Lateran Regesta 461: 1451-1450 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1915.

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'Lateran Regesta 461: 1451-1450', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, ed. J A Twemlow( London, 1915), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp474-479 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta. Vol. CCCCLXI (fn. 3).

4 Nicholas V.

De Diversis [Formis].



1450[–1]. Prid. Non. Feb. (4 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 3d.)	To Laurence Pyot, archdeacon of Aberdeen. Indult for five years to visit his archdeaconry by deputy, and receive the procurations in ready money, not exceeding a daily amount of 30 [gros deniers] tournois of silver, twelve to the gold florin of the papal camera. Meruit tue devotionis.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishops of St. Andrews and Moray, and the official of Aberdeen. Hodie dilecto filio. (T. and A. de Cortesiis. Jo. Augeroles. \| T. xx. xviii. de Tervisio.) [2 pp. +.]
1450[–1]. 4 Non. Jan. (2 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 11d.)	To Matthew Geddes, priest, of the diocese of Glasgow, M.A. Grant, as below. The pope lately granted a faculty to the bishop of Dunblane to make provision to fit persons nominated by James king of Scots, of a canonry apiece of all cathedral and collegiate churches in the realm, and to reserve to the bishop's gift a prebend and a personatus, dignity etc. of the same churches for each of the said persons (fn. 4), and also forty benefices with or without cure in the common or several collation etc. of any person or persons in the realm for as many other persons nominated by the said king, and to make provision thereof; which faculty and its consequences the pope afterwards annulled, at the said king's instance, in so far as it had not taken effect, the pope granting a like faculty to the bishop of Whiteherne to make provision and reservation to fresh nominees of the said king etc.; after which, namely under date 18 Kal. July anno 1 [1447], the pope ordered provision to be made to the above Matthew of one or two benefices, even if one had cure or were a canonry and prebend, administration or office etc. in the collation etc. of the bishops and the deans and chapters etc. of Glasgow and Dunkeld. In order that the said letters of provision may take quicker effect, the pope grants to him, who is secretary of George, earl of Angus, that in obtaining such benefice or benefices etc. he may enjoy the same advantages as if he were one of the persons nominated by the said king in virtue of the said faculty. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (T. and Jo. de Millinis. \| T. xxv. Octavo Id. Februarii Anno Quarto. de Tervisio.) [2²/3 pp. See above, pp. 7 and 63.]
1450[–1]. 10 Kal. Feb. (23 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 15.)	To the provost of Bothwil in the diocese of Glasgow. Mandate, as below. Eugenius IV—upon its being set forth to him by George de Abernchy (rectius Aberne[t]hy), clerk, of the diocese of St. Andrews, that although the poor hospital in the place of Polmade, in the diocese of Glasgow was, on its voidance by the death of William de Conynghame, committed to him for life by [Isabel, duchess of Albany and countess of Lennox] to whom by ancient custom [the right of committing it] belonged, in virtue of which commission he obtained possession of the rule and administration, nevertheless John bishop of Glasgow, at the instance of Thomas de Lawadre, a canon of Aberdeen (who alleged that the hospital had been previously erected by authority of the ordinary into a prebend of the church of Glasgow, and that provision had been made to him thereof) monished and ordered George, under pain of sentences of excommunication etc., to give up within a certain term possession of the hospital to Thomas; and that, although as soon as he heard of the said monition and mandate he appealed to the apostolic see, the said bishop, in contempt of the appeal, of which he was not ignorant and the time for prosecuting which had far from lapsed, declared George to have fallen under the said sentences etc. and caused him to be publicly proclaimed excommunicate—ordered the bishop of St. Andrews and [two] other colleagues to summon the said bishop and Thomas and others concerned, and (after receiving from George a pledge that, if the said bishop's sentence of excommunication were found to be just, he would obey the mandates of the bishop of St. Andrews and of the church (fn. 5) ) absolve him conditionally from the said sentence, hear both sides and decide what was just, causing his decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure. At the recent petition of the said George (containing that James, bishop of St. Andrews, being occupied with other