Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1915.
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'Lateran Regesta 440: 1447-1448', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, (London, 1915) pp. 333-345. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp333-345 [accessed 12 April 2024]
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Lateran Regesta. Vol. CCCCXL (fn. 1).
[De Diversis Formis.]
1 Nicholas V.
| 1447[–8]. 14 Kal. Feb. (19 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 22.) |
To Adam. bishop of Chichester. Indult that the confessor of his choice. secular or regular may, once only, after hearing his confession, grant him absolution from any sins etc. even of perjury. adultery, incest, simony, homicide, rape (stupri) and others hitherto committed by him, even if specially reserved to the apostolic see or to any other, and enjoin penance; may absolve him from any sentences of excommunication etc. censures and pains incurred, enjoining penance etc.; may dispense him, on account of irregularity contracted by celebrating masses and other divine offices not in contempt of the Keys, or taking part therein, when under such sentences, to minister in his orders, and may rehabilitate him. He is to make satisfaction to whom it is due. Iniunctum nobis. (An. and Poggius. | An.Gratis de mandato. de Adria.) [1½ pp.] |
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| 1446[–7]. 14 Kal. April. (19 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 26.) |
To John Berow, canon of Hereford, I.U.B. Decree, as below. Eugenius IV, under date 11 Kal. Dec. (21 Nov.) anno 12 (fn. 2) [1442], dispensed him (then holding a canonry and prebend of Hereford and the archdeaconry of Hereford, a non-major dignity, value together not exceeding 30l. sterling) to hold for life the said archdeaconry and any benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased, notwithstanding his ordinance to the contrary [see Cal. Papal Lett. IX, p. 5] and the constitutions of Otto and Ottobon, legates in England, etc. Inasmuch as the said pope died before his letters were drawn up, the pope hereby decrees the dispensation [to hold good from the said date and] these presents to be sufficient proof. Rationi congruit. (A. and Jo. de Steccatis. | A. xl. de Feletis.) [1½ pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 39d.) |
Decree, as below. Eugenius IV (having learned that the buildings of the church of Tuam needed no little repair, that the house and mansio of the archiepiscopal court of Tuam were, on account of their age and the absence of the archbishops, who rarely dwelled there, almost totally collapsed and levelled with the ground, and that for the said repair and the restoration of the said house the means of the mensa of Tuam and of the fabric of the said church were insufficient) granted in perpetuity under date Prid. Non. Nov. (4 Nov.) anno 11 (fn. 3) [1441] to all, penitent and confessed, who visited the said church on the feast of St. John Baptist and gave alms for the said repair etc. relaxation of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance. Inasmuch etc. as in the preceding, the pope hereby decrees the said relaxation to hold good from the said date, and these presents to be sufficient proof thereof. Racioni etc. (An. and G.Trapezuntius. | An. xxxx. de Adria.) [12/3 pp.] |
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Ibid. (fn. 4)
(f. 41.) |
To Gavin (Gawino) de Hamilton, provost of the church of Bothwile in the diocese of Glasgow. Decree, as below. Eugenius IV, under date 7 Kal. Nov. (26 Oct.) anno 16 [1446], dispensed him (who was by both parents of a noble race of barons and was a knight's brother, was holding the above provostship, of the patronage of laymen, and to whom provision had been made by authority of the ordinary of the parish church of Ferue in the diocese of Dunkeld, of which he was not in possession, the value of both not exceeding 100l. sterling) to hold together for life with the said provostship, even if it had cure and were elective, the said parish church, if he obtained it, or without it any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if another parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased. Inasmuch etc. as in the preceding, the pope hereby decrees the dispensation [to hold good from the said date and] these presents to be sufficient proof thereof. Rationi etc. (A. and G.Gonne. | A. xxxvi. de Feletis.) [ 1 p.] |
| 1447[–8]. 6 Kal. Feb. (27 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 44d.) |
