Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 8, 1427-1447. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1909.
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'Lateran Regesta 295: 1429-1430', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 8, 1427-1447, (London, 1909) pp. 157-175. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol8/pp157-175 [accessed 25 April 2024]
In this section
Lateran Regesta, Vol. CCXCV (fn. 1)
13 Martin V (cont.)
De Diversis Formis
| 1430. 9 Kal. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome (f. 12d.) |
To John Daleton, rector of Cotyngham in the diocese of York. Dispensation to him, who is of noble race and holds the said church and a canonry and prebend of Lincoln, value together not exceeding 300 marks, to hold for life with the said rectory any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Nobilitas etc. (Ri. xxxx. coldus.) |
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| 1430. 8 Kal. Feb. SS. Apostoli Rome. (f. 21d.) |
To the bishop of Moray. Mandate to dispense on account of illegitimacy, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, Patrick Fresel, clerk, of his diocese, who is of noble birth, has been tonsured, and is studying in arts in the city of St. Andrews, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold two benefices, even if one be an elective dignity, not major nor principal, personatus etc. with cure, or a parish church. Ex parte dilecti filii. (Pe. xxii. de Casatiis.) |
| 5 Id. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 23d.) |
To the bishop of Elphin. Mandate to dispense Eugenius Yconchubair and Findguala ingean Yfeargail, both dwelling in his diocese, who formerly, not in ignorance that they were related in the fourth degree of kindred and on both sides in divers third and fourth degrees of affinity, committed fornication several times with one another, to marry notwithstanding the said impediments of kindred and affinity. Oblate nobis. (Pe. xxiiii. de Casatiis.) |
| 2 Non. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 27.) |
Relaxation of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feast of the Exaltation of Holy Cross visit and give alms for the repair of the chapel of St. Helen situate in the parish church of Claypoll in the diocese of Lincoln, to which a great multitude is wont to resort, and which is ruinous with age. [The period during which the indulgence shall be valid is not expressed.] Licet is. (Pe. xvi. de Casatiis.) |
| 3 Kal. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 27d.) |
To William, bishop of Rennes (Redonen.), residing in the Roman court. Mandate, at the recent petition of Alexander de Lawedre, archdeacon of Dunkeld, licentiate of canon law—containing that formerly, before being admitted to the said degree in the university of Paris, where he received it by examination, he took oath to the late John Jarson (Gerson), then chancellor, that he would not receive the insignia of doctor of canon law in any other university; and adding that by reason of wars etc. he has not yet been able to receive the said insignia at Paris, and probably could not soon do so—to relax the said oath, and to grant that he may receive the said insignia in any other university. Litterarum etc. (An. xxv. de Adria.) |
| 1429. 4 Non. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 33.) |
To William Lochard, rector of Clewar in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him, who is of a great noble race, and holds, besides the said church, value not exceeding 15 marks, the deanery, without cure, in the free chapel of St. Buryan (sancte Beriane) in the diocese of Exeter, [a canonry and prebend] in the free chapel of Wyndesore in the diocese of Salisbury, and the canonry and prebend of Belyngthope in Hereford, the value of all which does not exceed 100 marks, to hold for life with the said church any other benefice etc. as above, f. 12d. Nobilitas etc. (An. xxxx. de Adria.) |
| 1430. 9 Kal. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 33d.) |
To the prior of Plymton in the diocese of Exeter. Mandate, at the recent petition of Edmund, bishop of Exeter—containing that although it was ordained of old that there should be twenty-four vicars and sixteen boys for divine offices in the choir of the church of Exeter, the rents assigned have been so much diminished by pestilences and other calamities that sixteen vicars can hardly be maintained therefrom, whilst the maintenance of the boys depends on the alms etc. of their friends—to appropriate to the episcopal mensa (to which the late king Henry gave his consent for the appropriation of some parish church in the diocese), for the support of the said vicars and boys, provided that the assent of the patrons be given, the parish church of Cornwode in the diocese, value not exceeding 40l., that of the said mensa not exceeding 950l., to take effect on the resignation or death of the rector, a perpetual vicar's portion being reserved. If any bishop of Exeter wittingly usurp or convert to his own uses any of the fruits etc. of the said church he shall eo ipso incur excommunication. Regimini universalis ecclesie. (An. lxxx. de Adria.) |
| 12 Kal. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 40.) |
To Alexander de (fn. 2) Ogylbi, canon of Aberdeen. Rehabilitation, at his recent petition, containing that formerly, on the resignation to bishop Robert by John Wincestre of the perpetual vicarage of Alitht in the diocese of Aberdeen, the said bishop made collation and provision thereof to him, who is by both parents of a race of knights and barons and is a subdeacon, and was in about his twenty-second year, and had no canonical dispensation, in virtue of which collation and provision he obtained possession and has detained it for about two months, without taking as fruits more than one mark sterling. He is to resign. Sedes apostolica. (An. xvi. de Adria.) |
