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 487: 1453-1454', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, (London, 1915) pp. 655-664. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp655-664 [accessed 25 April 2024]
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Lateran Regesta, Vol. CCCCLXXXVII (fn. 1).
De Diversis Formis.
7 Nicholas V (cont.).
| 1453. Non. June. (5 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 2.) |
To John Stratton, a canon of Salisbury. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of John Crode and Robert Squylbe (rectius Squybbe), wardens and parishioners (fn. 2) of the parish and mother church of Frome Quynton in the diocese of Salisbury, contained that a dispute having arisen lately between them and John Hoper, Richard Tayllor and John Middelton and the rest of the parishioners of the daughter chapel of Evershette in the said diocese, about the contribution towards the repair of the nave, bell-tower, bells and cemetery and other parochial burdens of the said mother church, to the making of which contribution the said wardens alleged them to be bound as parishioners of the mother church, whereas the parishioners of the said chapel alleged that the said chapel had very many parishioners of both sexes and a nave, under the name of a parish church, a baptistry, bell-tower and bells and cemetery and all other parochial insignia and rights, and that therefore, as also in accordance with immemorial agreements made between the parishioners of both church and chapel, they ought to be free from all contribution to the said repair; and that the cause having been lawfully introduced before John Paslew (fn. 3), president of the consistory or episcopal court of the bishop of Salisbury, he promulgated a definitive sentence by which he condemned the parishioners of the said chapel to contribute to the repair of the said mother church, upon the said parishioners appealing from which sentence to the [court of the] archbishop of Canterbury, John Stevenes, examiner and commissary of causes of the said court, promulgated another definitive sentence, by which he confirmed the said sentence of John Paslew, and which became a res judicata. The pope therefore orders the above canon to summon the parishioners of the said chapel and others concerned, and if he find the said sentences lawful, to confirm them by papal authority, and cause them to be executed and inviolably observed, proceeding by ecclesiastical censure, and invoking if necessary the aid of the secular arm. Iis que provida. (P. and G.Gonne. | P. xx. de Varris.) [1¾ pp.] |
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| 1453[–4]. 9 Kal. Feb. (24 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 8d.) |
To Dermit Ocahyll, priest, of the diocese of Cashel. Rehabilitation, at his recent petition, containing that formerly, after he had been dispensed, on account of illegitimacy as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all [even] holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure he, having been so promoted, obtained the perpetual vicarage of Kyllelbye in the diocese of Cashel, canonically collated to him, and held it for more than a year without being ordained priest (fn. 4) and without dispensation, and detained it for other five years and more after the lapse of the said year and without having acquired any fresh canonical title, taking the fruits, subsequently resigning it.Sedes apostolica, pia mater. (A. and G. Gonne. | A.xvi. de Feletis.) [1 p.] |
| 1453[–4]. Prid. Id. Jan. (12 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 56.) |
To Robert Stewart, perpetual vicar of St. Monawog, in the diocese of Argyll, M.A. Dispensation to him (who is a kinsman of James, king of Scots, and has been dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, being the son of unmarried parents, and born of a race of earls and barons (fn. 5), to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, in virtue of which he obtained the above vicarage, canonically collated to him; and whom the pope has this day dispensed to hold any benefices of any number and kind, with or without cure, compatible with one another and with the said vicarage, even if canonries and prebends, dignities, even major or principal, etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases) to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage, value not exceeding 6l. sterling, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a dignity, even major or principal, etc., and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, provided that he do not hold two parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or one of each; notwithstanding the said defect etc. and the pope's recent ordinance against holding two major or principal dignities [see above, p. 5].Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (T. and A. de Cortesiis. | T.xxxx. de Tervisio.) [2pp.] |
