Α.». Ì201. LETTER OF POPE INNOCENT. tect churches and ecclesiastical persons in their rights, and powerfully and lawfully to bridle the attempts of evil doers, when striving to molest them. Wherefore, inasmuch as our beloved son, Master Honorius, archdeacon of Richmond, is a man so learned and so virtuous, that, not only from his learning and virtue, honor is reflected upon the church of York, but his duteous services may possibly prove advantageous to yourself, we do ask, advise, and exhort your serene highness in the Lord (and the more urgently, inasmuch as we are aware that he has attended not less diligently than faithfully to the business committed to his charge by your serene highness at our court,) to maintain and defend him in his rights, and not to permit him or his clerks, in contravention of the privileges of the archdeaconry of Richmond, to be aggrieved by molestation on part of any person whatsoever. Farewell." Another Letter of pope Innocent on the same subject. " Our dearly-beloved son, Honorius, archdeacon of Richmond, having come to our presence, and having presented to us his petition, has shown to us that, whereas we did formerly entrust to our dearly-beloved son, Peter, cardinal deacon and titular of Saint Mary in Via Lata, legate of the Apostolic See, the adjudication of the questions which were moved against those who had been intruded into the prebends and dignities of the church of York, he, reserving to himself the final sentence thereon, did entrust to our venerable brother, the bishop, and our dearly-beloved sons, the dean and subdean of Lincoln, the hearing of the charge which was made against Roger of Saint Edmund's, in relation to the archdeaconry of Richmond. But although, observing due and legal form, they would have proceeded to pronounce a definite sentence, at last, through the mediation of the chapter of York, there was an amicable and fair compromise effected between Honorius, the archdeacon, and the before-named Roger, which each party, on oath, promised to observe. However, shortly after, the said Roger, not taking into consideration the compromise made, and the oath which he had taken thereon, obtained letters from ourselves against the said archdeacon, addressed to you, who, as he asserted, attempted in many ways, contrary to justice, to injure him. For he alleged that, whereas he had set out to come to our presence, to set forth his legitimate exceptions, and had utterly declined you, son, abbat of Saint Ed.