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2 Id. July.
St Peter's, Rome.
(f. 7.) |
To Ralph Selby, archdeacon of Buckingham. Indult for life to visit his archdeaconry by deputy, and to receive the usual procurations to the daily amount of 30 silver [gros] Tournois
at the rate of 12 to the gold florin of Florence. Vite ac morum. |
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Concurrent mandate to the priors of Barnwell and Anglisey in the diocese of Ely, and the dean of London. Vite etc. (De mandato.) |
Kal. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 26.) |
Grant for seven years of the indulgence of the Portiuncula to penitents who from the first to the second vespers of Good Friday (in bona die Parasceves) and the feast of St. Clement, pope and martyr, visit the church of St. Clement without New Temple Bar in the Suburb of London; with indult to the rector and four others, secular or religious, of his choice, to hear their confessions and grant absolution, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.) |
12 Kal. March.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 37d.) |
The like to penitents who from the first to the second vespers of Whitsun Day and four following days, Corpus Christi and the following day, and the Assumption and following day, visit and give alms for the conservation of the chapel of St. Mary the Virgin by the gate on (super) the wall of the Benedictine monastery of St. Mary's, York; with indult as above to the abbot and nine other priests, secular or religious, of his choice. Any previous similar indulgence granted by the pope and not yet expired, except that dated 2 Non. April anno 6 [1395, Cal. Lett. IV, 511], is hereby annulled. Univ. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.) |
1399.
3 Kal. June.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 57d.) |
To the bishop of Monte Corvino, the prior of St. John the Evangelist, Kermerdyn, in the diocese of St. Davids, and the archdeacon of Kermerdyn. Mandate to proceed to the execution, against any intruders, and in regard to the restoring of possession only, of the letters executory addressed to them in pursuance of three definitive sentences obtained from divers papal auditors by William Herri, rector of Lassodurne in the said diocese, against Philip David, clerk, of the same diocese, about the said church, of which William, after canonically obtaining it, was despoiled by Philip. Exhibita nobis. (Pro Deo.) |
3 Id. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 58d.) |
To Walter Walden, clerk, of the diocese of London. Dispensation to hold, on attaining his sixteenth year, a benefice with cure, even elective, and even if a dignity, major or principal and united respectively, personatus, administration or office in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to exchange it as often as he will for a similar or dissimilar benefice. Vite ac morum. |
2 Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 62.) |
To John Swayne, clerk, of the diocese of Kildare. Ratification, he having by mistake declared that he was the son of a priest, instead of an unmarried man, and an unmarried woman, of the usual papal dispensation on account of illegitimacy; with dispensation hereby to hold any mutually compatible benefices of any number and kind, with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends or elective dignities, major or principal respectively, personatus or offices in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, to exchange them for similar or dissimilar benefices, and to be promoted to episcopal or archiepiscopal or any other dignities, secular and regular. His illegitimacy need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite ac morum. (Pro Deo.) |
2 Non. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 70d.) |
To Peter Stapulton, priest, of the diocese of Durham. Decree, with exemplification from the register, the original having been lost, giving the force of the original to the letters—Racioni congruit, of Urban VI, dated 14 Kal. May anno 1 [1378], and ordering the archbishop and treasurer of York and Thomas Batton, canon of Lincoln, to collate and assign to him the church of Seggefeld in the diocese of Durham, if void as below. To Stapulton, being then rector of Owytb[u]rn in the same diocese and bachelor of canon and civil law, Gregory XI by letters dated Non. May anno 7 [1377], willed Seggefeld to be collated and assigned as being void by reason that John de Henlay held it, together with Howton, in the same diocese; notwithstanding that he held Owytb[u]rn, which he was to resign upon getting Seggefeld, that he held a canonry of York with expectation of a prebend and dignity under his letters, which letters were to be null as far as regarded such dignity only, and that he was expecting under other of his letters a benefice without cure in the gift of the archbishop of York. Pope Gregory having died before his letters about Seggefeld were drawn up, Urban VI decreed that they should hold good from their said date, and ordered as above. Provisionis nostre. [See Reg. LXXXII f. 4]. |
1399.
