Lateran Regesta 436: 1447-1448 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1915.

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'Lateran Regesta 436: 1447-1448', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, ed. J A Twemlow( London, 1915), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp305-310 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta. Vol. CCCCXXXVI (fn. 2).

1 Nicholas V.

De Regularibus.



1447. 14 Kal. Jan. (19 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 45d. (fn. 3) )	Statute etc. as below. Martin V, at the petition of the convent of the Cluniac priory of Thetford in the diocese of Norwich, granted to them, on account of the distance of the abbey of Cluny, on which Thetford depended, and the difficulty and danger of communication caused by the wars between England and France, an indult to elect, during such wars, at each voidance of the priory a fit person as prior, who should seek confirmation of his election from the apostolic see, and after obtaining it should be able to receive and admit persons to make their profession. At their recent petition, the pope hereby makes a statute and ordinance that henceforth, as often as there shall be a voidance, the convent may and shall elect their prior, that the confirmation of the election shall belong to the abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Sibbeton in the said diocese or (if that monastery be without an abbot at the time of such election) to the prior of the same monastery, that the said abbot or prior of Sibbeton may, whenever a prior of Thetford wishes to resign, receive and admit his resignation, and that the prior of Thetford may receive and admit persons and their professions, as above. Ad fut. rei mem. Circa statum religiosorum. (A. and G. de Elten. \| A. xl. de Feletis.) [2 pp. See Cal. Papal Lett. VII. pp. 530. 531.]
11 Kal. Jan. (22 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 46d. (fn. 4) )	To Thomas, abbot of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary, Ferns. Grant, as below. Eugenius IV (upon being informed by the above abbot Thomas that Patrick [now] a canon, then abbot of the above monastery, had dilapidated the goods thereof, been a notorious fornicator and had been accused (irretitus extiterat) of divers other crimes [not here specified] ordered the abbot of St. Mary's, Dowske, in the diocese of Ossory, and two other colleagues (inasmuch as from fear of Patrick's power Thomas had no hope of obtaining justice in the city or diocese of Ferns) if and after Thomas accused Patrick before them, etc., to summon Patrick, and if they found the above or enough thereof to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to make provision of the said monastery, value not exceeding 16 marks sterling, to Thomas; after which, as the recent petition of Thomas contained, and after he had duly accused Patrick, Dermit, abbot of Dowske, by a definitive sentence which became a res judicata, made the said deprivation, removal and provision, in virtue of which provision Thomas obtained possession, and has been abbot for about eight years. Seeing that, as the said petition added, although the said Dermit was at the time of the said provision in possession of the rule and administration of the said monastery of Dowske, he had an adversary in the matter, so that some doubt whether the said provision holds good, the pope hereby grants that it and its consequences shall hold good, as if the said abbot had been in peaceable possession of the said rule and administration. Ad ea ex apostolice. (An. and Jo. de Steccatis. \| An. xvi. de Adria.) [2 pp. See Cal. Papal Lelt. VIII, p. 654.]
4 Non. Oct. (4 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 69d.)	To Hugh Burton, a canon of the Augustinian priory of All Saints by Dublin, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to be promoted etc. to any dignities of his order, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of unmarried parents. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (An. and F. de Laude. \| An. xxxx. de Adria.) [²/3 p.]
5 Kal. Dec. (27 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 110d.)	Confirmation, with exemplification, of certain statutes made in a chapter-general of the order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, held in St. Peter's, Rome, on 22 Feb., 1445[–6]. Amongst those mentioned as present (in addition to the master of the Hospital, John de Lastico) is Robert Bottil, prior of England. Ad fut. rei mem. Dispositione divina. (An. and Poggius. \| An. lx. de Adria.) [8¼ pp.]
5 Id. Dec. (9 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 119d.)	To Roderick Omadagyn, abbot of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary de Portu puro, Clonfert. Grant, as below. Eugenius IV (upon being informed by the above abbot Roderick that William Omadagyn, sometime abbot of the above monastery, had committed simony, dilapidated the goods thereof and, being a murderer (homicida) and notorious fornicator and irregular, was defamed (pernotatus habebatur) of apostasy and many other vices and excesses [not here specified]) ordered William Ocarneayn, a canon of Clonmacnoise (Cluonen.), and certain colleagues to summon William (fn. 5), and if they found the said charges or two of them to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to make provision of the said monastery to Roderick; after which the said canon duly deprived and removed the said William and made provision to Roderick, in virtue of which provision he obtained possession of the rule and administration, and has been abbot for more than three years, taking the fruits. Seeing that, as his recent petition added, before the date of the said mandate he, being in the Roman court, was received by John, warden of the Augustinian monastery of Toem (de Thomsanctidomini rectius Thom Sancti Donani) in the diocese of Killaloe (Laonien.), who was also in the said court, as a canon thereof, and made to him his profession, and that some doubt whether the said reception and profession hold good, and that he therefore (as also because, before being blessed, he took part in the rule and administration of the said monastery de Portu puro) fears lest he may be molested in regard to the said rule and administration, the pope, ratifying hereby his said reception and profession, and all his acts in the matter of the said rule and administration, grants that the said mandate and provision and their consequences shall hold good from the date of these presents, as if he had made his said profession to the convent of the said monastery of Thom, or other having power for the purpose, and as if he had been blessed before the said administration. Adeaexapostolice. (An. and F. de Laude. \| An. xxv. Id. Januarii Anno Primo. de Adria.) [2 pp. See Cal. Papal Lett. IX, pp. 226, 227, where the abbot's name is given as ‘Rory Omadeyn.’]
