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1401.
16 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 6.) |
To Emma Scherman, of the diocese of York. Indult to her—who formerly took a vow of a recluse, and has had herself for many years enclosed in a cell in the place of Pontefract, with a little garden (ortulo) contiguous thereto for the sake of taking fresh air (refrigerum aeris recaptando),—on account of the tumults and clamours of the people in the said place, to transfer herself to a more suitable place, to have there another cell with a like garden, and to leave her cell yearly for the purpose of visiting churches and other pious places, and of gaining the indulgences granted there, without requiring licence of the diocesan or other. Sincere dilectionis. |
15 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 7d.) |
To the abbot of Holy Cross, Waltham, in the diocese of London. Mandate at the recent petition of bishop Robert—containing that some rectors of parish and other churches and other ecclesiastics of his city and diocese, falsely asserting that they are not bound to pay his visitation procurations on the ground that they have at no time paid them to his predecessors, refused to pay when he made his visitation; and adding that when he last visited his city he did take such procurations from the rectors and clerks whom he visited—if he find that such rectors, etc., have at any time paid to the said bishop or his predecessors, in whole or in part, such visitation procurations, to compel them, by censure, etc. without appeal, to pay both for the past and the future; to cause to be observed, until satisfaction be made, any sentences of excommunication or other put forth by the bishop on account of the aforesaid, any appeals to the contrary notwithstanding; and to inhibit the archbishop of Canterbury, his officials and ministers, from attempting anything against the aforesaid. Justis et honestis. |
8 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 28.) |
Appropriation, at the petition of king Henry, of the parish church of Arnale in the diocese of York, whose value, after deducting a portion for a perpetual vicar, does not exceed 40 marks, to Richard Elvet and his successors, deans, and the deanery, whose value does not exceed 200 marks, of the collegiate church of St. Mary, Newark (Novioperis), Leicester, of the said king's patronage and of the foundation of his grandfather Henry, sometime duke of Lancaster. The king has, for the purpose of appropriation, granted his patronage of the said parish church to dean Elvet, who, and his successors, shall with its fruits found and endow a chantry of two chaplains in their collegiate church, which chaplains shall daily celebrate divine offices in the church for the good estate of the king and John Elvet his clerk, and for the welfare of their souls after death, as also of the souls of John [of Gaunt] sometime duke of Lancaster and Constance his consort, the king's parents, and all faithful departed; and who shall yearly distribute a competent sum of money among the poor parishioners of the said parish church, in accordance with an ordinance to be made by the ordinary. A fitting portion is to be reserved for a perpetual vicar. Ad perp. rci mem. In supreme dignitatis. (De mandato.) |
1402.
3 Id. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 47.) |
To the prior of Dover in the diocese of Canterbury. Mandate at the recent petition of John Knotte, rector of Westbere—containing that he and Richard Crowley exchanged their churches of Halton and Westbere in the said diocese, the exchange being carried out by archbishop Thomas, to whom John's proctor, John Mountagu, priest, of the said diocese, and the said Richard, who first took oath that the fruits of Westbere amounted to 30 marks, made the resignations—to summon Richard and if he find, as stated by John, that the fruits of Westbere were found barely to amount to 8 marks, to rescind the exchange, remove Richard, and restore John to Halton, whose fruits he asserts, exceed (the word non has been cancelled) 24 marks. Justis et honestis. |
15 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 48d.) |
Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year, and those of St. Thomas, and the dedication of the chapel, and on
All Saints, 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 repair and conservation of the hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr on (super) Estbrugge, Canterbury, and for the sustentation of its poor and infirm; with indult for the master and his successors and John Mountagu, rector of St. Michael's, Herbaldone, in the diocese of Canterbury, recently master of the hospital, and for two other priests, religious or secular, chosen by the master and said rector, to hear the confessions, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see; and confirmation of all former indulgences granted by the pope's predecessors. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
5 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 50d.) |
To John Elys, rector of Rammysham in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation, during seven years, to him, a clerk, while engaged in the service of the king of England for the time being or a prelate in the realm of England, or in the study of letters at an university, or residing in the Roman court, not to be bound to be promoted to any higher orders on account of his said church or any other benefices, and not to be bound to reside therein. Vite ac morum. |
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Ibid. |
To Richard Stourton, clerk, of the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him—who has not attained his twenty-first year, and whom the pope lately dispensed, being in his nineteenth year, to hold a benefice with cure, even if an elective dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or office in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church; and to whom he afterwards ordered provision to be made of one or two or three or more, or as many benefices as should not exceed in value 100 marks, even if they were canonries and prebends, and one of them had cure and were an elective dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or office in a cathedral or collegiate church, in the common or several gift of the bishops and the provosts, archdeacons, deans and chapters of Wells and Bath, Salisbury, London, and Exeter—to hold for life two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or elective dignities, major or principal and united respectively, personatus or offices with or without cure, in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to resign them for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite ac morum. |
1401.
Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 60.) |
Confirmation, as below. On 4 Kal. Nov. anno 6 [1395], the pope, motu proprio, appropriated the parish church of Denforde in the diocese of Lincoln to the mcnsa of the bishop of Lichfield, its patron, reserving a portion for a perpetual vicar. Afterwards on Id. Nov. anno 12 [1400, above p. 369], he, also motu proprio, annulled his appropriation, and ordered the letters of appropriation to be cancelled from his register. Seeing that, as the recent petition of John, bishop of Lichfield contained, the said first letters had taken effect before the second letters emanated, and seeing that the latter, had the pope been fully informed, would not have emanated, the pope hereby confirms the first letters, and annuls the second and any provisions, mandates or grants of the said church to any persons, and especially to John (corrected in margin from William) Scarburgh, clerk, of the diocese of York, after the date of the said first letters, and hereby orders the said second letters to be themselves cancelled from his register. Ad fut. rei mem. Romani pontificis. |
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Concurrent mandate to the archbishops of Taranto and Canterbury, and the bishop of London. Romani etc. |
Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 61.) |
To the abbots of Malmysbury and Cerne, in the diocese of Salisbury, and the archdeacon of Dorset. Mandate to appropriate the parish church of St. Thomas, Salisbury, to the dean and chapter of Salisbury and their mensa; king Henry having licensed bishop Richard to give and assign to them the patronage, and having licensed them to have the church appropriated to them. Upon the resignation or death of the rector they may take possession and have the church served by a priest appointed and removed at their pleasure.Pastoralis officii. |
16 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's Rome.
(f. 68.) |
To William Neuport, archdeacon of Salop in Lichfield. Dispensation to him, a deacon, to hold for seven years with his archdeaconry, which has cure and is a dignity, value not exceeding 60 marks, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both meanwhile as often as he pleases for exchange or otherwise and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices, even if the holder of such other benefices be bound to be a priest or to have himself promoted to the priesthood within a certain time, and the said archdeaconry be a major dignity and be elective; with dispensation not to be bound, during the said period, to have himself promoted to the priesthood on account of his said archdeaconry and such other benefice or benefices. Litterarum sciencia (sic), rite ac morum. |
3 Id. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 69d.) |
To John Hurlegh, rector of Farneham in the diocese of London. Dispensation to him, who is in minor orders only, not to be obliged during five years to have himself promoted to any holy orders beyond that of subdeacon, on account of his said church or any other benefice with cure. Vite ac morum. |
2 Id. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 70.) |
Confirmation, at the recent petition of Robert de Brome, patron, and all the parishioners of St. Margaret's, Norton, in the diocese of Norwich, of the union and consolidation of their church made by bishop Henry. Exemplification is given of the bishop's letters—Univ. sancte, etc. Suggestio dilectorum filorum, which, dated at Norwich, 13 May, 1394, the 25th year of his consecration, relate the statement made by the above Robert de Brome, patron of St. Margaret's, Norton, in the deanery of Rokelonde, and all the parishioners, to the effect that lately the church was able to support its burdens, but that now, by reason of pestilences and mortalities, barrenness of lands, ruin of buildings, the malice of the times, and especially the fewness and poverty of the parishioners, it is too poor to maintain a priest of its own; that the repair and building of the nave pertains to them, that the church is so ruined in roof and wall that it almost daily threatens to fall, and that their means are unequal to such repair and building; and that in the cemetery of St. Margaret's is another church, of St. Andrew, very near and almost contiguous, and very easy of access. At their petition the bishop, having found the above to be true from enquiry made by Master Henry Welle, his corrector, unites and consolidates St. Margaret's to St. Andrew's, the same to take effect on the voidance of the former, and the two to be held as a single benefice by a single rector. Ad fut. rei mem. Iis que pro conservacione. |
1402.
18 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 71d.) |
To John Stokys, rector of Farneham in the diocese of Lincoln. Indult to hear the confessions, granting absolution and enjoining penance, even in episcopal cases and except in cases reserved to the apostolic see, of the parishioners of Farneham or other parish church which he may hold in future. Benigno [sunt tibi]. |
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Ibid. |
To William Nery, priest, rector of Great Warle in the diocese of London. Dispensation to him—who has had papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, under which, having been so promoted, he has obtained the said church—to hold any mutually compatible benefices of any number and kind, with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends and dignities, even with cure, and major or principal respectively and elective, personatus or offices in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to resign them as often as he pleases for exchange or otherwise and hold instead similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices. His illegitimacy need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite ac morum. |
14 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 75.) |
To William Savage, perpetual vicar of Cranebroke in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation to hold for life with his said vicarage, value not exceeding 40 marks, one other benefice with cure, even if a dignity, major and elective in a cathedral or metropolitan, or principal and united in a collegiate church, personatus, administration or office, or a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, and to resign both as often as he pleases for exchange or otherwise and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite etc. |
4 Non. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 77d.) |
Annulment, as below. Learning lately that the late John, archbishop of York, at the instance of the Cluniac prior and convent of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, Pontefract, had ordained that in future the prior and convent should take all the fruits, tithes, oblations, etc., of their appropriated church of All Saints, Pontefract, and should pay yearly as portion to the then perpetual vicar, the late Adam de Scergill, who, it was said, consented, during his lifetime 24 marks, and to each of his successors 30, at the same time binding the prior and convent to certain observances, the pope, motu proprio, annulled the archbishop's settlement and restored the then vicar and his successors to the same full and integral portion of the said fruits as their predecessors had been wont to take; deputing, as executors for such vicar, the bishops of Telese and Lincoln, and the prior of St. Oswald's, Nostel. As the pope has learned that the said settlement was reasonable and has been kept for a number of years, he now, motu proprio, annuls his letters of annulment, orders them to be cancelled from his register, and confirms the said settlement, its contents and consequences, inhibiting the said executors from proceeding. Ad fut. rei mem. Ex providencia sedis apostolice. |
3 Non. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 81.) |
