Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1915.
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'Vatican Regesta 402: 1453-1454', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, (London, 1915) pp. 156-168. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp156-168 [accessed 25 April 2024]
In this section
Vatican Regesta. Vol. CCCCII. (fn. 1)
Secrete.
7 Nicholas V.
8 Nicholas V.
5 Nicholas V.
| 1451. 5 Kal. Dec. (27 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 27d.) |
To John Langley, knight, of Durham. Exemption etc. as above, p. 107, with variants, the chief of which are the address, the petitioner's age (fn. 2) and the statement that he has a wife Beatrice, seventy years old and impotent, the name of the handmaiden, viz. Margaret Someby, more than fifty years old and unmarried (as ibid.); the bishop of Durham and the archbishop [of York] and his suffragans, instead of ‘the bishop of Worcester’; the rector of the parish church where they shall be dwelling and the guardians of the Friars Minors of Scardebrigh and Hertilpole or the collector of the papal camera in those parts. instead of the rector … living. or by the collector of the papal camera in those parts. Sacrosancta Romana ecclesia. (Pe. de Noxeto. | xxx. Pe. de Legendorff.Jo. de Vulterris. Duplicata.) [In the margin. at the end, is No(vembris), and in the margin, at the beginning, is ‘Duplicata pro Johanne Langley milite Dunelmen. quod possit retinere mulierem unam tamquam famulam que sibi honeste serviat etc.’ 1¾ pp.] |
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8 Nicholas V.
| 1454. 4 Non. July. (4 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 28d.) |
To James Sevenoke, a monk of the Benedictine monastery of St. Augustine without the walls of the city of Canterbury. Indult to choose his confessor, who may, as often as opportune, after hearing his confession, grant him absolution and enjoin penance, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see, and may commute his vows of abstinence. Benigno sunt. (Pe. de Noxeto. | x. P. de Legendorff. Jo. de Vulterris.) [In the margin. Oct(obris).] |
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Ibid. (f. 29.) |
To Nicholas Godmersh[a]m, a monk of the same monastery. The like. (Registered briefly: ‘salutem etc. Benigno … consequi valeas [cf. the next following]. Hinc est quod nos … indulgemus etc. ut in precedenti. Datum etc. ut proxime supra. (Pe. Oct(obris)], as in the preceding. |
| Ibid. | To Richard Gut[h]erst, a monk etc. as above, f. 27. The like. (Registered briefly: ‘salutem etc. Benigno … consequi merearis [as in the full form on f. 28d. to James Sevenoke]. Hinc est quod nos … indulgemus etc. ut in secunda proxime supra de verbo ad verbum.’ (Pe. … Oct(obris)], as ibid. |
| 1454, [March 19-Dec. 31]. (fn. 3)
St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 30d.) |
To Thomas Gyan, clerk, of the diocese of Worcester. Grant and indult to him, who is a clerk married to a widow, and a notary public by apostolic authority, to act etc. as a notary in spiritual and ecclesiastical causes, notwithstanding the provincial constitutions of Canterbury etc. Sincere devocionis affectus. (P[e]. de Noxeto. | xx. P. de Legendorff. Pro Marcello f[lorenus] i. A de. Veneriis.) [In the margin: Oct(obris). 1½ pp.] |
| 1454. 12 Kal. July. (20 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 33d.) |
To Robert Passelew, rector of Stokton in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth, to hold for life with the said church. value not exceeding 20l. sterling, any benefice with cure etc., as above, f. 25. Litterarum etc.Pe. de. Noxeto. | xxxx. L. de Castiliono. Jo. de Vulterris.) [In the margin: Jan(uarii). 2 pp.] |
| 5 Kal. May. (27 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 34d.) |
To John Turkey, prior of the hospital of St. Mary without Biscoposgate [sic], of the canons regular of St. Augustine, [London]. Dispensation at his petition (containing that the priory of the said hospital is, by reason of various misfortunes, and on account of hospitality to wayfarers and the sick, in many ways burdened), to hold [for life] in commendam etc. with the said priory, [value not stated,] any secular benefice with cure, even if a parish church etc. Religionis etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | xxv. L. de Castiliono.Jo. de Vulterris.) [In the margin: Jan(uarii). 1⅓ pp.] |
| [1454(–5).] 3 Id. Jan. (11 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (fn. 4) (f. 52d.) |
