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2 Non. July.
Lucca.
(f. 2.) |
To William Sylke, perpetual vicar of Delvyn in the diocese of Meath. Dispensation to him—whose petition contained that in Ireland wars have been going on for a hundred years, that the inhabitants for their maintenance and defence impose exactions on clerks and ecclesiastical persons, and that men of dissolute life and evil condition crowd to their houses and especially to the said parish church, situate by the public way, causing him no small expense, so that he cannot decently live on its fruits, pay his dues and reside without danger—to hold for one year with his said vicarage, value not exceeding 28
marks, one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible. Within the year, he is to exchange one of them for another benefice compatible with the remaining one; if not, he is thereupon to resign his vicarage. Vite ac morum. |
Kal. Aug.
Siena.
(f. 4d.) |
To Richard, donsel, son of the late Hugh le Spenser, and to Catherine, damsel, daughter of Ralph Nevyll, earl of Westmoreland, of the dioceses of St. Asaph and Durham. Dispensation to them, who are of royal race, to contract marriage, notwithstanding that they are related in the third degree of kindred. Romanus pontifex. |
9 Kal. July.
Lucca.
(f. 11.) |
To Nicholas Maccommara, clerk, of the diocese of Killaloe. Rehabilitation of him, who says he is of ducal and princely race, and has studied canon and civil law for several years, on account of his having held and still holding for more than a year. without having himself ordained priest and without dispensation, the parish churches, called the rectories, of Bonnrate and Cuiyky in the said diocese, [which, as also those of] Traday [and] Okassin [in the same diocese, became void by the death of Matthew Maccommara]. He is to resign. Sedes apostolica. [See above, pp. 26 and 37.] |
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Ibid. |
To the dean of Killaloe. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above Nicholas Maccomara (sic)—who has lately had papal dispensation, (i) as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure; (ii) to hold the said churches together for life—if he be found fit in Latin, the said churches, void as above, of the patronage of laymen, value not exceeding 35 marks. He is hereby dispensed to hold them together for life, notwithstanding his said defect [of birth], and that the late Matthew was his father and his immediate predecessor in them. Dignum arbitramur. |
1407.
10 Kal. Jan.
Siena.
(f. 14.) |
To Simon, rector of a moiety of the rural church in Little Ryngstede in the diocese of Norwich, B.C.L., son of Simon Baret of Hecham, layman. Grant that Innocent VII's reservation, on 17 Kal. Dec. anno 1 [1404], to him, who was studying civil law at Cambridge, of a benefice for secular clerks, value not exceeding 50 marks with cure or 30 without, in the common or several gift of the bishop and the prior and chapter of Norwich, before his acceptance of which pope Innocent died, shall hold good notwithstanding the present pope's annulment of all his predecessor's reservations. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. |
1408.
15 Kal. Oct.
Siena.
(f. 15.) |
To Nicholas, elect of Ardfert. Faculty to him, to whom the pope has made provision of the said see, and who has the tonsure only, to receive on any days, even extra tempora, from any catholic bishop or bishops in communion with the apostolic see, minor, subdeacon's, deacon's and priest's orders, and by one of such bishops or another, assisted by two or three others, to be consecrated. The consecrator is to receive from Nicholas the usual oath of fealty, and send it to the pope by Nicholas's letters patent sealed with Nicholas's seal; without prejudice to the archbishop of Cashel. Cum nos pridem. |
13 Kal. Sept.
Siena.
(f. 17d.) |
To Robert Thurgarton, rector of Grundesburgh in the diocese of Norwich, S.T.B. Dispensation to him—who is a completed (formatus) bachelor of theology of Cambridge, and who, during
the four years or thereabouts during which he has held the said church, value not exceeding 30 marks, has totally converted its fruits etc. to its repair—to hold for three years one other incompatible benefice, even if it be a parish church and of lay patronage, or be a dignity, not major in a metropolitan or cathedral, nor principal in a collegiate church, personatus or office. He is meanwhile to resign one for another benefice compatible with the remaining one; if not, he is thereafter to resign his said church. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. |
Non. June.
Lucca.
(f. 28.) |
To Henry, elect of St. Davids. Dispensation, at his petition, in pursuance of his late dispensation to retain all his benefices [above, Reg. CXXVIII, f. 264] to do so even after his consecration, until he be more richly provided for by the apostolic see. Sincere devocionis. |
Id. May.
Lucca.
(f. 28d.) |
To the master and scholars of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. Grant that the appropriation formerly made to them by authority of the ordinary, a perpetual vicar's portion being reserved, of the parish church of Hynton in the diocese of Ely—which was in the gift of the bishop of Ely for the time being, value not exceeding 50 marks, that of the college not exceeding 100, of which church, on the resignation of Reginald Braybrook they took possession—shall hold good from the date of these presents, notwithstanding Boniface IX's general annulment on 11 Kal. Jan. anno 14 [1402, see Cal. Lett. V, p. 599], of appropriations, made by himself or his immediate predecessor, or by ordinaries, which had not taken effect, and those which had taken effect otherwise than by the death of the holders. Sedes apostolica. |
15 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 38.) |
To Thomas Gray of Heton, baron of the barony of Werk in the diocese of Durham. Licence, seeing that his castle of Heton, situate near the borders of Scotland and within the bounds of the parish church of Norham, is about three miles distant from that church, and that the inhabitants of the castle, parishioners thereof, now through floods, and now through raids and invasions of their enemies, cannot without great danger repair thither—to enlarge, in accordance with his proposal, the chapel which he has already had built in the castle, or to build a new and larger one, in which he and his successors and the said inhabitants may have masses and other divine offices celebrated by a fit priest, who may administer the sacraments, hear their confessions and enjoin penance in those cases only in which parish rectors may do so. Sincere devocionis. |
13 Kal. April.
Lucca.
