[Urban the bishop, servant of the servants of God] to our venerable brother … the bishop of Carlisle and our beloved son … the abbot of St Augustine’s, Canterbury. Our beloved sons the abbot and convent of the monastery of St Edmund, pertaining to the Apostolic See with no intermediary, of the Order of St Benedict, of the diocese of Norwich, have shown to us that they obtained from our predecessor Pope Alexander of happy memory, a house in the town of St Edmund, etc. in which certain of the order of Friars Minor might live, which was very much opportune, considering those who have regard for the salvation of souls. The same predecessor granted the said minister by his letters that, if a place were granted him for this use in the said town for this use by the devotion of the faithful (or in any other just way), he should be able to build a house in the same place, and have there an oratory or cemetery, according to the indult to the same order conceded by the Apostolic See, notwithstanding that the said abbot etc. He decided that within that place, which had apparently been granted to the said friars, [no one] should dare to build if the [monks] were unwilling; taking note that, if the friars of the said order should live within the said limits, grave prejudice would be generated to them and to the said monastery. Upon this, for their aforesaid right, they took care to oppose the ministers and the friars of his order. And on account of this the aforesaid minister and friars of the aforesaid order in England besought from our predecessor letters to certain executors under a certain form. Before whom, with the business pending in this manner, the aforesaid minister and friars besought certain other letters from our said predecessor, by which the predecessor himself, whatever his contrary letters, privileges or indulgences to them, upon receiving and obtaining this kind of place in the aforesaid town, granted by the same predecessor, by whatever other letters or indulgences or privileges not making express mention of the foregoing, whether already attempted or continuing to be attempted, these he declared useless and empty, deciding etc.