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Monastic Mayhem Text   This extract from the Bishop of Lichfield’s register from 1415 refers to a dispensation granted to John Loghtborowe, canon of Charley in the diocese of Lincoln, who had petitioned the Pope claiming that the prior of his monastery had tried to kill him because the prior thought Loghtborowe had tried to get him sacked.
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Lichfield Record Office: B/A/1/8 folio 23r
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