To Gilbert Kymer, dean of Salisbury, doctor of medicine, Indult for ten years to him, who for a few years has been chancellor of the university of Oxford (fn. 5), and ruled it in peace and tranquillity for several years (fn. 6), to take and to rent, let etc. to any persons, even laymen, the fruits of his benefices, whilst residing in the said university or studying letters in any other university (fn. 7) or being in the service of king Henry or queen Margaret, or residing in one of his benefices or in the Roman court; with mandate executory hereby to the bishop of Bath and Wells, the abbot of St. Mary's, Glastonbury and the dean of Wells. Litterarum etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | xxxx. S. Cousin.) [2 pp.] |
| 1454[–5]. Id. Feb. (13 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 53d.) |
To William Lumbard', rector of Stretton on the Fosse (super Fosse), in the diocese of Worcester, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to hold for life with the said church, value not exceeding 10l. sterling, any benefice with cure etc., as above, f. 25. Litterarum etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | l.Jo. de Vulterris.) [11/5 pp.] |
| 1454. 8 Id. June. (fn. 8) (6 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 54.) |
To William Hermer, rector of Calkeuell’ near Calais, in the diocese of Térouane. Dispensation to hold for life with the said church, value not exceeding 40l. sterling, any other benefice, or without it any two benefices with or without cure (fn. 9) or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches etc., and to resign them. simply or for exchange. as often as he pleases. Vite etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | l. C. Fidelis.) [1 p.] |
7 Nicholas V.
8 Nicholas V.
7 Nicholas V.
8 Nicholas V.
| 1454. 10 Kal. Dec. (22 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 124.) |
To Richard Langstrothyr, a canon of London, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him (whom the present pope lately dispensed to hold for life any two benefices with cure [or otherwise] incompatible, even if two parish churches etc.; and who is of noble birth) to hold for life with such two incompatible benefices any other third benefice with cure and incompatible therewith, and to resign all, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, and hold instead three other incompatible benefices, even if two of them be parish churches etc. Nobilitas generis, litterarum etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. G. de Porris.) [2 pp. +. See above, p. 24.] |
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| 12 Kal. May. (20 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 125.) |
To John Langstrothyr, preceptor of the preceptory of Balsall, of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Confirmation of the letters, and the consequences thereof, by which John de Lastiko, master of the hospital of Rhodes, commissioned Robert Botyll, prior of the priory of England, to collate and assign to the above John, who is also castellan of the city of Rhodes, (fn. 10) the first preceptory to become void in the said priory of England. being in the gift of the said master; with mandate hereby to the abbots of St. Peter's Westminster and St. Albans to defend the said John, etc.Quanto dilectorum filiorum. (Pe. de Noxeto. | Gratis de mandato domini nostri [pape]. G. de Porris. Colla(tiona)ta.) [2 pp. +.] |
6 Nicholas V.
| 1452. 5 Id. July. (11 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 126.) |
To the abbot and convent of the Benedictine monastery of St. Mary, Tewkesbuey [sic], in the diocese of Worcester. Indult, at their recent petition (containing that their monastery is reputed very eminent (fn. 11) and notable, that in its church or cemetery are buried the bodies of several princes, kings, dukes and earls, and their sons, that by the divine grace its revenues are sufficiently opulent, and that it is held in great devotion by the faithful, especially by magnates and nobles), for the abbot thereof for the time being (considering that several abbots or priors of other monasteries in those parts, whose fruits are of much less value, wear the pontifical insignia even, as the said abbot and convent allege, in the presence of bishops) to wear the mitre, ring, pastoral staff, gloves and other pontifical insignia within the precincts, even if a bishop or other catholic prelate (antistes) be there, and to give solemn benediction. Exposcit tue devotionis. (P[e]. de Noxeto. | lta . Pe. Legendorff.Jo. de Vulterris.) [In the margin: No(vembris). 1 p. +.] |
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8 Nicholas V.
