Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 12, 1458-1471. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1933.
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'Vatican Regesta 531: 1469', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 12, 1458-1471, (London, 1933) pp. 307-315. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol12/pp307-315 [accessed 12 April 2024]
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Vatican Regesta. Vol. DXXXI. (fn. 3)
Secrete.
5 Paul II.
| 1468[–9]. Id. March. (15 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 21d.) |
To the abbots of Holyrood, near Edinburch [and] New[b]otyl, in the diocese of St. Andrews and the dean of Reims. Mandate (the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of Inuerwyk in the diocese of St. Andrews being void by the death of William Gray, and Thomas Freg, priest, of the said diocese, having been presented within the lawful time to the ordinary; and Alan de Co[n]yngham, clerk, of the diocese of Glasgow, to whom under date 15 Kal. March anno 5 (15 Feb. 1468–9) the present pope granted provision of the said vicarage, thus void, having this day ceded to the pope the said grant, the letters about which had not been drawn up, and the pope having admitted the said cession) to collate and assign the said vicarage, value not exceeding 9l. sterling, to the said Thomas; whether it be void as above, or by the death of Gilibertus Heryn, or the free resignation of the said Alan or Gilibertus, or in any other way. Vite etc. (L. Dathus. | xxii. M. de Sole. D. de Piscia. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Aprilis.) [2¼ pp.] |
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| 1468[–9]. 5 Kal. March. (25 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 25.) |
To the precentor and the treasurer of Cloyne (Clonen.), and Dermit Okywe, a canon of the same. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of William Ymurchw, priest, of the diocese of Cloyne, contained that formerly, on the voidance in a certain way [not here expressed] of the perpetual vicarages of the parish churches of Athacaryn', which is of the patronage of laymen, and Ballynoe (de Novavilla) in the said diocese, Jordan bishop of Cloyne, considering that the fruits etc. of each of the said vicarage were so slight that each perpetual vicar could not be conveniently maintained etc. therewith, united them by his ordinary authority for the lifetime of the said William, and made collation and provision to him thereof, thus united, and that in virtue thereof he obtained possession, and has held them in peace for about ten years, taking the fruits. The said petition adding that some doubt whether the said union, and that William doubts whether the said collation and provision, hold good, and the pope having learned that the vicarages are still void as above, the pope, hereby rehabilitating William on account of the foregoing, and holding the true and last modes of their voidance to be expressed by these presents, orders the above three, if they find that the causes for the said union were sufficient and lawful, to confirm it by papal authority, and in that event to collate and assign the vicarages, which have cure and whose yearly value does not exceed 8 marks sterling, to William. Apostolice sedis providentia circunspecta (sic). (L. Dathus. | xx. Jo. de Buccabellis. G. de Fuentes. D. de Piscia. N. de Piccolominibus. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Mar(tii).) [4 pp.] |
| 1468[–9]. Id. Jan. (13 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 32d.) |
Confirmation, as below. The recent petition of the prior and brethren of the Carthusian house of the Salutation of the Mother of God without the walls of London contained that formerly Edward [the present] king of England gave them and their said house his right of patronage in the Benedictine alien priory of Okebourne and in its manor of Okebourne in Okebourne Magna and Okebourne Parva, otherwise called the manor of Okebourne Seyncte George in Okebourne Magna and Okebourne Parva in the county of Wilts, in the diocese of Salisbury, or the ownership of them and all his right in them, (fn. 4) as is more fully contained in the authentic letters of the said king inserted in certain other public letters drawn up in the form of a transumpt, exhibited to the pope, the tenour of which the pope holds to be expressed by these presents. At the petition of the said king and prior and brethren the pope, holding the value of the said priory, in which no monk has for a long time resided, (fn. 5) and of the said manor etc., to be expressed by these presents, and absolving the prior and brethren from all sentences of excommunication etc. on account of the receiving the said priory and manor, approves and confirms the said donation and grant and all the other contents of the said letters and their consequences, and grants that the prior and brethren may retain the said priory and manor etc. Ad perp. rei mem. Pastoralis officii cura. (L. Dathus. | G. de Spada. Collat. G. Blondus. Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape.) [1¾ pp. See Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edward IV, 1461–1467, pp. 141, 176.] |
