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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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'Lateran Regesta 800: 1478-1479', 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/pp686-699 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta, Vol. DCCC. (fn. 1)

8 Sixtus IV.

De Diversis.



1479. 8 Kal. June. (25 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 11r.)	To William Elyot, rector of Bigbury in the diocese of Exeter, bachelor of laws. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the parish church of Bigbery alias Bigbury, in the diocese of Exeter, any one other benefice, or if he resign the said church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches etc., and to resign them, etc. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. [1½ pp.]
147[9]. (fn. 2) 7 Id. June. (7 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 20r.)	To John, bishop of Rochester. Grant and indult for life to visit the shrines of the apostles by proxy specially appointed for the purpose; notwithstanding the oath which, as customary, he took on his appointment to visit the said shrines at certain times then expressed. Personam tuam. [¾ p.]
1479. 15 Kal. June. (18 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 40v.)	To Archibald Lindesay, rector of Kirkpitrie [sic] (fn. 3) iuxta, in the diocese of Glasgow, M.A. Dispensation to him (who was lately dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a married man and an unmarried woman, both of a race of barons, to be promoted to all, even holy orders, and hold a benefice even with cure, in virtue of which he has been made a clerk and has obtained by canonical collation the parish church of Kyrkpatrie [sic] iuxta in the diocese of Glasgow), to receive and retain for life with the said church any one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 11r. Litterarum etc. [1⁴/5 pp.]
12 Kal. May. (20 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 51r.)	To Thomas Haywarde, perpetual vicar of Ivingho in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life, etc., as above, f. 11r. Vite etc. [2 pp.—]
Prid. Non. May. (6 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 64r.)	To Richard Cranwell, rector of St. Mary's, Shenley, in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of decrees. The like. Litterarum etc. [1¾ pp.]
Ibid. (f. 84v.)	To Margaret Esyngwold, a nun of the priory of St. Mary the Virgin, Wilberfosse (fn. 4) O.S.B., in the diocese of York. Dispensation on account of illegitimacy, as the daughter of unmarried parents, to receive and retain any benefice with or without cure wont to be held by nuns of the Order of St. Benedict, and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as she pleases, and also to be elected etc. as abbess of any monastery of the said order, etc. Religionis zelus, vite etc. [1½ pp.]
4 Kal. June. (29 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 92r.)	Exemplification (fn. 5) from the register of Nicholas V, at the recent petition of the master and friars of the house of Cirtw[i]lleag, of the third order of St. Francis called the order of Penance, in thediocese of Achonry, of the said pope's letters Piis fidelium votis, addressed to the bishop of Achonry and dated at St. Peter's, Rome, 1454, 3 Non. Oct., anno 8 [Cal. Papal Lett., Vol. X, pp. 713–4.] Ad fut. rei mem. Prouisionis nostre. [3²/3 pp.]
1479[–80]. 11 Kal. March. (20 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 97v.)	To Patrick Boys, clerk, of the diocese of St. Andrews. Dispensation to him, who is in his eighteenth year and intends to study letters, (fn. 6) to receive and retain any benefice with cure, even if it be a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity etc. in a cathedral, even a metropolitan church, or a collegiate church, and such dignity in such metropolitan or other cathedral church be a major, or in such collegiate church be a principal dignity, and to resign such benefice, simply or for exchange, when he pleases, etc., notwithstanding the said defect, etc. Vite etc. [1 p.]
