Lateran Regesta 479: 1452 | British History Online

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

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, 'Lateran Regesta 479: 1452', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 10, 1447-1455, (London, 1915) pp. 587-594. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol10/pp587-594 [accessed 1 June 2024].

Lateran Regesta. Vol. CCCCLXXIX (fn. 1).

6 Nicholas V.

De Dignitatibus Vacantibus.



1452. Kal. April. (1 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 1.)	To the abbot of Holycross (Sancte Crucis) de Woterlauyn, the abbot of Hore abbey (de Rupe), and the prior of Adtassel, in the diocese of Cashel. Mandate (the pope having been informed by James Calfe, priest, of the diocese of Cashel, that John [O]hedian, chancellor of Cashel, priest, has dilapidated, alienated and uselessly consumed the possessions of the chancellorship and, being a public and notorious fornicator, has committed perjury, and is greatly defamed of these things in those parts) if and after James (all of whose benefices and their values and his dispensations the pope holds to be expressed by those presents) accuses John before the above three, to summon him, and if they find the foregoing to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to collate and assign the chancellorship, a nonmajor, non-elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 6 marks sterling, to James. Vite etc. (P. and G. Gonne. \| P. xxv. Quartodecimo Kal. Maii Anno Sexto. de Varris.) [3 pp.]
7 Id. May. (9 May.) S. Maria Maggiore, Rome. (f. 13d.)	To the abbot of St. Mary's, Inishlounaght (de Surio) and the prior of Athessill, in the dioceses of Lismore and Cashel, and the vidame of Reims. Mandate to collate and assign to John Whyte, priest, of the diocese of Lismore, the chancellorship of Lismore, a non-major, non-elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 15 marks sterling, so long void by the death of Paul Keting that by the Lateran statutes its collation has lapsed to the apostolic see. Vite etc. (T. and Nicasius. \| T. xx. Decimoseptimo Kal. Junii Anno Sexto. de Tervisio.) [2 pp.—.]
13 Id. May. (13 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 18.)	To the prior of Ichesill (rectius Ithesill, i.e. Athesill) in the diocese of Cashel. Mandate to reserve to his gift, for collation to Cornelius Omokom, a canon of Cashel, and upon its becoming void to collate and assign to him (all of whose benefices and their values and his dispensations the pope holds sufficiently expressed by these presents) the deanery of Cashel, a major elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 20 marks sterling, which is to become void by the promotion, recently made by the present pope, of John elect of Cashel to that church, and by his consecration which is to be administered to him. Dignum etc. (T. and G. Gonne. \| T. xxx. Octavo Id. Maii Anno Sexto. de Tervisio.) [3 pp.]
5 Non. May. (3 May.) S. Maria Maggiore, Rome. (f. 32.)	To the bishop of St. Andrews. Mandate to reserve to his gift, for collation to Walter Stewart, a canon of Glasgow, I.U.B., who is by both parents of a race of barons, and all of whose benefices and their values and his dispensations the pope holds to be expressed by these presents, and to collate and assign to him, on its becoming void, the chancellorship of Brechin, a non-major, non-elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 15l. sterling, to become void by the terms of the provision which the pope has this day ordered to be made to David de Crannoch of the deanery of the same church [see the next following mandate]. Dignum etc. (A. and G. Gonne. \| A. xxii. Quinto Id. Maii Anno Sexto. de Feletis.) [2⅓ pp.]
Ibid. (f. 33.)	To the same. Mandate to collate and assign to David de Crannoch, chancellor of Brechin, M.A. (all of whose benefices and their values and his dispensations the pope holds to be expressed by these presents, and whom he hereby absolves from all sentences of excommunication etc., as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents) the deanery of the said church, a major elective dignity with cure, value not exceeding 30l. sterling, void by the death of John Lychton, and reserved under the pope's late reservation of all major dignities in cathedral churches, void and to be void, and to induct him, after receiving from him the usual oath of fealty according to the form enclosed. Upon obtaining possession he is, as he has offered, to resign the said chancellorship, value not exceeding 15l. sterling. Dignum etc. (A. and G. Gonne. \| A. xxviii. Quinto Id. Maii Anno Sexto. de Feletis.) [2²/3 pp. See the preceding mandate.]
Prid. Kal. Oct. (30 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 64.)	To the abbot of Lisgobail in the diocese of Clogher, and William Magugyr and Thomas Ocarbri, canons of Clogher. Mandate (the pope having been informed by Raymund Offlannagan, clerk, of the diocese of Clogher, that John Machamayl, archdeacon of Clogher, has committed perjury and, being a public and notorious fornicator, has dilapidated and alienated and uselessly consumed the possessions of his archdeaconry, and is greatly defamed of these and divers other excesses and crimes perpetrated by him, to the shame of the clerical order) if and after Raymund, who is of a race of dukes and in about his twenty-fourth year, and has studied canon law for several years in the universities of Oxford and Bologna, and intends to study in future in the same faculty, and who was lately dispensed by papal authority, on account of illegitimacy as the son of a priest, a religious professed of the order of St. Augustine, and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he had himself made a clerk, and whom the pope hereby absolves from all sentences of excommunication etc., as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents) accuses John before the above three, to summon him, and if they find the above to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to collate and assign the said archdeaconry, a major dignity with cure, value not exceeding 12 marks sterling, to Raymund; notwithstanding that the present pope lately granted him provision of the rectory of Ynismagisam in the said diocese, value not exceeding 4 marks sterling. He is hereby dispensed, notwithstanding the said defects of age and birth, to receive and retain the archdeaconry, upon obtaining which the said grant shall be null and void. Vite etc. (P. and G. Gonne. \| P. xx. Residuum pro deo pro medietate. Septimo Kal. Novembris Anno Sexto. de Varris.) [3¼ pp.]