(f. 40d.) |
To the bishop of Meath. Mandate, at the recent petition of David de Penlyn, rector of Arsdmulghan in the diocese of Meath—containing that by immemorial custom, from the funeral rights (ex juribus funeralibus) of all deceased parishioners of all parish churches of the diocese, there has been paid as (pro)
mortuaries due in compensation for forgotten tithes, alike personal as predial, by some a fourth and by others a tenth part of all their goods, by some an anciently fixed sum of money, and by others their best beast; that very many of the parishoners of the said church have neglected to leave, as (pro) such mortuaries, legacies to the said church, to which they were bound to pay certain tithes; and that, although repeatedly required, their heirs and executors have refused to pay the rector the said mortuaries [due] in lieu of (pro) the said forgotten tithes—if he find this to be the case, to compel by ecclesiastical censure the said heirs and executors and the parishioners to observe the same custom as in other neighbouring parishes, and to make satisfaction to the rector and his successors in respect of the said mortuaries [due] in lieu of (pro) the said forgotten and detained tithes. Justis et honestis. |
8 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 43d.) |
To Richard de More, deacon, of the diocese of Ardfert. Rehabilitation of him—who is, he says, of knightly race, and has for several years studied and proposes to study canon and civil law at Oxford—on account of his having successively obtained and held together for several years, against John XXII's constitution Execrabilis, the rectory of Anagh in the said diocese, by presentation of the patron, Thomas [son] of John earl of Desmond (dessimonie), of the said diocese, and institution by the late bishop William, on its voidance by the death of Maurice Wythe (or Wyche), and the perpetual vicarage or rectory of Clochorbrayn in the same diocese, by presentation of the same patron and institution by bishop Nicholas, on its voidance by the resignation, made to that bishop, of the late William Hoberd. He is to resign both. Sedes apostolica. |
14 Kal. April.
Lucca.
(f. 54d.) |
To the prior of Spalding in the diocese of Lincoln. Mandate to license the inhabitants of the sea-girt island of Holbechehyrne in the said diocese—between which and its parish church of Holbeche the sea ebbs and flows twice in the natural day, on account of which floods and of frequent tempests they are often hindered from going to the said church—to build a chapel with a bell, and have therein masses and other divine offices celebrated by a priest or priests; saving the rights of the parish church. Humilibus et honestis. |
4 Id. April.
Lucca.
(f. 57d.) |
Confirmation, as below, of the erection into a collegiate church of the parish church of North Yevell. Lately, upon its being set forth to Innocent VII, etc., as above, Reg. CXXVIII, f. 14, as far as to carry out their desire as regarded such chaplains and master or warden and ordinances, and to grant that the master and chaplains might, [upon the rector's resignation or death], take possession of the church and have its cure exercised by one of themselves. At the recent petition of the said patrons, containing that William, archdeacon of Rochester, acting under commission from the abbot of Wardon, made the erection (duxerit eligendam, as also in the following
letter), the pope hereby confirms the erection. Ad. fut. rei mem. Illis que auctoritate apostolica. [Cancelled with strokes only, and without marginal note or terminal subscription.] [1½ pp.] |
Ibid.
(f. 58d.) |
The like; here with the clause upon the rector's resignation or death. Ad fut etc. Illis etc. [Not cancelled.] |
15 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 62.) |
To Thomas Gray of Heton, baron of the barony of Werk, in the diocese of Durham. Licence, as above, f. 38, with slight differences, e. g. omission of the clause ‘enjoin penance in those cases only in which parish rectors may do so.’ [Cancelled with strokes and in margin: Cassata et alibi, propter nimiam sui correcturam, de novo registrata, A. Corario.] |
Kal. March.
Lucca.
(f. 71.) |
To William Kynwoldmerssh, rector of Keston in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him, who has the tonsure only, not to be bound during seven years, whilst studying letters at an university or engaged in the service of king Henry, to be promoted to any holy orders on account of the said church or other church or benefice with cure. Vite etc. |
4 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 77d.) |
To Philippa, duchess of York. Indult to enter, as often as she pleases, with five or six honest matrons or virgins, monasteries of enclosed nuns of any orders in England, and to stay three days and three nights only at a time. Devocionis tue. |
Id. May.
Lucca.