| 1454. 7 Id. Dec. (7 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 127.) |
To Thomas Estyngton, perpetual vicar of Westbury in the diocese of Salisbury, M.A. Dispensation to him, who is a scholar in theology and a preacher of the gospel, (fn. 12) to hold for life with the said vicarage, value not exceeding 20l. sterling, one other or, if he resign it, any two other benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if dignities etc., but not two parish churches nor perpetual vicarages, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases.Litterarum etc. (P[e]. de Noxeto. | xxxx. P. Legendorff.Jo. de Vulterris.) [In the margin: No(vembris). 1½ pp.] |
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| Ibid. | To the same. (fn. 13) Indult for seven years to take and to rent, let etc. to any persons, even laymen, the fruits etc. of his benefices, whilst studying letters [at an university]; with mandate executory hereby to the bishop of Salisbury and his vicar-general in spirituals. Litterarum etc. (P[e].de Noxeto. | xxxii. P. No(vembris). 2 pp.] |
| 1454. 5 Non. Oct. (3 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 207.) |
To John Brygge alias Browne, a monk of the Benedictine monastery of St. Mary, Glastonbury, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of a married man and an unmarried woman, to hold any benefice, dignity, etc. wont to be governed by monks of his order, even if such dignity be the abbatial etc.; with indult that the said defect need not be mentioned in future papal letters. Religionis etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | lxv.P. de Legendorff. G. de Porris.) |
| 3 Kal. Aug. (30 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (fn. 14) (f. 207d.) |
Decree etc., as below. The recent petition of George, abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Augustine without the walls of Canterbury, immediately subject to the Roman church, contained that certain monks thereof have without the said abbot's consent made themselves members of the fraternity of the hospital of Holy Trinity and St. Thomas the Martyr, Rome (de Urbe) and of the house of St. Anthony, London, and procured letters of participation in the indulgences and indults granted by the apostolic see to the members of the said fraternity, under pretext whereof they pay every year a certain sum of money, without the abbot's licence, to the said hospital and house, and claim the enjoyment of the said indulgences etc., choosing their own confessors, even secular, without the said abbot's consent, making themselves unequal (dispares) to the other monks, and not duly recognising the superiority and obedience of the said abbot. The pope therefore decrees and declares that such indults do not extend to the said monks, etc.Ad fut. rei mem. Regularem vitam. (Pe. de Noxeto. | xxx.L. de Castelliono. Ja. de Rizonibus.) [1 p. +.] |
7 Nicholas V.
8 Nicholas V.
| 1454. 8 Id. July. (8 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 213.) |
To the prior or master of the order of St. Gilbert of Sempyngham in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation, at his recent petition (containing that he is bound, because the said priory is immediately subject to the apostolic see, and in return for the privileges granted to it by the said see, to pay to the papal camera every two years 9l. 15s. of English money, and has to keep hospitality and maintain the brethren and enclosed sisters (fn. 15) of the order, which and the other burdens incumbent upon him he is unable to support from the fruits of the priory), for him and his successors to hold for life any benefice with or without cure etc., as above, f. 26d. (but without the clause ‘even if a parish church etc.’).Religionis etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | xxxxvi. Ja. de Vicentia.Jo. de Vulterris.) [In the margin: Sept(embris). 1 p. +.] |
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| Kal. Oct. (1 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 255d.) |
To the bishop of Catanzaro (Chatanzan.). Mandate, at the recent petition of Gilbert Stichel, an Augustinian canon of the diocese of St. Andrews—containing that not long ago (fn. 16) the hospital of Soltre in the said diocese, which was of the said order, with a master and nine or ten canons, of whom Gilbert was one, had the said order suppressed therein, and was erected by authority of the ordinary into a perpetual ecclesiastical benefice, namely the chancellorship of the Augustinian church of St. Andrews, a secular dignity, value not exceeding 200 marks sterling; that the said canons were thereafter dispersed, some of them dying and the rest, except Gilbert, finding benefices or other provision; and that he has for about twenty years exercised the cure of the parishioners of Ormiston in the said diocese, annexed from of old to the said house—to grant and assign to him all the fruits etc. of the said church of Ormiston, which do not exceed 9l. sterling a year. Religionis … (Pe. de Noxeto. | xxv. P. de Legendorff. Jo. de Cremonen[sibus]. A. Trapezuncius.) [1½ pp.] |