Confirmation, as below. The petition of Walter Puse, rector of Knole Magna, in the diocese of Salisbury, contained that Nicholas, bishop of Christopolis (Cristopolitan.), by licence of John de Maidenhith, canon of Salisbury, who had special power from William, archbishop of Canterbury, dedicated and consecrated to God and St. Catherine, Virgin, the chapel of Seggehulle with its contiguous cemetery, annexed to the aforesaid parish church (sic; Reg. CIV, f. 206d has annexed to the parish church of Berewick Leonardi alias Coldeberewyk). Exemplification is given of (i) the letters—Univ. sancte, etc. Noveritis nos litteras commissionis … nuper recepisse, of bishop Nicholas [here Christopolitan.], dated 7 Nov., 1395, and giving exemplification of (ii) the letters—Ad exercendum nostro nomine, of archbishop William, dated in his manor of Charleton, 30 Sept., 1395, the 15th year of his translation, directed to and constituting the above Master John de Maidenhith, guardian, in his stead, of spiritualities of Salisbury during voidance by the death of bishop John [de Waltham, as in No. iii. below], with the exercise of all customary episcopal jurisdiction, and especially, in accordance with the composition made between archbishop Boniface and the dean and chapter of Salisbury, in regard to admissions, institutions, deprivations and collations, examination of persons elected to dignities, benefices or offices, and the confirmation of such elections, visitations, etc., and (iii) the letters Incumbunt nobis, of John de Maydenhith, dated at Salisbury 27 Oct. 1395, directed to and deputing as suffragan bishop in the said diocese the above bishop Nicholas, with power to dedicate and consecrate churches, cemeteries and altars, reconcile churches and cemeteries, compel payment of procurations for such dedication and reconciliation, administer the sacrament of confirmation, confer all, both holy and minor, orders, bless chalices, bells, vestments and all other ecclesiastical ornaments, grant absolution, even in cases specially reserved to the said guardian (nobis); strikers (percussionibus, as also in Reg. CIV, for percussoribus), if above the age of eighteen, of clerks, corruptors (corrupcionibus, for corruptoribus as in Reg. CIV) of nuns, breakers (effractoribus) of the episcopal parks and closes of Salisbury, violators of the liberties and immunities of the church of Salisbury, perjurers (per juris; perjuris in Reg. CIV) in causes of blood and disherison and before any judge, ecclesiastical or secular, and murderers (homicidiis; homicidis in Reg. CIV) being alone excepted. Bishop Nicholas states that he has, on 7 Nov. 1395, under the foregoing authority, consecrated and dedicated to the honour of God and of St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr, the chapel of Seggehulle with its contiguous cemetery, annexed to and distant three miles from the parish church of Berewyk Leonardi alias Coldeberewyk, and distant two miles from the church of St. Edward, Shaftesbury (Shaston) and its cemetery where the inhabitants of the said township (rillata) of Seggehulle have been wont to have burial, and that he has summoned for the purpose the rector of Berewyk and the abbess and convent of Shaftesbury, rectors of the said church of St. Edward and patrons of the said church of Coldeberywyk and chapel of Seggehulle, and all others concerned. The pope, at the said petition, confirms the said bishop's proceedings. Ad fut. rei mem. Iis que pro divini. |
1401.
2 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 82d.) |
To all inhabitants of the town (opidi) of Hamelettehoke in the diocese of Winchester. Licence—at their petition, containing that their said town is about two English miles from their [unnamed] parish church, to which, on account of the prolixity and hazards of the road, it is at times tedious for them to repair for divine offices and the sacraments; and at the petition of John Batour, priest, John Micoll, William Tabeler of Clopham, and Hugh Champion of Suthampton, laymen, of the said diocese, executors of the late William Mapull, layman, praying that in the chapel in the said town may be ordained a priest to celebrate masses for the souls of the said William and themselves, and other divine offices— for the said inhabitants and executors to depute a perpetual priest who may celebrate masses and other divine offices in the said chapel; with licence to such priest to hear their confessions and grant absolution, enjoining a salutary penance, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see, to baptize, in a font to be ordained in the said chapel, children who cannot be conveniently carried to the said parish church, and to administer, whenever necessary, extreme unction to their sick; saving otherwise the right of the parish church and of any other. Sincere devocionis. |
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Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishops of London and Salisbury. Sincere etc. |
1402.
2 Non. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 90.) |
To John Cole, canon of London. Dispensation to him—who holds the archdeaconry of Kardigan in St. Davids (corrected in the margin, here and throughout, from precentorship of Abergwyly, in the diocese of St. Davids), a dignity with cure, and canonries and prebends in London and Salisbury, value altogether not exceeding 100 marks—to hold for life with his said archdeaconry, one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if an elective dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign both for exchange or otherwise and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices, even if they be similar dignities, personatus or offices. Vite ac morum. [Marginal note, Can [cella] ria quo ad corec [tionem].] |
Non. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 90d.) |
To John Skyslyng (sic), rector of Houghton in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation to him—who holds the above church and canonries and prebends of London and Wells and the royal chapel of St. Martin's-le-Grand, London, value altogether not exceeding 90 marks—to hold for seven years, with his said church, one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if an elective dignity, [major or] principal [respectively], personatus or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign both for exchange or otherwise and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices, even if they be similar dignities, etc. Within the said period he is to exchange his said church or the remaining one of such benefices for another benefice compatible with his said church or with the other of such benefices; otherwise his church or the other of such benefices is thereafter to be resigned. Vite etc. |
9 Kal. March
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 97.) |
To John Dryle, priest, of the diocese of Dublin. Dispensation to him—who has had papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure—to hold any mutually compatible benefices, with and without cure, of any number and kind, even if canonries and prebends and elective dignities, major or principal respectively, personatus or offices, in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to resign them simply or for exchange as often as he pleases and hold instead similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices. His said illegitimacy and dispensation need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite etc. (Pro Deo, XV, pro medietate.) |
2 Non. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 97d.) |
To Thomas Maundeville, priest, of the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him—who (having without mention of his illegitimacy, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, had himself promoted to all, even holy orders and ministered therein, and having obtained, first a certain benefice with cure and then the rectory of Quydingham in the said diocese, and having afterwards resigned the said first benefice to the ordinary, all without having obtained dispensation) received papal dispensation, the said circumstances notwithstanding, to minister in his said orders and to hold his rectory —to hold any mutually compatible benefices, with or without cure, of any number, etc. as in the preceding. Vite etc. |
1401.
