Vatican Regesta 665: 1475-1476 | 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 665: 1475-1476', 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/pp221-224 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCLXV.

Bullarum Diversarum Tom. VI.

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1475. 4 Non. Aug. (2 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 28r.)	To John Lughtburgh’ alias Willemot, a canon of St. Mary's, Derlegh', O.S.A., in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Dispensation for him (who is a priest, and was lately dispensed by papal authority to receive and retain for life a secular benefice with or without cure, after which he obtained by collation of the ordinary, and now holds, the perpetual vicarage of Pentrich’ in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, value 10l. sterling), to receive and retain in commendam for life with the said vicarage any other benefice secular or regular, even if a parish church etc., or an elective priorship etc. (but not conventual, etc.), and to resign and exchange both, etc. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (In the margin: Fe.) [2⅓ pp.]

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1475[–6]. Kal. March. (1 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 50r.)	Pardon for any guilty person or persons who within a fortnight shall reveal the whole or any part of the theft of precious gems, gold jewels, money, silver cups (fn. 1) and other things of very great value which has been recently committed at Bracciano (fn. 2) in the diocese of Sutri, against Anthony Wideville, earl Ryvers, brother of queen Elizabeth, who had gone to visit the churches of Rome in order to gain the Jubilee indulgence; and promise (to which the said earl has consented), of a reward of 300 ducats from the said property; under penalty of excommunication, anathema, eternal malediction and confiscation of all property, and loss of benefices, dignities and fees held of the church, from which sentences those who took part in, abetted or are witting etc. of the said theft, and who do not reveal or hinder the revealing of the same, cannot be absolved, except in the hour of death, by anyone but the pope, unless complete restitution be made to the said earl, etc. Ad fut. rei mem. Pontificalis auctoritas. (In the margin: Fe.) [2 pp.]
1476. (16 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 164v.) (fn. 3)	To Thomas Candour, a canon of Lincoln, doctor of degrees, subdeacon of the pope. Motu proprio appointing him (who is an old member of the papal court, was a chamberlain (fn. 4) of Eugenius IV and Nicholas V, and is a continual commensal chaplain of Latinus, bishop of Tusculum, cardinal Orsini, (fn. 5) the pope's chamberlain (fn. 6) ), to be a subdeacon of the pope and the apostolic see, with the enjoyment of the usual privileges, etc. Sincere devotionis affectus. [1 p. (fn. 7) ]
7 Kal. May. (25 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 227v.)	To the bishop of Glasgow. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of James Hamylton, layman, and Mary Stewart, mulier, of his diocese, contained that they formerly (he not being ignorant, and she being ignorant, that they were related in the triple third and fourth and the simple third degrees of affinity, because Eufemia, his former wife, and the said Mary were related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred, and because he had carnally known two women, each of whom was related to Mary in the third and fourth degrees of kindred, and another woman related to her in the third degree of kindred, and that he had contracted espousals with another woman related to Mary in the third and fourth degrees of kindred), contracted marriage per verba legitime de presenti, and have twice had offspring. The pope, therefore, hereby orders the above bishop to absolve James from excommunication incurred, enjoining penance upon him, and also upon Mary, in proportion to her guilt, and dispense them to remain in the said marriage, notwithstanding the impediments of affinity and quasi-affinity arising from the above, and any other impediments short of the third degree. Oblate nobis. (In the margin: Maij.) [2 pp. Theiner, op. cit., p. 477.]
4 Kal. June. (29 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 253v.)	Safe-conduct, for one year only, for John, abbot of St. Mary's, Abingdon, O.S.B., in the diocese of Salisbury, S.T.M., whom the pope is sending as his nuncio and commissary to divers parts of the world, and for his retinue to the number of twenty-four, etc. Univ. etc. Cum nos dilectum. [1 p.]
3 Kal. April. (30 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 324r.)	To John Bernis, perpetual vicar of SS. Ciricus and Julita Swisham (recte Swafham) Prior, in the diocese of Ely. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage, value 10l. sterling, any one other benefice, or without it any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if dignities, major or principal, and elective etc., and to resign or exchange them, etc.; indult to take for life the fruits of his benefices, whilst residing in one of them, or in the Roman court, or in a university; and mandate executory hereby to the archbishop of Patras (Patracen.) and the officials of Ely and Norwich. Vite etc. (In the margin: Maij.) [5⅓ pp.]
8 Id. May. (8 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 334v.) (fn. 8)	To Robert Blakadyr, a canon of Glasgow, M.A. Motu proprio collation and provision to him, who has been sent by James king of Scots as his orator to the pope, and who is of noble and baronial race, of a canonry of Aberdeen and one of Glasgow, with reservation of a prebend of each and a dignity etc. of one of them, and reservation of a benefice with or without cure wont to be assigned to secular clerks, even if it be a canonry and prebend, etc., in the gift of the archbishop and the prior and chapter etc. of St. Andrews; with mandate execuntory of these presents (which are to hold good as if they had been granted under date Kal. Jan. anno 1 [1 Jan. 1471/2]), to the bishop of Tarazona (Tirasonen.), the archdeacon of St. Andrews and the official of Glasgow. Nobilitas generis, litterarum etc. (Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. (In the margin: Maij.) [10 pp.]
9 Kal. Aug. (24 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 371v.)	To Andrew Yhowyng, clerk, of the diocese of Glasgow, bachelor in decrees, a member of the pope's household. Motu proprio reservation to the pope's gift for collation to him (who was lately dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold any compatible benefices with or without cure, even if elective dignities etc., and to resign or exchange them, etc., after which he had himself made a clerk by another bishop than his own, and without letters dimissory (fn. 9) ) of one or two benefices wont to be assigned to secular clerks, even if one of them have cure or be an elective dignity, but not major or principal, etc., value 25l. sterling if one of them have cure or be a dignity or a personatus, or 18 if not, in the gift of the bishop and chapter etc. of Glasgow and the abbot and convent of St. Mirren's (Merini), O.S.B., in the diocese of Glasgow. The present letters are to hold good as if they had been granted under date 1 Jan. 1471/2 Grata familiaritatis. (Gratis pro familiari ill[ustris] domini comitis. (fn. 10) ) [5½ pp.]
	Concurrent mandate to the bishops of Tarazona and Urbino (Tirasonen. et Urbinat.) and the official of Glasgow. Hodie dilecto filio. (Gratis etc. as above.) [2 pp.]
12 Kal. July. (20 June.) Vetralla in the diocese of Viterbo. (f. 447v.)	To James, king of Scots. Indult, the eating of fish being very harmful to his health, for him and three of his servants of his choice, on the advice of his physician, to eat flesh, eggs and milkmeats in Lent and on other forbidden days. Eximie devotionis. (Gratis de mandato sanctissimi domini nostri pape. In the margin: Novembris.) [1 p.]

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Prid. Id. Sept. (12 Sept.) Foligno. (fn. 11) (f. 448r.)	To Joan Hepburn, a nun of Halynton', O.Cist., in the diocese of St. Andrews. Dispensation for her (who is in her twentieth year, is the legitimate daughter of Patrick Hepburn, temporal lord of Halyser, and is blind of one eye, the result of measles), (fn. 12) at her own petition and that of James king of Scots, to be able to receive and retain any abbatial dignity, conventual prioress-ship or provostship (fn. 13) of the said Order, notwithstanding the said defects of age and sight, etc. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (In the margin: Sept.) [1½ pp.]