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1411.
17 Kal. Aug.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 7d.) |
To the bishop of Oloron, the abbot of St. Mary's, Granard, in the diocese of Ardagh, and the archdeacon of Kilmore. Mandate to grant in commendam for life to John Osyredean, canon of the Premonstratensian monastery of Holy Trinity, Lochke, in the diocese of Elphin—to whom the pope recently [above, p. 231] ordered provision to be made of the Premonstratensian priory, value not exceeding 5 marks, of Trinity Island (Insule Sancte Trinitatis), Lochuachtair, in the diocese of Kilmore, void by the death without the Roman court of Maurice Oduilinean, possession of which he has not yet obtained and whose fruits etc. would, he asserts, be insufficient—the perpetual vicarage, value not exceeding 4 marks, of Tuaimregayn, in the diocese of Kilmore, wont to be governed by secular clerks, void by the death without the Roman court of Macrobius Oblachsich; whether it be void as above, or in any other way, or by Execrabilis, even if so long void that by the Lateran statutes its collation has lapsed to the apostolic see, or it have been specially reserved. Qui postposita vanitate. (x, residuum pro deo.) |
10 Kal. Oct.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 8d.) |
To John Brokhampton, warden, called master, of the Augustinian hospital of SS. James and John, Brackele, in the diocese of Lincoln. Confirmation to him—who was dispensed by Boniface IX to hold for life with the said hospital one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleased [Cal. Lett. V, p. 186]; who set forth to Alexander V that he had obtained and was holding with the hospital the parish church of Schepey, in the said diocese, and that, on account of the probable doubt which very many before that time had made about the papacy, he feared molestation on account of the said dispensation, which dispensation pope Alexander therefore confirmed; and whose recent petition to the present pope contained that he fears lest the letters of pope Alexander may not be deemed surreptitious because the value of church and hospital is there given as not exceeding 50 marks, whereas they do exceed 50, but not 100— of the said letters, notwithstanding the said discrepancy. Religionis zelus, vite ac morum. (De mandato.) |
2 Kal. June.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 11.) |
To Laurence de Gargrafe, Augustinian canon of the priory of St. Mary, Bolton in Cravyn, in the diocese of York. Revocation to the cloister—the pope having learned that the prior for the time being can at his sole pleasure depute one of the canons to collect the fruits etc., as far as they belong to the priory, of its annexed parish church of Harwod, in the said diocese, the cure of which is exercised by a perpetual vicar, which canon thus deputed is called the procurator of the priory, and can remove him—of any canon so deputed by the prior; and deputing Laurence to the said office, with decree that he cannot be removed without reasonable cause. Religionis etc. |
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Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Civitaten., and the abbots of Jervaulx and Meaux. Religionis etc. (De mandato.) |
1412.
2 Non March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 29.) |
To John Lyn, Augustinian canon of the priory of Cokisford, in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation, after he shall have made his profession and shall be in his twenty-second year, to be promoted to all holy orders and minister therein. Religionis etc. |
4 Non. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 32.) |
To John Poyk, Augustinian canon of the monastery of St. Mary, Hickesforde, in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him, a priest and canon professed, to hold any benefice with cure, even wont to be governed by secular clerks. Religionis etc. |
1411.
16 Kal. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f 50d.) |
Licence and faculty as below. The recent petition of the Cistercian abbot and convent of St. Mary in the island of Holmcoltran, in the diocese of Carlisle, contained that the said island, which is on the confines or march of the realm of England, being, before the foundation of their monastery, apart (aliena) from all parishes, the abbots and monks, after the foundation, administered and caused to be administered by secular priests sacraments and sacramentals to their servants and the other inhabitants of the island and of their granges of Hildekick (sic) and Flemyngby, celebrated and caused to be celebrated masses and other divine offices for them, and caused them to be buried in the monastery; that afterwards the late John, bishop of Carlisle, granted them faculty and licence to found and build a church or chapel in the island in their territory of Arlosk beyond the river (ripariam) called Wavyr towards the realm of Scotland, in which for the said inhabitants such masses and other offices might be celebrated and sacraments and sacramentals administered, and decreed that the said church or chapel, thus founded and built, should enjoy all parochial insignia, in such wise that the cure of souls of all the inhabitants of the island should be exercised by the chaplain of the said church or chapel, who should be a secular priest and be presented by the abbot and convent to, and be admitted by, the bishop, and be removed upon reasonable cause assigned by the abbot and convent [Monasticon, V, 595]. The said petition added that on account of the said river (which flows continually between two thirds or thereabouts of the said island, towards
England, where the said monastery is situate, and one third of the said island, on the said confines towards Scotland, where the said chapel is situate, alike by reason of the ebb and flow of the sea into the said river once a day, as by reason of the torrents of fresh waters which, especially in winter, rush together to the said river), and also on account of the terrible invasions, plunderings, and incursions of the Scots, it is for the most part neither easy nor safe for the inhabitants of the said two parts and the said servants to go to the said church or chapel for the said sacraments and sacramentals, masses and other divine offices, to the peril of their souls and their no small loss (cum autem, sicut eadem peticio subjungebat, propter ripariam prefatam que inter duas rel circiter versus Angliam ubi monasterium, et aliam ejusdem insule partes in dictis confinibus versus Scociam ubi capella hujusmodi consistunt, continuum suum facit transitum incolis in ipsis duabus partibus degentibus sive commorantibus necnon servitoribus predictis, cum propter maris fluxum et refluxum in ipsam ripariam una vice in die naturali qualibet, tum eciam propter inundaciones aquarum recencium potissime hyemali tempore ad eandem ripariam concurrencium necnon propter Scotorum. . invasiones depredaciones et incursus terribiles, pro eisdem sacramentis… suscipiendis ac missis … audiendis plerumque ad eandem ecclesiam sive capellam liber sive tutus non patet accessus, in animarum periculum necnon … dispendium non modicum pariter atque damnum
…). The pope therefore grants to the abbot and convent licence and faculty, without requiring licence of the diocesan or any other, to appoint and remove monks of their monastery or secular priests who for the said servants and inhabitants, in the said monastery or, when it shall please the abbot and convent and shall be convenient, in the said church or chapel, may celebrate masses and other offices, administer the sacraments of baptism, Eucharist and extreme unction and other sacraments and sacramentals, solemnize marriages, and do and exercise all things which the chaplains of the said church or chapel have hitherto been wont to do and exercise. Ad fut. rei mem. Sacre religionis.