1479. 3 Id. June. (11 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 106r.)	Confirmation, etc., as below. Lately, on its being set forth to the pope by Edward Hasting’, layman, of the diocese of Lincoln, and Mary Hungerford, puella, of the diocese of Salisbury, and their parents, that for the preservation and increase of good will and friendship between their said parents and their kinsmen and friends they desired to marry, but that inasmuch as they were related in the third and third degrees of kindred they could not do so without papal dispensation, the pope ordered three judges, or two or one of them, if they found the facts to be as stated, and if the said Mary had not been ravished, to dispense the said Edward and Mary, who were in the ninth and seventh year of their age, respectively, notwithstanding the said impediment of kindred and the said Mary's defect of age, forthwith (ex tune) to contract espousals, and, after they reached the lawful age, to contract marriage, etc., as is contained in the pope's letters [dated at St. Peter's, Rome, 1475, Prid. Non. Sept. (4 Sept.), anno 5; see above, p. 220, and below. p. 691], two of which said judges. proceeding to the execution of the said letters, have, as the pope has learned, dispensed the said Edward and Mary in accordance therewith. as is more fully contained in the letters of the said judges. The pope, therefore, having caused the said letters to be inspected, etc., and appended to these presents, and absolving the said Edward and Mary from all sentences of excommunication etc., as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents. motu proprio confirms hereby the said process and dispensation, etc. He furthermore exemplifies the letters of the said judges, viz. the letters:— Universis sancte matris ecclesie. … Ad vestre universitatis notitiam deducimus of Thomas bishop of Lincoln and John bishop of Lichfield, appointed judges, commissaries or delegates, along with the bishop of Salisbury, with the ‘you or two or one of you’ clause, by pope Sixtus IV, drawn up in the form of a public instrument by William Spenser, clerk, of the diocese of Lincoln, notary public by papal authority, scribe of the acts in the below-mentioned matter of the said Thomas and John, bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield, judges, commissaries or delegates, written by another (the said notary being otherwise engaged) on two pieces of parchment sewn together, with the said notary's wonted sign [manual] on the sewing, (fn. 7) and authenticated by the said sign and the said notary's name and by the seals of the said bishops, (fn. 8) and setting forth that in the year 1478, indiction 11, 7 Sixtus IV, August 11, in the parish church of Esshby la Zouche in the diocese of Lincoln, they received the said pope's letters of commission or delegation, sealed with the leaden seal pendant by hempen cords, after the manner of the Roman court, presented by Sir William Hastyng’, lord of Hastyng’, and the lady Catherine his wife, parents of the above Edward Hastyng’, and by the said Edward, also by Master William Dabeney, notary public, proctor of the lady Anne Raynesford, mother of the above Mary Hungerford (which proctor exhibited his letters procuratory), and by the said Mary, in the presence of Master William Spenser, notary public by papal authority, and the witnesses belowwritten; after which presentation and reception the said bishops were requested by the said Edward Hastyng’ and Mary Hungerford and their parents to assume the burden of the said letters of commission or delegation, inquire into the truth of the contents thereof, and dispense the said Edward and Mary in accordance therewith, etc. Wherefore the said bishops caused the said letters of commission to be read publicly, and thereupon assumed the said burden in presence of the said notary public and witnesses belowwritten, and with consent of the said parties appointed the said Master William Spenser, notary public, as their scribe and as scribe of the acts of the said matter, etc. Whereupon the said Edward and Mary, by the mouth of Master John Cooke, doctor of laws, alleged and propounded that for the sake of the preservation and increase of good will and friendship between their said parents and their kinsmen and friends they had long ago desired and still desired to marry, but, inasmuch as they were related in the third and third degrees of kindred, they could not do so without papal dispensation, wherefore they petitioned the said bishops, by the mouth of the said Master John Cooke, they having completed their eleventh and ninth year of age, respectively, and being of noble birth, and the said Mary not having been ravished, to dispense them, notwithstanding the said impediment of kindred and defect of age, to contract espousals forthwith (ex tunc) and, after reaching the lawful age, to contract marriage, etc., and otherwise to execute the said letters of commission or delegation. After which allegation, propounding and petition, which the said bishops ordered to be entered in the acts, the said Edward and Mary and their parents produced as witnesses to prove everything stated in the said letters of commission, and everything contained in their said