Lateran Regesta 494: 1454

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 494: 1454', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, (London, 1915) pp. 714-718. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp714-718 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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

8 Nicholas V.

De Diversis Formis.

1454.
10 Kal. Aug.
(23 July.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 8d.)
To the abbot of Cluayneoys in the diocese of Clogher. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Terence Ocayrbry priest, of the diocese of Clogher, contained that formerly, after Martin V's renewal and reservation to himself and his successors of absolution from all sentences of excommunication etc. for simony, the present pope, upon being informed by the said Terence that Patrick Ofuadachan, then perpetual vicar of St. Fergus's (Sancti Fergussii) de Ynyscaeyn in the said diocese, was a public concubinary and dissipator and dilapidator of the goods of the said vicarage and had committed other crimes [not here expressed], ordered Edmund Magugyr, a canon of Clogher, and certain colleagues, if and after Terence accused Patrick before them, to summon him, and if they found the foregoing to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to collate and assign the said vicarage [value not here stated] to Terence; that after Terence had caused Patrick to be summoned before the said Edmund and had accused him, and Edmund had proceeded short of a conclusion, Terence and Patrick agreed upon certain arbitrators, who in Edmund's presence ordained and awarded that sentence of privation and removal should be delivered by Edmund against Patrick, and provision made to Terence of the vicarage as void by such deprivation and removal, and that, the said sentence and provision notwithstanding, Terence should allow Patrick to retain the vicarage for his life and enjoy peaceable possession of it, in consideration of which Patrick should be bound to pay a certain sum of money to Terence; that, after the consent of Terence and Patrick to the said arbitration or award had been given, the said Edmund, proceeding in the cause. promulgated a definitive sentence, which became a res judicata. and by which he deprived and removed by papal authority the said Patrick. and made collation and provision to Terence; and that Patrick, acquiescing in the sentence, unduly detained, in accordance with the said agreement, possession of the vicarage for several years without any canonical title, and with Terence's permission, and paid the said sum to Terence; wherefore Terence, by committing simony, has incurred the said sentences etc., and, being under them, has celebrated masses etc. The pope therefore orders the above abbot to absolve Terence from all the said sentences etc., enjoining penance, dispense him on account of irregularity, and rehabilitate him. Sedes apostolica, pia mater. (P. and G. Gonne. | P. Gratis pro deo. de Varris.) [3 pp. See above, pp. 505, 636.]
Prid. Non. July.
(6 July.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 41d.)
To Angus [son] of John de Insulis, rector of Kilcolmkill in Morvern (Sancti Columbe in Moravia), in the diocese of Argyll alias Lismore, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him (who is a priest and was formerly dispensed by papal authority, on account of illegitimacy as the son of a married man of royal race and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he was so promoted and obtained by canonical collation the said church) to hold any other benefice with or without cure, even if a canonry and prebend or a dignity etc., and resign it, simply or for exchange. If such benefice have cure or be otherwise incompatible with the said church, he is to resign the latter. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (P. and— (fn. 2) | P. xx. de Varris.) [1¼ pp.]

7 Nicholas V.

1453 (fn. 3).
Prid. Id. July.
(14 July.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 52.)
To the bishop of Salisbury. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of John Pury, nobleman, lord of the place or manor of Cambrehous and Isabel his wife, noblewoman [of the diocese of Salisbury], contained that they and their children and household inhabit the said manor, which is within the parish and is very distant from the parish church of Thacham in the said [sic] (fn. 4) diocese, and that, inasmuch as at divers times of the year they cannot go to the said church on account of the danger of the waters, they desire to build etc. in the said manor a chapel of Holy Trinity and St. Mary the Virgin, with a baptismal font, bell-tower and bells etc., for the administration of the sacraments and sacramentals. and to found and endow both in the said chapel and in the said church perpetual chaplaincies or chantries for chaplains to administer to them and their household etc. all the sacraments and sacramentals except burial, and celebrate divine offices for their souls and to pray for them. The pope therefore orders the above bishop to summon the rector of the said church and others concerned, and if he find the foregoing to be lawful, to grant them licence to build the said chapel and have it consecrated and blessed by the bishop of the diocese, to found and endow the said chaplaincies or chantries in the said chapel and church, and to cause therein (in eis) masses etc. to be celebrated, even solemnly and sung (alta voce), by the said chaplains and any other fit priests and ministers chosen by them, and the sacraments and sacramentals, except burial, to be administered, in the said chapel, without prejudice to the said parish church, by the said priests and chaplains, and have their children baptised in the said chapel, without requiring licence of the diocesan or any other. The said bishop is also to reserve to them in perpetuity, after they have sufficiently endowed the chapel and such chaplaincies or chantries, and to their heirs and successors, the patronage and presentation of the said chapel and chaplaincies, both for the first time and as often as there is a voidance. Sincere devotionis. (P. and A. de Cortesiis. | P. lxxx. de Varris.) [22/3 pp.] [In the margin is the occasionally recurring initial letter ‘A,’ apparently representing ‘Anglia.’]
4 Kal. June.
(29 May.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 92.)
To all faithful. Relaxation, to be valid during twenty years only, of three years and three quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feast of St. Nicholas visit and give alms for the conservation and repair of the buildings, chalices, books and ornaments of the chapel or church, without cure, of St. Nicholas, situate within the bounds of the parish church of Tyhymah[a]m in the diocese of Norwich, and founded by Andrew Ogaert, nobleman, knight, of the said diocese. Licet is. (P. and Jo. Aurispa.| P. xx. de Varris.) [1 p. +.]

