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COMPULSITOR
[avp.
delegated by our lord the Pope to be sole judge, his beloved
and faithful subject, or to his commissary, one or more, greet¬
ing. So-and-so has complained to us that so-and-so is sum¬
moning him to trial in the court Christian1 before you in
virtue of your delegated authority in the matter of the lay
holding of such-and-such an estate for which he does public
service, the cognisance of which naturally ought as of right to
pertain to our royal court. Wherefore we command you in
faith and fidelity, etc., that if it be so in the said cause [ye
shall not proceed] to our disadvantage, etc. Inasmuch as our
court has never failed you in the matter of justice, etc. [as
above].
IX. Compulsitor following on a prohibition.
Robert, by the grace of God, King of Scots, to all good
men and true, etc., greeting. Know that we have by our letters
enjoined on so-and-so that in the prosecution [by him] of the
cause in the court Christian, which we are prosecuting before
so-and-so, sole judge,2 etc., against so-and-so, in respect of a
certain lay holding [that he should desist, as in the pre¬
ceding document]. Wherefore we command and enjoin on
you that if so it be ye shall put just compulsion on him by
means of all his goods and gear within your jurisdiction until
he has wholly withdrawn from the said prosecution of the
cause. Taking such action in the case that we shall hear on
that account no further complaint of your failure to act. The
presents to have no validity a year after date, etc.
X. Letter of procuration by the Abbot of Aberbrothock
giving powers to appear for him in a cause concerning
him in the Synod of the Archbishop of St. Andrews.
Let it by the presents be patent to all men that we, David,
by divine permission abbot of the monastery of St. Thomas
1 See above, note 3, p. 207.
2 In the preceding document the king calls the bishop ‘ sole judge ’ in the
matters delegated to him by the Pope. In the case in hand, however, a royal
functionary is ‘ sole judge. ’
COMPULSITOR
[avp.
delegated by our lord the Pope to be sole judge, his beloved
and faithful subject, or to his commissary, one or more, greet¬
ing. So-and-so has complained to us that so-and-so is sum¬
moning him to trial in the court Christian1 before you in
virtue of your delegated authority in the matter of the lay
holding of such-and-such an estate for which he does public
service, the cognisance of which naturally ought as of right to
pertain to our royal court. Wherefore we command you in
faith and fidelity, etc., that if it be so in the said cause [ye
shall not proceed] to our disadvantage, etc. Inasmuch as our
court has never failed you in the matter of justice, etc. [as
above].
IX. Compulsitor following on a prohibition.
Robert, by the grace of God, King of Scots, to all good
men and true, etc., greeting. Know that we have by our letters
enjoined on so-and-so that in the prosecution [by him] of the
cause in the court Christian, which we are prosecuting before
so-and-so, sole judge,2 etc., against so-and-so, in respect of a
certain lay holding [that he should desist, as in the pre¬
ceding document]. Wherefore we command and enjoin on
you that if so it be ye shall put just compulsion on him by
means of all his goods and gear within your jurisdiction until
he has wholly withdrawn from the said prosecution of the
cause. Taking such action in the case that we shall hear on
that account no further complaint of your failure to act. The
presents to have no validity a year after date, etc.
X. Letter of procuration by the Abbot of Aberbrothock
giving powers to appear for him in a cause concerning
him in the Synod of the Archbishop of St. Andrews.
Let it by the presents be patent to all men that we, David,
by divine permission abbot of the monastery of St. Thomas
1 See above, note 3, p. 207.
2 In the preceding document the king calls the bishop ‘ sole judge ’ in the
matters delegated to him by the Pope. In the case in hand, however, a royal
functionary is ‘ sole judge. ’
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