allegation and proposition, John Audeley lord of Audeley, Walter Devereux lord of Ferrers, (fn. 9) Edward Grey lord of Lisle, John Dynham lord of Dynham, John Howard lord of Howard, Thomas Saintleger, John Middelton’, Richard Tunstall’, William Stokk and John Grysley, knights, Master Thomas Dalton’, chaplain, William Grymesby gentleman, and Robert Staunton, esquire, and postulated that they should be received, admitted, sworn, and examined in regard to the foregoing, wherefore the said bishops received, admitted and caused to be sworn the said persons as witnesses, etc., and proceeded to examine them, and did examine them, secretly and one by one, (fn. 10) in presence of the said Master William Spenser, notary public and the said bishops’ scribe, their depositions being as follows:— John Audeley, lord of Audeley, knight, of the diocese of Salisbury, aged fifty years and more, sworn and asked whether he knows any impediment of kindred between Edward Hastyng’, knight (natural and lawful son of Sir William Hastyng’, knight, lord of Hastyng’, and the lady Catherine his wife), and Mary Hungerford, natural and lawful daughter of the lady Anne Hungerford, says and deposes that Richard Nevell’, late earl of Salisbury, and Eleanor, countess of Northumberland. were brother and sister, and were commonly called and reputed to be son and daughter of the late Ralph, earl of Westmoreland, and Joan his wife, that the said Richard [late] earl of Salisbury had a daughter the lady Catherine, who married the said Sir William Hastyng’. and that they have a son the said Sir Edward Hastyng’. He also deposes that the lady Eleanor, sister of the said lord Richard, late earl of Salisbury, had a daughter the lady Anne, who married [the late] Thomas Hungerford, esquire, and that they had a daughter the said Mary Hungerford. Asked concerning the age of the said Edward and Mary, he says and deposes that they are over the eleventh and ninth year of their age, respectively. Also asked whether the said Mary has been ravished by the said Edward, he says and deposes that she has not been ravished, but has been under the best and most honourable keeping of her friends. (fn. 11) Also asked whether the bonds of peace and friendship between the parents, kinsmen and friends of the said Edward and Mary will be better preserved and increased by their marriage, he answers and says ‘Yes.’ And he deposes of his own knowledge that all the foregoing is true. Walter Devereux, lord of Ferrers, of the diocese of Hereford, aged forty years and more; Edward Grey, lord of Lisle, of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, aged thirty-five; John Dynham, lord of Dynham, of the diocese of London, aged forty-four years and more; John Howard, lord of Howard, of the diocese of Norwich, aged forty-eight years and more; Thomas Saintleger, knight, of the diocese of Salisbury, aged forty years and more; John Middelton’, knight, of the diocese of Durham, aged forty years and more; Richard Tunstall’, knight, of the diocese of York, aged fifty years and more; William Stokke, knight, of Pyywell' [recte Pypwell’], of the diocese of Lincoln, aged fifty years and more; Master Thomas Dalton’, chaplain, rector of the [parish] church of Reppesley [sic] in the diocese of Lincoln, aged forty-seven years and more; William Grymesby, [gentleman], of the vill of Bublesthorp’ [sic], of the diocese of Lincoln, aged fifty-six years and more; John Grysley, knight, of the vill of Draykelowe, of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, aged sixty years and more; Robert Staunton’, esquire, of the vill of Onlep [sic], of the diocese of Lincoln, aged seventy-three years and more, having all been sworn, make the like deposition. (fn. 12) After which examination of witnesses there appeared before the said bishops the said Edward Hastyng’ and Mary Hungerford and their parents, at whose petition for the attestations of the said witnesses to be published, the said dispensation to be granted, and the said bishop's sentence or decree to be promulgated, the said bishop's published the evidence of the said witnesses, and, understanding therefrom that the said parties have fully proved all the contents of the said papal letters, etc., the said bishop Thomas, with the consent of bishop John, his fellow judge and colleague, promulgated the said definitive sentence or decree, as follows:—In dei nomine, amen. Presentatis ut premittitur (etc.), whereby the said Thomas bishop of Lincoln and John bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, appointed judges delegate with the bishop of Salisbury, with the ‘you or two or one of you' clause, state that certain letters of commission or delegation of Pope Sixtus IV have been presented to them, and reverently and humbly received by them, sealed with the leaden bull pendant with hempen cords, after the manner of the Roman court, as follows:— 'sixtus episcopus … Venerabilibus fratribus Sarisbiriensi et Conuentrensi ac Lincolniensi episcopis, salutem … Oblate nobis … Datum Rome apud sanctum Petrum anno incarnationis dominice millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo quinto, pridie nonas Septembris … anno quinto’ [i. e. the bull ordering the dispensation, above, p. 688].