(f. 79.) |
To Henry, elect of St. Davids. Indult to him—whom the pope lately dispensed to retain his benefices, as above, Reg. CXXVIII, f. 264—to exchange his chancellorship of Salisbury, a non-major dignity with cure, for a similar or dissimilar benefice, and to hold such benefice together with his church of St. Davids and his said other benefices. Sincere devocionis. |
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(f. 80d.) |
To the archdeacon of Norfolk, ‘salutem, etc. Racioni congruit etc. Dudum siquidem felicis recordacionis Innocencio pape VII predecessori nostro,’ only. |
10 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 81.) |
To the archbishop of York. Mandate to absolve from excommunication incurred, first separating them for a time, and enjoining a salutary penance, and afterwards to dispense to contract anew and remain in the marriage which Richard of York (de Eboraco), knight, and Anne of March (de Marchia), damsel, of the dioceses of York and Winchester, cousin and kinswoman respectively of king Henry, without consent of their parents and without the customary banns, contracted and caused to be solemnized before the church, not being ignorant that they were related on one side in the fourth and on the other in the second degree of kindred. Offspring past and future is to be declared legitimate. Romani pontificis. |
Ibid.
(f. 81d.) |
To Henry, elect of St. Davids. Faculty—seeing that in consequence of the rebellion in Wales against king Henry, in addition
to the usual evils of war in those parts and their marches or borders, a number of inhabitants have become schismatical—to the end that they may the more quickly abandon rebellion and schism, to hear, with six or eight seculars or regulars of his choice, confessions of any persons of the said parts, marches and borders, and, after enjoining a salutary penance, to absolve them, even in cases reserved to the apostolic see, to relax interdicts, and to restore to their former condition as regards benefices, inheritances, honours, property etc., clerks, ecclesiastical persons and laymen. Sedis apostolice. |
Id. May.
Lucca.
(f. 84d.) |
To Roger Grey, rector of Blounham in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of canon and civil law. Dispensation to him—who says he is of baronial race, and who holds, besides Blounham, the canonry and prebend of Neterhaven in Salisbury—to hold for three years with Blounham one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a dignity, major or principal and unique respectively, and elective, personatus or office, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to exchange one of the two for another benefice [in] compatible with the remaining one. Within the said period he is to exchange one of such incompatible benefices for another compatible with the remaining one; otherwise he is thereafter to resign the said church. Nobilitas generis, litterarum sciencia, vite etc. |
6 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 85.) |
To the bishop of Winchester. Mandate at the recent petition of Nicholas, bishop of Bath and Wells, whither he has been translated by the present pope from Salisbury—containing that although Henry, [now] archbishop of York, then bishop of Bath and Wells, received, after papal provision was made to him of those united sees, great sums from the executors and administractors of Ralph, the late bishop, for the repair of the manors etc. belonging to the said sees and their episcopal mensa, he has not repaired them, nor has he applied the money to the augmentation of the revenues of his said united churches, but has allowed the manors etc. to fall into such ruin that they could not even with a greater sum of money be restored to their pristine state; that the woods etc. necessary for such repair have likewise, through his neglect or connivance, been devastated, the greater trees having been cut down, sold or given away at his pleasure; and that divers arable lands have been reduced to barrenness, pastures deteriorated, sheep and animals, commonly called stock (staireum, i.e. staurum), and divers implements greatly destroyed and deteriorated—to summon the archbishop and others concerned, and to decide what is just without appeal, proceeding by ecclesiastical censure and invoking, if necessary, the aid of the secular arm. Justis et honestis. |
Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 96d.) |
Appropriation, at the recent petition of Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury—containing that he formerly founded in the church of Maydeston in his diocese a chantry for two priests, to whom he proposes to join a third, the said two priests being bound to celebrate perpetually mass and other divine offices in the nave
or body of the cathedral (majoris) church of Canterbury, O.S.B., in which nave he has chosen his burial place and has built an oratory whereat the people resort to hear mass, the inner precincts of the monks being cloistered, and the said third priest being bound to do likewise in the said church of Maydeston, all for the good estate of the said archbishop and for the souls of him, archbishop William, his immediate predecessor, and archbishop Thomas's progenitors; and adding that, in order that the said three priests may be supported from the said chantry, which has not hitherto had fixed revenues, he desires the appropriation to his archiepiscopal mensa, value not exceeding 6,000 marks, of the parish church, value not exceeding 180, of Northflete in the diocese of Rochester, of the patronage and immediate jurisdiction of the archbishop for the time being—of the said parish church to the said mensa, so that on its voidance Thomas or the archbishop for the time being may take possession, and may devote the fruits which remain after the institution of a perpetual vicar, to the support of the said priests, and may devote the residue, if any, to the use of themselves and their said mensa. Ad fut. rei mem. Inter cetera. |
Kal. March.
Lucca.
(f. 100.) |
To John Southam, archdeacon of Oxford in Lincoln. Indult to visit for five years his archdeaconry by deputy, and take the procurations in ready money to the daily amount of 30 silver [gros] Tournois, 12 to the gold florin of Florence. Sincere devocionis. |
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Concurrent mandate to the precentor, chancellor and treasurer of Lincoln. Sincere, etc. |
Non. Feb.
Lucca.