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17 Kal. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 52.) |
Confirmation of the appropriation by Henry, archbishop of York to the Cluniac prior and convent of St. John the Evangelist's, Pontefract, of the parish church, of which, by virtue of the said appropriation, they have obtained possession, of Kypast (spelt Kipask at each mention in the archbishop's letters below), value not exceeding 50 marks, that of the priory not exceeding 500. Exemplification is given of the letters—Inter cetera que solli[ci]tudinis nostre, of archbishop Henry, which (dated in the chapel of his castle or manor of Cawod on Wednesday, 16
April, 1410, indiction 3, 1 Alexander V, the third year of the archbishop's translation, drawn up by Richard, called Pittes, clerk, of the diocese of Lincoln, public notary, the archbishop's scribe, and witnessed by Sirs John Burell, rector of Gillyng in Ridale, Thomas Wyot, rector of a moiety of Cotgrave, William Yoksale, chaplain, of the diocese of York, and other
witnesses [not named]) set forth, in accordance with their recent petition, that their revenues have decreased and are daily decreasing, that their buildings etc. have decayed and are daily decaying and going to ruin, so that it is urgently necessary to build new ones and repair the old, on account of which and of the increasing cost of hospitality they are heavily burdened with debt. The archbishop therefore, at the instance of John Abirford, monk of their house, their proctor, with consent of the chapter of York, the dean being absent (in remotis agente), and others concerned, appropriates to them the church of Kipask, of their patronage. They and their successors shall celebrate the archbishop's obit or anniversary on the day of his death, and that of his successors, with copes (capis) and incense after the vespers of the dead, and each monk, when about to celebrate the mass of St. Mary in the chapel of St. Mary in the priory, shall for the archbishop's soul say at the beginning of the mass the collect ‘Inclina Domine aurem tuam etc.’ daily in perpetuity. The archbishop reserves a yearly pension to the chapter of York of 6s. 8d. to be paid in equal portions at St. Martin's in the winter and Whitsuntide. The cure of souls shall be exercised by a resident perpetual vicar, a secular, to be presented by them to the archbishop, or, during voidance, to the chapter, which vicar's portion shall be as follows: the manse of the rectory as at present contained within the inner wall, with the garden adjacent and dovecote (columbari) and 48 acres of arable land and 3 acres of meadow, and tenements in the town of Kipask and a coalpit, which belong to the church glebe, tithes of coal (tenementa … et unum puteum carbonum spectancia ad glebam dicte ecclesie necnon decimas carbonum), all personal tithes and tithes of mills, of young pigs, geese, hens, foals, pullets, and eggs, flax, hemp, milk-meats (porcellorum, aucarum, gallinarum, pullorum, pullanorum, et ovorum, lini, canabi, lacticinii), bees, wax, honey, ducks (anatum), lambs (agnorum, cf. below), apples, pears and of other like small fruits of the gardens of the whole parish, the pence for the blessed bread, and mortuaries living and dead. The prior and convent shall have, besides the church, the granges of the said rectory, the sheep-fold (barcariam) and the barns (orria), situate without the said walls (sic), and the garden (orto) adjacent, [and] the outer barns, the tithes of sheaves, hay, wool and lambs (agnorum, cf. above) of the whole parish, and all other revenues of the church, saving the vicar's portion as above. The vicar shall bear the burden of the bread and wine of the said church and the archidiaconal procurations. Of the burden of repairing or re-building the chancel and of the other burdens incumbent on the church two parts shall pertain to the prior and convent and the third to the vicar. The prior and convent shall distribute yearly 6s. 8d. among the poor parishioners, in accordance with the statute [15 Ric. II, c. 6] put forth on the subject. Ad fut rei mem. Sedis apostolice. [6 pp.] |
6 Id. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 73d.) |
Confirmation, at the recent petition of the Augustinian abbot and convent of St. Michael's, Mayo, in the diocese of Tuam, of the translation and transmutation by the late John, archbishop
of Tuam, with consent of the chapter of Tuam, of the then secular and collegiate church of secular canons into the said monastery of regular canons, in which for forty years more or less there have been an abbot and about five or six canons. Ad perp. rei mem. Quia inter alia. |
17 Kal. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 78.) |
To John Clyve, Benedictine monk of St. Mary's, Worcester. Dispensation to hold a benefice with or without cure, wont to be governed by secular clerks, or of lay patronage, and to resign it, for exchange or otherwise, as often as he pleases. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (De mandato.) |
