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Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 6, 1404-1415. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Lateran Regesta 136: 1409', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 6, 1404-1415, ed. W H Bliss, J A Twemlow( London, 1904), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol6/pp149-160 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta, Vol. CXXXVI (fn. 1)

1 Alexander V

[De Diversis Formis.]



1409. 2 Id. Sept. Pisa. (f. 29d.)	To John, bishop of Ely. Faculty to grant the office of notary to six persons to be chosen and examined by him; with the form of oath. Personam tuam.
[Non. Sept. Pisa.] (f. 29d.)	To the archdeacon of Kells (de Kenlis) in Meath, salutem etc. Honestis supplicum votis libenter annuimus, illaque favoribus prosequimur oportunis. Exhibita siquidem nobis nuper pro parte dilecti filii Ricardi Rowe—. Unfinished, and cancelled with strokes only. [See below, f. 172.]
Non. Sept. Pisa. (f. 30d.)	To Stephen le Scrop, archdeacon of Richmond in York, B.C.L. Indult for six years to visit his archdeaconry by deputy and receive procurations in ready money to the daily amount of 30 silver [gros] Tournois, 12 to the gold florin of Florence.Litterarum sciencia, vite ac morum.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishops of Durham and Volterra, and the abbot of Meaux (Melsa). Litterarum etc.
13 Kal. Aug. Pisa. (f. 32d.)	To Eneas Ocarbri, priest, of the diocese of Clogher. Rehabilitation of him—who formerly received papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he was admitted by authority of the ordinary as a canon of Clogher, and obtained by the same authority the rectory of Claenynis in the said diocese—on account of his having resigned the said rectory and obtained by collation of the said authority the rectory of the parish church of Gabalinni, called the rectory of Dartraigi, in the same diocese, on its voidance by Henry Macconnlug obtaining, by collation of the same authority, possession of the rectory of Cluaineoys in the same diocese. He is to resign the said rectory of Gabalinni, and is to cease to be a canon of Clogher. Sedes apostolica.
Ibid. (f. 33.)	To the bishop of Raphoe. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above Eneas Ocarbri, if found fit in Latin, and after resignation, the above rectory of Gabalinni, value not exceeding 20 marks, void as above. Eneas is hereby dispensed to hold it and a canonry of Clogher, if he be received anew as a canon. Dignum arbitramur.
6 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 34d.)	To John, son of Henry king of England, constable of England. Indult to have, wherever he may reside, a chapel in which he may cause mass and other divine offices, even with music (ad notam), to be celebrated in presence of himself and his household by his own or other fit priests and clerks, of which priests one may, as dean, wear almuces of vair and grey, and may, as also the rest of such priests, administer to him and the members of his household the sacrements, receive from him and them any oblations, and convent them to their own and other lawful uses; saving the right of the parish church and any other. Eximie devocionis.
13 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 38.)	To Henry, bishop of St. Davids. Confirmation, with exemplification, of the letters of Angelus Corario, called in his obedience Gregory XII, (i) Sincere devocionis, addressed to him as Henry, elect of St. Davids, and dated at Siena, 4 Non. Oct.anno 1 [1407, above, p. 112]; (ii) Sincere devocionis, similarly addressed, and dated at Lucca, Non. June anno 2 [1408, above, p. 130]. Illis que circa ecclesiasticos.
8 Kal. Nov. Pisa. (f. 47d.)	To John, bishop of Ardfert. Declaration—at his complaint that after having been for about four years, under a papal provision, in peaceful possession of the said church, he was violently despoiled by Nicholas Mauricii, then clerk, of the diocese, who pretended that Angelus Corario, formerly called in his obedience Gregory XII, after the cardinals had left him at Lucca and had retired to Pisa, made provision to him of the see, as void by the death of bishop William, no mention being made of bishop John nor of two other bishops who had preceded him after the death of the said bishop William: that John, almost naked, barely escaped the hands of Nicholas and his accomplices; and that Nicholas intruded himself, calling himself bishop, and still detains possession, usurping the fruits—that the church was not void by the death of William, that the provision by Angelus was and is null, and that John remained and is true bishop and is to be restored. Provisionis nostre.
	Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Cashel, and the bishops of Adria and Limerick. Provisionis etc. (Stephanus, de mandato domini nostri pape, de Prato.)
15 Kal. Jan. Pistoia. (f. 48d.)	To John Credi, donsel, of the diocese of London. Indult to visit, with six persons, the Lord's Sepulchre and other oratories of the Holy Land, and to take what things are necessary for the pilgrimage. Tue devocionis.
13 Kal. Aug. Pisa. (f. 52d.)	To John Burell, rector of St. George's, Clist, in the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to him—who received papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he obtained St. George's, Clyst—to hold two other mutually compatible benefices with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends or dignities etc., and to resign them and St. George's, simply or for exchange, as often as seems good to him. His illegitimacy need not be mentioned in future graces. Laudabilia probitatis.
6 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 53.)	Grant during ten years of the same indulgence and remission of sins as is gained by those who visit St. Mark's, Venice, on Ascension Day, to penitents who on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, and on the Assumption from the first to the second vespers of that feast, visit and give alms for the repair and conservation of the Augustinian monastery of St. Bartholomew in West Smytfeld in the diocese of London, the pope having learned that through the malice of the times the monastery is in great part destroyed in its houses and buildings; that its said houses are greatly ruined with age; that its tenements in the city of London, which ten or twelve years ago were wont to bring in more than 100 marks a year, hardly bring in to-day, on account of the penury of men, half that sum; that the monastery, a short time ago, through the enmities of a certain powerful enemy, lost 60 marks, out of which [marks] (quarum occasione) the prior was and is bound to find two priests for the celebration of masses for the soul of a certain person deceased, and to minister to them the necessaries of life; that on account of the frequent impulse of the sea and its floods many goods of the monastery within the parish of Sowthton by Jernemeth in the said (sic) diocese have been and are so much annihilated that for several years the prior has received from them little or nothing; that the same prior has rebuilt the cloister, bell-tower, high altar and chapter-house of the monastery church at no small cost, whence he has many creditors; that the monastery requires several reforms which cannot be carried out for want of money; and that, the monastery being situate in a very famous place of the realm, very many resort thither from the realm and from divers other regions, to its grave burden. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is.
Ibid. (f. 54.)	Indult, in pursuance of the preceding, of which exemplification is given, for the prior to choose six priests, secular or regular, who may hear the confessions of such penitents and give them absolution, enjoining a salutary penance, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see. Ad fut. rei mem. Hodie monasterio.
15 Kal. Aug. Pisa. (f. 58d.)	To Thomas, bishop of Durham. Faculty to dispense twelve persons in those parts, of his choice, after attaining their twenty-second year, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice with cure, even if a dignity in a cathedral or a collegiate church. Personam tuam.
Ibid.	To the same. Faculty to dispense twelve men and as many women in those parts, of his choice, to marry, notwithstanding impediment of third or fourth degrees of kindred or affinity, and to declare the offspring of such marriages legitimate.Personam tuam.
Ibid. (f. 59.)	To the same. Faculty to dispense twelve scholars in those parts, on account of any kind of illegitimacy, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold two compatible benefices, even if one have cure or be a canonry and prebend or a dignity etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as they please. Personam tuam.
Kal. Oct. Pisa. (f. 69d.)	To the prior of St. Mary's, Thetford (de Theffordia), in the diocese of Norwich. Mandate, as below. The petition of Thomas Hadle, rector of Barwe in the said diocese, contained that to the rector of the said church by ancient custom belonged, and that both he and his predecessors had possessed, the right of taking all tithes, great and little, and from all lands and places within the bounds or titheable places of the said parish church, and especially from 5½ acres and 1 rood of the lands of Philip Spencer, knight, parishioner of the said church, and from all other lands of the said Philip, situate within the said bounds, hard by the [open] field of Rysby, and from 2 acres of land cultivated by Thomas Arwelle, layman, of the glebe (de gleba) of the said church, and from 1 rood of land of John Millere, and from 1½ roods of land of Thomas Amy, and from 1½ roods of land of Simon Smyth, laymen, all situate within the said bounds, and from all lands or pieces of lands, by whomsoever cultivated, of the dower (dote), situate hard by the said field of Rysby, of the said church, and also from lands near the places commonly called Pykerellis Pittes or Barwedoune, on the north, and the places [called] Holmore, on the east, within the said bounds; that nevertheless Thomas Brakenholme, rector of Rysby, falsely asserting that the said places, lands, acres, and pieces of lands were within the parish of Rysby, and that the tithes of sheaves of all corn growing within the said places, etc. belonged to the rector of Rysby, had taken possession of some of the tithes of such sheaves of corn; that Hadle brought the cause, upon the bishop of Norwich refusing to take cognizance of it, but with the bishop's consent, before the official of the court of Canterbury, from whose definitive sentence, given in favour of Brakenholme, he appealed to the apostolic see and has petitioned the pope to commit the appeal to a priest in those parts. The pope therefore orders the above prior to summon Brakenholme and others concerned, and to confirm or annul the said sentence without appeal. Exhibita nobis.
