Lateran Regesta 115: 1403-1404 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 5, 1398-1404. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Lateran Regesta 115: 1403-1404', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 5, 1398-1404, ed. W H Bliss, J A Twemlow( London, 1904), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol5/pp597-604 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta, Vol. CXV.

15 Boniface IX.

De Regularibus.



1404. 11 Kal. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 25.)	To the Benedictine prioress of Bungey in the diocese of Norwich. Indult that her chaplains may continue, as they have been wont, to administer the sacraments to her servants, many asserting that the said servants are bound to receive the said sacraments in the parishes in which dwell their wives and families; without requiring licence of the rectors. Exigit tue devocionis.
4 Id. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 33d.)	To Roger Pynchebek, Augustinian canon of St. Mary's de Pratis, Leicester. Indult, if he be elected or postulated to a dignity or prelacy of his order, even if an abbatial dignity or a conventual priory, to freely consent to such election or postulation, without requiring the consent of his superior in his said monastery or of any other. Humilibus et honestis.
1403. Id. Dec. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 54.)	To the Cluniac prior and convent of Lenton in the diocese of York. Licence, so long only as the Schism lasts, that persons desiring to enter the said priory and order shall not be bound to go, for the purpose of making their profession, to the abbot of Cluny, he being schismatic, but that the prior and his successors may receive such profession. Sacre religionis.
1404. 6 Kal. Feb. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 57.)	To the bishop of Killaloe, the prior of Monaincha (Insula Vivencium) in the diocese of Killaloe, and Eugene Omuainachan, canon of Killaloe. Mandate to grant in commendam to John [Omeagea, from f. 109], warden of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary, Thom, in the said diocese, the fruits, etc. of which do not exceed in value 12 marks and are, on account of the wars and pestilences which have long afflicted those parts, too slender for his support, the parish church, value not exceeding 8 marks, of St. Dubuninus, Thom, void because Maurice Ocormucayn, clerk, of the said diocese, has held it for a year and more without having himself ordained priest and without dispensation; John Ohachyr, clerk, of the same diocese, being removed. Personam dilecti filii. [See f. 109.]
1403. 9 Kal. Jan. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 61d.)	Declaration, as below. Urban VI, at the petition of the late king Richard, John, king of Castile and Leon and the Benedictine abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Gloucester—setting forth that the possessions and lands of the monastery had been in great part submerged by unwonted and stormy floods of divers waters and devastated by pestilences and other calamities which had long afflicted those parts, and that therefore and also on account of the great resort of guests and pilgrims, and of divers unbearable yearly burdens, its fruits, etc. had become utterly insufficient for the support of its abbot and forty-four monks and two hundred servants, and for the said hospitality—ordered the abbot of Winchcomb, without mention of his name, if he found the facts to be as stated, to appropriate to the monastery, whose value did not exceed 1,700 marks, the perpetual vicarage, value not exceeding 40, of the parish church, which was situate near to the monastery, and was held by the abbot and convent to their own uses, and could be fitly governed by the monks, of St. Mary's in the same diocese of Worcester, so that on the resignation or death of the perpetual vicar, the abbot and convent might take possession and have the vicarage served by one of their monks, a priest, appointed and removed at the pleasure of the abbot, and having the cure of souls. The present pope, at the petition of the abbot and convent of St. Peter's—setting forth that Richard Wich, canon of Salisbury, acting as deputy of the abbot of Winchcomb, appropriated the vicarage, and that by virtue thereof they had taken possession—confirmed the appropriation, notwithstanding that the said letters of Urban VI had been presented to the abbot of Winchcomb after that pope's death. Later [16 June, 1391, above p. 390] the present pope, at the petition of the Benedictine prior and convent of St. Guthlac's without the walls, Hereford—setting forth that formerly the parish church of St. Peter's, Hereford, had been by papal authority appropriated to them and a perpetual vicarage instituted and a portion reserved for a secular priest, and that under the said appropriation they had taken possession; and that the fruits etc. of St. Guthlac's had been so much reduced by pestilences and other calamities which had long afflicted those parts, whereby divers of their animals had perished, that the prior and convent were unable to keep up hospitality to guests, pilgrims, etc.