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 779: 1477-1478', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 591-599. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp591-599 [accessed 25 April 2024]
In this section
Lateran Regesta, Vol. DCCLXXIX. (fn. 1).
7 Sixtus IV.
De Diversis.
| 1477. Prid. Id. Oct. (14 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 4v.) |
To John Aleyn alias Keruer, rector of the second portion of the parish church of All Saints, Gedling, wont to be ruled by two rectors, in the diocese of York. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said portion, value not exceeding 22l. sterling, any other benefice, or if he resign the said portion any two other 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 pleases. Vite etc. [12/3 pp.] |
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| 11 Kal. Jan. (22 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 16v.) |
To John Aton, prior of Chixsand, of the order of Semping[h]am, called the order of St. Gilbert, in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said priory, or if he resign it, with any other similar benefice of the said order, any other benefice with cure wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Religionis etc. [11/5 pp.] |
| 1478. 8 Kal. June. (25 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 25r.) |
To Prosper, [bishop] elect of Caithness (Cathanen.). Faculty to him, to whom the pope has recently (fn. 2) made provision of the said church, to be consecrated by any catholic bishop of his choice in communion with the apostolic see, assisted by two or three like bishops. The consecrating bishop is first to receive from him the usual oath of fealty according to the form enclosed, and Prosper is to send the said form to the pope by his letters patent sealed with his seal (fn. 3); without prejudice to the archbishop of St. Andrews, the metropolitan. Cum nos pridem ecclesie Cathanen. [1 p. See above, p. 587.] |
| 1477. 8 Kal. Nov. (25 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 36r.) |
To William Totnas, of the order of Friars Hermits of St. Augustine. Dispensation to him, who is a brother of the house of Tykhyll in the diocese of York, and in priest's orders, to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Religionis etc. [1 p. +] |
| Id. Nov. (13 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 41r.) |
To Richard Peryn, a brother of the hospital of St. Bartholomew in the town of Gloucester (in villa Gloucestrie), of the order of Cruciferi, called [the order] of the Holy Cross, (fn. 4) in the diocese of Worcester. The like dispensation to him, who is in priest's orders. Religionis etc. [1 p. +] |
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Ibid. (f. 44r.) |
To Roger Breggelond’, rector of the parish church of Stowtyng (fn. 5) in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church one other benefice etc., as above, f. 4v., mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| 1477[–8.] 4 Non. Jan. (2 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 23r.) |
To Henry Mudde, a monk of Jervaulx (Joreuallis), O. Cist., in the diocese of York. Dispensation to him, who is a priest, to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure wont to be governed by secular clerks or by canons or monks of any order, even if such secular benefice be a parish church, etc., and such regular benefice be a priorship etc., the former in titulum, and the latter in commendam, and to resign such benefice, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Religionis etc. [12/3 pp.] |
| 8 Kal. Feb. (25 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 64r.) |
To William Cockys, rector of the parish church of St. Margaret in Briggestrete, London. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 4v., mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [1½ pp.—] |
| 3 Kal. Feb. (30 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 69v.) |
To Peter, abbot of St. Mary's, Newbo, O. Praem., in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation, at his recent petition containing that the said monastery is so poor and all its houses and buildings so ruinous that it is very difficult for him to repair them without help, to receive and retain with the said monastery, or with any other monastery, any benefice etc., as above, f. 36r. Personam tuam. [1⅓ pp.] |
| 1477. 14 Kal. Jan. (19 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 75r.) |
To Richard Davy, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Ricall in the diocese of York, M.A. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage any other benefice, etc., as above, f. 4v. Litterarum etc. [2 pp.] |
| 10 Kal. Nov. (23 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 111r.) |
