Lateran Regesta 104: 1398-1402 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 5, 1398-1404. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

'Lateran Regesta 104: 1398-1402', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 5, 1398-1404, (London, 1904) pp. 505-519. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol5/pp505-519 [accessed 25 April 2024]

Lateran Regesta, Vol. CIV.

13 Boniface IX.

De Regularibus.



1402 7 Id. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 6.)	To William Best, Augustinian canon of St. Mary's, Cirencester, in the diocese of Worcester. Dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to hold any dignities, administrations and offices of his order, even if one of such dignities be abbatial. His said illegitimacy and dispensation need not be mentioned in future graces. Religionis zelus, vite ac morum.
4 Id. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 12.)	To John de Bernewellis, Augustinian prior of Bernewell in the diocese of Ely. Dispensation to hold a benefice with or without cure even if wont to be governed by secular clerks, and to resign it for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases and hold instead a similar or dissimilar benefice. Religionis etc.
Ibid.	To the Cistercian abbot and convent of Coggeshale in the diocese of London. Indult that as often as any of them leave the monastery for a reasonable cause they may eat flesh on lawful days; with dispensation for the purpose to them and those staying in the monastery. Exigit vestre.
Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 12d.)	To the Augustinian prior and convent of Kyme (de Kyma) in the diocese of Lincoln. Indult to rent, let and farm, to clerks or laymen, all their fruits etc., possessions, manors, granges and other rights and their benefices, and indult to such clerks or laymen to receive the same to farm or yearly pension; without requiring licence of ordinaries. Sincere devocionis. [Cf. f. 73.]
Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 13.)	Confirmation, with exemplification, of the letters—Religiosis viris, of Lucius III to the prior and convent of Bernewell, dated at Velletri, Kal. May [1182 or 1183, the year is not mentioned], and granting them indult, upon voidance of churches of their patronage, to appoint thereto and present to the bishop three or four of their brethren, or a fit priest who shall be answerable to the bishop in spirituals and to them in temporals. Ad fut. rei mem. Dudum felicis.
Ibid. (f. 16d.)	To Edmund Totyngton, sacristan of the church of Ely, of the order of St. Benedict. Dispensation, as above to John de Bernewellis, f. 12. Religionis etc.
Ibid.	To Thomas Brassyngton, Augustinian canon of Bernewell. The like. Religionis etc.
6 Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome, (f. 17.)	To Thomas Beche, Benedictine monk of Battle in the diocese of Chichester. Indult to him, a priest, to study civil law at an university. Religionis etc.
Kal. July. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 19.)	To the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishops of Rochester and Telese. Mandate, as below. Lately, on its being set forth to the pope on behalf of the then prior and convent of the Cluniac monastery, at that time the priory, of St. Saviour Bermundesey,—thereafter erected by papal authority into a monastery under an abbot instead of a prior—that their means were so diminished by floods, pestilences and mortality that it could not keep up its wonted great hospitality, he appropriated to them the church of Kemsyng with its annexed chapel of Zele [values not here given] in the diocese of Rochester, of their patronage, so that on the resignation of death of the rector they might take possession, a portion being reserved for a perpetual vicar, and that, if the rector were willing to resign, a yearly pension for life might be agreed upon [as above, p. 13]. Subsequently, upon the pope being informed that on account of the said appropriation, the said abbot, then prior, and convent having under the said letters obtained possession, divine worship in the said church had very much diminished, he annulled his appropriation, even if between the abbot, then prior, and convent and Adam Usk, priest, of the diocese of Llandaff, D.C.L., a suit was pending, and restored the church and chapel to their former state. The recent petition of abbot Henry and the convent contained that although under the said appropriation they obtained possession of the church and chapel by the resignation of rector Thomas Redlyngton and held it for some time, the above Adam despoiled them and kept possession, as he still does, on account of which they appealed to the apostolic see; that, at their instance, the pope committed the cause and the appeal, although not lawfully devolved to the Roman court, to Master Nicholas de Vordis, and then to Master Jerome de Seydenberg, papal chaplains and auditors; that subsequently, upon its being set forth to the pope on behalf of the abbot and convent that his said letters of annulment had been obtained at the instance of Adam, and that the grounds given therein for the annulment were untrue, the pope gave commission to Jerome to fix a term within which Adam should prove the truth of the said grounds; that the said auditor, before whom appeared Master John Scrivani, proctor of the abbot and convent, upon the contumacy of Master William Leo, substitute of Master John Teyr, Adam's proctor, gave definitive sentence declaring the said appropriation and taking of possession to have been canonical, and adjudged the church and chapel to the abbot and convent, imposing perpetual silence on Adam and condemning him in costs. The petition added that the said sentence, perhaps by error, does not mention that Adam despoiled the abbot and convent after they had obtained and held possession for some time, and does not seem to restore them to possession; and that, while the suit has been pending, Adam has perhaps resigned and that others have intruded or may intrude themselves, whence possible fresh litigation, etc. The pope therefore revokes his said letters of annulment, confirms the said sentence, and declares that the appropriation and sentence shall have the same force as if the letters of annulment had never emanated, etc.; and orders the above to execute the sentence, restoring the abbot and convent to possession, and removing Adam or any other intruder. Sedes (sic) apostolice providencia. [6 pp.]