| Ibid. | To the abbot of St. Mary's, Cupar, in the diocese of St. Andrews. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding (here with the spelling ‘Ogilby’), to collate and assign to the above Alexander, after he has duly resigned, the above vicarage, value not exceeding 20l. sterling; notwithstanding that he holds a canonry of Aberdeen and the prebend of Corqhuodilstane, value [likewise] not exceeding 20l. sterling, He is hereby dispensed, on account of the above defect, to hold the vicarage. Dignum etc. (An. xxvi. Quinto Kal. Maii Anno Terciodecimo. de Adria.) |
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Ibid. (f. 42.) |
To David de Ogilbi, canon of Brechin, M.A. Rehabilitation, at his recent petition, containing that formerly, on the voidance of the rectory of Fethirkerne in the diocese of St. Andrews by the death of Henry de Guthry, bishop Henry made collation and provision thereof to him, who is by both parents of a race of knights and barons and is a subdeacon, is now in his twentythird, and was then in his twenty-second year, and had no canonical dispensation, in virtue of which collation and provision he obtained possession and has detained it for a year and a half, without taking as fruits more than 12l. sterling. He is to resign. Sedes etc. (An. xvi. de Adria.) |
| Ibid. | To the abbot of St. Mary's, Cupar. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding, to collate and assign to the above David, after he has duly resigned, the above rectory, value not exceeding 30l. sterling; notwithstanding that he holds a canonry of Brechin and the prebend of Lethyadi, value not exceeding 20l. sterling. He is hereby dispensed as above, f. 40. Dignum etc. (An. xxvi etc., as above.) |
| 3 Id. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 61d.) |
To John Pennant, rector of Kyngysnoth in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation to him (who is a priest, and who formerly received papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he was so promoted and obtained the above church) to hold four other benefices with or without cure compatible with one another and with the said church, and to resign all, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. (An. xxv. de Adria.) |
| 6 Id. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 69.) |
To Thomas Mye, rector of Hougthon in the diocese of Lincoln. Indult to him—who lately [above, p. 24] received papal dispensation to hold for seven years with the said church, value not exceeding 40 marks, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible—to resign both, during the said period, simply or for exchange, as often as he wishes. Vite etc. (Pe. xxv. de Casatiis.) |
| 3 Id. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 69d.) |
To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate to dispense John Carwelton and Alice de Offordacy, of his diocese, to remain in the marriage which they contracted several years ago per verba legitime de presenti in ignorance of spiritual relationship arising from the late Alice Carwelton, John's mother, having been godmother to the said Alice de Offorddacy (sic) at her baptism, since learning which they have abstained from cohabiting; offspring, past and future, being decreed legitimate. Oblate nobis. (An. xxv. de Adria.) |
| 5 Kal. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 69d.) |
To Bernard Oflaharthan (sic), clerk, of the diocese of Annadown. Grant as below. Lately—after he, who is of a great noble race, had been dispensed, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman related in the fourth and fourth degrees of kindred, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold four compatible benefices with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends, dignities etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased—the pope ordered [above. p. 12] provision to be made to him of the rectories, [of the patronage of laymen], of Gnobes (sic) and Gnomor in the said diocese, and at the same time dispensed him to hold for life them or any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign the same, simply or for exchange, [as often as he pleased]. At his recent petition, containing that the pope's said first letters of dispensation did not mention that the said man and woman were related also in the third and third degrees of kindred, the pope grants that the said first and later letters shall hold good from the date of these presents, and that the executors of the said mandate may and shall proceed to execution, notwithstanding the said omission. Nobilitas etc. (An. xx. Terciodecimo Kal. Junii Anno. Terciodecimo. de Adria.) [See also above, p. 2.] |
| 17 Kal. June. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 73.) |
To Peter Hoton, rector of Belgrave in the diocese of Lincoln, S.T.M. Dispensation to hold for life with the said church, value not exceeding 20l. sterling, any benefice etc. as above, f. 12d. Litterarum etc. (An. xxxx. de Adria.) |
| 5 Kal. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 77d.) |
