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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
The archbishop's mandate for the convocation
Reverendo in Christo patri ac domino Domino Iohanni, Dei gratia Lincolniensi episcopo, Thomas, permissione divina Londoniensis episcopus, salutem et fraternae dilectionis continuum incrementum. Literas reverendissimi in Christo patris ac domini Domini Thomae, Dei gratia Sancti Ciriaci in Thermis sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae presbyteri cardinalis, Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, totius Angliae primatis et apostolicae sedis legati, vicesimo secundo die instantis mensis Decembris [22 December 1483] in haec verba recepimus reverenter:
Thomas, miseratione divina Sancti Ciriaci in Thermis sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae presbyter cardinalis, Cantuariensis archiepiscopus, totius Angliae primas et apostolicae sedis legatus, venerabili fratri nostro Thomae, Dei gratia Londoniensi episcopo, salutem et fraternam in Domino caritatem. Literas domini nostri regis sigillo suo sigillatas nuper recepimus in haec verba:
Richardus, Dei gratia rex Angliae et Franciae et dominus Hiberniae reverendissimo in Christo patri Thomae, eadem gratia cardinali et archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, totius Angliae primati, salutem. Quibusdam arduis et urgentibus negotiis nos securitatem et defensionem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ac pacem, tranquillitatem, bonum publicum et defensionem regni nostri et subditorum nostrorum eiusdem concernentibus, vobis in fide et dilectione quibus nobis tenemini rogando mandamus quatenus praemissis debito intuitu attentis et ponderatis universos et singulos episcopos vestrae provinciae ac decanos et priores ecclesiarum cathedralium, abbates et priores et alios electivos, exemptos et non exemptos, necnon archidiaconos, capitula, conventus et collegia totumque clerum cuiuslibet diocesis eiusdem provinciae ad comparendum coram vobis in ecclesia cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londoniarum, vel alibi prout melius expediri videritis, cum omni celeritate accommoda, modo debito convocari faciatis, ad tractandum, consentiendum et concludendum super praemissis et aliis quae sibi clarius exponent tune ibidem ex parte nostra, et hoc sicut nos et statum regni nostri ac honorem et utilitatem ecclesiae praedictae diligitis nullatenus omittatis. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium, vicesimo die Decembris anno regni nostri primo [20 December 1483].
Quocirca fraternitati vestrae committimus et mandamus quatenus omnes et singulos dictae ecclesiae nostrae Cantuariensis suffraganeos infra dictam provinciam nostram constitutes ac absentium episcoporum vicarios in spiritualibus generales citetis peremptorie. Et per eos decanos et priores ecclesiarum cathedralium et singula capitula earundem, archidiaconos,
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