9 Boniface IX.

[De Diversis Formis.]



1398. 3 Kal. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 23 bis.) (fn. 1)	To Henry, elect of Lincoln. Indult motu proprio to him, to whom the pope has this day made provision of the said see, to retain therewith for life his free chapel of Tykhull in the diocese of York. Sincere devocionis.
7 Kal. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 23 bis.)	To the bishop of Lichfield. Mandate, after separating for a time, to absolve from excommunication incurred Thomas de Trafforde, donsel, nobleman, and Margery, damsel, noblewoman, daughter of Robert de Hilton, nobleman, of the said diocese, who married clandestinely not in ignorance that they were related on both sides in the third and fourth degrees of kindred; and to dispense them to contract marriage anew, declaring past and future offspring legitimate. Oblate nobis.

De Diversis Formis.



8 Id. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 25 bis.)	Indulgence of the Portiuncula to penitents who at (in) the first and second vespers of the feast of St. John Baptist and during the two following days visit and give alms for the repair of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary, Karleon, alias Lanternan, in the diocese of Llandaff, the buildings, books [and] other ornaments of whose church have been enormously devastated by a fire; with indult for the abbot and eight other priests, secular or regular, chosen by him, to hear confessions and grant absolution, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see, on the said feast and two days and also on the two preceding days. Univ. Christifid. etc. Licet is. (De mandato.)

13 Boniface IX.

De Regularibus.