arduous business, and unable to proceed to execution of the said letters, subdelegated William, prior of St. Andrews who, summoning the said Thomas and others concerned, absolved George (fn. 6) conditionally from the said sentence and promulgated a definitive sentence which became a res judicata, and by which he adjudged the hospital to him, and removed and imposed perpetual silence on Thomas, condemning Thomas in costs, which he afterwards taxed at a certain sum [not here expressed]) the pope hereby orders the above provost to summon the bishop of Glasgow and Thomas and others concerned, and if he find the facts to be as stated, to confirm the said sentence, if lawfully delivered. Ut ea que iudicio. (P. and Jo. de Millinis. \| P. xvi. de Varris.) [2²/3 pp. See Cal. Lett., IX, p. 546.]
Ibid. (f. 126.)	To the abbot of Holyrood in Edinburg, in the diocese of St. Andrews. Mandate, as below. Eugenius IV (upon its being set forth to him by John Forestarii, knight, of the diocese of St. Andrews, that he had formerly instituted in the cemetery of the parish church of Corstorphyn in the said diocese a college for five priests, one of them to be called provost, and two boys, and had consigned for its endowment yearly rents of 120 ducats of gold; and its being added that the provost and other priests were to be presented by the said knight and his successors and heirs, and the provost to be instituted by the bishop of St. Andrews and the other priests by the provost, and that [if] the rectory, in the said bishop's gift, of the parish church of Rathow in the same diocese, the cure of souls of whose parishioners was exercised by a perpetual vicar, were united to the said college other four or five priests could from its fruits etc. be instituted in the college (fn. 7), daily performing masses and the canonical hours with music, whereby a great improvement (instauracio) of divine worship would be made in the college) ordered the said institution and the said consignment and addition and their consequences to be confirmed and approved, and the said rectory with all its rights etc. to be united and annexed in perpetuity to the college, his will being that after the said union and annexation, and after they had taken effect, other five priests should as soon as convenient be instituted in the college. Afterwards the same pope (upon its being added by the said knight that the said priests and two boys could not conveniently live and be maintained from the said fruits etc.) ordered the number of the said other five chaplains to be reduced to four, so that there should be nine priests and the said boys, and fit portions to be distributed and assigned etc. to each of them from the said fruits etc. At the said knight's petition (adding that after all the foregoing had been done and had taken effect, the following agreement was made between James, bishop of St. Andrews, to whom the collation etc. of the said united rectory belonged before the union, of the one part, and the said provost and chaplains, of the other part, namely, that to recompense him for his having so liberally given his consent to the said union and annexation and his other services to the said college etc. the provost and chaplains and their successors should yearly celebrate for ever on the Wednesday after the feast of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr a solemn mass with music during the said bishop's life, and after his death a requiem mass) the pope hereby orders the above abbot, if he find all the above to be as stated, by papal authority to approve and confirm them all and their consequences. Licet suscepta cura. (P. and Jo. de Millinis. \| P. xxx. de Varris.) [2 pp. See Cal. Lett., IX, pp. 265, 595.]
1450[–1]. 12 Kal. Feb. (21 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 127.)	To the bishop of Brechin. Mandate, at the recent petition of James, bishop of St. Andrews (who was a nephew of the late James, king of Scots) (fn. 8) and of the prior and chapter of St. Andrews (containing that the fruits etc. of the episcopal mensa and the capitular mensa of the said church have been alienated by the indiscreet and useless leases, rentings and grants, even on lease, and sales (fn. 9) of their possessions etc. by previous bishops and priors and the chapter) to summon those concerned and annul such leases etc., and to recover for the said mense the said fruits etc. and possessions etc. and to inhibit the bishops of St. Andrews for the time being to make henceforth similar alienations of the said fruits etc. and possessions etc. of the episcopal mensa, except for the life of the bishop who makes them, even if the chapter consent, the same to return to the said mensa after the death of such bishop. Ad hoc cunctis orbis. (P. and G. Gonne. \| P. xx. de Varris.) [1²/3 pp.]

De Exhibitis.



