Vatican Regesta 653: 1471-1473 | British History Online

Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1955.

'Vatican Regesta 653: 1471-1473', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 202-203. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp202-203 [accessed 25 April 2024]

Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCLIII.

Bullarum Communium Lib. CIII. Tom. CVIII.

1 Sixtus IV.



1471. Prid. Id. Oct. (14 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 13v.)	To William Eure, precentor of York, M.A. Grant, as below. Nicholas V dispensed him to hold for life with the parish church of Brompton in the diocese of York, any benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, and to resign or exchange them, etc. [Cal. Papal Lett., X. p. 53]; and Paul II dispensed him (after he had resigned Brompton, and had in virtue of the said dispensation obtained the precentorship of York, a non-major non-elective dignity with cure, as he alleged, and the parish church of Wirkyngton.’ in Cowplande, in the said diocese), to hold for life with the said precentorship and church of Wirkyngton’ (or if he resigned them, with two other incompatible benefices) any third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a major or principal dignity etc., and to resign or exchange such third benefice, etc., provided that he did not hold more than two parish churches and one major or principal dignity, or two such dignities and one parish church etc. At his recent petition (containing that the said precentorship has not cure of souls, that he obtained by canonical collation the parish church of Ledys in the said diocese, in virtue of the said last dispensation, before he had presented the letters thereof to the ordinary, and is still in possession), the pope hereby grants to him, who is of knightly birth, that the said later letters shall hold good from the date of these presents, as if it had been mentioned therein that the said precentorship was without cure, and as if he had obtained the said church of Ledys after presenting them to the ordinary, instead of before. Nobilitas generis, litterarum, etc. (In the margin: Oct.) [2²/3 pp.]

2 Sixtus IV.



[1472 Aug. 25–1473 Aug. 24.] St. Peter's, Rome. (fn. 1) (f. 35r.)	Ordinance, as below. The pope lately granted an indulgence in favour of the church of St. Andrews in Scotland (etc., as in the next following letter.) Seeing that the resources of the Roman church and the Camera are not enough to meet the cost of the defence of the Christian faith against the Turks, the pope hereby ordains that a third part of the alms arising from the said indulgence shall be devoted to the said Camera in aid of the crusade and the cost of the said defence, and shall be paid to the Camera or its collector etc. in those parts by the present archbishop of St. Andrews (who has consented) and by the archbishop for the time being. Ad fut. rei mem. Romana ecclesia. [1¼ pp.]
[1472 Aug. 25–1473 Aug. 24.] St. Peter's, Rome. (fn. 2) (f. 36r.)	Grant in perpetuity of plenary indulgence and remission of all their sins to all who, being truly penitent and having confessed, visit the church of St. Andrews in Scotland (which the present pope lately erected into the metropolitan church of all Scotland), on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel in September, from the first to the second vespers, and throughout the octave, every year for the next seven years, and thereafter every three years, the Jubilee year always excepted, and give alms for the conservation etc. of its buildings. If similar indulgence have been granted by the present pope, in perpetuity or for a time not yet expired, these presents shall be null and void. Univ. Christifidelibus … Romanus pontifex. [1 p. +]