1402. 3 Kal. June. St. Peter's Rome. (f. 33d.)	To John Haverell, Cistercian monk of Coggershale in the diocese of London. Dispensation, as above, f. 12, to John de Bernewellis. Religionis etc. (De mandato.)
14 Kal. Aug. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 34.)	To Thomas Kane, Augustinian canon of St. Oswald's, Nostel, in the diocese of York. Dispensation to him—who is a priest and who has had papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be raised to all administrations and offices of his order short of a principal dignity—to hold any benefice with or without cure, even if wont to be governed by secular clerks, and be called a hospital or a chantry, and be a principal dignity in a monastery or priory of the said order, and to resign it simply or for exchange as often as seems good to him and hold instead a similar or dissimilar benefice. Religionis etc.
Ibid.	To Thomas de Kyrkeby, rector of a moiety of the parish church of Derfelde, in the diocese of York. Dispensation to him—who has had papal dispensation, 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, after which he was promoted priest and obtained the said moiety—to hold two other mutually compatible benefices with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to resign them and his said moiety for exchange or otherwise as often as seems good to him and hold instead similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices. His said illegitimacy need not be mentioned in future graces. Vite ac morum.
11 Kal. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 53.)	Confirmation, at the petition of the Augustinian abbot and convent of St. Mary's, Nottele, in the diocese of Lincoln, of the letters—Justis petencium, of Alexander IV, to the abbot and convent of the church of St. Mary de Parco, dated at the Lateran (sic), 3 Non. July anno 4 [1258] (sic), granting and confirming to their uses the following: the church of Creedonia with the chapels (sic) of Wynchendonia and with the chapels (sic) of Cherdesle, the church of Caversam with the chapels (sic) of St. Mary in the same town, the church of Risenburg, the church of Chiltona and the chapel of Dortona, the churches of Asschendon, Hyllesdon, Stoka, Bradeleya, Bodyngesham, Shiryngham, Choseley; and granting that in their parish churches and chapels they may choose and have and commit the cure of souls to [their] canons or [other] priests, who shall be answerable to them in spirituals and temporals. The present exemplification shall have the force of the original. Ad perp. rei mem. Sacre religionis.
3 Non. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 55d.)	To the minister of the Trinitarian church or house of St. Robert by Knarisburg in the diocese of York. Faculty—seeing that many persons on the feasts of Holy Trinity and SS. Peter and Paul from the first to the second vespers, and during the four days following each feast, visit the said church or house—to the minister and six other priests, secular or religious, deputed by him, to hear their confessions and grant absolution, and to commute vows of pilgrimage and abstinence, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see. Benigno sunt.
13 Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 60.)	Licence to Peter de Villanova and other Friars Minors of the duchy of Aquitaine to receive, if the minister-general grant them, one or two houses in the said duchy, or, if not, to receive one or two places and build houses thereon, with churches and other necessary offices. Power is given to them to receive into the unity of the church members of the order in those parts who were adherents of the late Robert, sometime cardinal priest of the Twelve Apostles, then anti-pope, called Clement VII, and the form of abjuration is appended. Ad fut. rei mem. Sacre religionis. (Pro Deo.) [Wadding, Annales Minorum, IX, p. 471.]
1401. Id. Dec. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 73.)	To the prior and convent of the Benedictine monastery or priory of Spaldyng, in the diocese of Lincoln. Indult to the prior and his successors and the convent to rent, let, farm, or sell to clerks or laymen, all the fruits, etc., tithes and oblations of their churches, chapels, portions, pensions, and of their other possessions, and to such clerks or laymen to collect and receive and impose and dispose of such fruits, etc. tithes pensions and portions; without requiring licence of ordinaries. Quociens illud. [Cf. f. 12d.]
Ibid.	To the prior and convent of the Augustinian priory of the church of St. John the Evangelist, Kermerdyn, in the diocese of St. Davids. The like. Quociens illud.
1402. Non. Jan. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 74.)	Confirmation of the letters of dimission of Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury to the prioress and convent of the nuns' monastery, house or priory of Holy Trinity in the Wood (de Bosco) by Merkyate, in the diocese of Lincoln; with grant that in future visitations etc. they need not prove their rights, otherwise than by these presents, which shall hold the place of the original. Exemplification is given of the letters— Univ. sancte etc. Ex parte religiosarum, of Thomas Stowe, D.C.L., official of London, which themselves give exemplification, at the petition of the said religious made before him in St. Paul's, London, of the said archbishop's letters, with the archbishop's seal pendant in red wax. The said letters or public instrument—Univ. Sancte etc. Cum nuper coram nobis, of archbishop Thomas, dated in his manor of Lamhith, 28 June 1401, the 5th year of his translation, state that upon proof of their right and title, in obedience to his summons made in the course of his recent metropolitical