Non. July. Pisa. (f. 71.)	To the archbishop of Armagh. Mandate, at the recent petition of Matthew, Augustinian abbot of St. Mary's, Kells (de Kenlis), in the diocese of Meath—containing that after having received papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold administrations and offices of his order below the dignity of abbot, he obtained, by authority of the ordinary, the claustral priorship of the said monastery; that Boniface IX (by letters which, as Matthew asserts, on account of his want of money, remained in the bullaria of that pope, or were lost) dispensed him to hold any dignities, even abbatial, of the said order, and episcopal; that, relying on this dispensation, he obtained the administration of the monastery, then void, and still rules it; and that he doubts whether he may not be molested—if he find that Matthew was so dispensed, to approve what has been lawfully done by him as administrator and ruler of the monastery, and to dispense him to administer it in future. Justis et honestis.
6 Kal. Oct. Pisa. (f. 71d.)	To the bishop of Kilmore. Mandate, at the recent petition of Nemeas Ofegrath, priest, of the said diocese—containing that the chapel of SS. Columba and Cannicus, Tulat, in the same diocese, situate within the bounds of the parish church of Drang, is more populous and more decent than the said parish church; that between them flows a great river which cannot at times be crossed without danger of drowning, wherefore the parishioners who dwell on the lands of the chapel cannot go to the church for divine offices on the greater feasts of the year or others; that on account of the want of a stipend no ecclesiastic is willing to celebrate divine offices in the said chapel; and that Nemeas has decently repaired it at his own expense, and in a house hard by keeps hospitality after the manner of the country—if the facts be so, to grant to the chapel, value not exceeding 3 marks, all tithes, first fruits, oblations and other ecclesiastical rights on its lands. Justis et honestis.
Id. Oct. Pisa. (f. 72.)	To Richard Ulverston, rector of Beford in the diocese of York. Dispensation to him, who is a subdeacon and engaged in the service of king Henry, not to be bound for seven years on account of his said church, value not exceeding 60 marks, to be promoted to higher orders. Vite ac morum.
Ibid.	To Robert Rolleston, rector of St. Mary's, Malbertorp (sic), in the diocese of Lincoln. The like, the value of Malbertorp also not exceeding 60 marks. Vite etc.
6 Id. July. Pisa. (f. 77.)	To Robert Blondell, priest, of Chichester. Rehabilitation, on account of the following. He obtained papal dispensations, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, (i) to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which, having been ordained priest, he obtained the parish church of Farneberg in the diocese of Winchester; (ii) to hold one other benefice compatible with that church, and to resign them, once only, for purpose of exchange or otherwise, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices, even if one had cure, after which he resigned the said church and obtained that of Wermouthe in the diocese of Durham; (iii) to resign Wermouthe, for exchange or otherwise, and to hold instead a similar or dissimilar benefice, even if in a cathedral church, after which he resigned Wermouthe and obtained Bischopesburne in the diocese of Canterbury. Subsequently, in ignorance of the law, he exchanged Bischopesburne with Thomas Burton for Rysburgh in the diocese of Lincoln, the resignations being made to, and the exchange carried out by, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, to whom by ancient custom the collation and provision of Rysburgh belongs, and under pretext of whose collation and provision he, without obtaining dispensation, continues to detain Rysburgh, receiving the fruits. He is to resign Rysburgh. Sedes apostolica.
