Lateran Regesta 798: 1479 | 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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'Lateran Regesta 798: 1479', 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/pp671-679 [accessed 6 November 2024].

Lateran Regesta, Vol. DCCXCVIII. (fn. 1)

8 Sixtus IV.

De Vacantibus.



1479. 7 Kal. July. (25 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 4r.)	To James Cantwel, treasurer of Ossory. Collation and provision to him (who was lately dispensed by papal authority, after he had been made a clerk, to receive and retain for life, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of a bishop and an unmarried woman, both nobles, any mutually compatible benefices with and without cure, not being major or principal dignities, and to resign them, etc.) of the treasurership of Ossory, a nonmajor dignity, value 12 marks sterling, (even if it be elective and have cure), void at the apostolic see, and therefore ipso facto reserved to the pope, by the resignation to the pope of Richard de Burgo alias Okahayn. Vite ac morum.
	Concurrent mandate to the priors of St. John the Evangelist's by Kilkenny (iuxta Kelkenyam) and St. Mary's Kells (de Kellys), in the diocese of Ossory, and the precentor of Cashel. Hodie dilecto filio Jacobo Cantwel. (At the end: Jo. viiij. vii. Pridie Idus Julii anno octaro. Gerona.) [3¼ pp. See the next following.]
1478[–9]. 8 Id. Feb. (6 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 69v.)	To James Cantwel, clerk, of the diocese of Lismore. Reservation, etc., as below. His recent petition contained that after the pope had dispensed him (who alleged that he had been made a clerk, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of a bishop and an unmarried woman, both nobles, and that the pope had ordered provision to be made to him of the treasurership of Cashel, a non-major dignity with cure, then void in a certain way), (i) to be promoted to all, even holy orders, and receive and retain the said treasurership, if he obtained it in virtue of the said mandate of provision, (ii) to receive and retain for life the treasurership of Lismore, a non-major dignity with cure (if he obtained it in virtue of another mandate to make him provision thereof), or without one of them (fn. 2) any other benefice, or without both of them any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches, etc., and therewith any benefices with or without cure compatible with one another and with the aforesaid, not being major or principal dignities, and to resign them, etc., he, in virtue of the said dispensations, obtained first the treasurership of Cashel and then that of Lismore, and, resigning the latter, obtained by collation of the ordinary the chancellorship of Cashel, a non-major dignity, and has de facto detained it with the said treasurership of Cashel under the same roof (fn. 3) for about six months. The said treasurership of Cashel being therefore void by his obtaining the said chancellorship, and the chancellorship being void by Execrabilis, the pope, hereby rehabilitating him (on condition that he resign them both), reserves to his gift, for collation to him, the said archdeaconry of Cashel, a non-major dignity, value 30 marks sterling, about to come void by the pope's promotion of John, [bishop] elect of Ossory, to that church, and by the consecration which is to be conferred on him. Sedes apostolica pia mater.
	Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Patras, the abbot of Holy Cross de Huctorlanan in the diocese of Cashel, and the treasurer of Ossory. Hodie etc. (fn. 4) (At the end: N. viii. vii. Quinto Kal. Junii anno ottauo. Garilliati.) [5 pp. See the preceding, and above, pp. 668 and 670.]
1479. 16 Kal. July. (16 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 80v.)	To the archdeacon of Annaghdown (Enachdunen.). Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Walter Blacke, a canon of Annaghdown, contained that after the perpetual vicarage of St. Nicholas in the town of Galway (ville Galuie), in the diocese of Annaghdown, had been so long void that there was no certain knowledge of the way of its voidance, and that its collation had lapsed to the apostolic see, and after Donatus, archbishop of Tuam, had declared that no right in or to it belonged to Richard de Burgo, a canon of Annaghdown (who had detained it for between two and three years, and was still detaining it, under pretext of a collation made to him by papal authority by force of surreptitious letters, without any other title or right), and that it was void, the said Walter, in virtue of certain letters expectative (by which the present pope had ordered provision to be made to him of one or two benefices, even if one had cure, etc., in the gift of the archbishop and the dean etc. and chapter of Tuam, and of the chapter of the church of Annaghdown, united to that of Tuam, etc.), accepted and had provision made to him of the said vicarage, obtained possession in virtue thereof, and has held it for between two and three years. The said petition adding that he doubts whether the said acceptance and provision hold good, and the said vicarage being still void as above, although, as the said Walter alleges, the said Richard has molested him in regard to the said possession, and, without exhibiting his right to the said archbishop, as they were both required to do, alleging that the archbishop was suspect to him, has again taken possession of the said vicarage, without any other title or right, and has detained it for some months, but less than a year, the pope hereby orders the above archdeacon to summon the said Richard and others concerned, and if he find that the said vicarage is void in any way, to collate and assign it, value 8 marks sterling, to the said Walter, the said Richard being removed. Dignum etc. (At the end: N. xii. Sexto Kal. Julii pontificatus nostri anno ottauo. (fn. 5)Garilliati.) [3 pp.]
