Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1955.
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'Lateran Regesta 720: 1471-1472', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 303-306. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp303-306 [accessed 20 April 2024]
In this section
Lateran Regesta, Vol. DCCXX. (fn. 1)
1 Sixtus IV.
De Diversis Formis.
| 1471[–2]. Id. Feb. (13 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 23v.) |
To Thomas Hawkyns, precentor of Salisbury, M.A. Dispensation, as below. Pope Calixtus iii dispensed him to receive and retain for life with the parish church of Bredon’ alias Breden', in the diocese of Worcester, any other benefice, or, if he resigned that church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two dignities etc., or two parish churches etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased. The pope hereby dispenses him (who has resigned the said church and has obtained successively the precentorship of Salisbury, a non-major dignity, and the parish church of Clyve episcopi in the said diocese) to receive and retain for five years with the said precentorship (even if it be elective and have cure) and church, or with any two incompatible benefices, any other third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church, etc., or a dignity etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases; provided that not more than two of such three incompatible benefices be parish churches or perpetual vicarages. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. [2⅓ pp. See Reg. Lat. DCCXVIII., f. 34r., above, p. 299.] |
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| 1471. 6 Id. Dec. (8 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 42r) |
To Thomas Burwell, rector of Okeham in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church any one other benefice, or, if he resign it, any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two parish churches etc., or dignities etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. [1⅓ pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 43v.) |
To John Radclyff, rector of Shydlyngton in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation, as in the preceding. Vite etc. [1⅓ pp.] |
| 8 Kal. Sept. (25 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 83r.) |
To Thomas Fyssher, rector of Eton Hastyng in the diocese of Salisbury. Decree, as below. Pope Paul II, under date Kal. Aug. anno 7 [1 Aug., 1471], dispensed him to receive and retain for life with the above church any other benefice, or without it any two benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches etc., or dignities etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased. The said pope having died before his letters were drawn up, the pope hereby decrees that these presents shall be sufficient proof thereof. Rationi congruit. [2¼ pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 91r.) |
To Robert Wymbusch, rector of Braunceton in the diocese of Lincoln, licentiate in decrees. Decree, as below. Pope Eugenius IV dispensed him to receive and retain for life with the parish church of Wchicheford [sic] in the diocese of Worcester any benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church etc., or a dignity etc., and to resign it and any other incompatible benefices, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased. Afterwards Paul II, viz. under date 13 Kal. Aug. anno 7 [20 July, 1471], dispensed him (who had resigned the said church of Wchicheford, and had obtained in virtue of the said dispensation the parish churches of Halton by Spillesby and Braunceton, in the diocese of Lincoln, and had resigned Halton and obtained the subdeanery of Lincoln, a non-major dignity, to which the prebend of Welton Westhall in the said church of Lincoln is annexed, and was holding Braunceton and the said subdeanery, also in virtue of the said dispensation), to receive and retain for life with the said church and subdeanery (even if the latter were elective and had cure), or with two other incompatible benefices, any third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church etc., or a dignity etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased, provided that not more than two of such three incompatible benefices were parish churches or perpetual vicarages. The said pope having died before his letters were drawn up, the pope hereby decrees that these presents shall be sufficient proof thereof. Rationi congruit. [2½ pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 94v.) |
