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 443: 1447', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, (London, 1915) pp. 354-362. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp354-362 [accessed 26 April 2024]
In this section
Lateran Regesta. Vol. CCCCXLIII. (fn. 1).
1 Nicholas V.
De Diversis Forms.
| 1446[–7]. 14 Kal. April. (19 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 6d.) |
To Drew (Droconi) Malefurniti, rector of Saltwoode in the diocese of Canterbury, M.A. Decree, as below. Eugenius IV by letters in which the nonobstante clauses relating to his other benefices were not duly expressed (fn. 2) dispensed him, under date 6 Kal. May (26 April) anno 8 [1438], to hold for life with the said church of Saltwoolde (sic) any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if another parish church or a perpetual vicarage, or a dignity etc. provided that it were not a major or principal dignity, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased; and the same pope, lest the said letters should for the said reason be reputed surreptitious, granted to him (who was a member of the household and secretary of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and was holding the said church, value not exceeding 40l. sterling, a canonry and the prebend of Rotfen in Salisbury, a canonry and the prebend of Lurel in Lisieux (Lexovien.), a chaplaincy at the altar of St. John in the episcopal palace of Troyes (Trecen.), the parsonage (personagium) or free chapel of St. Sulpice de Plasnis, a canonry in the chapel royal called the free chapel of St. Stephen, Westminster, a canonry in the chapel royal called the free chapel of Tairword (rectius Tamword) with the prebend of Cotton, and a canonry in the chapel royal called the free chapel of Hastyngs with the prebend of Briklyng, in the dioceses of Lisieux, London, Lichfield, Coventry and Chichester, the value of all which did not exceed 100l. sterling (fn. 3) ) that the said letters held good from the date thereof, as if it had been expressed therein that he was then holding the said parish church, canonries and prebends, chapel [and] parsonage or chapel, notwithstanding the foregoing and the said improper (indebita) expression etc. Inasmuch as the said pope died before his letters of the said grant were drawn up, the pope hereby decrees that these presents are sufficient proof thereof. Racioni congruit. (Chri. and Ja. Goier. | Chri. xx. Coronen.) [1¾ pp.] |
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| 1447[–8]. Prid. Id. March. (14 March.) St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 7d.) |
To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate to dispense Robert Godardi of Wychamskeyth, layman, and Catherine Grougin, of his diocese, to remain in the marriage which they formerly contracted before the church per verba legitime de presenti, and consummated, in ignorance that they were related in the fourth degree of kindred; decreeing legitimate the offspring born and that to be born of the said marriage. Oblate nobis. (A. and Jo. de Millinis. | A. xii. de Feletis.) [¾ p.] |
| 1446[–7]. 14 Kal. April. (19 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 35.) |
To Patrick Fraser, priest, of the diocese of Moray. Decree, as below. Upon its being put forth to Eugenius IV on his behalf that (after he had been dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of an unmarried baron and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all [even] holy orders and hold any compatible benefices, of any number and kind, with and (et) without cure, even if canonries and prebends and dignities etc. and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased, and had obtained, collated to him by the said authority, the deanery of Caithness, a major dignity with cure) he and Thomas de Spens resigned, for purpose of exchange, their respective benefices, namely, the succentorship of Moray, and office without cure, and the archdeaconry of the same church, a non-major diginity with cure, to John, bishop of Moray, who carried out the exchange, making collation and provision of the succentorship to Thomas and of the archdeaconry to Patrick, who was still holding the said deanery, and who, in ignorance of the law and believing that the said dispensation was sufficient for the purpose, in virtue of the said collation and provision obtained possession of the archdeaconry, and, without dispensation for the purpose, held it and the deanery together against ‘Execrabilis,’ for about two years). the said pope, absolving him, under date Id. Feb. (13 Feb.) anno 16 [1447], from all sentences of excommunication etc., rehabilitated him, and required him to resign both benefices. Inasmuch as pope Eugenius died before his letters of absolution, etc. were drawn up, the pope hereby decrees that these presents are sufficient proof thereof. Racioni congruit. (An. and A. de Cortesiis. | An. xvi. de Adria.) [2 pp. See below. Reg. Lat. CCCCXLIV, f. 126.] |