	Upon which the said bishops were petitioned by Sir William Hastyng’, lord of Hastyng’, and Catherine his wife, parents of Sir Edward Hastyng’, and by the said Edward, and also by Anne Reynesford, mother of Mary Hungerford, and by the said Mary, all of whom appeared sufficiently and to lawfully, to proceed to the execution of the said letters, and to inquire concerning the truth of the statements made therein, and, if they were found true, to dispense the said Edward and Mary in accordance therewith, etc. Wherefore the said bishops have made such inquiry, and inasmuch as by such inquiry and by witnesses sworn and examined they have found that the said Edward and Mary are related in the third and third degrees of kindred, that they have completed their eleventh and ninth year of age, respectively, that they are of noble birth, and that by their marriage the bonds of good will and friendship between their parents, kinsmen and friends will probably be preserved and increased, that the said Mary has not been ravished, and that therefore all the statements in the said letters were and are true, they, by the advice of their legal experts, and by authority of the said pope, hereby dispense by this their definitive sentence or final decree the said Edward and Mary, the said impediment notwithstanding, to contract espousals forthwith (ex nunc), and, after they reach the lawful age, to contract marriage, etc. The tenour of the above-mentioned letters procuratory follows, viz.:— In dei nomine, amen. Per presens publicum instrumentum, drawn up and authenticated by John Deuil, clerk, of the diocese of London. notary public by papal authority, in his presence and in the presence of Thomas Souche, gentleman, and Thomas Smyth, literate, of the diocese of London, as witnesses, in the year 1476, indiction 9, 5 Sixtus IV, June 6, in a certain low hall of the dwelling-house (fn. 13) of Thomas Hoton’, in the parish of Ocley, in the diocese of London, by which the lady Anne Raynesford, sometime wife of the late Thomas Hungerford, nobleman, of the diocese of Salisbury, and mother of Mary Hungerford, natural and legitimate daughter of her and the said Thomas her said sometime late husband, (fn. 14) appoints as her proctors, etc., jointly and severally, Oliver Kyng and William Joseph’, literates, and William Ghaunt (?), William Dabeney and Walter Bedlowe, notaries public, to appear before the bishops of Salisbury, Coventry and Lincoln, appointed by Pope Sixtus IV, as she alleged, commissaries or judges delegate, or before two or one of them, in a certain matter of dispensing Sir Edward Hastyng’, layman, of the diocese of Lincoln (natural and legitimate son of Sir William Hastyng’, lord of Hastyng’), and the said Mary Hungerford, daughter of the said Thomas Hungerford and Anne, with the clause, ‘that you or two or one of you, etc.’; to present to them, or two or one of them, any (fn. 15) papal letters of commission to them directed; to request the said bishops, or two or one of them, to assume the burden of the said letters of commission, etc., and in that event to say, allege, and propound that the said Edward is in his tenth year and Mary in her eighth year of age, and that they are related in the third and third degrees of kindred, and that, for the preservation and increase of the bonds of good will and friendship between their parents, kinsmen and friends, they desire to marry by papal dispensation; to produce witnesses, and to ask them to be received, admitted, sworn and examined; to prove the foregoing; to swear on behalf of the said Anne any lawful and necessary oath; and to request the said judges, delegates or commissaries, or two or one of them, by the authority committed to them, to dispense the said Edward and Mary, the said impediment of degrees of kindred notwithstanding, forthwith (ex nune) to contract espousals, and, when they reach the lawful age, to contract marriage, etc.; and to request and obtain the promulgation of the necessary sentence or decree, etc.