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Ibid. |
To Thomas Berghwolte, Augustinian canon of the priory of Buttele, in the diocese of Norwich. The like. Religionis etc. (De mandato.) |
8 Kal. Aug.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 91d.) |
To the bishop of Civitaten., the archdeacon of Kilmacduagh and Richard Valens (Ricardo Valenti), canon of Tuam. Mandate to collate and assign to Patrick Holaynneachayr, Cistercian monk of Knockmoy (Collis victorie) in the diocese of Tuam—who, after holding as a secular priest for more than sixteen years a certain parish church, entered and made his profession in Knockmoy and who, on account of its poverty caused by wars etc., cannot be maintained, but can acquire food and raiment outside the monastery by serving a parish church— the perpetual vicarage, value not exceeding 4 marks and hitherto wont to be governed by secular clerks, of Cyllmaceyan, in the said diocese, void by the death without the Roman court of Malachy Omoloroyn, whether it be void etc., as above, f. 7d. He is hereby dispensed to receive and hold it for life. Religionis etc. (VIIII. Residuum pro deo.) |
12 Kal. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 94d.) |
To John Bradforth, Cistercian monk of Whalley, in the diocese of Lichfield. Dispensation to him—who, notwithstanding his illegitimacy, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, has in the said monastery, of which he is a professed monk, caused himself, in accordance with its institutes approved and confirmed by the apostolic see, to be duly promoted to all, even holy orders and has for some time ministered therein— notwithstanding his said defect, to hold any benefice wont to be governed by monks of the said monastery, with or without cure, even if a priory, dignity, personatus, administration or office, even if such priory be conventual and it or such dignity or personatus
be not (sic) wont to be elective. Religionis etc. [See below, f. 97.] |
7 Kal. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 96.) |
To Thomas Brackelegh, Augustinian canon of the priory of [SS. Peter and Paul], Chacombe, in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to hold a benefice with or without cure wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, and to resign it, for exchange or otherwise, as often as he pleases. Religionis etc. (De mandato.) |
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Ibid. |
Appropriation, at the recent petition of the Augustinian prior and convent of the priory of SS. Peter and Paul, Chacombe— containing that some of their buildings and other immoveables are so much in need of repair and their revenues so much diminished that on account of the great hospitality which they have to keep up their means are insufficient—to their priory, value not exceeding 200 marks, of the parish church, value not exceeding 25 marks, of their patronage, of Berford, in the diocese of Lincoln. On the resignation or death of the rector they may take possession, a portion being reserved for a perpetual vicar. Ad perp. rei mem. Sacre religionis. (De mandato.) |
8 Kal. Aug.
St. Peter's Rome.
(f. 97.) |
To the abbot of Sallay, in the diocese of York. Mandate to receive from John de Tollerton, Cistercian monk of Vhalley, in the diocese of Lichfield, the resignation which, on account of his age and weakness, he proposes to make of the perpetual vicarage of Vhalley, wont to be governed by monks of Vhalley, and to collate and assign it, value not exceeding 12 marks, to John Bradford (also written Bradforth, e.g. below), monk of the same, priest, whom the pope has lately dispensed on account of his illegitimacy, as the son of and unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to hold any benefice with or without cure, wont to be governed by monks of his monastery, even if a priory, dignity, personatus, administration or office. The abbot is to see that there be no simony between Tollerton and Bradforth. Dignum
[arbitramur]. [See above, f. 94d.] |
11 Kal. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 101d.) |
To Richard Hill. Provision to him, canon of the independent Augustinian priory of St. Mary, Tristernagh, in the diocese of Meath, of the said priory, conventual and a dignity, value, after deducting its burdens and those of the convent, not exceeding 30 marks, void and therefore reserved to the pope—under his late reservation of all conventual priories of all orders, void and to be void [Ottenthal, Reg. Canc. Apost., John XXIII, No. 3] —by the death of Richard Rowe. Religionis zelus, vite etc. |
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Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Armagh, and the bishops of Kildare and Siena (Senen.). Religionis etc. (Here spelt Tristernach.) |
1412.
Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 103d.) |
To John Halle, Cistercian monk of Boxle, in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation, as above, to Thomas Brackelegh, f. 96. Religionis etc. |
6 Non. March.
St. Peter's Rome.
(f. 109d.) |
To John Fiskirton, Gilbertine. Dispensation to him, a priest, to hold any benefice with cure, wont to be governed by secular clerks. Religionis etc. |
15 Kal. April.
St. Peter's Rome.
(f. 115.) |
To John Kennynghale, Benedictine monk of Bury St. Edmunds. Licence to him, a priest, after asking, even though he do not obtain, his superior's leave, to visit as a pilgrim (peregre) the shrines of SS. Peter and Paul, Rome. Religionis etc. |
8 Kal. March.
St. Peter's Rome.
(f. 115.) |
To the bishop of Veszprém and the dean and archdeacon of Elphin. Mandate to grant in commendam for life to John Obyrnd, Augustinian prior of St. Mary's, Killmoirnasinna, in the diocese of Elphin—who on account of the slenderness of its fruits and the number of its canons cannot be maintained—the perpetual vicarage, value not exceeding 6 marks, of Eachdruim, in the said diocese, wont to be assigned to secular clerks, void by the death without the Roman court of Patrick Odulgumach; whether it be void etc., as above, f. 7d. Qui postposita vanitate. (Pro deo.) |
4 Non. Jan.
St. Peter's Rome.
(f. 116.) |
To the abbots of St. Mary's, Achcruym, and Annadown (Cella Parva), and the prior of Inchmacnerin (Insula Macneryn), in the dioceses of Meath, Annadown and Elphin. Mandate— at the complaint of the Augustinian abbot and convent of St. Michael's, Mayo, in the diocese of Tuam, containing that, although they have not been remiss in paying the canonical procurations due to archbishops and archdeacons of Tuam, some of the archbishops and archdeacons, not content therewith, have uncanonically imposed and exacted pecuniary procurations not due from them and excessive—to defend them, and not to permit them to be thus uncanonically burdened, as they fear to be, by the present archbishop and archdeacon and their successors. Querelam dilectorum. |
9 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 121d.) |
To John Watford, Augustinian prior of St. Bartholomew's in Smethefelde without the walls of London. Dispensation to hold for three years only with the said priory, which has cure, is conventual and is independent, a benefice with cure wont to be governed by secular clerks. Within the said term he is to resign the priory. Religionis zelus, vite etc. |
9 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 182.) |
To Howel Lange, Benedictine monk of St. Dogmaels in the diocese of St. Davids. Dispensation to him, a priest, notwithstanding his illegitimacy, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to hold all dignities, personatus, perpetual administrations, offices and benefices of his order, even if such dignities be abbatial or be conventual priories. Religionis etc. |
15 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 133.) |
Appropriation to the Benedictine abbot and convent of Eyne[s]ham in the diocese of Lincoln—whose recent petition contained that on account of divers events and especially of the almost daily concourse of magnates (procerum) and other guests, and of other intolerable burdens, their fruits etc. are insufficient for their maintenance—of the parish church of Newenton Jewell in the said diocese, value not exceeding 30 marks, that of the monastery not exceeding 1,400. Upon the resignation or death of the rector they may take possession, a portion being reserved by the abbot of Abingdon (Habyndonie) for a perpetual vicar. Ad perp.rei mem. Sacre religionis. (De mandato.) [See
Cal. V, p. 13.] |
1411.
5 Id. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 153.) |
To the Augustinian abbot and convent of St. Michael's, Mayo, in the diocese of Tuam. Taking under the protection of St. Peter and the pope them and their monastery, the place where it is situate and their possessions, present and future,
with mention of the parish churches of Robyn, Kyllynayn, Luany; the rectories of Tyrnechtayn and Techayn, Garbalach and Cluaynbaub, and of the ecclesiastical lands of Anachbrytlend, Druymbryt, Kyllbudayn, Druymony and Cluaynunderg; the perpetual vicarages of Roslaeg and Kyllcholmayn; the rights and tithes formerly assigned to the monastery by the late Charles, lord of Connaught (Connactie); the great court (atrio magno) [of] Clochurlog; possessions in Stamay, Caylcolla, Ardcortay, Fraychyn, Gortygary, Kyllbudan, Tulachmor, Gortinybayr, Lochbargayn, Triacra, Raythnasendrumund, Gortnaginscala, Gabulmoe and Kellbrach de Kyllgabuyl; the ecclesiastical fees of Robyn and Kyllchelmayn, each with a mill, Kyllcholmayn and Kyllgabuxl, in the said diocese; with confirmation of all papal liberties and immunities, and all liberties and exemptions granted by kings, princes and other faithful from secular exactions. Cum a nobis petitur. |
2 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f.154.) |
To the archdeacon of Aghadoe (de Achadeo) in the church of Ardfert. Mandate to collate and assign to Alan Omolchonore, canon of the Augustinian priory of St. Michael's Mount (de Ruppe Beati Michaelis) in the diocese of Ardfert, priest, the son of a priest of the same order and an unmarried woman, the said priory, a conventual dignity, independent, and value not exceeding 20 marks, void and therefore reserved to the pope— under his late reservation of all conventual priories, void and to be void [see f. 101d]—by the death of Thomas Omolchonore. Alan is hereby dispensed, on account of his said illegitimacy, to hold the priory. Dignum [arbitramur]. |
16 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 156d.) |
