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 677: 1476-1484', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 274-277. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp274-277 [accessed 25 April 2024]
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Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCLXXVII.
Liber Decimus Octavus Bullarum Diversarum.
13 Sixtus IV.
| 1483[–4]. 15 Kal. Mar. (16 Feb.) St. Peter's Rome. (f. 48r.) |
To Richard, king of England. Decree, etc., as below. The pope lately, motu proprio, (upon learning that the late king Edward, his brother and predecessor, desired Edward Pool, clerk, of the diocese of Norwich, his nephew on his sister's side, of a great race of dukes, and in a certain year of his age, to be elected and nominated as administrator of a cathedral church of the realm, so that when old enough he might be appointed bishop of the same), dispensed the said Edward, so that on the voidance of a cathedral church, even a metropolitan church, in the said realm or the dominions of the said king, he could at the nomination of the said king, after attaining his twelfth year, be elected and deputed administrator in spirituals and temporals by the chapter of such church; granted indult to the chapter to consent to the royal nomination, and dispensed the said Edward Pool, thus nominated and elected, to exercise such administration until his fourteenth year by deputy, and afterwards by himself, rule such church as administrator, and freely and lawfully dispose of its fruits, etc., after bearing its debts and its wonted burdens, as is more fully contained in the pope's letters to that effect. (fn. 1) The said king having died, and king Richard being moved by a like desire (the more so because the said Edward Pool, who is in like manner his nephew, is in or about his fifteenth year, and because after the said dispensation and grant no voidance of a cathedral church agreeable to king Edward occurred during his lifetime), the pope, seeing that king Richard ought to be honoured by no less papal privilege than his said brother, hereby decrees that the said letters shall serve him and his successors, as far as regards the said Edward Pool only, as if they had been granted to him and his said successors; provided, however, that within six months after such nomination the said Edward Pool shall be bound to send to the Roman court for confirmation of the said administration, and for dispensation and provision of his person to such church by the pope or his successors by the counsel of the cardinals in secret consistory, according to custom, and shall be bound to expedite all the apostolic letters, and pay the dues payable to the Camera, the common services of the college of cardinals, and the dues of any other persons; (fn. 2) if not, these presents shall be null and void, and the said Edward Pool shall be disabled from holding the said church. (fn. 3)Exigit tue magne devotionis affectus. (In the margin: Fe.) [2 pp.] |
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| 17 Kal. Feb. (16 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 49r.) |
To Thomas, prior of St. Mary's, Newstead (de Novoloco) in Shirwode, O.S.A., in the diocese of York. Dispensation and indult to receive and retain for life with the said priory, which is conventual, or with any other priory of the said or any other order, any benefice with or without cure, secular or regular of the said or any other order, even if such secular benefice be a parish church, etc., and such regular benefice be an elective provostship, priory, etc., namely, such regular benefice in titulum, or such regular benefice (not being a conventual dignity or a claustral office) in commendam, and to resign such benefice and his said priory, simply or for exchange, etc.; with mandate executory hereby to the archdeacon of Nottingham and the official of York. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (In the margin: Fe.) [3½ pp.+] |
| 4 Kal. Mar. (27 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 89v.) (fn. 4) |
Safe-conduct, to be valid for two years, for John Barre, perpetual vicar of Dunde in the diocese of Brechin, M.A., nuncio of the pope and the apostolic see to the realm of Scotland, and collector-general of the Camera in the said realm, a member of the pope's household, who is going on business of the pope to divers parts of the world; and for his retinue to the number of twelve. Univ. et sing …. Cum dilectus filius. |
| 1483. Id. Nov. (13 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 109v.) |
Decree, etc., as below. The recent petition of David Hugonis, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Cader in the diocese of Glasgow, M.A., contained that although he and the vicar for the time being have to support many burdens on account of the cure of souls of the said church and of a certain other church of the cure thereto, and although the fruits, etc. of the said vicarage and annexed church, not exceeding an annual value of 14l. sterling, are hardly enough for the support of the said burdens, nevertheless the present sub-dean of Glasgow, who receives about 60l. a year from the said church of Cader (which is annexed to the sub-deanery) extorts other 12 marks Scots a year, amounting to 3l. sterling, in virtue of an unjust imposition made by his predecessors against the statutes of the Lateran Council prohibiting new cesses to be imposed on churches, and old ones to be increased [Decretal. Gregor. IX. lib. III. tit. xxxix. De censibus, etc., cap. 7.] The pope, therefore, at the petition of the said David (who alleges that he cannot litigate with the said sub-dean, who has ordinary jurisdiction over him, is a counsellor of James, king of Scots, and is powerful in those parts), hereby decrees and declares that he and his successors are not bound to pay the said 12 marks, even in virtue of any bond made against the said statutes, except in so far as it shall be lawful; with inhibition to the present and future sub-deans, under pain of excommunication, to exact the said sum in future, etc. Ad perp. rei mem. Decet Romanum pontificem. (In the margin: Jan.) [1¾ pp.] |
| 1483[–4]. Prid. Non. Mar. (6 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 183v.) |
Monition, etc., as below. On the voidance of the church of Dunkeld by the death of James without the Roman court, during whose lifetime the provision had been specially reserved by the present pope, he made provision thereof to George Broun, chancellor of Aberdeen, M.A. The said George fearing lest Alexander Ynglis, dean of the said church of Dunkeld, whom the chapter elected bishop against the said reservation, may behave as bishop elect and detain the rule and administration, and lest the chapter and the clergy, people and vassals may hold Alexander to be bishop elect, and refuse obedience, etc. to George, the pope hereby, motu proprio, monishes and orders the said Alexander and chapter, and the other clergy of the cathedral and the city and diocese, lay persons, etc., under pain of excommunication, anathema, deprivation, interdict, etc., namely, Alexander not to behave as bishop elect, and the others not to hold him as such, but within six days to admit George to possession of the rule and administration, and obey him as their bishop, etc. Ad fut. rei mem. Officii nostri debitum. (In the margin: Fe.) [6½ pp.] |
| 1484. 15 Kal. May. (17 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 263r.) |
To the bishop of Worcester. Mandate to dispense John Gyse, layman, and Anne Berkeley, mulier, of his diocese, to remain in the marriage which they contracted and solemnized before the church, in ignorance that they were related in the second degree of affinity because Eleanor, John's first wife, was related to Anne in the second degree of kindred, decreeing legitimate the offspring to be born of the said marriage. Oblate nobis. [1 p.+] |