8 Id. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 72.) |
Relaxation of a hundred days of enjoined penance to penitents who visit the church of St. Saviour, York, and are present at the singing of a certain antiphon of the glorious Virgin which is wont to be sung there daily in the evening. Univ. Christifid. etc. Dum precelsa. (De mandato.) |
12 Kal. June.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 80.) |
To Donatus (added in margin) elect of Killaloe, the precentor of Limerick, and Eugene Omaenachan, canon of Killaloe. Mandate to induct into possession of the archdeaconry of Glendalough, a dignity, Maurice Obryn, clerk, of the diocese of Limerick, and to remove Thomas Snel and any other. Upon the pope learning lately that it had become void and reserved under the constitution Execrabilis, by reason that Snel had obtained and held therewith without dispensation the rectory of Galterum in the diocese of Meath, he ordered the bishop and dean of Clogher and Thomas Waper (sic) canon of Dublin, to collate and assign it to Obryn. The latter's recent petition contained that Gerald Obroin, canon of Kilfenora, acting as sub-executor, has made provision to him by a sentence which the pope hereby confirms and orders to be executed. Dudum siquidem per nos. (De mandato.) [See below Reg. cxiii f. 206.] |
11 Kal. June.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 82.) |
To William Beverley, priest, of the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation on account of irregularity contracted, so that he may minister in his orders and keep his benefices and hold others, with or without cure and compatible; with rehabilitation. One day when in the town of Bletchingli in the said diocese, whither he had gone for a walk (spaciatum ivisti), being asked by a priest where he was going, he replied that he was going to a house in the town to drink with a friend. The priest said “If you will pay for my drink I will go with you,” to which he agreed, and when they had well drunk (bene potati) and were going away the priest asked him if he would go to another house, saying he would give (propinaret) him some of his own beer. They went, and while talking of divers things in that other house, in which was a woman who took offence (scandalizata), the priest said “He who offends (scandalizat) another sins in hope (peccat in spc).” “How do you understand this word hope?” said William. “I understand it as well as you,” replied the priest. “No doubt you do,” said William, “but, please explain the word.” And when William had made some more jokes about the same matter, the priest taking them ill, began to abuse him, and went off to his own house. As William was returning from the town, he passed the priest's house. The priest was within the door, and on seeing William approach he firmly tied his hood to his head (ligavit et connexit); and, on William saluting him in a friendly way, said in a great rage “What do you want with me?", to which William replied “Nothing, save your very good health.” The priest, sharpening more and more his evil intent, followed him a good distance in a hostile way, all the time making as though he would spit in his face; on which William said “ I beg you by the love of Christ to leave me and not tempt me so,” and, believing that the priest carried no arms, added “As you have no arms on you (super te) what can you do?” At this the priest cried furiously and like a madman “Now I'll let you see if I've no arms on me,” and would have drawn a knife which he said he wore at his side, and William, thinking that as the priest was only four feet off he would be killed, drew his dagger (basclardum) to defend himself, but with no intention of wounding, and struck the priest over the head, so that in five days, from the blow or neglect or want of a doctor, he died, for which William is extremely sorry. Vite ac morum. (De mandato.) |
Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 84d.) |
To Robert Derfeld, clerk, of the diocese of York. Dispensation, on account of illegitimacy as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, and of defect of age, to be ordained subdeacon and deacon when in his eighteenth year, and priest on attaining the lawful age, and to hold and exchange two benefices with or without cure. His illegitimacy and defect of age need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite ac morum. (In margin: Cancelletur alia, si reperiatur, quia per istam corrigitur.) |
9 Kal. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 88d.) |