Indult—at the petition of the warden and of a number of the monks of the church of Durham, O.S.B., and scholars in the college called Durham without the walls of Oxford, engaged in the study of letters, containing that, although there is in the said college a chapel of St. Cuthbert, in which the said warden, monks and scholars have for many years celebrated masses and other divine offices, yet in the said chapel, situate within the bounds of two parish churches, there is no sepulture for those who die in the college—for the said warden, monks and scholars, and their successors, to bury members of the college who die there and so choose, in the said chapel or in its vestibule, which has also, they say, been consecrated, without requiring licence of the ordinary or any other; saving otherwise in all things the right of the parish church [es] and any other. Ad fut. rei mem. Humilibus et honestis. [Historiæ Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (Surtees Society), p. cciii, without date.] |
18 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 157.) |
To the bishop of Kilfenora, the abbot of Clare (de Forgio) in the diocese of Killaloe, and the dean of Kilmacduagh. Mandate to collate and assign to Alan Olongsygh, clerk, of the diocese of Limerick—who is an Irishman and has studied for four years canon and civil law at Oxford, who lately 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, and whom the pope has this day ordered the above dean to cause to be received as a canon of the Augustinian priory of St. Mary, Killagh (de Belloloco), in the diocese of Ardfert, whether it has a fixed number of canons or not, and to receive his professsion—after he has made his said profession, the said priory, even if with cure and elective, in whose foundation it is said to be expressly provided that no Irishman can be prior, the yearly value to the prior of whose fruits etc., all of which are expended in common between prior and convent, does not amount to 60 marks, void and therefore reserved to the pope, as above, f. 154, by the resignation made to the late John, bishop of Ardfert, by William de Kildromac. Alan is hereby dispensed, notwithstanding his said illegitimacy, any papal constitutions, and the said [foundation] statutes and constitutions, to hold the priory. Religionis zelus, vite etc. |
1412.
10 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 159d.) |
To the Cluniac prior and convent of St. Mary Magdalene's, Barnstaple (Barnestarpolie), in the diocese of Exeter. Licence— at their recent petition, containing that their means have been so much diminished by floods and the malice of the time that they are insufficient for the maintenance of them and the monastery servants, and for the support of their burdens—to take possession of the vicarage on the resignation or death of the present vicar, and have it served in future by a fit secular priest appointed and removed at their sole pleasure, and to convert its fruits to their own uses, of the parish church of St. Peter, Barnstaple, which they hold to their uses and which is served by a perpetual vicar. Digna exaudicione. |
10 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome
(f. 160d.) |
To the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishops of Hereford and Lincoln. Mandate, as below, at the petition of the Augustinian prior and convent of Max[s]toke in the diocese of Coventry, containing that although they formerly obtained canonical possession, as united to their priory, of the parish church of Aston Cantelowe in the diocese of Worcester, and had held it to their uses for more than forty years, the Augustinian prior and convent of Stodeleye in the latter diocese, falsely asserting that the church was united to their priory, despoiled the priory of Maxstoke of it as well as of a quantity of corn deposited in the manse of the said church, carrying away the corn, taking possession of the church and taking its fruits; that in their cause, long ventilated in the apostolic palace, they obtained two definitive sentences in possessorio, by which the prior and convent of Stodeleye were removed and themselves restored, the former being condemned to restore the said corn or 100 marks, and condemned in fruits taken and in costs; that they impetrated papal letters of execution, addressed to the above three, under which the archbishop proceeded alone; that the prior and convent of Stodeleye gave up possession of the church, but refused to do the rest, on account of which the archbishop excommunicated the prior, suspended the convent and interdicted the priory church; and that the said prior and convent have for several years contemned the archbishop's
sentences. The above three are therefore ordered to take the usual proceedings and aggravate them, invoking if necessary the aid of the secular arm. If the said prior and convent remain contumacious for more than a year, they are to be cited as suspect of heresy, and if they fail to clear themselves are to be declared heretics. Exhibita nobis. [See above, p. 236, and Cal. Lett. V, p. 359.] |
Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 163d.) |
To John Clement, a Carmelite, papal chaplain. Dispensation to him, a priest, to hold a benefice with or without cure, even if wont to be governed by secular clerks, or if of lay or ecclesiastical patronage. Grata tue devocionis. |
8 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 170.) |
To the Augustinian prior and convent of Holy Trinity, London. Indult to them and their successors to sell, let or grant to farm, to clerks or laymen, for such time as shall seem expedient to them, the fruits etc. of their churches, chapels, portions, tithes, pensions, possessions and rights. Quociens illud. |
9 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 170.) |
To the Augustinian prior of Holy Trinity, London. Indult to dispense two of his canons, on account of defect of age, after completing their twenty-first year, to be promoted to all holy orders. Apostolice sedis. |
11 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 176d.) |
To the bishops of Volterra and Kilmore and the archdeacon of Kilmore. Mandate to transfer to the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary, Kells (de Kenll[is]), in the diocese of Meath, in which there is no fixed number of canons, William Omichian, Augustinan canon of Gill abbey (de Antro Sancti Findbarii) in the diocese of Cork, which latter monastery is so much impoverished by wars etc. that its inmates, especially on account of the multitude of them, cannot well be maintained. Humilibus et honestis. (Pro deo.) |
1411.
