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1412.
5 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 21.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feasts of Christmas, Circumcision, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension and Corpus Christi, Whitsuntide, the Nativity, Annunciation, Purification and Assumption of St. Mary the Virgin, the Nativity of St. John Baptist, SS. Peter and Paul, the Invention and Exaltation of Holy Cross and the dedication, and on All Saints, and during the octaves of certain of them and the six days of Whitsun week; and of a hundred days to those who during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the repair of the church of St. John, Chester, in the diocese of Lichfield, which is threatened with ruin. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
1411.
12 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 25.) |
Declaration as below. The pope has recently heard that between Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury and the chancellor, masters, doctors and scholars of the university of Oxford discord has arisen and is still going on about its visitation, correction and reformation; the said chancellor, masters, etc. claiming exemption from the jurisdiction and cognisance of the said archbishop and any other judges by grant and privileges of kings of England and of Boniface, called in his obedience IX, containing amongst other things that the chancellor should have the cognisance of all contracts and the punishment of delicts committed within the bounds of the university, in cases wherein a scholar or his servant or other person in the chancellor's jurisdiction is a party, so that no such scholar etc., except only in cases of homicide, mutilation and freehold could, even by royal writs, be haled without the university (the text is here defective: ubi saltem altera partium scolaris vel ejus serviens aut alius [? for alias] jurisdictioni dicti cancellarii [subjectus esset; ita quod nullus scolaris prefati studii vel serviens ipsius, seu de hujusmodi jurisdictione dicti cancellarii] existens, occasione premissorum …, cf. the printed texts referred to below), as is said to be contained more at large in such indults; the archbishop asserting that at the time of such impetration all the doctors in theology, bachelors in canon and civil law and the scholars of those faculties, with few exceptions, and the monks, canons regular and the members of the four mendicant orders, studying in the university, expressly spoke against the impetration, as they still do, and renounced, as they still do, the exemption and impetration. The pope has further received, and gives exemplification of, letters subscribed with his own hand, of king Henry, thus: on the outside (in epigramate), ‘sanctissimo in Christo patri domino Johanni divina providencia sacrosancte Romane ecclesie summo Pontifici,’ and on the inside, Beatissime pater. Quoniam divisio et insurrectio inferiorum. … The king states therein that the university, in order to escape the too near correction of the archbishop, impetrated from the apostolic see an exemption prejudicial to the catholic faith and the church of God and the king's crown, and did so in the name of the university, whereas in truth its three principal faculties, namely theology, canon and civil law, with very few exceptions, and all the monks, canons and friars of the four orders, studying there, and the better and more notable masters of arts in great number, at the time of the impetration of the said exemption, spoke against and renounced it, and still do so; that king Richard, unable to tolerate the said exemption, induced its adherents to renounce it, the which was done before his notary Sir Richard Raunale in the house of congregation by the then chancellor and all others; that nevertheless, upon the archbishop's going to the university on metropolitical visitation, Richard Courtenay the chancellor and certain accomplices rose in arms against him. The king therefore petitions the pope to transmit with speed his letters under the form Ad perpetuam rei memoriam, revoking the said exemption, a copy of which the archbishop is inserting in his letters to the pope. The King's letter is written under his signet at his manor of Beauregard, 20 Aug., 'devotus filius vester Henricus, dei gracia rex Anglie et Francie et dominus Ybernie, Vester devotusfilius H. dei gracia rex Anglie et Francie.’ The pope declares therefore the said archbishop to have been and to be able to visit the university and to exercise his office and jurisdiction as he lawfully could and was wont to do before the impetration of the said exemption. Ad fut. rei mem. In specula militantis. (De mandato.) |
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[The above-mentioned bull of Boniface IX, which has not been met with in his Register, is printed without indication of source by Bulæus (Du Boulay), Hist. Univ. Paris, IV, (1668) p. 1. Placed there under the year 1300, and ascribed without question to Boniface VIII, it begins 'Bonifacius, etc. Dignum censemus ut …, ‘and ends 'Nulli ergo hominum liceat etc. Datum Romæ apud S. Petrum 2 Id. Junii Pontif. nostri an. 6.’ It is also printed by Wood, Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. (1674) p. 146, who places it under 1301, but proves that it was obtained, not from Boniface VIII, but from Boniface IX. Wilkins, Concilia, II (1737), p. 271, reprints from Wood, and also places it under 1301. Anstey, Munim. Acad., I (1868), p. 78, places it without comment under 1300, and assigns it to Boniface VIII. Potthast, Reg: Pont. Rom. Vol. II (1875), registers the bull Dignum censemus ut, without separately numbering it, between No. 24964 and No. 24965, under the year 1300, giving as his authority Du Boulay, as above. He also inserts it, as No. 24691, under 1298 (from Du Boulay, and Wilkins, Concil. II, 271), proposing to read anno 4 instead of anno 6. See also Rashdall, Universities of Europe, II, ii, p. 430, n.1.] |
1412.