To John Wykeham, rector of Crondale in the diocese of Winchester, licentiate of canon law. Dispensation to him, who then, as now, holding canonries of Chichester, Lincoln, and Exeter, with expectation of prebends, under letters of the present pope, as well as Crondale, was lately dispensed [Reg. Lat. XIV, f. 229] to hold for three years, together with Crondale, one other benefice, even if a dignity, personatus or office with cure, or a parish church, and to exchange both as often as he pleased for similar or dissimilar benefices, with the condition of exchanging within the said period one of such incompatible benefices for another compatible with the remaining one, or, if not, of resigning the first of them obtained, after which he obtained Broghton in the diocese of Lincoln, which he still holds, value with Crondale not exceeding 200 marks—so that he, who has also had from the pope provision of a canonry of St. Mary's, Stettin, in the diocese of Cammin (Caminen.), with expectation of a major prebend, may continue to hold the said two parish churches even after the impending expiry of the said term, exchange them as often as he pleases for, and hold together for life, two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices, even with cure and elective, and even if dignities, major or principal respectively, personatus or offices in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches. Litterarum sciencia, vite ac morum. (De mandato.) |
5 Kal. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 90d.) |
To Henry Chichele, canon of Salisbury, D.C.L. Rehabilitation, etc. motu proprio. A cause arose lately between him and Nicholas Bubbwith, rector of Brinton in the diocese of Lincoln, about the archdeaconry of Dorset, void by the death of Michael Sergeaux (sic) pretended archdeacon, Henry's collation of which, obtained by authority of the ordinary, Nicholas still hinders from taking effect. After the cause, lawfully introduce to the apostolic see, had been committed by the present pope, at the instance of Nicholas, to John [de Dulmen] bishop of Lubeck, then papal chaplain and auditor, it was asserted that Michael had despoiled of the archdeaconry the late Adam, cardinal priest of St. Cecilia's, who held it by papal grant, so that it had become void, not by Michael's, but by the cardinal's death, and so that neither of the two litigants had any right. The pope thereupon commissioned the auditor, if he found this to be the case, to collate and assign it to Henry. The auditor adjudged it to Nicholas, and Henry's appeal was committed to Master Branda de Castellione, who rejected it, and his further appeal has been committed successively to Nicholas elect of Girgenti, and to Nicholas, bishop of Ferentino, all now or then papal chaplains and auditors. Under pretext of the above collation, although, for the reason given, it had no value, Henry has intruded himself. He is rehabilitated, required to resign, and has remission of fruits. The pope further, also motu proprio, imposes perpetual silence on Nicholas, and extinguishes the suit. Sedes apostolica. (De mandato.) (Marginal note: Non corrigatur, eciam si bulla apportetur, de mandato domini nostri, Jac[obus de Teramo]). |
4 Kal. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 91d.) |
To Nicholas bishop of Ferentino, dwelling in the Roman court. Mandate motu proprio, reciting the above, to surrogate Henry to Nicholas’ right at the time when silence was imposed upon him, and to collate and assign to him the archdeaconry, which has cure, and is a dignity, not major, value not exceeding 200 marks. Litterarum sciencia, rite ac morum. (De mandato.) (Marginal note as above.) |
4 Kal. June.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 95d.) |
To John Cranmore, layman, of the diocese of Salisbury. Licence to found a chapel or oratory of SS. John Baptist and Nicholas on his estate in the town of Cortenale within the bounds of the parish of Warfeld, in the said diocese, about a mile from the parish church; to have it consecrated by any catholic bishop of his choice, and to have masses and other divine offices. Sincere devocionis. |
18 Kal. Aug.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 96.) |
Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year and those of the dedication and St. Thomas the Martyr, the octaves of certain of them and the six days of Whitsun week; and of a hundred days to those who on the said octaves and days, visit and give alms for the repair and conservation of the church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Thomas the Martyr of the Premonstratensian monastery of Beauchief (de Bellocapite) in the diocese of Lichfield. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.) |
3 Id. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 96d.) |
To Peter Geneyn, rector of Farlyngton in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation motu proprio to him, who holds Farlyngton, value not exceeding 20 marks, to hold for life one other benefice with cure, even a perpetual [vicarage] of a parish church, or a parish church, or an elective dignity with cure, major or principal and united respectively, personatus or office, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to exchange both as often as he pleases for two similar or dissimilar incompatible benfices. Vite ac morum. (De mandato.) |