2 Id. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 102.) |
Indulgence of the Portiuncula to penitents who on Passion Sunday and the feast of St. James the Apostle, and the day after each, visit and give alms for the conservation and repair of the church, founded in honour of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Radegund, of the Premonstratensian monastery of St. Mary the Virgin, in the diocese of Canterbury; with power for the abbot and seven other priests, secular or religious, deputed by him, to hear the confessions, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see. Univ. Christifid. etc. Dum precelsa. |
2 Id. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 102) |
To Thomas Chaundos, canon of Lincoln. Indult to him—who, when over sixty years of age and rector of Wat[h], in the diocese of York, being unable by reason of his age and debility to govern it, was induced by Thomas Flemmynge, knight, the patron, and by certain others, to resign the church, whose value is perhaps 100 marks, in order that it might be collated to another and that a yearly rent or pension of 80 marks might be assigned to himself for life; and who has learned that to do so was unlawful—freely and lawfully to receive such life rent or pension. Vite ac morum. |
8 Kal. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 110.) |
To Robert de Dalton, priest, of the diocese of York. Confirmation etc., as below. It has recently come to the pope's knowledge that he received (i) papal dispensation as the son of an unmarried man and a married woman—the fact that they were related in double fourth degrees of affinity and had lived together in concubinage being concealed by him and not mentioned in the said dispensation—to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold two benefices even if one had cure; (ii) the like dispensation, the said illegitimacy and omission notwithstanding, under which dispensation he was so promoted and obtained in the church of Lincoln a certain perpetual benefice without cure called the chantry of Master Anthony de Goldesburgh, exchanged it, without papal dispensation for the purpose, for the like chantry of Master Hugh de Walmesforth and it for the like chantry of the fabric of the said church, value not exceeding 8 marks; (iii) to retain the said chantry of the fabric and to receive and hold with it one other compatible benefice even with cure, and to resign both, once only, simply or for exchange, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar compatible benefices. He doubts whether his dispensations hold good, especially because instead of ‘related in double fourth degrees of affinity and had lived together in concubinage,’ as above, ought to be read ‘related in the second and third degrees of kindred.’ The pope therefore confirms all the said dispensations, declares him capable of being promoted to the said orders and holding the said and any other benefices, and further dispenses him to hold four mutually compatible benefices, even if canonries and prebends or parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or dignities, personatus, administrations or offices in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and even if one of them have cure, and to resign them for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases and hold instead similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices. His said illegitimacy and dispensations need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite etc. |
1401.
2 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 118.) |
To Walter Puze, rector of Knole Magna in the diocese of Salisbury, papal chaplain. Licence to resign his benefices, as often as he pleases, for purpose of exchange, to any ordinary or ordinaries, without requiring licence of the apostolic see, and for such ordinary or ordinaries to receive the resignations and carry out the exchanges; with licence to dispose of his personal property by will. Of the dates of collations, and the names of benefices and persons, the ordinaries are to inform the officers of the camera or the collector in those parts. Grata tue devocionis. |
10 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 118d.) |
To Richard Wellesfede, priest, of the diocese of Ossory. Dispensation to him—who has had papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, under which he has been so promoted and has obtained the perpetual vicarage of Dunfert in the said diocese—to hold any mutually compatible benefices, with or without cure, of any number and kind, even if canonries and prebends and elective dignities with cure, major or principal respectively, personatus
or offices, in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to resign them for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases and hold instead similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices. His said illegitimacy and dispensation need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite ac morum. |
2 Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 119) |
To John [de Galifontibus, arch] bishop of Soltania (if the Soltanien. of the Reg. is correct), or John [Grenlaw, as above, p. 288] bishop of Sudak (if Soldayen. is to be understood). Grant to him—who recently received provision of the said see, and was required, immediately upon the expedition of the letters of provision, to betake himself thither and reside, and was made incapable of exercising pontificals without the said city and diocese—seeing that he has in his said diocese no catholic man, and that he cannot there exercise pontificals, to exercise them even in other cities and dioceses, when required by the diocesans. Sincere devocionis. |
1402.
