Sentence:  William, angry that he had been forced to answer in an ecclesiastical court outside the realm of England, filed a suit of <WSD>premunire</WSD> against Richard Tylhe in the court of the king's bench during the Easter term of 1380, claiming £1,000 in damages. The statutes of <WSD>premunire</WSD> prohibited any Englishman from bringing suit in an ecclesiastical court if the cognizance, or jurisdiction, belonged to the king's courts. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. The offence was created by the (Statute of Praemunire) 1393 (16 Richard II, chapter 5), and abolished by the (Criminal Law Act 1967) (chapter 58).