4 Id. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 39.) |
To the archdeacon of Lincoln. Mandate to augment the portion, value not exceeding 6 marks, of William Yelverton alias Gerard, perpetual vicar of St. Peter's, Talington, in the diocese of Lincoln, the value of which church (held to his own uses by the prior of Bever priory, dependent on the monastery of St. Albans) amounts to 50 marks. Justis et honestis. |
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Ibid. |
Relaxation, during ten years, of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the same feasts as above, f. 21, as far as and including SS. Peter and Paul, and those of St. Laurence and the dedication, and on All Saints, and during the octaves of certain of them and the six days of Whitsun week; and of a hundred days to those who during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the repair and conservation of the chapel of St. Laurence in the above church of St. Peter, Tolington (sic), which is in need of costly repair and in which are some relics of St. Laurence.Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
1412.
14 Kal. June.
'st. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 42.) |
To the bishop of Lichfield. Mandate to dispense William Sawessor and Margaret Aleynsson of his diocese to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred.Oblate nobis. |
1411.
9 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 50.) |
Relaxation, during fifteen years, of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the same feasts as above, f. 21, as far as and including SS. Peter and Paul,
and that of the dedication, and on All Saints, and during the usual octaves and days; and of a hundred days to those who during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the repair, completion and conservation of the church of York, to which a great multitude of the faithful resorts, and which the dean and chapter have begun to repair and alter (… decanus et capitulum ipsius ecclesie, que in suis structura et edificiis notanter deformata extitit [et] reparacione indegebat exidenti, corumdem fidelium adniti suffragiis, ecclesiam ipsam in hujusmodi structura et edificiis sub alia tamen forma a priore plurimum varia pariter et diversa reparari et reformari facere ceperunt opere non modicum sumptuoso).Univ. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.) [See above, p. 137.] |
1412.
Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 55.) |
To William Holler, clerk, of the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him, who is in his twenty-first year and in minor orders only, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and minister therein. Vite ac morum. |
1411.
3 Id. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 55d.) |
To the dean of South Mallinge in the diocese of Chichester, the archdeacon of Buckingham (Bokinghammie) and the official of Winchester. Mandate—at the recent petition of Robert, bishop of Chichester, containing that many prelates, abbots, priors and convents, collegiate chapters and colleges, and also certain individual parsons holding dignities, personatus and offices, refuse to pay him the visitation procurations, pensions (cathedraticum), synodals and other episcopal rights on account of their appropriated parish churches, chapels and other benefices, etc., to pay him the Peter's pence, wont to be paid yearly to the bishop, on account of lands in mortmain, to answer suitors before him and his officials, commissaries and judges, or answer for their excesses or delicts (necnon eciam denarios Sancti Petri racione terrarum que pro tempore ex facto defunctorum ad manus eorumdem ac [ad] ipsorum monasteria collegiatas et alias ecclesias sive loco hujusmodi perreniunt, eciam dicto episcopo annis singulis persolvi consuetos, ipsi Roberto episcopo persolvere, necnon de se querulantibus coram codem Roberto ejusque officialibus commissariis et judicibus seu pro eorum excessibus sive delietis ad judicium rocari juri stare … contradicunt …), to keep wonted hospitality in their monasteries etc., and repair the houses and buildings thereof, and assign a fitting portion for the perpetual vicars instituted in such parish churches—to go to some place in the city or diocese, make diligent inquiry against such prelates, abbots etc., and reform what they find amiss, especially in respect to the above-named matters, proceeding by ecclesiastical censure. De sedis apostolice. |
1412.
10 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 61.) |
To John Bebe, priest, of the diocese of Lincoln. Indult that the confessor of his choice may commute his vow to visit the Lord's Sepulchre and other places beyond sea, he being unable to fulfil it by reason of the leprosy with which he has since been smitten and his poverty. Sincere devocionis. |
1412.
3 Id. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 75.) |
To Thomas Barton, perpetual vicar of Cropry alias Cropredi in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to hold during ten years with the said vicarage any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if it be of lay patronage, and be a parish church or a perpetual vicarage or a dignity, major or principal respectively, and elective, personatus
or office with cure (curatum), in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign both as often as hé pleases, simply or for exchange, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar mutually [in] compatible benefices. Within the said term he is to exchange whichever he prefers of the said two incompatible benefices for a benefice compatible with the remaining one; if not, he is to resign it. Litterarum sciencia, rite etc. |
9 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 81d.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feasts of Christmas etc., as above, f. 21, as far as and including SS. Peter and Paul, and the dedication, and on All Saints, and during the usual octaves and days; and of a hunded days to those who during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the repair of the parish church of St. Mary, Quicham, in the diocese of Durham. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
1411.
Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 84.) |
Exhortation to give alms for the repair and conservation of the chapel of St. Catherine situate on the river Plym at Hou by the town (juxta opidum) of Pleymout in the diocese of Exeter, near the sea-port, which chapel has no revenues; with relaxation, during ten years, of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who do so on the feasts of St. Catherine and the Exaltation of Holy Cross. Univ. Christifid. etc. Ecclesiarum fabricis. |
1412.