| 1447[–8]. 4 Id. Jan. (10 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 49.) |
To John de Saintoyn, clerk, of Rouen. Dispensation to him, who is the son of John de Saintyon (a counsellor of Henry, king of England, and a master of the chambre des comptes in Normandy) and who is in about his eighth year, to hold, after he attains his tenth year, any compatible benefices without cure, of any number and kind, even if canonries and prebends; notwithstanding the pope's late ordinance requiring the age of fourteen for the holding of canonries and prebends [see Ottenthal, Regulæ Cancellariæ Apostolicceæ, p, 257, i.e. Regulæ Nic. V. n. 18]. Laudabilia tue adolescencie indicia. (Chri. and A. de Cortesiis. | Chri. xx. Coronen.) [1 p.] |
| 1447[–8]. 6 Id. Jan. (8 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 80d.) |
To Robert Stewart, canon of Aberdeen, M.A. Dispensation, as below. His recent petition contained that he was formerly dispensed by papal authority to receive and hold for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches or perpetual vicarages or dignities etc. and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased. The pope therefore dispenses him (who was also dispensed lately by the said authority, on account of illegitimacy as the son of a deacon, a son of the late Robert, king of Scots, and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold any compatible benefices, of any number and kind, with or (vel) without cure, even if canonries and prebends, dignities etc. and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased, and who holds the parish church de Kynnetlis and the perpetual vicarage of Aberdyn, in the dioceses of St. Andrews and Aberdeen, in the dioceses of St. Andrews and Aberdeen, and a canonry and prebend of Aberdeen, the value of all not exceeding 40l. sterling, and to whom the present pope lately made provision of a canonry of Moray and another of Brechin, with reservation of as many prebends and of a diginity etc. of one of them) to receive and hold for life any other third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or perpetual vicarage or a diginity etc. and to resign it as often as he pleases, simply or for exchange, and hold instead three other incompatible benefices, provided that not more than two be parish churches or perpetual vicarages, notwithstanding his late ordinance [see above, p. 5] etc. Litterarum etc. (Chri. and G. Gonne. | Chri. xxx. Coronen.) [3 pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. 6 Kal. Feb. (27 Jan.) St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 98.) |
To Robert Parfyt, rector of Pydelhenton, in the diocese of Salisbury. Grant, as below. Eugenius IV dispensed him, then holding the above church, the wardenship of the free chapel of Calston in the diocese of Salisbury and a canonry and perbend of Hereford, to receive and hold for life with the said church any benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or perpetual vicarage or a dignity etc. and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased, the said pope's letters stating that the fruits etc. of the said three benefices did not exceed in value 20, 6 and 10 marks sterling respectively. At his recent petition, containing that the said fruits etc. ougth to have been reckoned by pounds and not by marks sterling, and that he therefore fears lest the said letters be held surreptitious, the pope hereby grants that they and their consequences hold good as if they stated that the said benefices were worth 20l., 6l., and 10l. sterling respectively. Vite etc. (A. and Jo. de Steccatis. | A. xvi. de Feletis.) [1½ pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. 9 Kal. March. (22 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 110.) |
To the dean and archdeacon of Tuam, and Thomas Obrain, canon of the same. Mandate (the pope having been informed by David Odubgilla, priest, of the diocese of Kilmacduagh (Duacen.), that Patrick Odubgilla, canon of Kilmacduagh and Roderick Maclaend, perpetual vicar of Killenain, being excommunicate and publicly proclaimed excommunicate have celebrated masses and other divine offices and taken part therein, in contempt of the Keys, thereby incurring irregularity, committed theft in respect of the oblations and other altarages belonging to the canons and rectors of the said churches and dilapidated the goods of the same churches. and that Roderick has kept a concubine whom he, like a fugitive, conveys from place to place, leaving his said vicarage unserved, and by whom the has had offspring, still living (fn. 4) ) if and after David (who was lately 