To Thady Omigyr, perpetual vicar of Drumglyeb in the diocese of Killaloe. Grant as below. His recent petition contained that after he had received papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted etc. as above, f. 61d, he obtained, after collation and provision made to him by authority of papal letters, and still holds, the said vicarage, which became void because Matthew Omigyr held it for more than a year without having himself ordained priest. At his said petition, which added that some assert that the said vicarage was void at the time of the said letters, and is void, not as above, but by the death of Denis Ymigyr, or otherwise, the pope grants to Thady, who is a priest and, by another special dispensation, holds together with the said vicarage the rectory without cure in ecclesiastical fee of the said church, that the said collation and provision shall hold good from the date of these presents, even if the said vicarage, value not exceeding 8 marks, that of the said rectory not exceeding 3, be void by the said death, or in any other way. He is further dispensed to hold for five years two other benefices compatible with one another and with the said vicarage and rectory, and to resign them simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. (An. xxv. de Adria.) |
| 10 Kal. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 82.) |
To the abbot of Holywood (Sacri nemoris) in the diocese of Glasgow. Mandate as below. The recent petition of bishop John and the dean and chapter of Glasgow contained that formerly the said bishop—seeing that the fruits etc. of the capitular mensa, for division as daily distributions amongst the canons in residence, were so slight that they did not reside and be present at divine offices, a canon who resided and was so present not receiving from the said distributions more than the value of eight florins of the camera a year, wherefore divine service was diminished, etc.—appropriated, for purpose of the said distributions, to the said mensa, value not exceeding 80l. sterling, the parish church of Leberton in the diocese, value not exceeding 20l. sterling, belonging to the gift of the said chapter, on its voidance by the resignation to the said bishop of its rector, John de Vaux, a fit portion being reserved for a perpetual vicar. At the said petition, adding that the dean and chapter doubt the validity of the said appropriation, under pretext of which they took and hold possession, the pope orders the above abbot to make the appropriation by papal authority. Ad ea que statum. (An. xxx. de Adria.) |
| 1430. 5 Id. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome (f. 82d.) |
To John Apiev’ (i.e. ap Jevan) Gwyn, rector of Kylvargyn in the diocese of St. Davids. Dispensation to him, a priest, to hold for two years with the said church, value not exceeding 3 marks, one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible. If he do not meanwhile make the usual exchange he is to resign the said church. Vite etc. (Ja. xxvi. de Adria.) |
| 7 Id. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome (f. 84d.) |
Confirmation, at the recent petition of the dean and chapter of Brechin, of the gift made to them by Walter, earl of Athol and Caithness, for purpose of appropriation to the capitular mensa, of his patronage of the parish church of Cortowquhy in the diocese of Brechin, and of bishop John's appropriation of the said church to the said mensa, value not exceeding 20l. and 25l. sterling respectively, subject to a reservation of 10l. of the usual money of Scotland as a portion for a perpetual vicar. Exemplification is given of (i) the letters of donation, Quia inter ceteras ecclesias, dated and sealed at his castle of Brechyn, October 20, 1429, of Walter, earl palatine of Stratherne, Athol and Caithness, and lord of Brechyn and Cortowquhy, whereby, besides making the gift of the patronage, he ordains and grants that Sir William [de] Heslyhope, the then rector and vicar, shall obey in future the dean and canons of Brechin as his patron; (ii) the letters of appropriation, Universitati vestre notum esse facimus, sealed with his own seal and the common seal of the chapter, and dated at Brechin, November 8, 1429, of bishop John, which add to the earl's style ‘son of the king of Scotland,’ have the spellings ‘Cortouchy’ and ‘William de Heslyhop,’ and mention, besides the above portion of 10l. of the usual money of Scotland, the customary house, toft and croft. Ad perp. rei mem. Ex debito pastoralis officii. (Pe. lx. de Casatiis.) [3¾ pp.] |
| Kal. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 90d.) |
Relaxation of three years and three quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feast of the Assumption visit and give alms for the restoration etc. of the church of the Augustinian friars’ house of St. Mary the Virgin, Burgeskeara, in the diocese of Tuam, which has been burned. [No limit of the period of validity.] Univ. Christifid. etc. Dum precelsa. (Pe. xxviii. de Casatiis.) |
| 10 Kal. June. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 91.) |
To the bishop of Elphin. Mandate to dispense Dermit Odomnallan and Granina ingi Killyn, of his diocese, who, aware that they were related in the double third degree (gradu) of affinity, committed fornication several times with one another and had offspring, after imposing a penance, to marry, decreeing past and future offspring legitimate. Oblate nobis. (Pe. xxiiii. de Casatiis.) |
| 5 Id. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome (f. 91.) |
To the bishop of Annadown. Mandate to dispense Donald Oflaferthayd and Sand Yallborayn, of his diocese, to marry notwithstanding that they are related in the double third degrees (gradibus) of affinity. Oblate nobis. (Pe. xx. de Casatiis.) |
| 1430. 12 Kal. March. SS Apostoli, Rome. (f. 95d.) |
To John Soulby, rector of Bernyngham in the diocese of York, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth and holds, besides the said church, the canonries and prebends of Hwstthwayt in York and Scharw in Ripon, value altogether not exceeding 88l. sterling, to hold for seven years with the said church any other benefice etc. as above, f. 12d. Nobilitas etc. (Pe. xxxv. de Casatiis.) |
| 1429. 5 Id. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 96.) |