De Regularibus.



8 Id. July. (8 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 100.)	To the abbot of St. [M]ary's, Cong (de Cunga), in the diocese of Tuam. Mandate (the pope having been informed by Malachy Occaruayll, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of St Mary, Knockmoy (Collis victorie), in the diocese of Tuam, that Malachy Occallyd, abbot thereof, has committed simony and dilapidated, alienated and uselessly consumed the possessions thereof, publicly kept a concubine, and is greatly defamed about these things in those parts) if and after the said Malachy Ycaruayll, who is a priest, and whom the pope hereby absolves from all sentences of excommunication etc. and dispenses on account of irregularity contracted by celebrating masses etc. when under such sentences, and rehabilitates, as far only as regards the taking effect of these presents) accuses abbot Malachy before the above abbot, to summon him, and if he find the foregoing to be true, to deprive and remove him, and in that event to make provision of the said abbey, value not exceeding 35 marks sterling, to the said Malachy Occaruayll; whether it become void by such deprivation, or be void by the death of the late Cornelius Meiccagayn or Donald Ymureayg, monks of the said order, or in any other way, and to grant that he may be blessed by any catholic bishop. Ex suscepte servitutis. (P. and G. Gonne. \| P. xxxxv. de Varris.) [3 pp.—.]
3 Non. Oct. (5 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 144d.)	To William Lacche, John Howe and William Clyff, monks of the Benedictine monastery of Tavystoke in the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to them, who are in their nineteenth or twentieth year, to be, as soon as they reach their twentysecond year, promoted to the priesthood at the statutory times, and minister therein; there being so few monks in their monastery in priest's orders that mass can hardly be celebrated. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (A. and Nicasius. \| An. xxx. de Feletis.) [⁴/5 p.]
3 Non. Aug. (3 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 150d.)	To Vincent Clementis, provost of the church of Valencia (Valentin.), dwelling in the realm of England. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of the prioress and nuns of the Benedictine priory of Redelyngfeld, in the diocese of Norwich, contained that Thomas bishop of Norwich (upon visiting the priory, and finding its books according to the Use of the said Order so irreparably broken with age that it was no longer possible to officiate with them, especially according to the said Use, and there being few or no books according to the Use of the said Order to be found for sale in those parts, and the means of the priory not sufficing to buy such) decreed and ordained that thenceforward in perpetuity divine service in the said priory should be said and done according to the Use of Salisbury; and added that they have already acquired by the liberality of the faithful some books according to the Use of the said church, have begun to say the hours according to the said Use, and desire to observe it. The pope therefore orders the above provost, if he find that the said decree and ordinance proceeded from the said causes, to confirm them, and decree that the prioress and nuns may and shall in future, in saying the canonical hours, observe the Use of Salisbury, and not be bound against their will to observe the Use of the said Order or any other Use. Sedis apostolice circumspecta benignitas. (P. and Nicasius. \| P. xxvi. de Varris.) [1½ pp.]
Non. Dec. (5 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 211d.)	To William Canterbery, canon of the Augustinian monastery of St. Gregory without the walls of Canterbury. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth, to receive and hold a benefice with cure, wont to be held by secular clerks. Religionis etc. (P and A. [de] Cortesiis. \| P. xxv. de Varris.) [¾ p.]