| 1468[–9]. 12 Kal. Feb. (21 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 43.) |
To the precentor of Lismore. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of William Ydonhyn, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of Inishlounaght (de Surio) in the diocese of Lismore, contained that he formerly impetrated papal letters directed to the bishop of Lismore against Dermit Ohyffyrnayn, [now] a monk, then abbot of the said monastery, by which the said bishop was ordered, if he found that the said Dermit had perpetrated certain excesses and crimes [not here expressed], to deprive and remove him, and in that event to make provision to William; that, the said letters having been expedited, he got them sent to those parts by a certain messenger; that Dermit, having learned the said impetration, violently took away or caused to be taken away the said letters from the said messenger, when on his journey and being in the realm of England; and that, information having been given before the said bishop on William's behalf concerning the carrying away of the said letters, and their contents and effect, that bishop, at William's instance, cited Dermit as if the said letters had been presented to him, afterwards subdelegating the cause to Thomas Oflatwayn, a canon of Lismore, who, after lawful proof before him of the taking away of the said letters, and of their substantial form, etc., by his definitive sentence deprived Dermit, and made provision to William, who had been dispensed by the same letters, on account of illegitimacy as the son of an abbot of the said order and an unmarried woman, to be appointed to the said monastery; and that from the said sentence and certain fictitious grievances falsely alleged by Dermit to have been inflicted on him by the said canon before the said sentence, Dermit appealed to the apostolic see, afterwards renouncing the appeal. The said petition adding that William doubts whether the said provision holds good on account of the non-presentation of the original letters [and] for certain other reasons, and the said monastery being, as the pope has learned, still void as above, the pope orders the above precentor to summon Dermit and others concerned, and if he find the said William, who has made his open profession of the said order and is reputed in those parts to be true abbot of the monastery, and who takes the fruits thereof, to be fit, to make provision to him of the said monastery, value not exceeding 70 marks sterling. The pope hereby dispenses him to be appointed abbot etc., notwithstanding the said defect etc., and grants that he may be blessed by any catholic bishop, who shall thereafter receive from him the usual oath of fealty according to the form enclosed. (fn. 6)Solicite considerationis. (L. Dathus. | xxx. A. Ingheramius. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Februarii.) [4 pp. +. Theiner, Vet. Mon. Hib. et Scot. Hist. Illust., p. 458, No. 804, from ‘Reg. Tom. viii, fol. 43,’ i.e. the present Register, with the spelling ‘Ohysfyrnayn.’] |
| 1468. 13 Kal. Dec. (19 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 74.) |
To James Lewyton (sic), a canon of Glasgow, M.A. Grant, as below. The present pope, under date Kal. April anno 1 (1 April, 1465), made provision to him, motu proprio, of a canonry with reservation of a prebend and a dignity etc. of Glasgow, and also reservation of a benefice with or without cure, even if etc., wont to be assigned to secular clerks in the common or several gift of the bishop and the prior and chapter etc. of St. Andrews. Seeing that, as the pope has learned, he has obtained, collated to him by authority of the ordinary, the parish church of Fortheuiot in the diocese of St. Andrews, the pope, in order that he, who is by both parents of noble and baronial birth, may not be deprived of the effect of the said letters, hereby grants, also motu proprio, that, alike in virtue of the said letters as of these presents, he may accept such benefice comprehended therein, etc., as if the said collation and obtaining [of the said parish church] had not been made. Nobilitas generis, litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (L. Dathus. | xvi. Jo. de Buccabellis. A. de Urbino. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: May [i.e. Maij].) [1½ pp.] |
