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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In this section
Lateran Regesta, Vol. DCCLXXXVIII. (fn. 1)
8 Sixtus IV.
De Diversis.
| 1478. 6 Id. Oct. (10 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 1r.) |
To the abbot of St. Mary's, Bordisley, in the diocese of Worcester. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of the inhabitants of four vills near the chapel of St. Edmund, Stulton, in the diocese of Worcester, contained that the habitations of very many parishioners of the parish church of Kempsey in the said diocese, which has a great and wide parish, are so far distant from the said church that it sometimes happens, when they die, that on account of the dangers of the roads and floods, etc. their bodies long remain without burial, and at last are buried in unfit places, and that if it were granted to the said inhabitants, who are under the cure and parish of the said church, to bury their dead in the said chapel and its cemetery, when consecrated, it would be a great convenience for them. At the said petition, therefore, which alleges that the said chapel is distant two long (magna) English miles from the said church, of which it is a daughter, the pope hereby orders the above abbot to summon the rector of the said church and others concerned, and if he find the facts to be as stated, to grant licence to the said inhabitants to have their dead buried in the said chapel and its cemetery, after the latter has been consecrated, and faculty to have the said cemetery consecrated by any catholic bishop in communion with the apostolic see. Piis et honestis fidelium votis. [1¼ pp. The letter is not cancelled, although in the margin is: Registrata alibi de anno xii. propter correcturam.] |
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| 9 Kal. Nov. (24 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 4v.) |
To John Noble, perpetual [vicar] of the parish church of Holy Trinity, Dertford, in the diocese of Rochester, bachelor of decrees. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage any one other benefice, or if he resign the vicarage any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches, etc., and to resign them, etc. Litterarum scientia, vite ac morum. [14/5 pp.] |
| 6 Kal. Nov. (27 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 9r.) |
To William Newman, perpetual vicar of St. Andrew's, Chyppenham, in the diocese of Salisbury. The like, mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [12/3 pp.] |
| 1478[-9]. 4 Non. Feb. (2 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 27v.) |
To the priors of the monasteries of St. Peter by Truym and St. Mary, Molinger, wont to be governed by priors, and the prior of the priory of Ryllreny [sic], in the diocese of Meath. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of David Occisy, (fn. 2) priest, of the diocese of Meath, contained that although on the voidance of the rectory of St. Mary's, Locheseudi, in the said diocese, William, bishop of Meath, made him collation and provision thereof, Rory Offergayl, clerk, claiming it, brought the said David before John Wal, then official foraneus in the part of the diocese of Meath called West Meath, (fn. 3) to whom the said bishop had given commission in the matter, and who, lawfully proceeding, promulgated a definitive sentence by which he adjudged the said rectory to David and imposed perpetual silence on Rory, from which sentence the latter has appealed to the apostolic see. The said petition adding that divers allege that neither David nor Rory has any right in or to the said rectory, the pope hereby orders the above priors to summon Rory and others concerned, hear the appeal cause and, after hearing both sides, decide what is just, without appeal, causing their decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure, and moreover if, after the said cause has been lawfully introduced before them, it appear to them that neither Rory nor David has a right in or to the said rectory, to collate and assign it, value 60 marks sterling, to David, who was lately dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a Hospitaller professed, in priest's orders, and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, and afterwards to receive and retain for life with the rectory of Mostey [sic] in the diocese of Winchester any one other benefice, and without the said rectory any two other benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, and with them any compatible benefices of any number and kind, with and without cure, and to resign them, etc. Vite etc. (P. xx. Tertio Id. Februarii anno ottauo. de Varris.) [3¾ pp.] |
| 3 Kal. Feb. (30 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 31r.) |