4 Id. June. (10 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 220.)	To Richard Ewen, a canon of London (Lo[n]doniensis). Mandate, as below. The recent petition of William Walsh, claustral prior of the monastery of St. Peter, Westminster, of the order of St. Benedict, in the diocese of London, contained that formerly abbot Edmund and the convent, in consideration of his divers infirmities etc., granted to him the room [in] the infirmary which Richard Birlyngh[a]m, a monk of the said [monastery and] order, had shortly before had and occupied, a certain parcel of ground in the old cemetery of the brethren of the monastery, 52 feet long and 44 feet wide, with free ingress and exit for him and his servants for life into the said room through the cloister of the said infirmary and through the said room into the said parcel of ground, and not from elsewhere (et non aliunde), so that the said parcel of ground should be closed and separated from the remaining parcel of ground of the said cemetery by a wall of stone or wood, without door or exit into the said remaining parcel of ground, such wall to be made at William's expense; that he should have licence to choose one of the monks of the monastery to say the divine [offices] at fit times and for his consolation at table, licence of the abbot or prior having been asked, not to be refused to him without reasonable cause; that they gave to him, with the consent of all the chapter, for his necessary and honest subsistence a certain corrody to be received daily, to wit, double commons of the better bread and better beer of the convent and the better dishes of the convent kitchen as served to the superior in the refectory, with other pittances of the officers belonging or in any way accruing to the rest of the brethren at divers times of the year, also all participations arising therefrom or [in any way] accruing to the rest of the brethren yearly, like the participation of one of the senior brethren of the monastery, certain pounds of candles to be received yearly from the sacrist and infirmarian of the monastery, as a senior monk received in the infirmary and was wont by ancient custom to receive; also a yearly pension of 12l. of lawful money of England to be paid and received yearly from the said abbot and monastery through the farmers and collectors for the time being of the rents of the manors of Hampste[d] and Hendon, to be paid at the four principal terms of the year, namely Easter, the Nativity of St. John Baptist, Michaelmas and Christmas, in equal portions, together with 600 faggots and 13 quarters of coals yearly to be delivered by the said farmers to the said William at the gate below the tower which belongs to the treasury of the monastery where other faggots were delivered for the said infirmary, and that in the week next before the feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist; the said William to have and receive the said corrody and all the things named and specified above for life, without let or hindrance of the said abbot or his successors; certain agreements and conditions being added, as is said to be more fully contained in certain authentic letters, sealed with the seals of the said abbot and convent (fn. 2). The pope therefore, at William's said petition, orders the above canon to summon the said abbot and convent and others concerned, and if he find the above lawful, to confirm the said grants etc. by papal authority. Ex apostolice nobis desuper iniuncte. (P. and B. de Monte. \| P. xxx. de Varris.) [2 pp.—.]
1452. 5 Kal. July. (27 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 222d.)	To Nicholas Uptoni, a monk of the Benedictine monastery of SS. Mary and Kenelm, Wynchecombe, in the diocese of Worcester. Dispensation, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of a married man and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold any benefice with or without cure, wont to be governed by monks of the said or other monastery of his order, even if a priory etc., and to be appointed to the abbatial dignity. Religionis etc. (A. and A. de Cortesiis. \| A. xl. de Feletis.) [1 p. +.]
Ibid. (f. 223.)	To Henry Stauntoni, a monk of the same. Dispensation to him, who is a neif, the son of neifs of the above monastery (fn. 3), to be promoted … as in the preceding. Religionis etc. … Feletis), as ibid. [1 p. +.]