2 Id. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 124d.) |
Confirmation, at the petition of John Clerck of Cressenhale, perpetual vicar of Redenhale in the diocese of Norwich, of the assignment and ordinances made by the late bishop William, in pursuance of the appropriation made by him, under papal authority, of the said parish church to the Benedictine nuns' monastery of Bangeye in the said diocese. Exemplification is given of the bishop's letters—Univ. sancte etc. Nos nuper dilectis, dated at South Elmham, 16 Oct. 1349, the 6th year of his consecration. They state that he recently appropriated by papal authority the above church to the prioress and convent of Bongeye, saving a perpetual vicarage, and a habitation and portion to the sum of 20l. sterling, for a perpetual vicar, to be afterwards assigned; and that he now proceeds to such assignment as follows:—A wall shall be made from the north side of the great gates extending forward from the outer ditch (fossata) of the said rectory, hard by the said gates, in a straight line eastwards as far as the inner ditch (fossatum) which surrounds the mound (motam) of the said rectory, except a space of seven feet; and similarly in a line (linialiter) [with it], from the other, the east, side of the said mound shall be made another wall extending forward in a line from the said inner ditch, except a space of seven feet, as far as the end of the east side of the said rectory. The said great gates and the whole ingress by them, together with a piece of land with a pond opposite the said rectory, containing about four acres, with trees and a certain roofed building (tigurrio) contained therein, and the whole mound with all buildings contained thereon, and with the whole ditch of water surrounding the said mound, likewise the whole portion of the rectory without the mound on the south side of the said rectory, with all buildings, trees [and] curtilages in it between the said two walls, together with the outer ditch surrounding the said portion outside, likewise the space of seven feet on the north side of the said rectory round about the ditch of water which, as aforesaid, surrounds the mound—in which space the vicars shall be able to clean the said ditch on every side, spread and dry their nets—shall wholly belong in perpetuity to the vicars for the time being. The other portion of the said rectory without the inner ditch of water which surrounds the said mound, on the north side of the rectory, with all granges, granary, houses, trees and curtilages contained between the said two walls—the said space of seven feet round about the said inner ditch being alone excepted—together with the outer ditch surrounding the said portion on the outside, shall similarly belong to the said abbess and convent and rectors of the said church. Item, the vicar, present and future, shall have as his portion all the altar fruits etc. of the said church, namely a rent of assise and three hens of rent, one acre one rood and eight feet of meadow and pasture, the tithes of hay, wool, milk, flax, hemp, colts (pullanorum), calves, lambs (agnorum), sucking pigs (porcellorum), eggs, fowls (pullorum), hens, doves, geese (aucarum), lambs (agnorum), ducks (anacrum), honey, wax and honeycomb (ceragii), apples, pears and fruits of all trees of gardens, both sowed (satorum) and planted, even if they be corn sowed (seminata) in such gardens, mills, fisheries, woods (silvarum et boscorum), turbary, oblations, mortuaries, the issue of animals (sequelarum) and all other obventions due to the altar, together with thirty acres more or less of land of the glebe (dote) of the church lying in the south field of the said parish on the side of the water, called (vocatis) Lewek (?). The vicar shall have all the tithes arising from the said south field, which extends from the bridge of Alderforde as far as the manor called le Bekhalle in Sterstone, and has three parts commonly called Harlestonefelde, Overgatefelde and Wortewalefelde. And seeing that in his above letters of appropriation the bishop has ordained that the portion of the vicarage shall be worth 20l., he wills that the said religious may pay the vicar 20l. a year in equal portions on the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist and of the Purification, and, so long as they do so, may retain to their own uses the vicar's said portion, except the vicar's habitation, as above, and the said piece of land with pond, situate opposite the rectory, as above. In case, however, the said religious fail in any one of the said payments at the said terms, then the whole of the said portion shall belong in perpetuity to the vicar, who may of his own authority take possession, and whosoever hinders him shall incur the greater excommunication. During such period as the said religious receive the above altar dues and appurtenances they shall find, at their own cost, a parish priest to minister continually in the said church and parish; and the like shall be done by the vicar if and when he come into possession of the same. Of all burdens, ordinary and extraordinary, of the said church, two parts shall pertain to the said religious and the third to the vicar. Ad perp. rei mem. Iis que pro ecclesiarum. |
5 Id. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 126.) |
Letters testimonial, granted at the petition of John Bryd, priest, of the diocese of Norwich, and to the end that he may not be molested by the ordinary; the pope having caused inspection to be made of the sealed letters of Conrad, archbishop of Nicosia, the pope's chamberlain, stating that John has been lawfully promoted to all holy orders in the Roman court, in accordance with the form and custom of the holy Roman church. Dilecti filii. (Pro Deo, pro medietate.) |
Kal. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 136d.) |
To the treasurer of Lincoln. Mandate to decide, without appeal, the following cause. The petition of William Leuayn, priest, of the diocese of York, contained that formerly Thomas Rome, Benedictine monk of Durham, and William Brystow, clerk, of the diocese of York, although they had no jurisdiction over him, suspended him from divine offices, and inflicted upon him divers injuries, on account of which he appealed to the archiepiscopal court of York; that while the appeal was pending before the official of York, they caused him to be more fully (per amplius) suspended, to the prejudice of the suit, on account of which he appealed again to the said court; and that after the official had taken some proceedings, William—on account of the official's refusal to order a copy thereof to be given to him, although ready to pay for it the notary deputed in the cause, and the official's acquittal (ab instancia judicii, ut dixit, absolvit) of the said monk—appealed to the apostolic see. His petition adds that he has no hope of obtaining justice in those parts. Exhibita siquidem nobis. |
1401.
Id. Dec.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 154.) |
Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year, and the dedication, and on All Saints, 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 to the parish church of St. Peter, Appellestorp, in the diocese of York. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
1402.
15 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 161d.) |
To John Montagu, rector of St. Michael's, Herbaldone, in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation to hold for life with St. Michael's, value not exceeding 40 marks, one other benefice with cure, even if a dignity, major and elective in a cathedral or metropolitan, or principal and united in a collegiate church, personatus, administration or office, or a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, and to resign both for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite ac morum. |
Id. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 162.) |
To Thomas de Longefordis, clerk, son of Nicholas de Longefordis, knight, of the diocese of Lichfield. Dispensation to him, who is in or about his eighteenth year, to hold any benefice with cure, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or an elective dignity, major or principal and united respectively, personatus, administration or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign it for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases, and hold instead a similar or dissimilar benefice. Nobilitas generis, rite etc. |
Ibid.
