King Edward I in Parliament |
1295
The King Edward I of England to the venerable father in Christ
Robert Winchelsey,
by the same grace
archbishop of Canterbury,
primate of all England, greeting.
As a most just law,
established by the careful providence of sacred princes, exhorts and decrees
that what
touches all should be approved by all (ut
quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur),
so also, very evidently should common danger be met by means provided in
common. You know sufficiently well, and it is now, as we believe,
divulged through all regions of the world, how the king of France
fraudulently and craftily deprives us of our land of Gascony, by withholding
it unjustly from us. . . . September 1295
Letter was also written
to all the bishops of England, 67 abbots, and the Masters of the Knights
Templar and the Prior of the Hospitalers
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