To Master Matthew de Porta, a papal chaplain and auditor. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of abbot George and the convent of the monastery of Abberbrothoc, O.S.B., in the diocese of St. Andrews, contained that on learning that the said monastery had become void Paul II, intending to make provision thereof to Hugh Douglas, clerk, of the said diocese, gave commission to Francis, cardinal deacon of New St. Mary's to make a report to the pope in consistory on the merits and fitness of the said Hugh, etc.; that although the said cardinal examined the witnesses produced on behalf of the said Hugh, and made the usual process in the matter, the said pope made provision to the late Richard, and for the lifetime of the said Hugh (who alleged that he was related to James king of Scots in the third and third degrees of kindred, and that he was a nephew of the late James, bishop of St. Andrews, that he had for a third time come to the Roman court with very great labour and expense, and that he had incurred many expenses before the said cardinal in the prosecution of the said promotion) dissolved the union and incorporation of the parish church of Abernethe in the diocese of Dunblane which had been made to the said monastery, and made collation and provision of the said church to Hugh; and that upon a dispute arising between the said abbot and convent and Hugh about the force of the said dissolution and provision, the present pope, at the instance of the abbot and convent, committed the cause (notwithstanding that it had not by its nature lawfully devolved to the Roman court) to the abovenamed auditor, who is said to have proceeded, but short of a conclusion. The said petition adding that the said church has been united and incorporated to the said monastery from time immemorial, and that such dissolution etc. would cause great loss, the pope, at the petition of the said king and of the said abbot George and convent, hereby orders the above auditor, if he find what is alleged to be true, to restore the said church to its pristine state, and to grant to the said George and the abbot for the time being that they may continue to retain possession thereof, receive its fruits etc., and convert them to the uses of the said monastery, without requiring licence of the diocesan or other, as if the said dissolution etc. had not been made. Apostolice sedis prouidentia. [2¾ pp.] |
| 12 Kal. Nov. (21 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 118r.) |
To Richard, bishop of St. Asaph. Grant and indult to him (who is professed of the Premostratensian order, and who at the time of his appointment to the church of St. Asaph was abbot of Shap (de Shappa alias Heppe) in the diocese of Carlisle, of the said order, and who at present holds the said monastery in commendam by papal grant), to wear over the habit of the said order a mantle of black or other decent obscure colour. (fn. 6) Within the said monastery, however, he is not to wear such mantle. (fn. 7)Personam tuam. [2/3 p.] |
| 17 Kal. Jan. (16 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 119v.) |
To the bishop of Glasgow. Mandate to dispense Walter Abernethay, scholar, of Glasgow, M.A., (fn. 8) if he find him fit, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of a clerk and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and receive and retain (fn. 9) the provostship of St. Mary's, Dumberthen, in the diocese of Glasgow, which is a principal dignity, yearly value not exceeding 80 gold florins of the Camera, [and] any other benefices with and without cure, of any number and kind, compatible with one another and with the said provostship, even if canonries and prebends, dignities, etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, provided that of such dignities none be a major dignity in a cathedral or (except the said provostship) a principal dignity in a collegiate church. Ex parte dilecti filii. [14/5 pp.] |
| 11 Kal. Jan. (22 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 142r.) |
To Thomas Bedill, a canon of the priory of Stonlee, O.S.A., in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice etc., as above, f. 36r. Religionis etc. [1 p.—] |
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Ibid. (f. 142v.) |
To John Gray, rector of the parish church of Be[r]ckyng (fn. 10) in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him, who is in subdeacon's orders only, to receive and retain with the said church one other benefice etc., as above, f. 4v. Nobilitas generis, (fn. 11)vite etc. [1½ pp.] |
| Non. Oct. (7 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 162v.) |
To John Talwyn, rector of the parish church of St. James the Greater, South Reppes, in the same diocese, M.A. Dispensation to receive and retain with the said church any other benefice, etc., as ibid. Litterarum etc. [2⅓ pp.] |
| 3 Non. Sept. (3 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 184r.) |
To Simon Sidenam, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Sovoth [recte Sovvth] Pederton in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth, to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage any two benefices, or without the said vicarage any three 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 pleases, provided that of such three incompatible benefices not more than two be parish churches, etc. Nobilitas generis, vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| 1477. Kal. Oct. (1 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 196r.) |