| 1453[–4]. 3 Non. Jan. (3 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 76.) |
To Ninian Spot, perpetual vicar of Tarves in the diocese of Aberdeen. Dispensation to him (who is a priest and a chaplain and continual commensal member of the household of James, king of Scots, and holds the said perpetual vicarage and the perpetual chaplaincy without cure of Petelach, wont to be governed by secular clerks, in the chapel of St. Mary the Virgin situate within the Benedictine monastery of Dunfermlin in the diocese of St. Andrews, of which [vicarage and chaplaincy] the value (fn. 6) does not exceed 20l. sterling a year), to receive and retain for life together with the said vicarage any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, or without them any two other benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if rural deaneries, etc. or dignities etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, provided that he do not hold two major or two principal dignities, or two parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or one of each. Vite etc. (P. and B. de Monte. | P. xxxvi. de Varris.) [12/3 pp.] |
| 1453. 8 Kal. June. (25 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 77d.) |
To the master and brethren of the house or hospital of Holy Cross and St. Bartholomew, London, living under the rule of St. Augustine. Confirmation, with exemplifications, at their recent petition (containing that in their house or hospital of Holy Cross and St. Bartholomew the Apostle in the suburbs of the city of London, called ‘Woestsmedefeld,' many works are daily ministered to the indigent, and that so great a multitude of oppressed and poor resorts thither that their resources are not sufficient to support its burdens) of (i) The privilege Quotiens a nobis petitur of pope Lucius III, dated at Anagni by the hand of Albert cardinal priest and chancellor of the holy Roman church, 15 Kal. Jan. (18 Dec.). indiction 2, in the year of the Incarnation 1183, the 3rd year of pope Lucius III and addressed to Alan, priest, proctor of the hospital of the house of Smethfeld [and] his (eiusdem[que]) (fn. 7) brethren, present and future, taking under the protection of St. Peter and the pope the said hospital and all its possessions, present and future, with mention of the place where it is situate, with all its appurtenances, by gift of William de Choneham (or Choueham) a house in London with its appurtenances, a tithe of bread and the alms which remains in the mensa of the canons of St. Bartholomew's, all their alms and possessions in the city of London and without; of their newly cultivated lands which they till with their own hands or at their own cost, or from the food of their animals, no one shall exact tithes (fn. 8); they may during a general interdict celebrate the divine office, with closed doors (januis) and with bells unrung, in a low voice etc.; they shall have from the diocesan bishop chrism, holy oil, consecrations of altars or basilicas, ordinations of clerks who (fn. 9) are to be promoted to holy orders, and other ecclesiastical sacraments; they shall have their own sepulture and their own chaplain to minister in their church; they shall have free election of the proctor at each voidance; none shall within their houses or granges commit theft, rapine or violence, or arrest or slay a man, and no bishop etc. shall molest them with undue exactions or grievances. |
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The usual final clauses ‘Decernimus ergo ut nulli omnino hominum liceat Si qua igitur in futurum
… Cunctis autem … premia eterne pacis inveniant, amen,’ are followed by the subscriptions:Ego Lucius catholice ecclesie episcopus, Ego Theod[in]us Portuensis [et] sancte Romane [rectius Rufine]sedis episcopus, Ego Henricus Albanensis episcopus, Ego Iohannes presbyter cordinalis tituli sancti Marci, Ego Petrus presbyter cardinalis tituli sancte Susanne, Ego Vivianus tituli sancti Stephani in Celio monte presbyter cardinalis, Ego Laborans presbyter cardinalis sancte Marie Transtiberim (fn. 10) tituli sancti Calixti, Ego Pandulfus presbyter cardinalis tituli bans (rectius bas[ilice]) xii. Apostolorum, Ego Iac[int]us diaconus cardinalis sancte Marie in Cosmidin, Ego Gracianus sanctorum Cosme et Damiani diaconus cardinalis, Ego Bobo diaconus cardinalis sancti Angeli, Ego Gerardus sancti Adriani diaconus cardinalis, Ego Detauianius (rectius Octauianus sanctorum Sergii et Bachi diaconus cardinalis, Ego