visitation of the city and diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, he grants his letters of dimission to the said religious and confirms to them, in the diocese of Lichfield, their parish churches of Kynysburi and Bykynhilll (sic) with their homages, lands and other appurtenances, and the church of Colleshull with the chapel of Whytacre Superior and Inferior, together with the chapel of Lea belonging to the same church; in the diocese of Lincoln, the churches of Sonyngdon and Stratld', with their lands, homages, etc., two parts of the sheaves in the church of Whatforde, the patronage of the church of Hyham Gobyown, and a pension of five marks in the same, and a moiety of sheaves in the church of Bukcby; in the diocese of Ely, the patronage of the church of Eversdon and a pension of five marks in the same. The copy or exemplification by the said official Thomas, which he has caused to be drawn up and written by Master William Canon, clerk, of the diocese of Norwich, notary public, is dated in St. Paul's, London, 30 June 1401, indiction 9, 12 Boniface IX, in the presence, as witnesses, of Masters John Loueliche, Simon Kempstone, Thomas Kyttys (sic), notaries public, and many others [not named], and is attested by Thomas Kytte (sic), of the diocese of Chichester, notary public. Ad perp. rei mem. Sacre religionis. [5¼ pp.]
16 Kal. Feb. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 79.)	To William, abbot of Peterborough, in the diocese of Lincoln. Indult to him and his successors to grant, once a year and also in the article of death, plenary remission to all the monks and persons of the monastery, even in cases reserved to the apostolic see; to commute their vows of pilgrimage and abstinence and other vows; to absolve them from all sentences of excommunication, suspension and interdict; to grant them dispensation on account of irregularity, and to rehabilitate them, except in case of disability and irregularity contracted by voluntary homicide or mutilation, even if such absolution, dispensation and rehabilitation be specially reserved to the said see; with licence for the said abbot and each of his successors to choose as his confessor a monk of the monastery, who shall have similar authority in regard to granting him the like absolution etc. Benigno sunt. (De mandato.)
Ibid.	To the prior and convent of the Augustinian priory or monastery of Thurgarton in the diocese of York. Indult, as above, f. 73, to Spaldyng. Quociens illud. (De mandato.)
Ibid. (f. 80.)	Confirmation, at the petition of the Augustinian prior and convent of Kyrkeby super Wrethoke, in the diocese of Lincoln, of the statute and ordinance of the late bishop John, namely that upon the resignation or death of the prior, the sub-prior and convent may, without awaiting licence of the bishop or their patron, proceed to elect and nominate to the bishop a canon from their own brethren, or from outside, whom the bishop shall be bound to admit and appoint as prior. The pope further ordains that if the present or a future bishop refuse or delay to confirm such election, the priors elect shall immediately and co ipso be confirmed and held to be true priors, and be free to administer the priory, as if their election had been canonically confirmed. Ad perp. rci mem. Magne ac sincere. (De mandato.)
16 Kal. Feb. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 79.)	To the Benedictine abbot and convent of Peterborough. Indult, as above, f. 73, to Spaldyng. Quociens illud. (De mandato.)
19 Kal. Feb. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 82.)	To the Augustinian prior and convent of Stodley in the diocese of Worcester. Indult, on the resignation or death of the perpetual vicars of their parish churches, to have them served by their canons appointed and removed at their pleasure. Sacre religionis.
6 Kal. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 90.)	To John Overton, a Friar Preacher, papal chaplain. Dispensation to him, a priest, to hold a benefice with or without cure, even if wont to be governed by secular clerks, of any value, even if of lay patronage, and to resign it for exchange or otherwise as often as he will and hold instead another benefice. Religionis zelus, vite ac morum. (De mandato.)
2 Id. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 95.)	To the abbot of Cong (de Cunga) in the diocese of Tuam. Mandate as below. Urban VI—on its being set forth to him by the parishioners of Galuy in the said diocese that the Cistercian abbot and convent of Knockmoy (Collis Victorie) in the same diocese had held of old the said church as incorporated to them, taking its fruits etc., and that no portion thereof had ever been assigned for a perpetual vicar, but that they, without right, appointed and removed at pleasure now a secular, and now a religious priest—ordered the archbishop of Cashel and the bishop of Elphin, their names not being expressed, to institute a perpetual vicarage, assign from the said fruits etc., a fit portion, and collate and assign the same to John Lang, priest, of the diocese of Cashel [see above, pp. 189 and 254]. The recent petition of the said abbot and convent contained that archbishop Peter carried out the mandate, assigning a yearly portion of 10 marks, and making collation and provision of the vicarage to John; and added that he usurps the whole of the said fruits etc., whose annual value reaches about 30 marks. The pope therefore orders the above abbot, if he find the facts to be so, to compel John to restore all fruits etc. unduly taken since his institution, and to compel him and his successors to resign to the abbot and convent such fruits etc. over and above the said portion. Justis et honestis.