To John Grene, rector of Marcheley in the diocese of Worcester, Grant, as below. Eugenius IV, by letters stating that John was of noble birth, dispensed him (then holding inter alia the parish church of St. Clement without New Temple Bar in the diocese of London (fn. 5) ) to hold for life therewith any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if another parish church or a perpetual vicarage or a dignity etc. and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased, and hold two other incompatible benefices, not being two dignities, major or principal. At his recent petition (containing that he is of knightly birth and that, inasmuch as it is doubted by some whether persons of knightly birth are to be deemed noble in these parts (fn. 6) ) the pope grants to him (who has resigned St. Clement's, and holds the parish churches of Marcheley and Slimebrugi in the diocese of Worcester, and a canonry of Hereford and the prebend of Bisscoppishanton, the value of all which does not exceed 60l. sterling) that the said letters and their consequences enable him to hold the said churches and canonry and prebend as if they had not stated that he was of knightly birth. Vite etc. (An. and Jo. de Steccatis. | An. xxii. Tercio Non. Martii Anno Primo. de Adria.) [1¾ pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. 7 Id. March. (9 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 45d.) |
To John Stamburi, elect of Bangor. Indult to him, to whom the pope recently made provision of the said church, to be consecrated by any catholic bishop, assisted by two or three others. The consecrator is to receive from him the usual oath of fealiy, and to send it to the pope by John's letters patent sealed with John's seal. Cum nos nuper. (An. and Jo. de Steccutis. | An. xvi. de Adria.) [¾ p.] |
| 1447. 6 Id. Aug. (8 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 58d.) |
To John de Douglas, perpetual vicar of Muskilburgh in the diocese of St. Andrews. Grant, as below. Eugenius IV, upon learning that John Wricht had resigned the above vicarage before John Hog, clerk, of the said diocese, notary public and witnesses, ordered the abbots of Lindores (de Londoris) and Caimbuskyneth in the said diocese and the archdeacon of St. Andrews, if they found the said resignation lawful to admit it for that turn only by papal authority, and thereupon to collate and assign the vicarage to the above John de Douglas [Cal. Lett. IX, p. 448]; after which, as Douglas's recent petition contained, David, abbot of Caimbuskynet[h] admitted the said resignation and made collation and provision to Douglas. Subsequently, upon the said John Wricht opposing the said collation and provision, and hindering them from taking effect, the said abbot David, proceeding in the cause which Douglas began against Wricht, promulgated a definitive sentence by which he adjudged the vicarage to Douglas and imposed perpetual silence on Wricht who, although he appealed therefrom to the apostolic see, afterwards renounced before notary public and witnesses his appeal and all right in or to the vicarage. The said petition adding that some doubt the force of the said collation and provision, the pope hereby grants to Douglas, who is a priest, that they and their consequences shall hold good from the date of these presents, even if the vicarage, whose value does not exceed 14l. sterling, be void by the said resignation or renunciation or by the death of Alexander de Kinglassy, or William Browne, or Bartholomew de Kilquhonquhar, or James de Edinburgh or William de Lochton, or in any other way, Vite etc. (A. and Ja. Goier. | A. xx. Tertio Id.Januarii Anno Primo. de Feletis.) [2 pp. See also ibid., pp. 27, 319, 414.] |
| 1447[–8]. 14 Kal. Feb. (19 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 59d.) |
To Walter Sandewich, canon of Lincoln, I.U.D. Appointing and deputing him (who has been found fit after examination in presence of John bishop of Palestrina, called the cardinal of Taranto, major penitentiary, and of a number of penitentiaries and masters of theology) a penitentiary in the basilica of the Prince of the Apostles, Rome, and in the Roman court, and a papal chaplain. Before beginning to exercise the said office, he is to take to the above cardinal the usual oath of fealty (appended). Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (A. and Blondus. | A. Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. de Feletis.) [2⅓ pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. 4 Kal. Feb. (29 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 62d.) |
To William Brygge, rector of Wyffton in the diocese of Norwich. Decree, as below. The pope exemplifies the letters of Eugenius IV. ‘Nobilitas generis, vite ac morum honestas,' addressed to William Brygge, rector of Wyffton in the diocese of Norwich, and dated at Ferrara in the year of the Incarnation 1448, 4 Non. Oct. anno 8, dispensing him, who was of noble birth, to hold for life with the said church, value not exceeding 40 marks sterling, any benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even [if] another parish church or a perpetual vicarage or a dignity etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased, and to hold instead two other incompatible benefices, even if two parish churches or perpetual vicarages or dignities etc. or one of each. At the petition of the said William Brygge, containing that on account of the death of the said pope some doubt whether the said letters hold good and remain in force, the pope hereby decrees that they none the less hold good and can take effect. Justis petentium. (An. and Anselmus. | An. xxii. de Adria.) [2½ pp.] |
