Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 7, 1417-1431. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.
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'Lateran Regesta 260: 1425-1426', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 7, 1417-1431, (London, 1906) pp. 439-451. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol7/pp439-451 [accessed 26 April 2024]
In this section
Lateran Regesta, VOL. CCLX (fn. 1)
9 Martin V (cont.)
De Diversis Formis
| 1426. 8 Kal. Oct. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 123.) (fn. 2) |
To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate to dispense William, scholar, son of Thomas Robynson of Cotingham, of the diocese of York, who is studying at Oxford, and cannot at present conveniently go to John, archbishop of York, to be, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, promoted to all, even holy orders and hold four compatible benefices with or without cure, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Ex parte dilecti filii. |
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| 3 Non. May. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 136d.) |
To William Ingram, rector of Stonmeysy (sic) in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him, who holds, besides the above church, the canonry and prebend of Morton and Waddon in Hereford, value not exceeding 22 marks and 20l. sterling respectively, to hold for five years with the said church any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. |
| 4 Non. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 137.) |
To John, archbishop of Rouen. Faculty as below. Lewis, bishop of Térouane (Morinen.), chancellor of France and lieutenant of John, duke of Bedford, regent of France, and by him placed in the government of the realm during his own absence, and the members of the great royal council at Paris have set forth to the pope that Thomas de Monteacuto, earl of Salisbury, when formerly on his way back to England from a visit to the Lord's Sepulchre, fell grievously ill and made a vow to revisit, if cured, the said sepulchre, without saying when; that afterwards, when restored to health and being in a certain battle [? Crevant, July, 1423], he confirmed and repeated the said vow; that although he made two attempts to fulfil his vow, nevertheless, being a vassal of Henry, king of England, he has been prevented by authority of the said king; and that when recently he made a third attempt to fulfil his said vows and, rejecting the persuasions of the said chancellor and other members of the said great council, would have set out, they repeated to him the oaths of fealty which he had taken to the said king, asserting that he could and ought not to absent himself from the service of the king without the king's express leave. The pope therefore grants faculty to the above archbishop to commute the said oaths into other works of piety. Honestis singulorum votis. (Pe. Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. de Casatiis.) [See below, p. 468.] |
| 10 Kal. Nov. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 139.) |
To John, duke of Bedford. The duke has set forth to the pope that he often has to go to divers regions and parts and stay there for some time, and sometimes has to exercise the government of France, and that in the said parts, both as regards the observance of fasts and as regards abstinence from eating flesh, not however the abstinence enjoined by the church, various rites and customs are observed, and has requested the pope's advice as to what he ought to do in order that he may not err. The pope replies that he shall conform in respect of the said fasts and abstinence to the custom of the country in which he may be, unless on account of his health or safety he cannot do so, or unless he thinks fit to act otherwise, a matter which the pope leaves to his conscience. Eximie deuocionis integritas. (Pe. Gratis etc. as in the preceding.) |
| Ibid. | To Anne, wife of John, duke of Bedford. Indult to eat milkmeats (lacticiniis uti) during Lent and on other days on which, according to the custom of the country in which she is living for the time being, the eating of milkmeats is abstained from. Sincere deuocionis affectus. (Pe. Gratis etc. as ibid.) |
| Ibid. | To John, duke of Bedford, and Anne his wife. Indult, at their petition, that each of them, with three grave and honest persons, men or matrons, in honest garb, may enter any monasteries of enclosed religious, men or women; provided that they and the said men and matrons do not spend the night therein. Deuocionis vestre sinceritas. (Pe. Gratis etc. as ibid.) |
| 8 Id. July. SS. Apostoli. Rome. (f. 140.) |
To Cormac, dean of Clonmacnoise. Dispensation, on account of his illegitimacy as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to govern in spirituals and temporals the see of Clonmacnoise, provision of which the pope intends this day to make to him. Diuina supereminens. |
| Kal. Aug. Genazzano. (f. 146d.) |
To the bishops of Glasgow and Dunblane. Mandate—at the recent petition of James, king of Scots, containing that he desires the university, founded and erected by the late Peter de Luna in the city of St. Andrews, to be transferred to St. John's town in the diocese of St. Andrews, on account of the wars between the realm of Scotland and that of England, to which latter the said city is very near by reason of the nearness of the sea, and on account of the mildness (temperiem) of the air and the abundance of provisions in the said town over and above the other places of the realm—to inform themselves, and if they find the aforesaid to be true, and if the said king will adorn the university, thus transferred, with privileges and liberties, to carry out the desired transfer, etc. In apostolice dignitatis specula. |
