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Petitions to the Pope 1342-1419. Originally published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1896.

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Index of Subjects

Abbots, blessing of newly-elected, 422, 462.

Abbreviator, 14.

Absolution confirmed, 337.

Affinity, spiritual, 595.

Age, benefices held by persons under, 31, 45, 46, 51, 101, 102, 104, 109, 113, 114, 133, 137, 144, 145, 154, 161, 171, 174, 178, 180, 181, 183, 189, 190, 193, 210–212, 214, 216, 219, 220, 253, 278, 279, 281, 287, 289–291, 317, 353–355, 362–365, 374, 383, 411, 416, 437, 470, 479, 495, 522, 543, 597, 605, 609–612, 614, 617, 619, 626, 634.

Altar, portable, 14, 16, 22, 27, 32, 35, 45, 52, 64, 65, 69, 80, 82, 91, 99, 100, 123, 135, 141, 152, 154, 162, 174, 176, 198, 207, 213, 214, 217, 218, 228, 232, 234, 236, 242, 244, 251–253, 263, 269, 281, 285, 291–293, 331, 337, 340, 356, 375, 380, 385, 338, 395, 401, 413, 414, 417, 421, 422, 438, 452, 454, 456, 457, 466, 474, 483, 484, 489–491, 493, 495, 496, 498–500, 508, 509, 511, 513, 517, 522–526, 528, 531, 532, 536, 611.

-, -, depending on size of house, 508.

-, substituted for chapel, 513.

Ambassadors, immunity of servants of, 269.

Antipope, dealings with, 609.

Apostate monks, 434, 459, 460, 511.

Appropriated churches let out, 217, 222, 601.

Aquitaine, confession of English in, 536.

Artists, roll of English, 399, 400.

Auditors, papal, 3, 30, 110, 112, 114, 125, 129, 132, 136, 169, 216, 240, 244, 251, 264, 269, 294, 299, 300, 333, 339, 349, 378, 395, 418, 421, 448, 487, 504, 509, 510, 525, 537, 564, 597, 599, 602.

Augustinian friars or hermits, 26, 50, 459, 465, 492.

Augustinians, 480, 532, 533.

Benefices, held after consecration, 380.

Bigamy, 90.

Black death. See Pestilences.

Brétigny, peace of, 522.

Brigandage, 142, 549.

Calais, siege of, 257.

Camera, papal, 210, 305.

-, -, payments to, 169, 177, 289.

-, -, treasurer of, 289.

Canons, regular, 106, 202.

-, resident, heavy expenses of, 475.

Carmelites, 24, 25, 43, 57, 104, 240, 286, 529.

Cemetery, licence for, 266.

Cess, yearly, paid by exempt monasteries, 91.

Chamberlain, papal, 306, 307, 313, 314.

Chancellor. See Edendon; Cardinals (Palestrina).

Chancery, clerks of the, 372.

-, papal, strictness of, 87, 88, 288, 408, 425, 441, 541, 585.

-, -, style of, 336.

Chapels, foundation of, 37, 39, 87, 99, 274, 293, 298, 302, 339, 340, 353, 355, 356, 360, 376, 439, 492–494, 496, 497, 512, 513, 522, 523, 533.

-, leave to bury in, 354.

-, private, 28, 99, 112, 117, 130, 139, 192, 225, 396, 460, 473, 474, 479, 489, 490, 506, 533.

Chaplains, papal, privilege of, 595.

Chaplaincy, honorary papal, 402, 534, 579.

Citation, 222, 228.

Citations, personal, petitioned against, 534, 535.

Clergy, sons of, 14, 19, 23, 39, 40, 52, 57, 72, 77, 83, 92, 108, 111, 112, 119, 136, 139, 163, 183, 217, 229, 272, 331, 359, 362, 397–399, 415, 421, 446, 460, 462, 465, 471, 474, 475, 480, 496, 511, 540, 542, 556, 557, 575, 592, 606, 608, 610, 618, 620, 622, 623, 629–631, 634, 635.

Cluniacs, order of, 89, 106, 111.

Collectors, papal, 305, 310, 313, 314, 325, 345.

Collegiate churches, 118, 186–188, 231, 255, 537, 538.

Commensales, 422.

Company, Great, captain of the. See Scot.

Conclave, sitting of, 547.

Confirmations, 153, 166, 167, 177, 185, 194, 196–199, 204, 205, 208, 218, 219, 222–224, 229, 232, 234–236, 326, 332, 334.

Conflicting grants, 436.

Consecration at Rome, 113.

-, dispensation to defer, 91, 100, 125, 143, 421.

Conservators, 30, 120, 135, 137, 154, 155, 171, 172, 189, 264, 266, 284, 335, 414, 438, 480, 601.