| 1447. 16 Kal. Dec. (16 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 79.) |
To the bishop of Argyll. Mandate, at the petition of John de Lorn, layman, and Fingola de Insulis, of his diocese (containing that they are natives of the extreme parts of the realm of Scotland and inhabit those parts, which are utterly wild and whose inhabitants are commonly called ‘black Scots’; that they, not in ignorance that they were related in the second and third degrees of kindred and the third and third degrees of affinity, committed fornication and had offspring; and that they desire to marry, in order to assuage (fn. 7) the grave strifes and discords which have arisen in consequence between their parents, relatives by kindred and affinity and their friends (fn. 8) ), after imposing penance for incest, to dispense them to marry, decreeing the said offspring and that to be born of the marriage legitimate. Oblate nobis. (An. and G. Gonne. | An. xx. de Adria.) [¾ p.] |
| 14 Kal. Jan. (19 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 82d.) |
Decree etc. as below. Baldasar, bishop of Tusculum, then called John XXIII, granted a faculty to the abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Jervaulx (de Joreuall[is]) in the diocese of York to dispense three men and as many women, to be named by the late Ralph earl of Westmoreland, to marry, even in cases of relationship in the third and third and the third and fourth and the fourth and fourth degrees of kindred or affinity. At the petition of Humphrey, then earl of Stafford, now duke of Bukyngham, and Anne his consort, daughter of the said Ralph, alleging that they were and are related in the third and third degrees of kindred, and that in virtue of the said faculty they were dispensed to marry, the pope, hereby ratifying and approving the said grant, decrees that it and its consequences, especially the said marriage, had and have force and effect. Ad fut. rei mem. Circumspecta sedis apostolice. (An. and G. de Elten. | An. xxx. de Adria.) [2 pp. See Cal. Papal Lett., VI, p. 491.] |
| 1447[–8]. 3 Id. Jan. (11 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 95.) |
Confirmation etc. as below. John XXII united to the metropolitan church of Tuam the church of Annadown, near to it and its suffragan, to take effect on the death of the then bishop, the said church to remain, however, a cathedral church and an episcopal see (sedes) to remain therein. At the recent petition of John, archbishop of Tuam (containing that the said union took effect, and that from time immemorial the archbishop of Tuam in virtue thereof has, as does archbishop John, ruled and administered the goods of the said church of Annadown, whose value does not exceed 50 marks sterling, that of the church of Tuam not exceeding 60) the pope hereby confirms the said union, and gives exemplification of the letters of the said pope ‘Ad fut. rei mem. Romana ecclesia que super,’ dated at Avignon 2 Kal. Aug. (31 July) anno 1 (fn. 9) (rectius 11, i.e. 1327). Ad fut. rei mem. Romanus pontifex. (Chri, and F. de Laude, G. de Callio. | Chri. l. Coronen.) [4½ pp. With the exception of the year in the date there are only slight variants between the exemplification given in the present register and the contemporary copy in John XXII's Reg. Vat. LXXXIV, ff. 405d, 406r. The latter copy of pope John's constitution ‘Ad fut. rei mem. Romana ecclesia que super,’ uniting to the metropolitan see of Tuam the three suffragan sees of Annadown, Achonry and Kilmacduagh, is printed in Theiner, Vat. Mon. Hibern. et Scot, p. 239, from Reg. An.xi. [i.e. Reg. Vat. LXXXIV.] Com. par. 3, fol. 405,’ under date ‘Avinione ii. Kal. Aug. anno xi.’ See also Cal. Papal Lett. I, pp. 263, 318, and II, p. 388. Both Theiner and Cal. Lett. I correctly give the date as in Reg. Vat. LXXXIV, which has ‘Datum Avinione ii Kal. Augusti anno undecimo’.] |
| 1447. 5 Id. Sept. (9 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 104d.) |
To the bishop of Winchester. Mandate, at the recent petition of Richard Chester, canon of Dublin (Deblinen.), S.T.P. (containing that on the voidance of the poor hospital of Gretham in the diocese of Durham (Donelmen.) by the resignation of John Lathum, master called warden, to Robert bishop of Durham, that bishop collated it to him, in virtue of which he obtained peaceable possession, but now desires confirmation of the said collation etc. by the apostolic see) if he find the said collation etc. lawful, to confirm the same and their consequences, and cause the said Richard, who is a chaplain of king Henry, to enjoy peaceable possession of the said hospital, value not exceeding 100l. sterling, for life; notwithstanding that he holds canonries and prebends of Dublin (Deblinen.) and Hereford, and by papal dispensation the parish churches of St. Mary, Lancaster (Loncastrie), in the diocese of York and St. Mary de Wolchyr[c]h, London, the value of all which does not exceed 112l. sterling. Gerentes in desideriis. (An. and A. de Cortesiis. | An. xxx. de Adria.) [1¾ pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. 6 Id. Feb. (8 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 123d.) |