Albinus diaconus cardinalis sancte Marie Nove. Dat(a) Anagn(ie) … anno iii. [The foregoing privilege of Lucius III is not in Jaffé, Regesta, ed. Wattenbach etc. It is duly catalogued by P. Kehr, Aeltere Papsturkunden in den päpstlichen Registern. I., in the Nachrichten der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.Philologisch-historische Klasse, 1902, Heft 4, pp. 507, 539–540, the reference in both places being to ‘Lat. 487 A’ (sic).] (ii) The privilege Religiosam vitam eligentibus, of pope Alexander IV, dated at Anagni by the hand of Master Jordan, notary and vice-chancellor of the holy Roman church, 3 Non. April (3 April), indiction 2, the year of the Incarnation 1259, the 5th year of pope Alexander IV, addressed to the master of the hospital of St. Bartholomew, London [and] his (fn. 11) brethren, present and future, conferring on him like privileges to those conferred upon them by pope Lucius III, as above, with mention of the following by name; the place or close in which the said hospital is situate, with all its appurtenances, the church and manor which they have in the place called. Wakeryng, with all their appurtenances, the church of Heynton George, with all its appurtenances, the chapel which they have in the town called Hattefelde Regis, the land which they have in the place called Aleynesbury, the land which they have in the place called Chiñnunes, the land which they have in the place called Enefelde, the rent which they have in the town called Wolaston, the land which they have in Hendon called Clyderous, by gift of Robert Warner the houses and rents which they have in the city of London and without, with lands, meadows etc. and all their other liberties and immunities. Of their newly cultivated lands etc. (fn. 12), as in the privilege of Lucius III, with some variants, amplifications and additions, and with the final clauses ‘Decernimus ergo ut nulli omnino hominum liceat…. Si qua igitur in futurum … Cunctis autem … premia eterne pacis inveniant, amen, amen,’ followed by the subscriptions:Ego Alexander catholice ecclesie episcopus, Ego Odo Tusculan. episcopus, Ego Stephanus Prenestinus episcopus, Ego frater Johannes tituli sancti Laurencii in Lucina presbyteri (sic) cardinalis, Ego frater Hugo tituli sancte Sab[in]e presbyter cardinalis, Ego Riccardus sancti Angeli diaconus cardinalis, Ego Johannes sancti Nicolai in Carcere Tulliano diaconus cardinalis. Dat(a) Anagn(ie) … anno quinto. [The foregoing privilege of Alexander IV is not in Potthast, Regesta, nor in Cal. Papal Lett. Vol. I.] |
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| The present letter of pope Nicholas has the incipit ’Romanus pontifex providencia circumspecta,’ and has the usual subscriptions in the margin and at the end after the date: P. and Ja. de Vicentia. | P. l. de Varris. In the left-hand margin, near the beginning, is the occasionally, occurring initial letter ‘A.,’ perhaps representing ‘Anglia.' [5 pp. See above, Reg. Lat. CCCCLXXXVI, f. 26, and below, Reg. Lat. CCCCLXXXIX, f. 158d, and CCCCXCIII, f. 292d.] | |
| 1453[–4]. 9 Kal. Feb. (24 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 102.) |
To the abbot of the monastery of St. Mary, Kilcooly (de Arvicampo), in the diocese of Cashel. Mandate, seeing that a canonry of Cashel and the prebend of Kylbrach therein became (by the promotion made by Eugenius IV of William [now] bishop of Elphin to that church, and by his consecration administered to him at the apostolic see by order of the said pope) void at the said see and therefore reserved to the said pope, who died without disposing thereof, and are therefore reserved to the present pope; seeing also as the pope has been informed by Dermit Ocathill, priest (fn. 13), of the diocese of Cashel, that John Elyod, perpetual vicar of Ballysychan in the said diocese, has dilapidated and alienated and uselessly consumed the possessions thereof and neglected the cure of souls of the parishioners, to the shame of the priestly order, and that he is also of insufficient learning and letters, if the above abbot find the facts to be as stated, and if and after the said Dermit (who was lately dispensed by papal authority, on account of illegitimacy as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, and who was thereafter so promoted and obtained the perpetual vicarage of Kyllewe (rectius Kyllelbe) in the said diocese, canonically collated to him, which he afterwards resigned, who has studied canon and civil law for a long time in a studium particulare, and whom the pope hereby absolves from all sentences of excommunication etc. as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents) accuses the said John before the abbot, to