To John Odelond, rector of the greater or principal portion of the parish church of Crukern in the diocese of Wells, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him, who holds the said portion of the said church (which is wont to be governed by three (fn. 3) rectors, of whom one holds the greater or principal, the second the less, and the third the least portion (fn. 4) ) and the free chapel without cure of Ryme in the diocese of Salisbury, value not exceeding 100 and 3 marks, to hold for five years with the said portion any other benefice etc. as above, f. 12d. Litterarum etc. (Pe. xxx. de Casatiis.) |
| 1430. 5 Kal. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 97.) |
To Michael Vynt alias Colchester, Benedictine monk of St. John's, Colchester, in the diocese of London. Indult that he cannot be removed by the abbot of St. John's, without reasonable cause, from the cell or wardenship of Bedemanesberg in the town (villa) of Wretele in the diocese of London, which is wont to be ruled by a monk of St. John's removeable by the said abbot, and which he has ruled for a number of years. Religionis etc. (Pe. xx. de Casatiis.) [See above, p. 150.] |
| 13 Kal. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 97d.) |
To Alexander Cok, archdeacon of Carlisle. Dispensation to him, who is of noble race, (fn. 5) to hold for five years the said archdeaconry, value not exceeding 40l. sterling, and any other benefice with cure etc. as above, f. 12d. Nobilitas etc. (An. xxx. de Adria.) |
| 4 Non. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 102d.) |
To David de Burgo, clerk, of the diocese of Tuam. Rehabilitation on account of his having obtained, in virtue of a papal provision (previous to which he had received papal dispensation, as the son of a married nobleman and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure), the perpetual vicarage of Achabaier in the said diocese, on its voidance because John de Soutona held it for more than a year without being ordained priest, and having held it for more than a year without being ordained priest and without further dispensation. He is to resign. Sedes apostolica, pia mater. (An. xvi. de Adria.) |
| 1430. 4 Non. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 102d.) |
To the abbot of Holy Trinity, Ballintober (de Fonte Sancti Patricii) in the diocese of Tuam. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding (here with the spelling ‘Achabarit’), to collate and assign to the above David the above vicarage, value not exceeding 3 marks, whether void by his above non-promotion, or otherwise. Dignum etc. (An. xxi. Quinto Idus Maii Anno Terciodecimo. de Adria.) |
| 13 Kal. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 105.) |
To the abbot of Cong in the diocese of Tuam, and the dean and archdeacon of the churches of Mayo (Moynen.) and Tuam respectively. Mandate to cause Donatus Macgillabuyd, priest, of the diocese of Tuam, to be received as a canon of the Augustinian abbey of St. John the Evangelist, Tuam. Cupientes vitam. (Pe. xvi. de Casatiis.) |
| 17 Kal. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 109d.) |
To Thomas Taylor, rector of St. Leonards without the walls of Exeter. Dispensation to him (who is a priest, and who formerly received papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted etc. as above, f. 61d, after which he was so promoted and obtained the said church) to hold four other benefices with or without cure compatible with one another and with the said church, and to resign all, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. (An. xxv. de Adria.) |
| 4 Kal. May. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 110.) |
Confirmation, at the recent petition of John, bishop of Brechin, Walter, earl of Athol and Caithness, and the dean and chapter of Brechin, of the following grant of the said earl to the church of Brechin; with exemplification, after inspection and examination in the pope's chancery, of (i), the sealed letters Vestra noverit universitas, dated at his castle of Brechin, October 22, 1429, of Walter, earl palatine of Strathern, Athol and Caithness, lord of Brechine and Cortowquhy, relating his gift to the cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Brechyn, of 40l. of yearly rent from his lands of Corthowquhy within the shire of Forfare, payable in equal portions at the usual two terms, Whitsuntide and Martinmas, to the common proctor of the church of Brechyn, for the maintenance of two chaplains and six boys, to be presented (in a manner described) by the earl and his heirs and successors and to have yearly, the said two chaplains 10l. apiece, and the said six boys 5 marks apiece until they reach the age of twenty years and no longer, for the perpetual celebration (in a manner described) of divine offices, to live together (in a manner described) in a common house, the said sum, in case the said lands on account of war etc. are unable to furnish it, being payable from the earl's lands of his domain of Brechyn, etc. etc.; (ii) the letters (adding to the earl's style ‘the king's son’) Sciatis nos unanimi consensu of bishop John and the dean and chapter, sealed with their seals and those of the precentor and chancellor, and dated at Brechin, October 20, 1429, promising to observe the contents of earl Walter's above charter respecting the said foundation, e.g. the perpetual maintenance of a third chaplain, to have 12 marks a year, and to be presented by the said earl and his heirs and successors, the clothing of the said boys with surplices and hoods lined, and the maintenance of the said house, all at the expense of the dean and chapter, the perpetual maintenance at the expense of the said bishop of a fourth chaplain, etc. etc. Ad perp. rei mem. Ad ea per que ecclesiarum. (An. c. de Adria.) [92/3 pp.] [Registrum Episc. Brechinensis. App. pp. 30–31 (from an imperfect copy).] |
