1467.
4 Kal. May.
(28 April.)
St. Mark's, Rome.
(f. 89d.) |
To the official of Brechin. Mandate, as below. The pope has learned that Walter Monypeny, a canon of St. Andrews, O.S.A. (who had provision made to him by papal authority of the priory of May alias Petenwem, O.S.A., in the diocese of St. Andrews, and who, in the course
of litigation in the Roman court won a definitive sentence, which became a res judicata, against John Wodman, a canon of St. Andrews, intruded into the said priory, and also letters of execution of the said sentence) has, without having had possession, resigned in presence of Nicholas Grahame, notary public by imperial authority, and witnesses. The pope, therefore, at the petition of Patrick, bishop of St. Andrews (containing that if the said priory were united for his lifetime to the episcopal mensa of St. Andrews he could maintain his estate more becomingly, and cause divine offices to be laudably served in the said priory; and alleging that the late James, bishop of St. Andrews, his predecessor, held the said priory in commendam by papal grant and dispensation, that on the termination of the said commendam, by the death of the said bishop James, the present pope granted the priory in commendam to the said bishop Patrick, that the priory is not conventual, depends on the said church [of St. Andrews], and is wont to be governed by canons thereof, that it has cure and is elective, and that its value does not exceed 80l. sterling), orders the above official to summon the chapter of the said church [of St. Andrews] and others concerned, and if he find the said resignation lawful, to admit it by papal authority, and thereupon to unite it to the said mensa for as long as the said Patrick shall be bishop of the said church [of St. Andrews], reserving a yearly pension of 20l. of the money of Scotland (illius patrie) for a canon of the said order, to be called prior and to be instituted by the said bishop Patrick, who shall, as long as the latter is bishop of the said see, exercise the cure of souls of the said priory. He is also to admit bishop Patrick to execution of the said sentence, as far only as regards the delivery to him of the said possession, as if it had been given in his favour; so that it may be lawful for him to take possession of the said priory etc. by his own authority, and retain it as long as he shall be bishop of the said see, convert its fruits etc. to the uses of himself and the said mensa and priory, after paying the said portion, and have the said cure of souls exercised by the said canon, appointed and removed at his pleasure, without requiring licence of any one soever. On the resignation or death of bishop Patrick the union shall be dissolved, and the priory shall return to its original condition. Romanum decet pontificem. (P. and A. de Cortesiis. | P. xxxx. de Varris.) [24/5 pp.] |
