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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'Lateran Regesta 681: 1469-1470', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 12, 1458-1471, (London, 1933) pp. 691-693. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol12/pp691-693 [accessed 26 April 2024]
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Lateran Regesta, Vol. DCLXXXI. (fn. 1)
6 Paul II.
De Diversis Formis.
| 1469. 19 Kal. Jan. (14 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 238.) |
To the bishop of Derry (Deren.). Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Michael, archbishop of Dublin, contained that at the time of his appointment to that church he promised by oath to visit in person or by deputy every two years the shrines of the Apostles, and added that he, who is in his seventieth year and more, and has been twice imprisoned by his enemies and grievously beaten, (fn. 2) has not been able to visit the said shrines, and that he has meanwhile exercised pontifical offices and celebrated masses and other divine offices, and taken part therein, but not in contempt of the Keys. The pope therefore orders the above bishop to absolve the said archbishop from the crime of perjury etc., enjoining a salutary penance etc., and rehabilitate him, and to grant that for ten years next to come he shall not be bound to visit the said shrines, etc. Ad ea ex apostolice. (F. and Manuci. | F. xxx. Sassenat.) [1 p.] |
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| 1469[–70]. 17 Kal. Feb. (16 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 239.) |
To William Johannys, perpetual vicar of the parish church of St. Mary de Bergeveny in the diocese of Llandaff, doctor of canon law. Dispensation to him, who is a priest, to receive and retain for life together with the said vicarage (value not expressed) any one other benefice, or without the said vicarage any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if they be parish churches or their perpetual vicarages, or chantries, or major or principal dignities, etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (P. and A. de Cortesiis. | P. l. de Varris.) [1¾ pp.] |
| 1469. 7 Kal. Dec. (25 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 249.) |
To the abbot of St. Mary's, Macosquin (de Clarofonte), in the diocese of Derry (Deren.), and William Oqueruolan and Cornelius Odubii, canons of Derry. Mandate, as below. The pope has been informed by John Otehegan, rector of the parish church of Enga in the diocese of Derry, that Patrick Omolachan, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Rathlurach in the said diocese, priest, has committed simony and has been publicly proclaimed excommunicate as such, has celebrated masses and other divine offices wittingly in contempt of the Keys, and is greatly defamed about these things in those parts. The pope, therefore, hereby orders the above three, if the said John (who lately, after having been dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, obtained canonical collation of the said church of Enga, and who alleges that its fruits etc. are too slight for his maintenance etc., and that if to the said rectory were united, for such time as he shall hold it, the said vicarage, both of them with cure, and value not exceeding 3 and 5 marks sterling respectively, he could conveniently exercise the cure of souls of both churches, which are near one another, and the parishioners of which inhabit in common, (fn. 3) and that he could be better maintained), [will accuse] the said Patrick [before the above three, to summon Patrick and others concerned], (fn. 4) and if they find the foregoing to be true, to deprive and remove Patrick, and in that event to unite the said vicarage to the said rectory for such time as the said John shall hold the latter, etc. Pastoralis officii. (P. and N. de Castello. | P. xviii. de Varris.) [24/5 pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 260d.) |
To Thomas Thuson, rector of the parish church of St. Andrew, Uffort, in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life together with the said church (value not expressed) any one other benefices, or if he resign that church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if they be parish churches or their perpetual vicarages, or major etc., as above, f. 239. Vite etc. (Hug. and A. de Cortesiis. Hug. l. prothonot. Bisuntin.) [21/5 pp.] |
| 1469[–70]. Kal. Jan. (1 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 264d.) |
To Guy Ardern', rector of the parish church of Litilbury in the diocese of London. bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to receive and retain for life together with the said church, value not exceeding 26l. sterling, any one other benefice, or if he resign that church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if they be parish churches or their perpetual vicarages, or chantries, or free chapels, or major etc., as above, f. 239. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. (Hug. and A. de Cortesiis. Hug. l.prothonot. Bisuntin.) [22/3 pp.] |
| 1469. 9 Kal. Nov. (24 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 268d.) |
To John Barotte, rector of the parish church of Foston in the diocese of Lincoln, M.A. Dispensation to receive and retain for life together with the said church (value not expressed) any one other benefice, or if he resign that church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if they be parish churches or their perpetual vicarages, or chantries, or hospitals wont to be assigned to secular clerks as a title of a perpetual benefice, or major etc., as above, f. 239. Litterarum etc. (P. and Ja. Prats. P. l. de Varris.) [22/3 pp.] |
| 1469[–70]. 9 Id. Jan. (5 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 303.) |
To John Halsall, rector of the parish church of Wodboro in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him (who is a priest, and who was lately dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a married man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, in virtue of which he was so promoted and obtained by canonical collation the above church), to receive and retain for life together with the said church (value not expressed) any one other benefice, or if he resign that church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if they be parish churches or their perpetual vicarages, or chantries, or annual services, or free chapels, or hospitals wont etc. as in the preceding. Vite etc. (F. and M. Amici. | F. lta . Sassen.) [22/3 pp.] |