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Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1915.

'Vatican Regesta 431: 1451-1452', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, (London, 1915) pp. 266-268. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp266-268 [accessed 22 April 2024]

Vatican Regesta. Vol. CCCCXXXI. (fn. 2)

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1452. Id. July. (15 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 23d.)	To the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Mary, Derokesbury (sic), in the diocese of Worcester. Licence, seeing that on account of pestilences, death and old age, there remain few monks in priest's orders in the said monastery, and that monks, being priests, of the said order are not easily to be had from elsewhere, for him and his successors to dispense six of its monks, who have attained their twenty-second year, to be, as often as opportune, promoted to the priesthood by any catholic bishop, and thereafter to exercise the ministry of the altar, even in the said year. Apostolice sedis gratiosa. (Pe. de Noxeto. \| lx. L. de Castiliono. L. de Narnia.) [In the margin. Fe(bruarii).]

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1454. Kal. Oct. (1 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 26.)	To John, bishop of Penne, residing in the Roman court. Mandate to receive from Duncan Lychton his proposed resignation of his perpetual vicarage of Junironry (rectius Inuiroury) in the diocese of Aberdeen, and to collate and assign it, value not exceeding 9l. sterling, to John Colston, clerk, of the diocese of Whiteherne, M.A., who was lately dispensed by papal authority, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, and who has had himself made a clerk. Litterarum etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. \| xxii. Pe. de Legendorff. Jo. de Cremonen(sibus). B. de Brendis.) [1¾ pp. In the margin: Oct(obris).]
1454[–5]. Kal. Feb. (1 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 62.)	To the prior and convent of the Augustinian priory of Combewell’ in the diocese of Canterbury. Confirmation, as below. Their recent petition contained that the late John, bishop of St. Rufina's, then in the realm of England legatus [natus] of the apostolic see, and holding the church of Canterbury by grant and dispensation of the said see (being informed that the fruits etc. of the parish church of Aldyngton in the diocese of Canterbury were too slender, not exceeding a yearly value of 6 marks sterling, for the maintenance etc. of the perpetual vicar, and that the said church and that of Torneham in the same diocese, both of which are possessed by the said abbot and convent to their own uses, were so near that the parishioners of both could conveniently go for divine offices and the sacraments to one of them), united them, and decreed that they should be governed by one perpetual vicar, to be instituted at their presentation etc. The pope hereby confirms the said union and decree. Sacre religionis. (P[e]. de Noxeto. \| [No fee.] C. Fidelis.) [1¼ pp.]

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1450[–1]. 4 Id. Feb. (10 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 88d.)	To the bishops of Moray and Dunkeld and the official of St. Andrews. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Laurence Piot, archdeacon of Aberdeen, M.A., contained that after he had been dispensed by papal authority to receive and hold for life two incompatible benefices, and had obtained the archdeaconry of Aberdeen, which is a dignity with cure, and the parish church of Benhame in the diocese of St. Andrews, and had held them together for some time under the said dispensation, he got collation and provision made to him by authority of the ordinary of the precentorship (cantoria) of Moray, a non-major dignity with cure, but in order that no prejudice might be caused in regard to his retention of the said archdeaconry and church by his obtaining possession of the said precentorship, he put off the said obtaining possession for more than eight months, and abstained from taking the fruits of the precentorship, taking meanwhile however those of the said archdeaconry and church; and that subsequently, namely within twenty days after the lapse of the said time, he resigned the said parish church to Thomas Edinhame, a canon of Aberdeen, empowered for the purpose by James, bishop of St. Andrews, which canon, in virtue of the said power, made collation and provision thereof, thus void, to John Russel, priest, of the said diocese, who obtained and still holds possession. Seeing that the said John proposes to resign, the pope hereby declares that no disability or penalty of deprivation was incurred on account of the aforesaid by the said Laurence, who is a kinsman of divers nobles and barons of Scotland, and on behalf of whom the said bishop James, by whom he is well beloved, has also petitioned; and orders the above to receive and admit the said resignation, and to collate and assign the said church, value not exceeding 30l. sterling, to Laurence, whom the pope hereby dispenses to hold for seven years the said church, if he obtain it under these presents, or without it any other third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if another parish church etc., together with the said archdeaconry and precentorship or with any other two incompatible benefices, and to resign the said church or such other third incompatible benefice as often as he pleases, simply or for exchange, etc. Litterarum etc. (Pe. de Noxeto. \| xxxxvi. L. de Castiliono. Ja. de Viterbio.) [4 pp. In the margin: Jan(uarii).