4 Non. Aug. Pisa. (f. 77d.)	To the patriarch of Grado, the bishop of Durham, and the abbot of Westminster. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above Robert Blondel, priest, of Chichester, the said church of Rysburgh, value not exceeding 60 marks, still void, as above, by the resignation of Thomas Burton. Robert is hereby further dispensed to hold Rysburgh and two other mutually compatible benefices with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends or dignities, etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as seems good to him. Vite etc.
6 Id. Aug. Pisa. (f. 80d.)	To the archbishop of Canterbury. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Gerard Braybrok, knight, Edmund Homden (sic), esquire (armigeri), [and] John Wyke and Roger Abbrighton, clerks, of the dioceses of Chichester (sic) and London, executors of the will of the late Robert, bishop of London, contained that the late Nigel Loryng, knight, was prevented by death from carrying out his proposed foundation and endowment of a chantry for certain chaplains in the parish church of Chalgrave in the diocese of Lincoln, and that in his last will he appointed the said bishop Robert as his executor for the purpose; that the bishop caused, at his expense, divine offices to be celebrated for several years in the said church by three chaplains; that the said executors, in accordance with the bishop's last wish, have continued the said celebration by such three chaplains; and that, unable to found and endow the chantry, they propose to resign and give for the purpose the patronage, which belongs to them in common, of the parish church of St. Mary Magdalen, Offelegh, in the said diocese, which is served by a perpetual vicar who has the cure of souls and is presented by the rector to the bishop, to the end that the fruits etc. belonging to the rector may be applied to the endowment of the chantry and the sustentation of the chaplains, one of them being master. The archbishop is ordered, if he find that the executors are willing to give or resign the patronage for the said purpose, to institute the chantry in the said church of Chalgrave, and to appropriate to it, after the executors have made the resignation, the said church of St. Mary, whose value, after deducting the vicar's ancient portion, with which the present vicar is content, does not exceed 60 marks; so that on the resignation or death of the present rector the chaplains may take possession and may present to the vicarage as the rectors have been wont to do. The archbishop is also to make statutes for the said chaplains. Pia vota fidelium.
Non. July. Pisa. (f. 82d.)	To Thomas, bishop of Durham. Faculty to reserve for this time only, and to make collation and provision of twenty-four benefices with or without cure, wont to be assigned to secular clerks, of any value, in the common or several gift of the bishop and the prior and chapter of Durham. He is to certify the names of persons and the dates of collation to the camera or the collector in those parts. Personam tuam.
Ibid. (f. 83.)	To Master John Catryk, canon of York, bachelor of canon and civil law. Motu proprio appointment of him, who proposes to engage in the service of the pope and the Roman church, to be a papal notary. He is to take the usual oath of fealty to the bishops of Winchester and St. Davids, or one of them, the pope having (sic) ordered them to receive his oath and to confer upon him the insignia of his office. Pii patris.
8 Id. July. Pisa. (f. 83d.)	To the bishops of Winchester and St. Davids. Mandate to receive from the above Master John Catryk, who is absent from the Roman court, and whom the pope has appointed a papal notary, the above oath and afterwards to give him his insignia. They are to send the oath to the pope. Cum nos nuper.
8 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 88.)	To William Clichele (Chichele? ), clerk, of the diocese of London. Dispensation to him, who is studying in arts and has completed his eighteenth year, to hold a benefice with cure, even if a dignity, and to resign it, for exchange or otherwise, as often as seems good to him. Vite etc.
7 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 88d.)	To William Lechard (or Lethard), rector of St. Michael's, Croston, in the diocese of Lichfield. Dispensation to him, who is in minor orders and is a continual member of the household of king Henry, not to be bound for three years, whilst engaged in the service of that king, to have himself promoted to higher orders. Laudabilia probitatis.
3 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 90.)	To William de Storteford, archdeacon of Middlesex in London. Indult for six years to visit his archdeaconry by deputy and to receive procurations to a daily amount of 30 silver [gros] Tournois, 12 to the gold florin of Florence. Laudabilia probitatis.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Piacenza (Placentin.), the abbot of Abingdon (Habindonie) in the diocese of Salisbury, and the prior of St. Bartholomew's without the walls, London.Laudabilia etc.