To the abbot of Fermoy (de Castrodei) in the diocese of Cloyne (Clonen.), John Fuyt, a canon of Cloyne, and the official of the same. Mandate, as below. The pope has learned that the perpetual vicarages of the parish churches of Ca[r]ydunayn (fn. 12) (which is of lay patronage, and to which is annexed a certain perpetual benefice without cure called the parcel of Legayn) and Dyrivoyleayn, in the diocese of Cloyne, have been so long void that there is no certain knowledge of the last mode of their voidance, and that their collation has lapsed to the apostolic see, although Thady Oleyn, priest, has detained possession of the said vicarage of Carydunayn (fn. 13) for between three and five years without any title or right. And the recent petition of Richard Bieeyd (?), (fn. 14) clerk, of the said diocese, contained that the said churches are so near together that the said vicarages can be served by one man, and that from the fruits etc. of one of them, on account of their slenderness, he cannot maintain himself etc., and that if the said vicarage of Ca[r]ydunayn and its annex were united to that of Dyryvoyleayn their holder could be better maintained etc. At the said petition, therefore, for the union of the said vicarage of Carydunayn and its annex to that of Dyryvoyleayn for Richard's lifetime, the pope hereby orders the above three to summon those concerned, and if they find the facts to be as stated, to unite the said vicarage of Carydunayn and its annex to that of Dyryvoyleayn for Richard's lifetime only, and in that event to collate the said vicarage of Carydunayn, value with its annex not exceeding 4 marks sterling, and that of Dyryvoyleayn, value not exceeding 2 marks, to the said Richard, 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, after which he was made a clerk; summoning and removing the said Thady. The pope further dispenses him to resign the said vicarages, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, and to receive and retain a similar or dissimilar benefice, notwithstanding the said defect, etc. Apostolice sedis circumspecta benignitas. [3 pp.—] |
| 15 Kal. Nov. (18 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 202r.) |
To Leonard Say, clerk, of the diocese of London. Dispensation to him, who is in his nineteenth year, to receive and retain forthwith any benefice with cure or otherwise requiring priest's orders, even if a parish church, etc., or a dignity, etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. [1 p. +] |
| 11 Kal. Jan. (22 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 210r.) |
To Henry Rudyng, warden called master of the hospital of St. John Baptist of the town of Bedford (ville Bedford’) in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of decrees. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said hospital (which is wont to be assigned to secular clerks as a title of a perpetual benefice, and which has cure), any other benefice, etc., as above, f. 4v. Litterarum etc. [2 pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 216r.) |
To Richard Wermouth, rector of the parish church of St. George of the town of Stamford (ville Stamford) in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of laws. Dispensation to receive etc., as ibid. Litterarum etc. [2 pp.—] |
| 1477[–8]. 4 Non. Jan. (2 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 226v.) |
To Walter Averey, a canon called a friar of the priory of SS. John Baptist and John the Evangelist, of the hospital of Cruciferi within the east gate of Oxford, O.S.A. (fn. 15) Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure etc., as above, f. 36r., notwithstanding the constitutions of Otto and Ottobon, sometime papal legates in England, etc. Religionis etc. [11/5 pp.] |
| 1477. 3 Non. Sept. (3 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 242v.) |
To John Clarvaux, a canon of Holy Trinity, Rekham, O.S.A., in the diocese of York. Dispensation to him, who is a priest, to receive and retain for life any benefice etc., as in the preceding. Religionis etc. [1 p.] |
| 7 Id. Sept. (7 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 247v.) |
To William Shirwod, rector of the parish church of St. Michael the Archangel, Oxford (in Oxonia), in the diocese of Lincoln, doctor of decrees. Dispensation, as below. Pius II dispensed him (who had been dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of unmarried parents, to be promoted to all, even holy and priest's orders and hold a benefice even with cure, in virtue of which he had had himself so promoted, and had obtained and was then holding the above church), to receive and retain for life with the said church any other benefice, or if he resigned that church any two other 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 [Cal. Papal Lett. XI, p. 521]. The pope now dispenses him, who in virtue of the said dispensation holds with the said church of St. Michael the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of St. Paul within Malmesbury, in the diocese of Salisbury, to receive and retain therewith for life 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 pleases, provided that of such three incompatible benefices not more than two be parish churches, etc. Litterarum etc. [2 pp.] |
| 6 Id. Oct. (10 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 255r.) |
