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Non. July. Perugia. (f. 201.) |
To the archbishop of Canterbury. Mandate to restore Clement, Premonstratensian abbot of St. Radegund's, in the diocese of Canterbury, who obtained it on its cession, made by the late canon Richard, then abbot, to George, abbot of Barlyngge, and John, abbot of Wellebeke, and who was afterwards forced to resign it to the said abbot John, who has intruded John Strete, a canon thereof. (Pro Deo.) |
15 Kal. Sept. Assisi. (f. 203d.) |
Perpetual appropriation, motu proprio, to the episcopal mensa of Salisbury—the spiritualities thereof being too slender, and its temporalities being from various causes at present in the hands of the king—of the canonry and prebend of Chesmister, alias Chermister, and Bere. Upon these presents taking effect the canonry and prebend of Potern, which is united to the said mensa, and the name thereof, are to be suppressed and extinct, their fruits remaining perpetually to the mensa. (De mandato.) |
5 Kal. Aug. Perugia. (f. 205.) |
To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate to summon the Premonstratensian abbot and convent of Croxton in the same diocese, and, if the facts be as stated, to cause them to make a fit provision for life out of the goods of the monastery, lest he be obliged to beg, to Thomas Abbot, of Wymundham, priest, of his diocese, who was presented by them for ordination, and who afterwards, by no fault of his own, had his right hand amputated by another priest. (Pro Deo.) |
4 Id. May. Perugia. (f. 210d.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of three years and three quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year and that of the dedication, the octaves of certain of them, and the six days of Whitsun week; and of a hundred days to those who during the said octaves and six days, visit and give alms for the repair of St. Helen's chapel, Langham, in Roteland, in the diocese of Lincoln. |
1393. Kal. Sept. Assisi. (f. 220.) |
Declaration that Walter, bishop of Durham, and Thomas Weston, rector of Langneuton, in his diocese, were unaware of the falsity of certain letters fabricated under the pope's name and bull, a duplicate of which Thomas, believing at the time that they were true and valid, sent to the bishop, whose envoy he was to the pope, and the original of which he afterwards, upon finding them false, presented in person to the pope. The said letters, which the pope has by other letters declared false, and of which exemplification is here given, are addressed to Walter, bishop of Durham, begin ‘Romani pontificis providentia,’ and are dated at Perugia, 5 Kal. Aug. anno quarto. The pope therein exempts Walter, whilst bishop of Durham, and his officials, etc. from the jurisdiction and power, metropolitan and legatine, of the archbishop of York, now and for the time being, and takes them under his protection and that of the apostolic see, so that the archbishop cannot suspend, excommunicate, depose, or fine the bishop and his said officials, etc. interdict their places or sequestrate their fruits, make processes or fulminate any sentences against them, all such being decreed null beforehand. (De mandato.) |
8 Id. Oct. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 223d.) |
To Walter, Augustinian prior of Launde, in the diocese of Lincoln. Faculty to grant dispensation to six persons of his choice, of illegitimate birth, to be named to James Dardani, canon of Salerno, papal chaplain, or other collector to the camera in England, to be ordained and hold one benefice only, even with cure, and to exchange it once only for a similar or dissimilar benefice. |
Ibid. (f. 224.) |
To the same. Faculty to grant dispensation to four persons of his choice, to be named as above, who have attained their twentieth year, to hold a benefice with cure, even if a dignity, personatus, or office with cure, or a parish church, and to exchange it as often as they please for a similar or dissimilar benefice. |
Ibid. (f. 224d.) |
Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene and of a hundred days to penitents who visit as above [f. 210d.] and give alms for the repair of the church of St. John Baptist, of the monastery of Launde. If similar indulgence, not yet expired, have been granted by the present pope, perpetually or for a time not yet elapsed, with the exception of that lately granted, namely for four years and four quadragene, the present letters shall be null and void. |
Ibid. (f. 227.) |
To William, rector, called master of the college of perpetual chaplains and beneficed clerks of Holy Trinity in the church of Arundel, in the diocese of Chichester. Dispensation to hold together with the said college, founded by Richard, earl of Arundel, in which residence is required, a benefice with cure on which he shall meanwhile not be bound to reside. |
3 Non. Nov. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 229d.) |