13 Kal. July. (19 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 88r.)	To the abbot of Holy Cross de Huctorlanon in the diocese of Cashel. Mandate to collate and assign to Maurice [no surname], (fn. 6) priest, of the diocese of Lismore, a canonry of Cashel and the prebend called the prebend of Raygola (so called because it was erected by authority of the ordinary from the parish church of Raygola in the diocese of Cashel), so long void that the collation of the said canonry and prebend, value 8 marks sterling, has lapsed to the apostolic see; whether they be void by the resignation of Dermit Ilamfhyd, priest, of the diocese of Cashel, who alleges that provision of them had been made to him, or be void in any other way. Dignum etc. (At the end: N. xvi. Exhibita. (fn. 7)Septimo Kal. Augusti anno ottauo. Garilliati.) [2²/3 pp.]
17 Kal. Aug. (16 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 92v.)	To the priors of Achros and Cros, in the diocese of Killala (Aladen.), and the official of Killala. Mandate, as below. The pope has been informed by Nicholas Omacnay, priest, of the diocese of Killala, that Paul II ordered provision to be made to John Odonnogayn, priest, of the said diocese, of the perpetual vicarage of Killglassi in the said diocese, and that the said John made a bargain with the executor of the said pope's letters, that if he made him provision he would give him certain moveable goods; that after the said goods had been delivered, the said John got de facto collation and provision made to him by the said executor, thereby incurring simony and sentence of excommunication, etc., therefor; that, being under the said sentence, etc., he accepted in virtue of letters of the same pope a canonry of Killala and the prebend of Serin [sic] therein, and got provision made to him thereof; that, taking possession of the said vicarage and canonry and prebend, he detained and still detains them; and that he has celebrated masses and other divine offices, even in contempt of the Keys, thereby incurring irregularity. The said collations and provisions being therefore without force, the pope hereby orders the above three, if the said Nicholas will accuse the said John before them, to summon the latter, and if they find the foregoing to be true, to decree and declare the said collations and provisions to have been and to be without force, and in that event to collate and assign the said vicarage and canonry and prebend, value altogether 10 marks sterling, to the said Nicholas, the said John being removed. Vite etc. (At the end: Jo. xvi. Octauo Idus Augusti anno octauo. Gerona.) [3½ pp. See Cal. Papal Lett., Vol. XII, p. 736.]
9 Kal. June. (24 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 116v.)	To the dean of Annaghdown (Enachdunen.), and Odo Ocallanayn and Donatus Okynnalud, canons of the same. Mandate to collate and assign to John Joy, a canon of Annaghdown, the perpetual vicarage of Kylcuna in the diocese of Annaghdown, and the perpetual benefice without cure (simplex) called the rectory, of lay patronage, in the same church, value together 5 marks sterling, so long void that their collation has lapsed to the apostolic see, although Alanus Maghyad and Magonius Oconwlain, priests, have respectively detained the said vicarage for about seventeen years and the said benefice for about eight years, both of them without any title; the said Alanus and Magonius being summoned and removed. Vite etc. (At the end: A. xx. Sexto Idus Junii anno octauo. de Petra.) [2²/3 pp.]
4 Id. May. (12 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 132r.)	To Christopher Lyton, rector of Asshe in the diocese of Rochester. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church any one other benefice, or if he resign the said church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two parish churches, etc., and to resign them, etc. Vite etc. [1½ pp.]
Ibid.	To Thomas Sparke, perpetual vicar of St. Peter the Apostle's, West Rudham, in the diocese of Norwich. The like, mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [1½ pp.]