(f. 163.) |
To Aueredus de Longefordis, son of Nicholas de Longefordis, knight, rector of Longefordis, in the diocese of Lichfield. Dispensation to him, who is in minor orders only, not to be bound during seven years, while studying letters at an university or residing in his said church or other benefices, to have himself promoted to any holy orders, on account of his said church or other benefices. Nobilitas etc. |
Id. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 165.) |
Confirmation at the recent petition of Robert Hallum, archdeacon of Canterbury, of the following composition made by Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury with consent of Richard [Clifforde, as mentioned below] bishop of Worcester, then archdeacon of Canterbury, and others, as below. Exemplification is given of the archbishop's letters—Univ. sancte etc. In partem solicitudinis, which state that a dissension has hitherto gone on between a number of his predecessors and the archdeacons of Canterbury about the registration (insinuacione) of the wills of deceased subjects of the city and diocese, and the commission of the administration of the goods of such subjects, both testate and intestate, and the audit (audicione) of the account of such administration, etc. To end the dissension he has, with consent of the prior and chapter of Canterbury and Master Richard Clifforde the present archdeacon of Canterbury, made the following composition or ordinance. If anyone have domicile in the archbishop's jurisdiction, exempt from the archdeacon's jurisdiction, even if he have his goods in the latter, wherever he die, if he have made a will the probate (approbacio seu reprobacio) and registration thereof in respect of all his goods, or, if he have died intestate, the commission [of the administration] of all his goods, shall wholly and solely belong to the archbishop. If he have domicile in the archdeacon's jurisdiction, and have his goods in the archbishop's said exempt jurisdiction, but do not die in the latter, the said probate [and] registration of his will, and the commission of the administration of his goods if he die intestate, and the acquittance in respect of such administration shall, as far only as regards goods in the archdeacon's jurisdiction, belong to the archdeacon, but in the case of goods in the archbishop's said exempt jurisdiction the administration shall be committed by the archbishop. If he have two domiciles, one in the archbishop's exempt jurisdiction and the other in the archdeacon's, if he die in the archbishop's, the registration of his will, and the commission of the administration of his goods, if he die intestate, wherever in the diocese they be situate, shall belong solely and wholly to the archbishop; if he die in the archdeacon's jurisdiction the same shall, as far only as regards goods situate therein, belong to the archdeacon, in which case the archbishop shall commit the administration as far as regards goods situate in his said exempt jurisdiction, as above. Likewise the registration [and] probate of wills of nobles, or the commission [of the administration] of all their goods in case of intestacy, shall in every case—even if they have domicile only in the archdeacon's jurisdiction or have goods there only and nowhere else—wherever they die, belong to the archbishop; nobles being interpreted to mean barons and their betters, and their wives. If anyone have domicile in the archdeacon's jurisdiction and have also goods within the jurisdictions of the churches of Wyngham and Maydenston or in the Benedictine abbeys of St. Augustine by Canterbury or Feversham, the Premonstratensian abbeys of St. Radegund and Langedon, or the Cluniac priory of Herton, or the Augustinian priories of Ledes, Combewelle or Bylsyngton, or in houses or places of mendicant friars, or in any places (losis) of religious or others not of the archbishop's exempt jurisdiction, or abroad (in partes) or in castles or on the sea or its shore, or even if he die without the province of Canterbury, the registration of his will, if any, and the commission of the administration of goods, even if he die intestate, as far as regards goods in the archdeacon's jurisdiction and in such places, except in the jurisdictions of Wyngham and Maydenston or on the sea or its shores within the archbishop's exempt jurisdiction, shall belong wholly to the archdeacon; saving the prerogative and custom of the church of Canterbury with respect to those having goods at the time of their death in divers dioceses of the province. To end the dissension arising out of the multitude of apparitors the archbishop ordains that he and his successors shall have one mounted apparitor, and the commissary-general of Canterbury two, one mounted and the other on foot, for his consistory, and in each parish of the archbishop's exempt jurisdiction one, if he will, on foot. The said apparitors shall exercise their office in the exempt jurisdictions but in no wise outside them. The archdeacon of Canterbury or his official shall have one apparitor-general, mounted, and in each deanery one on foot, for the celebrating of chapters. The above composition, drawn up in the form of tripartite letters, one part to be kept by the archbishop, the second by the chapter and the third by the archdeacon, bears the seals of the archbishop, chapter and Master Richard Clifforde, archdeacon of Canterbury, and is dated in the archbishop's palace at Canterbury, 26 March, the morrow of the Annunciation, 1397, the first year of his translation. The assent of prior Thomas and the chapter of Canterbury in their chapter-house, and that of the above Richard Clifforde, archdeacon of Canterbury, in the church of Canterbury, are dated as above. Ad perp. rei mem. Justis et honestis. |
Non. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 167.) |
To Ymarus Odubginnach, priest, of the diocese of Elphin. Dispensation to him—who has had papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he was so promoted and obtained the perpetual vicarage of St. Patrick's, Elphin, value not exceeding 6 marks —to hold one, two, three or more mutually compatible benefices with and without cure, even if canonries and prebends and elective dignities, major or principal respectively, personatus
and offices, with or without cure, in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to resign them simply or for exchange as often as he pleases and hold instead similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices. His illegitimacy and dispensation need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite ac morum. (XV, pro Deo, pro medietate.) |
Id. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 168.) |
To Thomas de Everdoun, rector of Wedercherche (sic) in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation to him—who is a priest, and who holds, besides Wedecherche, the canonry and prebend in Bangor which was held by the late Ippart ap Robert, archdeacon of St. Asaph, and the prebend of Stagony in Dublin— to hold for life, with his said church one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if an elective dignity, major or principal and united respectively, administration, personatus
or office in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign both for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite etc. |
Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 168d.) |
To Nemerus Odalyd, clerk, of the diocese of Ardfert Rehabilitation on account of his having, when holding the perpetual vicarage of Killnanwayn in the said diocese, obtained and held therewith without dispensation the rectory of Traly in the same diocese, by presentation of its patron Gerald earl of Desmond (dessimonyie) and institution by the ordinary. He is to resign both. Sedes apostolica. |
10 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 168d.) |
To the archbishop of Canterbury. Licence for Walter Cock, archdeacon of Exeter, to resign to the archbishop as often as he pleases, for purpose of exchange, without requiring licence of any ordinary Qr ordinaries, his said archdeaconry and any other benefices, and for the archbishop to receive such resignations and to carry out the exchanges. Of dates and names the archbishop is to certify the officers of the camera. Vite ac morum. |
1402.