To the abbot of St. John the Evangelist's, Gill abbey (de Antro sancti Fymmbarry), in the diocese of Cork. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Rinaldus Yherlathy (?), (fn. 4) clerk, of the diocese of Cloyne (Clonen.), contained that he obtained by canonical collation the perpetual vicarage of Cloydrohyth in the said diocese, and held possession for more than a year without having himself ordained priest and without dispensation, and that he has since detained it for between three and four months, taking the fruits, but not many, thereby contracting disability. The pope therefore, absolving and rehabilitating hereby the said Rinaldus orders the above abbot, if he find him fit, to collate and assign to him the said vicarage, value 12 marks sterling. The pope further dispenses him for three years from the date of these presents not to be bound to be promoted to any other holy order on account of the said vicarage, whilst studying letters at an university, provided that within the first of the said three year he be ordained subdeacon. Sedes apostolica pia mater. (Jo. xxii. Quartodecimo Kal. Martii anno octauo. Gerona.) [3 pp.] |
| 1478[–9]. 6 Id. Feb. (8 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 33v.) |
To Simon Aungent (?), rector of St. Columba's, Clunmor, in the diocese of Armagh, bachelor of decrees. Dispensation to him, who is of noble and baronial birth, to receive and retain for life, etc., as above, f. 4v., mutatis mutandis. Nobilitas generis, litterarum etc. |
| 15 Kal. March. (15 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 34v.) |
To Peter Brid alias Maysmore, a monk of St. Peter's, Gloucester, O.S.B., in the diocese of Worcester. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure wont to be held by secular clerks, even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, etc. Religionis zelus, vite etc. [11/5 pp.] |
| 1478. 9 Kal. Nov. (24 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 44v.) |
To William Lucas, priest, of the diocese of London. Licence and faculty for him (who is an anchorite, and has voluntarily enclosed himself in a certain enclosure near the church of All Hallows, London, and has lived laudably therein for several years, and who on account of his singular devotion to SS. Peter and Paul desires before he departs this life to visit their shrines at Rome and divers other holy places), to leave the said enclosure, without other licence, and visit the said shrines etc., and remain without the said enclosure for fifteen months from the day of leaving it. Sincere deuotionis affectus. [1 p. +] |
| 1478[–9]. 14 Kal. Feb. (19 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 57v.) |
To abbot Richard and the convent of Croyland, O.S.B., in the diocese of Lincoln. Indult to rent or grant to farm or yearly pension for periods of ten years to any persons, ecclesiastical or lay, all the fruits etc. of their manors, churches, etc., without requiring licence of the ordinary, etc., but without prejudice to future abbots. Exposcit vestre deuotionis sinceritas. [1½ pp.] |
| 1478. Prid. Kal. Nov. (31 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 104v.) |
To the bishop of Salisbury. Mandate to dispense John Cheyne, layman, of noble birth, and Margaret, relict of William de Stourton, mulier, of his diocese, to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in the third and third degrees of affinity, because the said William and John were related in the third and third degrees of kindred. Oblate nobis. [2/3 p.] |
| 9 Kal. Nov. (24 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 104v.) |
To Thomas Pyle, a monk of Dundraynan, O. Cist., in the diocese of Whitehern (Candide case). Licence, at his recent petition (containing that with licence of the abbot and convent of the above monastery, of which he is a monk, professed of the said order, he is living in the monastery of St. Peter, Ruthtyn’ [sic], called of the institution of Bonshommes, O.S.A. (fn. 5) [in the diocese of St. Andrews], and there by order of the ordinary and the persuasion of the temporal lord has gathered together the convent which had been dispersed, (fn. 6) and desires to migrate thereto and serve God therein for his lifetime, under its habit and the said order of St. Augustine) to migrate from the said monastery of Drundraynan [sic] and the Cistercian order to the said monastery of St. Peter and the order of St. Augustine, and remain therein for life under the habit and order of St. Augustine; with indult to enjoy all privileges granted to the said monastery of St. Peter and the convent thereof. Religionis zelus, vite etc. [1 p. +] |
| 1478[–9]. 3 Id. Jan. (11 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 119r.) |
To John Calne, a monk of Malmesbury, O.S.B., in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to receive and retain for life a[ny] benefice with or without cure, etc.; as above, f. 34v. Religionis etc. [4/5 p.] |
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Ibid. (f. 119v.) |
To John Broun, rector of Westilburi in the diocese of London, bachelor of laws. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church any one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 4v. Litterarum etc. [1 p. +] |
| 15 Kal. April. (18 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 130r.) |