| 18 Kal. Sept. Genazzano. (f. 148.) |
To Robert de Crannach, canon of Dunkeld, M.A. Dispensation to him (who is also a bachelor of canon law, and to whom the pope lately made provision (i) of a canonry of Dunkeld, of Moray, and of Dunblane, with reservation of as many prebends, and of a dignity, not major, personatus etc. of one of those churches, and of a benefice with or without cure, wont to be assigned to secular clerks, in the common or several gift of the Benedictine abbot and convent of Abirbrothoc in the diocese of St. Andrews [see above, p. 371], (ii) subsequently [above, p. 405] of the perpetual vicarage of Tibermore in the diocese of Dunkeld, previously reserved, dispensing him to hold for three years the said vicarage with such dignity or any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, with the usual condition of exchanging meanwhile or thereafter resigning the said vicarage) to so hold the said vicarage for life, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum etc. |
| 1425. 11 Kal. Jan. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 159d.) |
To Nemeas Okaellay, canon of Killaloe. Grant as below. The pope lately ordered provision to be made to him of the canonry and prebend of Iniskahid in Killaloe, on their voidance by the resignation of William Ihanlly to bishop Donatus, whether they became void as stated, or because Roderick Macraith, now an Augustinian canon of SS. Peter and Paul's, Clar alias de Forgio, in the diocese of Killaloe, to whom provision had been made by papal authority [see above, p. 50], made his profession as a canon of the said monastery. At the recent petition of Nemeas, containing that although the said Roderick has now made the said profession, he had not done so at the time of the pope's said mandate of provision, and that he doubts whether the said canonry and prebend, of which he obtained possession in virtue of the said mandate, be not still void by the said profession, the pope hereby grants that his said letters and the proceedings taken under them shall hold good from the present date, even if the said canonry and prebend, value not exceeding 30 marks, be void by the said profession or in any other way. Vite etc. (Pe. xvi. Quarto Kal. Octobris Anno Nono. de Casatiis.) [See also above, p. 276.] |
| 1426. 3 Non. Sept. Genazzano. (f. 160.) |
To the bishop of Ely. Mandate as below. The recent petition of the townsmen of Bishop's Lynn (opidanorum ville de Lenne episcopi) in the diocese of Norwich contained that within the bounds of their parish church of St. Margaret, appropriated by papal authority to the prior and convent of Norwich, and served by four monks thereof, one of them called prior, who are removeable at the pleasure of the said prior and convent, and by a hired chaplain, a secular priest, the parishioners built at a time immemorial a chapel of St. James and another of St. Nicholas, in each of which a chaplain has hitherto been and still is placed by the said prior and convent, who celebrates therein mass and other divine offices and administers to a number of the parishioners by old custom all ecclesiastical sacraments, but not baptism, marriage nor churching of women; and adding that in the said town the multitude and devotion of the said parishioners has increased so much that on Easter Day every year about 1,600 persons receive the communion (sacramento Eucaristie communicantur) in the said parish church, and in the said chapels of St. Nicholas and St. James about 1,400 and 900 respectively. The pope orders the above bishop, if he find the facts to be as stated, to grant to the parishioners that they may in the said chapels hear mass and other divine offices by the said chaplains and receive from them the said sacraments, and that the said chaplains may freely administer to them the same; saving the right of the parish church and of any other. Ammonet nos suscepti cura. |
| 5 Id. Oct. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 166.) |
To Robert Twaytys, rector of Teueryngton in the diocese of York, S.T.B. Dispensation to him, who is also M.A. and of noble birth, to hold for life with the said church, value not exceeding 26 marks, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both, simply or for exchange. Nobilitas generis, litterarum etc. |
| 8 Id. Oct. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 185d.) |
To Peter, bishop of Alet, residing in the Roman court. Mandate, at the recent petition of John Walsche, clerk, of the diocese of Cloyne, who has studied canon and civil law for several years at Oxford—containing that although he formerly, after having received papal dispensation, as the son of an Augustinian canon in priest's orders and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders, and hold a benefice even with cure, obtained by papal authority the canonry and prebend with cure of Balaghath in Cloyne, void by the resignation of Henry Norreys [cf. above, p. 51, f. 189], made before John Pellyn, clerk, of the diocese of Emly, notary public, and witnesses, and admitted by the pope, nevertheless after he had thus obtained them, Richard More, priest, of the diocese of Ardfert, alleging that they belonged to him under pretext of papal letters [see ibid., f. 240d], brought John before the executor of the said letters, and that the cause being submitted to arbitration it was arranged that in order to avoid litigation John should pay Richard a certain sum, and that Richard should give up all claim, both of which having been done, John held possession for more than a year without having himself ordained priest, and without dispensation—to absolve John from excommunication incurred, enjoining a salutary penance. and to rehabilitate him. John is to resign. Sedes apostolica, pia mater. |