1478. Prid. Non. Oct. (6 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 143r.)	To Robert Aylesbury alias Blount, a monk of the church of Worcester, O.S.B. Dispensation to him, a priest, to receive and retain any benefice with or without cure wont to be held by secular clerks, even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, etc. Religionis zelus, vite etc. [1 p. +]
1479. 11 Kal. June. (22 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 180v.)	To Donatus Oscyn, perpetual vicar of Anachcrochayn alias Clonfertha in the diocese of Cloyne (Clonen.). Grant, as below. It was set forth by him to Paul II that on the voidance of the above vicarage by the death of Donald Oykerwil extraR. c., William Rose, archdeacon of Cloyne, coadjutor by papal authority to Jordan, bishop of Cloyne, in virtue of power which he alleged that he had from the apostolic see, made collation and provision of the said vicarage to the said Donatus, in virtue of which he obtained possession and had held it about three years, and was still holding it, and that he doubted whether the said collation and provision held good. The said pope therefore ordered collation and provision to be made to him of the said vicarage, his letters stating that its value did not exceed 8 marks sterling, in virtue of which letters, as the recent petition of the said Donatus contained, he had collation and provision made to him, and in virtue thereof obtained possession, and still holds it. The said petition adding that inasmuch as the value of the said vicarage is more than was stated in the said letters, he fears lest they may be held to be surreptitious. the pope hereby grants that they and the said collation and provision and their consequences shall hold good from the date of these presents, as if it had been stated in the said letters that the value of the said vicarage did not exceed 12 marks sterling. Vite etc. (At the end: N. x. Quarto Kal. Junii anno ottauo. Garilliati.) [1½ pp. See Cal. Papal Lett. Vol. XII, pp. 654, 664, and below, p. 699.]
8 Kal. June. (24 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 181v.)	To John Rumpayn, rector of Cory Malet in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation to receive and retain for life as above, f. 132r. Vite etc. [2 pp.]
Prid. Non. May. (6 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 191v.)	To Thomas Purdi, rector of the second (alterius) portion of the parish church of Catfeld, wont to be governed by two rectors, in the diocese of Norwich. The like mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [2 pp. +]
16 Kal. May. (16 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 193v.)	To James Johnson, a canon of St. Mary's, West Decham [sic], (fn. 8) O. Praem., in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice etc. as above, f. 143r. Religionis etc. [1⅓ pp.]
Ibid. (f. 194r.)	To Robert Selby, a monk of St. Mary's Meux (de Melsa), O. Cist., in the diocese of York. The like, also for life. Religionis etc. [1¼ pp.]
6 Non. May. (2 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 198r.)	To John Thorold, a canon of the priory of St. Gregory without the walls of Canterbury, O.S.A. The like, also for life. Religionis, etc. [1¼ pp.]
16 Kal. June. (17 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 199v.)	To Richard Fenerother, rector of Sutton Magna in the diocese of London. Dispensation to receive and retain for life, as above, f. 132r. Vite etc. [2⅓ pp.]
3 Id. May. (13 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 201r.)	To Thomas Altetyr, a monk of St. Mary's, Bruern (de Bruera), O. Cist., in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice etc., as above, f. 143r. Religionis etc. [1¼ pp.]
1479. 6 Kal. June. (27 May). St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 208r.)	To Richard Bele, layman, of London. Grant and indult to him (who, after he had obtained a grant of the office of notary public by papal and imperial authority, contracted marriage per verba legitime de presenti with two women, successively, or with one woman, a widow, and consummated it (fn. 9) ), to exercise the said office for life in any courts and causes, etc., as if he had contracted marriage with one woman, a virgin. (fn. 10)Sincere deuotionis. [1 p.]
13 Kal. July. (19 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 214v.)	To Thomas Nauille, rector of Birton’ in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church (fn. 11) any one other benefice etc., as above, f. 132r. Vite etc. [2 pp.]
Ibid. (f. 216r.)	To Richard Bromfeld, perpetual vicar of Wrixham in the diocese of St. Asaph. The like. Vite etc. [2 pp.]