1402. 4 Non. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 96.)	Confirmation, with exemplification, at the petition of the Augustinian prior and convent of St. Mary Magdalene's, Lanrecost, in the diocese of Carlisle, of the letters—Effectum justa postulantibus, of Lucius III to Simon, prior of the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Lanrecost, and his brethren, present and future, dated at Velletri by the hand of Albert, of the holy Roman church cardinal priest and chancellor, 3 Kal. April, indiction 1, the year of the Incarnation 1183, anno 2, and bearing the subscriptions of pope Lucius, Theodinus bishop of Porto and St. Rafina (sic), Henry bishop of Albano, Vivianus cardinal priest of St. Stephen's on the Cælian, Laborans cardinal priest of St. Mary's in Trastevere, of the title of Calixtus, Rainerus cardinal priest of SS. John and Paul's, of the title of Pammachius (Pagmachii), Hubert cardinal priest of St. Laurence's in Damaso, James cardinal deacon of St. Mary's in Cosmedin, Ardicio cardinal deacon of St. Theodore's, Gracianus cardinal deacon of SS. Cosmas and Damian's, Hobo cardinal deacon of St. Angelo's, Girardus (sic) cardinal deacon of St. Adrian's, Octavianus cardinal deacon of SS. Sergius and Bacchus's, Soffredus cardinal deacon of St. Mary's in Via Lata, Albinus cardinal deacon of New St. Mary's. Following the example of pope Alexander [III] his predecessor, pope Lucius takes the said church under the protection of St. Peter and his own. He ordains that the canonical order according to the rule of St. Augustine, as instituted therein, shall be perpetually observed, and confirms their possessions, present and future, granted by popes, kings, princes and other faithful, mentioning the place where their said church is situate, with all its appurtenances, by the underwritten bounds (divisas), which were granted to them by Robert de Vallibus son of Hubert, namely between the ancient wall and the Irthing (Hirthenam) and between Burch and Polcrosse and the vill of Waltona by the bounds defined (distinctas) in the charter of the said Robert, the church of Walton with the chapel of Treuerman, the churches of Hirthmathon and Bramton and Karlaton and Furlaham and Grenesdal, with all their appurtenances, the moor (landam) of Werwerthecoleman (sic), and Raswraget and Appeltrethuuait and a certain land on the moor (mora) of Brenkbet namely as Sechenent (?) falls in Herthingburn and then towards Tindale by the said bounds which Gille son [of] Burth held in his life (versus T. per ipsas divisas quas Gille filius Burth illam (sic) plenius et melius in vita sua tenuit), with common pasture of the whole moor (more), and to have twenty cows in the forest of Walton and ten sheep with the increase of two years, and pasture of oxen which shall plough the said moors (landas), and free pannage (pasnagium) of their own pigs, a tithe of the whole hunting of the said Robert and his heirs alike in flesh as in hides and fox skins (tam in carnibus quam in corriis et pellibus wlpinis, sic) over the whole of his land in Cumberland; three marks of silver a year in the church of Burg; by gift of Ada daughter of William Engain and Eustachia, thirty good (lucrabiles) acres of land and two acres for building (ad faciendas) their houses, and two salt pans (salinas) there in the marsh of Burg, and pasture of two hundred sheep and oxen for cultivating the said land and for keeping up (ad sustinendas) the said salt pans, and a certain free net (rethe) in the Eden (Eudena) and the free taking (capcionem) of the same net (rethis) on their own land, and two sites (mansuras) in Scadebethas for making booths (bethas), also one carucate of land in Blenecraic with all pastures of the same vill for the service of God and the altar of St. Catherine the Virgin and Parva Harescoud, with all easements and liberties contained in the charter of the said Ada; the church of Denthon with its appurtenances and the hermitage which Laisingus held, by its bounds, by gift of David son of Terricius and Robert son of Aschetillus the common pasture of Denthon as is contained in their charter, the church of Distington with all its appurtenances by gift of Alexander de Windhesoures, the tenth part of the milling (multure) of (de) their mill of Corkebi, by gift of William son of Hudardus, a toft, with certain land by Warwick bridge (pontem Guarwie) yielding yearly 2s., by gift of Israhael chamberlain of the aforesaid Robert de Vallibus, Conetach by its right bounds, and by gift of Peter de Twilol a toft in Scaleby (in Scalis). Of their cultivated lands (novalium), which they cultivate with their own hands or at their own cost, or of the increase of their animals, none shall exact tithes. They may receive in pity and retain clerks or laymen fleeing from the world, being free. None of the brethren shall, after making his profession in their house, depart without licence of the prior except for a stricter religion. When there is a general interdict they may, with closed doors, etc. celebrate divine offices in a low voice. In their parish churches they may choose priests and present them to the bishop, which priests shall be answerable to the bishop in spirituals and to them in temporals. Their sepulture is decreed free, except to the excommunicate and interdicted, etc. etc. The bull of pope Lucius ends with the usual clauses Si qua igitur divine ulcioni subjaceat … Cunctis autem premia eterne pacis inveniant … Amen. In addition to his confirmation, as above, the pope decrees that the present exemplification shall have the same force as the original. Ad perp. rei mem. Ex apostolice sedis. [4 pp.]