7 Kal. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 178d.) |
To the abbot of St. Thomas the Marty's without the walls of Dublin. Mandate to him—whom the pope has ordered [below, p. 288], if he find that on the voidance by the death of John Randull, before the pope's accession, of the Augustinian priory of St. Mary, Holmpatriik, in the diocese of Dublin, the convent simoniacally elected Richard Brystow, one of the canons, who obtained confirmation from the ordinary, to deprive him—to collate and assign the said priory, still void, as above, independent and value not exceeding 60 marks, to Walter Spenser, canon thereof and priest, if found fit in Latin. Dignum [arbitramur]. |
1412.
6 Id. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 183d.) |
To the bishop, dean and official of Ardagh. Mandate to collate and assign to Patrick Magra, Cistercian monk of Kilbeggan (de Flumine Dei) in the diocese of Meath, priest, the sacristship thereof, value not exceeding 3 marks, an office without cure (simplex), whose holder is wont to be removed at the sole pleasure of the abbot, void by his voluntary resignation, made to abbot Gillabert, such resignation belonging by ancient and hitherto observed custom to the abbot; whether it be void etc., as above, f. 7d. [Religionis zelus,] vite etc. (Pro deo.) |
8 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 185d.) |
To the prior of the church of Canterbury. Mandate—at the recent petition of the Benedictine prior and convent of St. Martin's, Dover (Dovorrie), in the diocese of Canterbury, containing that of the old parish church of St. Martin, Dover, appropriated to them by papal authority and served, now by a secular priest, now by a religious, called an archpriest, appointed and removed by the prior, the fruits etc. are insufficient for the maintenance of the present archpriest—to license them, upon his resignation or death, to have the church served by one of their monks. Digna exaudicione vota. |
4 Id. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 194.) |
To John Lyde, Augustinian prior of St. Mary's, Louth, in the diocese of Armagh. Grant that the convent's election of him, then canon thereof and priest, to the said priory, independent, with cure, the prior's share of its fruits not exceeding 30 marks, made, before the present pope's accession and in accordance with ancient custom, on its voidance by the resignation, made to archbishop Nicholas, of Nicholas Standon, [now] prior of Holy Trinity, Dublin, and confirmed by the ordinary, shall hold good from the present date, provided that Nicholas was not a papal chaplain. Religionis zelus, vite etc. |
1411.
11 Kal. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 201.) |
To the abbot of St. Mary's without the walls of York. Mandate to confirm Boniface IX's licence [above, Reg. Lat. LXXXV, f. 164, in Cal. Lett. V, p. 335] to the Premonstratensian abbot and convent of St. Agatha's by Richmond and their successors to wear within and without their cloister, linen rochets beneath their cappas, and black hoods and caps (rochetis lineis sub eorum cappis ac capuciis et biretis nigris uti), according to the customs and institutes of the Augustinian canons regular in England. Sacre religionis. |
6 Id. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 208.) |
To the Cistercian abbot and convent of Port St. Mary (de Portu Sancte Marie), Donbrothy, in the diocese of Ferns. Renewal and confirmation, with exemplification, of the privilege Religiosam vitam eligentibus, which the pope has caused to be inspected in his chancery, of Celestine III, addressed to abbot Thomas and the brethren, present and future, and dated at St. Peter's, Rome, by Cencius, cardinal deacon of St. Lucy's in Orthea, chamberlain, 14 Kal. Dec., indiction 14, the year of the Incarnation 1195, 5 Celestine III. From the text of pope Celestine's bull, as printed by Gilbert, Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin: with the Register of its House at Dumbrody
(Rolls S., No. 80) II, p. 97, the following are the chief variants in the present exemplification: —Arphidurchi.. juxta viam Theachmunim, a Malpas … Cuelleach et Raithcriu et Tirmeham et Lisculenam et Tirgobran et Cuildescert … Druimcuilb … Dumnacanan et Drimbrodathi, et duas carrucas (sic) terre in (sic) Insula … Gilleberti de Essex.. Helie filii Aioss, Cliuain fadda … Gilonis … Oddonis de Carrou … Thecmelin, ex dono Hai prepositi Watrefordii unum burgagium [in] Water fordia. Sincere devocionis affectus. [3¾ pp.] |
1412.
