Vatican Regesta 649: 1484 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1955.

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'Vatican Regesta 649: 1484', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, ed. J A Twemlow( London, 1955), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp191-192 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCXLIX.

Bullarum Communium Lib. XCIX. Tom. CIV.

13 Sixtus IV.



1484. 6 Kal. Aug. (27 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 61v.)	Exemption from Cluny of Lenton priory, as below. The recent petition of Richard Dene, prior of the priory of SS. Mary and Michael the Archangel, Great Malvern, O.S.B., in the diocese of Worcester, and administrator of the Cluniac monastery, governed by a prior, of Holy Trinity, Lenton, in the diocese of York, and a canon of the same monastery, contained (fn. 1) that the buildings and possessions of the said monastery are ruinous, that its goods etc. are dilapidated and alienated through the negligence of its priors, and that almost a third of them have got into the hands of laymen, by whom they are being daily diminished; that from its original foundation it has been subject to the monastery of Cluny, the abbot of which has been wont to have the institution, correction and superiority (fn. 2) over its prior and convent etc., but that on account of the distance and the perils by land and sea the abbot of Cluny has not exercised the visitation from time immemorial. At the petition, therefore, of Richard, king of England (to whom, as to the king for the time being, belongs by papal privilege the collation etc. of the priorship of the said monastery, when void, and the appointment of the administrator thereof), and of the said Richard Dene and the convent, the pope hereby exempts in perpetuity the said monastery of Holy Trinity, and the said Richard, and the prior, administrator or commendatory for the time being, and the convent etc., present and future, from all jurisdiction, visitation, correction, punishment, etc. of the abbot of Cluny and his vicars etc., takes it and them under the protection of St. Peter and the apostolic see and his own, and decrees that it and they are immediately subject to him and the said see, etc. At each voidance of the priorship, or cession of the said administration or commenda, the papal collector in England, or in his absence the sub-collector, shall admit the same; the convent shall have free election of the prior, subject to the king's consent; the prior so elected shall be deemed to be the true prior, without requiring confirmation by the apostolic see; and in taken of the said exemption and subjection the prior or the administrator or commendatory for the time being shall pay to the said collector one mark of pure gold. The pope, furthermore, at the petition of the said king, hereby grants the said priory of Holy Trinity, which is conventual, even if it be elective and have cure, to the said Richard Dene, to be held by him in commendam with that of SS. Mary and Michael the Archangel. He furthermore orders the archbishop of York and the bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln to induct Richard, after receiving from him the usual oath of fealty, according to the form enclosed in the pope's bull, etc., and grants that the prior, administrator or commendatory of Holy Trinity may, without the consent of the abbot of Cluny or any other, admit the monks of the said monastery to their profession, etc. Ad perp. rei mem. Quamvis orbis ecclesie et monasteria. (In the margin: Jul.) [10¾ pp.]