	In testimony of all which things the said Thomas and John bishops of Lincoln and Coventry, and judges, commissaries or delegates, have caused this present process or public instrument to be drawn up and authenticated by the said Master William Spenser. notary public and their scribe, and fortified with their episcopal seals, (fn. 16) under date etc. as above, and in the presence (except only in the matter of the examination of the above-named witnesses) of Thomas bishop of Rathlure, (fn. 17) Thomas abbot of Burton, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, Master Edmund Audeley, archdeacon of Est Riding, John Arundell’, chancellor of Hereford, Thomas Langton treasurer of Exeter, John Fox archdeacon of Salop, William Chauntr(e) archdeacon of Derby, Gervase Clyston’ knight, John Paston’ of the diocese of Norwich, knight, Robert Sterelley of the diocese of York, knight, Humphrey Grey, Philip Oker’ (?), John Stanley, George Stanley, esquires, of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, Thomas Staunton’ of the diocese of York, esquire, John Sherman’, rector of Wygeston’ in the diocese of Lincoln, and William Gybson of Leicester (de Leycestria), of the diocese of Lincoln, notary public. Ad fut. rei mem. Licet ea que pro conseruandis et augendis … beneuolentie et amicitie federibus. [23 pp. +]
1478[–9]. Prid. Non. Feb. (4 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 124r.)	To the bishop of Lincoln and the priors of Newton and St. Neots (de Sancto Neoto), in the diocese of Lincoln. Mandate, as below. It was lately set forth to the pope on behalf of William Stoker, knight, John Stoker, citizen of London, and Henry Stoker and John Laurenson (Laurentii), layman, inhabitants of the vill of Wyboldeston in the diocese of Lincoln, that on account of floods, winds and other tempests, etc., the inhabitants of the said vill could not conveniently go to the parish church of Eton in the said diocese, within the bounds of whose parish the said vill is situate, because the said vill was an English mile distant from the said church, (fn. 18) and that the said inhabitants had ceased to be present at (fn. 19) masses and other divine offices on feast and other days, wherefore the said William and others had had a chapel built at their expense in the said vill to the praise of Almighty God and the Blessed Virgin Mary, dedicated to the same Blessed Mary and St. James the Apostle and St. Christopher. The pope therefore granted to the said William and others and to the inhabitants of the said vill that they might for ever have masses and other divine offices celebrated at their own expense by a secular priest or priests, appointed and removed at their pleasure, without requiring licence or authority of any one, and without prejudice of the vicar and other. (fn. 20) At the recent petition of James Letys, perpetual vicar of the said church, containing that the said inhabitants, abusing the said grant, have masses and other divine offices celebrated in the said chapel, not only in rainy weather and when the said hindrances prevail, but also when they cease, and at all times, without going to the said church to hear the same, to the great prejudice of the said vicar, the pope hereby orders the above three to summon the said inhabitants and others concerned, and, if they find the facts to be as stated, by the pope's authority to compel the said inhabitants, by ecclesiastical censure, to go to the said church on the customary days when the weather is favourable. (fn. 21)Ex debito pastoralis officii. [1⅓ pp.]
1479. Prid. Non. July. (6 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 126v.) (fn. 22)	To Thomas Vavasour, rector of North Bovi in the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to receive and retain for life, etc., as above, f. 11r. Vite etc. [1²/3 pp.]
