 1143.-PrilV. X!. 14; xxiv. fi. 3 Hinque viam Harl. 655. slcterant Harl. 655. s This and the two following words are omitted in Harl. 655. quid sibi ilia, Harl. 655. 7 ejus vero tempus Harl. 655. 4 Omitted in Harl. 655. AJ). 1341. " gratia necnon vobis a Deo collata, de inimicis vestris Scotts MS. Hut. " et Francise gloriose triomphastis, inter Cbristianos 'princi-6S5-. " pes nobilior reputad estis. Sed impraesentiarum, per ini-"""P1" quam qnorandam terrae vestrae consilium, 'qui commcdmn Brmer " proprium sive ntilitatem 'magis quam honorem vestrum, " populive salutem, affectare noscontur, clericos et alios terns " vestrae capi facitis, processus contra leges terrae, quae per " sacramentum in Coronatione vestra 4praestitum custodire " tenemini, peragitis indebitos, necnon contra Magnam Char" tam, contra quam venire praesumentes per praelatoe Angliae, " Bullamque Papalem, quam penes nos habere dinoscimur, " sunt excommnnicati. Quae quidem in animae vestrae non " modicum periculum, status honorisque detrimentum, proh " dolor! 'acta sunt. Et quanquam iidem qui rectores terrae " 'magis quam statui illorum congruit, se faciunt et consilia" rios, intelligere vos conantur quod ea quae in presenti '...