1430.
2 Non. May.
SS. Apostoli, Rome.
(f. 54.) |
To John, bishop of Glasgow, chancellor of the realm of Scotland. Pardon etc. as below. The pope lately (on learning that before his promotion to the see of Glasgow, made by the present pope, John had more than once incurred disability and perpetrated such crimes as to have forfeited all right to the said promotion; and that after he became bishop he was the author and cause of the putting forth in parliament of certain statutes about collations of benefices, even of reserved benefices, and otherwise oppressive to the clergy, and against ecclesiastical liberty and the rights of the Roman church, that he collated and caused to be collated benefices simoniacally, and was guilty of other crimes) gave a viva voce commission to Jordan, cardinal bishop of Albano, and Peter, cardinal priest of St. Stephen's on the Cælian, to inform themselves, and if they found him guilty of anything which had rendered him unfit to acquire any right to the said see, or which had afterwards rendered him unworthy of holding it, to proceed against him even to the length of deprivation, and to cite him to see in person his deprivation. The said cardinals found him so guilty in many respects of the above as to deserve deprivation, and caused him to be cited before them in the Roman court in person to see and hear his deprivation, or to show cause to the contrary, of which two cardinals the pope replaced Peter, on his absence from the Roman court, by Lewis, cardinal priest of St. Cecilia's. Afterwards king James by his orators, sent for the purpose, set forth to the pope that many of the charges were untrue, and that if John had done aught amiss he was ready to make amends. At the said king's petition, and on the promise by the said orators, made on John's behalf, that he will help to obtain the abolition of the above statutes, and behave laudably in future, the pope condones and remits all crimes and the other charges against him, of which he has not been able fully to clear himself, absolves him from excommunication and other sentences, annuls the above citation and proceedings against him, rehabilitates him, and dispenses him on account of irregularity contracted. Sumentes exemplum a redemptore. (Registrata gratis de mandato nostri pape. Poggius.) |
3 Kal. July.
SS. Apostoli, Rome.
f. 58. |
To Griffin, bishop of Ross. Mandate to go in person to the duchy of Brittany, make inquiry into the matters contained in a number of petitions, of which exemplification is given, of duke John, and send a report to the pope. Ex iniuncta nobis. (Tax[ata] lx, Poggius. R[egistra]ta.) |
