Lateran Regesta 475: 1452-1453 | 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 475: 1452-1453', 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/pp568-571 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta. Vol. CCCCLXXV (fn. 1)

6 Nicholas V.

De Dignitatibus Vacantibus.



1452. 8 Id. July. (8 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 37d.)	To the abbot of Inishlounaght (de Surio) in the diocese of Lismore. Mandate, at the recent petition of Thomas Billyan, a canon of Cashel (containing that on the archdeaconry of Cashel becoming void by the death of Simon Cantwell in the pope's city of Viterbo, not more than two days’ journey from Rome, on his way home from Rome, where the pope was then residing with his court, and whither he had gone on business of his own, and its being thereby ipso facto reserved to the pope, the late John, archbishop of Cashel, perhaps in ignorance (fn. 2) of where the said Simon had died, made collation and provision to the said Thomas, who in virtue thereof obtained possession and still holds it, taking the fruits), the said collation and provision being without force, to collate and assign the said archdeaconry, a non-major non-elective dignity without cure, value not exceeding 28 marks sterling, to Thomas, all of whose benefices and their values and his dispensations the pope holds to be expressed by these presents; whether it be void as stated, or by the promotion, made by papal authority, of the late Richard Hedyan, sometime archbishop of Cashel, to that church, and his consecration administered to him by the same authority, or by the death of Thomas Hedyan without the Roman court, or in any other way. Dignum etc. (O. and A. de Cortesiis. \| O. xxviii. Non. Junii Anno Septimo.Pontanus.) [3 pp.]

De Regularibus.



1452[–3]. Id. Feb. (13 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 195d.)	To the archdeacon of Tuam and John Oraelai and Dermit Omeachan, canons of the same. Mandate to cause Dermit Maccigan, canon of Killala (Aladen.), whom the pope hereby absolves from all sentences of excommunication etc. which he may have incurred, as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents, to be received as a canon of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary, Cong (de Cunga), in the diocese of Tuam [and to receive his profession]. After having been so received and after having made his profession, or after receiving and wearing the habit for three days, he is to cease being a canon of Killala and Tuam, and is to resign his perpetual vicarage of Senchyt in the diocese of Tuam, value, with that of its annexes, not exceeding 4 marks sterling. Cupientibus vitam. (P. and Nicasius. \| P. xviii.de Varris.) [1²/3 pp.]
1452[–3]. Kal. March. (1 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 197.)	To the bishop and the dean of Dunkeld, and Walter Stewart the younger, a canon of Glasgow. Mandate, at the recent petition of the prior and chapter of St. Andrews, O.S.A.—containing that although the parish church of Scuny in the diocese of St. Andrews or its rectory with all its appurtenances and rights, save the portion of a perpetual vicar therein, is perpetually annexed to the capitular mensa of St. Andrews, and that the prior and chapter have been from time immemorial in peaceable possession of the taking of all the tithes of fruits within the bounds of the parish of the said church, nevertheless the prioress and nuns of the Benedictine monastery of North Berwyk in the said diocese, together with certain accomplices and abettors, have violently carried away the greater and lesser tithes of the villages (villarum campestrium) of Athirny and Machuse within the bounds of the said parish, and turned them to their own uses; wherefore the said prior and chapter have appealed to the apostolic see and petitioned the pope to commit the cause of the appeal and of the principal matter to honest judges (aliquibus probis viris) in those parts—to summon the said prioress and convent, and hear and decide, without appeal, the cause of the appeal and of the principal matter, causing their decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure. Humilibus supplicum votis. (T. and A. de Cortesiis. \| T. xvi. de Tervisio.) [1½ pp.]
1452[–3]. 13 Kal. Feb. (20 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 269d.)	To the priors of Roschoman and Innocencia by Athlone (iuxta Haulon), in the diocese of Elphin, and Eugenius Obern, a canon of Elphin. Mandate (the pope having been informed by Odo Omartyn, an Augustinian canon of St. Mary's, Dorean, in the diocese of Elphin, that Donald Ocancuyr, prior thereof, has without licence of the convent dilapidated, sold and taken away its goods and turned them to his private uses and, being a public fornicator, neglects the cure of souls of the persone of the monastery, celebrates not nor prays nor resides therein, and does not govern himself and the canons as he ought) if and after Odo (who is a priest and has made his profession of the said order, and is illegitimate, being the son of a priest, also a canon professed of the said order, and formerly, but not immediately, prior of the said monastery (fn. 3), and an unmarried woman, and whom the pope hereby absolves from all sentences of excommunication etc., as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents) accuses Donald before the above three, to summon Donald, and if they find the above to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to collate and assign the said priory, which is conventual and elective and has cure, value not exceeding 20 marks sterling, to Odo; whether it become void by such deprivation, or be void by the death of Patrick Mycmurty, a canon of the said order, or by the resignation of Odo Ymartyn or any other, or in any other way. He is hereby specially dispensed, notwithstanding the said defect, to receive and retain it. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (P. and Ja. de Vicencia. \| P. xxv. Kal.Februarii Anno Sexto. de Varris.) [3½ pp.]
1452[–3]. Prid. Non. Jan. (4 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 304.)	To the abbot of Holyrood, Edymburgh, in the diocese of St. Andrews. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Thomas, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary, Neubotil, in the diocese of St. Andrews, contained that formerly, when it was expected to become void by the death of the late abbot David, or was perhaps already void (fn. 4), Alexander Graufurd (rectius Craufurd), layman, nobleman, of the diocese of Glasgow, dwelling in the lands of the said monastery and desiring the said Thomas, then a monk of the monastery, to be appointed abbot, went, without the knowledge of the said Thomas, [now] abbot, to Alexander Levynston, knight, then a counsellor of James king of Scots, and to his children, begging the said knight so to labour that by his means the said Thomas should be appointed abbot; and when this had afterwards come to Thomas's knowledge, he gave his consent thereto and, going to the said knight, requested him to labour for him, and moreover promised to grant him a certain secular office called the stewardship of the land of the monks of the said monastery (fn. 5), after which, on the said monastery becoming void by the death of the said David, before which the provision had been reserved to the apostolic see, provision was by means of the said knight, as is believed, made in virtue of letters of pope Eugenius IV [see Cal. Papal Lett. IX., p. 343] to Thomas, who still rules and administers the monastery; and that, after his appointment, fearing that the said promise had been unlawful, he would in no wise fulfil it and, fearing that by reason of the foregoing he had incurred simony, had himself absolved and dispensed on account of irregularity by a certain abbot of the said order, specially empowered for the purpose by the abbot of Cîteaux in the diocese of Chalon[-sur-Saône] and the chapter-general of the order, who had sufficient authority from the apostolic see. At Thomas's said petition (adding that he fears that he is not immune from simony or unlawful bargain, but has incurred the sentences etc. promulgated against simoniacs, and that some hesitate as to the validity of the said provision etc.) the pope hereby orders the above abbot pro tutiori cautela to absolve Thomas, who has been blessed by papal authority, from all sentences of excommunication etc. incurred by reason of the foregoing, enjoining penance, dispense him on account of irregularity contracted by celebrating masses etc. and rehabilitate him, and, in the event of his doing so, to grant to him that the said provision, appointment and blessing and their consequences shall hold good, even if the said monastery, the value of whose abbatial mensa does not exceed 300l. sterling, be still void as above, or in any other way. Apostolice solicitudinis studium. (O. and G. Gonne. \| O. xxxx. Pontanus.) [3½ pp.]