Lateran Regesta 837: 1483-1484 | 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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'Lateran Regesta 837: 1483-1484', 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/pp859-863 [accessed 6 November 2024].

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

13 Sixtus IV.

De Diversis.



1484. Kal. July. (1 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 148r.)	To Richard Brown, prior of the monastery of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, Pontefract, wont to be governed by a prior, O. Clun., immediately belonging to the Roman church, in the diocese of York. Dispensation to receive and retain for life benefice with or without cure wont to be held by a secular clerk, (fn. 2) with or without the said priorship, which is conventual, any even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, etc. Relligionis [sic] zelus, vite etc. [1½ pp.]
Ibid. (f. 149v.)	To John Vaghan alias Davy, perpetual vicar of Aelysbeare in the diocese of Exeter, bachelor of decrees. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage one other benefice, or if he resign the said vicarage any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches, etc., and to resign them, etc. Litterarum etc. [2 pp.—]
7 Kal. July. (25 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 152r.)	To Ralph Hamstreley, rector of Rowlegelet in the diocese of Durham, M.A. The like. Litterarum etc. [1²/3 pp.]
13 Kal. July. (19 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 152v.)	To Hugh Bosuile, rector of All Saints’, Derfelde, in the diocese of York. The like to him, who is of noble birth. Nobilitas generis, vite etc. [1½ pp.]
4 Non. Aug. (2 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 158v.)	To Simon Harecourt, scholar, of the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth, and is in his boyhood, (fn. 3) to receive and retain, after he has been made a clerk, and has attained his seventeenth year, any benefice with cure, even if a parish church etc., and to resign it, etc. Nobilitas etc. [1⅓ pp.]
Non. Aug. (5 Aug.) (fn. 4) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 201r.)	To the abbot of Wymondham in the diocese of Norwich, and the archdeacon of Norwich. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of John Patrik and Robert Langh[a]m, laymen, of the diocese of Norwich, executors of the last will of William at Wade, layman, of the said diocese, contained that whereas John Wly[p?]ttrott [?], (fn. 5) clerk, dwelling in the said diocese, acting under commission from James, bishop of Norwich, excommunicated Geoffrey Apuwy (recte Apulby), layman, of the said diocese, for forging a will, and, concealing the true will, administering the goods left by the said William, the said Geoffrey appealed to Thomas, cardinal priest of St. Ciriac's in Termis, who holds the church of Canterbury by papal grant and dispensation, and by reason of that church is legatus natus in those parts, and caused the above executors to be summoned in the cause of the said appeal before William Pykynham, auditor-general of causes of the court of the said cardinal, who, wrongfully proceeding, promulgated an unjust definitive sentence in favour of the said Geoffrey, and against the said executors, revoking and annulling the said censures, and condemning the said executors in costs, wherefore they appealed to the apostolic see; and that, inasmuch as the said auditor, refusing to defer to the said appeal, threatened to excommunicate the said executors if they did not obey his said sentence, they have again appealed to the said see. The pope, therefore, at the said petition, hereby orders the above two to summon the said Geoffrey and others concerned, grant the said executors conditional (ad cautclam) absolution from any such sentence of excommunication pronounced after the said appeal, hear both sides and, taking cognizance of the principal matter also, decide what is just, without appeal, causing their decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure. Humilibus etc. [1²/3 pp.]
6 Id. May. (10 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 237r.)	To David, [archbishop] elect of Cashel. Motu proprio dispensation to him (to whom the pope has this day made provision of the church of Cashel [above, p.—], and who holds a canonry of Limerick and the prebend called [the prebend of] Effing therein, and to whom provision was lately ordered to be made by papal authority of a canonry of Cork and the prebend called [the prebend] of Holy Trinity therein), to receive the said canonry and prebend of Cork, value 12 marks sterling, worth 56 gold ducats of the Camera, if collated to him in virtue of the said mandate, and to retain for life them and the said canonry and prebend of Limerick, value 12 marks sterling, worth 33 gold ducats of the Camera, (fn. 6) even after he has been consecrated, and after he has obtained possession of the administration etc. of the said church of Cashel. Personam tuam. [1 p. +]
Non. Aug. (5 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 286v.)	To William Appilby, rector of All Saints’, Lettyngdon’, in the diocese of London, M.A. Dispensation as above, f. 149v. Litterarum etc. [2 pp.—]
7 Id. July. (9 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 304v.)	To Peter Vasor, rector of Henley on Thames (super Thamysiam) in the county of Oxford, in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of decrees. (fn. 7) The like. Litterarum etc. [1½ pp.]