3 Non. Sept. Pisa. (f. 91.)	To John Standolf, clerk, of the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation to him, who is in his twenty-second year, to hold a benefice with cure, even if a parish church or a dignity, not major nor principal respectively, or a personatus or an office, in a cathedral or collegiate church. Vite etc.
6 Id. July. Pisa. (f. 97.)	To Robert Sutton, canon of Ossory. Rehabilitation on account of his having obtained the church of Slane in the diocese of Meath, by exchange with Roger Wyntyr for that of St. Mary, Drogheda, in the same diocese, the resignations being simoniacally made to, and the exchange carried out by, the late William, the bishop, who had the consent of the lay patron of Slane. He is to resign Slane. Sedes apostolica.
Ibid.	To the abbot of St. Mary's Trym, in the diocese of Meath. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above Sutton, if found fit in Latin, the church of Slane, value not exceeding 100 marks, still void, as above, by the resignation of Roger; notwithstanding that Sutton holds canonries and prebends of Dublin, Ossory and Cashel, and the free chapel without cure of St. Nicholas, Karig, in the diocese of Ferns, value altogether not exceeding 60 marks. Dignum arbitramur.
6 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 102d.)	To William Crask, clerk, of the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to be promoted, upon completing his twenty-second year, to all holy orders, minister therein, and hold a benefice even if it have cure or be a perpetual vicarage, and to resign it, simply or for exchange. Sincere devocionis.
6 Id. July. Pisa. (f. 106.)	To Robert Sutton, canon of Ossory. Grant to him—who holds canonries and prebends of Dublin and Cashel, the free chapel without cure of St. Nicholas, Karig, and the parish church of Slane in the dioceses of Ferns and Meath, value not exceeding 160 marks—that the collation and provision formerly made to him by the late Alexander, bishop of Ossory, of the canonry and prebend of Oghterath in Ossory, value not exceeding 12 marks, on their voidance by the promotion, made by Urban VI, and the consecration, performed by order of that pope, of John to the see of Leighlin, shall hold good from the date of these presents, as though they were not specially or generally reserved. Vite etc.
7 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 128.)	To John Ayleston, rector of Stanwell in the diocese of London. Dispensation to him, who is chaplain of Joan, queen of England, and holds the above church, value not exceeding 100 marks, to hold for three years one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both, for exchange or simply, as often as he pleases within the said period. Vite etc.
13 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 132d.)	To the bishop of Winchester. Mandate to receive from Henry, bishop of St. Davids, the voluntary resignation which he proposes to make of the benefices which he holds by papal grant and dispensation, and to collate and assign them, one apiece, to the persons whom bishop Henry shall choose. They are to resign benefices incompatible with those received under these presents. The bishop of Winchester is to certify the camera or the collector in those parts as to names and dates.Apostolice sedis.
2 Id. Sept. Pisa. (f. 136d.)	To Richard, bishop of London. Faculty to confer the office of notary on six persons of his choice; with the form of oath enclosed. Personam tuam.
13 Kal. Aug. Pisa. (f. 138d.)	Relaxation of three years and three quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feast of the Assumption visit and give alms for the repair and conservation of the church of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary, Kells (Kenlys), in the diocese of Meath, which is situate on the borders (in finibus) of the English and Irish, and which, on account of the frequent wars and other calamities which have long afflicted those parts, is greatly impoverished, and its houses and buildings very much ruined. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is.
16 Kal. Aug. Pisa. (f. 148)	To the bishop of Meath. Mandate to dispense John Telyng de Sydan, esquire (armigeri) and Anne Fitz Adam, of his diocese, to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred. Oblate nobis.

De Regularibus



Non. Sept. Pisa. (f. 172.)	To the archdeacon of Kells (de Kenlis) in Meath. Mandate, at the petition of Richard Rowe, Augustinian prior of Terstergnach in the diocese of Meath—containing that the cause about the said priory, which he canonically obtained and of which he was despoiled by Richard Hill, canon of the same, was lawfully introduced to the court of Angelus Corario, formerly in his obedience called Gregory XII, and was, at Rowe's instance, committed to a certain auditor, who proceeded short of a conclusion; that on account of the transfers of the said court a number of muniments, which Rowe intended to use, have been lost, and that the cause can be better judged in those parts—to summon Hill and others concerned and to decide the cause, which the pope hereby calls up to himself, without appeal.Honestis supplicum. [See Cal. Lett. V, p. 348.]