Convents, &c. foundation and translation of, 15, 16, 27, 144, 151, 160, 209, 231, 336, 385.

Coronation, roll of the, 581–583, 612–614.

Corrigenda, 176, 415, 416, 498, 507, 521, 538.

Couriers, papal, 322.

Creatura, 20.

Creditors, pressing, 419.

Cross, true, 265.

Crusades, 90, 167, 176, 207, 213, 225, 346, 490, 496, 531, 532.

Currency, English, 515.

Customs, 89.

Death, absolution and indulgences at, 14, 15, 19, 21–23, 25–29, 31, 32, 35, 36, 38, 43, 44, 46–50, 52, 53, 64, 66, 69, 72, 76, 81, 82, 87–90, 92, 93, 98, 101, 105, 106, 110, 114, 116, 119, 120, 122, 123, 125, 133–137, 139, 142, 143, 145, 154, 156, 157, 161, 163, 165, 167, 174, 188, 190, 191, 193, 195, 199, 202, 206, 207, 213, 215, 217, 218, 225, 232, 234, 240–245, 249, 251–254, 259, 260, 262, 265, 268, 269, 274, 276, 277, 280, 282, 284, 291, 296–298, 302, 304, 330, 332, 338, 340, 346, 350, 351, 359, 365, 370, 381, 388, 414, 424, 437, 445. 446, 456–458, 461, 466, 471, 478, 483, 484, 490, 491, 493, 494, 497–501, 503, 505, 513, 518, 522, 523, 525, 530–532, 542, 547, 611.

Degrees in arts and civil and canon law, equivalence of, 507.

Degrees, date of taking, 452, 459, 466, 477, 507.

-, expense of taking, 516.

‘Deliberate’ grant affirmed, 637.

Deprivations, 514.

Divorce, petitions for, 81, 471.

Donations, royal, their legality, 20.

Durham, wealth of the bishopric of, 472.

Education, endowment of, 16, 25, 64, 78, 121, 155, 171, 458–461.

Efferiat Teuly, Effetiateuly (priest of the household), office of (Welsh), 13.

Elections, roll of, 204, 223.

English, depredations by, 574.

-, roll of the, 484–489, 501, 502.

Escape, miraculous, 512.

Examiners for England and Scotland, roll of, 592–594.

Exchange, fraudulent, 627.

Exchanges, roll of, 233, 224, 332.

Excommunication, 442, 481.

Execrabilis,’ Bull, 40, 88, 573.

Faculty, lost, 478.

Fasting, relaxation of, 456.

First-fruits, 39, 104.

Fish, incapacity to eat, 456.

Fishing, 534.

Flanders, Scotch ambassador to, 580.

Footman, the pope's, 576.

Formulæ, special, 470.

France, truce with, 343.

Friars Minors, 104, 121, 160, 161, 262.

-, Preachers, 2, 104, 106, 129, 144, 240, 244, 398.

-, -, dispute of, against university of Oxford, 536.

-, -, degrees given by order of, 398.

Gaelic, knowledge of, 528, 530.

Garter, order of the, 187.

Graduates, roll of, 539, 540.

Grammar school, 549.

Heresy, 115, 216.

Heretics, 454.

Hermits, 270.

Holy Land, 23, 109, 119, 167, 207, 346, 512.

Homicides by clergy, 102, 112, 237, 262, 446, 473, 506, 507, 523.

Hospitality, enforced, 186, 200.

Hospitium of petitioners at Roman court, 329.

Household, papal, privileges of, 598.

Hurricanes, 463.

Illegitimacy, 2, 5, 11, 14, 19, 20, 23, 24, 28, 30, 35, 37–39, 42, 43, 45, 49, 57, 63, 65, 82, 83, 85, 87, 88, 90–93, 96–98, 100, 101, 106, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, 119, 124, 126, 129, 133, 136, 138, 139, 143, 167, 168, 170, 178–183, 186, 189–193, 200, 204, 207, 209, 211, 212, 216, 217, 219–221, 229, 230, 233, 241, 242, 246, 247, 249, 252, 254, 259, 261, 262, 265, 267, 282, 289, 298, 299, 307, 326, 327, 531, 332, 350, 355, 359, 360, 362, 364, 367, 379, 380, 397, 399, 402, 409, 411, 413, 415, 419, 421, 437–439, 443, 444, 446, 451, 460, 462, 465, 469, 471, 474, 475, 480–483, 485, 491, 496, 498, 500, 502, 511, 518, 519, 529, 535, 536, 541, 542, 553, 556, 557, 559, 565, 570, 572, 573, 575, 580, 592, 598, 601, 602, 604–606, 608, 609, 611, 613, 614, 618, 620–623, 629–631, 633–635.

Impounding of provisions, 333.