5 Id. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 104d.)	To William Spenser, Cistercian monk of Nywenham in the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to him, a priest, the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to hold any dignities, offices and administrations of his order, even if such dignities be abbatial or conventual and be elective. Illegitime genitos.
Id. March. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 112.)	To the abbot of St. Mary's, York. Mandate, at the recent petition of bishop William and the Augustinian prior and chapter of Carlisle—containing that formerly between the then bishop, prior and chapter, who held, as they still hold, to their uses the parish church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle-onTyne, in the diocese of Durham, of the one part, and the then perpetual vicar, of the other part, it was ordained, as is still observed, by authority of the ordinary, that the bishops, priors and chapter of Carlisle should take in common the tithe of sheaves or crops, and the vicars, as portion, all other fruits etc.; and adding that the said tithes, whose yearly value at the time of the said ordinance exceeded 140 marks, have so diminished through wars and other evil dispositions of those parts, that their present value does not exceed 50, whilst of the said other fruits, etc. whose yearly value did not then exceed 100 marks, the value now exceeds 200, whereof the third part would suffice for the vicar—if he find the above to be true, to ordain that in future, in accordance with their petition, a moiety of the said fruits shall also be ceded to the bishop, prior and chapter, the other moiety being reserved as portion to the vicar. Humilibus supplicum.
5 Id. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 123.)	Confirmation, at the petition of the Cistercian abbot and convent of St. Mary's, Kyngyswode, in the diocese of Worcester, of the following donation; with grant that it shall hold good and be binding on the donors and their successors, as if it had had papal licence. Exemplification is given of the public instrument, drawn up in the choir of the monastery and dated in the year of the Incarnation, 1401 [-2], indiction 10, 10 Jan., anno 13 Boniface IX, in the presence of Master Richard Wynchecombe, archdeacon of Gloucester, William Skylle of Dowdiswell, and John Knycht, public notary, clerks, of the diocese of Worcester and many other witnesses [not named], and drawn up by deputy of, and attested by, Richard Haddon, clerk, of the diocese of Exeter, public notary. It sets forth that on the above date Sirs Edmund [Torteworth or Tortheworth as in the pope's summary of the petition], rector of Torteworthe, and Robert Bremille, monk of the above monastery, rector of Charesfelde (also written Charefelde), which is wont to be governed by secular clerks, gave in perpetuity for themselves and their successors, with consent of John le Veel, donsel, patron of the said two churches, as yearly pension, each of them, 100s. to the abbot and convent, to be paid half at Michaelmas and half at Lady Day, from the fruits, etc. of the said churches, under penalty of 1,000l., costs and interest, in aid of the sustentation of the monks, their lands being more than usually uncultivated on account of the lack of lay brothers, and in aid of hospitality and sustentation of poor and pilgrims, the revenues of the monastery hardly amounting to 100l. a year. The said two rectors have appointed as their proctors or agents in the matter James de Subinago, John de Serivan [is], John Tyer, John Bremore, Frederick Rathardi and John Lone (or Loue), proctors in the Roman court. Ad perp, rei mem. Is que per (for pro) monasteriorum … eommodo et utilitate … facta sunt.
Non. Aug. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 141.)	To Thomas Spycer, a Friar Preacher, of the convent of Derbeye in the diocese of Lichfield, papal chaplain. Dispensation, as above, f. 12, to John de Bernewellis. Religionis zelus etc.
1402. 12 Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 148d.)	To the Augustinian prior and convent of Hautenpriis in the diocese of York. Indult to them, who by the institutions and customs of their order are bound to wear boots (ocreas) on their feet, to wear in future shoes (calciamentis seu sotularibus bassis et communibus.) Exposcit vestre.
1401. 15 Kal. Dec. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 150.)	Confirmation, as below. Lately, on its being set forth to the late Luke, cardinal priest of St. Sixtus's, then in charge of the penitentiary of Urban VI, on behalf of John de Burgo alias Ethenardi(?Ochonardi), priest, of the diocese of Emly (Imclacen.)—that circumvented by certain Friar Preachers, he entered their order and made his profession before his fourteenth year; that, also below the said age, they caused him to be promoted to all the minor orders and the subdiaconate, and, after he had attained the said fourteenth year, to the diaconate; and that he, not holding his profession to have been valid, before completing his fifteenth year, returned to the world—the cardinal ordered the bishop of Tuy, dwelling in the Roman court, without mention of his name, to provide a remedy for John, who also was then in the Roman court; acting upon which, Turibius, bishop of Tuy, found his statement to be true, and declared him in no wise bound to the said order. At John's petition—containing that he was subsequently ordained priest and obtained collation of the perpetual vicarage of Donboyrg in the diocese of Meath—the pope confirms the said declaration, decrees that he is free to remain a secular and minister in his orders, and declares the said collation valid from the date thereof. Ad fut. rei mem. Humilibus supplicum.