To Robert Yole, layman of the diocese of York. Dispensation, he having in the course of secular business been a scribe etc. in criminal causes, in which malefactors have been condemned to death or mutilated etc., thereby contracting irregularity, to be promoted by any catholic bishop in communion with the apostolic see, even extra tempora, on successive Sundays or feast-days, to all, even priest's orders and minister therein, even in the ministry of the altar, and receive and retain any compatible benefices with and without cure, of any number and kind, even if canonries and prebends etc., or parish churches etc., and resign them, etc. Vite etc. [14/5 pp.] |
| 1479. 3 Kal. May. (29 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 141v.) |
To Thomas Symmes, a monk of the monastery of St. Mary, Quarec [sic], O. Cist., in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation, as above, f. 34v. Religionis etc. [11/5 p.—] |
| 1478[–9]. 4 Id. March. (12 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 160v.) |
To Edward, king of England. Indult for him (to whose health the eating of fish is so much injurious that he fears lest he may incur some grave illness, and who, in accordance with the custom of the kings of England and his own royal dignity has not been wont to eat at table without a great attendance of nobles (fn. 7) ), and for eight other persons who serve him at table, (fn. 8) and two physicians and two cooks, to eat fleshmeats, eggs and milkmeats on the days of Lent, except on Fridays and in Holy Week, and for him alone, by the advice of his physicians, to do so on Saturdays and other fast days outside Lent. (fn. 9) On each of such days on which he eats such fleshmeats etc. he shall give alms at his discretion to some poor person or to a church or other pious place. Eximie deuotionis affectus. [1⅓ pp.] |
| 1479. 15 Kal. May. (17 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 164r.) |
To Thomas Berford, rector of Sowch [sic] Fereby in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church of Sowch [sic] any one other benefice etc., as above, f. 4v. Vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| 18 Kal. May. (14 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 167v.) |
To Alexander Toure, treasurer of Dunkeld, M.A. Dispensation for him, who is by both parents of noble birth, to receive and retain for life with the said treasurership, which is a non-major dignity, any one other benefice etc., as ibid. Nobilitas generis, litterarum scientia, vite etc. [1¾ pp.] |
| 1478[–9]. 7 Kal. Feb. (26 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 176r.) |
To John Aurifabri alias Goldsmitht [sic], priest, of the diocese of Glasgow, bachelor of decrees. Grant, as below. The pope motu proprio ordered, under date Kal. Jan. anno 1 [1 Jan., 1471 /2], provision to be made to him of one or two benefices wont to be assigned to secular clerks, even if one of them had cure or were a rural deanery etc., in the gift of the bishop and the dean and chapter of Dunblane, and of the abbot and convent of Kilwynynne, O.S.B., in the diocese of Glasgow. Having learned that he afterwards got provision made to him by papal authority of the perpetual vicarage of Estiwode in the said diocese, the pope hereby confirms to him (who is also M.A., and was lately dispensed by papal authority to receive with the said vicarage any one other benefice, or if he resigned the vicarage any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if they were parish churches etc. or dignities etc. and, if they were parish churches etc., to retain them for seven years only, or, if not, to retain them for life, and to resign them, etc. [below, Reg. Lat. DCCLXXXIX, f. 68r.]) the said prior letters, and restores them to the state in which they were before the said provision was made. The pope further wills and grants that they and their consequences shall take effect from the date thereof, so that in virtue alike of them and of these presents he may accept a benefice or benefices as described in the said prior letters, and that the words motu proprio (fn. 10) shall avail him, etc., as if he had not had provision made to him of the said vicarage. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. (A. xxii. Tertio Kal. Februarii anno octauo. de Petra.) [14/5 pp.] |
| 1478. 3 Non. Nov. (3. Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 186r.) |
To the bishop of Ross (Rossen.) and John Belle, a canon of St. Davids (Meneven.). Mandate, as below. Upon its being lately set forth to the pope on behalf of William Beamond, knight, of the diocese of Lincoln, that in ignorance that Joan Stafford, damsel, of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, was related to him by affinity, he contracted marriage with her per verba legitime de presenti, but that he afterwards learned that they were related in the fourth degree of affinity, the pope ordered certain judges to summon the said Joan and others concerned, hear both sides, and decide what was canonical without appeal, causing their decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure. The recent petition of the said Joan and of William Knyvet, knight, of the diocese of Norwich, contained that a certain canon of St. Davids, acting as a judge sub-delegate, proceeded to the execution of the said letters and, inasmuch as the said William Beamond proved that he had contracted marriage with the said Joan through fear, (fn. 11) promulgated a sentence of divorce between them, which became a res judicata; and that she