6 Kal. June. (27 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 132v.)	To Philip Agard, clerk, of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Dispensation to him, who is studying letters, (fn. 23) and is in his seventeenth year, to receive, as soon as he reaches his eightenth year, any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or dignities etc., even if major or principal dignities, etc., and to retain them in commendam until his twenty-third year, and thereafter in titulum for life, and to resign them, etc. Vite etc. [2⅓ pp.]
4 Non. June. (2 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 133v.)	To George Cant, clerk, of the diocese of St. Andrews. Dispensation to him, who is in his nineteenth year, to receive and retain forthwith (ex nunc) any benefice with cure, even if a parish church etc., or a dignity etc., even if a major or a principal dignity etc. and to resign it, etc. Vite etc. [1 p.]
5 Id. May. (11 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 155r.)	To Richard Rosemay, perpetual vicar of Thynden (fn. 24) in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life, etc., as above, f. 11r. Vite etc. [1²/3 pp.]
12 Kal. May. (20 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 160v.)	To John Franckeleyn, perpetual vicar of Puryton in the diocese of Salisbury. The like. Vite etc. [1²/3 pp.]
1478. 7 Id. Sept. (7 Sept.) Bracciano. (f. 161v.)	To Thomas Baker, rector of More Kyrchill’ in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to receive and retain for life, etc., as above, f. 11r.; with indult to take the fruits etc. of the said church and any other benefices, whilst residing in the Roman court or one of his benefices, or studying letters in an university, and not to be bound to reside, and to rent etc. the said fruits etc. to any persons, even laymen, for two years. Vite etc. [3²/3 pp.]
1479. 12 Kal. May. (20 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 163r.)	To Thomas Portington, treasurer of York, M.A. Dispensation, as below. Calixtus III dispensed him to receive and retain for life with the parish church of Bliburgh in the diocese of Lincoln one other benefice, or if he resigned the said church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if, etc., and to resign them, etc. [Cal. Papal Lett., Vol. XI, p. 27]. The pope now dispenses him, who alleges that he has resigned the said church, and has successively obtained in virtue of the said dispensation the treasurership of York, which is a non-major dignity without cure, and the parish church of Shitlington in the diocese of Lincoln, to receive and retain for life with the said treasurership and church, or, if he resign them, with any two other incompatible benefices, any third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, provided that of such three incompatible benefices not more than two be parish churches, etc. Litterarum etc. [2¾ pp.]
8 Kal. May. (24 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 164v.)	To Richard Colfex, rector of Sandrisshe [sic] in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation as above, f. 11r. Vite etc. [2 pp. +]
Ibid. (f. 165v.)	To John Sharparow, rector of North Burton in the diocese of York, bachelor of laws. The like. Litterarum etc. [2 pp. +]
5 Non. May. (3 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 167r.)	To Thomas Weldon, rector of St. Peter's, Pymperne, in the diocese of Salisbury. The like. Vite etc. [1¾ pp.]
Prid. Id. May. (14 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 181r.)	To James Lindesay, rector of Craig (Insule sancti Brioci) in the diocese of St. Andrews. The like to him, who is of noble birth and a licentiate of arts. Nobilitas generis, vite etc. [2 pp.]
1478[–9.] 7 Id. Jan. (7 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 190r.)	To Adrian de Bardis, treasurer of Hereford. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said treasurership, which is a non-major dignity without cure, any two other benefices, or without it any three other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if they be parish churches, etc., and to resign them, etc., provided that of such three incompatible benefices not more than two be parish churches, etc.; with further dispensation not to be bound for seven years (provided that he be promoted to the order of subdeacon within a year) to be promoted to any other holy order. Vite etc. [2¼ pp.]
