Lateran Regesta 285: 1429 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 8, 1427-1447. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1909.

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'Lateran Regesta 285: 1429', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 8, 1427-1447, ed. J A Twemlow( London, 1909), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol8/pp76-82 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta, Vol. CCLXXXV (fn. 1)

12 Martin V

De Beneficiis Vacantibus



1429. 7 Kal. Nov. Prope SS. Apostoli, (fn. 2) Rome. (f. 76.)	To the dean and John Ogubuin and Donald Ocathan, canons, of Raphoe. Mandate to collate and assign to Gofredus Macdalaidh sive Macdeganaith, priest, of the diocese of Raphoe, who lately received 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, the rectory of Congbail in the said diocese, value not exceeding 8 marks. so long void by the death of John Macgillabridy that its collation has lapsed to the apostolic see, although Roger Macungail, priest, of the said diocese, who is to be summoned and removed, has unduly detained possession for more than two years after the said lapse, without any papal provision; whether it became void as stated, or by the resignation of Nicholas Megmeallgkssa (sic), or otherwise, and notwithstanding that Gofredus is litigating in the apostolic palace about the rectory of Tulachfirgna in the said diocese, value not exceeding 6 marks, of which he is in possession, and with which he is hereby dispensed to hold that of Conghail (sic) for ten years. Vite etc. (Pe. xvi. Secundo Non. Februarii Anno Tertiodecimo de Casatiis.) [See Cal.Lett. VII, p. 403, and above, p. 49.]

De Exhibitis



15 Kal. Sept. Ferentino. (f. 157.)	To the bishop of Adria, the dean of Waterford and the precentor of Lismore. Mandate as below. On the voidance of the deanery of Ossory, a major dignity, by the death of John Ocuyrke, the pope made provision thereof, reserved under his general reservation of major dignities in cathedral churches, to Nicholas Haket, treasurer of Cashel [see Cal. Lett., p. 164]. Subsequently, as the petition of the said Nicholas contained, he took possession of the deanery, but without the free exercise of its cure and the taking of its fruits, and, fearing and wishing to avoid the penalties contained in certain royal statutes, which forbid anyone to obtain from the apostolic see provision of benefices, under pain of imprisonment and loss of all goods and other penalties, he consented to an election made in his favour by the chapter (the deanery being alleged to be void by the free resignation to [the late] Denis, then bishop of Ossory, of Walter Stantoun, who had been elected by the chapter, on voidance by the said death, after and against the said general reservation) and had it confirmed by the said bishop, under pretext of which election and confirmation he obtained peaceable possession, publicly recognizing that he had obtained the deanery in virtue thereof and not by papal provision, so that he doubts whether in consequence the deanery be not still void. The pope therefore orders the above three to collate and assign to Nicholas, who says that he is of noble race and has studied canon and civil law for very many years in the university of Oxford, the said deanery, with cure and elective, value not exceeding 40 marks, whether it became void in the way stated or in any other way, or be still void by the death of Thomas Waffyrtoun, or by the resignation of Robert Poer or any other, etc.; notwithstanding that Nicholas—whom the pope lately dispensed to hold the treasurership of Cashel, a non-major nonelective dignity with cure, which he had been bound to resign upon obtaining possession of the deanery, for seven years therewith or with any other incompatible benefice, which period, after Nicholas had obtained the deanery in virtue of the first-named letters and had been despoiled of the treasurership, the pope prolonged before its expiry by ten years more, at the same time dispensing him to resign during the said ten years both deanery and treasurership, simply or for exchange, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices—holds a canonry of Lismore and the prebend of Kyltagayn and Domachmore, and that the pope lately granted him provision of a canonry of Dublin and the prebend of Glynmethan, value altogether not exceeding 80 marks. Vite etc. (An. xxviii. Kal. Aprilis Anno Terciodecimo. de Adria.)

