king, as if to that extent it were part of the royal rights that had been conferred on him. Occasionally there must have been some difficulty in reconciling conflicting claims. In the Register of Christ Church, Canterbury, B. 2, fo. 42G. vo., we find the rights of that church on the deaths of Suffragans recorded in a hand of apparently the fifteenth century, and as the document is not without interest as illustrating ancient usages, we give it in extenso.
Jura Ecclesie Christi Cantuariensis debita post mortem suffraganeorum suorum.
Memorandum, quod Dominns Archiepiscopus sede plena, ct Prior Cantuariensis sede Cantuariensi vacante, de jure ct consuetudine Cantuariensis ecclesie debeut habere omnia sigilla et anulum secundo meliorem cujuslibet Episcopi Cantuariensis provincie defuncti. Item, de Episcopis Assavensibus et Eangorensibus defunctis ildem Archiepiscopus sede plena, et Trior sede Cantuariensi vacante, debeut habere palefridos sues cum freno et sella, et Capam pluvialem cum capello, et similiter omnia sigilla et anulos suos secundo meliores, sicut de aliis Episcopis provincie Cantuariensis defunctis. Item, de Episcopo Rofiensi defuncto debet Archiepiscopus sede plena habere palcfridum suum, et cuppam suani argenteam, et totam meutam canuni suorum currencium ac etiam omnia sigilla sua et anulum n)eliorem ; et similiter custodiani omnium tempora- lium Episcopatus Kufensis ^ que de archiepiscopo et ecclesia Cantuariensi tenentur. Sede vero Cantuariensi vacante domiiius Rex racione Archiepisco- patus in custodia sua existentis debet habere de Episcopo Rofensi de- functo palcfridum suum, et totam meutam canum suorum currencium, ct custodiani tetnporalium tocius Episcopatus Rofcnsis, ct cu])pam suam argenteam et aimluni suum meliorem : Prior vero Cantuariensis habebit omnia sigilla et anulum secundo meliorem dicti Episcopi Rofensis defuncti, sicut de aliis E[)iscopis de provincia Cantuariensi defunctis sede Cantuariensi vacante. Item, de Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi defuncto doniinua Rex habebit meliorem palcfridum suum, et anulum suum meliorem usualem, et totam meutam canum suorum currencium, ct cuppam suam. Prior vero Cantuariensis habebit omnia sigilla sua et unum anulum secundo meliorem.'* It may readily be supposed that it proved on some occasions difficult to tnforcc the claims set forth in the foregoing document, and especially in the more remote sees of the Principality. In lolO, on thedeatli of Robert Orford, Hishop of Ely, his pontifical ring not iiaving been delivered uj) in duo course, a mandate was issued by Archbishop Winchelsey, directed to Richard de Oteringham, then administering the spiritualities of the vacant see, to obtain possession of the ring which apj)cared to have been kept Mtutd, inula, or lunln, in I'rciicli, wlicrc tlio kiiij;'H ImwliH witi' ki'pl, vtKiiti:, n piifk of lidinnlH ; K<)<|ii«-tort. arc niciitioiic(i hh eiirly bh 1. '(((((. I-ili. 'I'IiIh word Ih derived proljiilily fnnii Liit. (iai'deroljc, 'Jfltli Kdw. 1. riMva-c, mid it iiiUHt bo diKliii;;ui»liiMl from '> Sic in MS. mutu, in l"'ri:m'li, juu/', ii cii){o or hiied in " Tlu) eontnicti'd wdivIm li.'iv<> licro H'liioli liawkft wen; k)-|it wiiilst iiioiiliiii^ litcn till |iriiit<'il In i.ifiiimi. In i-i'^iir<l to or clinn^itiL; tlii-ir pliiniunf, {unilin-i) or llic word written Canlniir' tlic inljcctivc more ({i-iieraliy where fowJH wini- hIiiU iiji U-i'iiiiimlinn Iimh in cncll cmhi; liccn hii|i to fitllen. Si-e Roi|iiefi'rl, i M iir. lroni Jilied ; |ioHhilily, llowi'Ver, in Home in tliiK U-rni h di^rived llio KiiyliHli word sIumcch ( 'anluiirie nnglit lime been niurv Mew«. 'I'be iiMiliK IliijiK lit W'ehliiiiiiHti-r, |'ro|i.r.