afterwards contracted marriage per verba legitime de presenti with the said William Knyvet. At the said petition, therefore, of Joan and William Knyvet, who allege that for the tranquillity of their conscience they desire the said sentence to be confirmed, especially because the said William Beamond had not proved before the said judge sub-delegate that he and Joan were related in the fourth degree of affinity, as he had set forth to the pope, but only that the marriage contracted between them was due to fear, (fn. 12) the pope hereby orders the above bishop and canon to summon the said William Beamond and others concerned and inform themselves, and if they find the said sentence to have been otherwise rightly and canonically delivered, to confirm and approve it and its consequences, proclaiming the offspring, if any, born of the said second marriage legitimate, and future offspring thereof. Humilibus etc. [1⅓ p.] |
| 1478[–9]. Prid. Id. Jan. (12 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 197v.) |
Confirmation, as below. The recent petition of John bishop of Glasgow and the dean and chapter contained that the late Andrew bishop of Glasgow erected and founded with consent of the chapter the prebend called [the prebend of] Deurisder (fn. 13) into a succentorship, a non-major dignity, and willed that its holder should keep personal residence in the said church more continual than the canons thereof had been wont to keep; and that the said bishop John, with consent of the chapter, has totally relieved and absolved David Purde, [now] succentor, and his immediate successor in the succentorship from such personal residence, on condition that they shall not be bound (fn. 14) to reside except as other canons are bound to reside, and that the said David and his immediate successor shall be bound (fn. 15) to pay every year at the four terms for the maintenance and instruction of six boys with boy's voices the sum of 40l. of the usual money of Scotland, to be assigned to some expert in music (fn. 16) chosen by the dean and chapter, and in the absence of the dean by the chapter alone, as is said to be more fully contained in the public instruments of the said bishops. At the said petition, therefore, the pope hereby confirms the said relief and condition, and, as far as concerns the same, all the contents of the last instrument of the said bishop John and the dean and chapter, but wills that as soon as the immediate successor of the said David cedes or dies or resigns, the said succentorship shall return to its pristine state. Ad fut. rei mem. Romani pontificis prudentia circumspecta. [11/5 pp.] |
| 1478[–9]. 15 Kal. March. (17 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 204r.) |
To Thomas Beke, rector of Aluerdescode in the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to receive and retain for life, etc., as above, f. 4v. Vite etc. [1⅓ pp.] |
| Id. March. (15 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 244r.) |
To the abbot of the monastery of SS. Peter and Paul the Apostles, Raythuoy, in the diocese of Ardfert, and Maurice Statk [sic] and Dermit Othuoma, canons of Ardfert. Mandate, as below. The pope has learned that the priorship of the monastery of St. Mary, Ynisfaclynd, O.S.A., in the diocese of Ardfert, wont to be governed by a prior, has been so long void that there is no certain knowledge of the way of its voidance, and that its collation has lapsed to the apostolic see, although Donald Osega has without any title or right detained possession of it for between one and four years. The pope, therefore, wishing to make some provision for Donald Osullyvayn, a canon of Ardfert (who was lately dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a nobleman-priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, and on whose behalf Philip bishop of Ardfert has petitioned the pope, alleging that the said Donald Osega lives in the mountains, (fn. 17) and that the canons live in the country and in private habitations, (fn. 18) and not in the said monastery, and that in the church thereof divine worship is not duly celebrated but is almost extinct, and that he hopes that if the said priory be given to the said Donald Osullyvayn in commendam, he, whose father is of noble birth, will remove the said Donald Osega from the said detention, and compel the canons to reside in the monastery, live honestly therein, and serve in divine offices), hereby orders the above three to summon the said Donald [Osega] and others concerned, and grant the said priory, howsoever void, value 24 marks sterling, to the said Donald Osullyvayn in commendam for life, removing the said Donald Osega and any other unlawful detainer. The pope hereby dispenses him to receive and retain it, notwithstanding the said defect, etc. Vite etc. [24/5 pp.] |
| 1478. Prid. Id. Dec. (12 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 248v.) |
To Philip Davit, rector of the parish church of St. Brynach (sancti Bernachi) the Abbot, Dynas in Kemmeys, in the diocese of St. Davids, bachelor of decrees. Dispensation to him, who is a priest, to receive and retain for life, etc., as above, f. 4v. Litterarum etc. [12/3 pp.] |
| Id. Dec. (13 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 252r.) |
