Vatican Regesta 663: 1474 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1955.

'Vatican Regesta 663: 1474', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 218-220. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp218-220 [accessed 26 April 2024]

Vatican Regesta, vol. DCLXIII.

Bullarum Diversarum Tom. IV.

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1474. 5 Kal. July. (27 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 310v.)	To all the brethren and sisters of the poor hospital of Holy Trinity and St. Thomas the Martyr de Urbe, called the hospital of the English. Indult for them and others of both sexes who shall belong to the confraternity of the said hospital during the next five years, and for each of them, to choose their confessors, who, after hearing their confessions, may grant them absolution, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see, and enjoin penance, and may grant them, being contrite and having confessed, plenary remission of all their sins, once only, namely in the hour of death, etc. Benigno sunt illa. (In the margin: Aug.) [1 p.]
Non. July. (7 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 330r.)	To William Fytzherbe[r]t, rector of Wryngton’ in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation, as below. Paul II dispensed him to hold for life with the parish church of St. John Baptist in the town of Gloucester, in the diocese of Worcester, value 24l. sterling, any one other benefice, or, if he resigned it, any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if major or principal elective dignities, etc., and to resign or exchange them, etc. The pope now dispenses him (who has resigned St. John's, and holds in virtue of the said dispensation the parish churches of Wryngton’ and Leek, in the above diocese and that of York), to hold, also for life, any third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a major or principal elective dignity etc., and to resign or exchange it, etc. Vite etc. (In the margin: Jul.) [3 pp.]
16 Kal. July. (16 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 351v.)	To Robert Camell’ alias Coppyinghe, rector of All Saints', Hethyll', in the diocese of Norwich, licentiate in decrees. Dispensation for him (who is also M.A., and is confessor and counsellor and a continual commensal member of the household of Margaret, duchess of Burgundy, and was lately dispensed by papal authority to receive and retain for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if major or principal elective dignities, etc., and to resign or exchange them, etc., and who holds the above church and that of St. Peter, Patrecbronton, in the archdeaconry of Richmond) to hold, also for life, any three benefices etc., as in the preceding. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. (In the margin: Jul.) [2²/3 pp.]
1473[–4]. Prid. Id. Feb. (12 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 406r.)	Relaxation in perpetuity of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who, being truly penitent and having confessed, visit on the feasts of the Annunciation of St. Mary the Virgin and the Invention of Holy Cross, from the first to the second vespers, the church of the monastery of Ambresbury, O.S.B., in the diocese of Salisbury (in which is a chapel of St. Mary the Virgin with an image of the Saviour crucified, to which image Thomas de la Mare, knight, lord of Aldremanston in the said diocese, and other faithful of those parts have a great devotion, and to which they resort in great numbers), and give alms for the conservation of the said church; with faculty hereby for the prioress to choose priests, secular or regular, to hear the confessions of such faithful and grant them absolution, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see, and enjoin penance. If similar indulgence have been granted by the present pope in perpetuity or for a time not yet expired, these presents shall be null and void. Univ. Christifid. … Pastoris eterni. (In the margin: Maij.) [1¼ pp.]

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1474. Non. Sept. (5 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 428r.)	To the bishops of London, Bath and Carlisle. Mandate to dispense Thomas Grey, esquire, of the diocese of Térouane (Morinen.), and Cecily Bonvile, of the diocese of London, to marry, notwithstanding impediments arising from their being related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred, and the third and third degrees of affinity, and also notwithstanding an impediment of quasi-affinity (fn. 1) arising from his having contracted espousals with a certain Anne, a kinswoman of Cecily in the third degree, then below marriageable age, and now deceased. (fn. 2)Oblate nobis. (In the margin: Aug.) [1¾ pp.]

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7 Kal. April. (26 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 470r.)	To William Rawlyns, a canon of Newerk, Leicester, in the diocese of Lincoln. Indult for him (who holds inter alia the perpetual vicarage of Claybroke in the diocese of Lincoln, in which he has sworn to keep personal residence in accordance with the constitutions of Otto and Ottobon), to take for life the fruits of the said vicarage and his other benefices, whilst residing in one (altero) of them, or studying letters in an university, or engaged in the service of an ecclesiastical lord, and not to be bound meanwhile to reside in person in the said vicarage and his other benefices; provided that the cure of souls in the said vicarage and his other benefices with cure be exercised by good and sufficient vicars. Vite etc. (In the margin: Aug.) [2½ pp.] (fn. 3)
1474. 10 Kal. June. (23 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 480v.)	To Henry Bollene, precentor of Lincoln, S.T.M. Indult, notwithstanding his oath to reside, to take for life the fruits etc. of the said precentorship and of all his other benefices, whilst residing in … lord (as in the preceding), as if personally resident in them. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. (In the margin: Aug.) [2½ pp.]