8 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 169.) |
To Robert Bull, clerk, of the diocese of Ardfert. Dispensation to him—the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman related in the third and fourth degrees of affinity, who has received the tonsure by authority of the ordinary—to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold any mutually compatible benefices of any number and kind, with and without cure, secular and regular, even if canonries and prebends or dignities (dignitas), personatus or offices, with or without cure, in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, even if such dignities be major or principal and united respectively, or be abbatial, or be conventual priories, and be elective, and to resign them simply or for exchange as often as he pleases and hold instead similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices, secular and regular. His said illegitimacy and dispensation need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite etc. [See f. 280d.] |
5 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 174.) |
To Hugh Harworth and other inhabitants of the town of Blythe, in the diocese of York. Licence to have masses and other divine offices celebrated by a stipendiary or other priest in the chapel of St. James the Apostle within the bounds of the parish church of Blythe; saving the right of the said parish church. Sincere devocionis. |
5 Id. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 190d.) |
Indulgence of the Portiuncula, during five years, to penitents who on Whitsunday and during the three following days, and on the feast of St. Laurence, from the first to the second vespers, visit and give alms for the conservation of the church of the Premonstratensian nuns’ priory of Brodhelme, in the diocese of York; with indult for five priests, secular or religious, deputed by the prioress, to hear the confessions, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see. The indulgence may be gained by such penitents as being old, valetudinarian, and infirm, cannot repair in person and who send their alms by others. Unix. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
6 Id. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 207d.) |
Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year, and those of St. Clement, St. Anne, St. James the Apostle, the dedication, All Saints, Good Friday and the Sunday after the feast of St. John the Baptist, and during 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 fabric and conservation of the church of St. Clement, Conesford, in the diocese of Norwich. Univ. etc. Licet is. |
6 Non. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 212.) |
To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate, as below. Lately, at the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Neuton Herkort in the diocese of Lincoln—setting forth that the parish church of Wiisthow in the same diocese, within whose bounds Neuton Herkort is situate, and to which they had been wont to take their children for baptism and other sacraments, and their dead for burial, was distant and was separated from them by a river called the Glene, which often, especially in winter, became so swollen as to make access unsafe, wherefore children often died unbaptized, and others without the sacraments, and bodies were not buried at fitting times; that the revenues of the said church were so abundant that, independently of the income from the said town, they were enough for its rector and minister; that in the said town there was a chapel of St. Leonard, built at no small expense, and that the inhabitants were willing to provide for the sustentation of priests to celebrate divine offices therein and administer the sacraments—the pope ordered the bishop, if he found it expedient, to convert (reduceres) the said chapel into a parish church; license the said inhabitants to erect a font in such church, and to depute a cemetery, with other parochial insignia; and to institute a priest, who should be presented by the rector of the said mother church, with the assent of the said inhabitants. The recent petition of the inhabitants contained that the bishop, considering that benefices ought not to be divided, and that the pope's commission tended greatly to the injury of the said mother church, has not proceeded to its execution. At their petition, the pope now orders the bishop to license them, without requiring licence of the said rector or other, to cause such chapel and a certain limited (limitatum) cemetery hard by it to be consecrated and deputed by any catholic bishop in communion with the apostolic see. The bishop is further to ordain that the rector for the time being of the said mother church shall be bound to appoint and institute at his own pleasure and at his own expense, with consent (de consensum) of the said inhabitants, a fit chaplain to administer to them all the sacraments. Ad hoc libenter. [The text is unusually faulty.] |
4 Non. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 213.) |
Licence to Semannus Krakemere, rector of St. Andrew's, Ocle Parva, in the diocese of Norwich, and his successors, being priests, to receive and retain perpetually Commendations of Souls, commonly called in those parts Annuals or Stipends, and pious devotions given on account of such souls. Ad perp. rei mem. Justis et honestis. |
2 Id. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 235.) |
To John Clerck of Gressenhale, perpetual vicar of Redenhale in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him, who is a priest and holds the above vicarage, value not exceeding 40 marks, to hold for life therewith or with a similar or dissimilar benefice which he may obtain in its place, one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or an elective dignity, major or principal and united respectively, personatus or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign both for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite ac morum. (De mandato.) |
1402.
