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Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 5, 1398-1404. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Lateran Regesta 72: 1398-1400', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 5, 1398-1404, ed. W H Bliss, J A Twemlow( London, 1904), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol5/pp266-274 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta, Vol. LXXII.

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De Diversis Formis.



1398. 3 Non. July. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 2.)	To John, elect of Ossory. 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 receive his oath of fealty, and send it under John's sealed letters patent to the pope; without prejudice to the archbishop of Dublin. Cum nos pridem.
5 Kal. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 9.)	To the abbot of Chester. Mandate to absolve Roger de Stoles (or Scoles), clerk, of the diocese of Lichfield, from excommunication and other penalties incurred, and to dispense him on account of consequent irregularity, if any, contracted. One night when a student at Cambridge, some fellow students came to him and invited him to go with them for the sake of recreation and solace, which he did, taking his arms with him, but not with intent to kill or hurt anybody. After leaving his lodgings they fell in with certain other clerks and laymen, and beginning with words of contumely they ended with blows, in which last however, he took no part. A layman was killed, and a number of clerks and laymen were wounded. Humilibus et honestis. (Pro Deo.)
6 Kal. Aug. St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 9d.)	Relaxation of three years and three quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who at Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, and the Assumption, visit and give alms for the repair of the Friars Minors’ church of St. Mary, Adloyn, in the diocese of Clonmacnoise (Cluanen.), which with its books and ornaments has been burnt by certain sons of iniquity. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is.

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1400. 6 Id. Oct. St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 28d.)	To the bishop of Clonfert. Mandate, if the facts be as stated, to dispense Malachy Omanyn and Margaret Yngenaraghtan to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in the third degree of affinity and have cohabited. Past and future offspring is to be declared legitimate. Oblate nobis.

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1399. 6 Kal. Sept. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 34d.)	Confirmation of the annulment of certain processes, as below. The recent petition of John Midelton, canon of St. John's, Beverley, contained that on the death of Richard Thorne, papal chaplain, he obtained the canonry and prebend of St. Stephen's altar by presentation of the late king Richard, patron thereof on account of the temporalities of the [void] see, and was instituted by archbishop Robert, which presentation and institution were opposed by Master Nicholas Risscheton, papal chaplain and auditor, who appealed to the apostolic see; that the pope committed the appeal to Bertrand, bishop of Gubbio, then papal chaplain and auditor, with further commission if he should find, as stated by Risscheton, that Thorne had been a papal chaplain, to compel Midelton to resign the same as a reserved benefice; that on information being taken with respect to Thorne's chaplaincy, the auditor ordered Midelton to resign to Risscheton and make satisfaction for fruits received; that afterwards on its coming to the knowledge of Risscheton that he had no right to the canonry and prebend, he set forth to the pope that he had obtained them from him erroneously, the king's title standing in the way (obstante sibi), that they did not belong to him, and that Midelton had canonically obtained them, all the antecedent processes being against justice. He withdrew from the suit, and at his instance the pope ordered all the said processes to be annulled, and the suit or cause treated as non-existent, as appears more fully in the letters of the said auditor. Ad fut. rei mem. Iis per que litigiorum. (De mandato.)
Kal. Aug. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 71.)	To Thomas, abbot of St. Mary's, York. Faculty to confer, after due examination, the office of notary on six persons chosen by him, even if some of them be married or in holy orders. The usual form of oath is enclosed. Ne contractuum. (Note in margin: Cancelletur alia cum reperietur, quia per istam corrigitur.)
5 Kal. Feb. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 72.)	Indult, at the petition of the abbot and convent of Waltham, immediately subject to the Roman church, and of king Richard, and in consideration of the danger and expense of the journey to Rome, that the abbots elect shall co ipso and without any confirmation be deemed to be true abbots, and administer the monastery as if their election had been confirmed by the apostolic see, and that they may be blessed by any catholic bishop in communion with the said see. In compensation for first-fruits, common and minute services, and other dues at times of voidance, on account of confirmation or provision, hitherto paid to the pope, the camera, and the college of cardinals, and the households and officers of the pope and of the said college, the abbot and convent are to pay to the collector in England thirty gold florins of the camera every Michaelmas. Ad perp. rei mem. Sacre religionis. (De mandato.)