(f. 103.) |
To the bishop of London. Mandate at the recent petition of Henry, elect of St. Davids—containing that although the late bishop [John] Gilbert (bone mem. Gilbertus), in his last will, left great sums for the repair of the manors, etc., belonging to his church and mensa, his immediate successor Guy, although the money came into his hands, has not carried out the repairs, whence the said manors, etc. have fallen into no small ruin; that the woods, etc. belonging to the church and mensa, necessary for such repair, have, through Guy's neglect and connivance, been devastated, the greater oaks and divers other trees being cut down, and some of them sold by him and some of them given away at his pleasure; that divers arable lands have been reduced to barrenness, pastures deteriorated, and sheep and other animals, commonly called stock (staurum), and implements decreased; and adding that Guy has likewise made a will in regard to his personal property, from which property the said granges, etc., church and mensa
can be relieved—to summon the executors of the will, or the administrators of the said bishop's property and others concerned, and if he find the various deterioration to have been caused by his neglect, to cause it to be made good, proceeding as above, f. 85. Humilibus et honestis. |
16 Kal. Feb.
Siena.
(f. 125.) |
To the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London. Mandate to receive from Robert, bishop of Salisbury, recently translated thither from York, in order to save him the labour
and expense of coming to the Roman court, the usual oath of fealty and to send it by his letters patent, sealed with his seal, to the pope. Cum nuper venerabilem. |
17 Kal. Feb.
Siena.
(f. 126.) |
To the bishop of Exeter. Mandate, at the recent petition of John Pleystowe, priest, rector of Alfyngton in his diocese—containing that, in ignorance of the constitution Humana concupiscencia [Wilkins, Conc. II, p. 707], of which exemplification is given, put forth in the provincial council [of London, 1342] by John [Stratford], archbishop of Canterbury, involving ipso facto in the greater excommunication priests wittingly solemnising prohibited marriages or even lawful marriages between other than their own parishioners without licence, or causing to be solemnised and being present at the solemnisation of clandestine marriages in churches, oratories or chapels, he permitted a clandestine marriage to be solemnised in his said church between Henry Hirbi and Margery his wife, of the said diocese, not being his parishioners, without banns and without licence, and was present thereat, and has since taken part in and celebrated divine offices, thereby incurring the said excommunication—to absolve him, enjoining a salutary penance and suspending him for a time, dispense him on account of irregularity, and rehabilitate him. Sedes apostolica. |
10 Kal. March.
Lucca.
(f. 128d.) |
To Robert de Appilton, rector of Stretton in le Clay, in the diocese of York. Prorogation, for five years from its impending expiration, of the dispensation granted by Boniface IX to him, then holding the parish church of Hugate in the diocese of York, to hold for ten years two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if one or both were a dignity, major, or principal and unique, respectively, and elective, personatus or office, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, or a perpetual vicarage or a parish church, and to resign them for exchange or otherwise, as often as seemed good to him, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices, after which he resigned Hugate and St. Wilfrid's, York, and obtained Stretton [in le Clay] and Betheme in the said diocese, which he now holds. He is litigation about a canonry and prebend of Lincoln, and in litigation at the apostolic palace about the perpetual portion, or prebend without cure, of Overhall in Ledbury, in the diocese of Hereford, of which he has not possession, he has won his cause. Vite etc. [See Reg. CXXXII, f. 2d.] |
Ibid.
(f. 130.) |
To the bishop of Durham. Mandate to dispense William Whitchestre the younger, donsel, and Elizabeth, damsel, daughter of Thomas Gray of Heton, baron of the barony of Werck, of his diocese, to marry, notwithstanding that they are removed from a common stock on one side in the third and on another side in the fourth degree of kindred. Oblate nobis. |
18 Kal. Feb.
Siena.
(f. 130d.) |
To the rector and scholars of the college of Exeter in the place of Oxford. Grant as below. Innocent VII—on its being set forth to him by them that Walter, sometime bishop of
Exeter, instituted the said college, then called the college of Exeter, or hall (aula) of Stapuldoichall (sic), and ordained, amongst other things, that thirteen scholars should reside, twelve to study in philosophy and one [who should be a priest] in theology or canon law, and that there might be more scholars if the means of the college increased, besides a rector; that each scholar should receive 10d. [a week] for his commons, and that over and above such commons, the rector should receive 20s., the said (sic) priest 20s., and each scholar 10s. a year; and that, after one of the said scholars should incept as bachelor of arts, he should lecture in the ordinary way for two whole years, the year of his inception not being counted, but that whether, in the third following year, he wished to continue to lecture or not, should be left to his choice; and that, within a fortnight after the end of the said third year, such scholar should leave the college and receive nothing further from it, a junior scholar being put in his place, the same to be observed in the case of every scholar as soon as he should be provided with patrimony or perpetual pension to a yearly value of 40s.; and that the said means had so increased that more scholars could be received—made for them a number of statutes and deputed executors. Their recent petition to the present pope contained that in the above clause of the said bishop's statutes to the effect that ‘the same should be observed in the case of every scholar as soon as he should be provided with patrimony or perpetual pension to a [yearly] value of 60s.,’ by an error ‘40s.’ was written instead of ‘60s.’ in the said letters of Innocent VII, on account of which the rector and scholars doubt whether they may not be reputed invalid. The pope therefore wills and grants that they shall be henceforth valid, and that the said executors may and shall proceed to execute them as though not ‘40s.’ but ‘60s.’ had been written. Sincere devocionis. [See above, p. 47.] |
10 Kal. March.
Lucca.
