Vatican Regesta 650: 1483-1484 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1955.

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'Vatican Regesta 650: 1483-1484', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, ed. J A Twemlow( London, 1955), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp192-194 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCL.

Bullarum Communium Lib. C. Tom. CV.

13 Sixtus IV.



1483[–4]. 10 Kal. March. (21 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 105r.)	To the bishop of Girgenti (Agrigentin.), and the abbots of Kelso (de Calco) and Driburgh, in the diocese of St. Andrews. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Girardus Howme, clerk, of the diocese of St. Andrews, contained that on the voidance of the perpetual vicarage of Stechelle in the said diocese by the death of Andrew Pringille without the Roman court, John Howme, dean of the chapel of James, king of Scots (alleging that to the said chapel had been united by papal authority the monastery of Coldinghame, (fn. 1) O.S.B., in the said diocese, to the prior of which the presentation to the said vicarage belonged before the said union), presented the said Girardus, in virtue of the said union, to William, archbishop of St. Andrews, who has refused to institute him. The said petition adding that Gerardus doubts whether the presentation holds good, and the pope having learned that the said vicarage is still void as above, he hereby orders the above three to collate and assign it him, value 7l. sterling. Vite etc. (Gratis pro deo.) [3 pp.]
1484. 8 Kal. Aug. (25 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 127r.)	To the archbishop and the dean of Cashel, and Thomas Michel, a canon of the same. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Edmund Mairos (?), a canon of Cashel and Ossory, (fn. 1) contained that he obtained by canonical collation a canonry of the said church [of Cashel] and the prebend of the parish church of Crochan therein, value 10 marks sterling; that he detained the said prebend, which has cure, for more than a year without being ordained priest, without dispensation, and has continued to detain it for between six and seven years more, without any new title, thereby incurring disability; that he desires to live as a canon in the monastery of St. Edmund the king and martyr, Athasel, O.S.A., in the diocese of Cashel, which is governed by a prior, and is void and, being a conventual priory, is ipso facto reserved to the pope under his late reservation of all conventual priories, by the death without the Roman court of David Hachet, although Thomas de Burgo, a canon of the said monastery, detains certain benefices belonging to the said priory without any title; that the canons thereof live in private habitations, and not in the monastery, and that divine worship is almost extinct in the church of the monastery, the buildings of which are in need of no little repair; that he is of noble birth, and hopes, by his own power and that of his friends, to repair the buildings of the said monastery, and restore it to its former estate, compel the canons to reside in the monastery, live honestly therein and serve divine offices, and otherwise remedy its miserable estate. The pope, therefore, hereby rehabilitates him on account of the foregoing, and orders the above three to receive him as a canon of the said monastery, give him the regular habit and receive his profession, and thereupon to collate and assign to him the said priory, which is non-elective and has cure, and the value of which with its annexes does not exceed 120 marks sterling; summoning the said Thomas, and removing any detainer. Sedes apostolica. (In the margin: Aug.) [5¾ pp.]
1483. Prid. Non. Nov. (4 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 169v.)	To the dean of Annaghdown, and Thomas de Burgo and William Obethyll, canons of the same. Mandate, as below. The pope has learned that the archdeaconry of Annaghdown and the perpetual vicarage of Roscam in the diocese of Annaghdown are void by the deaths without the Roman court of Donatus Omadagayn and Richard Verdun, respectively, although Richard de Burgo, clerk, and Thomas Okacrayn, priest, have respectively without any title detained possession of them for between three and four years. The pope, therefore, at the petition of Edmund de Burgo, clerk, of the said diocese (who is in his eighteenth year, and has been dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of an abbot of a monastery of the order of St. Augustine, professed of the said order and in the priesthood, and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he was made a clerk), hereby orders the above three to summon the said Richard de Burgo and Thomas, and if they find the foregoing to be true, to unite the said vicarage to the said archdeaconry, value 3 and 8 marks sterling, respectively, for as long as the said Edmund shall hold the said archdeaconry, and moreover to collate and assign to him the latter, a non-major non-elective dignity with cure, and the said vicarage, whether they be void as above, or the archdeaconry be void because Walter de Burgo has made his profession as a canon of the monastery of St. Mary, Cong, of the said order, in the diocese of Tuam, and has had provision made to him thereof, and has been blessed, or whether they be void in any other way; removing the said Richard de Burgo and Thomas. Edmund is hereby dispensed to receive and retain the said archdeaconry and vicarage, if united as above, notwithstanding the said defects of age and birth, etc. Apostolica sedis providentia. (In the margin: Novembris.) [5¼ pp.]