18 Kal. Nov. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 74.)	To John Cateryk, priest, of the diocese of York. Dispensation to hold for life two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if elective dignities, major in cathedral or metropolitan, or principal and united in collegiate churches, personatus, administrations or offices, or parish churches, and to exchange them as often as he pleases for two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite ac morum. (De mandato.)
1398. 9 Kal. Dec. St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 80.)	To William Dyonys, rector of Bernowy in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation motu proprio to hold for life two mutually incompatible benefices, even if parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or elective dignities, major or principal, personatus or offices, with or without cure, and to exchange them as often as seems good to him for two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite ac morum. (De mandato.)

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1400. Kal. April. St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 94.)	To William Fereby, archdeacon of East Riding. Indult for life to visit his archdeaconry by deputy and receive procurations in ready money to the daily amount of 30 silver [gros] Tournois, 12 to the gold florin of Florence. Vite ac morum.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishop of London, and the archdeacons of London and Lincoln. Vite etc. (De mandato.)
Id. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 98.)	To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate, if the facts be as stated in the petition of certain of their kinsmen and friends who have become aware thereof, to dispense Henry de Pankenham and Margaret, of his diocese, to remain in the marriage which they contracted, and in which they have remained three years and more, being ignorant, as they still are, that Philippa, Henry's first wife, was godmother at confirmation to a daughter of Margaret and her first husband Henry Mounteny. Past and future offspring is to be declared legitimate. Oblate nobis. (De mandato.)
4 Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 102d.)	Relaxation during ten years of five years and five quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on Trinity Sunday and the feasts of St. Patrick and SS. Philip and James, visit and give alms for the conservation or repair of St. Mary's chapel, Killinamanach, dependent on the Premonstratensian monastery of St. John Baptist, Cella Parva, in the diocese of Annadown. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is.
7 Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 110d.)	To Cornelius, elect of Limerick. Grant in commendam, in consideration of the small value of the see, provision of which he has this day received from the pope [Reg. LXXV, f. 22], of the archdeaconry of Killaloe, and the parish church of Dysseremolacalia (sic), in the diocese of Killaloe, which he holds, and which are about to become void by his said provision and by his approaching consecration. Ad statum ecclesiarum.

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1399. Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 124.)	To the men and inhabitants of the town of Ayrmyn, in the diocese of York. Licence to have their newly founded chapel of the Annunciation dedicated and consecrated by the abbot of St. Mary's, York, with confirmation of the indult under which they have founded it. Lately, upon their petition setting forth that the church of Snayth, within the parish of which their town lies, is distant about four English miles from them, the pope granted them indult to found and build a chapel of the Annunciation with a stipendiary priest to celebrate mass and other divine offices, and administer the sacraments. Their recent petition contained that it is doubted whether the said indult holds good because no mention was made in it that they have attended, since its foundation, the chapel of Houk, subject to and situate within the bounds of the same church, and distant about a mile from their town. Sincere devocionis. (De mandato.)

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1400. 3 Id. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 128.)	To Richard Clifford, elect of Wells. 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 receive his oath of fealty and send it under Richard's sealed letters patent to the pope. No prejudice is to be generated to the archbishop of Canterbury. Cum nos pridem. (De mandato.) [For his provision see Reg. LXXV, f. 25.]
Non. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 149.)	To Roger Cateryk, priest, of the diocese of York. Indult to have a portable altar, on which he may celebrate or have celebrated mass before daybreak, and mass and other divine offices in places under an interdict. Sincere devocionis. (De mandato.)