4 Kal. July. (28 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 220r.)	To the bishops of Norwich and Rochester. (fn. 12) Mandate, as below. The recent petition of John Goldsmyth, layman, and Joan Brygeman his wife. of the diocese of Norwich, contained that although they contracted marriage per verba legitime de presenti, Robert Giles, layman, of the said diocese, falsely alleging that Joan had previously contracted marriage per similia verba with him, brought her before John Pike, commissary or dean of the jurisdiction of the abbot of the monastery of St. Edmund, Bury, in the said diocese, to which jurisdiction, as he said, belonged the cognizance of such causes between persons of the district of the jurisdiction of the said monastery, in which district are the said parties (fn. 13); that the said John appeared for his own interest, and requested the said Joan to be adjudged to him as his wife by the said commissary; that after the latter had proceeded to a number of acts, Simon Burgen’, having no jurisdiction, etc. in the cause, at least lawful, proceeding therein, promulgated an unjust definitive sentence by which he adjudged the said Joan to the said Robert as his wife, and, acting as commissary or dean of the said jurisdiction, excommunicated the said John and Joan, wherefore they have appealed to the apostolic see, and have petitioned the pope to order them to be conditionally absolved from the said sentence, and to commit the cause of the appeal, etc., and that of the principal matter to some prelates in those parts. The pope, therefore. hereby orders the above two bishops to summon the said Robert and others concerned, grant the said John and Joan conditional absolution from the said sentence, and, for the rest, hear both sides, taking cognizance also of the principal matter, and decide what is canonical, without appeal, causing their decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure. Humilibus etc. [1⁴/5 pp.]
17 Kal. May. (15 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 241v.)	To Thomas Skyllyng, rector of Shorwell in the diocese of Winchester, bachelor of decrees. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 132r. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. [1½ pp. +]
5 Non. May. (3 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 246r.)	To Robert Hare, rector of Kyrkebi Caine in the diocese of Norwich. The like. Vite etc. [1½ pp.]
17 Kal. May. (15 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 271r.)	To the bishop and the treasurer of Ardfert, and Dermit Otruna (?), a canon of the same. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Donald Ysuliba[y]n, clerk, of the diocese of Ardfert, contained that although the chapel of Akamory in the said diocese, which is sixty miles distant from the monastery of Molana (Insulla [sic] de Malannha), O.S.A., in the diocese of Lismore, to which it belongs, is served sometimes by canons of the said monastery, and sometimes by secular clerks, appointed at the pleasure of the abbot, nevertheless Donald Osulibayn, a canon of the said monastery, has for several years held possession of the said chapel and its fruits etc., against the will of Leonard, the present abbot, turning the said fruits to his own damnable uses and detaining possession of the said chapel, publicly keeping a concubine, and seldom or never celebrating masses and other divine offices. At the said petition (adding that if the said fruits etc. were granted to the said Donald, clerk, for his lifetime only, he would do his best to expel the said occupier, and restore the said chapel and its rights etc. to the said monastery, and cause masses and other divine offices to be celebrated therein), the pope hereby orders the above three to summon the said canon Donald, and, if the abbot and convent consent, to remove him, and grant the said fruits etc. to the said Donald, clerk, for life. Admonet nos. [2 pp.]
Id. May. (15 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 291r.)	To John Bykley a canon of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury (ecclesie sancti Cedde Salopie), in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Indult to take for life the fruits etc. of his canonry and prebend of St. Chad's, and of any others of his benefices, even if parish churches, etc., the daily distributions alone excepted, whilst residing in the Roman court or one of his benefices, or engaged in the study of letters at an university, and not to be bound meanwhile to reside. Vite etc. [1⁴/5 pp.]
8 Kal. June. (25 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 297r.)	To Walter Hodgis, rector of North Stonham in the diocese of Winchester, bachelor of laws. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 132r. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. [1½ pp.]
1479. 3 Id. May. (13 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 298r.)	To Robert Nayssh, a canon of the monastery of Begham, O. Praem., in the diocese of Chichester. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice, etc., as above, f. 143r. Religionis etc. [1 p.—]
— (f. 304r.)	To Christopher Twynyho of Kayforde, clerk, of the diocese of Bath and Wells. [Dispensation? ] to him, who is of noble birth, and is in his nineteenth year, and who is actually studying in the university of Oxford … (‘Nobilitas generis vite ac morum honestas nos inducunt ut te specialibus fauoribus et gratiis prosequamur. Hinc est quod nos volentes te qui ut asseris de nobili genere procreatus et… in uniuersitate studii Oxoniensis actu studens existis, premissorum meritorum tuorum intuitu fauore prosequi gratioso, teque a quibusuis excommunicationis suspensionis et interdicti.’ Unfinished and cancelled.)