—granted them indult, on the resignation or death of the perpetual vicar of St. Peter's, to have the vicarage, the value of its fruits etc. not exceeding 50 marks, that of the priory not exceeding 220, served by its monks, appointed and removed at the pleasure of the prior, and having the cure of souls, and to convert to their own uses all the said fruits etc. of the vicarage. Later [30 June, 1391, above p. 406] the pope appropriated to the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Gloucester—who by their statutes had been accustomed and were bound to send three or four of their monks to study in theology or other lawful faculties at Oxford or other university, and furnish each of them with 15 marks a year, and who, on account of the diminution of their fruits etc. found it difficult to do so—the parish church, of their patronage, wont to be governed by secular clerks, and value not exceeding 70 marks, of Chepyng Norton in the diocese of Lincoln, so that on the resignation or death of the rector the abbot and convent might take possession and convert the fruits, etc. to the maintenance of their said students, causing the church to be served by their monks, removeable at their pleasure, and having the cure of souls. Later the pope, at the petition of king Richard and the said abbot and convent—setting forth that in the church of the said abbey lay the body of king Edward [II], Richard's greatgrandfather, and that Richard had given them, for purpose of appropriation, his patronage of the parish church of Holy Trinity, Gloucester and the annexed chapel of St. Mary Graselane—appropriated to the abbey, whose value did not exceed 2,000 marks, the said church and chapel, value not exceeding 50, so that on the resignation or death of the rector they might take possession, a portion for a vicar, removeable at their pleasure, being reserved. The recent petition of the said abbot and prior and convents contained that under their respective letters, upon the voidance by free resignation of the several vicarages and rectories, the prior and convent of St. Guthlac's, a member of the said abbey and dependent thereon, obtained peaceable possession of the vicarage of St. Peter's, Hereford, and that the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, obtained like possession of the vicarage of St. Mary's and of the rectories of Chepyng Norton and Holy Trinity and its chapel, and have for some time had them served by their respective monks, after which, on 11 Kal. Jan. anno 14 [1402], the pope annulled all unions of benefices made by himself or his immediate predecessor or by any ordinaries, which had not yet taken effect, and also those which had taken effect otherwise than by death of their holders, and decreed—inasmuch as he was said to have granted to a number of prelates of regular churches and monasteries, even of nuns, and priories that the prelates and chapters or convents of the said churches, monasteries, or priories or places might cause parish churches and benefices with cure or perpetual vicarages, united to them, to be served by their monks, removeable at their pleasure or otherwise—that under pretext of such grants no parish church or perpetual vicarage or other benefice with cure, previously served by secular clerks, could henceforward be served by monks or canons regular, but that perpetual vicars, secular priests, should be instituted therein, and that if fit portions were not assigned, as required by law, they should be assigned by the ordinaries, and that such parish churches and benefices with cure or perpetual vicarages, previously served by secular clerks, should henceforth be in no wise served by monks or other religious, any grants or indults to regular churches, etc. notwithstanding. (fn. 1) The said petition added that the said abbot, prior and convents, after the above annulment and decree, ordained that the said vicarages and rectories should each be served by a perpetual vicar, a secular clerk, a portion being reserved for each from the fruits, etc. the rest of the fruits going to the respective monasteries, that their ordinance has been confirmed by authority of the ordinary, but that they fear molestation on the ground of the said annulment and decree. The pope, therefore, declares that his intention has been and is that his said letters and their effects shall hold good as though his said annulment and decree had not been made, and hereby confirms the said ordinance and its confirmation. Ad fut. rei mem. Illa que pro utilitate. [6¼ pp.]
