Vatican Regesta 656: 1471-1476

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, Vol. DCLVI.

Officiorum Lib. II. (fn. 1)

1 Sixtus IV.

1471.
8 Kal. Sept.
(25 Aug.) (fn. 2)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 64v.)		 To Philip, [cardinal] bishop of Porto, the pope's major penitentiary. Mandate, as below. On the voidance of the office of a minor penitentiary in the basilica of the Prince of the Apostles de Urbe for the realms of England and Scotland by the death at the apostolic see of Thomas Purueour, Paul II ordered the above bishop under date 17 Kal. April anno. 7 (16 March 1470–1) to appoint to the said office Alexander Ruch, (fn. 3) abbot of St. [Mary's], Cambuskynneth, (fn. 4) O.S.A., in the diocese of St. Andrews, who alleged that he had been unanimously elected to the said monastery by the convent, that he had consented to the election, that he had had it confirmed by authority of the ordinary, and that in virtue of such election and confirmation he had obtained possession, but had been despoiled thereof, and that in defence of his right he had undergone great expense; the said pope Paul ordering the said appointment to be made notwithstanding papal constitutions, especially those of Eugenius IV, by which it is provided that one of the minor penitentiaries shall be an Englishman, who shall also hear confessions of Scots and Irishmen, etc. The said letters not having been drawn up by reason of the death of the said pope, the pope hereby grants that they shall hold good from the said date, grants that these presents shall suffice as proof thereof, and orders the above bishop to appoint Alexander to the said office, after having received his oath of fealty according to the form appended. (fn. 5)Rationi congruit. (Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. In the margin: Mar.) [3½ pp. See Reg. Vat. DCLVIII, f. 13v., below, p. 210.]

4 Sixtus IV.

1474[–5].
Kal. Jan.
(1 Jan.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 160v.)		 To Master Prosper Camulius de Medicis, clerk, of Genoa (Januen.), a [papal] notary, nuncio of the pope and the apostolic see and collector of the apostolic Camera in the realms of England, Scotland and Ireland. Extension of his office of collector from the realm of England, to which his original appointment was limited, to those of Scotland and Ireland, with the same faculties etc. as were conferred on him for the exercise of the collectorate of England; all other collectors and sub-collectors in the said realms of Scotland and Ireland being hereby revoked. (fn. 6)Cum per effectum. (In the margin: Jan.) [11/5 pp. See Reg. Vat. DCLVII, f. 3r., below, p. 208.]
1475.
4 Id. July.
(12 July.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 230v.)		 To Master William Menypeny (recte Monypeny), a canon of Saintes (Nanctonen.). Appointing him (who proposes to enter the service of the pope and the Roman church, is of noble, even knightly birth, and is in his twenty-third year), a notary of the pope and the apostolic see, (fn. 7) with the usual privileges, etc. Before he receives the insignia of office he is to take the usual oath of fealty to the archbishop of Bourges (Bituricen.), according to the form which the pope is sending with other letters to the said archbishop, from whom he is then to receive the insignia. Pii patris.
Concurrent mandate to the said archbishop. Cum nos hodie. (fn. 8) (In the margin: Apri.) [1½ pp.]

5 Sixtus IV.

1476.
Kal. April.
(1 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 231v.)		 To Master John de Giglis, I.U.D., subdeacon and nuncio of the pope, and collector of the apostolic Camera in the realm of England. Appointing him, during the pleasure of the pope and the apostolic see, collector of the Camera in the said realm, all other collectors and sub-collectors therein being hereby revoked; with faculty and power to collect, inter alia, Peter's pence, offerings for the Crusade against the Turks, proceeds of the indulgence of the Jubilee, and compel payment etc. He is to send his receipts to the pope or his chamberlain by letters of exchange or other safe means, and before beginning to exercise his office he is to take the usual oath of fealty to Latinus, cardinal bishop of Tusculum, the pope's chamberlain. Sollicita et diligenti. [3⅓ pp.]
1475[–6].
Prid. Non. Mar.
(6 March.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 243r.)		 To Master Robert Blakadir, clerk, of the diocese of St. Andrews, M.A. Appointing him (who has been sent by James king of Scots as his orator to the pope and the apostolic see, is of a noble race of barons, and proposes etc. as above, f. 230v.), a notary of the pope and the said see, (fn. 9) with the usual privileges, etc. (fn. 10)Pii patris. (Gratis de mandato sanctissimi domini nostri pape. In the margin: April.) [1 p.]

Footnotes

  • 1. There was, therefore, a Liber Primus Officiorum.
  • 2. i.e. the first day of the pope's reign.
  • 3. Not clear here, hence the compiler of the rubricelle or brief list of contents at the beginning of the volume has not unnaturally read ‘Roich’; but it is distinct in his oath of fealty, mentioned below.
  • 4. monasterij beate de Cambuskynneth. The dedication to beata Maria is complete in his oath of fealty, mentioned below.
  • 5. In the oath, which is given in full, the above Alexander Ruch is made to describe himself as being only a canon of the above monastery.
  • 6. The summary in the rubricelle or brief list of contents at the beginning of the volume is therefore not very adequate, viz.: Collector. Magister Prosper constituitur collector in reguis Anglie Scotie et Hibernie partibus. Folio clx.
  • 7. i.e. a protonotary.
  • 8. Here also with the spelling ‘Menypeny.’
  • 9. i.e. a protonotary.
  • 10. Without the oath of fealty clauses.
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