MS. Ch. Bucks. 91

BITTLESDEN, Abbey of. Memorandum that Wednesday after the feast of St. Ambrose the bishop, a citation was issued by H., Prior of Lenton , and conservator of the privileges and indulgences of the Cistercian order in the province of Canterbury, to the sub-prior of Esseby and the rector of Codesford (Cottisford, Oxfordshire?), to admonish Ralph, vicar of Tornebr' (Thornborough), in the deanery of Bucks. , and the prior and convent of Luffeld to abstain from all molestation towards the abbot and convent of Bittlesden, failing obedience to which monition to cite them to appear in the church of St. Mary the virgin, Nottingham , on Monday next after the Ascension of our Lord. Dated at Lenton, Wednesday after feast of St. Ambrose, 1251.