Vatican Regesta 664: 1475-1476 | 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 664: 1475-1476', 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/pp220-221 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCLXIV.

Bullarum Diversarum Tom. V.

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1475. Prid. Non. Sep. (4 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 82v.)	To the bishops of Salisbury, Coventry and Lincoln. Mandate to dispense Edward Hastyngis, layman, of the diocese of Lincoln, and Mary Hungerforth, puella, of the diocese of Salisbury, who are in their ninth and seventh years of age, respectively, are both of noble birth, and are related in the third and third degrees of kindred, to contract espousals, notwithstanding the said impediment and Mary's defect of age, and, after they reach the lawful age, to contract marriage. Oblate nobis. (In the margin: Sep.) [1⅓ pp.]

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6 Id. June. (8 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 378v.)	To Alexander Rate, archdeacon of Aberdeen, (fn. 1) an acolyte and member of the household of the pope. Indult for him, who is also a continual commensal of the pope, to have a portable altar, and to celebrate or hear mass and other divine offices celebrated thereon, even before daybreak. Sincere devotionis. (Gratis de mandato sanctissimi domini nostri pape. In the margin: Oct.) [1 p.]

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1475[–6]. Non. Jan. (5 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 379r.)	To the same. (fn. 2) Grant to him (who is also a continual commensal of the pope, and has to go to divers parts of the world on his own business, and is of noble birth) that whenever he absents himself from the pope's court, even on his own business, he shall not be deemed to have ceased to be a member of the pope's household, (fn. 3) but that even as long as he is absent he shall remain a continual commensal member thereof, (fn. 4) and shall, as regards the obtaining of any benefices granted to him by the pope under letters expectative, continue to enjoy all the rights of precedence etc., which are enjoyed by the other continual commensal members of the pope's household; with letters of safe-conduct hereby for himself and a retinue of four. Cum contingere possit. (Gratis etc., as above. In the margin: Oct.) [2 pp.]

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1475. 7 Id. Nov. (7 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 444v.)	To William Turnbul, perpetual vicar of Cadar in the diocese of Glasgow, M.A. Dispensation for him, who is of noble birth, to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage any two other benefices, or without it any three other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if major or principal dignities, etc., and to resign or exchange them, etc.; provided that not more than two of them be parish churches or perpetual vicarages. Nobilitas generis, litterarum, etc. [1½ pp.]