To Laurence Bothe, rector of All Saints', Cotenham, in the diocese of Ely, bachelor of laws (in legibus). Grant, at his recent petition (containing that formerly, after he had been dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy as the son of unmarried parents to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, Eugenius IV dispensed him to hold any mutually compatible benefices, of any number and kind, with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends, dignities etc. and to resign all, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased [Cal. Lett. IX. pp. 258, 259]) that he, who is of noble birth, and all whose benefices and their values etc. the pope holds to be sufficiently expressed by these presents, is not bound to mention the said illegitimacy in any future graces, papal or otherwise. Litterarum etc. (An. and Ja. Goier. | An. xxx. de Adria.) [1 p. +.] |
| 1447. 3 Kal. Nov. (30 Oct.) St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 130.) |
To Thomas Osgodby, perpetual vicar of Pynchebece in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth and holds the said vicarage and a canonry in the church of Aukeland and the prebend of St. Elena, Aukeland, in the diocese of Durham, value not exceeding 50 and 2 marks sterling respectively, to hold for life with the said vicarage any benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, or any two other incompatible benefices, even if one be a dignity etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, and hold instead two other incompatible benefices. even if two dignities, major or principal, or a dignity and a parish church, but not two parish churches; nothwithstanding the pope's late ordinance to the contrary [see above, p. 5] etc. Litterarum etc. (An. and Jo. de Reate. | An. xxxvi. de Adria.) [2 pp.] |
| 4 Non. Oct. (4 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 173d.) |
To Mathew [son] of Laurence Meccomnara, clerk, of the diocese of Killaloe (Laonien.). Rehabilitation, he (who is by both parents of a noble race of dukes) having formerly obtained the perpetual vicarage of Tomsynlochach (rectius Tomfynlochach) in the diocese of Killaloe, and held it for about two years without having himself ordained priest, taking, even after the lapse of one of the said years, the fruits of the said vicarage, which he has this day resigned to the pope. Sedes apostolica, pia mater. (An. and Jo. de Steccatis. | An. xvi. de Adria.) [¾ p.] |
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Ibid. (f. 180d.) |
To Philip Hyckeman, canon of Dublin, bachelor of laws (in legibus.). Indult to him, who is a priest and holds a canonry and one of six minor prebends of the church of Dublin (in which are six canonries not having distinct prebends, whose holders are bound to continual residence (fn. 10), and certain other prebends) and the perpetual vicarage of St. Mary's in the new town of Delvyn in the diocese of Meath (fn. 11), not to be bound for five years to reside in the said parish church whilst residing in the church of Dublin, provided that the cure of souls of the vicarage be exercised by a good and sufficient vicar, to be provided for from its profits.Litterarum etc. (An. and A. de Cortesiis. | An. xx. de Adria.) [1 p.] |
| 3 Id. Nov. (11 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 181.) |
To John, elect of Dunkeld. Faculty to him, to whom the pope recently made provision of the said church, to be consecrated by any catholic bishop, assisted by two or three others. The consecrator is to receive from him the usual oath of fealty, and to send it to the pope by John's letters patent sealed with John's seal. Cum nos nuper. (An. and Cyprianus. | An. xvi. de Adria.) [1 p.] |
| 9 Kal. Dec. (23 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 186d.) |