2 Id. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 84d.) |
To Master John Catryk, archdeacon of Surre[y] in Winchester, licentiate in canon law, papal notary. Faculty to dispose of his personal property by will, acquired otherwise than by churches committed to him. Quia presentis vite. (Pro notario.) |
6 Id. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome
(f. 91.) |
To the abbot of Kilbeggan (de Flumine Dei) in the diocese of Meath. Mandate to execute the mandate by which Alexander V—upon its being set forth to him by Comedinus Margruerit, perpetual vicar of Balilochorye in the said diocese, that John Okeruayl, who is still rector of Kyllamyn (sic) in the same diocese, had, after incurring the greater excommunication for laying violent hands on Robert Omurcho, clerk, of the same diocese, not without effusion of blood, become irregular by celebrating mass and other divine offices—ordered the abbot of St. Mary's, Kells (de Kinllis), in the said diocese, in the event of Comedinus accusing John before him, to summon John and decide the cause without appeal, enforcing his decision by ecclesiastical censure, and, in the event of his depriving John of his church of Kyllanyn (sic), to collate and assign it to Comedinus. Pope
Alexander's letters, as the recent petition of Comedinus added, were not presented before the death of that pope and of the then abbot, Matthew, and provision of Kells has not yet been made by the apostolic see. Humilibus supplicum. |
Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 92.) |
To John Sueynton, rector of Botermere in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him, who is B.A., to hold for seven years with Botermere, value not exceeding 20 marks, one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church, or a perpetual vicarage with cure, or a dignity, major in a metropolitan or cathedral, or principal and unique in a collegiate church, and elective, personatus or office, with or without cure, [in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church], and to resign both as often as he pleases, for exchange or otherwise. Within the said term he is to exchange his said church or such benefice for another benefice compatible with the remaining one; if not, he is to resign one of them. Vite etc. |
1411.
9 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 107.) |
To Richard Clifford, rector of Clyve in the diocese of Worcester. Dispensation to him—who is a clerk of king Henry, and whom the pope lately [above, p. 295] dispensed, then holding Clyve and the canonries and prebends of Twyford in St. Paul's, and Keton in St. Martin's, London, value altogether not exceeding 240
marks, to hold for ten years with Clyve any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity, major or principal respectively, and elective, personatus or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church; and who still holds Clyve and holds canonries and prebends, in [St. Paul's,] London, in Westbury and in the chapel royal of St. Stephen, Westminster, value altogether not exceeding 250 marks—to hold for life with Clyve any other benefice with cure etc., as above f. 92, as far as collegiate church, and to resign both as often as he pleases, for exchange or otherwise, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite etc. (De mandato.) |
1412.
17 Kal. March.
St. Peter's Rome.
(f. 108d.) |
To John, bishop of Ely. Faculty to absolve from his yoke óf serfdom to the bishop and episcopal mensa of Ely, and to perpetually manumit, upon his making compensation, William (corrected in margin from Thomas) Pynder of Tyringtone, of his diocese. Sincere devocionis. |
8 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 109.) |
To Thomas Codling, clerk, of the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him, who is in his twenty-second year and in minor orders only, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and minister therein. Vite etc. |
7 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 118d.) |
To Robert Denys, clerk, of the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to him, who is in his eighteenth year, to be etc., as in the preceding. Vite etc. |
1411.
Id. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 130d.) |
To John de Tibbay, rector of Wenslawe in the diocese of York. Dispensation, at the petition also of queen Joan, whose treasurer–general he is, to him—who holds the above church
and the canonries and prebends of Botyvant in York and Clifton in Lincoln, value not exceeding 100, 20 and 24 marks respectively, and the mastership or wardenship of the hospital of St. Mary, Greteham, in the diocese of Durham, net value not exceeding 40l.—to hold with Wenslawe for life one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity, major or principal respectively, and elective, personatus or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign them, for exchange or otherwise. Vite etc. |
1412.
11 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 144.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of four years and four quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the same feasts as above, f. 21, as far as and including the Invention and Exaltation of Holy Cross, Relics and the dedication, and on All Saints, and during the usual octaves and days; and of a hundred days to those who during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the repair of the church of the Premonstratensian monastery of St. Mary, Welnynge, in the diocese of Norwich, in which are preserved certain pieces of the true wood of the Holy Cross, a foot of St. Lucy the Virgin and relics of other saints. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
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Ibid. |
Relaxation, during ten years, of five years and five quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the same feasts etc. as in the preceding (omitting the feast of Relics), visit and give alms for the repair of the church of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary the Virgin, Newburgh (de Novoburgo), in the diocese of York, in which are preserved certain pieces of the true wood of the Holy Cross. Univ. etc. Licet is. |
8 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 145.) |
To the archdeacon of Stow in Lincoln. Mandate to enjoin a salutary penance upon, to suspend for a time and afterwards to dispense to minister in his orders, William Walysby of Tetney, priest, of the diocese of Lincoln, who, when in his twenty-second year only, in ignorance of the law, had himself promoted to all, even holy orders, but has not ministered therein, and is not yet of sufficient age. Humilibus supplicum. |
6 Non. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 145.) |
To William Euenwode, rector of Blundeston in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation for five years to hold with Blundeston (corrected in margin from Wundeston) any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if it be a parish church, [or a perpetual vicarage], or a dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or office, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and such dignity etc. be elective, and to resign both, simply or for exchange; provided that if within the said term he do not so resign simply or for exchange one of them, at the end of the term he shall resign whichever of them he prefers.Vite etc. |
1411.