To William bishop of Sidon and John bishop of Beirut (Bericen.) and John bishop of Ross, [all] dwelling in the city of London. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Richard Bristall, a citizen of London, contained that formerly Joan Nightingale, mulier, of the diocese of London, falsely alleging that he had contracted marriage with her per verba legitime de presenti, brought him before Thomas Wynterborun, (fn. 19) auditor of causes of the audience of Thomas, cardinal priest of St. Ciriac's in Termis, legate of the apostolic see in those parts, and that the said auditor, although requested on behalf of the said Richard to assign a term for hearing against the persons of certain witnesses produced before him on behalf of the said woman (mulier), etc., and administer justice, delayed or refused to do so, and publicly asserted that he would not proceed further in the said cause nor pronounce sentence, wherefore Richard has appealed to the apostolic see. At his said petition the pope hereby orders the above three to summon the said woman and others concerned, hear both sides and, taking cognizance of the principal matter also, decide what is canonical, without appeal, causing their decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure. Humilibus etc. [1 p.] |
| 1478[–9]. 19 Kal. Feb. (14 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 258v.) |
To John Dogett, archdeacon of Chichester (Cistercien. [sic]), bachelor of theology. Dispensation, as below. Pius II dispensed him to receive and retain for life with the archdeaconry of Chichester (Cistercien.) any other benefice, and without it any two [other] benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two parish churches etc., and to resign them, etc. The pope now dispenses him, who is also M.A., to receive and retain for life with the said two incompatible benefices any third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church etc., and to resign it, etc., provided that of such three incompatible benefices not more than two be parish churches, etc. Litterarum etc. [12/3 pp. See Cal. Papal Letters, Vol. XI, p. 663.] |
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Ibid. (f. 259v.) |
To Florence, bishop of Clogher. Dispensation, at his recent petition containing that provision was made to him of the said church, but that he has not yet obtained possession of the rule and administration of the goods thereof, and has no hope of doing so, to receive and retain in commendam with the said [church] for life, even if he do not obtain the said possession, etc., any two benefices with or without cure, secular or regular of any orders, even if the former be parish churches etc., and the latter be priories etc., and to resign them, etc. Personam tuam. [1⅓ pp.] |
| 14 Kal. Feb. (19 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 268r.) |
Decree, as below. It was lately set forth to the pope on behalf of the abbot and convent of Teukesbury, O.S.B., in the diocese of Worcester, that the late John, bishop of Worcester, seeing that through the neglect etc. of divers priors the priory of Derhurst, of the said order and diocese, of the patronage of the kings of England, had so much declined that hardly a monk remained, and that its fruits etc. had so much decreased that they were insufficient for the maintenance of its statutory number of monks, and for hospitality, etc., with the consent of Edward king of England appropriated by his ordinary authority the said priory to the said monastery in perpetuity, and instituted in it one monk, in priest's orders, to be prior, who should be removeable at the will of the abbot and convent, (fn. 20) and should serve the cure of souls, with four other monks of the said monastery and one secular priest to celebrate (fn. 21) masses and other divine offices in the said priory, the said bishop reserving pensions, viz. to himself and his successors 20s., to the prior and convent of Worcester 20s., and to the archdeacon of Gloucester (within the bounds of whose archdeaconry the said priory is situate) 6s. 8d., to be paid every Michaelmas by the abbot and convent from the fruits etc. of the said priory. The pope, therefore, confirmed and approved the said appropriation etc. by other letters in which it was stated that the said monastery and priory were of the order of St. Augustine, and that the priory did not depend on any monastery or regular place. At the recent petition of the said abbot and convent, containing that the said monastery and priory are not of the order of St. Augustine, but of the order of St. Benedict, and that the priory perhaps depends on some monastery or regular place, wherefore they doubt whether the said letters may be held to be surreptitious, the pope hereby decrees that they shall hold good from the date of these presents, as if it had been expressed therein that the said monastery and priory were of the order of St. Benedict, even if the said priory, which is conventual and has cure, depends on some monastery or other regular place. Ad perp rei mem. Ex benigno sedis apostolice. [14/5 pp. See Cal. Papal Letters, Vol. X, pp. 17–8, and above p. 366.] |
