relative to the Chapel here : he has likewise preserved the original writs.
In the 8th King John, John Redmond, coming from Rome to lay claim to a Prebend of Hastings, sued to the King for licence and safe conduct to come in and return from England, which was granted upon this condition, that on his arrival, he should give security that he came hither for no ill to the King, nor for any other business but that Prebend.
In the first year of Edward III. that King issued a commission for visiting the free Chapel at Hastings, and placing a Dean therein : this commission was directed to William of Feversham ; and in the 27th of the same reign, a writ was issued by the King, forbidding and restraining certain oppressions, by the Bishop of Chichester, of which two Canons, William de Lewes and Walter de Tothythe, then complained. Nevertheless, the same year, the Bishop pretending that, as this Chapel was under his jurisdiction, all the Prebendaries ought to be -