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(f. 98d.) |
Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined penance to penitents who on Easter Day, Good Friday, Whitsun Wednesday, and the octave of Easter; and of a hundred days to those who on the said octave visit the chapel of St. Mary the Virgin in the church of Tredynton in the diocese of Worcester, where there is great devotion to a picture (ymaginem) called St. Mary of Pity (Pietatis), who holds a figure of Christ crucified. Univ. Christifid. etc. Dudum (for Dum) precelsa. (Without date and the usual marginal and terminal subscriptions.) |
2 Id. Oct.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 112d.) |
To the prior of Stok in the diocese of Norwich. Mandate to absolve the late John Elington, layman, from the guilt of homicide, excommunication and his other sins. The recent petition of his widow Alice, of the diocese of London, contained that going one day to the town of Bonustuc ad Turrim in that diocese, John was told by Robert Rouley, layman, and others that sitting drinking there was Thomas Spermor, a priest, an apostate from the order of Carmelites, who was going about in secular dress and had defamed Payn Typto [ft], knight, of the diocese of Ely, John's intimate friend. At once taking up a stick and angrily going up to Thomas John demanded why he had defamed the knight, and at the reply “I don't think that I said any ill” retorted “You lie.” After these words John hit Thomas over the head with his stick, whereupon Thomas drew a knife and gave John several deadly wounds, but not before his head had been broken, and so they killed each other. Before John was quite dead a priest came up, and John begged mercy of God and pardon from the priest, asking him to bring his vicar to hear his confession. When the vicar arrived John was just alive but speechless. Nevertheless at the point of death there appeared signs of repentance. Humilibus et honestis. |
3 Non. July.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 129.) |
To the bishop of Worcester. Revocation, in order that no occasion may be given to wander about and to live dissolutely, of the letters of the present pope by which John Severne, monk of Worcester, pretends that he was made a papal chaplain [Reg. LXVIII, de capell. hon. No. 4; Cal. Lett. iv 305], and of the later grant to him to hold a benefice with or without cure, even if wont to be held by secular clerks, and to exchange it as often as seemed good to him for a similar or dissimilar benefice [Reg. LXVI, f. 136]; with mandate, if John have so behaved, to remove him from such benefice, and to compel him to return to his monastery and observe his rule. The pope will ratify the bishop's sentences. Pro singulorum. (De mandato.) |
6 Kal. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 143.) |
Grant of the indulgence of the Portiuncula to penitents who on the feast of Holy Trinity, from the first to the second vespers, visit and give alms for the conservation of the church of Holy
Trinity, Throkkyng, in the diocese of Lincoln, or the chapel of St. John Baptist in the town of Brindyngford or Bundyngford in the same diocese, dependent on the said church; with power to the rector to depute six priests, secular or religious, to hear confessions on the three days before and on the said feast day, and to give absolution except in cases reserved to the apostolic see. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.) |
Id. Oct.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 146.) |
To Simon Russel, perpetual vicar of Sutton in Holand, in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to hold for seven years together with his vicarage, value not exceeding 100 marks, one other benefice with cure, even if a perpetual vicarage or parish church, or an elective dignity with cure, major or principal and united respectively, personatus or office in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to exchange both as often as he pleases for two incompatible benefices. One of the two he is to exchange within the said term for another benefice compatible with the remaining one; otherwise the vicarage or the first obtained of such incompatible benefices is to be resigned. Vite ac morum. |
9 Kal. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 190.) |
To Adam Symonis, rector of the second portion of All Saints', Stanton, in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to hold for five years one other benefice with cure and incompatible with the said portion, even if an elective dignity with cure, major or principal respectively, personatus or office with cure. One of the two he is to exchange within the said term for another benefice compatible with the remaining one. Vite etc. (De mandato.) |
Ibid.