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) accuses Patrick and Roderick before the above three (seeing that on account of the inordinate favours shown to them by the bishop and chapter of Kilmacduagh he has no hope of obtaining justice in the city and diocese of Kilmacduagh), to summon Patrick and Roderick, and if they find the above to be true, to deprive and remove them, and in that event to collate and assign the said canonry and prebend and vicarage, value not exceeding 1 and 3 marks sterling respectively, to David; whether they become void by such deprivation, or the canonry and prebend be vaid by the death of Donatus Ymarcham, or they be void in any other way, and notwithstanding that provision was lately made to David by papal authority of the rectory of Kilthomais in the said diocese, value not exceeding 10 marks sterling, of which he is not in possession, and in course of litigation about which before divers judges of those parts by papal delegation he has won one definitive sentence and has appealed to the apostolic see from another given against him. The pope grants that even after he obtains the vicarage in virtue of these presents his right, if any, in or to the rectory shall hold good, and that he can use it and prosecute the said cause; but wills that if and as soon as he wins and gets peaceable possession of the rectory he shall, as he has offered, resign the vicarage if he meanwhile get possession of it, or his right in or to it. Vite etc. (A. and Jo. de Millinis. | A. xxii. Tercio Non. Marcii Anno Primo. de Feletis.) [4½ pp.] |
| 1447. 9 Kal. Aug. (24 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 120.) |
To Thomas Oculean, cannon of Armach, and the offical of Clogher. (fn. 5) Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Bartholomew and Peter and Raymund Olondagan, brothers german, clerks, of the diocese of Clogher, contained that formerly Peter, bishop of Clogher and Philip Omulubir, dean of the same church, commissaries deputed by John, archibishop of Armagh, primate of Ireland, to visit the city and diocese of Clogher, considering that a number of lands within the bounds of the parish church of Ynismaysam in the said diocese, lawfully belonging to the mensa of Clogher, were detained by laymen, on account of whose power they could not be conveniently recovered from their hands by the inhabitants of the said place or otherwise, granted (lest the said lands should be utterly alienated from the said mensa and church of Clogher, and the bishop of Clogher for the time being totally lose his ordinary right therein, and in the hope that by means of the said Bartholomew, Peter and Raymund the said lands might be recovered) the said lands to them, reducing to a yearly pension or cess of 1 mark of the yearly pension of two marks which the bishop used to receive there from. The pope therefore orders the above two, if they find the facts to be as stated, to confirm the said reduction and grant, if they find them to the evident utility of the said mensa and church. Iis que pro ecclesiarum. (A. and F. de Laude. | A. xv. de Feletis.) [2 pp. +.] |
| 16 Kal. Dec. (16 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 130.) |
To Robert, bishop of Volterra, residing in the Roman court. Mandate, at the recent petition of Walter Stewart, archdeacon of Dunblane, M.A. (containing that after Martin V's reservation to himself and his successors etc. against from all sentences of excommunication, etc. against simoniacs, he, who is on his father's side of royal race, by receiving on the occasion of his presentation of a certain person to a cretain perpetual vicarage a sum of money, committed. simony and incurred the said sentences etc.) to absolve him (whose benefices and their values and dispensations the pope holds to be sufficiently expressed by these presents) from the said sentences etc., enjoining penance etc., dispense him on account of irregularity contracted, and rehabilitate him. Sedes apostolica, pia mater. (An. and Ja. Goier. | An. xx. de Adria.) [1½ pp.] |
| 1447[–8]. 4 Kal. March. (27 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 152d.) |
To the bishop of Countances. Faculty to reserve to his gift, for collation to thirty persons to be named by Henry, king of England, as many benefices with or without cure, of any value, in the province of Roune, even if canonries and prebends, dignities etc. in the collation etc. of any, and to make collation and provision thereof if or when void etc. He is to certify the officers of the papal camera or its collector in those parts of the names of the persons to whom collation is made and the dates of collation. Dum singularem fidei. (An. and Poggius. | An. Gratis de mandato. de Adria.) [3 pp.] |
| 1447. 12 Kal. Nov. (21 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 173.) |