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Ibid. (f. 186.) |
To the bishops of Alet and Cork, and the prior of St. Thomas the Martyr's, Buttevant (de Botonia), in the diocese of Cloyne. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above John (who lately [above, p. 51] received papal dispensation, on account of the above illegitimacy, to hold any mutually compatible benefices of any number and kind, with or without cure, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased), upon his being absolved and resigning, the above canonry and prebend, which prebend is of the patronage of laymen, value not exceeding 18 marks, so long void, as above, that their collation has lapsed to the apostolic see, whether they become void as stated, or by the death of Gerald son of the late Maurice de Geraldinis, or in any other way; notwithstanding that John holds the rectory, without cure and value not exceeding 4 marks, of the parish church, whose cure is exercised by a perpetual vicar, of Kirg in the diocese of Cloyne. Vite etc. (Pe. xxii. Septimo Kal. Nouembris Anno Nono. de Casatiis.) |
| 5 Id. Aug. Genazzano. (f. 193d.) |
To John Ixworth, archdeacon of Worcester, D.C.L., papal referendary. Indult to him (to whom the pope lately [above, p. 218] granted that he might take for life the fruits etc. of his benefices whilst residing in one of them) to do so for three years whilst residing in an honest place, and to appoint in his bene- fices one or more coadjutors of his race or household (de genere aut familia tua) without requiring licence of ordinaries or any others. Grata deuocionis obsequia. |
| Kal. July. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 196.) |
To Thomas Sowereby, rector of Merket Overton in the diocese of Lincoln, B.C.L. Dispensation to him (who formerly received papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted etc. as above, f. 185d, after which he was so promoted and obtained the above church, value not exceeding 14 marks) to hold four other benefices compatible with one another and with the said church, with or without cure, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum etc. |
| 13 Kal. Sept. Genazzano. (f. 211d.) |
Decree etc. as below. The pope lately [above, p. 243] made provision to Nicholas Tunock, dean of Aberdeen, M.A., of the said deanery, to which are annexed a canonry and prebend of the said church, and which, previously reserved, became void by the death at Rome whilst the pope had transferred the Roman court thence to Tivoli, of Patrick de Spal[d]ing, a member of the papal court and also a papal referendary, dispensing Nicholas to hold for three years therewith his parish church of Furby in the diocese of Aberdeen, with the usual condition of exchanging meanwhile, or of thereafter resigning Furby. Subsequently [above, p. 297], upon Nicholas setting forth to the pope that he doubted whether the deanery did not become void otherwise than as stated above, and was not still void, the pope granted to him (who was still holding the said church, and to whom the pope previously granted provision of a canonry of Dunkeld and another of Moray, with reservation of as many prebends) that the said first letters should hold good from the date of this last grant, even if the said deanery, a major elective dignity with cure, were still void in the way stated above, or by the death of Richard Militis on his way back from the Roman court within two days’ journey therefrom, or otherwise. At Nicholas's recent petition, containing that some persons (assert- ing that the aforesaid letters are surreptitious and invalid because they did not mention that the said parish church is asserted to be of the patronage of laymen, and because they did not mention that a yearly pension of 20l. sterling had been assigned by the pope from the fruits etc. of the deanery, with Nicholas's consent, to Edward de Lawedie (sic), rector of Southack in the diocese of Glasgow, M.A., and also because Nicholas did not cause the last named letters to be expedited within the time appointed in the ordinances lately put forth by the present pope about the time of expediting new provisions [see Ottenthal, Regulæ Cancell. Apost., pp. 204 and 205, No. 86 of the Regulæ Martini V]) have impetrated the said deanery from the pope, and that he therefore fears litigation or other molestation, the pope—considering that the mention of the said patronage would not have prevented him from granting the said dispensation, and that there was no need, in accordance with the said constitution, to mention in the said later letters the grant of the said pension, inasmuch as it was specially mentioned in the earlier petition by which the pope made the provision of the deanery to Nicholas, and that Nicholas was not bound to cause the last named letters to be expedited within the said time—hereby decrees and declares that the aforesaid letters hold good from their respective dates, as if in the first letters the patronage of laymen, and in the later ones the said pension had been specially mentioned, and as if Nicholas had caused the last named letters to be expedited within the time appointed by the said ordinance; and decrees to have been and to be invalid and null, and hereby annuls, all impetrations etc. of the said deanery obtained by others to Nicholas's prejudice. Ad fut. rei mem. Romanus pontifex pacis et justicie. (Pe. xxxx. Id. Octobris Anno Nono. de Casatiis.) [See also above, pp. 262 and 404.] |
| 6 Kal. Sept. Genazzano. (f. 223.) |
To David Bron', rector of Qwilt in the diocese of St. Andrews. Dispensation to him who holds, besides Qwilt, canonries and prebends in the chapel royal [of Stirling] and in the church of Dunbar, and the chapel without cure of Drem, in the diocese of St. Andrews, value together not exceeding 60 marks sterling, to hold for three years with the said church any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible. Vite etc. |