1479. 11 Kal. June. (22 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 211r.)	To the dean of Annaghdown (Enachdunen.), and Roger Macharayl and Odo Okalanayn, canons of the same. Mandate, as below. The pope has learned that the perpetual vicarage of Molachca (fn. 25) in the diocese of Tuam has been so long void that its collation has lapsed to the apostolic see, although William Machbressem, priest, of the said diocese, has detained possession for between fourteen and sixteen years without any title or right. And the recent petition of Geoffrey Brennac (?), (fn. 26) perpetual vicar of Kilharerynd (fn. 27) in the said diocese, contained that the fruits etc. of his said vicarage are insufficient for his maintenance, etc. At the said petition, therefore, the pope hereby orders the above three (inasmuch as from fear of the said William's power the said Geoffrey dares not meet him in the city and diocese of Tuam), to summon the said William, and to unite the said vicarage of Molacha to that of Kilharerynd, each of them value 8 marks sterling, for as long only as the said Geoffrey shall hold the latter. Uniuersalis ecclesie regimini. [3⅓ pp.]
7 Id. June. (7 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 215v.)	Licence and faculty, at the recent petition of Edward king of England (containing that entry to the church, house or monastery of Shene, of the Carthusian order, in the diocese of Winchester, is forbidden to persons of the feminine sex, but that many women of kingly and queenly blood, on account of the singular feeling of devotion which they have for the said order and house, prefer to go there rather than anywhere else for hearing divine offices), for the said king to have a decent place or tribune built in the said church, with an entrance from the outside of the church, in which such women with their maid-servants only (fn. 28) may for ever be present (fn. 29) whilst divine offices are being celebrated, and may hear masses, vespers and other divine offices, provided that the brothers and women cannot be seen by one another; with like faculty for the said women etc. to hear the said masses, etc. Ad perp. rei mem. Romanum decet pontificem. [1½ pp.]
13 Kal. July. (19 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 216r.)	To Richard Kiroblow, rector of St. Mary's, Stamford, in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation as above, f. 11r. Vite etc. [2 pp.]
Prid. Id. June. (12 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 217r.)	To Robert Bothe, dean of York, doctor of laws. Dispensation, as below. The pope lately (after the said Robert had been dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of an unmarried nobleman and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all even holy orders and receive and retain any mutually compatible benefices with and without cure, and to resign them etc., and after in virtue thereof he had had himself made a clerk, and had obtained the parish church of St. Matthew in Ipswich (in Gipp[i]wico), in the diocese of Norwich) dispensed him to receive and retain for life therewith any other benefice, or if he resigned the said church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches, etc., or major or principal dignities, etc., and to resign them, etc. The pope now dispenses him (who, having resigned the said church, has obtained in succession and at present holds that of Bodon Magna in the diocese of Lincoln and the deanery of York, a major etc. dignity with cure, in virtue of the said dispensations), to receive and retain for life with the said deanery and church of Bodon Magna, or with any other two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, any third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church etc., or a major or a principal dignity etc., and to resign it, etc., provided that of such three incompatible benefices not more than two be parish churches or perpetual vicarages. Litterarum etc. [3 pp.]
Prid. Non. July. (6 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 257v.)	To Richard Baldry, perpetual vicar of St. Mary's, Berkyng, by the Tower of London, M.A. Dispensation as above, f. 11r. Litterarum etc. [1½ pp.]
7 Id. Jun. (7 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 264r.)	To Edward, prince of Wales. Indult for life, at the petition on his behalf of Edward, king of England, his father, that whenever a sermon is publicly preached in his presence at mass the preacher may grant to all present, being penitent and having confessed, an indulgence of forty days of enjoined penance. (fn. 30)Alti sanguinis. (At the end. P. Gratis de mandato. de Varris.) [½ p.]
Ibid.	To Edward, prince of Wales, and eldest son of Edward, king of England. Indult for life that the dean of his chapel may every year on the feast of Easter appoint as many priests as he shall think good, secular or regular, who may hear the confessions of all the prince's servants of both sexes, and absolve them from any sins confessed by them to the said priests (even in cases in which bishops and archbishops may absolve, but not in cases reserved to the apostolic see), and enjoin a salutary penance. Ad cognitam deuotionis constantiam. (At the end: P. Gratis de mandato. de Varris.) [²/3 p.]