De Regularibus



2 Non. Nov. Prope SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 199d.)	To the bishop of Ely. Mandate as below. Lately, upon its being set forth to the pope by the visitor and reformer and abbots of the Premonstratensian monasteries in England that by immemorial custom there had been diversity in the habit worn, some wearing surplices or rochets under their cappe, others not, the pope, at the petition of the said visitor and reformer [and] abbots, ordered the bishop of Rochester to remedy the said diversity and to ordain that all abbots, provosts, priors, deans and canons of the said monasteries and order, present and future, should be bound to wear within and without their monasteries, after the manner of the canons regular of St. Augustine, under whose rule live the said abbots etc., linen rochets or surplices under their cappe, and might also wear hoods and caps (quodque eciam capiciis et amictibus atque birretis seu pilleis integris uti possent), preserving, however, the wonted colour of their habit. The recent petition of Henry, abbot of Newhous, the other of (alterius ex …) the said (sic) visitors and reformers, and of the greater part of the said abbots etc. contained that John, bishop of Rochester, proceeding at the instance of John, abbot of Begham in the diocese of Chichester, one of (unius ex …) the said visitors and reformers, to the execution of the said letters, without summoning the said Henry, abbot and visitor and reformer, nor the greater part of the said abbots etc., ordained that all abbots etc. of the order in England might wear and should be bound to wear etc. as above. At the said petition (adding that the said Henry, abbot and visitor and reformer, and the greater part of the said abbots etc. did not consent to the impetration of the pope's said letters, but on the contrary opposed it, and moreover, as soon as they heard of bishop John's ordinances, appealed to the apostolic see; and asserting that the said ordinances tend to the subversion of the primeval institution of the order, and that the said change from the primeval habit is the cause of very grave scandal, and that the devotion of the people is so much turned away from the order that the founders of the monasteries threaten that, if the said abbots, etc. abandon their primeval habit, they will take away their possessions) the pope orders the above bishops to summon the said visitors and reformers and abbots etc., and if he find the facts to be as stated, to annul the pope's own letters and the letters and ordinances of the said bishop, and to restore the said visitors and reformers, abbots etc. to the state in which they were before they emanated. Inter cetera quibus.