1450. Kal. Oct. (1 Oct.) Assisi. (f. 271.)	To the archdeacon of St. Andrews. Mandate, at the recent petition of John Echyllis, priest, of the diocese of Glasgow (containing that on the voidance of the perpetual vicarage of Ersilton in the diocese of St. Andrews by the death of William de Stecell, James bishop of St. Andrews made collation and provision thereof by his ordinary authority to the said John, and that in virtue thereof he obtained possession and has held it for about seven years, but now doubts whether they hold good; and that the late William de Turribus, priest, of the said diocese, who formerly claimed a right in the vicarage, and who for certain grievances in the matter appealed to the apostolic see, has died, perhaps without the cause of the appeal having been committed) to collate and assign to the said John the said vicarage, value not exceeding 9l. sterling, whether it be void by the death of the said William de Stecell or of the said William de Turribus, or in any other way. Dignum etc. (T. and G. Gonne. \| T. xx. Decimo Kal. Marcii Anno Quarto. de Tervisio.) [2¼ pp.]
3 Id. Dec. (11 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 294.)	To the bishop of Penne and Clogher, and the chancellor of Armagh. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Donald Mecathassaid, perpetual vicar of Tuignea in the diocese of Armagh, contained that although provision was ordered to be made to him by papal authority of the said vicarage, and that one of the executors thereof (fn. 10), having removed Donald Ocellachan, its detainer, made provision to him thereof, nevertheless the said Ocellachan appealed to the apostolic see, obtained letters of the present pope in the matter of the appeal addressed to the archbishop of Armagh and a certain colleague, with the ‘quod si non ambo’ clause (fn. 11), in which [appeal] the said archbishop, wrongfully (perperam) proceeding, by an unjust sentence revoked the said removal and provision, and condemned Magcathassaid in the costs, from which Mag[c]athassaid appealed to the said see; and that the pope, at Mecathassaid's instance, committed the cause of the appeal, notwithstanding that it had not by its nature lawfully devolved to the Roman court, with the power of simply or conditionally (simpliciter vel ad cautelam) absolving Magcathassaid from all sentences of excommunication etc., first to Master Peter Martini de Caveisrubeis, a papal chaplain and auditor, and afterwards to Joseph de Brippio, a canon of Milan, residing in the said court, the latter of whom by a definitive sentence decreed that the proceedings and sentence of the said archbishop had been bad, annulled and revoked (fn. 12) his sentence, decreed Mecathassaid's appeal to have been good, the proceedings and sentence of Arthur Mackmayll, a canon of Armagh, to have been good and confirmed his sentence, decreed Ocellachan's appeal therefrom to have been bad, condemned Ocellachan in fruits taken from the time of the said Arthur's sentence and in Mecathassaid's costs in the cause both before the said archbishop and before him (fn. 13), and also absolved conditionally (ad cautelam) Magcathassaid from all sentences of excommunication etc. delivered against him at Ocellachan's instance by the said archbishop, and restored him to intercourse with the faithful and to communion of the sacraments, and condemned Ocellachan in the costs incurred by Mecathassaid in consequence of the said excommunication, subsequently taxing Mecathassaid's costs before the said Master Peter Martini and himself at 25 gold florins of the camera. At the said petition, adding that Magcathassaid doubts lest whilst the suit has been pending others have intruded themselves or may do so, the pope hereby orders the above three to execute the foregoing, inducting Magcathassaid into possession of the vicarage, removing Ocellachan etc., and to cause satisfaction to be made to Magcathassaid in respect of the fruits taken since the sentence of the said Arthur and in the costs both in Ireland (in partibus) and before the said Peter and Joseph, and moreover to make such execution likewise against such other intruders, as far only as regards giving possession of the vicarage to Magcathassaid, as if the said sentences had been delivered against them, aggravating processes as often as expedient, and invoking if necessary the aid of the secular arm. Exhibita nobis. (P. and Jo. de Reate. \| P. Gratis pro deo. Tertio Kal. Martii Anno Quarto. de Varris.) [3¾ pp.]