Id. Oct. Pisa. (f. 190d.)	To the bishop of Salisbury. Mandate, at the petition of the Augustinian prior and convent of Bustelesham Montagu in his diocese—to whom Urban VI, on its being set forth to him that the late William, earl of Salisbury, founded the monastery but was prevented by death from sufficiently endowing it, so that it remained slenderly endowed and in great poverty, appropriated the parish church of Estelaydon (sic) in the diocese of Lincoln, so that on its voidance by resignation or death they might take possession; which they did, after and notwithstanding Boniface IX's general revocation on 11 Kal. Jan. anno 14 [1402, see Cal. Lett. V, p. 599] of appropriations—if the facts, of which the pope has not certain knowledge, be as stated, to appropriate to the said monastery, value not exceeding 300 marks, the said church, value not exceeding 30, reserving, if this have not been done, a fitting portion for a perpetual vicar, a secular priest. Pastoralis officii.
13 Kal. Aug. Pisa. (f. 199d.)	Confirmation, as below. Angelus Corario, called in his obedience Gregory XII, at the petition of the Augustinian prior and convent of Holy Trinity, London—containing that, in order to avoid the noises made by the parishioners of their monastery church, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen and is a parish church, and also on account of its smallness, they, for the convenience of themselves and the parishioners, and with consent of the latter, had permitted the building of a chapel of St. Catherine within the precincts of the monastery and dependent on it, in which chapel the parishioners should in future hear mass and other divine offices and have the sacraments administered to them by one of the canons, certain festivals and days, on which the parishioners could go to the said church, being excepted, and the baptismal font being likewise excepted, the prior and convent requiring it to remain perpetually in the church; and that the said church of St. Mary and the parish church of St. Botulph near the monastery and without the gate of Algate, which church of St. Botulph the prior and convent held to their uses, had been wont for two hundred years and more to be served by their canons appointed and removed at the sole pleasure of the prior—ordered the prior of St. Bartholomew's without the walls, London, his name not being expressed, if he found the above to be as stated, to confirm the same. The recent petition of the prior and convent to the present pope contained that Robert Esbuche (sic), canon of Lichfield [Lichefelden. cf. Cal. V, pp. 93 and 272], under commission from the said prior, confirmed the above. The pope hereby confirms the said canon's confirmation, even if it were made after the cardinals, of whom the pope was one, abandoned the said Angelus, then with his court residing at Lucca, and came to Pisa, where the pope and his court are residing. Ad fut. rei mem. Sacre religionis.
5 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 202d.)	To Richard, abbot, and the convent of Abingdon in the diocese of Salisbury. Indult, during twenty years, for the abbot and his successors to choose six priests, secular or religious, who may, on the feasts of the Nativity and Annunciation of St. Mary the Virgin, from the first to the second vespers, and also during the whole octave of the said feasts, hear confessions and absolve all who visit the monastery church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see. Sacre religionis.
4 Kal. Sept. Pisa. (f. 205.)	To the Augustinian prior and convent of SS. Mary and Cuthbert's, Wirksop, in the diocese of York. Indult to put away the high boots (ocree)—which, by the customs and statutes of their monastery and order, they wear up to the drawers (usque ad femoralia) and by the use of which their vestments and rochets and clothes (panni) and their other every day garments (vestes) are very much soiled and worn—and to wear shoes (sotularibus), provided that they be of a decent sort. Sacre religionis.
2 Id. Sept. Pisa. (f. 230d.)	To Richard, abbot of Abingdon. Indult to him—who, from zeal for the union of Christendom, has recently at his own expense come to Pisa and to the General Council held there, and who intends to prosecute in the pope's court certain business on behalf of himself and his monastery, for which he considers his presence to be very opportune—to stay for two years in the Roman court, or other neighbouring places where the air is more wholesome and more suitable to his constitution (complexioni). Sincere devocionis.