9 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 151d.) |
To John Maccolich, clerk, of the diocese of Elphin. Rehabilitation of him—who obtained and has held for more than two years, under collation and provision made to him by papal
authority, on voidance by the death of Maurice Offlannagan, the canonry and prebend called the rectory of Termonbarry (Tenimenti Sancti Berard) in Elphin—on account of certain simoniacal and otherwise illicit pacts and promises which he made with certain persons who, he feared, wished to prevent his obtaining the same. He is to resign. Sedes apostolica. (Pro deo.) |
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Ibid. |
To the bishop of Veszprém (Vesprimien.), the prior of St. Mary's, Killmornasinna, in the diocese of Elphin, and the dean of Ardagh. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, inasmuch as the said collation and provision does not hold good, and the said canonry and prebend are still void, to collate and assign them, value not exceeding 8 marks, to the above John Maccolich, upon his resignation; notwithstanding that the pope has this day ordered provision to be made to him of the perpetual vicarage, value not exceeding 5 marks, of St. Mary's, Killeglas, in the said diocese [above, p. 255]. Vite etc. (Pro deo.) |
19 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 177.) |
To Robert, bishop of Chichester. Faculty to compel by ecclesiastical censure the abbots, priors and other religious, who have refused to do so, to exhibit to him, once only, the papal privileges and indults under which they hold to their own uses a number of parish churches in the city and diocese; with faculty to make a copy. Circumspecta sedis apostolice. [See above, p.305.] |
1412. Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 178.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of three years and three quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feasts of St. Mary the Virgin visit and give alms for the repair and conservation of the church of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary, Killmornasinna, in the diocese of Elphin, the walls and roofs of which church threaten ruin, and to which, especially on account of divers and innumerable miracles worked there by the merits of St. Mary, multitudes resort from divers parts of the world. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
3 Non. Feb.
St. Peter's Rome.
(f. 180.) |
To Master Roger Basset, doctor of cannon and civil law, papal notary. Dispensation to him—to whom the pope lately made provision of canonries of London and Salisbury with expectations of prebends and of a dignity, even major, personatus or office, with or without cure, of one of them, and whom he dispensed to hold such dignity, personatus or office with cure (curatum) together with the dignities, personatus, offices and other benefices, with and without cure, which he then held, and in which or to which he had any right—to hold for life together with the dignity, personatus or office with cure (curato) which he is expecting under the above letters, and with his other incompatible dignities, personatus, offices and benefices in respect of which he has been dispensed, as above, three other benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or dignities, major or principal respectively, personatus or offices, with or without cure, in metropolitan etc. churches, and such dignities etc. be elective, and to resign them, for exchange or otherwise, as often as he pleases. Grata tue devocionis. (Pro domino notario.) |
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Ibid. |
To John Bourton, rector of Petteworth in the diocese of Chichester. Dispensation to him—who obtained 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 obtained Petteworth—to hold three other mutually compatible benefices, with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends and dignities, major or principal respectively and elective, personatus or office, in metropolitan, etc. churches and to resign them, for exchange or otherwise, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. |
8 Kal. March.
St. Peter's. Rome.
(f. 184.) |
To Edmund, bishop of Exeter. Faculty during five years to him, who is broken with age, to cause churches and cemeteries of his city and diocese to be reconciled by a fit priest, the water having been blessed by himself or another bishop. Tue devocionis precibus. |
7 Kal. April.
St. Peter's. Rome.
(f. 185d.) |
To Thomas Colbi, [bishop] elect of Elphin. Faculty to be consecrated by any catholic bishop of his choice in communion with the apostolic see, assisted by two or three like bishops. The consecrator is to send Thomas's oath of fealty by Thomas's sealed letters patent; without prejudice to the archbishop of Tuam. Cum nos pridem. |
6 Id. March.
St. Peter's. Rome.
(f. 200.) |
To the dean and Peter Odroigbelaid, canon, of Raphoe. Mandate—at the recent petition of Marianus Odubagan, clerk, of the diocese of Derry, containing that the Premonstratensian abbot and convent of St. Mary's, Urburne, in the diocese of Connor, who hold to their own uses the chapel of the Loughans (de Locanis) in the latter diocese, which has font, cemetery and parishioners, wont formerly to hear therein masses and other divine offices and receive the sacraments, have not, for about twelve years, caused such masses and offices to be celebrated, whereby many of the parishioners have died without confession and other sacraments and have been buried in the fields, the remainder resorting to the neighbouring parish church of Camus (Sancti Coeli) in the diocese of Derry—to summon the said abbot and convent and others concerned, and if he find the above to be the case, to separate the said chapel, value notexceeding 1½ marks, from the said monastery and to appropriate and unite it to the said church, value not exceeding 7 marks, provision of which church the pope has recently made to Marianus [above, p. 255]. Piis votis fidelium. (x, residuum pro deo.) |
Id. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 202d.) |
To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate—at the petition of a number of the parishioners of parish churches of his diocese, containing that religious, exempt and non–exempt, and others to whom the said churches have by papal or ordinary authority been united and appropriated, have impetrated from the apostolic see privileges enabling them, without consulting the diocesans, to let to farm (ad firmam dare seu locare) the said churches to any persons, even laymen, and that the said religious, with an eye to their own advantage (privatis commodis insistentes) or
