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Excerpt from Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense, Vol. 4: The Register of Richard De Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, 1314-1316
The origin of the quarrel seems to have arisen from the bishop compelling the tenantry of the prior and convent of Durham to follow him to the war in Scot land, with horses and arms. Upon their returning home on the second occasion without receiving permis sion from him, he had some of them imprisoned at Durham. This they naturally considered an indignity, and made a party against him on the ground that they were Holyworkfolk and held their lands for the defence of the body of St. Cuthbert, and not at the bishop's pleasure, and that they ought not to do service beyond the limits of the bishopric, viz., the Tyne and the Tees, for either King or bishop.
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