To the bishop of Limerick. Mandate, at the petition of Thomas Fytzmorys, donsel, and Anora [daughter] of James de Geraldinis, damsel, of his diocese (containing that between Patrick de Geraldinis, baron of Ardfert, the said Thomas's father. and the said James, earl of Desmond, the said Anora's father, great wars have arisen, whence slaughter, burnings of towns and castles, depopulation, etc. have been perpetrated and are perpetrated daily, so that there seems to be no hope of peace, wherefore they desire to find a remedy by means of marriage) to dispense them to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in degrees of kindred, namely, on one side in the second, and on another side in the third and in the fourth and fourth. Oblate nobis. (Chri. and A. de Cortesiis. | Chri. xxx. Coronen.) [11/5 pp.) |
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Prid. Kal. Nov. (31 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 176d.) |
To William, elect of Glasgow. Faculty to him, to whom the pope has recently made provision of the said, church, to be consecrated by any catholic bishop, assisted by two or three others. The consecrator is thereafter to receive from him the usual oath of fealty, and to send it to the pope by William's letters patent sealed with William's seal. Cum nos nuper. (An. and Nazarius. | An. xvi. de Adria.) [1 p. +.] |
| 7 Kal. Dec. (25 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 192.) |
To the bishop of Kilmacduagh (Duacen.). Mandate to dispense Cormac Yheyn, layman, and Sawina, niece of Tebaldus de Burgo, of his diocese, who are related in the third and third and the third and the fourth degrees of affinity, and have committed fornication with one another and had offspring, after imposing penance for their incest, to marry not withstanding the said impediment of affinity; decreeing legitimate the said offspring and that to be born of the marriage. Oblate nobis. (An. and F. de Laude. | An. xviii. de Adria.) [¾ p.] |
| 16 Kal. Dec. (16 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 195.) |
To Alan Cant, dean of Ross [in Scotland], S.T.B. Faculty to him (who is also M.A., and to whom the present pope recently made provision of the above deanery, previously reserved, a major elective dignity with cure, of which he has obtained peaceable possession) to resign it, without licence of the apostolic see, to the ordinary or any other prelate, simply or for exchange; and faculty to such ordinary or prelate to carry out the exchange. In the event of such simple resignation, the ordinary or prelate is to certify (as above, f. 152d.) the name of the person to whom the deanery is collated, and the date of collation. Litterarum, etc. (An. and G. de Elten. | An. xx. de Adria.) [1½ pp. See below, Reg. Lat. CCCCXLIV, f. 6d.] |
| 9 Kal. Dec. (23 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 236d.) |
To Matthew Macuiylleayn, perpetual vicar of Cluane in the diocese of Killaloe (Laoniensis). Rehabilitation etc. as below. Martin V ordered the abbot of Ynysgat in the diocese of Killaloe to collate and assign to him the above vicarage, void because the late Matthew Maccenmara (sic), having obtained it by canonical collation, held it for more than a year without having himself ordained priest and without dispensation, the said Maccenmara being summoned and removed; proceeding to execution of which mandate Dermit, abbot of the said monastery, made collation and provision to Macuiylleayn. The same pope committed the cause of Maccenmara's appeal therefrom to the apostolic see, and of the principal matter, to the abbot of Clar alias de Forgio in the said diocese, after which Nicholas Medonis, prior of Yniscronan in the same diocese, subdelegated by the late Roderick Mecreiy, abbot of Clar, annulled by his definitive sentence the said collation and provision. At the petition of the said Macuiylleayn (adding that after he had appealed from the said sentence to the apostolic see, but before the cause of the appeal had been committed [and] even after it had been abandoned, (fn. 6) the said Matthew Maccenmara died. and that it is alleged by some that the vicarage is still void by that death, and that he therefore fears molestation in regard to the vicarage, which he obtained in virtue of the said collation and provision, and which he has held for sixteen (fn. 7) years) the pope hereby abolishes all disability contracted by him on account of the foregoing, absolves him from all sentences etc. which he may have incurred, as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents, and grants that the said first letters and the said collation and provision, and their consequences, shall hold good from the date of these presents, even if the vicarage, value not exceeding 10 marks sterling, be void by the non-promotion or death of the said Matthew, or in any other way. Vite etc. (An. and F. de Laude. | An. xxv. de Adria.) [3 pp. See Cal. Lett. IX, pp. 99, 375, 376.] |