(f. 131d.) |
To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate, at the recent petition of Alexander Thelyk, rector, called master, of the church of Ruscheworth in his diocese—containing that the late Edmund Gunvile, sometime rector, obtained the erection, by authority of the ordinary, of the said church, then a parish church, into a collegiate church, and the institution of a college for a rector, called master, with cure of the parishioners, and five other priests; that Edmund died before he had carried out the endowment; that owing to the situation of the college by the public way, great hospitality is observed; and that from its fruits etc., which do not exceed 40 marks in value, the master and priests cannot well be supported and keep up such hospitality etc.—if he find the facts to be so, to ordain that the master for the time being may hold one other benefice with cure. Humilibus et honestis. |
5 Id. Feb.
Lucca.
(f. 136d.) |
To the master and priests of the college called a chantry in the parish church of the town (ville) of Thomston in the diocese of Norwich. Confirmation of the appropriation by Boniface IX to their college, value not exceeding 80 marks, of the parish
church of Schropham with its annexed chapel of St. Andrew, in the said diocese, value not exceeding 50 marks, of their patronage, a portion being reserved for a perpetual vicar [Cal. Lett. V, p. 73], which appropriation has taken effect and portion been assigned on the voidance of the church and chapel by the resignation of the late Thomas de Horstede; notwithstanding the same pope's subsequent annulment, on 11 Kal. Jan. anno 14 [1402, see ibid, p. 599], of all appropriations by himself or his immediate predecessor and any ordinaries, which had not taken effect, or which had taken effect otherwise than by the death of the holders etc. Is que ecclesiarum. |
Kal. May.
Lucca.
(f. 138.) |
To Benedict, [bishop] elect of Bangor. Dispensation as above, Reg. CXXVIII, f. 264; Benedict having received provision from the present pope of Bangor on its recent voidance by the same pope's removal of bishop Lewis (quod nos ven. frat. nostrum Ludovicum episcopum tunc Bangorensem, licet absentem, a vinculo quo ipsi ecclesie cui tunc preerat tenebatur … duximus … absolvendum). Sincere devocionis. |
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Concurrent mandate to the bishops of Ferentino, London and Worcester. Sincere etc. |
4 Id. April.
Lucca.
(f. 138d.) |
Statute and ordinance, as below, at the petition of the sometime patrons of North Yevell, setting forth this day to the pope his confirmation, as above f. 57d, of the erection by William, archdeacon of Rochester, of the said parish church into a collegiate church; and adding that the bishop of Lincoln and the archdeacon of Bedford have been wont from of old to receive two parts and one, respectively, of the emoluments arising at voidances of the said church, which is situate within the said archdeaconry. The pope hereby ordains that as long as the present rector presides over the said church, thus erected into a collegiate church, he shall be called, not rector, as hitherto, but warden or master; that he shall be able to have with him some chaplains, as he shall think expedient; that upon his death or resignation, the said chaplains shall be able to elect as warden or master one of themselves or another, and present him to the bishop, which election, provided that it be of a fit person and be otherwise canonical, the bishop shall admit and confirm without delay, namely within twenty days from the presentation; that if the bishop do not confirm, nor assign a just cause, at the end of the said period the said elect may and shall eo ipso be deemed true warden or master, and act as such, as though lawfully confirmed by the bishop; and that the bishop and archdeacon may, at and during each voidance of the wardenship, take the whole of its fruits etc., and divide them according to the said custom, provided that therefrom fit provision be made for a vicar, who shall act meanwhile as warden or master. Ad fut. rei mem. Regimini universalis ecclesie. [2⅓ pp.] [See the royal licence in Monasticon VI, 1399.] |
1407.
2 Kal. Jan.
Siena.
(f. 141d.) |
Exhortation and injunction to all faithful to be generous and to be ready to help in repairing the church of York—the fame of which stands out among the celebrated churches of the
world; which from times most ancient has been adorned with many and large papal privileges; which, in accordance with its excellence and dignity, has been built in the form of a cross right splendidly and most sumptuously, with wondrous work and beauty, and has had in its midst a bell-tower lofty and delectable to see, to whose corners the aisles of the church seemed to cling (ac ipsa ecclesia juxta ejus excellenciam et dignitatem in sua structura quadrangulari valde splendide ac nimium sumptuose opere mirifico et decoro constructa fuerit, necnon in medio ipsius ecclesie campanile admodum emineus ac eciam opere mirabili et visui delectabile tune consistens, cujus angulis videbantur ipsius latera inherere), which tower, stricken of late by a horrible tempest, has fallen to the ground, a spectacle dreadful to the beholder, greatly deforming the church, so that the bells, cast at great labour and expense, and heretofore uninjured, have likewise fallen to the ground and been broken—the dean and chapter, who desire to restore and repair the church and bell tower and to place new bells, for which their means and those of the fabric are not sufficient; with relaxation, during ten years, of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents each time that during eight days, in their own person or by others at their expense, they give manual aid or the equivalent in money or materials to the masters and workmen employed in the repairs. The pope allows (?) these present letters to be sent in the province of York by pardoners (questuarios) only, and if otherwise be done declares them without force (quas in provincia Eboracensi per questuarios tantum mitti consueuimus (? for consentimus), eas, si secus actum fuerit, carere viribus decernentes). Univ. Christifid. etc. Altitudo providencie. |
1408.