rather their rapacity, have thus let very many of such churches to laymen who rule and hold possession, take the oblations from the altar, lord it (imperare) over the clerks and persons deputed to sacred functions (divinis obsequiis), dilapidate the churches’ goods, and commit very many excesses, whereby the devotion of the parishioners grows feeble, divine worship is diminished and very many other evils result—to summon such religious and laymen and others concerned, and if he find the above to be the case, to take what measures appear to him expedient, proceeding by ecclesiastical censure etc. Justis et honestis. |
18 Kal. June.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 203.) |
To the same. Mandate to summon John Thorp, archdeacon of Suffolk, who—as the pope has learned, contrary to the statute of the [second] Council of Lyons [Concil. Lugdun. II, Constitutiones, No. XX, De censibus et procurationibus, Labbe, Concil. XIV (ed. Venice, 1731), col. 536] providing that all who, on account of procuration due for visitation, exact money or take it [even] from the willing, or otherwise violate the constitution of Innocent IV [Sext. Decretal. III, 20, 1, £ 5] about not receiving procurations in money etc., should be bound to restore within a month double the amount taken, under pain, in the case of a patriarch, archbishop and bishop of personal interdict, and in the case of inferiors of suspension; contrary also to the constitution of Boniface VIII [Sext. Decretal. III, 20, 3] allowing patriarchs, archbishops, bishops and other lawful visitors to receive from willing rectors money, but not to receive more than one procuration a day, whether he visit one place only or several—has for about ten years absented himself from the church, city and diocese of Norwich, hiding (latitando) in divers and sometimes in exempt places where he could not be easily summoned or cited by the bishop, and taking, by deputies charged with feigned visitation, from churches, monasteries and other ecclesiastical places in his said archdeaconry, not due and moderate, but much greater procurations in ready money. If the bishop find the above to be the case, he is to declare the said archdeacon to have incurred the penalties promulgated in the said Council and constituations, and is to compel him to restore the double of what he has taken, proceeding by ecclesiastical censure etc. If John be resident without the city and diocese, the bishop shall cite him by his sealed letters patent publicly posted on the doors of his church, which citation shall be as binding as if served in person.Ad audienciam nostram. |
Id. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 204.) |
To the same. Mandate—at the recent petition of the parishioners of very many parish churches of his diocese, containing that the said churches were formerly united and appropriated by papal or ordinary authority to religious houses and mense and other pious places, portions for perpetual vicars being assigned; and adding that the fruits, etc. of the vicarages have since been so much diminished that no priests or clerks are to be found willing to be instituted, whereby the cure of souls is not duly exercised, hospitality is not kept and divine worship is neglected,
and consequently the devotion of the parishioners is diminished — to summon the said religious and others concerned, and if he find the above to be the case, to augment the said vicarages and their portions from the fruits of the churches, proceeding by censure, etc. Apostolice sedis. |
3 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 210.) |
To John Bloduelle, rector of Whiteparish (Albimonasterii) in the diocese of Salisbury, B.C.L. Dispensation to him, a subdeacon, not to be bound for seven years, whilst studying civil law at an university, to have himself, on account of the said church or any other benefice with cure which he may obtain, promoted to other holy orders, and meanwhile to publicly lecture on and study (legere et audire) the said law in the schools, and receive the degree of doctor. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. [See f. 258.] |
13 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 210d.) |
To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate—at the recent petition of John, master, and all the present priests and clerks called fellows (sociorum) of the college of St. Mary, Metingham—containing that certain temporal lords who founded it put forth ordinances and statutes for them, which they have sworn to obey, and that certain of them are unreasonable, tending to the prejudice of the college, and have been disobeyed, perjury being thus, it is feared, incurred—if he find this to be the case, to conditionally (ex habundanti cautela) absolve from such perjury and to rehabilitate them, and to reform the statutes. Sedes apostolica. |
1411.
14 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 217.) |
To Master Richard Derham, canon of Salisbury, S.T.M., papal notary. Faculty to dispose by will of his personal property, not acquired from churches. Quia presentis vite. (Pro notario.) |
9 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 219d.) |
To Thomas de Lyes, canon of Lincoln. Grant as below. Alexander V—upon its being set forth to him that he had papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold two compatible benefices, even if one of them had cure or were a canonry and prebend or a dignity, major or principal respectively, with cure and elective, personatus or office, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign them, for exchange or otherwise, as often as he pleased, after which dispensation he was ordained priest and obtained the parish church of Stifford in the diocese of London and, freely resigning it, that of Blechele in the diocese of Lincoln, afterwards obtained the canonry and prebend of Witton in St. Andrew's, Aukland, subsequently resigned the said canonry and prebend freely, and Blechele for exchange, and obtained in succession the canonries and prebends of South Scarle in Lincoln and Urparth in Chester le Street—dispensed him to hold any mutually compatible benefices of any number and kind, with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends, dignities, elective, but not major nor principal respectively, personatus or offices, with or without cure, in metropolitan etc. churches, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as
often as he pleased, as is contained in letters of the present pope [see above, p. 209], pope Alexander dying before his own letters were made out. The pope, at his recent petition—containing that some days before the date of the said last dispensation his proctors resigned simply to the ordinary the said canonry and prebend of Chester le Street and in his name accepted and took possession of, under collation from the ordinary, the perpetual vicarage of Norton in the same diocese of Durham, of which he or his messenger to the Roman court could know nothing at the time of Alexander's said dispensation, so that the said letters [of the present pope] contain no mention of the vicarage— grants that the said letters made out in the matter of Alexander's dispensation shall hold good from their date, as if they contained mention of his said resigning, of his obtaining the said vicarage, and of its value. Vite etc. |