To the abbot of Holy Trinity near Edinburgh and the provosts [sic] of the churches of Edinburgh, in the diocese of St. Andrews. (fn. 16) Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Laurence Aront, provost of the church of Dumbertane in the diocese of Glasgow, and the executors of the testament or last will of the late George Abirnethy, provost of the said church, dwelling in the same diocese, co-litigants in that behalf, (fn. 17) contained that Robert, bishop of Argyll, falsely alleging that the said co-litigants were lawfully bound to deliver to him divers moveable goods, brought them, not by papal delegation, before the official of Glasgow, who, wrongfully proceeding, promulgated an unjust definitive sentence in favour of the said bishop and against the said co-litigants, from which they appealed to the apostolic see, but that the said official, in contempt of the said appeal, of which he was not ignorant, and for the prosecution of which they were well within the lawful time, wrongfully proceeded further, and has excommunicated the said co-litigants, etc. At their petition therefore for the commission of the causes of the said appeal, of the nullity of the process, of the definitive sentence, of the sentence of excommunication, etc., and of the principal matter, to some upright men in those parts, the pope hereby orders the above named to summon the said bishop and others concerned, hear both sides and, taking cognizance of the principal matter also, decide what is just, without appeal, causing their decision to be observed, by the said bishop by the pope's authority, and by the others by ecclesiastical censure. Humilibus etc. [1⅓ pp.] |
| Kal. Oct. (1 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 255v.) |
To Thomas Feld, of the diocese of St. Andrews, a Friar Minor. Dispensation to receive and retain [for life] a benefice [with cure], even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage, and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, and to receive in its stead and retain for life a similar or dissimilar benefice with cure. Religionis etc. [2/3 p.] |
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Prid. Id. Oct. (14 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 260v.) |
To John, bishop of Girghenti (Agrigentin.), residing in the Roman court. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Rory, abbot of the monastery of St. Broganus, Mothel (de Motellia), O.S.A., in the diocese of Lismore, contained that he ordered a certain servant of his, a layman, who was walking with him, to go to a certain town for the purpose of recovering certain stolen beasts belonging to the said monastery; that the said servant broke out into words of violence against the said abbot, who, provoked to extreme anger, threw from behind the said servant, whom he greatly loved, not thinking to hurt him, a common sword which he was wearing for self-defence, according to the custom of the country, with the intention, not of injuring him, but of frightening him away, and that by chance the said servant was struck on the head with the cross of the sword, from which blow, as is alleged, he died a few days after. Seeing that, as the said petition added, the said servant confessed in the hour of death that the said abbot was not the cause of his death, and acquitted him of all wrong doing, and that the said abbot is not guilty otherwise than as aforesaid, that the said manslaughter is occult and was committed against the will and intention of the said abbot, and that if the said abbot were to return to the said monastery (the roof and walls of which, when it was almost utterly desolate, he repaired at the expense of his parents, and which he has enriched with ornaments and servants, to the increase of divine worship), with the ministry of the altar interdicted to him, the said occult manslaughter would become public, whence without doubt would arise great scandals and feuds and manslaughters between the parents and friends of the said abbot and those of the said layman, and great ruin to the said monastery, and that it would be deprived of divine worship; seeing also that the said abbot has been always wont to celebrate masses and other divine offices in the church of the said monastery, and that on account of his merits the men of those parts have had a great affection for him, the pope has been petitioned on behalf of the said abbot (who alleges that he has been wont to feed every day forty poor men and pilgrims from all parts, that he has come on foot with great toil to the Roman court, that he has not celebrated masses and other divine offices since the said manslaughter, and that he could not govern the said monastery justly and holily and rule the canons thereof without the ministry of the altar), to provide for him and his state in regard to the foregoing. The pope, therefore, (fn. 18) hereby orders the above bishop to absolve the said abbot, who is a priest, from the guilt of manslaughter, enjoining a salutary penance, etc., dispense him on account of irregularity contracted, and dispense him to rule the said monastery, etc., and to minister in his orders, even in the ministry of the altar, and rehabilitate him. Sedes apostolica pia mater. [14/5 pp.] |
| 1477. Prid. Non. Nov. (4 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 280v.) |
To Matthew Knyveton, rector of the parish church of Longford in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, M.A. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 4v., mutatis mutandis. Litterarum etc. [12/3 pp.] |
| 11 Kal. Jan. (22 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 308r.) |
To John Barfootte, perpetual vicar of the parish church of St. Clement, Cambridge (Cantabrigie), in the diocese of Ely, bachelor of decrees. The like. Litterarum etc. [1½ pp. +] |