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1393. 18 Kal. Jan. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 171d.) |
To Master Robert Lowthyr, priest, of Carlisle. The like. |
4 Id. Nov. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 171d.) |
To Master Richard Croydon, priest, Augustinian canon of the priory of St. Mary Ouesey (i.e. Overey), in the diocese of Winchester. The like. (Registrata gratis.) |
1394. 8 Id. Jan. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 180d.) |
To Walter de Gloucestria, a Carmelite. The like. (Registrata gratis.) |
1393. Id. Dec. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 180d.) |
To Simon Castelton, Premonstratensian canon of Welbeck, in the diocese of York. The like. (Registrata gratis.) |
1394. 12 Kal. Feb. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 186.) |
To William de Foletby, Cistercian monk of Rovesby, in the diocese of Lincoln. The like. |
1394. 10 Kal. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 213.) |
To David Rothingge, a Carmelite. The like. |
Non. Feb. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 213d.) |
To Nicholas Peing, a Friar Preacher. Conferring on him the dignity of papal chaplain. |
9 Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 218.) |
To Robert Becles, Benedictine monk of St. Edmunds Bury. The like, with the usual privileges. |
2 Non, April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 219.) |
To Philip Penbrok, a Carmelite. The like. |
Ibid. |
To John Tewkusbury, a Carmelite. The like. |
Non. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 262.) |
To John Yong, canon of the Augustinian priory of St. Bartholomew by Smethfeld, London. The like. |
4 Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 262.) |
To John Solden, alias de Tekeneborgh, a Friar Preacher. The like. |
2 Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 262.) |
To Thomas Wellys, a Friar Minor. The like. |
12 Kal. July. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 262d.) |
To Master John Coktegg, priest, of the diocese of Norwich. The like. |
19 Kal. Sept. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 276d.) |
To Bartholomew de Novaria, doctor of canon and civil law, advocate of the apostolic consistory, papal nuncio. Power to him—whom the pope has thought good to send to king Richard and to the realm of England for the annulment of certain statutes lately made there against the pope and the Roman church and ecclesiastical liberty, and for other matters concerning the state of the said church, and king Richard and his realm—to treat and conclude in the name of the pope and the said church with the king and his nobles, magnates and council, and the preplates of the realm, whatever things may seem good to him respecting such annulment and other matters, and to do, exercise, and complete whatever things require a more special mandate. The pope will approve whatever he does. (De curia.) |
Ibid. (f. 277.) |
To the archbishops of Canterbury and York, and their suffragans. Requiring and exhorting them to convoke their own clergy, secular and regular, exempt and not exempt, of whatsoever order, mendicants alone excepted, to set forth the necessities of the pope and the Roman church caused by the attacks of schismatics, and to induce them to grant the pope a certain charitative subsidy as shall seem good to the bishops, who are not to omit their own proportionate contribution. Each bishop has hereby faculty to receive such subsidy, in case of its being granted by common counsel, and give acquittance, and is to hand it over to his own archbishop, who is to hand it over to the collector to the camera in England. [See Reg. cccxii. f. 99d.] |
1394. 10 Kal. Sept. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 277d.) |
To John de Hamerston, Augustinian canon of the priory of St. Mary, Huntingdon. Conferring on him the dignity of papal chaplain, with the usual privileges. |
4 Non. Aug. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 277d.) |
To prelates and clergy, secular and regular, in England. Mandate to receive benignly Bartholomew de Novaria, doctor of canon and civil law, advocate of the consistory, papal nuncio, whom the pope is sending to England, and to provide him with some support for the needs of himself and his household. (De curia.) |
Kal. Oct. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 291d.) |
Acquittance of John Chandeler, treasurer of Salisbury, his heirs and successors, in respect of the said treasurership, as well as of his canonry and prebend of Salisbury, lately collated to him by the pope, he having for the annates and fruits during voidance, (Pro annata seu mediis fructibus) made, by the pope's order, a composition with the officers of the camera, and having this day given them satisfaction. (De curia). |
2 Kal. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 293d.) |
To Robert de Castello, priest, of the diocese of Lincoln. Conferring on him the dignity of papal chaplain, with the usual privileges. |
5 Id. July. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 294.) |
To Francis de Cappanago, Augustinian prior of St. Martin's, Siena, doctor of canon law, papal nuncio. Absolving and totally liberating him from the oath [See Fœdera
under date 1393, 15 July] which, when he arrived in Ireland, the archbishop of York, chancellor of King Richard, caused to be exacted and extorted—containing, among other things, that he would be faithful to the king and crown of England; oppose and reveal to the king and council anything against the fealty of the king and the crown; attempt nothing against the laws of the realm; give faithful counsel on the king's behalf, and reveal his sccrets to none; make no processes against those promoted by the king, on the ground of annates (annate), or first year's fruits; exact no such annates or first year's fruits from benefices obtained under papal expectative graces, nor the mortuaries (spolia) of deceased prelates; publish or execute no papal letters without first presenting them to the king or his council; nor send gold or silver beyond the realm [without licence]—in so far as this second oath clashes with the usual oath of fealty to the pope and the camera taken by him in the camera upon his appointment as nuncio and collector to the camera in Ireland. (De curia.) [Reynaldi Annales, an. 1394, § xxii.] |
Ibid. (f. 296.) |
To the same. Mandate to him—whom the pope had deputed as nuncio to Ireland and is now sending back—to visit in person and enquire, correct and reform monasteries, priories, provostries (Prepositatus), and other regular places of Cistercians, Cluniacs, canons regular of St. Augustine, and other non-mendicant orders immediately subject to the Roman church, which are known to be in no small need thereof; with faculty to carry out the aforesaid by ecclesiastical censure without appeal. (Registrata de curia.) |
1394. 2 Kal. Oct. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 296d.) |
To Roberts Agas, priest, of Norwich. Conferring on him the dignity of papal chaplain, (Registrata gratis.) |
Ibid. |
To Richard Cruys, canon of the Augustinian priory of St. John, Kenlis, in the diocese of Meath. The like. |
6 Kal. Oct. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 297.) |
To Master Roger Knyth, priest, of the diocese of Salisbury. The like, with the usual privileges. (Registrata gratis.) |
3 Kal. Oct. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 297.) |
To Thomas son of the late Henry de Offinghen, layman, a Carmelite. The like. |