5 Kal. June. (28 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 280r.)	To the dean of Annaghdown (Enachdunen.), and Walter Blake and Odo Ocalnanan [sic], canons of the same. Mandate to cause Cornelius Offlaforen (?), (fn. 31) priest, of the diocese of Annaghdown, to be received as a canon of the monastery of St. Mary, Annaghdown (de Portu patrum), O.S.A., in the said diocese, and give him the regular habit thereof, with a canon's portion, etc. Cupientibus vitam ducere regularem [1 p.+]
1478[–9]. 3 Kal. March. (27 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 281r.)	To Henry Rud, rector of Weston Colvile in the diocese of Ely, doctor of decrees. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church, value 10 marks sterling, any other benefice, etc., as above, f. 11r. Litterarum etc. [1 p.+]
1479. 13 Kal. July. (19 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 283r.)	To Thomas Jarkesley, abbot of St. Mary's Sawtry (de Sawtria), O. Cist., in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said monastery, or with any other monastery of the said order, any benefice with or without cure wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, etc. Exigit sincere deuotionis affectus. [1 p. +]
11 Kal. July. (21 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 283v.)	Restoration, etc. as below. The recent petition of Edmund Grey, layman, of the diocese of Bangor, contained that after the house called the chantry or hospital of the town of Ruthyn in the said diocese had been founded, built and endowed by his pre[de]cessors by licence and faculty of the ordinary, with a cemetery and baptismal font, as many secular chaplains being instituted therein as could be maintained with such endowment, to celebrate for the souls of divers of the faithful, the right of presenting one of them being reserved to the said ordinary, the said Edmund got the said house erected into a priory of the order of St. Augustine for divers canons. The said petition adding that they have all abandoned it, and that the prior has resigned to the ordinary extra R.c. the said priory, which is not conventual and not a dignity, and depends on no monastery or regular place, and that the said ordinary has admitted the resignation, and alleging that the said Edmund is the patron thereof, the pope hereby suppresses and extinguishes the name of a priory and the said order, and restores the said house, with its privileges, lands, mills etc., to its pristine state, as before the said erection. Ad perp. rei mem. Ex superne maiestatis prouidentia. [1¹/5 p. +]
10 Kal. July. (22 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 284r.)	To Charles Bothe, scholar, of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Dispensation, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of unmarried parents, after he has been made a clerk to be promoted to all holy even priest's orders and receive and retain any two compatible benefices, even if one of them be with cure and be a parish church, etc., and the other be a canonry and prebend, dignity, etc., even if such dignity be elective, and to resign them, etc., and hold instead two similar or dissimilar compatible benefices, namely, one with cure and the other without cure, provided that such dignity be not a major nor a principal dignity. Vite etc. [1 p. +]
13 Kal. July. (19 June) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 302r.)	To John Wellys, perpetual vicar of All Saints’ in the town of St. Ives (ville sancti Y vonis), in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of decrees. Dispensation as above, f. 11r. Litterarum etc. [1²/3 pp.]
17 Kal. July. (15 June) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 317r.)	To Christopher Twynyho of Rayforde [sic], clerk, of the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth and is in his nineteenth year, and is a student in the university of Oxford, (fn. 32) to receive and retain forthwith (ex nunc) any benefice with cure, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, etc., or a major or a principal dignity, even if elective and with cure, etc., and to resign it, etc., notwithstanding the said defect, etc. Nobilitas generis, vite etc. [1¼ pp.]
13 Kal. July. (19 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 327r.)	To John, abbot of the monastery of St. Mary the Virgin, Wendlyng, O. Praem., in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation as above, f. 283r. Exigit etc. [1 p. +]