| 1469. 5 Kal. April. (March 28.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 76d.) |
To Thomas Scot, a canon of the Premonstratensian monastery of Holywood (Sacrinemoris) in the diocese of Glasgow. Indult and faculty, at his recent petition containing that he is a leper and blind, so that he can no longer govern and serve in person his perpetual vicarage of the parish church of Pempouch in the said diocese, that he may choose a fit priest, secular or regular, of the said order as his coadjutor, appointed and removed by him. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (L. Dathus. | xx. M. de Sole. P. Bertrandi. D.de Piscia. A. de Urbino. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Aprilis.) [1 p. +. Theiner, Vet. Mon. Hib. et Scot. Hist. Illust., p. 460, No. 843, from ‘Reg. Tom. viii.fol. 76,’ i.e. the present Register.] |
| 1468[–9]. 3 Id. March. (13 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 78d.) |
To the dean and the subdean and William Sirapyl (? recte Simpyl), a canon of Glasgow. Mandate (the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of Cral in the diocese of St. Andrews being void by the resignation of John Scut made to Patrick bishop of St. Andrews and admitted by that bishop by his ordinary authority, although William Bler, priest, of the diocese of Glasgow, M.A., under pretext of an invalid collation made to him by the said bishop by his said authority, has unduly detained possession of it for more than a year but less than two years) to summon William and others concerned, and to collate and assign said vicarage, value not exceeding 9l. sterling, to Alexander Abbreceorne, (fn. 7) clerk, of the said diocese of St. Andrews, inducting him and removing the said William, etc. Vite etc. (L. Dathus. | xx. Jo. de Buccabellis. G. de Fuentes. D. de Piscia. M. de Ma(n)nutiis. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Martii.) [2 pp.] |
| 1468[–9]. Id. Feb. (13 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 129d.) |
To the prior of St. Andrews, the dean of Glasgow and the archdeacon of Hurte (or Hucte) in the church of Cuença (Conchen.). Mandate, at the recent petition of Nicholas Graham, priest, of the diocese of St. Andrews, M.A. (containing that formerly, on the voidance of the archdeaconry of Lothian (Laudonie) in the church of St. Andrews by the death of James Lindesay, Patrick bishop of St. Andrews made collation and provision of it to the said Nicholas, who now doubts whether they hold good) to collate and assign to Nicholas, who is of noble birth, the said archdeaconry, a non-major non-elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 40l. sterling, whether it be void as above, or by the resignation of the said late James or of the late William Crosar, or in any other way. Nobilitas generis, litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (L. Dathus. | xxii. M. de Sole. D. de Piscia. A. Ingheramius. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Aprilis.) [2½ pp.] |
4 Paul II.
| 1468. 17 Kal. Aug. (16 July.) St. Mark's, Rome. (f. 150d.) |
To William Worsley, priest, of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, doctor of laws. Dispensation etc. as below. His recent petition contained that on the successive voidance in divers ways of a canonry of the collegiate church of St. Mary, Suthwel, in the diocese of York and the prebend of Overhall de Northwell therein, and afterwards of a canonry of York and the prebend of South[c]ave (fn. 8), and subsequently of a canonry of London and the prebend of Willesdon alias Boundes, and finally of the parish church of Eykeryng in the diocese of York, he was presented by the lay patrons to the said parish church and was instituted by authority of the ordinary, and the said canonry and prebends were collated to him by the same authority; and that under pretext of the said presentation and institution and collations and provisions he obtained the same and is still in possession, taking the fruits. At his said petition, which added that the said prebends are sacerdotal, and that at the time of the said collations and provisions and also of his obtaining possession he was below the lawful age, (fn. 9) the pope, holding the modes of voidance of the said canonries and prebends and parish church and their values etc. and his age, even his age at the said time, to be expressed by these presents, dispenses and grants to him, who is now of lawful age, that he may retain together for life the said benefices, the pope hereby revalidating and confirming the said collations and provisions and presentation and institution.Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (L. Dathus. | xxv. M. de Sole. Jo. de Veneriis. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin:Aprilis.) [1½ pp.] |
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5 Paul II.