12 Martin V
13 Martin V (cont.)
| 3 Kal. Jan. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 126d.) |
To the bishop of Glasgow. Mandate to dispense David Kiredi and Margaret de Gordon, of his diocese, to marry, notwithstanding that they are related on one side in the second and on the other side in the third degree of kindred, and that David has several times committed fornication with Elizabet de Haliberton, of the said diocese, related to Margaret in the third and fourth degrees of kindred, a salutary penance being imposed on David for his said fornication. Oblate etc. (An. xx. de Adria.) [Stuart, Gen. Hist. of the Stewarts, p. 458.] |
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| Kal. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 127.) |
To Thomas Daunce, married clerk, of the diocese of Winchester. Indult to him, who is the husband of one wife, a virgin, and is a notary public, to exercise his office in the province of Canterbury, notwithstanding any constitutions of the said province. Sincere devocionis. (An. xx. de Adria.) [See above, p. 69.] |
| 1430. 4 Non. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 128.) |
To William Hebbenge, rector of Ikford in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him, who is of noble race, together with the said church, which is ruinous and needs great repair, and whose value, not exceeding 10l., is insufficient for the said repair, for hospitality and for the other burdens of the said church, to hold for five years any other benefice with cure etc. as above, f. 12d. Nobilitas etc. (An. xxx. de Adria.) |
| Non. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 129d.) |
To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate to dispense Robert Attenabbe of Westacre and Catherine Narburgh, of his diocese, to remain in the marriage which they contracted in ignorance of an impediment of spiritual relationship arising from the late Margaret, Robert's first wife, having been godmother at the baptism of a child of the said Catherine and the late William Westyllyngford, then her husband; decreeing past and future offspring legitimate. Oblate nobis. (An. xx. de Adria.) |
| 1429. 3 Kal. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 152d.) |
To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate, at the recent petition of William Wyllyamson of Louth, deacon, of his diocese (containing that, without mentioning his illegitimacy, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, and without obtaining canonical dispensation, he had himself promoted to minor orders, and that afterwards, having obtained of the pope's penitentiary letters about dispensing on account of the said defect, which were not executed, he had himself ordained deacon, and has ministered in the orders thus received), if he find that William acted in ignorance, to dispense him, after he has done penance, to be promoted to other holy orders and minister therein and in his said orders, and hold two benefices, even if one have cure, and to rehabilitate him. Humilibus supplicum votis. (Pe. xxv. de Casatiis.) |
| 1430. 9 Kal. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 164d.) |
To Richard Wetwang alias Kynseman, rector of St. Denis's, York, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him (who received papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted etc. as above, f. 61d, after which he was so promoted and obtained the above church, value not exceeding 12 marks, and who is an advocate of the court of York), to hold four other benefices with or without cure, compatible with one another and with the said church, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum etc. (Pe. xxx. de Casatiis.) |
| 1429. 6 Id. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 168.) |
To John ap Rys, rector of Bridell in the diocese of St. Davids, bachelor of canon law. Dispensation to him, who is of noble race, to hold for life the said church, value not exceeding 10 marks, and any dignity, [even with cure], and major in a cathedral or principal in a collegiate church, even if it be elective, or a parish church or its perpetual vicarage, and to resign both, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, and hold instead two other incompatible benefices. Nobilitas generis, litterarum etc. (Ri. xl. coldus.) |
| 2 Kal. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 168d.) |
To the same. Dispensation to him—who has had papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried nobleman and a married woman, (i) to be promoted etc. as above, f. 61d, (ii) having been so promoted and having obtained, by collation made by authority of the ordinary, the parish church of Whitchurch (Albam) in Kymmeys in the above diocese, to hold therewith a compatible benefice and to resign them, simply or for exchange, once only, after which latter dispensation he exchanged the said church for that of Bridell, again by authority of the ordinary—to hold any benefices of any number and kind, with or without cure, compatible with one another and with Bridell, and to resign them and it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum etc. (Ri. xlv. coldus.) |
| 1429. Non. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 173.) |
To Nicholas Upton, rector of Chadesey in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation to him, who is a bachelor of canon law and holds the said church, value not exceeding 20l., to hold for three years one other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign both, simply or for exchange. Litterarum etc. (Pe. xxx. de Casatiis.) |
| 16 Kal. Jan. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 174.) |
To Philip ap Rys, clerk, of the diocese of St. Davids. Dispensation to him—who received papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted etc. as above, f. 61d, after which he was tonsured—to hold two other benefices with or without cure, compatible with one another and the said benefice, and to resign all, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. (Pe. xx. de Casatiis.) |
| 1430. 2 Kal. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 180.) |
To Marmaduke, elect of Carlisle. Faculty for him, to whom the pope recently made provision of the said see, to be consecrated by any catholic bishop, assisted by two or three others. The consecrator is to send his oath of fealty as usual; without prejudice to the archbishop of York. Cum nos nuper. (Ri. xii. coldus.) |
