| Description | On the petition of the vicars of the collegiate church of St.John, Chester, that, on account of the non-payment of vicars' commons by the dean and canons, the church will be left unprovided for services, to the loss of gifts by the people and manifest scandal, wherefore remedy is sought. The dean and canons are therefore ordered to pay commons, or appear before his Court of Audience to show cause why they should not be compelled to pay.Given at Lambeth.Seal on tongue, fragment.Endorsed: "Sequestracie Archiepiscope Cantuarensi" (?early 16th cent.); "a stipend to the vicars by the handes of the deane & Canons" (?late 16th cent.). |