summon John, and if he find the foregoing to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to unite and appropriate the said vicarage of Ballysychan, value not exceeding 6 marks sterling, to the said canonry and prebend, value likewise not exceeding 6 marks sterling, and to collate and assign them, thus united, to Dermit; whether that canonry and prebend be void as above, and the vicarage become void by such deprivation or be void by the death of Nicholas Walche, priest, or by the deprivation of Thomas Nongill, priest, of the said diocese, or whether they be void in any other way. Dermit is hereby dispensed to receive and retain them, notwithstanding the said defect etc. Iniunctum nobis. (A. and G. Gonne. | A.xxxv. Tertio Kal. Aprilis Anno Octavo. de Feletis.) [5⅓ pp.See p. 656.] |
| 1453[–4]. 5 Id. Feb. (9 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 106.) |
To the bishop of Ardagh. Mandate to dispense Fergal Oragille, layman and Cathelina Ingifergail, of his diocese, who have several times committed fornication, to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in the simple third and triple fourth degrees of affinity; proclaiming legitimate the offspring to be born of the marriage. Oblate nobis. (O. and M. Amici. | O. xx. Pontanus.) [2/3 p. The usual clause ordering the imposition of penance is absent, and there is no mention of past offspring.] |
| 1453[–4]. 4 Kal. March. (26 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 109d.) |
To the abbot of St. Mary's without the walls of York. Mandate, at the recent petition of the men and inhabitants of the town (ville) of Ayrmyn in the diocese of York—containing that a grant was formerly made to them by papal authority to newly (de novo) found and erect in the said town or its district, at their expense, a chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, have celebrated therein, when founded erected and dedicated, masses and other divine offices, even with music (alta voce), and have all sacraments administered to them, as is more fully contained in divers papal letters; and adding that between the said chapel, erected by them in the said town, in which chapel the said sacraments are administered to them, and the parish church of Snayth, within whose bounds the said town is situate, there are certain running streams, which in time of floods cannot be crossed without danger, and that therefore bodies and biers, especially in winter, cannot conveniently be carried to the said church, which is four English miles distant from the said town—if the facts be as stated, to grant to the said men and inhabitants that they may erect and found a cemetery near the said chapel, and cause it to be blessed, dedicated and consecrated by a catholic bishop. Votis humilium illis potissime. (P. and G. Gonne. | P. xxxv.de Varris.) [1½ pp. See Cal. Papal Lett., V, pp. 268, 269.] |
| 1453. 9 Kal. Sept. (24 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 113.) |
To Thomas, elect of Down and Connor. Faculty to him, to whom the pope has this day made provision of the said united churches, to be consecrated by any catholic bishop, assisted by two or three others, without prejudice to the archbishop of Armagh, to whom the said churches are by metropolitical right subject. Cum nos hodie. (T. and A. de Cortesiis. | T. xvi. de Tervisio.) [2/3 p. See below, Reg. Lat. CCCCLXXXVIIa, f. 18d.] |
| 1453[–4]. 17 Kal. April. (16 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 121d.) |
To the abbot of Inchcolm (Sancti Columbe de Insula) in the diocese of Dunkeld. Mandate, at the recent petition of Robert de Hamilton, rector of Munyabro in the diocese of Glasgow, bachelor of canon law (containing that formerly a yearly pension of 20 marks of the money of Scotland, which do not exceed the sum or value of 5l. sterling, was reserved and assigned to him by authority of the ordinary upon the fruits etc. of the capitular mensa of the church of Dunkeld, and that he had it confirmed by papal authority, and that, in order to smooth (ad sedandum) the litigation and discords which had arisen and might arise between him and Patrick de Blare, priest, of the said diocese, about the said parish church or its rectory he is, with the consent of the bishop and the dean and chapter of Dunkeld, ready to resign the said assignment and reservation, in order that the said pension may be transferred to the said Patrick) to admit Robert's resignation of the pension and, with the said consent, to reserve and assign and transfer it to Patrick. The abbot is to see that there be no corruption on the part of those concerned. Ad ea ut tenemur. (P. and Ja. Bigneti. | P.xxv. de Varris.) [2¼ pp.] |
De Dignitatibus Vacantibus.