8 Nicholas V (cont.).

1454.
4 Id. Sept.
(10 Sept.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 117.)
To Ingram, bishop of Aberdeen. Faculty to dispose of all benefices with or without cure, secular or regular, even if they be canonries and prebends, dignities etc. in the cathedral (maiori) church of Aberdeen and in any collegiate churches, in his own sole collation etc. or in the joint collation etc. of him and any others, which shall, while he lives and is bishop of the said church, become void in the months of February, April, June, August, October and December, provided that they be not generally reserved to the apostolic see, etc.; notwithstanding the faculty granted to James king of Scots to nominate a certain number of persons etc., and provided that he do not make use of the general faculty granted by the pope on 18 Kal. July anno 1 [1447] to prelates and other persons about making collation of benefices void in certain months (m[en]sibus) [Ottenthal, Regulæ Cancellariæ Apostolicæ, p. 266, i.e. No. 89 of the Regulæ Nic. V.] etc. Devotionis tue. (P. and A. de Cortesiis. | P. Gratis de mandato. de Varris.) [2 pp. See above, pp. 7, 63, 64, 108, 475, 516.]
Prid. Non. July.
(6 July.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 274d.)
To the bishop of Lismore. Mandate, as below. The petition of Gillacius Ykeyth, dean of Lismore, contained that after provision had been made to him by papal authority of the perpetual vicarage of Gari in the diocese of Limerick, and he had in virtue thereof obtained possession, William Torger, clerk, of the said diocese, who had previously detained it, appealed from Gillacius's collation and provision and induction into possession to the apostolic see, and obtained from the present pope commission of the cause of the appeal and that of the principal matter to William, now bishop, then elect of Oloron, and holding the place of a papal auditor, who, proceeding in the cause of appeal by way of audiencia contradictarum, promulgated a definitive sentence, which became a res judicata, by which he adjudged the said vicarage to William and imposed perpetual silence on Gillacius, condemning the latter in fruits received and costs; and that William caused Gillacius (because he had not, within the term fixed by James Bouron, vidame of Reims, deputed by the pope as executor of the said sentence, made satisfaction to William in respect of the sum of gold florins at which the said costs had been taxed, and in respect of the said fruits, and because he had not obeyed the said letters of execution) to be excommunicated, and the sentence of excommunication to be several times aggravated. At the said petition, adding that Gillacius has acquiesced in the said sentence, resigned the said vicarage to William, and made an agreement with him in regard to the said fruits and costs, the pope hereby orders the above bishop to summon William and others concerned, and if he find that the said satisfaction, obedience and agreement have taken place, to absolve Gillacius from the said sentence etc., enjoining penance, and dispense him on account of irregularity contracted by celebrating masses etc. when under the said sentence etc. Humilibus supplicum votis. (P. and H. Masheim. | P. xxii. de Varris.) [1¾ pp. See above, pp. 437, 458, 573.]
7 Kal. July.
(25 June.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 292.)
To George Nevil, archdeacon of Durham (ecclesie Dulnomen.). Dispensation to him, who is in deacon's orders, is a legitimate son of the earl of Salisbury, chancellor of England, and has completed his twenty-first year, to be, as soon as he has completed his twenty-second year, promoted to the order of priest. Preclari generis. (P. and A. de Cortesiis. | P. xxv. de Varris.) [2/3 p.]

Footnotes

  • 1. On the back of the volume is the usual 18th century description in Italian: ‘Nicolò V. 1454, Anno 8. Lib. 1. ‘A flyleaf has, in different contemporary hands: ‘Primus De Diversis Formis [anno] viii. domini Nicolai pape v,' and ‘R(ecipe) Mar(celle?) A’ [de Feletis], and, at the top of the leaf, the edge of which is injured by damp, [Vidi] ‘pro domino Johanne episcopo Leodien.’ The usual faded contemporary description occurs also on the bottom edge of the volume: ‘Primus De Diversis Formis anno viii domini nostri domini Nicolai pape quinti.’ There are ff. 1–314 of text.
  • 2. The name of the scriptor is omitted from the margin.
  • 3. Datumquinquagesimo quarto (‘quarto’ is cancelled and overwritten ‘P[etru]s,’ ‘tertio’ being substituted in the margin by ‘P.’ [de Varris]) Pridie Id. Julii Anno Octavo (‘Octavo’ is cancelled and overwritten ‘P[etru]s,’ and is followed by) Septimo.
  • 4. No diocese has yet been mentioned.