[Urban the bishop, servant of the servants of God] to the minister provincial and friars of the Order of Minors in England. 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 once, at the suggestion of our predecessor Pope Alexander of happy memory, a house in the town of St Edmund, king and martyr (which is called Bury, and in which the same abbot obtains temporalities) [Pope Alexander] considered that a house in which certain of your order might live was very much opportune, considering those who have regard for the salvation of souls. The same predecessor granted the minister provincial of that same order of yours 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 of yours conceded by the Apostolic See, notwithstanding that the said abbot and convent have spiritual and temporal jurisdiction in the aforementioned town. And because an indult was previously spoken to them by the Apostolic See that no religious whatsoever was allowed to build a church or chapel or have a cemetery within the bounds of their liberty without their consent and mandate, or whatever other indulgences granted by whosoever by whose grace of this kind they were impeded or able to be distracted; and which fully and expressly, or word for word, ought to make mention in the said letters.

And since a certain place in the same town had been given to the said minister for this, the said abbot and convent, for whom an indult existed from the Apostolic See that no one should dare to build a chapel or oratory (with them being unwilling) within the bounds of the said monastery, extending for one Roman mile distant from the altar, took note that if the friars of the said order lived 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 you.