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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 674: 1481-1482', 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/pp259-260 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCLXXIV.

Liber Quintus Decimus Bullarum Diversarum.

11 Sixtus IV.



1481. 10 Kal. Nov. (23 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 14v.)	To the abbot of Leix (de Lege dei) in the diocese of Leighlin, and Donatus Olechalur, a canon of Leighlin. Mandate, at the recent petition of Malachy Olechalur, priest, of the diocese of Leighlin (containing that if certain profits of the parish church of Clonuenhan in the said diocese, or tithe fruits and rents, obventions and emoluments, which belong to the prior and convent of St. Mary's, Connayl, O.S.A., in the diocese of Kildare, (fn. 1) and have been wont to be given to farm to secular clerks and laymen under a certain yearly cess, were granted to him for life, he would be ready to increase the said cess, and that it would be to the manifest benefit of the said monastery), if they find the facts to be as stated, and it be in accordance with Paul II's letters Cum in omnibus judiciis, (fn. 2) to make the said grant. Benigno decet Romanum pontificem. (In the margin: No.) [1²/3 pp.]

10 Sixtus IV.



1480[–1]. 14 Kal. April. (19 Mar.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 217r.)	Extension of time, as below. The pope recapitulates his late grant [see above, p. 253] of a plenary indulgence for visits to certain appointed churches from the first vespers of Palm Sunday then next to come till Easter Day now next following, (fn. 3) and for alms in aid of the defence of the faith, and in aid of the defence of the island of Rhodes by the Hospitallers against the threatened attack upon it by the Turks. Seeing that from the said indulgence the hoped-for fruit has not yet been forthcoming, the pope hereby prorogues and extends the letters thereof, and the faculties, etc. contained therein, in the realm of Scotland and the province of Ireland (fn. 4) only, from the said Easter Day next to come until the next feast of the Assumption. Copies of these presents, bearing the seal of a bishop or a prelate, and subscribed with the hand of a notary public, shall have the same credence as the present original letters. Ad fut. rei mem. Regis pacifici. [1¾ pp.]

11 Sixtus IV.



1481[–2]. 4 Id. Jan. (10 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 220r.) (fn. 5)	Relaxation in perpetuity (the buildings of the church and monastery or house of St. Mary the Virgin without the walls of London, of the Carthusian Order, to which Cicely, duchess of York, mother of Edward IV., king of England, has a singular devotion, being in need of great repair), of one year and one quarantine of enjoined penance to all men who, being penitent and having confessed, visit the said church on every Saturday for a whole year, and to all women who, being similarly penitent, etc., visit in like manner the cemetery or bounds of the said monastery, or any chapel or oratory within its precincts, and give alms for the said repair. Univ. Christifidelibus …. Dum precelsa. (In the margin: Ja.) [2 pp.]
1482. 7 Id. May. (9 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 450r.)	To Thomas Thwaytes, layman, and Alice his wife [no diocese]. Indult for each of the said Thomas (who is an esquire among the councillors of Edward, king of England, (fn. 6) ) and Alice to choose their confessor, who may as often as opportune, after hearing their confession, grant them absolution for their crimes and sins, etc., in all cases except those reserved to the apostolic see, and enjoin penance, and may grant them, being penitent and having confessed, plenary remission of all their, sins in the hour of death, with the usual clauses about Friday fasting for a year, etc.; indult also for each of them to have a portable altar, on which they may have mass, etc. celebrated by their own priest in presence of themselves and their household servants, which priest may administer to them the Eucharist and other ecclesiastical sacraments, except at Easter. Sincere devocionis affectus. (In the margin: Oct.) [2½ pp.]