| 2 Non. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 193d.) |
To Thomas Hebbeden, rector of Boldon in the diocese of Durham, D.C.L. Dispensation to him, who is of knightly race, is chancellor of bishop Thomas, holds a canonry of the major church of St. John, Chester, in the diocese of Lichfield, with the prebend called the third of Holy Cross therein, and the above church, value not exceeding 6 and 40 marks respectively, to hold for life the said church and any other benefice with cure etc. as above, f. 12d, but without the clause ‘as often as he pleases.’ Nobilitas generis, litterarum etc. (Pe. xxxxiiii. de Casatiis.) |
| 10 Kal. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 196.) |
To all faithful. Exhortation to give alms for the repair and conservation of the bridge which, as the recent petition of the community and men of the town (villa) of Whytby in the diocese of York contained, was formerly built over a certain river flowing by the said town, and which has been so much injured and broken by a recent flood of the sea that, without speedy aid, it will probably suffer irreparable ruin; with relaxation, during ten years, of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who do so. The pope forbids these presents to be sent by questuarii, and decrees that if this be done they shall be void. Quanto frequencius. (Ri. xvi. coldus.) |
| 5 Kal. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 197d.) |
To Reginald Morthendewa of Cornwall (de Cornubia), rector of Creed (Sancte Cride alias Crede) in the diocese of Exeter, D.C.L. Dispensation to hold for life the said church, value not exceeding 20l., and any other benefice with etc. as above, f. 12d. Litterarum etc. (Pe. l. de Casatiis.) |
| 4 Kal. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 198.) |
To John Caruell, perpetual vicar of Upotri in the diocese of Exeter, B.C.L. Dispensation to him, who lately received papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to etc. as above, f. 61d, after which he was so promoted and obtained the said vicarage (here spelt ‘Upotery’) to hold together with the said vicarage [value not stated] any other benefices, of any number and kind, with or without cure, compatible with one another and the said vicarage, and to resign all, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum etc. (Pe. xxxx. de Casatiis.) |
| Kal. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 198d.) |
To the bishop of Glasgow. Mandate, after absolving from excommunication incurred and imposing a salutary penance, and after temporary separation, to dispense William Mungubri and Helen Sympill, of his diocese, to remain in the marriage which they formerly contracted per verba legitime de presenti, not in ignorance that they were related in the third degree of affinity, and that Humphrey, the said William's son, had previously contracted with the said Helen, per verbo (sic) de futuro, a marriage which was by authority of the ordinary declared to have been null. Past and future offspring is to be decreed legitimate. Oblate nobis. (Pe. xxv. de Casatiis.) [Stuart, Gen. Hist. of the Stewarts, p. 459.] |
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Ibid. (f. 199.) |
To the precentor of Glasgow. Mandate to carry out by papal authority the exchange desired by Thomas Trayl, of his treasurership of Glasgow, a non-major non-elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 60l. sterling, and Robert Maffet, papal chaplain, of his canonry and prebend of Durisder in Glasgow and perpetual vicarage of Peebles (de Peblis) in the diocese of Glasgow, value not exceeding 30l. and 20l. sterling respectively. He is to see that there be no simony, and to grant that the said Thomas cannot be against his will removed from a certain house in the city of Glasgow, belonging to the treasurership, which he has caused to be notably built, but that he may retain and inhabit it for his life. Apostolice sedis. (Pe. xxxx. Nono Kal. Martii Anno Tertiodecimo. de Casatiis.) |
| 14 Kal. Feb. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 200.) |
To Walter Treugof, archpriest of the oratory of Holy Trinity in the island of the sea called the Isle of Wight (Insulavecta) in the diocese of Winchester, S.T.M. Decree, at his recent petition —containing that, by its foundation or by custom, no other benefice can be held with the said archpriestship, and that its fruits, etc., consisting for the greater part in ruinous houses, are on account of wars etc. so much diminished and daily diminish that they, not exceeding according to the common valuation 60 marks a year, are insufficient for the decent estate of its holder and for hospitality and episcopal and other dues —that the said archpriestship, which is reputed a simple benefice without cure, and together with which its last possessor but one was wont to canonically hold other benefices, shall henceforth be a compatible benefice; with special indult to Walter, for his greater safeguard, that he may hold with it any other benefice or benefices with or without cure, notwithstanding the said foundation or custom, etc. Litterarum etc. (Pe. xxx. de Casatiis.) |
| 1430. 12 Kal. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 213.) |
To the abbot of Cleeve (de Clyva) and the prior of Montacute in the diocese of Wells. Mandate to relax the oath of continual residence taken by John Raynaldi, subdean of Wells, so that he may, for the prosecution of his business, absent himself for the same periods as are allowed to the canons of the said church, who are nevertheless deemed to keep residence. Ad ea ex pastoralis. (An. xxx. de Adria.) |
| 3 Non. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 215.) |
To John Castel, rector of Rudeby in the diocese of York, S.T.M. Dispensation to him, who holds besides the said church the canonries and prebends of Yatmuste in Salisbury, Karltonkyme in Lincoln and Skelton in Holden in the diocese of York, (fn. 6) value respectively not exceeding 40l., 18l., 8 marks and 20 marks, to hold for life the said church and any other benefice with cure etc. as above, f. 12d. Litterarum etc. (Pe. l. de Casatiis.) [See Cal. Lett. VII, p. 459.] |