10 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 142d.) |
To John [de Galonifontibus, arch-] bishop of Soltania (Soltonien.) or, more probably, John [Grenlaw], bishop of Sudak. Dispensation to him, who cannot get possession of the administration of the goods and rights of his mensa, to hold and exchange as often as he pleases a benefice with cure, even if a hospital. Exigit tue devocionis. [See Cal. Lett. V, pp. 288
and 480.] |
7 Id. June.
Lucca.
(f. 147d.) |
To Nicholas Jordane, clerk, of the diocese of Meath. Rehabilitation on account of his having obtained, by collation and provision of bishop Robert, the perpetual vicarage of St. Mary's, Lercore, in the said diocese, on its voidance by the resignation to the said bishop of Henry Blacbourne, and of his having held it for a year and more without having himself ordained priest and without dispensation, so that it is still void. He is to resign. Sedes apostolica. |
Ibid.
(f. 148.) |
To the archbishop of Armagh, the bishop of Veszprém (Vesprimien.) and the prior of Newtown (Noveville) by Trym in the diocese of Meath. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above Nicholas the above vicarage (here spelt Lorcore), void by the above non-promotion and value not exceeding 30 marks. Vite etc. |
1408.
Id. May.
Lucca.
(f. 149d.) |
To Robert Hunte, priest, of the diocese of London. Rehabilitation on account of the following. Formerly William Halle, rector, [now] of Leyndon, then of Neuton, in the dioceses of London and Norwich, being unable, through the hostility of the parishioners of Neuton, of the patronage of laymen, to reside without bodily peril, prayed Hunte, then rector of Leyndon, to bring about an amicable agreement between him and Joan countess of Hereford, of the diocese of London, patron of Neuton, who was wrongfully striving to exact from him a sum of money, promising to exchange with him Neuton, which is and was of greater value than Leyndon. Hunte simoniacally obtained the consent of the countess to the exchange, and he and Halle resigned their churches to William Milton, archdeacon of Bukyngham in Lincoln, deputed by Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, as vicar-general of the void see of Norwich, who, having special power from Richard, bishop of London, carried out the exchange. Hunte is to resign Neuton. Sedes apostolica. |
Ibid.
(f. 150.) |
To the treasurer of Lincoln. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above Hunte, if found fit in Latin, the above church of Neuton, void as above by the resignation of Halle and value not exceeding 40 marks. Dignum
[arbitramur]. |
11 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 151.) |
To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate, at the petition of the prior and chapter of Norwich—containing that in times past, especially in the time of Urban VI and Boniface IX, a number of parish churches in his diocese have been appropriated, both by authority of the ordinary, without consent of the said prior and chapter, and by papal authority, some of which appropriations were made without great necessity or from false or no causes, and some of which have taken effect by the resignations of the rectors, as the result of illicit bargains, that is to say in consideration of yearly life pensions from the impropriators, to the no small detriment of the church of Norwich—if he find this to be true, to declare null all such appropriations, to reduce such parish churches to their former condition, and to so ordain that the church of Norwich shall be preserved uninjured. Such parish churches the pope hereby specially reserves for this turn to his own gift. Justis et honestis. |
3 Id. July.
Lucca.
(f. 157.) |
Confirmation of the gift lately made by Roger Flex, clerk, of the diocese of York, with consent of king Henry and provost Robert Manfeld, to the chapter of St. John's, Beverley, for the foundation of a perpetual chantry in their church, and for the sustentation of a chaplain to celebrate masses and other divine offices for the souls of the late Alexander, archbishop of York, and certain others [not named], and all faithful departed, of four possessions called messuages in the town (villa) of Beverley, held by him in capite or in fee from the said provost as provost, with all their appurtenances and easements (arsiamentis); in such wise that at certain times of the year, to each of the canons
and other persons holding dignities and offices in the church, and to the chaplains and vicars present at the obits and anniversaries of the said Robert and Roger and certain of their parents and benefactors, should be made from the fruits etc. of the said possessions divers distributions in ready (parata) money etc.; all which is said to be contained more fully in authentic letters of the said king and of Robert. Ad fut. rei mem. Illis que pro utilitate. |
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Ibid. |
Confirmation of the gift lately made by Robert Manfeld and Roger Flex, clerks, of the diocese of York, with consent of the late Richard, archbishop of York and king Henry, to the above chapter, for the foundation of a perpetual chantry in their church, and for the sustentation of a chaplain to celebrate masses and other divine offices for the souls of the late Alexander and Richard, archbishops, etc., as in the preceding, of seven possessions called messuages in the town (villa) of Beverley, held by them in capite or in fee from the archbishop for the time being, with all their appurtenances and easements; in such wise etc., as in the preceding; all which is said to be contained more fully in authentic letters of the said king and of archbishop Richard. Ad fut. etc. Illis etc. |
Kal. Aug.
Siena.
