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1426.
Non. April.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 262.) |
To all and singular. Requesting safe-conduct, during one year, for Master Julian de Cesarinis, doctor of canon and civil law, auditor of causes of the court of the papal camera, the pope's orator, whom the pope is sending to England and other parts [not named] on business of the pope and the Roman church. Cum dilectum filium. |
Kal. May.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 268.) |
To Prospero [son] of Lorenzo (Laurentii) de Colunna, archdeacon of Canterbury. Motu proprio licence to him, who is of baronial race and the pope's nephew, to exchange for one or two other benefices without cure the archdeaconry of Canterbury, a non-major dignity with cure, provision of which he has received by authority both of the pope and of the ordinary. Nobilitas generis, vite ac morum. ([Registrata] Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape.) |
17 Kal. June.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 272d.) |
To all and singular. Requesting safe-conduct, during one year, for Thomas Mersche, a Gilbertine canon, papal minor penitentiary, who is going to England on his own business, and will afterwards return to the Roman court. Cum dilectus filius. (Gratis etc.) |
1426.
18 Kal. July.
SS. Apostoli, Rome.
(f. 284.) |
To all and singular. Requesting safe-conduct, during two years, for Master William Sulbarn (?), licentiate of civil law, papal writer and member of the pope's household, who is going on business to England and other parts [not named]. Cum dilectus filius. (Gratis etc.) |
13 Kal. June.
SS. Apostoli, Rome.
(f. 285d.) |
To the archbishops of Canterbury and York and the bishop of Alet (Electen.). Mandate as below. The recent petition of Master John de Scribanis, procurator-fiscal of the court of the papal camera (procurator fiscalis curie camere apostolice) contained that formerly the pope, upon learning that William Russell, friar of the Friars Minors’ house at London, preached in a sermon at London that personal tithes ought not by divine law to be paid, but that everyone might at pleasure convert them to other pious uses, commissioned Branda, cardinal priest of St. Clement's, to arrest and imprison the said William, who was then in the Roman court, and make further inquiry against him; that after this had been done, William, with a number of others, escaped from prison by night; that the pope then commissioned to proceed judicially the said cardinal, who, at the instance of the said John, whom he had appointed instigator of the cause, issued the usual citations, and upon the said William's repeated contumacy, pronounced a definitive sentence, condemning the sermon and condemning William himself, as suspect of heresy, to retract and, after voluntary retractation, to be imprisoned in the prison of the bishop of London, by way of penance, during the pleasure of the apostolic see, or, if unwilling to retract, to be imprisoned perpetually. The said petition adding that John fears that William will not obey the said sentence, the pope orders the above prelates to publish and execute it and to compel William to retract, proceeding by ecclesiastical censure, without appeal, and invoking, if necessary, the aid of the secular arm. Exhibita nobis. [2 pp. Wilkins, Concilia III, p. 454.] |