1402. 12 Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 154.)	To William Faryngton, S.T.P., and Nicholas Ryssheton, doctor of canon and civil law. Faculty—a number of ecclesiastics in England having, as the pope has learned, obtained divers benefices by simony and other corrupt means, and detain them, under suspicion of heresy, perjury and other crimes—to absolve from excommunication, etc. six such persons, even such as hold four benefices; rehabilitate them; dispense them on account of irregularity; and, upon their resignation, make collation and provision to them of their benefices. Of names and dates they are to certify the officers of the camera or its collector or sub-collector in those parts. Sedes apostolica.
Kal. July. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 155d.)	To Thomas de Upton Cressewalle, Augustinian canon of Hagmon in the diocese of Lichfield, papal chaplain. Dispensation, as above, f. 12, to John de Bernewellis. Religionis zelus etc.
Ibid. (f. 156.)	To John Bittiler, Cistercian monk of Dankelwell (sic) in the diocese of Exeter, papal chaplain. The like. Religionis zelus etc.
15 Kal. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 174d.)	To the abbot of Tintern (Tynterna) in the diocese of Llandaff. Mandate, at the petition of the Cistercian abbot and convent of Kyngiswode in the diocese of Worcester—containing that in consequence of the possessions, lands and immoveables of certain parish churches of the diocese being contiguous to those of the monastery, controversies have arisen and daily arise—to summon the rectors and others concerned, and to distinguish and separate the bounds in question. Humilibus et honestis.
Kal. June. St. Peter's. Rome. (f. 185d.)	Grant, as below. Alexander IV granted to the abbot of Citeaux, and all his co-abbots and convents of the order indult that no prelate should promulgate sentences so as to defraud their papal privileges; further granting to them that their farmers and tenants should be exempt from the right of the diocesan and that of any ordinary, that they might provide correction in adulteries and other fornications [brought] before them or their commissaries, hear divine offices and receive the sacraments in their chapels situate within and without their monasteries, and on the death of such tenants and farmers might, in their chapter, prove their wills, and baptize the children thereof in the said chapels [see above, p. 164]. Subsequently (subsequenter) Innocent III, Alexander's predecessor, granted to them that by his constitution about exempt [religious] beginning Volentes no prejudice should arise to their liberties and immunities. Afterwards (successive) Boniface VIII, predecessor (sic) of the said Alexander and Innocent, granted the order that from their lands, cultivated and uncultivated, granted by them to be cultivated, provided that from the cultivators they did not take tithes or first-fruits, no one should exact the same from them or such cultivators. Finally, the present pope granted to the order in England that their possessions which, so long as they remain in their hands, are by papal indults free of tithe, should continue to be free of tithe or first-fruits if let by them to yearly farm, but not if perpetually alienated [see above, pp. 161 and 325]. Furthermore the said Alexander took under the protection of St. Peter and his own their churches, granges and houses, and other goods, present and future, exempting them from all right of bishops and ordinary jurisdiction. The present pope has confirmed the letters of his said predecessors, and all other privileges, etc. granted in general to the order or specially to any of the said abbots and convents. Moreover, in consequence of the doubts of some persons, he has declared that his intention was and is that the exemption by Alexander, and his own confirmation, should extend to all episcopal rights, and has exempted the said churches, granges and houses, abbots, convents and places from all right and jurisdiction of bishops and other judges ordinary. At the recent petition of the Cistercian abbot and convent of St. Mary's Kyngiswode, in the diocese of Worcester—containing that because such letters have been granted to the order in general, they are in many ways molested in the matter of the above privileges, etc.—the pope hereby grants that they and their successors shall enjoy such privileges, etc. and everything contained in the said letters, as if granted to them and their monastery specially and by name, and that the present letters shall suffice as full proof thereof. Ad perp. rei mem. Exigit honestas.
1402. 2 Id. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 189d.)	To the prior of St. Bartholomew's by Smetefeld. Mandate to absolve, upon satisfaction and penance; to rehabilitate and dispense on account of irregularity; to deliver from prison, and to restore to his monastery, Ranulph Biber, Cistercian monk of St. Mary's Graces by the Tower of London, whose recent petition contained that on visitation by John, abbot of Beaulieu (de Belloloco regis) in the diocese of Winchester, to whom, as father-abbot, St. Mary's is subject, he was found by the said visitor to have violently cast forth abbot William from the dormitory, hindered him from disposing of the goods of St. Mary's, laid violent hands upon him, applied many of the said goods to his own nefarious uses, apostatized in order to avoid correction, appealed to the secular ecclesiastical judge, and caused the appeal to be notified to abbot William. In consequence of abbot John's definitive sentence against him, he is in prison, is ready to undergo penance, desires to return to St. Mary's and obey his superiors, and fears lest they enjoin too rigorous a penance and punishment. Sedes apostolica. [See above, p. 346.]