De Diversis Formis



2 Id. Aug. Ferentino. (f. 249.)	To the bishop of Leighlin. Mandate to dispense Gerald Kaemanach and Saub, daughter of Ybraeyn, of the dioceses of Leighlin and Dublin, who lately committed fornication with one another more than once and begat offspring, knowing that they were related in the third and third degrees of kindred and the third and third and fourth degrees of affinity, and in divers fourth and fourth degrees of kindred and affinity, after imposing a penance for incest, to marry, decreeing past and future offspring legitimate. Oblate nobis.
15 Kal. Sept. Ferentino. (f. 249d.)	To Thomas Benyngworth, clerk, of the diocese of York, D.C.L. Dispensation to him—who lately received papal dispensation as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman (i) to be promoted etc. as above f. 76, (ii) to hold any mutually compatible benefices of any number and kind, with or without cure, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased—to hold for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign them, as above. Litterarum etc. [See below, Reg. CCLXXXVI, f. 185d.]
2 Non. Sept. Ferentino. (f. 250d.)	To John Say, rector of Stanford in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him, who is of a great noble race, to hold for life with Stanford, value not exceeding 20l., any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Nobilitas generis, vite etc.
12 Kal. Nov. Prope SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 254.)	To Simon, elect of Chichester. Faculty for him, to whom the pope has made provision of the said see, to be consecrated by any catholic bishop assisted by two or three others. The consecrator is to receive and send to the pope Simon's oath of fealty as usual; without prejudice to the archbishop of Canterbury.Cum nos pridem.
Non. Oct. Prope SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 256d.)	To all etc. Relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year and that of 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 repair and conservation of the chancel of the parish church of St. Mary, Bradley Magna, in the diocese of Norwich. Dum precelsa.
8 Id. Nov. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 259.)	To John [son] of Richard Aldelsay, clerk, of the diocese of London. Dispensation to him, who is in or about his twentieth year and is studying civil law, after he has attained his twentysecond year to hold any benefice with cure. Vite etc.
Ibid. (f. 259d.)	To William Witeling, rector of Porlond in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him, who is of a great and noble race, to hold for life with Porlond, value not exceeding 20l., one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible or, if he resign Porlond, two other benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Nobilitas etc.
7 Id. June. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 263.)	To Thomas Tulach, archdeacon of Caithness. Dispensation to him—who is a priest and of a great noble race by both parents, and holds the said archdeaconry, which is a non-major dignity with cure, and is litigating in the apostolic palace about a canonry and prebend of Moray, of which he is not in possession, total value not exceeding 30l. sterling—to hold for life the said archdeaconry, even if it be elective, and therewith one other incompatible benefice, or, if he resign the archdeaconry, to hold for life two other benefices incompatible with one another, even if one or both have cure etc., and to resign both, simply or for exchange. Nobilitas etc.
3 Kal. Aug. Ferentino. (f. 267d.)	To Master John Ixworth, archdeacon of Worcester, D.C.L., papal referendary. Prolongation as below. The pope lately [Cal. Lett. VII, p. 218] granted him indult to take for life the fruits etc. of his benefices whilst residing in one of them, and subsequently [ibid., p. 443] granted him indult to do so for three years whilst residing in an honest place, and to depute during the said three years in his said benefices one or more coadjutors of his race or household. At the petition of the said John, who is an octogenarian, the pope hereby prolongs by other three the said period of three years, which is about to expire. Grata deuocionis obsequia.
10 Kal. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 286d.)	To Walter Blaket, rector of Wappingberi in the diocese of Lichfield, M.A. Dispensation to him, who is of a great noble race, to hold together for life the said church, value not exceeding 24 marks, and any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both, simply or for exchange.Nobilitas generis, litterarum etc.
10 Kal. July. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 292.)	To Michael Ouchate (sic), dean of Dunblane. Dispensation, on account of his illegitimacy as the son of a married man and an unmarried woman, to exercise the administration etc. of the see of Dunblane, of which the pope intends this day to make him provision. Diuina superueniens largitas.
2 Id. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 292d.)	To John Norton, rector of Colerne in the diocese of Salisbury, doctor of canon law. Prolongation as below. The pope lately dispensed him to hold for seven years with Colerne any benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased, after which he obtained the parish church of Misbery and, resigning it, that of St. Mary in the town of Calais (in villa Calisie) in the dioceses of Lincoln and Térouane (Morinen.), holding together at present Colerne and St. Mary's, as well as a canonry and prebend of Warwyke in the diocese of Lichfield, value not exceeding 28, 50 and 3 marks respectively. The said seven years, about to expire, the pope hereby prolongs by two. Litterarum etc.
8 Id. Nov. PropeSS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 293.)	To the bishop of Ely. Faculty to absolve from the yoke of serfdom and to manumit Reginald Heruy, layman, born in the town of Dodyngton, which belongs to the church and episcopal mensa of Ely, upon his making compensation to the said bishop, church and mensa. Meruit tue deuocionis integritas.
8 Id. Nov. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 299.)	To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate, at the petition of John Kupping and Margery Lomnoure, of the diocese of Norwich, containing that formerly they committed fornication with one another and exchanged a promise that, when Margery's husband died, they would marry, and that after the said husband's death (of which they were both innocent) they contracted marriage per verba legitime de presenti and consummated it—to absolve them from the crime of adultery, enjoining a salutary penance and, after temporary separation, to dispense them to remain in the said marriage, decreeing past offspring, if any, and future offspring legitimate. Oblate nobis.
