| Description | Comments by [Simon of Ghent], bishop of Salisbury, on the royal replies [given in 1301] to the clerical gravamina presented in the same year. The subjects covered include the operation of the writ 'Indicavit', writs of prohibition and lay induction of clerks into benefices with the cure of souls without consultation of the local ordinary. [The comments measure the replies against the original grievances and against subsequent infringements of ecclesiastical liberty. They do so from a local point of view, and raise problems that have arisen in the Salisbury diocese. The set of comments contained here are quite different from the comments of the English clergy as a whole on the gravamina and replies of 1301, made when they were re-presented to the king in 1309 (the text of which is printed in Registrum Roberti Winchelsey, ed. R. Graham, pp1018-28.) It seems possible that these comments are much closer in date to the royal replies of 1301 than the comments of 1309: several express satisfaction with replies which the 1309 comments criticise.]
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