To James Gordon, perpetual vicar of Rouane in the diocese of Moray, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation, at his recent petition (containing that he was formerly dispensed by papal authority, on account of illegitimacy as the son of unmarried parents, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure; that subsequently, after he had obtained, collated to him by authority of the ordinary, the above vicarage. value not exceeding 2 marks sterling, the present pope ordered provision to be made to him of one or two benefices. even if one were a canonry and prebend and the other a dignity etc. in the collation etc. of the bishops and the deans and chapters of Aberdeen and Ross. and at the same time dispensed him to receive and hold them) so that he, who is a priest and a kinsman of Alexander earl of Huntle. may receive and hold any benefices, of any number and kind, with or without cure, compatible with one another and with the aforesaid. even if canonries and prebends, dignities etc. and may resign all such benefices. simply or for exchange. as often as he pleases.Litteracum etc. (An. and Jo. de Steccatis. An. xxx.de Adria.) [12/3 pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. 17 Kal. Feb. (16 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 188d.) |
To John, archbishop of Tuam. Absolution etc. as below. His recent petition contained that formerly Odo Ohugyn, who behaves as bishop of Mayo. got himself by false pretences promoted. as he alleged, to that church (which has from of old been a dependent member of the church of Tuam. and which the above John and his predecessors have so long peacefully held to their uses that there is no memory of the contrary), caused himself to be consecrated as bishop thereof, and violently tried to obtain possession of the said church and intrude himself, disobeying the mandates of the said archbishop; that archbishop John ordered and caused him to be arrested and imprisoned for some days, took part in the arrest and laid violent hands on him, but without enormous excess, wherefore he fears lest he incurred sentence of excommunication, lying under which sentence he has, not in contempt of the Keys, celebrated [masses and other] divine offices, and taken part therein. The pope therefore absolves him from the said sentence etc. and grants that the confessor of his choice may, after enjoining penance, dispense him on account of irregularity contracted. Ad ea ex apostolice. (A. and G. Gonne. | A. xxxvi. de Feletis.) [1 p. +. See below, f. 252d.] |
| 1447[–8]. 3 Kal. Feb. (30 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 193.) |
To the abbot of Melros in the diocese of Glasgow, Mandate, as below. The recent petition of James de Lyndesay, canon of Glasgow, contained that formerly the dean and chapter of the then void church of Glasgow, upon the parish church of the place of Hawyk in the diocese of Glasgow, of the patronage of William, earl of Douglas and lord of the said place, becoming void by the promotion, made by papal authority, of William elect [now] of Glasgow, then of Dunkeld, to the latter church, and by the lapse of the canonical time for the consecration of bishops, erected and created the said parish church, with consent of the said earl and of Gavin, provost of Bothwele in the said diocese, into a canonry and free prebend, which prebend is compatible with any benefice having cure, and constituted therein a perpetual vicar with a yearly pension of 20 marks of the usual money of Scotland, adding that the vicar should sustain the cure of souls and bear the ordinary burdens only of the said church of Hawyk, and have for his mansio four acres of arable land of its ecclesiastical glebe, that the prebendaries of Hawyk should pay yearly 6 marks of the said money to two boy-clerks, to serve perpetually in the choir of the said church of Bothwele, and to be instituted and dismissed by the provost, with consent of the chaplains, and that the full disposal of the perpetual vicarage of Hawyk should belong to the bishop of Glasgow, and the presentation to the said canonry and prebend to the earl and his successors and heirs, lords of the said place; as is more fully contained in letters sealed with the seals of the said chapter, earl and Gavin. The pope therefore orders the above abbot, if he find the said erection, creation, ordinance and additions lawful, to confirm them by papal authority. Regimini universalis ecclesie. (An. and Ja. Goier. | An. xxx.de Adria.) [2 pp.] |
| 1447. 5 Id. Oct. (11 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 222.) |
To the bishop of Killaloe (Laonien.). Mandate to dispense Donald Macconmara, layman, and Fymmola yny Micconmara, of his diocese, to marry notwithstanding that they are related in the simple third and fourth degrees of affinity, and the double fourth of kindred. Oblate nobis. (An. and F. de Laude. | An. xviii. de Adria.) [1 p.] |
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Prid. Id. Oct. (14. Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 239l.) |
To the bishop of Cloyne (Clonen.). Mandate to dispense Gillibertus de Geraldinis alias de Clundgybuyn, layman, and Elis de Roche alias de Rupe, of his diocese, to marry notwithstanding that they are related in the third degree of kindred and the double third and simple fourth degrees of affinity. Oblate etc. (An. and G. de Elten. | An. xx.de Adria.) [1 p.] |
| 12 Kal. Nov. (21 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 243.) |