| 1453[–4]. 3 Non. Jan. (3 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 169.) |
To Thomas Obraeyn, a canon of Tuam. Mandate to collate and assign the deanery of Tuam, a major elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 12 marks sterling, void at the apostolic see, and therefore reserved, by the promotion lately made by the present pope of the late Raymund bishop of Annadown to that church, and by his consecration which was administered to him by the pope's order at the said see, to Milerus de Burgo, a canon of Tuam, who alleges that John Okeallay, priest, of the said (sic) (fn. 14) diocese, has without any canonical title unduly detained possession of the deanery for about two years, and who is of noble birth by both parents and in about his twenty-fourth year, and whom the pope hereby absolves from all sentences of excommunication etc. as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents, summoning and removing the said John; whether it be void as above, or by the death of the said bishop, who died at the apostolic see, or by his resignation, or in any other way. The above canon is to induct Milerus, first receiving from him the usual oath of fealty according to the form enclosed, and the pope hereby dispenses him to receive and retain the deanery notwithstanding his said defect of age etc. Dignum etc. (A. and G. Gonne. | A.xxxii. Pridie Id. Januarii Anno Septembris. de Feletis.) [3 pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 197.) |
To the official of Kilmacduagh (Duacen.). Mandate to collate and assign to David de Burgo, clerk, of the diocese of Kilmacduagh, who is by both parents of noble birth and is in about his twenty-third year, the archdeaconry of Kilmacduagh, a non-major elective dignity with cure, value, with the annexed rectory of Dunkellyn in the said diocese, not exceeding 14 marks sterling, void by the death of Thomas Macgyllavanach; summoning and removing Denis Micgyllavanach, priest, of the said diocese, who under pretext of papal letters extorted by him when under sentence of the greater excommunication and publicly proclaimed excommunicate, and of a collation and provision which followed, has for about two years unduly detained possession. David is hereby specially dispensed on account of his said defect of age. Dignum etc. (O. and G. Gonne. | O.xxviii. Quarto Id. Januarii Anno Septimo. Pontanus. [12/3 pp. See above, p. 521.] |
| 1453[–4]. 5 Id. Feb. (9 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 209d.) |
To the abbots of Kilcooly (de Auruucampo; rectius de Aruicampo) and St. Mary alias Holy Cross of Wochtarlamand in the diocese of Cashel and the treasurer of Cashel. Mandate (the pope having been informed by Dermit Ocahill, priest, of the diocese of Cashel, that James Calfe, chancellor of Cashel, being a public and notorious fornicator and ignorant of letters, has dilapidated and alienated and uselessly consumed the possessions of the said chancellorship, and committed perjury, to the shame of the priestly order) if and after Dermit (who has for a great time studied canon and civil law in a studium particulare, and who was lately dispensed by papal authority, on account of illegitimacy as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders, and hold a benefice even with cure, and was subsequently, after he had obtained a certain benefice, canonically collated to him, and had resigned it, dispensed by the present pope to receive and retain a canonry and prebend of the said church, provision of which the pope had by other letters ordered to be made to him) accuses the said James before the above three, to summon him, and if they find the foregoing to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to collate and assign the said chancellorship, a non-major non-elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 6 marks sterling, to Dermit; whether it become void by such deprivation, or be void by the deaths of William Cantuell or Denis Yffyan, or be void in any other way. Dermit is hereby dispensed to receive the chancellorship, and to retain therewith the said canonry and prebend, the value of which with their annexes does not exceed 12 marks sterling, notwithstanding the said defect etc. Vite etc. (A. and A. de Cortesiis.| A. xxviii. Quarto Kal.Martii Anno Septimo. de Feletis.) [3 pp. +.] |