Collectanea. First series / edited by C.R.L. Fletcher.

Date:
1885
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    r8 complaints of the University were then made to the King, we leave only the short space of time between 1326 and 1328 for the settlement of which Wood speaks. On May 13th, 1329, Edward wrote to four cardinals, urging them to prevail on the Pope to bring the Archdeacon to his senses. The dispersion and ruin of the University were no unlikely result of his vexatious conduct: at least the case ought to be settled in England. On February 2nd, I3301,the king wrote letters to the Pope, to Cardinal de Mota, and to seven other cardinals. He urged the Archdeacon to rest content with the authority which his predecessors in the office had possessed, and repeated the proposal that the whole question should be submitted to certain English prelates. It would seem 2 that these exertions of the King were not altogether without result, for about the end of April a serious attempt at reconciliation was made. The University drew up eight articles to form the basis of negotiation, and sent them to the Cardinal-archdeacon by the hand of John de Leygh, who was authorised to bring the contest to an end if that were in any way possible. This attempt failed ; and the next serious efforts, perhaps, are those referred to in the documents here printed. Two separate deputations appear to have been sent from Oxford to the Curia. The first, in which Simon de Bredon was one of the envoys, failed because—among other causes— of the dissensions between the members of the deputation; probably this took place in 1333* The second deputation, about five years later, was that of William de Skelton and Master A. de T.3 The negotiations were protracted over several years, but appear to have attained to no successful issue. It was not until 1345 that the quarrel was terminated by a compromise which was very favourable to the University, through the mediation of William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich. The Chancellor was declared 4 to have archidiaconal authority 1 Rymer, ii. pp. 777-8. 5 Wood, Annals, Book i. p. 421. 3 [Trehik?] 4 See the document in Mun. Acad. pp. 14S-152.