To Richard Mulghan, a canon of St. Patrick's, Dublin. Absolution, as below. His recent petition contained that formerly, upon a number of pure (meris) Irish, enemies of king Henry and his lieges, invading the province and diocese of Dublin and the lands of the church of Dublin, which are under the temporal lordship of the said king, Richard, archbishop of Dublin, justiciary and governor for the said king of the province of Ireland, convoking the inhabitants (whereof the said Richard was one) of those parts of the said diocese to which the said enemies had betaken themselves, hastened thither for self defence for the repelling of the said enemies; that upon a numerous multitudo of the said enemies coming upon a part of the army in which Richard was with the archbishop and a few of his men, a battle raged and at length the enemy were in great part routed; that in the course of it Richard, alarmed and almost beside himself, thoughtlessly gave to one of his companions, who asked it like a madman, the naked sword which he was carrying in his hands. wherewith the said companion shortly afterwards cut off the head of one of the said enemies; and that he was. for self defence and the defence of the said church, present at divers other conflicts in which divers homicides were perpetrated. but without slaying or mutilating anybody with his own hands. At the said petition (adding that he committed the aforesaid, in which both clerks and laymen were wont to join, not so much of free will as from obedience to the orders of his prelate, for self defence and the defence of the said church, and is not otherwise guilty in respect thereof, and that he desires to be promoted to the priesthood and minister therein, and to minister in the orders of subdeacon and deacon which were inadvertently received by him, after the aforesaid, and without his having obtained any canonical dispensation, and in the other orders which he has received, the pope hereby dispenses him, who holds a canonry of Dublin and the prebend of Typyt (rectius Typyr), on account of irregularity contracted by the aforesaid, dispenses him to be promoted to the priesthood and to minister therein and in the said other orders, and to receive and hold any benefice with or without cure, and rehabilitates him. Solet sedis apostolice. (An. and F. de Laude. | An. xxx. de Adria.) [1¾ pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. 17 Kal. Feb. (16 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 251d.) |
To the abbot of Tungland in the diocese of Whiteherne. Mandate, at the recent petition of James de Ly[n]desay, canon of Lynclo(u)den in the diocese of Glasgow, containing that formerly Alexander, bishop of Whitehern, with consent of William earl of Dowglas and the other patrons of the parish church of Kyrkandris in the diocese of Whiteherne, and of John Methfen, provost and the chapter of the said church of Linclouden, created and erected the said parish church into a free prebend or prebendal church of the church of Lynclouden, so that the perpetual vicar of Kyrkandris should have a yearly pension of 14 marks of the usual money of Scotland, and for his manse (pro sua mansione) three acres of arable land of the ecclesiastical glebe of Kyrkandris, and on that account bear the ordinary burdens, and that the holder for the time being of the said prebend should maintain a priest or deacon or subdeacon in the church of Lynclouden, that in perpetuity the said patrons and their successors should present to the prebend, and the holder for the time being of the prebend should present the vicar, as is more fully contained in the letters of the said bishop, sealed with his seal. At the said petition the pope hereby orders the above abbot, if he find the facts to be as stated, to confirm by papal authority the said creation, erection etc. and their consequences. Apostolice sedis providentia. (An. and Jo. de Millinis. | An. xxx.de Adria.) [12/3 pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. Id. Jan. (13 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 252d.) |
To the bishops of Elphin and Kilmacduagh (Duacen.), and the abbot of St. Mary's, Abbeygormacan (de Vianova), in the diocese of Clonfert. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of John, archbishop of Tuam contained that. according to the traditions of the old and the foundations of ancient monasteries of those parts, as may be perceived from ancient chronicles, histories and books, the manor or place of Mayo (fn. 12) in the diocese of Tuam was formerly reputed to be a member of the archiepiscopal mensa of Tuam, and the church of the said place from its primeval foundation secular and collegiate, and wont to be governed by a secular prior and college of secular priests for a space of about three hundred years, that the said church was afterwards, by the then archbishop of Tuam, with counsel and assent of the chapter of Tuam, erected into a monastery to be governed by an abbot and convent of the order of St. Augustine, that thenceforward