Non. July. Pisa. (f. 243.)	To Richard, abbot, and the convent of Jervaulx, of the Cistercian order, in the diocese of York. Indult that the said abbot—who was sent by the clergy of York as ambassador to the General Council recently held at Pisa—and his successors may wear the mitre, ring and other pontifical insignia, and in the monastery, its subject priories and the churches belonging to it, give solemn benediction after mass, vespers and matins, provided that no bishop or papal legate be present.Exposcit restre dexocionis.
13 Kal. Aug. Pisa. (f. 253.)	Confirmation—at the recent petition of the Augustinian prior and convent of St. Mary's Drumleachan, in the diocese of Kilmore, containing that although from ancient times they held to their own uses the perpetual vicarage of St. Medocius's, Drumlechen, and [that although] afterwards a number of secular priests were instituted by the bishops, nevertheless bishop Nicholas has, on its voidance, restored them to possession of the said vicarage, whose value does not exceed 8 marks, and has given it to them anew; and adding that since their restoration they have been wont to cause it to be served, now by their canons, now by secular priests—of the said restoration and gift.Ad fut. rei mem. Hiis que pro utiliate.
6 Id. July. Pisa. (f. 264.)	To Margaret Tuyt, Augustinian nun of St. Mary's, Clonarde, in the diocese of Meath. Dispensation, as the daughter of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred, to hold any dignity, even that of abbess, administrations and offices of her order. Religionis zelus, vite etc.
16 Kal. Aug. Pisa. (f. 303.)	Confirmation, at the recent petition of the prioress and convent of the Premonstratensian priory of St. Mary, Brodholm, in the diocese of York, of a certain ordinance made during the prioressship of the late Joan [de] R[i]el, out of consideration for the late queen Isabel, by mediation of a number of abbots of the order and very many good (probis) men of the realm by the late Alan, abbot of Neuhows in the diocese of Lincoln, to the abbot of which, as father-abbot, the priory is subject; with confirmation also of the ratification by the late John, abbot of Prémontré and the chapter-general. Exemplification is given of a public instrument, drawn up by William de Tourforde, clerk, of the diocese of Norwich, papal notary, which states that in the year of the Incarnation 1453 (i.e. 1354,) indiction 7, 2 Innocent VI, March 12, in presence of the abbots of Langeden, Barlynges, Croyston and Welbek, and of the above notary, abbot Alan, as the result of an agreement between himself and prioress Joan de Riel, made certain ordinances in presence of the above abbots and of Sirs Richard Gray, John Lysyers, John Pigot, Adam de Everingham, knights, and gives exemplification of the letters Univ. sancte etc. Noverit univ. vestra of abbot Alan, which state that in presence of the above four abbots, out of consideration for queen Isabel, he has ordained that (i) upon voidance of the priory of Brodholm the abbot of Newhows shall repair thither in person or send a fit member of the order, who shall investigate in the chapter the wishes, under oath, of all the sisters, and shall appoint as prioress her upon whom falls the consent of all or the greater part; (ii) all money arising from the fruits etc. of the priory shall, with the common seal and other muniments, be placed in a common chest under two keys of different make, one to be kept by the prioress, and the other by the sister whom the others shall choose; (iii) in order to obviate the impoverishment of the priory, one canon only of Newhows shall dwell with the sisters to say mass for them daily and to supervise their temporalities, provided that he do not presume to dispose thereof in aught against the will of the prioress; (iv) the prioress shall have temporal jurisdiction over all her servants, for the receiving of them and the removing of them at her pleasure; (v) in the event of a paucity of sisters she may, with counsel of the abbot and after obtaining licence, admit others; (vi) nothing of the above is to derogate from the right of the father abbot, who shall,four times a year, hear or cause to be heard, without expense to them, the confessions of prioress and sisters, and shall visit them for two days once a year with four or five carriages (evectionum), and stay at their expense. The abbot's letters, sealed with his own seal and those of the above four abbots, are dated at Brodholm 4 Id. March 1353 [-4]. Exemplification is also given of the brief ratification by John, abbot of Prémontré and the chapter-general, dated 1354, Oct. 13. Ad fut. rei mem. Provida sedis.