| 13 Kal. Dec. (19 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 156.) |
To David Colden, a canon of Dunkeld, M.A. Collation etc., as below. On Kal April anno 1 [1 April, 1465] the pope ordered, motu proprio, provision to be made to him of one or two benefices, void or to become void, wont to be assigned to secular clerks, even if one of them had cure or were a rural deanery or archpriestship reputed to be a dignity with cure, but without a cathedral church, or were a dignity or a personatus in a cathedral or a collegiate church, or were a canonry and prebend in the same cathedral church, or either of them were a canonry and prebend in a collegiate church, or an administration or office in the same churches, and such dignity etc. were elective, and one of them had cure, in the common or several collation etc. of the bishop and the dean and chapter etc. of Dunkeld and of the abbot and convent of the Benedictine monastery of Kelso alias Calco in the diocese of St. Andrews. The pope therefore, having learned that David has obtained by canonical collation the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of Saulin in the diocese of Dunkeld, hereby restores, also motu proprio, the said letters and their processes and clauses, and also David himself, to the state in which they and he were before such collation etc., annuls, with David's consent, the said letters as far [only] as regards the collation etc. of the said bishop, dean and chapter etc., and makes collation and provision to him of a canonry of Dunkeld, and reserves to his own gift, for collation to David, a prebend and a dignity etc. thereof, provided that such dignity be not major, etc. The pope further wills and grants to him that in virtue, alike of the said other letters and processes, which shall hold good from the date thereof and avail him for the present purpose, and also of these presents, he may accept such canonry and prebend and dignity etc. of the said church of Dunkeld, and also such other benefice comprised in the same letters, and that the executors thereof may make provision to him thereof etc., as if the said collation and taking possession had not happened, and as if provision had been made to him from the outset of a canonry with reservation of a prebend and a dignity etc. of Dunkeld. The pope's will is that as soon as he obtains possession of such dignity etc. or benefice with cure, whether in virtue of the said other or of the present letters, both the present and the said other letters and processes, and their consequences, shall be null and void as far only as regards the other (reliquum) benefice incompatible therewith. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (L.Dathus. | xvi. Jo. de Buccabellis. P. Bertrandi pro G.de Fuentes. D. de Piscia. A. de Vulterris. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Mar(tii).) [3½ pp.] |
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| 1468[–9]. 5 Kal. March. (25 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 160.) |
Statute, decree and ordinance, at the recent petition of the dean and chapter of St. Salvator's at St. Andrews, granting to the college of the said church, in which the study of theology is necessary for the extirpation of certain heresies which the old enemy of the human race has sown in those parts, the privileges of the university of St. Andrews in respect of the granting of degrees of master in theology and arts, etc. Ad perp. rei mem. Ex pastoralis officii debito. (L. Dathus. | lxxx. M. de Sole. A. de Urbino. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Aprilis.) [2½ pp. Theiner, Vet. Mon. Hib. et Scot. Hist. Illust., p. 460, No. 842, from ‘Reg. Tom. viii. fol. 160,’ i.e. the present Register.] |
| 1468[–9]. 15 Kal. March. (15 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 173d.) |
To the bishop of Orvieto, the abbot of Paisley (de Pasleto) in the diocese of Glasgow and the subdean of Glasgow. Mandate to collate and assign to Alan de Conyngham, clerk, of the diocese of Glasgow, M.A., who is illegitimate, being the son of a married nobleman and an unmarried woman, the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of Kylbieni in the said diocese, value not exceeding 9l. sterling, void by the death of Alexander Mackalon. He is hereby dispensed to receive it and to retain it for life, notwithstanding the said defect, etc. (fn. 10) Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (L. Dathus. | xxvi. Jo. de Buccabellis. D. de Piscia. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin. Mar(tii).) [3¼ pp.] |