1404. Kal. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 71.)	Decree, etc., as below. Urban VI, at the petition of the late king Richard and of the prior and chapter of Durham—setting forth that the late bishop Thomas was prevented by death from carrying out his proposed foundation and building of a college at Oxford for sixteen persons to study theology and arts, eight of them being monks of Durham, to be appointed and replaced by the prior and chapter, and eight of them being secular clerks chosen by the said prior and chapter; that the said king, unable to endow the college from [his] temporal goods, proposed to give for the purpose of such endowment his patronage of the parish churches of Frampton, Bosschall, Rodyngton and Fysschlake in the dioceses of Lincoln and York—ordered the bishop of Durham, his name not being expressed, to appropriate to the college, which had no endowment, the said churches, the value of whose fruits, etc., perpetual vicars' portions having been deducted, did not exceed 260 marks, which fruits, etc. the prior and chapter were to convert to the sole use (uses in Wilkins) of the said sixteen persons, so that on the resignation or death of the rectors the prior and chapter might take possession, a portion, to be fixed by the bishop, being reserved in each for a perpetual vicar, having the cure of the parishioners and being presented by the prior and chapter. The recent petition of the prior and chapter and of the scholars studying in the said college contained that Thomas Schilford, archdeacon of Suffolk, John Schylingford, then chancellor of Chichester, and Ralph Barners, canon of Wells, acting as commissioners of John bishop of Durham, now bishop of Ely, carried out the appropriation and assigned the vicars' portions, and that the prior and chapter have obtained possession by the resignations of the rectors; and added that they fear that the said letters and the appropriation do not hold good because it is said therein by error or omission that the said king was unable to endow the said college from his temporal goods, whereas it is believed that he could certainly have done so if he had wished; secondly, because it is provided in the said letters that the said fruits, etc., the said portions having been deducted, did not exceed the aforesaid sum yearly, whereas (cum tamen; tum tamen in Wilkins) then, namely at the time of the date of the said letters (date dictarum litterarum; datarum literarum in Wilkins) the aforesaid portions had not been deducted from the said fruits, etc.; thirdly because it is said in the said letters that the bishop of Durham should appropriate the said churches to the said college, whereas it had not then been founded; and fourthly because on 11 Kal. Jan. anno 14 [1402, as above f. 61d; Wilkins has anno 15] the pope made his general annulment of appropriations. The pope therefore decrees that the said letters and their consequences shall hold good as if they did not contain the said or any other omissions or errors, and as though the said annulment had not emanated. He further confirms the said foundation, appropriation, reservation of portions, resignations and obtaining possession (Wilkins's resignationes (et asse) hujusmodi is for resignationes et assecutionem hujusmodi). Ad fut. rei mem. Dum attente consideracionis. [Wilkins, Concilia, II, 619, assigns the present letter to the year 1403, and has, in addition to the variants noted, the following: Bossall, Rodington, Fishelake, Schirford, Schylyngford, Barnes.]
1403. 4 Id. Nov. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 77.)	To the Augustinian prior and convent of Turgarton in the diocese of York. Indult at their recent petition—containing that, according to the custom of the country and otherwise, they are obliged to find and keep at their own cost a secular priest and to depute a canon of the priory to celebrate at certain altars in the priory church masses for the souls of Thomas Horoft (sic) and Walter de Elmeton, laymen, who are buried therein—that the prior and his successors may depute at pleasure, for the said celebration, two secular priests or two canons of the priory in priest's orders. Magne devocionis.
Ibid.	To the Benedictine abbot and convent of Peterborough in the diocese of Lincoln. Licence—in consideration of the burden of sending their monks to receive minor orders from the diocesan—for the abbot and his successors, provided that they have received from a bishop the imposition of hand[s], and that they are priests, to confer on their monks all such minor orders in their monastery only. Sedis apostolice.
16 Kal. Jan. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 78.)	To the prior of Holy Trinity, London. Mandate at the recent petition of William, abbot, and the convent of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary's Graces by the Tower of London—containing that formerly Ranulph Bikere, monk thereof, violently cast the said abbot out of the dormitory, hindered him from disposing of the goods of the monastery, refused him entrance into the said dormitory, laid violent hands on him, applied to his own nefarious uses very many of the said goods, and to avoid correction apostatized and appealed to the secular ecclesiastical judge; that John, abbot of Beaulieu (de Bellolocoregali) in the diocese of Winchester, father-abbot of St. Mary's, associating with himself Hermannus, abbot of Stratford (Startfordia) and John, abbot of Rewley, of the said order, in the dioceses of London and Lincoln, learning the above on visitation of St. Mary's, summoned Ranulph and pronounced sentence against him; that the said father-abbot deputed certain judges to Ranulph, and that abbot William and the convent were cited but, not from contumacy, did not appear; and that Ranulph procured from the said judges revocation of the above sentence, and is said to have obtained from the pope letters, addressed to the prior of St. Bartholomew's by Smethefelde, his name not being expressed, of absolution and rehabilitation, which letters Ranulph afterwards voluntarily renounced—to confirm the said sentence of the said fatherabbot, the said revocation and letters notwithstanding. Justis et honestis. [See above, pp. 346 and 517.]
10 Kal. Jan. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 82d.)	To the abbot and convent of St. Augustine's without the walls, Canterbury, immediately subject to the Roman church. Licence for the abbot and his successors to confer on the monks all minor, even acolyte's orders. Sedis apostolice.
1404. 6 Kal. Feb. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 108d.)	To William Stapilton, Cistercian monk of St. Mary's, Kirkestal, in the diocese of York. Rehabilitation on account of his having when a youth committed a theft, from which crime he was absolved by the visitor of his order, and for which he performed penance; with dispensation to receive any dignities, even abbatial and conventual, administrations, benefices and offices of his order, and to have his degree, stall and place in his monastery and its church. Sedes apostolica.