Nov. 9, 1399— Nov. 8, 1400. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 153.)	To Master Lewelin ap Phelip, rector of Llanudyssul in the diocese of St. Asaph, papal chaplain. Revocation and annulment of whatever has been done to his prejudice by the bishop of the diocese who, after several years’ peaceable possession by him of the said church, and after his being made a papal chaplain, instituted under pretext of a royal presentation Reginald ap Jorwerth, clerk, of the diocese, a member of his household, ordered him to be inducted, and the fruits to be sequestrated, excommunicating, suspending, and interdicting Lewelin. He is hereby restored to possession, taken under the protection of the pope and the apostolic see, and conditionally (ad cautelam) absolved from the said sentences. Grata tue devocionis.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishops of Telese and London, and the abbot of Cumhir in the diocese of St. Davids. Cum ad nostrum. (De mandato.) [Undated, but registered under the eleventh year.]
1400. Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 168.)	Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year and those of St. Augustine and the dedication, 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 conservation or repair or for the fabric of the Augustinian friars’ house of Ballinrobe (Roba), in the diocese of Tuam. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.)
Kal. June. St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 168.)	The like, with St. Patrick substituted, for the church of St. Patrick of the Friars Minors’ house of Kynalechyn, in the diocese of Clonfert. Univ. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.)
Ibid. (f. 170.)	Indulgence of the Portiuncula to penitents who on the vigils and feasts of St. Peter and St. Leonard, and the three following days, visit and give alms for the conservation of the church of St. Peter, Saltewolde, and the chapel of St. Leonard, Heth, in the diocese of Canterbury, the rector of which, Master John Franceys, abbreviator and writer of apostolic letters, member of the pope's household, and four priests, secular or religious, chosen by him and his successors, have hereby indult to hear the confessions. Univ. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.)
10 Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 171.)	Declaration as below, f. 183d; here without the names of the churches to which the motu proprio provisions applied, and otherwise with less detail. Ad fut. rei mem. Grata familiaritatis. (De mandato.) (Marginal note: Cassata de mandato quia aliba, in eodem libro fol. clxxxiii, propter sui nimiam correctionem registrata, Jac[obus de Teramo].)
15 Kal. Aug. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 178d.)	Relaxation of three years and three quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, the five feasts of St. Mary the Virgin, and that of Michaelmas and on All Saints, visit and give alms for the repair and conservation of the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen by Toryton in the diocese of Exeter. Univ. etc. Licet is.
Ibid.	The like to those who on the feasts of Holy Trinity, St. John the Evangelist and St. John Baptist, the five feasts of St. Mary the Virgin, and those of St. James and Michaelmas, and on All Saints, similarly visit, etc. the hospital, commonly called the poorhouse, of the Holy Trinity and St. John the Evangelist and St. John Baptist in the town of Toryton. Univ. etc. Licet is.
10 Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 183d.)	Declaration motu proprio in favour of John Fraunceys, rector of Saltewode in the diocese of Canterbury, bachelor of canon law, writer and abbreviator of apostolic letters, member of the pope's household—who had provision from the pope of canonries of Lincoln on 5 Id. [Nov.], York on 4 Id. [Nov.], and Lichfield on 2 Id. [Nov.] anno 1 [1389], and on 12 Kal. Nov. anno 10 [1399] motu proprio provision of canonries of London, Salisbury, Chichester and Southwell, with expectation of prebends and of dignities, personatus or offices, with or without cure, in Lincoln, London, Salisbury, Chichester and Southwell, even if such dignity were major in London, Salisbury and Chichester, and were elective, and of a benefice with cure, value not exceeding 200 marks, in the gift of the bishop of Ely: with the benefit of the anteferri clause in the case of the motu proprio provisions of the said canonries and prebends, etc. and benefice, cardinals and papal chamberlains and secretaries alone, as against other expectants, being excepted—that the pope's intention was at the said date and now is as above in regard to the said clause; John doubting whether, on account of divers similar provisions, antecedent thereto or subsequent, made by the pope to other persons with the same clause as against all except cardinals and members of the papal household in continual residence, his said provisions may not be hindered from taking effect. The present declaration is made notwithstanding the pope's late declaration that in giving effect to expectative graces containing the anteferri clause the order of date was to be observed. Ad fut. rei mem. Grata familiaritatis. (Pro socio.)
