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presented and admitted by him ; the King thereupon issued his writ to the Warden of the- Cinque Ports, to enquire into the ancient usage, and to inform him thereof at the meeting of the next Parliament, to which he adjourned the dispute, and directed the Prebendaries to attend and defend their privileges, and lo make themselves masters of the state of this question, when Conan Augi was Patron. It seems, however, that it was not then determined ; for in the next year, the Bishop renewed his claim, and the Prebendaries were again directed to search for precedents. The Archbishop of Canterbury, probably instigated by the Bishop of Chichester, now claimed, from his Metropolitan authority, a right of visitation ; but the King issued his prohibition, forbidding him to do any act that might infringe the rights of that Chapel. This writ was entered on the clause roll. The next year, the King being inform ed that, notwithstanding his prohibition, the Archbishop persisted in his visitation, he, by a writ to Stephen Sprot, then Constable of the Castle, directed him not to permit {he Bishop, or any from him, to exercise -