Indulgences, 46, 47, 49, 53, 62, 66, 83, 90, 91, 114, 130, 139, 151, 152, 154, 156, 160, 167, 169, 171, 173, 176, 187, 188, 198, 200, 206, 207, 210, 213–215, 218, 220, 222, 225, 228, 231–234, 238, 241, 246, 247, 255, 256, 259–264, 266, 270–274, 280, 281, 286, 293, 297, 302, 304, 327, 330, 335, 339, 340, 342, 348, 350–353, 356, 359, 360, 372, 401, 402, 414, 418, 421–424, 437, 438, 444, 445, 461, 467, 468, 483, 492, 493, 496–502, 505, 506, 511, 513, 519, 532, 533, 542.

Infants, master of the king's, 213.

Institutes, lecturer on the, 462.

Interdict, exemption from, 134, 137, 266, 273, 284, 340, 439.

Intestacy, 348.

Inundations, 213.

Ireland, insecurity of life in, 532, 538.

-, clerks of, 467–469.

-, heresy in, 115.

-, lack of an university in, 467.

-, scarcity of able persons there, 19, 119.

-, unsettled state of, 330.

Irish, roll of, 541, 542.

Jubilee, 347, 414.

-, indulgences of year of, 200, 206, 207, 299.

Jurisdiction, ecclesiastical and lay, 334.

-, exemption from, 80, 82, 91, 103, 134, 135, 137, 187, 189, 227, 267, 274, 354, 361, 423, 460, 461, 472.

Lectures at Wells, 134.

Legate, papal, 550.

Legists, roll of English, 399.

Legitimization, 124, 157.

Lepers, 270, 271.

Letters delayed, 438, 439.

-, surreptitious, 461.

Limina apostolorum, 113.

Locum tenens of the master and brethren of the Hospitallers. See Pavelino.

Lombardy, ‘Pro Ecclesia,’ company of men-at-arms in, 491.

Man, rarity of literate persons in, 394.

Murchio, 368.

Marescalla, 34.

Marriage, cases and dispensations for, &c., 1, 14, 15, 27, 28, 75, 82, 99, 102, 124, 132, 134, 144, 150, 157, 179, 180, 203, 206, 217, 218, 232, 241, 251, 286, 287, 295, 300, 328, 329, 331, 337, 354, 365, 376, 439, 476, 508, 528, 541, 565, 602, 612, 633, 634, 639.

-, without banns, 218.

Married clerks, 332.

Marshal of the pope's horses, 73, 122.

Marshal's court, papal, 57.

Meat (flesh), dispensations to eat 15, 26, 27, 47, 64, 68, 69, 78, 80, 100–102, 126, 162, 164, 168, 169, 194, 215, 217, 231, 233, 291, 422, 457, 471, 476, 490, 494, 501, 532.

Men-at-arms, papal, 199.

Mendicants, 15.

Minoresses, 47, 30.

-, minister provincial of, 488.

Miracles, 294, 350.

Mitre, ring, and pastoral staff, right to bear, 413.

Moderatio Jurium, 187.

Monasteries, abuses in, 100, 274.

Monks, transference of, 106, 109, 471, 532, 533.

Moray, Elgin, burning of (1390), 580.

Muster-roll, 257.

Mutilation, 372.

Neville's Cross, prisoners taken at, 199, 203.

Non-graduates, constitution concerning, 581, 588, 592.

Non-residence, 348, 356, 371, 410, 418, 422, 444, 463, 474, 481.

Notaries, 4, 13, 14, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33–36, 38–40, 42–44, 48, 51, 52, 54, 55, 63, 67, 71, 73, 76, 77, 88–92, 97, 98, 100, 101, 106, 109, 111, 112, 114, 116, 120, 125, 137, 139, 144, 155, 161, 168, 171, 173, 174, 178, 182, 186, 189, 193, 200, 206, 207, 209, 214, 215, 218, 220, 225, 233, 234, 241–243, 245, 251, 252, 254, 258, 259, 261, 262, 264, 274, 277, 280, 283, 284, 287, 293, 294, 296, 299, 306, 332, 335, 343, 345, 352, 353, 365, 377, 394, 398, 401, 413, 414, 418, 420–422, 424, 437–439, 444, 445, 461, 466, 476, 478, 480, 494, 496, 502, 506.

Nuncios, papal, 74, 213.

Oblations, right of friars to receive, 104.

Order, change of religious, 488.

Ordination, benefices held without, 261, 289, 325, 358, 366, 442, 482, 501, 518, 584, 605, 632, 634.

-, licence to defer, 570, 639.

-, double, 459, 460.

-, after excommunication, 84.

-, under age, 282, 425, 445, 456, 464, 476, 480, 483, 502, 513.