12 Martin V
13 Martin V (cont.)
| 1430. 4 Kal. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 219) |
To the bishop of Elphin. Mandate to dispense Cormac Mycdonnchaid and Lasserina ingen Micdiarmada, of his diocese, to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in the third and double fourth degrees of kindred and in the third degree of affinity, aware of which they have several times committed fornication with one another. Penance is first to be imposed, and past offspring, if any, and future to be declared legitimate. Oblate nobis. (An. xxv. de Adria.) |
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| 1429. 5 Kal. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 221.) |
To the bishop of Kildare. Mandate to dispense Odo Oconchwyar and Gormlaych Nigriconchwayr (rectius ingi Iconchobayr), of his diocese, to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in the double second degree of affinity and in other inferior degrees of affinity and kindred, aware of which they committed fornication with one another several times and begat offspring. Penance is first to be imposed for the incest, and the said and future offspring is to be decreed legitimate. Oblate etc. (Pe. xxiiii. de Casatiis.) |
| 6 Id. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 228.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of three years and three quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year and that of the dedication, the usual octaves and six days, and of a hundred days to those who during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the repair and conservation of the church and buildings of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary, Norton, in the diocese of Lichfield, whose buildings are ruinous, and whose fruits etc. are, by frequent inundation of an arm of the sea called the Merse, so diminished that they hardly suffice for hospitality etc. Univ. Christifid. etc. Dum precelsa. (Pe. xxv. de Casatiis.) |
| 3 Kal. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 229.) |
To the bishop of Lincoln. Mandate in regard to John Newport, deacon, of his diocese, as above, f. 152d, the son of a priest and an unmarried woman. Humilibus etc. (Pe. xxv. de Casatiis.) |
| 18 Kal. Jan. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 232d.) |
Decree, at the recent petition of Margaret, duchess of Clarence (who, desirous of leading a celibate life, proposes to dwell at the monastery of St. Saviour and SS. Mary the Virgin and Bridget, Syon, of the order of St. Augustine, called St. Saviour's, in the diocese of London, in which are an abbess, sisters and brethren under perpetual enclosure), that the persons of her household shall not incur, by reason of injury whereof they are not the cause, the ipso facto excommunication under pain of which the pope forbade any one to molest or injure the said monastery or others of the said order in England, and the persons thereof, or persons going thither or returning thence. Ad fut. rei mem. Super gregem. (Ri. xxx. coldus.) [See above, pp. 63, 149, 150.] |
| 3 Non. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 241d.) |
Grant as below. It was lately set forth to the pope by prior Robert (sic) and the convent of the Benedictine priory of St. Oswald's, Nostel, in the diocese of York, and the prioress and convent of the priory, immediately belonging to the Roman church, of St. Sixtus, Rome (de Urbe), living under the care and according to the institutes of the Friars Preachers, that a dispute formerly arose between the prior and convent of St. Oswald's, of the one part, and the prioress and convent of St. Sixtus's, of the other part, the latter claiming that the former were bound to pay them a yearly pension of 50 marks sterling on account of the fruits etc. of the parish church of Bamburgh (de Samburgo) in the diocese of Durham, which the said prior and convent hold to their own uses; that at length Master Herman Dwerg, provost of St. Lebuinus's, Deventer, in the diocese of Utrecht, doctor of canon law, papal notary and referendary, acting as proctor of the said prior and convent, made an agreement with the said prioress and convent, to wit, that the said proctor, in lieu of the said pension of 50 marks, which were worth 200 florins, should give to the said prioress and convent the farmhouse (casale), commonly called de salice, situate in Trastevere without the Porta Pertusa (fn. 7) (extra portam Pertuse), formerly belonging to one Paul Stati (or Scati), a Roman citizen, and bought by the said proctor for St. Oswald's, and that for all alleged neglected payments of pensions he should pay the said prioress and convent 3,000 gold florins of the camera, as is contained in a public instrument which the pope has caused to be inserted in other his letters. At the recent petition of [John de Hudresfeld] the present prior and the convent of St. Oswald's, the pope—who at the petition of the said prior Robert (sic) and convent confirmed by his said letters the said agreement, donation, etc.—grants that his said letters and the agreement, donation, etc. contained therein shall hold good as if the said prior's name had been rightly given in the pope's said letters as ‘John [de Hudresfeld]’ and not ‘Robert [de Quixley].’ Ad fut. rei mem. Exigit devocionis sinceritas. (Pe. xxxx. de Casatiis.) |
| [The pope's other letters, to which he refers above, are those printed in Ripoll, Bullarium Prædicatorum, II, p. 690, after a copy derived ‘ex Archivio Apostolico Lib. cxxxix fol. 269', a register no longer existing in the Vatican Archives, consisting of his confirmation, Ad perp. rei mem. Ex superne majestatis, dated at SS. Apostoli, Rome, 10 Kal. June anno 11 (1428), at the petition of prior Robert (sic) and the convent of St. Oswald's, Nostel, and the prioress and convent of St. Sixtus's, Rome, of the agreement made, as above, by the above Master Herman Dwerg between prior Robert Wyxalcus (sic) and the convent of St. Oswald's and the prioress and convent of St. Sixtus's, and set forth in a public instrument drawn up in the monastery of St. Sixtus and dated in the year of the Nativity 1428, indiction 6, anno 11 Martin V, Tuesday, May 11. Ripoll has the better reading ‘de Bamburgo,’ the probably better form ‘Scati,’ the less good form ‘Portuse’ (which he identifies with the Porta Portese near the Tiber), describes Herman Dwerg throughout as ‘prior’ instead of ‘procurator,’ and has ‘summam trium millium octuaginta sex florenorum auri de camera,’ whereas Reg. 295 has ‘summam trium milium florenorum auri de camera.’ For the above pension of 50 marks see Cal. Lett. I., pp. 82, 130, 207, 209, 459, 612. See also ibid., p. 52.] | |