8 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 216d.) |
To the bishop of Veszprém, the prior of St. Mary's, Saints Island (de Insula Sanctorum), in the diocese of Ardagh, and the official of Ardagh. Mandate to collate and assign to
Cristinus Macmurrig, Augustinian canon of St. Mary's, Killmornasinna, in the diocese of Elphin, priest, the son of a priest of the said order and an unmarried woman, the sacristship of St. Mary's, an office without cure (simplex), the holder of which has been wont to be removed at the sole pleasure of the prior, value not exceeding 3 marks, void by the election as prior, by the convent, of the late Cornelius Obernd; whether it be void etc., as above, f. 7d. Cristinus is hereby dispensed, on account of his illegitimacy, to hold it. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (Pro deo.) |
1411.
17 Kal. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 222.) |
To John Schaldeborue, Augustinian canon of Merton priory in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation to hold a benefice with or without cure, even wont to be governed by secular clerks, and to resign it, for exchange or otherwise, as often as he pleases. Religionis etc. (De mandato.) |
1412.
9 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 244d.) |
To John Warmiston, Cistercian monk of St. Mary's, Morgan, in the diocese of Llandaff. Dispensation to him, whose said monastery is utterly (funditus) destroyed, so that the abbot and convent are obliged to go about like vagabonds, to hold a benefice with or without cure, wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, and to resign it etc., as in the preceding. Religionis etc. |
14 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 257.) |
To the Benedictine abbot of Schirborne in the diocese of Salisbury. Indult to dispense four of his monks, after completing their twenty-first year, to be promoted to all holy orders. Apostolice sedis. |
11 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 257.) |
To Robert Trussebut, canon of the priory or house of St. Catherine, of the order of St. Gilbert of Simpingham, in the diocese (sic)of Lincoln. Dispensation to hold any benefice with cure, even wont to be governed by secular clerks, and to resign it etc., as above, f. 222. Religionis etc. |
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Ibid. |
To Richard Middeltone, Benedictine monk of Norwich. The like. Religionis etc. |
2 Id. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 258.) |
To the prior of Twynham in the diocese of Winchester. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of John Manore, Thomas Corf, Thomas Porelonde and John Wynbourne, canons of the Augustinian priory of Twynham in the diocese of Winchester, contained that formerly they and certain accomplices laid violent hands on their prior John, and carried off property belonging to the priory; and added that after conviction by authority of the ordinary and public confession and penance they made restitution. At the petition of the said prior and canons the pope orders the latter to be absolved from excommunication etc., to be dispensed on account of irregularity contracted, if any, and to be rehabilitated. Sedes apostolica. |
12 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 259d.) |
To Roger (corrected in the margin fromAnthony) Palmeri, canon of the Arroasian (Arreocen.) monastery of Lesnes, of the order of St. Augustine, in the diocese of Rochester. Indult to return to the Augustinian priory of Christchurch, London,
whence, after making his profession there and being promoted to all holy orders, and living there a long time, he, seduced or circumvented by false suggestions and bland promises, under papal letters and with leave of the prior, transferred himself to Lesnes, where he cannot remain with tranquillity; notwithstanding his forced oath to the said prior never to return. Religionis etc. |
5 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 263d.) |
To the bishop of Veszprém, the abbot of St. Mary's, Kilbeggan (de Flumine Dei), in the diocese of Meath, and the dean of Ardagh. Mandate to collate and assign to Donatus Macbraein, Augustinian canon of Derry (Celle Nigre)—whom the pope has recently ordered to be transferred from the said monastery, its fruits, etc. being too slender for the maintenance of its many inmates, to St. Mary's, Cluaintuasgertanassinna, of the said order, and in the diocese of Elphin—the perpetual vicarage, value not exceeding 4 marks, of Cluainnacalleach in the said diocese, void by the death of Reginald (Raynaldus) Odimura, and wont to be served by secular clerks. Donatus is hereby dispensed to hold it. Religionis etc. (Pro deo.) |
4 Id. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 271d.) |
To John Boystok, Augustinian canon of Plympton in the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to hold any benefice with cure, even if of lay patronage and wont to be governed by secular clerks, and to resign it etc., as above, f. 222. Religionis etc. |
16 Kal. June.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 271d.) |
Appropriation to the Benedictine abbess and convent of Berkyng in the diocese of London,—their monastery, in which are the bodies of SS. Et[h]elburga, Hildelitha and Wilf[r]ida, Virgins, and which is situate by a certain arm of the sea called the Thames (Thamissiam), although sufficiently endowed by kings of England, having been impoverished by long mortalities in those parts and sudden floods which have swallowed up some of their possessions to the value, within the past 30 years, of 200 marks —the assent of king Henry having been given, of the parish church, of their patronage, of Litlyngton in the county of Bedford in the diocese of Lincoln, value not exceeding 40
marks, that of the monastery not exceeding 800. Upon the resignation or death of the rector they may take possession, a yearly portion of 15 marks being reserved for a perpetual vicar. Ad fut. rei mem. Digna exaudicione vota. |
11 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 273.) |
