Vatican Regesta 672: 1479-1480

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 672: 1479-1480', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 255-257. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp255-257 [accessed 25 April 2024]

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Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCLXXII.

Liber Decimus Tertius Bullarum Diversarum.

9 Sixtus IV.

1479.
3 Non. Oct.
(5 Oct.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 79v.)
To the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of Bath, (fn. 1) and the abbot of St. Mary's, Abingdon, (fn. 2) in the diocese of Salisbury. Mandate, at the recent petition of Walter Fitzherbert, a knight conventual of the house of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and of the priory of England (containing that on the voidance of the baiulia or preceptory of Templecombe in the said priory by the death of brother William Daunay, collation, etc. was made to him thereof for ten years by Peter Daubusson, master of the said house, and the chapter-general of Rhodes, as being void as above, or by the resignation of John Bomgh (fn. 3) to the said master, as is contained more fully in the letters of the said master and chaptergeneral), to publish the said letters, whenever requested by the said Walter, and to cause him to be inducted into possession of the said baiulia or preceptory, etc., proceeding by ecclesiastical censure, etc. Exemplification is given of the letters Religionis decor of brother Peter Daubusson, master of the house of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, etc., and the chapter-general of Rhodes, addressed to the said Walter Fitzherbert, sealed with their common leaden bulla, and dated in the convent at Rhodes, during the said chapter-general, on 17 November, 1478, revoking as null and void the agreement which was illicitly made in England regarding the said preceptory between the said late William Daunay and brother Marmaduke Lomelay, and making collation thereof for ten years to Fitzherbert, as above, etc. (Gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. In the margin: Oct.) [52/3 pp.]
1480.
3 Non. June.
(3 June.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 98r.)
To James Lindesay, clerk, of the diocese of St. Andrews. Motu proprio reservation to the pope's gift, for collation to him, who is by both parents of royal stock and of a race of barons, (fn. 4) out of consideration for James, king of Scots, who has by his letters commended him as his kinsman to the pope, of one, two or three benefices wont to be assigned to secular clerks, even if two of them have cure or be dignities, etc., value 25 marks sterling if one have cure or be a dignity, etc., or 18 if not, in the gift, etc., of the archbishop of St. Andrews and the bishops of Glasgow and Moray, and the prior, deans and chapters, etc., of those churches, respectively; with mandate hereby to the bishop of Orte and the officials of St. Andrews and Glasgow to execute these presents, which shall hold good as if they had been granted under date Kal. Jan. anno 1 (1 Jan. 1471–2). Nobilitas preclari generis, vite etc. (In the margin: Junij.) [5 pp.]
6 Id. June.
(8 June.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 170v.)
Safe-conduct, valid during the pope's pleasure, for James Bigneti, chancellor of Chartres (Carnoten.), doctor of decrees, an abbreviator of papal letters de parco maiori, (fn. 5) and a member of the pope's household, who is by the pope's order accompanying Julian, [cardinal] bishop of Sabina (whom the pope is sending as his legate de latere to the realms of France, England and Scotland, and other provinces and dominions), and who may have occasion at times, by order of the said legate and otherwise, to betake himself on business to divers parts of the world; and for his retinue to the number of twelve. Univ. etc. Cum venerabilem fratrem. (Gratis pro assistente. In the margin: Junij.) [½ p.]
1479[–80].
15 Kal. Feb.
(18 Jan.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 319r.) (fn. 6)
To Thomas Cantulun, a canon of Limerick. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Thomas, bishop of Limerick, contained that whilst a suit was pending before certain executors between him and Eugenius Ofelan, clerk, about the verification of certain papal letters, ordering the latter to be deprived of his commenda of the priory of SS. Mary and Edward the Martyr by Limerick bridge, of the order of St. Mary of the Cruciferi, which he was holding by papal grant, and the said priory to be granted for life in commendam to the said bishop, the said executors, proceeding in the cause, delivered a definitive sentence by which they deprived Eugenius and granted the priory in commendam to the said bishop, which sentence has become a res judicata. The pope, therefore, at the said bishop's petition, hereby orders the above canon to approve and confirm the said sentence by papal authority. Ea que sentencia terminata sunt. (In the margin: Jan.) [1⅓ pp.]

Footnotes

  • 1. Bethen.
  • 2. Abandonnie.
  • 3. ? recte Bourgh, as it seems to be written further on, viz. in the exemplified letters of the master and chapter-general.
  • 4. qui …. de regali prosapia et baronum genere ex utroque parente procreatus existis.
  • 5. litterarum apostolicarum de maiori parco abbreviator,
  • 6. A mention of the ‘Reverendi domini baiuliui conventuales fratres Anglici,’ and the names of the ‘Reverendus dominus frater Johannes Quendall turcupellerius’ and the ‘Reverendus dominus frater Johannes de Irlande baiuliuus Manoasce’ (?) occur on ff. 380v., 382r. and 382v., respectively, in the first of a series of three bulls concerning the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, (i. addressed to Peter Daubusson, master of the house or hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Cum debita; ii. Ad fut. rei mem. Et si magnis; and iii. Ad perp. rei mem. Super preeminentie), extending from f. 379r. to f. 391r., all dated 1479, Prid. Id. Nov. anno 9, and summarised in the rubricelle at the beginning of the Register as ‘Tres bulle successive super certis confirmationibus sice concessionibus, pro Petro Daubusson et religione sancti Johannis Jerosolimitani.’ The third contains, viz. on f. 390r., amongst a number of statutes dated in the chapter-general of the Hospitallers at Rhodes on 17 Nov. 1478, and confirmed by the pope, a statute against the misuse of the seal of the Hospitallers’ priories of England and Almain, providing for its being kept under the seals of the priors and four preceptors of the said priories chosen yearly in the provincial chapter, and its being used only in provincial chapters under proper safeguards.