| 1430. 10 Kal. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 256.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of one year and forty days and of a hundred days respectively of enjoined penance to penitents who on the usual feasts, octaves and six days, and during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the repair of the chapel of St. Mary the Virgin de Arneburgh situate in the cemetery of the parish church of the town of Great Yarmouth (ville magnejernemuth) in the diocese of Norwich, whose buildings are in ruin. Univ. etc. Dum precelsa. (An. xvi. de Adria.) |
| 13 Kal. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 256d.) |
To Richard Tame, rector of Hampton Meisy in the diocese of Worcester. Dispensation to him, who is of a race of great nobles, to hold for life with the said church, value not exceeding 40 marks, one other benefice with cure etc. as above, f. 12d, but without the clause ‘as often as he pleases.’ Nobilitas generis, vite etc. (An. xxxx. de Adria.) |
| 1430. 10 Kal. April. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 259.) |
To the bishop of Norwich. Mandate to dispense Thomas Stywarde Aylswythorp and Margaret, relict of Robert Elnor, of his diocese, to remain in the marriage which they formerly contracted per verba legitime de presenti and solemnized before the church after the manner of the country, in ignorance of an impediment of spiritual relationship arising from the fact that the late Joan, Thomas's first wife, after the consummation of their marriage, was godmother at the baptism of a child of the said Margaret and Robert. Offspring past and future is to be decreed legitimate. Oblate nobis. (Pe. xx. de Casatiis.) |
| 6 Kal. Feb. SS. Apostoli. Rome. (f. 260.) |
To John Wynturshulle, lord of Wynturshulle in the diocese of Winchester. Indult for him and his successors to have in the chapel of the said manor, which is almost four miles distant from its parish church of Shaldeforde, mass and other divine offices celebrated by his own or other fit priest, in presence of himself and his household, and of the sick and weak inhabitants of the manor village, and for the said priest, secular or regular, to administer ecclesiastical sacraments. Sincere devocionis affectus. (An. l. de Adria.) |
| 1429. 2 Non. Dec. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 261d.) |
To John Forest, archdeacon of Surrey in Winchester. Indult, during five years, to visit his archdeaconry by deputy, and to receive the procurations in ready money, not exceeding 30 silver tournois a day, twelve to the gold florin of Florence. Meruit tue devocionis. |
| Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Exeter and the deans of Exeter and Salisbury. Meruit dilecti filii. (An. xviii. xx. Sexto Idus Aprilis Anno Terciodecimo. de Adria.) | |
| 1430. 10 Kal. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 262.) |
Relaxation, during ten years, of one year etc. as above, f. 256, in behalf of the chapel of St. Peter the Apostle situate in Woldych in the parish of Walpoll in the diocese of Norwich, whose buildings are ruinous. Univ. etc. Et si sub quorumvis. (An xvi. de Adria.) |
| 2 Non. Jan. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 262d.) |
To John Grene, perpetual vicar of Canyngton in the diocese of Bath. Dispensation to him (who formerly received papal dispensation, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted etc. as above f. 61d, after which he was made a clerk and obtained the above vicarage [value not given]), to hold two other benefices with or without cure compatible with one another and the said vicarage, and to resign them and it, simply or for exchange, as often as he wishes. Vite etc. (An. xxii. de Adria.) |
| 2 Id. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 264.) |
To Richard Chestie, rector of South Wyllyngham in the diocese of Lincoln, M.A. Dispensation to him, who is also S.T.B., to hold for three years with the said church, value not exceeding 20l. sterling, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible. Litterarum etc. (Pe. xxv. de Casatiis.) |
| 1430. 8 Id. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 264d.) |
To the bishop of Carlisle. Mandate as below. The recent petition of John Crosby, clerk, of his diocese, contained that formerly a certain layman, a glover (cirothecarius), promised to make him a pair of gloves by a certain day, but failed to keep his promise, whereby John was delayed in the prosecution of certain business; that after the said day there was an exchange of insults between John and the said layman, who was old and turgid; that upon the said layman taking up a knife and hastening to strike John, he, seeing himself in danger of death, and firmly believing that if he fled he would not escape, in self-defence drew a knife which he was carrying and, casually and without intent to kill or mutilate, inflicted on the said layman a wound from which in a brief space he died. At John's said petition, which added that he has no goods from which he could be maintained, and desires to minister in all holy orders, the pope orders the above bishop, if he find the facts to be as stated, to dispense him on account of irregularity contracted, to dispense him to be promoted to all the said orders and minister therein, and hold a benefice with or without cure, even if a parish church etc., and resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, and to rehabilitate him. Solet sedis apostolice. (Pe. xxxv. de Casatiis.) |
| 9 Kal. March. SS. Apostoli, Rome. (f. 265.) |
To the official of Canterbury. Mandate, at the recent petition of the inhabitants of the town or hamlet (ville sive hamelete) of Senane in Cornwall—containing that formerly in the said town, which [is situate] within the bounds of the collegiate and parish church of St. Buryan (sancte Beriane), was founded and built a chapel of St. Senan, with bell-tower, bells and baptismal font, where in the said inhabitants, some of whom are distant about three English miles from the said church, have been wont, as they still are, to hear masses and other divine offices, and receive and have all ecclesiastical sacraments and sacramentals, but not burial, and adding that sometimes the dead in the said town, which is on the sea shore, on account of hostile incursions from the sea, cannot without danger be borne to the said church—to grant to the said inhabitants licence to have in and about the said chapel a cemetery, and to have it blessed by any catholic bishop, without prejudice to the said church and any other. Humilibus supplicum votis. (An. xx. de Adria.) |
| 4 Id. Jan. SS. Apostoli, Rome (f. 265d.) |
To Robert Burgh, rector of Holewale in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to him, a priest, who formerly received papal dispensation, as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted etc. as above, f. 61d, after which he was so promoted and obtained the said church [value not stated], to hold two other benefices etc. as above, f. 262d, mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. (An. xxii. de Adria.) |