De Diversis Formis.



3 Non. Jan. St. Peter's Rome. (f. 206d.)	Confirmation etc., as above, Reg. C, f. 81, with the variants there noted. Ad fut. rei mem. Iis que pro divini.
Id. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 250.)	To Thomas Stanley, canon of York. Grant, as below. On 16 Kal. Dec. anno 10 [1398] the pope ordered provision to be made to him, with the anteferri clause except as against cardinals and continual members of the pope's household, of canonries of York, Salisbury and Wells, with expectation of prebends, and of a dignity, even major and elective, personatus or office, with or without cure, of one of them; and dispensed him to receive such dignity, personatus or office with cure, and to retain it for life with his parish church of Boseworth or his perpetual vicarage of St. Michael's, in the diocese of Lichfield; afterwards dispensing him, in case of another parish church being collated to him before his acceptation of such dignity, etc. to receive and retain it with Boseworth or St. Michael's until he obtained such dignity, etc. and, upon resigning one of such incompatible benefices, to retain for life two incompatible benefices or exchange them for two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Subsequently, as the pope has learned, upon the voidance of the canonry and prebend of Netherburycurch in Salisbury because Ralph de Selby, then a secular clerk, became a Benedictine monk of Westminster, Stanley caused, under the said letters, provision thereof to be made to him, and has since resigned from a reasonable cause known to the pope. Seeing that many assert that, because the said provision was not made within the lawful time fixed by ordinance of the pope, the said grace does not hold good, the pope hereby grants, motu proprio, that the said letters shall hold good from their date, and that the executors thereof shall proceed, as if the said ordinance had not issued, and as if he had not accepted and caused provision to be made to him of the said canonry and prebend. Vite ac morum. (De mandato.) [The date has been corrected in the margin from 12 Kal. May to Id. June.]
Id. June. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 251.)	To the same. Declaration, motu proprio, to him—to whom on 16 Kal. Dec. etc. as above, as far as dissimilar incompatible benefices—lest the effect of his said letters be otherwise retarded, that the pope's intention was at the time of their date and now is that in respect of the said letters he shall have the preference, in the obtaining of the above prebends, etc. over any other persons possessing like graces, even if granted earlier or later or on the same date, and even if containing a similar or dissimilar or any other anteferri clause; except only in the case of the said cardinals and members of the pope's household. Vite etc. (De mandato.) [The date has been successively corrected from 2 Kal. May to 16 Kal. July, and from that to Id. June.]
17 Kal. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 292.)	To Nicholas Wilbew, rector of Gunthorp, in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation during five years to him, a subdeacon only, not to be obliged by reason of his said church or any other benefice with cure to have himself promoted to higher orders. Vite etc.
— (f. 292d.)	To John Bucy, rector of Hepworth in the diocese of Norwich. The like. Vite etc. [Verbatim as above, but stopping short at the final clause Nulli ergo etc. and omitting the following clause Si quis etc. and the date.]
10 Kal. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 293.)	To John Bampton, archdeacon of Lewes in Chichester. Indult for life to visit his archdeaconry by deputy, and receive procurations, even more than one on each day, in ready money. Vite etc.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Florence, the abbot of Robertsbridge (de Ponteroberti), in the diocese of Chichester, and the treasurer of Chichester. Vite etc.
Ibid	To John de Scarle, archdeacon of Lincoln. Indult for life to visit his archdeaconry by deputy, and receive procurations, even ten on one day, in ready money, provided that each procuration do not exceed the sum of 30 silver [gros] Tournois, 12 to the gold florin of Florence. Vite etc.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Florence, the abbot of Westminster, and the dean of London. Vite etc.
Ibid. (f. 294.)	To John Derlington, archdeacon of Norwich, doctor of canon law. Indult, as above, f. 293, to John Bampton. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc.
	Concurrent mandate to the bishops of Florence and London, and the abbot of St. Mary's (sic) Holme (de Hulmo), in the diocese of Norwich. Litterarum etc.
12 Kal. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 303.)	To Simon Moss, priest, of the diocese of Norwich. Grant that the letters patent of Conrad, archbishop of Nicosia, the pope's chamberlain—setting forth that on 8 Kal. April anno 9 [1398] Anthony bishop of Todi, by order of the said chamberlain who had received verbal commission from the pope, promoted him to the priesthood in St. Andrew's chapel in St. Peter's, Rome—shall be sufficient proof of his ordination. Vite ac morum. (Pro Deo.)
Non. July. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 313d.)	To Roger Melles, perpetual vicar in the church of Wells. Indult to him—who holds also a chantry in the chapel of St. Mary the Virgin in the cemetery of the church of Wollavyngton in the diocese of Wells, both without cure, and who is bound by oath to say in the said chapel the Placebo and Dirige, the canonical hours, and other prayers and commendations for the souls of its founders and other faithful departed—to say such hours, prayers and commendations in the said church of Wells or elsewhere, to take the fruits etc. of the said chantry as if he resided in the said chapel, and not to be bound to say the said hours etc. there, nor to reside. Vite etc.
Ibid. (f. 314.)	To John Caberton, priest, perpetual beneficiary in the chantry of the fabric for the souls of benefactors, in the church of Lincoln. Dispensation to him—who by a foundation ordinance of his said chantry, value not exceeding 10 marks, cannot hold any benefice with cure—to hold for life one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church or a perpetual vicarage or a dignity, even major or principal respectively and elective, personatus or office, with or without cure, in a metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate church, and to resign both for exchange or otherwise as often as he pleases, and hold instead two similar or dissimilar incompatible benefices. Vite etc.