4 Non. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 221.) |
Confirmation, at the petition of Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, of the appropriation by Gregory XII [above, p. 133, the circumstances related there being recapitulated here] of the parish church of Northflete in the diocese of Rochester to the archiepiscopal mensa of Canterbury, values not exceeding 180 and 6000 marks respectively, for the support of the three priests of the chantry founded by archbishop Thomas in the church of Maydeston. Ad perp. rei mem. Illa que pro divini cultus. |
2 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 227.) |
To Robert Ocoillaighi, canon of Killaloe. Mandate to summon John Oheogumayn, prior of the secular and collegiate church of St. Senan, Inyskathaygh, in the diocese of Killaloe, and others concerned, and if he find that, as the pope has heard, John has carnally known a certain woman, not being ignorant that she was the relict of a certain layman, to which layman John was related in the second degree of kindred, and has had offspring by her, to deprive him. Ad audienciam nostram. (Pro deo.) |
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Ibid. |
To the same. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding (here with spelling Oheogunayn), to collate and assign to Cornelius Oloingsych, perpetual vicar of Killrois in the above diocese, the said priorship, which has cure and is a principal dignity in the said church, and whose value does not exceed 8 marks, upon its becoming void by the said deprivation, even if it be elective; notwithstanding that papal provision was lately made to him of the said vicarage, which he is, as he has offered, to resign upon obtaining the priorship. Vite etc. (Pro deo.) |
16 Kal. Aug.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 229.) |
To the abbot of St. Mary's, Kenlys, in the diocese of Meath. Mandate to summon John Lyd, prior of the Augustinian priory of St. Mary, Loweht, in the diocese of Armagh—which, as the pope has heard, he simoniacally obtained on its voidance by Nicholas Staunton, [now] prior of the church of Dublin, of the same order, obtaining by authority of the ordinary the latter priory—and others concerned, and if he find the above to be the case, to declare that John has had and has no right to the said
priory of St. Mary, as being still void in the way mentioned, and to remove him. Ad andienciam nostram. [See above, p. 281.] |
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Ibid. |
To the same. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, upon the voidance in accordance therewith of the above priory of St. Mary, Loweht, which has cure, is a dignity, is conventual and is independent, and whose value does not exceed 200 marks, to collate and assign it to Robert Grewys, prior of the Augustinian priory of Connell (de Conallis) in the diocese of Kildare; notwithstanding that he holds the said priory of Connell (here de Connallis), which is also a dignity and conventual, and whose value does not exceed 100 marks. Upon obtaining Loweht he is to resign Connell. Dignum arbitramur. |
9 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 232d.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents, who on the same feasts as above, f. 21, as far as and including SS. Peter and Paul, and that of the dedication, and on All Saints, and during the usual octaves and days; and of a hundred days to those who, during the said octaves and days, visit and give alms for the repair, conservation, or fabric of the Augustinian church and monastery of St. Mary, Tristernagh, in the diocese of Meath.Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
1412.
18 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 235.) |
To Edmund Leboorde, son of Henry, king of England, scholar, of the diocese of London. Dispensation at his petition—the pope being induced thereto by the devotion which Edmund's father, king Henry, and Edmund's other ancestors have shown towards the Roman church, and which his said father shows to the pope and the same church—to him, who, he says, is in his eleventh year and is of illegitimate birth, being the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted, after reaching the lawful age, to all, even holy orders, and, as soon as he reaches his twelfth year and has received the tonsure, to hold any mutually compatible benefices, of any number and kind, with and without cure, secular and regular, even if they be canonries and prebends and dignities, even if with cure, and even if major or principal respectively, or conventual, personatus or offices, in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and such dignities etc. be elective, and such dignities be archiepiscopal, episcopal or abbatial, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases; notwithstanding his said illegitimacy, which, as also the present dispensation, he shall not be bound to mention in future graces obtained from the apostolic see or in any other wise granted to him. Eximie devocionis. |
2 Id. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 237d.) |
To Thomas Grenestede, clerk, of the diocese of London. Dispensation to him, who is in or about his fifteenth year, after reaching his twenty-second year, to be promoted to the priesthood and minister therein. Vite etc. |
1411.
19 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 252) |
To John Omorra, clerk, of the diocese of Leighlin. Rehabilitation of him, who is by both parents of noble race, and who, after having had 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, obtained the rectory of the parish church of Killabbayn in the said diocese, which he has held for more than a year without having himself ordained priest and without dispensation. He is to resign.Sedes apostolica. (Prodeo.) |
[1411.
19 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.]
(f. 252d.) |
To the bishop of Todi (Tudertin.), the abbot of Leix (de Lege Dei) in the diocese of Leighlin, and John Occurryn, canon of Leighlin. Mandate, as in the following: here unfinished and uncancelled, and with spelling Kyllabayn. Vite etc. |
1411.
19 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 253d.) |
To the same (here with spelling Occirryn). Mandate, recapitulating the above rehabilitation (with spelling Killabbayn), to collate and assign the said rectory, void by the above nonpromotion, value not exceeding 10 marks, to the said John, upon his resignation. Vite etc. (Pro deo.) |
1412.
