Vatican Regesta 586: 1477-1478

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1955.

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'Vatican Regesta 586: 1477-1478', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 68-69. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp68-69 [accessed 24 April 2024]

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Vatican Regesta, Vol. DLXXXVI.

Bullarum Communium Lib. XXXVI. Tom. XLI.

7 Sixtus IV.

1477[–8].
16 Kal. April.
(17 March.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 123v.)
Erection (at the petition of Master Robert Blackadir, a papal notary, rector of the parish church of St. Mary, Lesuarde (recte Lesuaide), in the diocese of St. Andrews), of a canonry in the church of St. Salvator at St. Andrews and of a prebend therein out of the said parish church; the holder to pay 5 marks Scots yearly to the common mensa of St. Salvator's, and no one to hold them in future, after the said Robert (who is by both parents of noble birth, and orator to the pope of James, king of Scots, and to whom the pope intends to make provision thereof), unless he be a doctor or licentiate of canon or civil law. Ad perp. rei mem. Cunctis orbis ecclesiis. (Gratis de mandato sanctissimi domini nostri pape. In the margin: Apri.) [2½ pp. Theiner, op. cit., p. 483.]
5 Id. March.
(11 March.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 124v.)
Licence, at the petition of Robert Blakadir, rector of Lesuarde [sic], a papal notary, orator etc., as above, for him to cause a poor hospital of St. Mary of Consolation to be erected near the said parish church. Ad perp. rei mem. Sacrosancta Romana ecclesia. (Gratis etc., as in the preceding. In the margin: Apri.) [3 pp. Theiner, op. cit., p. 482.]
Ibid.
(f. 126r.)
To the archdeacon of Lothian (Laudanie) in the cathedral (maioris) church of St. Andrews, and the provosts of St. Mary's and St. Salvator's, at St. Andrews. Letters conservatory for the above hospital. Hodie dilecto filio. (Gratis etc., as in the preceding. In the margin: Apri.) [2¼ pp. Theiner, op. cit., p. 483.]
16 Kal. April.
(17 March.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 127v.)
To Master Robert Blakadir, canon of St. Salvator's at St. Andrews, a papal notary. Collation and provision to him, who is by both parents of noble birth, and is orator etc., as above, of a canonry of the said church and a prebend called the prebend of Lesuarde [sic], erected by the pope this day out of the parish church of St. Mary, Lesuarde. Grata devotionis obsequia.
Concurrent mandate to the dean and archdeacon of Dunkeld, and the provost of St. [Mary's] at St. Andrews. (fn. 1)Hodie dilecto filio. (Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. In the margin: Apri.) [4½ pp. Theiner, op. cit., p. 484, with only the address of the concurrent mandate.]
1478.
10 Kal. May.
(22 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 161r.)
Decree, as below. The recent petition of William, [archbishop] elect of St. Andrews (which church the pope lately erected into a metropolitan church, above, p. 15), contained that he fears lest some bishops etc. may refuse to obey him and his successors in matters concerning archiepiscopal jurisdiction and superiority, and to recognise him and them as their archbishops and superiors. The pope, therefore, hereby decrees that all bishops of the realm, abbots, priors, and all other persons to them subject, ecclesiastical and secular, exempted from the jurisdiction of the ordinary since the immediate predecessor of the said elect became archbishop, and not so exempted, shall be subject by metropolitical right to the said elect and his successors, and obey them in matters pertaining to archiepiscopal jurisdiction and superiority, visitation and correction, within the diocese assigned by the said erection as the archiepiscopal province, cognizance of causes within the said province taken (interposite) to the archiepiscopal court, etc.; with mandate executory hereby to the dean of Dunkeld, the archdeacon of St. Andrews, and the provost of St. Salvator's at St. Andrews. Ad perp. rei mem. Romani pontificis. (In the margin: Apri.) [2¼ pp.]
1477[–8].
5 Id. March.
(25 Feb.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 222r.)
To Master Robert Blacadir, archdeacon of St. Andrews, a papal notary. Indult for him (who has been sent to the pope as the orator of James, king of Scots, and is of noble and baronial race) to visit by deputy for life the said archdeaconry, provision of which the pope has recently made to him, and to receive moderate procurations in ready money; with mandate executory hereby to the deans of Dunkeld and St. Patroclus's, Soest (Susatien.), in the diocese of Cologne, and the official of St. Andrews. (Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. In the margin: Apri.) [1½ pp.]
1477.
8 Id. Nov.
(6 Nov.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 222v.)
Confirmation, with exemplification, of the collation for ten years, made by letters dated in the convent of Rhodes on 14 March 1476–7, by Peter Dambuson [sic], (fn. 2) master of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of the preceptory or baiulia of Melcheborne, in the priory of England of the said Hospital, in the diocese of London, void by the death of William Tornay without the Roman court, to John Kendall, a brother of the said Hospital, preceptor of the preceptories of Willuton’ et Halston’ and of the Master's chamber (camera magistralis) of Peccam, Stalsefeld et Rodmersam, in the said priory; whether the said preceptory became void as above, or by the resignation, made by proxy, of John Weston, promoted to the priory of England (who has retained as his prioral camera the preceptory of Balsall’), or whether it became void in any other way; the said preceptory being reserved to the gift of the said Master in accordance with an ordinance made in the chapter of Rhodes held in the year 1462; with mandate executory hereby to the bishops of Lincoln and Norwich, and the official of Lincoln. Ad fut. rei mem. Pastoralis officii. (In the margin: Apri.) [6 pp. See above, p. 59.]

Footnotes

  • 1. decano et archidiacono Dunkelden. ac preposito beate [blank] Sanctiandree ecclesiarum.
  • 2. The exemplification has ‘Dambusson.’ The correct form is ‘Daubusson,’ as on p. 59.