To Agnes Massingham, nun of Deneye, of the order of St. Clare, in the diocese of Ely. Dispensation, at the petition also of king Henry, to be elected and appointed as abbess of the said monastery, notwithstanding that before she entered it and made her profession she had been married. Religionis etc. |
4 Id. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 273d.) |
To Edward Brydham, rector of Retelthorp (sic) in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation, at the petition also of Henry, prince of Wales, eldest son of king Henry, to him—whom, then, as now, an Augustinian canon of Heryngham in the diocese of
Chichester, Alexander V dispensed [above, p. 163] to hold a benefice with cure, even wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if of the patronage of laymen, or if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, and to resign it as often as he pleased, for exchange or otherwise, and hold instead for life a similar or dissimilar benefice, after which he obtained Retelthorp—to hold for life, with Retelthorp or, in case of his resigning it, with other such benefice having cure, any benefice without cure, and to resign both as often as he pleases, for exchange or otherwise, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar compatible benefices. Religionis etc. |
8 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 289.) |
To the archdeacon of London. Confirmation, as below. Angelus Corario, called Gregory XII,—at the petition of the Augustinian prioress and convent of the priory of Harewelde in the diocese of Lincoln setting forth that the situation of the priory hard by the high road involved it in expensive hospitality to great numbers of noble and other guests, that on account of the flooding of a certain great river called the Owse the prioress and convent often suffered great losses, that the priory buildings were very ruinous, that its fruits were too poor to suffice for the said hospitality, for rebuilding and for the maintenance of the nuns, then, as usual, thirteen in number, and that king Henry [Monasticon, VI, p. 331] had given them, for purpose of appropriation, his patronage of the parish church of Shakeeston in the said diocese—appropriated the said church, value not exceeding 40 marks, to the said priory, value not exceeding 60. Alexander V—after the condemnation, which took place before Gregory's letters had been drawn up, of him and of Peter de Luna, called Benedict XIII, in the General Council of Pisa—ordered [above, p. 164] the bishop of Lincoln, if he found the above to be true, to carry out the appropriation, so that on the resignation or death of the rector they might take possession, a pension being reserved for a perpetual vicar, which mandate bishop Philip, as was set forth in the recent petition of the prioress and convent to the present pope, although requested during the lifetime of pope Alexander, has refused to execute. The pope therefore orders the above archdeacon to proceed to the execution of the above letters, as though they had been directed to him and as though he had begun to proceed to their execution during the lifetime of pope Alexander, notwithstanding the present pope's general annulment [Ottenthal, Regul. Canc. Apost., Jo. XXIII, No. 5] of appropriations of priories etc., parish churches etc. and other benefices, made by papal or any other authority, which had taken effect by the resignation or death of the holders, or which had not taken effect, as likewise of mandates etc. to make such appropriations. Humilibus supplicum rotis. |
6 Non. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 301d.) |
Confirmation—at the recent petition of the Premonstratensian abbot and convent of St. Mary's, West Derham, in the diocese of Norwich, setting forth that a dissension (corrected from
question) arose formerly between them and the late Richard Sayer, perpetual vicar of the parish church, which they hold to their uses, of Holkham in the said diocese, about the matters
related below—of the sealed letters Univ. sancte matris … Vestra noverit universitas of the late Henry, bishop of Norwich, dated in his manor of North Elmham 24 Feb., 1404[5], according to the computation of the English church, indiction 13, 1 Innocent VII, the 35th year of the bishop's consecration, in the presence, as witnesses, of Master Henry Welle, bachelor of canon law, rector of Cressyngham Magna, Geoffrey de Dersham (sic), rector of Bradewelle, and John Salman, rector of Ugeshale, in the said diocese, and others [not named], and drawn up’ and attested on the above date by John Farmer, clerk, of the said diocese, notary public, the said bishop's scribe and registrar. The said letters set forth that a question has arisen between the above abbot and convent and Richard Sayer about the tithes, great and little, of the said church, and about a dwelling (mansione sive habitacione) for the said Richard and his successors, and that the said bishop, in presence of the parties, decrees and ordains that the said abbot and convent and their successors shall have, as hitherto, the whole of the tithes of every kind of corn (bladorum), and of wool of lambs and of sea fish, fresh and salt, and all oblations from June 29 to July 31, both inclusive, and that Richard and his successors shall have all other tithes and all fruits, proventus, oblations, mortuaries and all other obventions; and assigns to the said vicars in perpetuity, for building a dwelling (pro manso habitacione sive vicaria … construendo), a parcel (peciam) of land of the church glebe, lying hard by the land of the late Gilbert Neel, on the north side, and abutting at one end upon the king's highway which goes to the said church westwards, the other end abutting on a hill which is called the common pasture of the parishioners, the bishop's decree to be observed under penalty of 40l., namely 20l. to be paid to the episcopal almonry (elemosine), and 20l. to be paid by the infringing party to the other. Ad fut. rei mem. Sedis apostolice. [4pp.] |