6 Id. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 257.) |
To Thomas Estweych, subdeacon, of the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him, who is in is twenty-second year, to be promoted to all holy orders and minister therein. Vite etc. |
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Ibid. |
To Thomas Buck, deacon, of the same diocese. Dispensation to him, who is in his twenty-first year, to be promoted to the priesthood and minister therein. Vite etc. |
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Ibid. |
To John Melton the elder, of Tylneye, clerk, of the same diocese. Dispensation to him, who is in his twenty-second year, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and minister therein. Vite etc. |
17 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 258.) |
To John, bishop of Dromore. Dispensation to him, who is a Benedictine, and receives nothing from his episcopal mensa, to hold a benefice with of without cure wont to be assigned to secular clerks, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases.Personam tuam. |
9 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 258.) |
To John Bloduelle, rector of Whiteparish (Albimonasterii) in the diocese of Salisbury, B.C.L. Dispensation to him—who has had 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 the above church, value not exceeding 20 marks—to hold any mutually compatible benefices, of any number and kind, with and without cure, even if canonries and prebends and dignities, major or principal respectively and elective, personatus or offices, with or without cure, in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to resign them as often as he pleases, for exchange or otherwise. His said illegitimacy and dispensation need not be mentioned in future graces.Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. [See f. 210.] |
1412
6 Id. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 259.) |
To David Pryce, rector of Brightwalton in the diocese of Salisbury, bachelor of canon and civil law. Dispensation to him—who has had papal dispensation, as the son of a priest, etc., as in the preceding as far as church, value not exceeding 15 marks—to hold etc., as ibid, but without the grant concerning future graces. Litterarum etc. |
2 Id. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 278d.) |
To Stephen Noble, rector of Watlyngton in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to hold for life with Waltlyngton, value not exceeding 40 marks, one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity, with cure and elective, and major in a metropolitan or cathedral, or principal and unique in a collegiate church, personatus, perpetual administration or office, and to resign both, for exchange or otherwise, as often as he pleases.Vite etc. |
11 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 279d.) |
To the bishop of Veszprém, the prior of St. Mary's, Killmoirnassinna, in the diocese of Elphin, and the archdeacon of Elphin. Mandate to transfer Donatus Macbraein, Augustinian canon of Derry (Cella Nigra)—which, he says, on account of the long wars and other calamities in those parts, has been so much impoverished that its inmates cannot be duly maintained—to the Augustinian priory of St. Mary, Cluaintuasgertanassinna, in the diocese of Elphin, whose resources are sufficient. Humilibus supplicum votis. [See above, p. 283.] |
8 Id. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 282d.) |
To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate to dispense Simon Southende and Alice Rene (or Reve) of Irchestre, of his diocese, to contract anew and thereafter remain in the marriage which they contracted in ignorance that they were related on both sides in the third degree of kindred. Past and future offspring is to be declared legitimate. Oblate nobis. |
Ibid.
(f. 283.) |
To William Grucheworthe, Augustinian canon of the priory of Chaucombe in the diocese of Lincoln. Appointing him a papal chaplain, with the enjoyment of the immunities etc. granted to papal chaplains by John XXII and Clement VI, and notwithstanding the restrictions etc. thereof made by Innocent VI, Urban V and Gregory XI and the present pope. Virtutibus clarens. |
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Ibid. |
To John Mapurley, subdean of the church of York. Dispensation to hold for ten years with the subdeanery, which is a dignity with cure, value not exceeding 60 marks, one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, of a dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or office, with or without cure and elective, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Within the said period he is to exchange one of them for another incompatible (sic) [benefice], Vite etc. |
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Ibid. |
To Roger de Dokwra, rector of Burton in Kendale in the diocese of York. Dispensation to hold for ten years with the said church, value not exceeding 60 marks, one other benefice etc. as in the preceding as far as pleases. Within the said period he is to exchange one of them for another compatible benefice. Vite etc. |
Ibid.
(f. 284.) |
To William de Sponne, rector of Sybbesdon in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to hold with the said church, value not exceeding 60 marks, one other benefice etc. as in the preceding.Vite etc.
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17 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 285.) |
To Edward Daunttesey, archdeacon of Cornwall in Exeter, doctor of canon and civil law. Indult to visit his archdeaconry by deputy and receive moderate procurations in money.Personam tuam. |
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Concurrent mandate to the bishops of Volterra and Salisbury and the dean of London. Personam dilecti filii. |
14 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 285d.) |
To Robert Raynhill, perpetual vicar of Boklond in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him—who formerly received papal dispensation, as the son of a subdeacon and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he was ordained priest and obtained the said vicarage—to hold any mutually compatible benefices, of any number and kind, with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends and dignities, major or principal respectively, and elective, personatus or offices, with or without cure, in metropolitan etc. churches, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. |
15 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome
(f. 286.) |
To John Haget, treasurer of Lincoln, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him—who is an abbreviator of papal letters, and holds the said treasurership, which is a non-major dignity, and who, by virtue of a certain papal dispensation which allows the treasurer of Lincoln for the time being to hold for life and exchange as often as he pleases a benefice with cure, even if a dignity, personatus or office, holds the parish church of Fegheleston with the annexed chapel of Bymerton in the diocese of Salisbury, and a canonry and prebend of Exeter, value altogether to a non-resident not exceeding 106 marks—to resign his treasurership for exchange or otherwise and hold instead for life together with Fegheleston one other benefice with cure, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity, major or principal and unique respectively, and elective, personatus or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan etc. church, and to resign such benefice and Fegheleston, simply or for exchange, and hold instead for life two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices, even if one be a dignity, major or principal and unique respectively, personatus or office, with or without cure in a metropolitan etc. church. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. |
1412.
