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4 Non. Feb.
Avignon.
(f. 102.) |
To the archbishops of Canterbury and York and their suffragans, and to the prelates and other clergy, secular and regular of those provinces. Mandate to pay a tenth of all ecclesiastical revenues, one half on the feast of St. John the Baptist, and the other one that of Christmas next ensuing, except from cardinals and from the Cistercian order which is offering a subsidy, [30,000 gold florins. Reg. cclxxxvi. f. 150.] The pope recapitulates. Lately he imposed certain subsidies in France, Spain, Almain, and other parts, in aid of the expenses of the pope and the Roman church in recovering their property and rights in Italy, and upon the clergy of England, who abound in revenues, a tenth of one year's benefices, to be paid one half at Easter, the other at Michaelmas; and whereas the clergy of England, in a like case, paid to the camera of Innocent VI. a subsidy of 100,000 gold florins, and whereas the tenth might come to a larger sum, the pope was willing to accept that amount, payable at the same dates, in place of the tenth. But as he has since heard that his letters touching the same have not been suffered to reach England, probably by those who did not wish to pay tenth or subsidy, he now orders anew the payment of the tenth, which is to be collected under pain of excommunication by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, each in his province. The archbishop of York is to hand over the proceeds of the tenth in his province to the archbishop of Canterbury, who is more conveniently situated for assigning the whole amount to the papal agents, Nicholas Luce, Rayner Dominici, and others, proctors and factors of Nicholas Jacobi and Bernard Nerotii, of the ancient Alberti of Florence, who have power to receive and give acquittance for the same at Bruges. Faculty is given to the archbishops to compel payment, if need be, by citation to the Roman Court; and the pope will still be content with the subsidy of 100,000 florins, if it be paid on the aforesaid days, in which case the directions touching the tenth will be superseded. These letters are to be posted on the doors of the churches at Avignon and in the parts near England, so that no pretence of ignorance can be made. [As below, Reg. cclxxvi. f. 20d. See Reg. cclxiv.ff. 37d. to 43.] |
16 Kal. March.
Avignon.
(f. 104.) |
To prelates and clergy, secular and regular. Mandate to publish the above letters. [Ibid. f. 17d.] |
8 Kal. May.
Avignon.
(f. 123d.) |
To Simon, cardinal of St. Sixtus, papal nuncio. Faculty to confer the office of notary in France and England on fifteen persons, married or in holy orders, who are to take the usual oath of fealty to the pope, as enclosed. |
Ibid.
(f. 124.) |
To the same. Faculty to dispense in France and England twelve persons of illegitimate birth to be ordained and hold one benefice with cure of souls. |
17 Kal. Oct.
Villeneuve by
Avignon.
(f. 158d.) |
To John, cardinal of Sancti Quatnor Coronati, papal nuncio. Mandate to do his best to induce Charles, king of the French, and Edward, king of England, and their adherents, to make peace; with faculty to dissolve all oaths and obligations which stand in the way. The pope commends his devotion in the cause of peace, and informs him of the mission of Pileus, archbishop of Ravenna, and William, bishop of Carpentras, for the same purpose. |
12 Kal. Oct.
Villeneuve by
Avignon.
(f. 160.) |
To William, bishop of Carpentras, papal nuncio. Faculty to exercise ecclesiastical censure against those who injure him or members of his household during his mission to France and England. |
Ibid.
(f. 160d.) |
To Pileus, archbishop of Ravenna, papal nuncio. The like. |
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Ibid. |
To William, bishop of Carpentras, papal nuncio. Grant, during his mission to France and England, of the same powers and faculties which were conferred upon him on the occasion of his late mission to those realms. |