To John, bishop of Tenos (Tinen.). Decree, as below. Pius II granted him indult to retain in commendam for life with the church of Tenos the parish church of St. Laurence, Lydeyarde, in the diocese of Bath and Wells, which he was holding at the time of his promotion by the said pope to the said church of Tenos [Cal. Papal Lett., XII, pp. 12, 50, 51]; and the same pope, upon his setting forth that the fruits, etc., of the said parish church did not exceed a yearly value of 40 marks sterling, with which he could not keep up his episcopal state, dispensed him to receive and retain in commendam for life with the said churches of Tenos and St. Laurence any other benefice, secular or regular (even of the order of canons regular of St. Augustine, of which he had made his profession), with or without cure, even if a parish church, etc., or a priory, etc., and to resign it and St. Laurence's, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased [ibid., XI, p. 624]. Subsequently Paul II, upon its being set forth to him by the said John that in virtue of the foregoing he had obtained by canonical collation the priory of St. John Baptist, Wells, O.S.A., and was holding it with the said churches of Tenos and St. Laurence, dispensed him, under date 8 Id. July anno 7 [8 July, 1471], to receive and to retain in commendam for life with the said churches of Tenos and St. Laurence (value as above) and priory any other third benefice, secular or regular of the aforesaid or any other order, with or without cure, even if a parish church, etc., or a dignity, etc., or an abbey, etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased. The said pope having died before his letters were drawn up, the pope hereby decrees that these presents shall be sufficient proof thereof. Rationi congruit. [3½ pp.] |
| 1471[–2]. 5 Id. Feb. (9 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 125r.) |
To Andrew Alamani of Denmark (de Datia), perpetual vicar of Kyrkben in the diocese of Glasgow, master in medicine. Dispensation, out of consideration for James, king of Scots, whose physician he is, to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage, value 18l. sterling, any one other benefice with cure, etc., as above, f. 42r. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. [2 pp. +.] |
| 7 Id. Jan. (7 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 215r.) |
To John ap Ricard, rector of Sutotton [sic] in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the parish church of Sutton in the diocese of Salisbury [any] one other benefice, or without it any two other benefices with cure, etc., as above, f. 42r. Vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| 1471[–2]. 5 Id. Feb. (9 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 219v.) |
To Peter Warner, rector of Lydeyerd Mulsent in the diocese of Salisbury, M.A. The like. (fn. 2)Litterarum scientia, vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| Kal. Feb. (1 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 222r.) |
To William Towrys, rector of Northiam in the diocese of Chichester, bachelor in decrees. The like. Litterarum etc. [1½ pp.] |
| 17 Kal. Apr. (16 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 286r.) |
To Robert Wilson, rector of Kyrkby in Hundoldall’ [sic], in the diocese of York, I.U.B. The like. Litterarum etc. [12/3 pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 287r.) |
To John Coryngdon, rector of Dipford in the diocese of Exeter, I.U.B. The like. Litterarum etc. [12/3 pp.] |
| 15 Kal. March. (16 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 313r.) |
To Thomas Overay, chancellor of Wells. Mandate, at the recent petition of Edward Lugwardyne, priest, of the diocese of Bath and Wells (containing that he had himself promoted to the order of a priest when in or about his twenty-first year, and, being suspended from the exercise thereof, has ministered therein, in the ministry of the altar, but not in contempt of the Keys, thereby incurring irregularity), to absolve the said Edward, who is in his twenty-second year, from the said excess, enjoining a salutary penance, etc., rehabilitate him, and dispense him on account of the said irregularity, and dispense him to minister in the said order, even in the ministry of the altar. Sedes apostolica, pia mater. [1 p. Cf. above p. 298.] |
| 17 Kal. April. (16 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 315r.) |
To the bishop and the archdeacon of Ross, and Donald Ohedyrsceoyl, a canon of the same. Mandate, the monastery of St. Mary, O'Dorney (de Kyrieleyson), O. Cist., in the diocese of Ardfert, having been so long without an abbot that there is no certain knowledge of the last mode of voidance, although Edmund Fismoris has detained possession of it for between eight and fourteen years without any title, etc., to summon the said Edmund, and grant in commendam for life the said monastery, value not exceeding 50 marks sterling, equal to 40l. of petits tournois or thereabouts, to Philip Stack, archdeacon of Ardfert, who is of noble race and holds a canonry and prebend as well as the archdeaconry of the said church, a non-major dignity, and who cannot safely meet the said Edmund within the city or diocese of Ardfert. Romani pontificis providentia. [1¾ pp.] |
| 1472. 4 Non. April. (2 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 319v.) |
To William Denys, rector of Harbaldowe in the diocese of Canterbury, M.A. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church any one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 42r. Litterarum etc. [1⅓ pp.] |