said seriauntts and attourney the ffourteenth daie of this presentt month of December the first yeare of the raigne of oure soveraigne lord Edward the fourth by his commandementt in the parliamentt chamber before the lordes spirituell and temporell there being presentt made relation and report att lardgand by longe extention of all the thinges abovesaid which so done and the matter in partie here communed It was thought expedientt that deliberation should be taken in this partie and in the morne everie mann should saie his advise herein: And in the morne the xyth daie of December my lord Chauncellor remembered unto the lordes spirituall and temporell then presentt in parliamentt howe yesterday they had herd what was opened declared and reported by the said seriauntts and attorney in the matter aboverehersed: And thereupon formed a question what them thought to be donne therein and that they would saie there advise finally after long and sadd communication and agreements unto either party consideringe the great evidences and proof layd for the party of the said revd father the ould bookees evidences writinges Custumarie Court rolls particuler accountte bookes called the piper of the dayes of xv Bishoppes successivelie on after an other diverse recordes also exemplified under the kinges great seale and under the seale of his Excheaquor and possession hadd and continued of the thinges above claymed by the said revd ffather and his predecessores of tyme out of minde and that no sufficientt cawse or matter is shewed by the party of the the said Tenauntts of Estmeon to the contrarie It was advised and well understood by the said Lordes That the said Tenauntts of Estmeon should and ought to paye their rentts and doe and continew their suites and services workes and customes to the said revd ffather and his successores in like manner and fourme as they have done to him in tymes passed without anie trouble or contradiction: and the morne the xvith day of december my Lord Chauncellor opened unto the kinges highnes sittinge in his Parliamentt the lordes spirituall and temporall then being presentt and also the judges as well the on bench as the other the matters abovesaid and also the contentt and advise by the said lordes thereof hadd with the which his said highnes was agreed well contented and pleased giving his good and gratious assent to the same. No XVII. Grants of Pardon and Remission from King Edward IV. to Bishop Waynflete. 1. See p. 113. Extract from a Confirmation of Privileges, as pub lished by Budden, p. 81. From the Exchequer. A. D. 1462, An. 2 Edw. IV. Nos autem chartas prædictas, ac omnia & singula in eis contenta rata habentes & grata, ea pro nobis & hære & hæredibus nostris quantum in nobis est, acceptamus, approbamus, & venerabili Willielmo Wainflete nunc Episcopo Winton. & successoribus suis ratificamus & confirmamus, prout chartæ prædictæ rationabiliter testantur. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fecimus patentes. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium primo die Julii. Anno regni nostri secundo. 2. See p. 118. Budden, p. 82. From the Exchequer. A. D. 1466. An. 6 Edw. IV. Nos de gratia nostra speciali concessimus & per presentes concedimus, venerabili in Christo patri Willielmo nunc Episcopo Winton. quod ipse & successores sui Episcopi Ecclesiæ prædictæ in perpetuum erga nos hæredes & successores nostros, quieti sint & exonerati, tam de omnibus & singulis escapiis omnium & singularum personarum pro felonia convictarum & convincendarum & ex quacunque causa jam attactarum & attingendarum et custodia ipsius nunc Episcopi Winton. & successorum suorum ut loci ordinario salvo & securo secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Angliæ custodiendam, commissarum & committendarum, quam de quibuscunque sectis, demandis, pecuniarum summis et pœnis quas prædictus nunc Episcopus et successores sui arctati prædict. nobis seu hæredibus nostris forisfecerunt aut forisfecerant, vel ad nos, hæredes sey successores nostros pertinere potuerit aut potuerint &c. Et de uberiori gratia nostra volumus & concedimus quod si presentes literæ in formâ vel materiâ seu ex quacunq, aliâ causâ quoad debitum effectum & intentionem exonerationis sive prædictæ concessionis nostræ minus validæ seu insufficientes existunt &c. Quod Cancellarius Angliæ pro tempore existens tam presentes literas nostras reformet, quam fieri faciat alias literas in ea parte validas & sufficientes, quoad dictus Episcopus & successores sui debitum effectum exonerationis & concessionis nostræ habuerit vel habuerint; nec non alias literas de perdonatione, remissione, &c. validas & sufficientes de tempore in tempus, quum per præfatum Episcopum seu successores suos &c. fuerit rogatus. T. R. apud Westmonast. 16. Novemb. Anno Ed. IV. 6. 3. See p. 118. Rymer, Fœdera, tom. xi. p. 639. A. D. 1469, An. 8. Edw. 4. Pat. 8. Ed. 4. p. 3. m. 16. &c. Pro Episcopo Wyntoniensi de Pardonatione. REx omnibus Ballivis et Fidelibus suis, ad quos Salutem. Sciatis quod nos, intuitu laudabilium meritorum Reverendi in Christo Patris Willielmi Wynflet Episcopi Wyntoniensis manifestorum, quem quidem Episcopum erga nos semper invenimus gratum et fidedignum, ex assensu et advisamento Concilii nostri eundem Episcopum repu tamus, tamus, declaramus, et acceptamus verum et fidelem Ligeum nostrum, ac ipsum Episcopum recipimus in gratiæ nostræ favorem specialem. Nolentes quod idem Episcopus, hæredes vel executores sui, ratione sive prætextu alicujus criminis, mesprisionis, offensæ, materiæ, rei, vel causæ, ante præsentem diem fieri prætensorum, sibi impositorum, aut ratione præmissorum qualitercumque imponendorum, per nos, vel hæredes nostros, Justiciarios, Escaetores, Vicecomites, aut alios Ballivos seu Ministros nostros, vel hæredum nostrorum quorumcumque, futuris temporibus, occasionetur, impetatur, ad respondendum evocetur, respondere teneatur, molesLetur, perturbetur in aliquo, seu gravetur; occasionentur, impetantur, ad respondendum evocentur, respondere teneantur, molestentur, perturbentur in aliquo, seu graventur. Et insuper (tranquillitati et quieti ipsius Episcopi plenius providere volentes) ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris, pardonavimus, remisimus, et relaxavimus eidem Episcopo, quocumque nomine censeatur, omnes proditiones, murdra, insurrectiones, rebelliones, conspirationes, confoederationes, congregationes, coadunationes, riotas, routas, conventicula illicita, insidiationes falsas, alligantias, felonias, transgressiones, extortiones, mesprisiones, concelamenta, et cognitiones eorumdem seu eorum alicujus, contemptus, impetitiones, cambipartias, manutenentias, imbraciarias, et negligentias, per ipsum Episcopum ante præsentem diem qualitercunque facta seu perpetrata, et sectam pacis nostræ, ac omne |