Prid. Non. Dec. (4 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 209d.)	To the abbot of Holy Trinity, Wynchecomb, in the diocese of Worcester, and the official of Worcester (fn. 6). Mandate, at the recent petition of William Elmeley, a Cistercian monk of Hailes (de Haylis) in the diocese of Worcester (containing that although, after making his profession in the said monastery, he lived laudably therein for several years, the abbot and convent without any reasonable cause imprisoned him as an evildoer, and kept him in prison for about a year, from which he was delivered by means of his friends) to summon the said abbot and convent and others concerned, and, unless the abbot and convent allege a reasonable cause to the contrary, to compel them by ecclesiastical censure to receive William into the monastery, and to cause provision to be made to him, as to the other monks, from the common fruits, as before the said imprisonment. Humilibus supplicum votis. (An. and Ja. Goier. \| An. xii. de Adria.) [1 p.]
18 Kal. Dec. (14 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 212.)	Confirmation, as below. Eugenius IV granted to Ayquilinus de Vinhali, prior of the Augustinian priory or hospital of St. James, Bordeaux, that he might wear for life, like the canons of St. Seurin's without the walls of Bordeaux, almuces of grey vair (fn. 7); which grant the said pope afterwards, at the petition of the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Bordeaux, ordered the archbishop of Bordeaux to annul. Subsequently, at the petition of the same prior Ayquelinus (setting forth that the priory had been founded and endowed by divers kings of England, and especially by William, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou, etc.) the same pope granted to him, at the petition also of Henry, king of England, that he and his successors might wear a black almuce like that worn by the prior of the Cluniac priory of St. Mary de la Daurade (Deaurata), Toulouse, but with two long tails added to it. Afterwards the same pope (as the recent petition of Ayquelinus to the present pope contained) ordered the said archbishop to annul the said second grant, as well as the first, as far as related to the wearing of such almuce, and granted to Ayquelinus that he alone might, as long as he lived, wear a black almuce of woollen cloth lined with black sheep or goat skins only (fn. 8); and, upon Peter, archbishop of Bordeaux, at the instance of the said dean and chapter, monishing Ayquelinus to appear and exhibit the said second letters and the said almuce, he appealed to the apostolic see, which appeal the present pope committed to Peter, bishop of Siracuse, then too holding the place of a papal auditor, who is said to have decreed the citation and inhibition, not yet executed, of the said arch bishop and dean and chapter. At the petition, therefore, of the said king Henry, of prior Ayquelinus (who alleges that in virtue of the said second letters he has worn and now wears an almuce of black damask lined with grey vair made up like that of the prior of the said monastery of St. Mary, but with the addition of two long tails (fn. 9) ),and of the mayor and jurats of Bordeaux, the pope hereby calls up to himself all causes between the said dean and chapter and prior Ayquelinus, about the said wearing only, and extinguishes them, and confirms the said second letters granted to the said prior. Ad fut. rei mem. Sedis apostolice gratiosa. (A. and [pro] Ja. de Vicentia, G. de Elten. \| A. l. de Feletis.) [5 pp. See above, p. 179.]
1447[–8]. 9 Kal. March. (22 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 263d.)	Confirmation, as below. The recent petition of the prior and brethren of the poor hospital of SS. John Baptist and John the Evangelist, Exeter, contained that the late John [Grandisson], bishop of Exeter, finding that in the said hospital, although at its foundation it had been sufficiently endowed for the maintenance of poor and sick and other guests, there was only one brother residing and few sick, (i) instituted and ordained, with the help of the executors of Thomas and Walter the Second, sometime bishops of Exeter and of William Martin, layman, and with consent of the dean and chapter of Exeter, five brethren, priests, to serve God in the hospital, one of them to be called prior and have cure of souls of the brethren and poor dwelling therein, as had before been the case, and also twelve sick poor and eight poor boys with a master to teach them Latin (fn. 10), and also made a statute and ordinance to the effect that the said prior and brethren should live in perpetuity under the rule of canons regular of the order of St. Augustine and make their profession of that order; (ii) subsequently (considering that for want of a cemetery of its own the bodies of all who died in the said hospital had been wont to be carried, with great labour and expense etc., to the common cemetery (fn. 11) of the city of Exeter near the cathedral (majorem) church there) consecrated and dedicated, with counsel of the said dean and chapter, the church of the hospital and a certain area within its precincts and adjoining it, together with the ambit in front of the said church and part of the cloister (fn. 12), for the burial of the said prior, brethren, poor and boys, and all other inmates of the hospital, and granted the said church and the said area, ambit and part of the cloister freely and without any burden. The pope hereby, at the said petition, confirms the said institution, statute and ordinance and grant, and the other contents of the said bishop's sealed letters; and grants that all persons who choose to be buried in the said church and within the said precincts and ambitus, may be so buried freely and lawfully. Ad fut. rei mem. Ad apostolice sedis. (An. and G. de Elten. \| An. xxxx. de Adria.) [2½ pp. Monasticon, vol. vi, p. 697, has a long quotation from Oliver's History of Exeter, describing bishop Grandisson's benefactions to St. John's hospital.]