(f. 190d.) |
To Thomas Bery, rector of Fornham, in the diocese of Norwich. The like. The value of Fornham does not exceed 40 marks. Vite etc. (De mandato.) |
2 Non. Oct.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 217d.) |
To John de la Pole, canon of York, son of Michael de la Pole, lord of Wyngefeld. Grant motu proprio to him—whom when about the end of his sixth year Urban VI dispensed to be tonsured, receive minor orders, and hold a benefice without cure, even if a canonry and prebend of a cathedral or metropolitan church—that the further letters—by which that pope ordered a certain judge to collate and assign to him when tonsured the canonry and prebend of Wystowe in York, of which the same pope had deprived for his demerits the late Guy, sometime cardinal priest of St. Cross in Jerusalem—shall hold good from the date of their issue. It is now asserted that the said prebend, which John has held for sixteen years, was and is a sacerdotal one, of which no mention was made in the said letters. Nobilitas generis, vite ac morum. |
8 Kal. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 225d.) |
To Thomas Warner, scholar, of the diocese of Durham. Dispensation to him, who is in his eighteenth year, after being tonsured to be promoted to the subdiaconate and other holy orders, and hold a benefice even with cure, even if a parish church or an elective dignity, major or principal respectively, personatus, or office with cure (curatum) in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to exchange it as often as he pleases. Vite ac morum. |
14 Kal. Aug.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 235.) |
To John Maydenhith, canon of Salisbury. Rehabilitation motu proprio. Formerly the present pope made provision of the deanery of Chichester, previously specially reserved, to Stephen, cardinal priest of St. Marcellus, and upon his death at the apostolic see, without having had possession, to Christopher, cardinal priest of St. Cyriac's. After the provision made to cardinal Stephen, and during his lifetime, William Lullyngton intruded himself, and then exchanged with Maydenhith for a canonry and prebend of St. Martin's, and the church of St. Dunstan, London, by authority of the ordinaries, although the ordinary in the case of the deanery knew that it was not really void. Maydenhith, who has hereby remission of fruits, is to resign the deanery, likewise resigned this day to the pope by cardinal Christopher, without having had possession. Sedes apostolica. |
3 Non. Sept.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 241d.) |
To the bishop of Lichfield. Mandate to absolve from excommunication incurred Thomas son of Richard de Holden, and Helen daughter of Robert de Holden, of his diocese, who married knowing that they were related in the fourth degree of kindred; to dispense them, after being separated for a time, to contract marriage anew, and to declare past and future offspring legitimate. The survivor of the marriage is to remain perpetually unwed. Oblate nobis. |
4 Non. Oct.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 263d.) |
To the dean of St. Paul's, London. Mandate to decree what is canonical in the case of Andrew de Thorp, priest, of the diocese of York, who states that John Harwod, auditor-general of the chapter court of York, at the instance of William Burton, perpetual vicar of St. Mary's, York, called the archbishop's church, excommunicated him without citation, on which he appealed to the apostolic see. He has no hope of obtaining justice in those parts. Exhibita nobis. |
16 Kal. Nov.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 281d.) |
To the archbishop of York. Mandate, after diligent consideration, to dispense Peter Crull, scholar, of his diocese, the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy, orders and hold any compatible benefices of any number and kind, with and without cure, even if canonries and prebends and elective dignities with cure, major or principal respectively personatus or offices, in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to exchange them as often as he will for similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices; and to grant that his illegitimacy need not be mentioned in future graces. Ex parte dilecti. |