| 17 Kal. Aug. (16 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 280.) |
To John Tumbrigge, a monk of the Benedictine monastery of St. Augustine without the walls of the city of Canterbury. Dispensation to him, who was recently smitten with palsy and fears to be much more tormented therewith in future, (fn. 17) to hold for life, with licence of his abbot, any benefice with or without cure wont to be governed by secular clerks or regular persons of any order, even if a parish church etc., and to have it served by another and its cure of souls exercised, if it have cure, and also to grant its fruits etc. to farm or yearly pension, even to laymen, without requiring licence of the ordinary etc. Religionis etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | xxx. P. de Legendorff. Jo. de Vulterris.) [In the margin: Oct(obris). 1½ pp]. |
| 8 Id. April. (6 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 346d.) |
To Robert Ayscogh, a canon of Salisbury, doctor of laws. Dispensation to hold for life with the parish church of Campsall’ in the diocese of York, value not exceeding 40 marks sterling, one other benefice, or without it any two benetices with cure or otherwise incompatible etc., as above, f. 54. Litterarum etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. | l.Ja. de Vincencia. F. de Sinibaldis.) [In the margin: Sept(embris). 1¼ pp.] |
| 3 Non. Oct. (5 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 370.) |
To the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of Norwich, John, bishop of Hereford, and John Stokis, archdeacon of Ely. Mandate, as below. The pope has learned from certain letters of Margaret, queen of England, and from divers other letters of Richard, duke of York, protector and defender of the said realm, and of the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of London, as also from the relation of John Aleyn, doctor of laws, sent to the pope as the orator of the said mayor, aldermen and citizens, and of Thomas Winchecom, priest, S.T.B., the said queen's envoy, that litigation etc. formerly arose between Robert Wright and other parishioners, of the one part, and a number of rectors, vicars or curates of the said city, of the other part, about oblations etc., but that at length, at the instance of the late John, bishop of St. Rufina's and other prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury, the said parties, or a number of ecclesiastical and lay persons in their names, arrived at an amicable agreement, which the said parties not only accepted but for some time observed, but which afterwards the said rectors, vicars or curates or some of them refused to observe, procuring (under pretext of certain letters granted to them by the present pope, containing no mention of the said agreement, etc.) the addressing of certain mandates to a number of the said parishioners in the matter of the said oblations, and especially to the said Robert, and otherwise in many ways vexing and molesting them, wherefore the said parishioners have appealed to the apostolic see. The pope has learned moreover that very many murmurings and dissensions have resulted in consequence among the people of the said city against the said rectors, vicars or curates, and that, unless he provide a remedy, great hatreds and scandals are likely to follow. He therefore, extolling the devotion of the English and protesting his special affection for them, (fn. 18) orders the above, or three, two or one of them, to summon the said parties, and monish and induce them to approve the said agreement or any other honest and convenient agreement which shall be made or, if they prefer, to observe the pope's said letters; if not. to make enquiry extra-judicially about the said murmurings, scandals, letters etc., and to send as soon as possible to the pope the said approbation or agreement, if made, or the result of their enquiry, together with their sealed letters (containing, inter alia, how much credence is to be given to them), in order that the pope may provide the most wholesome remedy. In order to facilitate the making of peace, the pope hereby suspends and annuls for a year from the presentation of these presents to the above judges, and beyond that period, until the pope has made another ordinance in the matter, his said letters and the processes which have arisen therefrom and all sentences against the said Robert or parishioners, and all penalties inflicted, and exhorts the said mayor, aldermen, citizens and inhabitants, and orders the said rectors, vicars and curates, namely the former and their successors, to observe the said agreement or letters of the pope, or, if not, the latter and parishioners to make an honest and convenient agreement as above, to the end that peace and concord may be established between them. Romani pontificis providencia. (Pe. de Noxeto. | lx.P. de Legendorff. Ja. de Rizonibus. Collationata, Ja.Marini.) [In the margin: Oct(obris). 2 pp. See below, Reg. Vat. CCCCXXVII, f. 57.] |