(f. 158.) |
To Thomas Stanley, dean of Wells. Indult to him—to whom Boniface IX granted indult for life to take and let to farm to fit persons, even laymen, the fruits etc. of his benefices, and not to be bound to reside whilst studying letters at an university, or engaged in the service of king Richard or a prelate of the realm, or residing in one of his benefices—to do so for seven years, whilst engaged in the service of the king for the time being. Vite etc. |
7 Id. Oct.
Siena.
(f. 163d.) |
To Richard, lord le Strange, and Joan, damsel, daughter of the lord le Grey, of the dioceses of Lichfield and Lincoln. Dispensation to contract marriage, they having consent of their parents and other magnates, for the conservation of peace and concord in the realm—Richard being a kinsman (consanguineus) of Henry, prince of Wales—and for the union and conservation of the family estates (hereditates vestri generis); notwithstanding that they are related in the third and third degrees of kindred. Romanus pontifex. |
7 Id. July.
Lucca.
(f. 180d.) |
To Maud (Matilli), countess of Oxford, of the diocese of London. Indult to have, in presence of herself, her servants, and five honest persons of her choice, mass and other divine offices celebrated, with closed doors, without bells and submissa voce, in places under interdict; and in the event of the death of herself or one of the above in such places, to be buried in the church or cemetery of the place. Devocionis tue. |
7 Id. Aug.
Siena.
(f. 181d.) |
To Humphrey, donsel, son of the late Edmund earl of Stafford, and Eleanor, damsel, daughter of the late Ralph earl of Westmoreland, of the dioceses of Coventry and Lichfield
and Durham. Dispensation to contract marriage, notwithstanding that they are related on two sides in the third degree of kindred. Romanus pontifex. |
10 Kal. Dec.
Rimini.
(f. 208.) |
To the archdeacon of Achonry. Mandate, if he find, as the pope has learned, that Patrick Oclinan (or Oelinan), sometime perpetual vicar of St. Barnnrata's in the land (terra) of Luain in the diocese of Achonry, was ipso jure deprived by his adherence to the anti-pope called Clement VII during the lifetime of Urban VI, to declare him to have been and to be deprived, and to remove him. Ad audienciam nostram. |
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Ibid. |
To the same. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding (here in terris de Luine), to collate and assign to Donald Osuegaid, priest, of the above diocese, if found fit in Latin, the above vicarage, value not exceeding 5 marks, void as above and therefore reserved to Urban VI, who died without disposing thereof, as did also Boniface IX and Innocent VII, and therefore still reserved. Dignum arbitramur. |
14 Kal. Nov.
Siena.
(f. 216.) |
To John Prophete, canon of York. Grant, as below. Boniface IX [Cal. Lett. IV, p. 510] dispensed him—holding a canonry and prebend and the deanery, a major elective dignity with cure, of Hereford, canonries and prebends of Lincoln, St. Asaph, Aberguyli [Aberwyly in f. 216d], Ledebury and Tamworth, and the free chapel without cure of St. Tiriotus, in the dioceses of St. Davids, Hereford and Lichfield, value not exceeding 370 marks—to hold for three years two mutually incompatible benefices, even if one were an elective dignity with cure, major in a metropolitan or cathedral, or principal and unique in a collegiate church [and to resign them, as often as seemed good to him, for exchange or otherwise, within the said three years and hold instead [two] similar or dissimilar [incompatible] benefices, omitted here, but occurring below, f. 216d]. Pope Boniface also [Cal. Lett. IV, p. 354] dispensed him—holding the said deanery and chapel and canonries and prebends of Lincoln, St. Asaph, Aberguyly, Ledebury, Tamworth and St. Cross Crediton, and the parish church of Ryngwoed (sic) in the diocese of St. Davids, Hereford, Lichfield, Winchester and Exeter, value altogether not exceeding 300
marks—to hold such two benefices with cure for life and to resign them, for exchange or otherwise, as often as seemed good to him, and hold instead two other similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Afterwards, on his resignation of the said deanery and on the death of pope Boniface, Innocent VII made provision to him—holding the canonries and prebends of Langtoft in York, Netherbury in Salisbury, Leghton Busarde in Lincoln and Murton Magna in Hereford, a certain perpetual benefice called the portion or prebend of Overhall in Ledebury, and the said parish church, value altogether not exceeding 700
marks—of the deanery of York, previously reserved [see above, pp. 113 and 116]. Subsequently the present pope dispensed him—holding the [said] parish church, a canonry and prebend and the
deanery, a major [elective] dignity with cure, of York, and canonries and prebends of Salisbury, Lincoln and Hereford, value altogether not exceeding 1,300 marks—to hold, likewise for life, such two incompatible benefices [as below, f. 216d]. His recent petition contained that in the said second letters of Boniface IX there was, without his knowledge, no mention made of his canonry and prebend of Moreton Magna in Hereford, nor of its value, which does not exceed 30 marks, nor of the true value of other benefices mentioned therein; and that in the present pope's said letters no mention was, by mistake, made of the said second letters [of Boniface IX]. The pope therefore grants that, notwithstanding the said omissions, the aforesaid letters and the proceedings arising out of the letters of Innocent VII shall henceforth hold good. Vite etc. |
Id. May.
Lucca.