an abbot and convent of that order continually remained in the monastery, under the ordinary jurisdiction of the archbishop, that more than sixty years ago the abbot and convent got the said erection and institution confirmed by the apostolic see, that thenceforward they were immediately subject to the archbishop by ordinary right, and that the said monastery and manor or place have been hitherto, and were from time immemorial, called a parcel of the said mensa, without their being in the said place a city, or the church of the monastery being cathedral, or their being therein any insignia of such cathedral church; but that nevertheless Eugenius IV (circumvented by the suggestions of Odo Ohugyn, who had been abbot of the monastery for some years, that the said place was the city of Mayo (Magionen.) and the church of the monastery cathedral, and that the said church was deprived of the rule of its pastor by the death or resignation of Martin its bishop, who in the nature of things had not been [bishop]) made provision to Odo of the said church and appointed him bishop; that Odo, not ignorant of the foregoing, behaving as bishop of Mayo, had himself consecrated, converting the fruits of the monastery to his own uses, and preventing archbishop John from exercising jurisdiction in the said place and taking the usual rights, and, being under the sentences and ecclesiastical censures of the said archbishop and his officials, has celebrated masses and other divine offices, even in contempt of the Keys. The pope therefore orders the above three to summon Odo and others concerned, annul the said provision and appointment and their consequences. reduce the monastery, manor or place to their pristine state, and impose perpetual silence on Odo, aggravating their processes as often as expedient, and invoking the aid of the secular arm. Sedis a postolice providencia. (A. and F. de Laude. | A. xxvi.de Feletis.) [2½ pp. See above, f. 188d.] |
| 1447. 4 Non. Oct. (4 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 273d.) |
To the dean and precentor of Emly, and Cornelius Ohurthili, canon of the same. Mandate (the pope having been informed by John Okayl (fn. 13), priest, of the diocese of Limerick, that John Wolfe, perpetual vicar of Any in the diocese of Emly, in the gift of the piror of the Hospitallers' priory of Kilmaynan in the diocese of Dublin, and Richard Ohedian, canon of Emly, have dilapidated the goods of the said vicarage and of the said canonry and the prebend of Kylnegene, that John has committed simony, and that Richard has publicly kept a concubine) if and after Okayl accuses them, to summon Wolfe and Richard, and if they find the above to be true, to deprive and remove them, and in that event to collate and assign the vicarage, which has been wont to be assigned to secular clerks, and the canonry and prebend, value not exceeding 12 and 3 marks sterling respectively, to Okayl. Vite etc. (An. and F. de Laude. | An. xxiiii. Sextodecimo Kal. Novembris Anno Primo.de Adria.) [2¾ pp.] (fn. 14) |
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Prid. Kal. Oct. (30 Sept.) St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 278.) |
To Geoffrey de Burgo, clerk, of the diocese of Cashel. Dispensation, as below. His recent petition contained that formerly certain nobles of those parts attacked in arms the Augustinian monastery of Athhassel in the diocese of Cashel, and burned the greater part of it, that John, archbishop of Cashel betook himself thither in person with a great band, in which was the above Geoffrey by the archbishop's order (fn. 15), and that Geoffrey, perceiving a canon of the monastery grievously wounded by the invaders, and lying half dead near the door of the monastery, took him up in his arms in order to carry him into the monastery and save him, seeing which the invaders began to shoot arrows after him, and one of the archers so wounded him with an arrow in his right eye that he lost the sight of it. The pope therefore dispenses him, who is of noble birth, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and minister therein, and to receive and hold any mutually compatible benefices, of any number and kind, with and without cure, even if caronries and prebends, dignities etc. and to receive and hold benefices wont to be held by professors of any order in which he may make his profession. Nobilitas generis vite etc. (Chri. and A. de Cortesiis. | Chri. xxv. Coronen. [1½ pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 320d.) |
To the bishop of Killaloe (Laonien.). Mandate to dispense Rory Mieconmara (rectius Micconmara), layman, and Saub inny Mieconmara (rectius Micconmara), of his diocese, who have often committed fornication with one another, to marry notwithstanding that they are related on both sides in the third degree, and on divers sides in the third and fourth degrees of kindred. Oblate nobis. (An. and G. de Elten. | An. xviii. de Adria.) [1 p. +.] |