5 Id. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 236d.) |
To John Bury, rector of Hepworth in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation during seven years to him, who is in minor orders only, while engaged in the service of a prelate or in the study of letters at an university, or residing in the Roman court, not to be bound, on account of his said church and other benefices—provided he be promoted within two years to the subdiaconate—to have himself promoted to other higher orders, or to reside in his said and other churches. Vite etc. |
Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 238d.) |
Licence, at the recent petition of the parishioners of Frome in the diocese of Wells—containing that within the said parish, which is very wide, there are many merchants who often, for their business, transfer themselves to other parts, and are thereby often hindered from hearing mass, according to their wish, in the parish church—for the said parishioners to have mass celebrated daily, whenever opportune and expedient, at the altar of St. Nicholas in the said church by a stipendiary or other priest, and for one of the greater bells to be sounded to convoke the people thereto; saving otherwise the right of the parish church, and with mandate to the rector or vicar not to hinder or molest such priest. Piis desideriis. |
16 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 246.) |
Confirmation, at the petition of the master of the college or house of Clare of the university of Cambridge, of all its statutes, etc. partly given below; notwithstanding revocations, injunctions [and] limitations made by the ordinary visitor or visitors, namely, Guy la Zouche, late chancellor of the university, Richard Billingforde, S.T.D., and John Ixworth, D.C.L., which, in so far as they be contrary to the long observed or to the under-written statutes, are hereby annulled. The tenor of the statutes, which have been exhibited to the pope, and which he has caused to be inspected, is as follows:—(i.) the master and fellows yearly in respect of the excess of their commons in the general accounts of the master, shall pay and make complete satisfaction to the common chest; (ii.) if the price of the usual cloth bought by the master for the livery (liberatura) of the fellows do not reach 60s., the sum over and above such price shall wholly be applied to the common chest and not to the private advantage of anybody; (iii.) no fellow, except the master, shall have his own servitor, unless at his own expense; (iv.) they shall be two in a room, which shall be assigned by the master, and no fellow shall have a room to himself for ten days without special licence of the master, the principal room being always reserved to the master alone; (v.) no fellow shall ascend or be admitted to a scholastic degree without the master's special licence; (vi.) no fellow shall have from the goods of the college more than the portion limited to him in the statutes, without consent of the master and the majority of the fellows; (vii.) no fellow shall receive anything from the goods of the house by his own authority to the value of 2d. without deliberation of the master; (viii.) no fellow shall absent himself beyond the jurisdiction of the chancellor, nor visit a tavern at night, nor pass the night without the college, except with special licence of the master; (ix.) no stranger shall dwell in the house or pass the night in it without consent of the master and the majority of the fellows; (x.) four masses shall be sung daily if there be enough of the chaplains in the college whose duty it is to do so; (xi.) the boys of the college shall serve the fellows in chapel and at the common table, and not in private affairs, except for necessary and honest causes, and then with the knowledge and approval of the master; (xii.) as often as purchases or repairs are required for the store (pro stauro) or other necessaries of the college, the master may, in presence of the keepers of the common chest, extract therefrom a fitting sum, the keepers complying under pain of rebellion and disobedience. Ex injuncto nobis. (Dc mandato.) |
16 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 246.) |
To the warden, called master, and chaplains or priests, and other persone of the hospital of the Annunciation of St. Mary the Virgin at the Bridge-end (ad finem poncium), Nottingham, in the diocese of York. Exempting them, their hospital and its chapel, persone, houses, possessions and goods, present and future, from all jurisdiction of the ordinary and any other judges ordinary, and taking them under the protection of St. Peter and the apostolic see, to which alone, alike in spiritualities and temporalities, they shall be subject; with indult to the warden and his successors, deputed by the pope, to grant to the brethren and sisters plenary remission, once only, in the article of death; and grant for them to choose and depute three or more fit priests, over and above the number of two priests as instituted by the founder, for the celebration of divine offices in the chapel, and on the resignation or death of any of the chaplains or priests of the said chapel, or on the resignation of its chantor, to elect another fit priest and to present to the said chantry. The warden and chaplains shall in future, on greater double feasts, celebrate or cause to be celebrated mass and other divine offices in the said chapel, solemnly with music. Exigit vestre devocionis. (De mandato.) |
Kal. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 247d.) |
Grant to penitents who from the first to the second vespers inclusive of the feasts of St. George and SS. Peter and Paul, and during the two days after each, visit and give alms for the conservation of the church of the Augustinian priory of Kyrkeby super Wrethek, in the diocese of Lincoln, of the same indulgence as is granted for visits to St. Mark's, Venice, on the feast of the Ascension from the first to the second vespers; [with indult] to the prior and six other priests, secular or religious, or more, according to the multitude of people, deputed by him, to hear the confessions and grant absolution, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see, and to commute vows of pilgrimage and abstinence. Penitents who are detained by infirmity or otherwise lawfully hindered, and who send their alms, may gain the indulgence as if they made their visits in person. Their own curates shall have over such detained penitents equal power with the priests whom the prior deputes on the said feasts and days. Univ. Christfid. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.) |
Id. Jan.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 249.) |
Exhortation to all faithful to give alms for the repair and conservation of the hospital of St. John, Newtown (Noveville), by Trym, in the diocese of Meath; with relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who do so. Quoniam ut ait apostolus. |
14 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 261d.) |
To William Hercherd, rector of the chapel or chantry of Crouthorn, in the diocese of Canterbury. Licence to him, who holds the above, a perpetual benefice without cure, to receive and retain, as long and as often as he pleases, Commendations of Souls, etc., as above, f. 213. Justis et honestis. |
|
Ibid. |
Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feasts of the Annunciation and Assumption of St. Mary the Virgin, the Invention and Exaltation of Holy Cross, and the octave of the Assumption, visit and give alms for the conservation of the church of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary Boyle (de Buelleo), in the diocese of Elphin. Univ. Christifid. etc. Dum precelsa. |
2 Non. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 268.) |
To the bishop of Achonry (Akaden.). Mandate to dispense Thady Macdorechaich and Edina M'yheligi, of his diocese, to marry notwithstanding that they are related in the third and third degrees of kindred. Oblate nobis. |
[8 Kal. Feb.
St. Peter's, Rome.]
(f. 280d.) |
To Robert Bull, clerk, of the diocese of Ardfert. Dispensation as above, f. 169. Vite ac morum. [Here unfinished.] |