Pallium, 241.

Paris, university of, composition of the English nation at, 389.

Penance, 328.

-, relaxation of, 45, 63.

Penitentiaries. 285, 300, 549.

Penitentiarius Anglie, 249, 497.

Penitentiarius Minor, 518.

Penitentiary, Augustinian, 396.

-, chief, 232, 287.

Pensions imposed, 608, 611.

Personation, 504.

Pestilences, 165, 171, 178, 189, 195, 198, 202, 221, 226, 228, 234, 250, 270, 282, 330, 331, 423, 425, 437, 461, 462, 464, 467, 476, 480, 502, 511, 513, 518, 557.

Petitions, register of, 543.

Physicians and surgeons, 7, 34, 132, 183, 189, 274, 328, 403, 404.

Pilgrimages, 22, 23, 31, 50, 113, 119, 153, 163, 177, 188, 206, 225, 238, 272, 273, 287, 299, 302, 337, 341, 346, 371, 375, 484, 512, 523.

Pluralities, 333, 334, 476, 514, 526, 537.

-, and passim.

Poetry, master of, 203.

Precedence, 413.

Premonstrateinsians, 29.

Presentation by rotation, 507.

Primarius, 368.

-, and see Penitentiarius.

Proctors at the papal court. See Paston; Thormerton; Enham; Beggeworth; Midelton.

Proctor, papal, 550.

Procurations, 81, 84, 115, 143, 189, 202, 343, 474.

Pro Ecclesia’ company in Lombardy, 491.

Provision of benefices, excessive, 387, 393, 408, 413, 461, 502.

Provisions, roll of, 236.

Recluse, leave to visit a, 457.

Reconciliations of churches, &c., 135, 138, 139, 141, 189, 273, 342, 414, 421.

Rector, 47.

Red Cross, friars of the, 639.

Reformations, 440–442, 519–521.

Registers, papal, searches in, 17, 464.

Registrars of papal letters, 206, 359.

Registrar of the papal camera, 536.

Remission of sins, privileges as to, 480.

Residence enjoined, 472.

Resignations, roll of, 168, 184, 223, 227.

Respondent, public, in canon law, 394.

Re-valuation, 524.

Revocations, 346.

Ring and pastoral staff, licence to use, 395, 413.

Roll of the English, 447.

Roll of void benefices, 451–453.

Roman court, journey to, excused, 82, 91, 124, 126, 143, 474, 632.

-, prohibition of journeys to, 354.

-, See Avignon.

‘Rome-seeking priests,’ 426.

Royal family, right to baptise, 363.

St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, order of, 270.

Saints, translation of, 163.

Saracens, 14, 176, 346, 512.

Scandal, 328, 329, 528.

Scotch bishoprics, immediacy of, 401.

Scotland, devastation of, 537–539, 567, 585.

-, prebends of collegiate churches in, not in the gift of the pope, 587.

-, relations with, 203, 394, 576.

-, roll of clerks of, 496, 497.

-, Scots, depredations of the, 128, 464, 534.

-, roll of the, 558, 585, 586.

-, wild, 601.

Secret proceedings, 328, 329.

‘Sentences,’ 497.

Serfs, alienation of, 505.

Signature of petitions, 81, 412.

Simony, 183, 285, 289, 367, 509.

Spoliation, 446.

Students, dispensations for, to enjoy benefices, 93, 133, 142, 144, 167, 177, 186, 217, 227, 228, 237, 254, 258, 334, 335, 353, 354, 385, 386, 424, 437, 461, 464, 472, 479, 495, 500, 502, 508, 517, 570, 592, 610, 639.

Study, restrictions on, 502, 503.

Sub-collectors, 308, 539.

Subsidies, charitable, &c., 83, 91, 100, 124, 143, 169, 180, 188, 190, 194, 214, 222.

Subsidy, Holy Land, 109, 195, 207, 213.

Surrogation, 212, 216, 229, 241, 244, 257, 264, 291, 311, 314, 316–320, 324, 357, 358, 384, 389, 418, 421, 444, 460, 524, 526, 529.

Suspension, immunity from, 63.

Tiron, order of, 384.

Tolls, excessive, 443.

Treasurer, papal, 310, 313, 314.

Turks, 52, 90.

-, subsidy against, 35, 74, 80, 127.

Violence, dispensation for, 273.

Viva voce grants, 471.

Welsh, knowledge of, 48, 367, 516, 519.

-, untamed and feirce nature of the, 48.

-, bishops, wills of, 328.

-, roll of, 623, 624.

Will-case, 348.

Wills, licences for, 16, 89, 116, 127, 265, 328, 414.

-, proving of, 477, 504.

Work, master of the, of Glasgow, 568.

Wounding by clergy, 543, 544.

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