To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate to grant dispensation to remain in the marriage contracted by them, declaring past and future offspring legitimate, to Roger Beuerege and Juliana daughter of Reginald Gelleton, both of Seyton, who married in ignorance that Gerborgia, Roger's former wife, was related to Juliana in the third degree of kindred. |
3 Non. Nov. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 233.) |
Declaration of the non-reservation to the apostolic see of the archdeaconry of Meath. The pope recapitulates the mandate issued by Gregory [XI.] to the bishop of Meath, in which the bishop's name was not expressed, in the long standing cause between Hugh, then cardinal deacon of St. Mary's in Porticu, and the late Matthew Cromp about the said archdeaconry [Reg. cclxxxiv. f. 127d.] The bishop proceeded, during the lifetime of Gregory and Matthew, to assign an annual pension to the cardinal and to surrogate Matthew to him in respect of the archdeaconry. Urban VI. made provision thereof, void and reserved by the adhesion of cardinal Hugh to the antipope called Clement VII, to the late Lewis, cardinal deacon of New St. Mary's. Subsequently a cause arose about the said archdeaconry between Landulph, cardinal deacon of St. Nicholas in Carcere Tulliano, to whom provision thereof was made on its voidance by the death, without having had possession, of cardinal Lewis, and Thomas Sprot, clerk, of London, Matthew's successor, who opposed the provision. The cause, lawfully introduced to the apostolic see, was committed by the present pope, at the instance of Thomas, to Master Paul de Dugmano, chaplain, etc. and is still pending. As many doubt whether the archdeaconry, on account of the aforesaid, has remained reserved to the apostolic see, the pope declares hereby that from the time of the assignment of the said pension it did and does not remain, and was and is not, generally nor specially, reserved in any way to the apostolic see. |
6 Id. Nov. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 235.) |
To William Ferybi, priest, of the diocese of York. Dispensation, at the petition of Bartholomew, cardinal priest of St. Pudentiana's, to hold together for life (corrected in margin in place of ‘for three years,’ as in the text) two benefices with cure, even if parish churches or elective dignities. |
15 Kal. July. Perugia. (f. 235.) |
To Thomas de Monteacuto, dean of Salisbury, licentiate of canon and civil law. Extension of dispensation, at the petition also of king Richard, whose kinsman he is, so that he may retain for life the church of Chaddesey—which by the terms of the provision lately made to him by the pope of the deanery, an elective major dignity with cure, void and previously reserved, he was to resign, and which he afterwards, before obtaining possession of the deanery, had dispensation to retain therewith for two years, the pope willing him to exchange during that period one or other for a benefice compatible with the remaining one, otherwise at the end of that time to resign the church—after the lapse of the said two years, which are about to end, or to exchange it for any other benefice incompatible [with the deanery], even if an elective dignity, major in a metropolitan or cathedral, or principal in a collegiate church, personatus or office, with cure, and to exchange the same or both as often as seems good to him for two similar or dissimilar mutually incompatible benefices. (De mandato.) |
8 Id. Oct. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 237d.) |
To John Stacy, rector of Blonham, in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him, who is clerk of the king's household and holds canonries and prebends of York, Lincoln, and Gnosale in the diocese of Lichfield, to hold for two years together with Blonham another parish church, elective dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or office, with or without cure, in a cathedral or metropolitan or a collegiate church. Within that time one of the two is to be exchanged for another benefice compatible with the remaining one, otherwise Blonham is to be resigned. |
17 Kal. Sept. Assisi. (f. 240d.) |
To Walter, bishop of Durham. Faculty to grant dispensation to ten persons of his choice who have attained their twentieth year, to hold a benefice with cure, even if an elective dignity, major in a metropolitan or cathedral or principal in a collegiate church, personatus or office, and to exchange it as often as they please for a similar or dissimilar benefice. |
14 Kal. July. Perugia. (f. 241d.) |
To Walter Metforde, alias Hakeborn, clerk, of the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him, who is studying civil law at Oxford, to hold in his nineteenth year any benefice with cure, even if an elective dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or administration with or without cure, or office in a cathedral, metropolitan, or collegiate church, and to exchange it as often as he please for a similar or dissimilar benefice. |