(f. 216d.) |
To John Prophete, dean of York. Dispensation, as below. Boniface IX granted him the first of the above dispensations. Seeing that, as his recent petition contained, the above period [of three years] has elapsed the pope hereby dispenses him—who holds the parish church of Ryngwode in the diocese of Winchester, a canonry and prebend and the deanery, a major elective dignity with cure, of York, canonries and prebends of Salisbury, Lincoln and Hereford, value altogether not exceeding 1,300 marks—to hold for life the said parish church and dignity or such other two incompatible benefices, and to resign them for exchange or otherwise and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite etc. |
17 Kal. Dec.
Rimini.
(f. 217d.) |
To Robert Dambregecouit (sic), clerk, of the diocese of Lichfield. Dispensation to him—who is a student in arts at Cambridge, and who has had papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure—to hold any [mutually compatible] elective benefices of any number and kind, with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends and dignities, major in metropolitan or cathedral, or principal in collegiate churches, and elective, personatus or offices, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as seems good to him, and hold instead similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices. Vite etc. |
Ibid.
(f. 223d.) |
To Bernard Macdounchaid, clerk, of the diocese of Achonry. Dispensation to him—who has had papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure; who, he says, is of kingly and princely race, and is in his twenty-third year, and is so powerful that he can have at will three hundred men for the defence of the church; and who has laboured for eight years in canon and civil law—at the end of three more years to be promoted to the episcopal dignity, provided that it be in Ireland only. Provenit ex virtutum. (De mandato.) |
8 Kal. Nov.
Siena.
(f. 240.) |
To John Babyngle, [archbishop] elect of Tuam. Faculty to him, to whom the present pope has made provision of the said see, to be consecrated by any catholic bishop of his choice, assisted by two or three others. The consecrator is to send to the pope the usual oath of fealty by John's letters patent, sealed with John's seal. Cum nos pridem. |
10 Kal. June.
Lucca.
(f. 241.) |
Relaxation during ten years of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on Christmas, Circumcision, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension and Corpus Christi, and Whitsun day, the Nativity, Annunciation, Purification and Assumption of St. Mary the Virgin, the Nativity of St. John Baptist, SS. Peter and Paul, Holy Cross and the dedication and on All Saints, the octaves of certain of them and the six days of Whitsun week; and of a hundred days to those who during the said octaves and days, visit and give alms for the repair of the chapel of St. Cross, Sandwich, in the diocese of Canterbury. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. |
4 Id. April.
Lucca.
(f. 241.) |
To the warden and chapter and each of the canons of the church of Oterey in the diocese of Exeter. Indult to wear grey almuces (almuciis), as is done by all canons of other collegiate churches in the diocese, instead of black ones, as was provided in their foundation statutes. Meruit vestre devocionis. |
11 Kal. Dec.
Rimini.
(f. 246d.) |
To John Swayne, canon of Dublin, doctor of canon and civil law. Licence to him, who is an abbreviator of papal letters and is, he says, rector of the university of Siena (Senen.), to resign, without requiring other licence, his canonry and prebend of Newcastle Lyons (de Novocastro leonis) in Dublin to the ordinary, for the purpose of exchanging it for a similar or dissimilar benefice, provided that such benefice be not of lay patronage:
with licence to the ordinary—who is to certify the officers of the camera or its collector in those parts as to name and dates—to carry out the exchange. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. |
17 Kal. Nov.
Siena.
(f. 247.) |
To the abbot of Boyle (de Buellio) in the diocese of Elphin. Mandate, if he find that, as the pope has learned, More (Maurus) Ogillgan, sometime perpetual vicar of Killeasbaigbroin in the said diocese, was ipso jure deprived by his adherence to the anti-pope called Clement VII after the death of Urban VI, to declare him to have been and to be deprived, and to remove him. Ad audienciam nostram. |
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Ibid. |
To the same. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to Philip Macgillibygi, priest, of the diocese of Achonry, the above vicarage, value not exceeding 4 marks, void as above and therefore reserved to Urban VI, who died without disposing thereof, as did also Boniface IX and Innocent VII, and therefore still reserved. Vite etc. |
10 Kal. Nov.
Siena.
(f. 248d.) |
To William Talbot, rector of Worthe in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him—who holds Worthe, value not exceeding 40 marks, a canonry and prebend of Derby and that of Bedford
in Lincoln, value together not exceeding 20—to hold for five years one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible with Worthe, even if a dignity, major or principal respectively, and elective, personatus or office, with cure (cum cura), in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign it and Worthe, simply or for exchange, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite etc. |
Kal. Dec.
Rimini.
(f. 253d.) |
To Bernard Oflaferthy, Augustinian abbot of St. Mary's, Annadown (de Portu patrum), in the diocese of Annadown. Faculty to him—to whom the pope has made provision of the said abbey, and who has the tonsure only—to receive from any catholic bishop or bishops, even extra tempora, minor orders and those of subdeacon, deacon and priest, and to be blessed by one of such bishops or by another, who shall send to the pope the abbot's usual oath of fealty by the abbot's letters patent sealed with the abbot's seal; without prejudice to the bishop of Annadown. Cum nos pridem. |