| 8 Kal. Nov. (25 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 247.) |
To the bishop of Killaloe (Laoniensis). Mandate, after imposing penance for incest, to dispense to marry Rory Micmicteaghogh Maconmara, layman, and Mor Inykyda, of his diocese, who formerly, not in ignorance that they were related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred and the double third and third and fourth degrees of affinity, committed fornication several times with one another and had offspring; decreeing legitimate the said offspring and that to be born of the marriage. Oblate nobis. (A. and A. de Cortesiis. | A. xviii. de Feletis.) [1 p.] |
| 4 Non. Nov. (2 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 248d.) |
To the bishop of Limerick. Mandate, after imposing penance for incest, to dispense to marry Bernard Obryeyn, layman, of the diocese of Killaloe (Laoniensis), and Una [daughter] of Thady Micmahana (sic), of his diocese, who formerly, not in ignorance that they were related in the third and double fourth degrees of kindred, committed fornication several times with one another. Oblate nobis. A. and G. de Elten. | A. xx. de Feletis.) [1 p.] |
| 3 Id. Nov. (11 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 267.) |
To Walter Thondyt (rectius Thondyr), rector of Clongell in the diocese of Meath, licentiate of laws (in legibus.) Dispensation to him, who is a licentiate of laws by examination, to hold for life with the said church, value not exceeding 20 marks sterling, any other benefice, or if he resign the said church any two benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two parish churches etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, provided that he do not hold two major or principal dignities. Litterarum etc. (Chri. and Jo. de Steccatis. | Chri. xxxv. Coronen.) [1 p.] |
| 1447[–8]. 4 Kal. March. (27 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 296.) |
To Rory Macgillavanach, priest, of the diocese of Kilmacduagh (Duacen.) Rehabilitation, on account of his having detained the perpetual vicarage of Newtown (de Villanova) in the diocese of Kilmacduagh for more than a year without having himself ordained priest. He is to resign. Sedes apostolica, pia mater. (A. and G. Gonne. | A. Gratis pro deo. de Feletis.) [1 p.] |
| Ibid. | To the bishop and Donald Ocuin and Laurence Otiarnid, canons, of Kilfenora (Finaboren.) Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above Rory, after he has duly resigned it, the above vicarage, value not exceeding 6 gold florins of the camera. and also the rectory of Frioran (rectius Fuoran) Mor in the diocese of Annadown, value not exceeding 8 marks sterling, of the patronage of laymen, so long void, because William Ohynnery entered the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary Knockmoy (Collis victorie) in the diocese of Tuam, and made his regular profession, that its collation by the Lateran statutes has lapsed to the apostolic see, although Thady Omulrathe, priest, of the said diocese of Annadown, whom, from fear of his power, Rory cannot safely meet in the city and diocese of Annadown, and who is to be summoned and removed, has unduly detained it for more than two years without any canonical title. The collation is to be made to the said Rory (who was lately dispensed by papal authority, as the son of a deacon and an unmarried woman related in the second and second degrees of affinity, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, and afterwards to hold the said rectory, provision of which was ordered by papal letters to be made to him, and who, on account of his impetration of the said letters, was imprisoned for about four years) whether the said benefices be void as stated, or the said rectory be void because the late David de Burgo held it [for more than a year] without having himself ordained priest, or by the death of Bernard Yhinnery, or whether they be void in any other way. As soon as he gets possession of the said rectory, he is to resign the said vicarage, if meanwhile he obtain it, or give up all right in or to it. Vite etc. (A. and A. de Cortesiis. | A. Gratis pro deo. Pridie Id. MarciiAnno Primo de Feletis.) [4 pp.] |
| 1447. 12. Kal. Aug. (21 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 314d.) |
To Roger Magiugir, canon of Clogher. Dispensation to him (to whom the pope intends this day to make provision of the church of Clogher) to rule it etc. in spirituals and temporals: notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of unmarried parents and his defect of age, he being in his twenty-ninth year. Divina supereminens. (An. and Ja. de Vicentia. | An. xxx. de Adria.) |