14 Kal. July. St. Peter's, Rome (f. 197.)	To John Payn, perpetual vicar of Somborn Regis in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation to him, who holds the said vicarage, value not exceeding 60 marks, to hold two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if one be a perpetual vicarage or an elective dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to exchange them as often as seems good for two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite ac morum. (De mandato.)
3 Non. Sept. St. Peter's, Rome (f. 201.)	To John Ide, priest, of the diocese of Chichester. Licence to him and his successors, chaplains of the chapel called the chantry of Holy Trinity—which the late Walter Burges, layman, of the said diocese, built within the cemetery by the church of Horsam—to celebrate therein masses and other divine offices on Sundays, feasts, and other days, and to ring a bell for the same in the said church, without requiring licence of the diocesan or of the vicar. Sincere devocionis.
Id. Sept. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 204.)	Confirmation, at the petition of prior John Ohoganai and the chapter and perpetual chaplains of the secular and collegiate church major of In[i]skaithis St. Senan, in the diocese of Killaloe (La[o]nien), of the immemorial foundation of the said church by certain devout nobles of those parts, in honour of God, St. Mary the Virgin and the said saint, of its subsequent erection by them into a collegiate church, and of its endowment for a prior and twenty-four perpetual chaplains with lands, glebes, meadows, pastures, fisheries and other goods. Ad fut. rei mem. Ex debito pastoralis.
14 Kal. Aug. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 215d.)	To Richard Courtenay, precentor (cantori) of Chichester. Indult for five years to him, who is by both parents of noble birth, to study civil law at an university and to perform scholastic acts for obtaining degrees even in the said faculty, notwithstanding that he holds the said precentorship (cantoriam), a dignity with cure. Nobilitas generis, vite ac morum.
4 Id. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f 217.)	To the archbishop of Taranto, the bishop of Lincoln, and the official of London. Mandate to summon prior John and the convent of Tykford in the diocese of Lincoln, and to aggravate the processes made against them by James bishop of Plock, sometime papal chaplain and auditor, and to invoke if necessary the aid of the secular arm. The recent petition of Thomas Overton, rector of Great Crawle in the said diocese, contained as above, p. 93 (here with readings Richard Down, and Robert Esbache (or Esbathe), canon of Lincoln [sic, cf. p. 93]) as far as “James, [now] bishop of Plock, then chaplain and auditor,” who gave sentence against the prior and convent condemning them in costs; and that Thomas obtained letters executory [i.e. the mandate on p. 93] addressed to the bishop of Tuy and two others (not here named), which bishop warned the prior and convent, under pain of excommunication, suspension and interdict, to give up the tithes to Thomas and make satisfaction to him for the said costs, all which they still refuse to do, thereby incurring the said sentences, under which they still lie. Exhibita nobis. (De mandato.)
14 Kal. Aug. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 218.)	Relaxation of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who give or bequeath aught for the repair of the bridge over the Toryge between Great and Little Toryton in the diocese of Exeter. The pope strictly forbids these presents to be sent by pardoners (questuarii), and if this be done they are invalid. Univ Christifid. etc. Quoniam ut ait apostolus.
3 Id. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 219.)	To Henry Bowet, archdeacon of Lincoln. Indult for seven years to visit his archdeaconry by deputy and to receive procurations in ready money to the daily amount of 30 silver [gros] Tournois, 12 to the gold florin of Florence. Vite ac morum.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Monopoli, the abbot of Westminster, and the dean of London. Vite etc. (De mandato.)