Kal. Nov. Prope SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 301d.)	To Thomas, bishop of Hereford. Indult-he having recently come to Rome to visit the shrines of the Apostles and the pope's person, and fearing that he will not be able, on account of the distance and the perils of the roads between Rome and his diocese, to carry out the visitation of his diocese in the coming year, which is incumbent on him according to the custom of the church of Hereford—to do so by deputy, and to receive the procurations in ready money. Deuocionis tue probata sinceritas.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Worcester, the abbot of Gloucester and the prior of Worcester. Deuocionis venerabilis fratris.
6 Kal. Oct. Genazzano. (f. 303.)	To Robert Shertere, rector of Hangelton in the diocese of Chichester. Dispensation to hold with the said church, value not exceeding 10 marks, the chantry of the church of St. Mary situate within the bounds of the parish church of Panyng in the said diocese, of the patronage of laymen, whose consent is to be given, and without cure, value not exceeding 3½ marks, whose foundation provides that its holder shall reside continuously, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc.
4 Kal. Nov. PropeSS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 304d.)	To the bishops of Clonfert and Emly, and the archdeacon of Emly. Mandate, at the recent petition of Cornelius Maccommara, treasurer of Killaloe, who is of a noble race of dukes—containing that a district of lands called the comorbanship (Comierbiatus) of St. Cronanus de Tomegreyne in the diocese of Killaloe, wont to be held from the church of Killaloe in fee, sometimes by laymen, sometimes by ecclesiastics, under a yearly cess to the bishop, has, after the death of Thomas Ograda, layman, of the said diocese, who held it in fee from the said church, been lawfully granted to no one, but that Donatus Ograda, Benedictine monk professed of St. Mary's, Vienna, in the diocese of Passau, who has abandoned his habit and order and returned to the world, engaging in secular affairs, has unduly detained possession of the said district or comorbanship for a number of years, and has dilapidated and pledged or otherwise alienated the greater part of the said lands, and has not paid the said cess, to the injury of the bishops for the time being and of the present bishop—to summon the present bishop and the said Donatus and others concerned, and if Cornelius will accuse Donatus before them, to inform themselves, and if they find the facts to be as stated, to collate and assign the said district or comorbanship, value not exceeding 24 marks a year, to Cornelius, to be held by him under the customary yearly cess to the bishop, the said Donatus being removed. Sincere deuocionis affectus.
3 Non. June. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 310d	To John, bishop of Limerick. Grant as below. Lately, on the church of Limerick becoming void at the apostolic see by the resignation, made into the hands of the pope, of Cornelius, bishop [in ecclesia universali], formerly of Limerick, by his proctor, John Ogubuyn, rector of Clonmane in the diocese of Derry, who was substituted by the above bishop John, the pope made provision of the see to bishop John. At his recent petition (containing that in virtue of the said provision he obtained possession of the administration and had himself consecrated, but that some assert that the said church became and is void otherwise than in the way stated, and that he therefore doubts whether the provision holds good) the pope grants that the provision shall hold good from the date of these presents, even if the said church be void by the said resignation or a similar resignation made to the pope, even if made by bishop John or in his name, or be void by the death of bishop Peter, or in any other way. Ad ea ex apostolice.
3 Kal. Aug. Ferentino. (f. 312.)	To Simon Dalling, rector of Halywell in the diocese of Lincoln, I.U.B. Grant as below. The pope lately dispensed him to hold for three years with the parish church of All Saints, Warcham, in the diocese of Norwich, value not exceeding 20 marks, any benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, after and in virtue of which he obtained and held with All Saints the parish church of Broghton in the said diocese. Subsequently the pope, Simon asserting that he held no other benefices, prolonged the said three years, which were about to expire, by other five, dispensing him to resign the said two churches meanwhile, simply or for exchange, once only. At his recent petition, containing that, having resigned Broghton, value not exceeding 20 [cf. Cal. Lett. VII, p. 278] marks, he obtained the above church of Halywell, of like value, and is holding it with Warcham in virtue of the said dispensation, and that the end of the said five years is at hand, the pope grants to him, who has undergone great expense in the repair of the said churches and their houses, a prolongation of other three years, with further grant that within that period he may resign the said churches, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases.Litterarum etc. Pe. xxv. Quarto Id. Januarii Anno Tertiodecimo. de Casatiis.) [See also Cal. Lett. VII, p. 203.]
2 Id. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 315d.)	To John Snell, archdeacon of London. Dispensation to him—who is almoner of Henry, king of England, and (ut, rectius et) holds the said archdeaconry, a non-major non-elective dignity, value not exceeding 50 marks, and the prebend of Wildelonde in London and a prebend in the free chapel royal in Wyndesor, value together not exceeding 10l.—to hold for seven years any other benefice with cure or incompatible with the said archdeaconry, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc.
Non. Oct. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 316.)	To Richard Aldenham, perpetual vicar of Okham in the diocese of Lincoln, M.A. Dispensation to him, who is also a scholar in theology, to hold for five years with the said vicarage, value not exceeding 40l., any other benefice etc. as in the preceding, mutatis mutandis. Litterarum etc.