3 Kal. July. (29 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 312r.)	To John Semprengham alias Woode, a monk of St. Neots, O.S.B., in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation 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 etc. [1½ pp.]
6 Non. July. (2 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 312v.)	To William Chichest[er?], a monk of Davantre, O.S.B., in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him (whom Paul II dispensed to receive etc., as in the preceding. as is contained in letters of the present pope, those of the said pope not having been drawn up by reason of his death), to wear over the habit and even over the scapular wont to be worn by monks of the said monastery, a mantle or priestly robe (toga) of an honest and decent obscure colour, without incurring any note of apostasy, etc. Religionis etc. [1¾ pp.]
1484. 3 Kal. Aug. (30 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 318r.)	To Richard Smyth, rector of St. Nicholas's, Kyrkereton’, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Dispensation, as above, f. 149v. Vite etc. [1½ pp.]
Non. Aug. (5 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 320r.)	To Robert Wrangwys, rector of St. Patrick's, Brompton' alias Patrick Brompton’, in the diocese of York, S.T.M. The like. Litterarum etc. [1²/3 pp.]
1483. 4 Kal. Sept. (29 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 341v.)	To the bishop of Exeter, the abbot of Torre (de Torro) in the diocese of Exeter, and Nicholas Gosse, a canon of Exeter. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of William Hyl, temporal lord of the place of Bokelont [sic] in the diocese of Exeter, and the inhabitants thereof, contained that the said place is about three miles distant from the parish church of Lodeswil in the said diocese, within the bounds of which it is situate, and that between them flows a certain river which is very hard to cross, especially in time of winter floods, wherefore, seeing that the said inhabitants could not easily go to the said church for hearing masses and other divine offices, and for receiving the sacraments, a chapel was, it is believed, built of old in the said place of Bokelond, dedicated to St. Peter, in which, as in a daughter chapel, the rector or vicar of the said church might celebrate masses etc. for the inhabitants and parishioners of the said place, and administer the sacraments to them; that in course of time, it being a burden for the said rector or vicar to go to the said chapel for the said purpose, the said rector or vicar granted a certain part of the tithe fruits growing in the possessions situate within the bounds of the territory of the said daughter chapel to the rector of the college or house of Slapton in the said diocese, in order that the latter should celebrate the said divine offices in the said daughter chapel; that inasmuch as the said chapel was not being served duly and in accordance with ancient custom, a certain other part of the said tithe fruits was granted by the then rector or vicar of the said parish church to the rector of the parish church of Alvy[ng]ton in the said diocese, with the obligation of the said celebration; and that, notwithstanding the said grants, divine offices are not duly performed in the said chapel, but that, as far as regards them and the administration of the sacraments, the said parishioners [and] inhabitants of the said place of Bokelond suffer many drawbacks (detrimenta), so much so that hardly are they able to have masses in the said chapel on Sundays, the which has hitherto been and still is burdensome and costly (grave et dispendiosum) for them. The said petition added that if the said chapel (in which masses and other divine offices were wont from of old to be celebrated on Sundays and other holy days, and the sacraments of penance, baptism, and Eucharist, and other ecclesiastical sacraments were wont to be administered to the parishioners and inhabitants of the said territory, although the bodies of the dead were not buried therein), and the bounds thereof, were separated from the parish of the said church of Lodeswil, and the said chapel erected into a parish church, and to it, thus erected, were assigned the said place and territory of Bokelond, etc., for its parish, etc., and if to the rector of such erected parish church of St. Peter were assigned the tithes and all the rights which the rector or vicar of Lodessuil [sic] has been wont to receive in the said territory, etc., and if to him were reserved the patronage and right of presenting to the said church, thus to be erected, the inconveniences which the inhabitants and parishioners of the said territory of Bochelond [sic] suffer would be obviated. The pope, therefore, hereby orders the above three to summon the present rector [or vicar] of Lodesuil and others concerned, and if they find the facts to be as stated, to separate the said place or territory of Bokelond and its possessions within its bounds from the parish or vicarage of the said church of Lodeswil, and to erect the said chapel into a parish church with a cemetery and other parochial insignia, and assign to it the said place or territory of Bokelond, etc., as its parish, and the inhabitants thereof as its parishioners, and ordain that the said tithes and all the rights due to the said rector or vicar of Lodeswil shall belong to the rector of such erected church of St. Peter, reserving to the said rector or vicar de Lodeswil the patronage and right of presenting to the said chapel, thus erected into a parish church, for this first turn and at future voidances, etc. Admont nos suscepta cura regiminis. [4⁵/8 pp.] (fn. 8)