1479. 7 Id. June. (7 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 306r.)	Confirmation, etc., as below. It was recently set forth to the pope on behalf of Edward, king of England, that in the erection, foundation and endowment of the church called the free chapel royal or college founded to the praise and honour of God, the glorious Virgin Mary, and SS. Stephen the Protomartyr and King Edward the Confessor, in the royal palace of Westminster in the diocese of London, divers statutes and ordinances were made concerning the dean, canons, vicars, clerks, choristers, etc. by the then bishop of Winchester, by authority of Pope Clement VI [see Cal. Papal Lett., Vol. III, p. 357]; that then and thereafter divers possessions were granted, etc. by the kings of England and other faithful to the said church; and that by the then bishop of Rochester, chancellor of England, divers declarations were made of the said statutes, by authority of pope Pius II. The pope has moreover learned that in the said statutes etc. it is provided that the dean may be absent from the said church for 60 days in the year, continuously or at intervals, at his choice, without incurring perjury etc. At the said petition, therefore, the pope hereby confirms all statutes, declarations, grants etc. and privileges granted by kings or princes or other faithful to the said dean and canons etc. and to the said church. Hefurther makes statute and ordinance that the said dean may be absent 120 days in the year, and each canon 60 days, continuously or at intervals, at their choice, for purpose of pilgrimage, etc. (after keeping a continuous residence by them of 21 days (fn. 14) ), and that they shall be considered as being present as far as regards the daily distributions (which do not exceed 12d. a day for the said dean and canons), etc., provided that they be not absent without lawful cause on double and greater feasts and other days enumerated in the said statutes on which the dean has to perform divine service; and that the deanery, canonries and prebends etc. shall be reputed to be compatible benefices, and can be held with other benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, without papal dispensation. The pope furthermore decrees that violators etc. of the said confirmation etc. and statute and ordinance shall incur sentence of the greater excommunication, unless they desist within fifteen days from the said statute and ordinance being brought to their knowledge by the dean, from which sentence they can be absolved by none but the apostolic see, except by the said dean or his deputy, (fn. 15) save in the hour of death. Ad perp. rei mem. In sacra Petri sede. [2²/3 pp.]
Ibid. (f. 307v.)	Statute, etc., as below. The pope has learned that in the statutes etc. of the church called the chapel royal or college of St. Stephen the Protomartyr in the royal palace of Westminster it is provided that besides the dean and twelve canons there shall be thirteen perpetual vicars in priest's orders called [vicars] choral, bound to reside continually in person, and unable to hold with their perpetual vicarages in the said chapel any other benefices with or without cure, and all of them having a competent knowledge of playing and singing, even if endowed with learning or any other gift. (fn. 16) And it was recently set forth to the pope on behalf of Edward king of England that as the world grows worse every day, and the devotion of the people is getting cold, professional singers prefer, as daily experience shows, to resort to the courts of secular lords rather than have themselves promoted to holy orders, and that it frequently happens in these days that for lack of the said vicars in the said church divine service is diminished. (fn. 17) The pope, therefore, absolving each of the said thirteen vicars from all sentences of excommunication, etc., as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents, etc., hereby, at the petition of the said king, makes statute and ordinance that each of the said vicars, present and future for ever, may receive and retain for life with his vicarage of the said chapel any one benefice with or without cure, even if a canonry and prebend of a cathedral, even a metropolitan, or of a collegiate church, or a parish church or its perpetual vicarage, etc., and resign such benefice, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, that he may, whilst residing in person in the said chapel, take the fruits etc. of such benefice, the daily distributions alone excepted, as if residing therein in person, and not be bound to reside therein, and that he may rent and grant to farm or yearly pension the said fruits etc., to clerks or laymen, in perpetuity or for a time. The pope furthermore decrees, etc., as in the preceding. Ad perp. rei mem. Creditam nobis. [3⅓ pp.]