8 Nicholas V.



1454. 7 Kal. July (fn. 4). (25 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 232.)	To the abbot of Evesham in the diocese of Worcester. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of the abbot and convent of the Benedictine monastery of Tewkesbrieu in the diocese of Worcester contained that in its church or cemetery are buried the bodies of its founders and other lords, for whose souls (fn. 5) the abbot and monks are bound to celebrate sive [aliquo modo] acciderent ceteris fratribus annuatim, prout participabatur (substituted by ‘P.’ in the margin for ‘participatur,’ cancelled and overwritten P[etru]s) uni fratrum seruorum (rectius seniorum) eiusdem monasterii, certasque libras candellarum recipiendas annuatim a sacrista et infirmario ipsius monasterii, prout unus senex stagiarius existens in infirmaria percipiebat et ex antiqua consuetudine percipere consueverat, preterea quandam annuam pensionem duodecim librarum legalis monete Anglie solvendam et percipiendam ab abbate et monasterio huiusmodi annuatim per manus firmariorum et col[l]ectorum reddituum maneriorum de Nampste et Nendon (rectius Hampste[d] et Hendon) pro tempore existencium ad quatuor anni terminos principales, videlicet in festis Pasce … et Natalis Domini per equales porciones, unacum sex[c]entis fagetis et tridecim (sic) quartis carbonum annuatim deferendis et liberandis per manus firmariorum antedictorum eidem Wilhelmo ad portam sub turre pertinente ad officium thesaurarie dicti monasterii ubi alie fagete liberabantur ad officium infirmarie predicte, et hoc infra septimanam proximam ante feslum Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste annuatim, habendis [sic] et percipiendis [sic] predictum corrodium cum omnibus et singulis supperius (sic) nominatis et specificatis ipsi Withelmo ad terminum vite sue sine aliqua contradicione (sic) vel impedimento dicti abbalis vel successorum suorum, cum certis paclis modis et condicionibus adiectis, libere concesserunt et indulserunt, ac illa sic observari voluerunt, prout in quibusdam litteris auctenticis desuper confectis sigillis ipsorum abbatis et conventus munitis dicitur plenius contineri. Quare pro parte dicti Wilhelmi nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum ut … daily the offices of the dead (exequias defunctorum) and other divine offices and masses, even with music (etiam per notam), that the fruits etc. given to them for the support of the said burdens are, on account of wars and other chances, very much diminished, and that the late Henry, sometime duke of Warwick, whose progenitors founded and endowed the monastery, and Cecily his wife, whose bodies are buried therein, willed and desired offices for the dead, anniversaries and daily masses (exequias anniversaria et missas cotidianas) to be daily celebrated in the monastery for their souls and the souls of all faithful departed, and to that effect desired the parish church of Schereston in the diocese of Salisbury, which was of their patronage, to be united in perpetuity to the monastery, and with that intention granted the patronage to the abbot and convent. At the said petition, alleging that the fruits etc. do not exceed a yearly value of 40 (fn. 6) marks sterling, and that Richard earl of Warwick, the successor of the said patrons, has consented to the making of the said union, the pope, willing the value of the monastery to be as if expressed by these presents, orders the above abbot, if he find the foregoing to be true, to appropriate, with consent of the said earl, the said church in perpetuity to the monastery, first however reserving a fit portion from its fruits etc. for a perpetual vicar to be instituted by authority of the ordinary, so that on the death or resignation of the rector the abbot and convent may take possession of the said church etc. Ammonet nos suscepti. (P. and A. [de] Cortesiis. P xxx. de Varris.) [3¹/5 pp.]

6 Nicholas V (cont.).



1452. 15 Kal. Aug. (18 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 233d.)	To Malachy Ymelriayn [cf. Omukiayn below, Reg. CCCCLXXX, f. 3], a monk of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary, Abington (de Wothynia), in the diocese of Emly. Grant as below. The present pope recently ordered provision to be made to him of the said monastery, upon its becoming void by the deprivation and removal, to be made by papal authority, of Richard Symur, (fn. 7), abbot thereof, for his faults and demerits, a certain executor being deputed for the purpose, as is more fully contained in the letters of the pope [below, loc. cit.] in which it is stated that the fruits etc. do not exceed a yearly value of 30 marks sterling, and towards the execution of which letters proceedings have not yet been taken. At the said Malachy's recent petition, containing that some allege that the said fruits etc. are worth more, although in reality, after its debts and wonted burdens have been borne, they do not exceed a yearly value of 35 marks sterling, the pope, in order that the said letters may not be held surreptitious, and that Malachy may not be deprived of their effect, grants that they shall hold good from the date of these presents, and that the said executor may proceed to their entire execution etc., as if it had been mentioned therein that the said value, after the said debts and burdens had been borne, did not exceed the said 35 marks sterling. Ex apostolice nobis desuper iniuncte. (A. and G. Gonne. \| A. xiiii. Quinto Kal. Augusti Anno Sexto. de Feletis.) [2 pp.]
11 Kal. Dec. (21 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 243.)	To the official of Lincoln. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Henry Grymsby, a canon of the monastery. of Thorniton, of the order of canons regular of St. Augustine, in the diocese of Lincoln, contained that lately, upon its being falsely alleged that he had uttered certain slanderous words against William, abbot of the said monastery, and was therefore defamed (fn. 8), the said abbot brought him, not by papal delegation, before the official of the archdeacon of Lincoln, to which archdeacon belongs by ancient custom the cognizance of such causes; and that the said official, wrongfully (perperam) proceeding in the cause, promulgated an unjust definitive sentence, which became a res judicata, by which he declared Henry to be defamed and to be deprived of the canonical portions and privileges etc. enjoyed by canons of the said monastery. At the said petition, adding that Henry, in ignorance of the law, did not appeal from the said sentence, and that he did not utter the said words and is ready to prove his innocence, the pope hereby orders the above official of Lincoln to summon the said abbot and others concerned, and if Henry proves his innocence before the said official of Lincoln, and he be found innocent, to restore him to his pristine state etc. Humilibus et honestis supplicum. (T. and A. de Courtesiis [sic]. \| T. xii. de Tervisio.) [1½pp.]