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1425. Kal. Aug. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 8d.) |
To the abbot of [A]byndon in the diocese of Salisbury. Mandate as below. The recent petition of the guardian and brethren of the Friars Minors’ house and of the community (uniuersitas) and men of Suthampton in the diocese of Winchester, contained that although the said guardian and friars have by ancient custom buried all those who die at Suthampton and who choose the said house as their burial place, guaranteeing to the rector of the parish church of St. Mary. Suthampton, his canonical portion, nevertheless lately Henry Mersten, rector of the said church, asserted that the bodies ought to be presented there and mass for the dead celebrated before being borne to the said house, and that to end the dissension the parties submitted the question to the arbitration of the late Walter Medeford, dean of Wells, who gave a decision in favour of Henry. At the said petition, which added that if the said ancient custom be suppressed, it will be to the no small prejudice of the said guardian and friars, the pope orders the above abbot to summon the said rector and others concerned, and if he find the said decision unfair, to restore the said guardian and friars to the position in which they were before it was given, and furthermore, if he find that the said custom has been observed from of old, Henry's predecessors making no opposition, to grant licence to the said guardian and friars to have such bodies, in accordance with the said custom, conveyed straight (immediate) to the said house or its church, and buried there, saving the rector's right to the above canonical portion. Sacre religionis. |
4 Kal. Oct. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 38d.) |
To the priors of St. John Baptist's de Kyllykynii and St. Mary's, Inchmore (de Insula Magna), in the dioceses of Meath and Ardagh, and the dean of Ardagh. Mandate to collate and assign to Malachy Offergail, canon of the Augustinian priory of St. Mary, Saints Island (Insula Omnium Sanctorum), in the diocese of Ardagh, priest, the said priory, conventual and independent, value not exceeding 50 marks, void by the resignation of Donatus Mecongolan, and reserved under the pope's late general reservation of all conventual priories. Malachy is hereby specially dispensed on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a priest religious and an unmarried woman related in the double fourth degree of kindred. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (Ja. xxv. Quarto Kal. Februarii Anno Nono. de Cerrctanis.) |
5 Id. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 48.) |
To the abbot and convent of the Augustinian monastery of Cirencester in the diocese of Worcester. Licence to rent and grant to farm their chapels, churches and other possessions to any persons, clerks or laymen, in perpetuity or on lease, without requiring licence of the ordinaries. Sincere deuocionis affectus. |
12 Kal. Sept. SS. Apostoli, Rome (f. 65.) |
To Richard Trumpinton, brother of the Carthusian house of St. Saviour (sic) without the walls of London. Indult for him, who has the tonsure only, has lived for fourteen years under the regular habit of the said order in the said house, and made his profession therein, to be promoted to all, even priest's orders and minister therein, notwithstanding that before entering the said order he, when an unmarried clerk, married before the church after the custom of the country, and long cohabited with, a woman whom he knew to have been married before, who assured him that she had remained a virgo intacta, and who died before he entered religion. Exigit tue deuocionis. |
10 Kal. Nov. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 75.) |
To John Voynepennyg, S.T.B., an Augustinian friar. Dispensation to hold during the pope's pleasure any parish church wont to be governed by secular clerks, notwithstanding the constitutions put forth by Otto and Ottobon in England, etc. Religionis zelus, litterarum etc. |
6 Kal. Nov. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 83.) |
To the abbot and convent of St. Mary's without the walls of York. Grant (at their recent petition, containing that the parish church of Hornesee in the diocese of York was formerly appropriated to them by papal and ordinary authority, that Antonius de Sancto Quintino, priest, resigned the said church in order that the annexation might more quickly take effect, and that they have to pay him a yearly life pension of 100l. sterling; and adding that their monastery is weighed down by many and divers debts and burdens, and that its resources have suffered on account of floods etc.) to take for ten years for their own uses any one benefice in their gift, with or without cure, secular or regular, even if a priory, not conventual, or a parish church or its perpetual vicarage, and have it served by any monk of their monastery, to be chosen and removed by them, take and convert to their uses the fruits thereof, except the portion necessary for the support of such monk, etc., and during the said ten years resign such benefice, once only, and receive and hold another instead. Sincere denocionis affectus. [See p. 374.] |
9 Kal. June. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 121.) |
To the bishop of Chichester, Mandate as below. The late Robert, bishop of Chichester. informed that a number of the houses and buildings of the Augustinian priory of Michelham were in such ruin that, unaided, the prior and convent could not repair them; that very many of their arable and corn lands, meadows, pastures and other fertile places, whence came a great part of their sustenance, had been suddenly swallowed up by floods of the sea, in all probability for ever; that they were heavily burdened with debt, various exactions etc., so that their means were insufficient for their maintenance and for showing the hospitality rendered necessary by their position near the king's highway (prope viam regiam et communem), appropriated to them, with consent of the dean and chapter, the parish churches of Flecchyng and Alfriston, of the patronage of the prior and convent, providing for the institution of perpetual vicars, the indemnification of the episcopal mensa, the said dean and chapter and the archdeacon of Lewes, etc. At the recent petition of the prior and convent (containing that in virtue of the said appropriation, which was confirmed by Boniface IX, they obtained possession of Alfriston and, a few years later, of Flecchyng, in both cases, however, after Innocent VII's general annulment of those of Boniface IX's appropriations which had not yet taken effect) the pope orders the above bishop, if he find the facts to be as stated, to appropriate the said churches, value not exceeding 160 marks sterling, to the said priory, value not exceeding 1500 (mille et quin [gen] tarum), even if litigation be pending about them, vicar's portions etc., being reserved as before. Ad ca libenter intendimus. (Without the usual terminal subscription.) [See Cal. Lett. V, p. 247, and below, Reg. Lat. CCLIX, f. 95d.] |