Id. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 219d.)	To Walter Meddeford, clerk, of the diocese of Salisbury. Absolution from sentence of excommunication and other penalties, as below, with dispensation on account of consequent irregularity, if any, and rehabilitation. Provision of the canonry and prebend of Faryndon in Salisbury, previously reserved, was made by the pope—on their voidance through the promotion by him and the subsequent consecration of Guy, bishop of St. Davids,—to Christopher, cardinal priest of St. Ciriac's, which provision Walter hindered from taking effect. Master James Steube, papal chaplain and auditor, acting by papal commission, ordered Walter to resign and make satisfaction to the cardinal for fruits received, under pain of excommunication, deprivation and disability, and subsequently Master James de Aquila, chaplain, etc., declared him, as contumacious, to have incurred the said penalties and sentences. Sedes apostolica. (De mandato.)
10 Kal. July. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 226d.)	To John Payn, perpetual vicar of Somborn Regis in the diocese of Winchester. Indult for ten years to take and let to farm, to clerks or layman, the fruits of his said vicarage and other benefices while studying letters at an university, or engaged in the service of a prelate or temporal lord, or residing in the Roman court or one of his benefices. Vite ac morum.
	Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Taranto, the abbot of Hyde without the walls of Winchester, and the archdeacon of Winchester. Vite etc.
10 Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 241.)	Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feasts of the Invention and Exaltation of Holy Cross visit and contribute aught from their goods to the altar of Holy Cross in the parish church of St. Peter, in the town of Makeseye, in the diocese of Lincoln. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.)
Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 246.)	To John Traharn, canon of Llandaff, bachelor of canon and civil law. Faculty to grant marriage dispensations to six men and as many women of the city and diocese of St. Davids, related in the fourth degree of kindred or affinity. Personam tuam. (De mandato.)
2 Kal. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 248.)	To Magonius Oduda, precentor of Killala. Dispensation to him, who is of noble race, to hold for life together with the said precentorship, which is a simple office without cure, value not exceeding 2 marks, any benefices in the said church of any number and kind, and so many other benefices with or without cure, that their annual value may ascend to 60 marks, even if they be canonries and prebends and dignities, one being major, personatus and offices, with or without cure, in the said church, and three of them be otherwise incompatible, and such dignities, personatus or offices be elective. Nobilitas generis, vite ac morum. (De mandato.)
Kal. Aug. St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 254.)	Ordinance providing penalties as below, in the causes which lately arose between bishop Henry and the prior and chapter of Norwich about the correction and punishment of any excesses of monks of the said church detected in visitation, the exhibition of titles, the letting (arrendacione) and resignation (dimissione) of benefices, portions, and pensions, the sale of corrodies, the suspension and removal of the proctor of the prior and chapter, the lodging (insinuacionibus) and probate (approbacionibus) of wills of priests of the cemetery (Carnarii) within the enclosure of the priory of the said church, and of the wills of any persons deceased within the jurisdiction of the said prior and chapter and of the hospital of St. Paul, and any matters touching the jurisdiction of the prior and chapter, the induction of vicars and of the dean, the convocation of the prior and chapter for treating with the bishop for the time being, the custody of muniments belonging to the bishop and chapter, and other matters (not here expressed). After the causes had been long ventilated in the apostolic palace and in England, the pope called them up to himself, and on the bishop's disregarding this and obtaining a pretended sentence in England, the pope by further letters called them up again, and imposed silence on the bishop and on the prior and chapter until commission should be given to another auditor. Having learned that a doubt has arisen whether the bishop and his adherents or the prior and chapter may not act against his last letters, no penalty being inflicted for such action, the pope hereby ordains that those who do so, if individuals, incur excommunication, or if a chapter or college, suspension, from which they cannot without his knowledge be absolved, except at the hour of death. Ad fut. rei mem. Olim cum inter.
	Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Taranto, the bishop of Tuy, and the abbot of St. Albans. Olim etc. (De mandato.) [See above, p. 11, and Cal. Lett. IV. p. 525.]