14 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 286d.) |
To John Dalberd, clerk, of the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him, who is of noble race, to hold, after reaching his twenty-third year, a benefice with cure and to resign it, simply or for exchange. Nobilitas generis, vite etc. |
11 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 287.) |
To John Marcaunt, rector of Sowthcolyngham in the diocese of York, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to hold for ten years, with the said church, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity, major or principal respectively, and elective, personatus or office, with [or without] cure (cum cura), in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign etc., as above to John Mapurley. Within the said period, retaining one only of such two incompatible benefices, he is to exchange the remaining one for another benefice compatible with the one retained; if not, such remaining one is to be resigned.Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. |
Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 287d.) |
To John Ayleston, rector of Stanwell in the diocese of London. Dispensation to him—who is chaplain of queen Joan, and holds the said church, a canonry and prebend in the chapel royal of Westminster and the hospital of St. Mary, Chichester, wont to be assigned as a perpetual benefice to secular clerks—to hold for life, together with the said church, any other benefice with cure [or otherwise incompatible], even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or office with cure (curatum officium), in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and even if such dignity, personatus or office be elective, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, and hold instead, also for life, two similar or dissimilar mutually incompatible benefices, even if they be dignities, major or principal respectively, or parish churches or perpetual vicarages. Vite etc. [See above, p. 156.] |
11 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 288.) |
To Robert Graunt, rector of a moiety of Pakefeld in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him—whom lately, holding then, as now, a moiety of Pakefeld, the present pope dispensed [above, p. 189] to hold for five years therewith any other benefice with cure [or otherwise incompatible], even if a parish church or perpetual vicarage, or a dignity, personatus or office with cure (curatum officium), in a metropolitan, cathedral, or collegiate church, even if such dignity had cure, and were major or principal respectively, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, and hold instead two mutually incompatible benefices, with the condition that, retaining one only of them, he should exchange the remaining one for a benefice compatible with the one retained, and if not, should resign the said remaining one; after which he obtained by collation of the ordinary the other moiety of Pakefeld, and holds them both—to retain both moieties, even after the lapse of the said five years and for life, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, and hold instead for life two mutually incompatible benefices. Vite etc. |
1412.
Ibid. |
To John Wynkeperie, rector of Blontesham in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him—whom lately, holding then, as now, the said church and a canonry and prebend of St. Mary's, Asteleye, in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, the present pope dispensed [above, p. 189] to hold for five years, together with Blontesham, any other benefice etc. as in the preceding as far as respectively, and were elective, and to resign both etc.as in the preceding as far as the said remaining one; after which he obtained by collation of the ordinary the perpetual vicarage of Long Stantone in the diocese of Ely and holds them both— to retain etc. as in the preceding as far as the end. Vite etc. |
Ibid.
(f. 289.) |
To William Bernham, rector of the parish church of St. Mary in the Marsh (de Marisco), Norwich, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him—whom lately, holding the parish church of Brampton in the diocese of Norwich, Alexander V dispensed to hold therewith for three years any other benefice with cure [or otherwise incompatible] even if a [parish church or a] perpetual vicarage, or a dignity, even if with cure, and if major or principal respectively, personatus or office in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church; which three years the present pope [above, p. 188], upon William's setting forth to him that he had obtained St. Mary's and was holding it with Brampton, prolonged to five years to be reckoned from [the end] of the three years, dispensing him to resign, within such three or five years, both churches, simply or for exchange, and hold instead two mutually incompatible benefices, even if other parish churches or perpetual vicarages or dignities etc. in metropolitan etc. churches, with the resignation condition as in the preceding; after which, as his recent petition contained, he resigned Brampton and obtained Carleton by Bokenham in the said diocese, which he still holds with St. Mary's—to retain Carleton and St. Mary's for life, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, and hold instead, also for life, two mutually incompatible benefices, even if parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or dignities etc. in metropolitan etc. churches. Litterarum etc. |
11 Kal. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 301d.) |
To the archbishop of Armagh. Mandate—at the recent petition of Cornelius Oruaire, clerk, of the diocese of Kilmore, containing that bishop Nicholas, in accordance with the ancient custom by which the third part, belonging to the bishop and the episcopal mensa, of the tithes arising in the deanery of Dartry (Dartragie), has been let to divers persons under a yearly pension paid to the said mensa, let the same to Cornelius for life under the said pension—if he find that the mensa be not injured by such letting, to confirm the bishop's said grant to Cornelius. Sincere devocionis. |
[Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome].
(f. 302d.) |
To John Clement, a Carmelite, papal chaplain. Address and salutation, with the first words only of the preamble, viz.:'Grata tue devocionis obsequia que nobis et apostolice sedi hactenus impendisti.’ Cancelled. [Dispensation as above, p. 280, to hold a benefice with or without cure, even if wont to be governed by secular clerks, etc.] |