9 Kal. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 109.)	To the prior of Monaincha (de Insula Vivencium), the archdeacon of Cernès (Sarnen.), in the church of Bordeaux, and Eugene Omaenachayn, canon of Killaloe. Mandate to grant in commendam to John Omeagea, warden of the Augustinian house of St. Mary, Thom, in the diocese of Killaloe, the fruits etc. of which are not worth 12 marks, and are, on account of the mortalities and wars which have raged in those parts, too slender for his support, the rectory, of the patronage of laymen and value not exceeding 5 marks, of the parish church, the cure of which has been wont to be exercised by a rector and a vicar, of Leachrachobrain in the said diocese, so long void—because the late Thomas Ocurmucayn held it for a year and more without having himself promoted to holy orders and without dispensation—that by the Lateran statutes its collation has lapsed to the apostolic see. Religionis zelus, vite ac morum.
3 Kal. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 110.)	Declaration, etc., as below. Lately [5 Sept., 1397, above p. 13] the pope appropriated to the prior and convent of the Cluniac priory, afterwards erected by him into the abbey, of St. Saviour, Bermondesey, the church of Kemsyng with its annexed chapel of Zele [values given as on p. 13, cf. p. 506]. Subsequently [see p. 506] he annulled the appropriation, even if a suit was pending between the abbot, then prior, and convent and Adam Usk, here described as papal chaplain and auditor. Later [1 July, 1402, above, p. 506, here with spelling Thomas Ritlington and without mention of Scrivani, Leo and Teyr], the pope revoked his said annulment and ordered certain judges [viz. the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishops of Rochester and Telese] to restore the abbot and convent and to remove Adam or other intruder. At the recent petition of the abbot and convent—containing that under the last named letters they were restored to and now hold possession, but that they fear fresh litigation on the ground of the pope's general annulment on 11 Kal. Jan. anno 14 [1402, above, f. 61d.] of appropriations—the pope declares that his intention was and is that the said church and chapel shall not be comprehended under the said annulment, annuls any papal provisions which may have been made on the said ground, even if on account thereof litigation be pending, and makes the appropriation anew. Ad. fut. rei mem. Iis que pro commodo. [6 pp.]
Ibid. (f. 113.)	Declaration, etc., as below. Lately [27 Sept., 1390, Reg. Lat. I, f. 311, in Cal. IV, p. 327] the pope ordered the bishop of London, without mention of his name, to unite and appropriate to the priory, afterwards erected by the pope into the abbey, of Bermondesey, value not exceeding 800 marks, the church of Croydon, which was in the gift of the late William archbishop of Canterbury and whose value did not exceed 100 marks, and to grant and assign to the mensa of the said archbishop the priory's manor of Waddon (also written Woddon), which was contiguous to another manor belonging to the said mensa (the latter phrase is injured in the Register referred to). At the recent petition of the abbot and convent—containing that long before the pope's general annulment, on 11 Kal. Jan. anno 14 [1402, as above, f. 61d.] of appropriations, the bishop of London made the said union and appropriation and the said grant and assignment; that the abbot and convent, also before the said annulment, obtained possession of the said church of Croydon on the free resignation of the late John Gotwik, which possession they now hold; and that they fear litigation on the ground of the said annulment—the pope declares that his intention was and is that the said church shall not be comprehended under the said annulment, annuls any papal provisions which may have been made on the said ground, even if on account thereof litigation be pending, and makes the appropriation anew. Ad fut. rei mem. Sacre religionis. [4 pp.]
13 Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 117.)	To the archbishop of York. Mandate to summon William, Benedictine prior of Monk Bretton, in the diocese of York, dependent on no monastery or other regular place, and if he find, as the recent petition of the convent contained, that he has dilapidated and alienated its goods, and continues to do so, to deprive him; in the event of his doing so, to license the convent to elect another prior; and to confirm the election. He is to certify the officers of the camera or its collector in those parts of the name and of the date of confirmation. Apostolice sedis.
5 Non. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 119d.)	To John Bokingham alias Clerk, Augustinian brother of the hospital of St. Bartholomew in Weste Smythefelde without the walls, London. Indult to study for seven years theology and other lawful faculties in an university, without requiring licence of his superiors, and not to be recalled by them to the hospital without reasonable cause. Religionis zelus, vite etc.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Florence and the archdeacon and official of Canterbury. Hodie dilecto filio.