| 3 Non. Sept. Genazzano. (f. 225d.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of one year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year and those of St. Michael and the dedication, the octaves of certain of them and the six days of Whitsun week, and of forty days to those who during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the conservation and repair of the chapel of St. Michael the Archangel, Graffetone, in the diocese of Lincoln, whose buildings are collapsed, and which is greatly destitute of books and other church ornaments. Univ. Christifid … Etsi cuncte sub sanctorum. |
| 1426. 2 Non. Oct. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 227d.) |
To John Louther, clerk, of the diocese of Carlisle. Dispensation to him, who is in his eighteenth year only, is of knightly birth, and is studying at Oxford, to hold, after attaining his twenty-second year, any benefice with cure. Nobilitas generis, vite etc. |
| 10 Kal. Nov. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 232d.) |
To John, duke of Bedford. Grant at his petition (containing that he has to be sometimes in France and sometimes in England, and that while he is in one realm the news of the voidance of benefices in his nomination or presentation in the other realm cannot reach him within the statutory time) that he may, during the pleasure of the apostolic see, nominate or present in such cases within eight months from the date when the voidance is known. Probate deuocionis sinceritas. (Ja. Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. de Cerretanis.) |
| 4 Kal. July. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 232d.) |
To Laurence Obeollayn, priest, of the diocese of Elphin, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him (who formerly received papal dispensation, as the son of a married man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted etc., as above, f. 185d, after which he caused himself to be so promoted) to hold any dignities, major in metropolitan or other cathedral, or principal in collegiate churches, even if elective and with cure, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, and moreover to be promoted to any episcopal dignities. Litterarum etc. [See above, p. 436, where, however, the present dispensation is mentioned as being anterior to Feb. 28 in the same year anno 9, i.e. 1426.] |
| 3 Kal. Aug. Genazzano (f. 235d.) |
To John Preen, perpetual vicar of Termenfeghyn in the diocese of Armagh, I.U.B. Dispensation to him, who has studied canon and civil law for seven years at Oxford, to hold for two years with the said vicarage, value not exceeding 20 marks, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible. Litterarum etc. |
| 7 Kal. April. St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 236d.) |
To William Hertlond, rector of St. Swithun's, Worcester, B.C.L. Dispensation, at his own petition and that of Philip, bishop of Ely, to hold for five years with St. Swithun's one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both meanwhile, simply or for exchange, as often as he wishes. Litterarum etc. |
| Kal. July. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 237d.) |
To the archbishop of Canterbury. Mandate, at the recent petition of a number of the parishioners of West Hodlye, Pechham and Dechenyng in the diocese of Chichester—containing that formerly the Cluniac prior and convent of Lewes, circumventing Urban VI, obtained from him the appropriation [Cal. Papal Lett. IV, p. 396] of the said parish churches, and of the chapel of Wywilisfeld, said to be united to the church of Dechenyng, that the said prior and convent, under pretext of the said appropriation, obtained and still hold possession of the said churches and chapel, that the houses (mansiones) and buildings thereof are in ruin, that divine worship has been greatly diminished, that the cure of souls of the parishioners has been and is very much neglected, and that the hospitality which was shown to the poor by the rectors has been withdrawn —to summon the said prior and convent and others concerned, and if he find the above to be true, and the incorporation to have been made without just cause, to revoke and annul it, and in that event to collate and assign to fit persons the said churches and chapel, value not exceeding 100l. sterling. Romani pontificis prouidencia. |
| Kal. July. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 238.) |
To the same. Mandate, at the recent petition of Eleanor, of the diocese of Chichester, relict of John, baron of Arundell and Mawterwers (containing that in his will the said John made divers legacies for pious and lawful uses, appointing as executors William Reyman and the late John Personis, laymen, and the said Eleanor, and that the said William and John refused, as William still does, to act), if he find the facts to be so, and the consent of the bishop of Chichester be given, to grant to Eleanor faculty to execute the said will, even without requiring the consent of the said William. Tunc iniunctum nobis. |
| Id. Oct. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 244.) |
To Prosper [son] of Lorenzo (Laurencii) de Columna, archdeacon of Canterbury, the pope's nephew. Indult during ten years to visit his said archdeaconry by deputy, and receive procurations in ready money. Meruit tue deuocionis. |
| Concurrent mandate to the bishops of Alet, Cava (Cauen.) and Rochester. Meruit dilecti filii P. L. de C. archidiaconi ecclesie Caurien. (rectius Cantuarien., as above in the indult itself). (Pe. Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. de Casatiis.) | |