4 Paul II.
| 1468. 18 Kal. Oct. (14 Sept.) St. Mark's, Rome. (f. 178d.) |
To the archdeacon of Glasgow. Mandate, as below. The pope lately, upon learning that Edward Canigham (recte Coni[n]gham, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Galstone in the diocese of Glasgow, had resigned the vicarage before notary and witnesses, granted provision thereof, when it should be void by the admission of the resignation, to Richard Cady, priest, of the said diocese; and upon his ceding to the pope the said grant, before the letters thereof had been drawn up, the pope, admitting the said cession, ordered provision to be made, when it should be void by the admission of the said cession, to Patrick Lech, priest, of the same diocese. The said Patrick having this day, before the execution of the letters granted to him, ceded to the pope, by his proctor, James Inglis, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Cader in the said diocese, all right in or to the said vicarage, the pope hereby orders the archdeacon, if he find that the resignation of the said Edward was lawful, to admit it by papal authority, if not already admitted, and to collate and assign the said vicarage of Galssone (sic), value not exceeding 11l. sterling, to William Marschel, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Loydom in the said diocese, whether it be void by such resignation and admission, or be still void by the death of Robert de Conyegham (recte Conyngham) or of Laurence Tran, or by such cession, or in any other way. As soon as he obtains peaceable possession of the said vicarage of Galssone (sic), he is to resign that of Loydom. Dignum arbitramur. (L. Dathus. | xx. Baudetus. G. de Fuentes.D. de Piscia. B. de Maffeis. In the margin: Decembris. (fn. 11) ) [4 pp. +.] |
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5 Paul II.
| 1469. 14 Kal. May. (18 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 197.) |
To the abbot of Paisley (de Pasleto) in the diocese of Glasgow and William Elphenston, a canon of Glasgow. Mandate, at the recent petition of Andrew Pytycru, (fn. 12) priest, of the diocese of St. Andrews (containing that on the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of Batrat in the said diocese becoming void by the death of John Yrnas (or Yrnes,? recte Ynnes), the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Neubotil in the said diocese, to whom the presentation belongs by ancient custom, presented the said Andrew within the lawful time to Patrick bishop of St. Andrews, who without reasonable cause has refused to institute him) to collate and assign to Andrew the said vicarage, value not exceeding 9l. sterling. Vite etc. (L. Dathus. | xx. M.de Sole. P. Bertrandi. D. de Piscia. L. de Mancinis.Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Aprilis.) [2 pp.] |
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| 15 Kal. May. (17 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 214d.) |
To the bishop of Glasgow. Mandate, as below. Lately, on the Benedictine monastery of St. Mary the Virgin, Calco, in the diocese of St. Andrews, exempt and immediately subject to the pope and the apostolic see, becoming void by the death of abbot Alan Kuk, the present pope granted it, previously specially reserved to himself and the said see, in commendam for a certain time, then expressed, to Richard Wyli, then archdeacon of Brechin, and thereafter made provision thereof to him and appointed him abbot, (fn. 13) committing to him the rule and administration, as is more fully contained in the pope's letters on the subject. The recent petition of the said Richard contained that a certain monk, Robert Ker, alleging that he was elected abbot by the convent, has, under pretext of such election, after and contrary to the papal reservation (fn. 14) and the pope's said provision, de facto intruded himself in the rule and administration; and added that the said Robert afterwards, making no mention of the pope's said provision, and expressing not the monastery's true or more usually employed name in such cases, namely ‘Calco,’ but that of ‘Kelsow,' extorted by fraud from the pope certain letters (fn. 15) by which it is said that provision was ordered to be made to him, in virtue of which letters, continuing his intrusion, he has in many ways prevented the letters of provision granted to Richard from taking effect. The pope therefore orders the above bishop to summon Robert and others concerned, and if he find the foregoing to be true, to decree and declare the said and any other election by the convent made after the said reservation, (fn. 16) and their consequences, to be null and void, to annul the said extorted letters and their consequences, and cause Richard to obtain possession of the rule and administration, removing Robert and any other detainer, etc. Officii nostri cura exigit. (L. Dathus. | xxx. M. de Sole. L. de Banchis. Collat. G. Blondus. In the margin: Aprilis.) [3½ pp.] |