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Prid. Non. Feb. (4 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 273r.) (fn. 22) |
Confirmation, as below. Lately, upon its being set forth to the pope by the abbot and convent of Jervaulx (Joreuallis), O. Cist., in the diocese of York, that through wars and floods etc. its fruits etc. had been so much diminished that they could not easily maintain themselves and keep up the hospitality which has hitherto been laudably kept up, etc. the pope ordered the abbot of St. Mary's without the walls of York, the archdeacon of Clyveland and the official of York, if they found the facts to be as stated, to appropriate to the said monastery in perpetuity the parish church of Aynderby, commonly called Aynderby Steeple, (fn. 23) and the chapel without cure of St. Leonard, West Wittonen’, situate within the bounds of the parish of Wensley, in the said diocese, which are in the presentation of the said abbot and convent, so that on the cession or death or resignation of the rectors of the said church and chapel they might take possession etc., and have them governed and the cure of souls of the said church exercised by monks of the said monastery appointed and removed by the abbot and convent [above, p. 326]. Afterwards the pope learned that it was provided in the statutes and customs of England that unions of parish churches could not be made unless a fit portion was reserved for a perpetual vicar, and a vicarage erected, and such vicarage ruled and held by a secular priest [15 Ric. II, c. 6 and 4 Hen. IV, c. 12, in Statutes of the Realm, II, pp. 80 and 137], and that in the archdeaconry of Richmond, within which the said church and chapel are situate, it was the custom that whenever a benefice was void its fruits belonged for one year to the archdeacon, or, in case of voidance of the archdeaconry to the archbishop of York, or, in case of voidance of both to the dean and chapter, wherefore, upon its being set forth to the pope by the said abbot and convent that inasmuch as no mention of the said statutes and customs was made in his said letters, they doubted lest they might be held surreptitious, the pope confirmed them, decreeing that the said judges could and ought to proceed to execute them as if such mention had been made, and as if such portion had been reserved for a secular priest, and by other letters ordered the said judges to summon those concerned, erect the said vicarage, and assign a fit portion for its first vicar, a secular priest, and also to assign to the said archbishop and archdeacon such yearly portion a they should think fit from the fruits etc. of the said church and chapel. At the recent petition of the said abbot and convent (containing that Robert Mason, archdeacon of Northumberland, acting under commission from William Poteman, archdeacon of Clyveland, appropriated the said church and chapel, erected a perpetual vicarage in the said church, and reserved a fit portion for a perpetual vicar, a secular [priest], to be instituted therein, etc.), the pope hereby confirms the said appropriation and reservation, etc. made by the said archdeacon Robert. Ad perp. rei mem. Ut ea que sedis apostolice. [4½ pp.] |
| 1478. 4 Kal. Sept. (29 Aug.) Braeciano. (f. 298v.) |
To the archbishop of York. Mandate to dispense Edmund Hastyng, layman, who is of noble birth, and Mary Saluen alias Saluayn, mulier, relict of Thomas Saluen, layman, of his diocese, to marry notwithstanding that they are related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred, and also in the third and third degree of affinity, because the said Thomas and the late wife of the said Edmund were related in the third and third degrees of kindred. Oblate nobis. [2/3 p.] |
| 1478[–9]. 4 Id. Feb. (10 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 305v.) |
To Henry Wrco, perpetual vicar of the parish church in Hyndolueston, in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to receive and retain for life, etc., as above, f. 4v. Vite etc. [2 pp. +] |
| 14 Kal. March. (16 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 307r.) |
To Leonard Say, rector of St. Mary's, Spaxton, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation, as below. The pope lately dispensed him, when in his nineteenth year, to receive and retain thenceforth (ex tunc) any benefice with cure or for any reason requiring priest's orders, even if a parish church etc., and to resign it, etc. The pope now dispenses him, who is in his twenty-first year, and holds the above parish church in virtue of the said dispensation, to receive and retain for life therewith, even henceforth (ex nunc), one other benefice, and if he resign them any two other benefices, with cure or for any reason requiring priest's orders, or otherwise incompatible with one another, even if parish churches, etc., and to resign them etc.; provided that the cure of souls in the said church of Spaxton etc. be not neglected. Vite etc. [2¾ pp.] |
| 1478[–9]. 17 Kal. April. (16 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 315r.) |
To John Gedney alias Writh, a monk of Croyland, O.S.B., in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain etc., as above, f. 34v. Religionis, etc. [1 p.] |