Vatican Regesta 654: 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.

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'Vatican Regesta 654: 1473', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 203-206. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp203-206 [accessed 11 May 2024].

Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCLIV.

Bullarum Communium Lib. 103 [sic] Tom. 108 [sic].

2 Sixtus IV.



1472[–3]. 13 Kal. March. (17 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 100r.)	To Patrick, archbishop of St. Andrews, nuncio of the pope and the apostolic see to the realm of Scotland and to the cities, places and members thereof. Appointing him nuncio (as in the address), with the power of a legate de latere, and with the mission of obtaining help, with the assistance of James, king of Scotland, (fn. 1) and the prelates and other princes of the realm, against the Turks, which was the pope's first thought after his accession, following the example of Nicholas V, Calixtus III, Pius II, and Paul II; with full faculty and power to carry out his mission, and mandate to all and singular to assist him, etc. Cum primum fuimus. [1²/3 pp.]
Ibid. (f. 100v.)	To the same. Faculty and power for him (who intends to return to his church of St. Andrews, recently erected by the pope, at his instance, (fn. 2) into a metropolitan church, and whom the pope has appointed as his nuncio, principally to James king of Scotland, (fn. 3) for the above-mentioned purpose, the pope's intention being to prosecute the Crusade undertaken by Pius II against the Turks), to impose anew the tenth which was imposed by his said predecessor on the clergy of the said realm, etc., [see Cal. Papal Lett., XII., pp. 401–3], exact, levy, collect and receive it, and give acquittances for what he receives, etc.; with the usual powers to compel payment, as provided in the letters of pope Pius, etc. Quia pro sacra expeditione. [3 pp.]
Ibid. (f. 102v.)	To Patrick, archbishop of St. Andrews, collector in the realm of Scotland throughout the lands, cities and places subject to James, king of Scotland, (fn. 3) and nuncio of the pope and the apostolic see. Appointment as nuncio, etc., as below. Following in the footsteps of his predecessors Eugenius IV, Nicholas V, Calixtus III, Pius II and Paul II against the Turks, the pope is bound to stir up Christian princes and peoples to resist, and, inasmuch as the cause is common to all, the help of all Christians is needful, especially seeing that the resources of the Roman church are not enough for so great a war. He, therefore, hereby appoints the above archbishop nuncio of the pope and the apostolic see and collector-general throughout the lands, cities and places subject to James king of Scotland, (fn. 3) for the purpose of publishing and preaching etc. therein the crusade against the Turks and the plenary indulgences which the pope has granted; with the necessary faculties and powers. Nonnullis iam elapsis annis. [3¾ pp.]
Ibid. (f. 104r.)	Indult (setting forth in detail the conquests and ravages of the Turks, their continued invasion of Christendom, and the need of a united effort to withstand their advance), to all those in the lands etc. subject to James king of Scotland (fn. 3) (in which Patrick, archbishop of St. Andrews, has been appointed nuncio and collector), who, being penitent and having confessed, contribute for the defence of Christendon five gold florins of the Camera or four, three, two, one, or half a florin, or the value thereof, or less than half a florin, according to their means, to choose their confessor who, after hearing their confessions, may absolve them from excommunication, etc., dispense them on account of irregularity (except in cases of wilful murder (fn. 4) and bigamy), and rehabilitate them, grant them plenary absolution and remission of all their sins, etc., even in cases specially reserved to the pope and the apostolic see, once in life and once in the hour of death, and commute any their vows, except those of [pilgrimage to] Jerusalem, chastity and religion; with mandate hereby to all clergy to publish these presents, even in the vulgar [tongue], and other letters granted to the said nuncio to the same effect, or notarial copies thereof, when required by him to do so. Ad apicem apostolatus. [3¾ pp.]
1472[–3]. Ibid. (f. 106r.)	To Patrick, archbishop of St. Andrews, collector of the Camera in the realm of Scotland and the cities and dioceses thereof, nuncio of the pope and the apostolic see. Appointing him, during the pleasure of the pope and the apostolic see, nuncio of [the pope and] the apostolic see and collector-general of the Camera in the realm of Scotland and the cities and dioceses thereof, all other collectors etc. and commissions being hereby revoked; with faculty to exact, levy, receive and recover all money etc. due and to be due to the pope, the Roman church and the Camera, common and minute services alone excepted, and give receipts, audit the accounts of former collectors etc., proceeding if necessary, by ecclesiastical censure, sequestration of goods, arrest of persons etc., without appeal, and by excommunication, etc., and citation before the pope or his chamberlain or vice-chamberlain, and invoking, if necessary, the aid of the secular arm, etc. He is to appoint not more than one sub-collector for each city and diocese, if large, or one for each two, if small, etc., render his accounts every two years, send his receipts by letters of exchange or other safe means to the pope or the chamberlain or the officers of the Camera, take the usual oath of office to Latinus, bishop of Tusculum, the pope's chamberlain, and receive a like oath from his sub-collectors. Ex fideli ac solerti. (In the margin: Collectoria.) [3½ pp.]
Ibid. (f. 108r.)	To Patrick, archbishop of St. Andrews, nuncio of the pope and the apostolic see in the realm of Scotland and the cities and places thereof. Faculty to make collation and provision of all benefices with and without cure, void and to be void by resignation or death, provided that at the time of such collations or provisions they be not generally reserved to the apostolic see, etc. Benefices incompatible with benefices so collated are to be resigned, and he is to certify the Camera within eight months of the names and values of benefices so collated and the names of the collatees, and within a further two months is to pay to the Camera the respective annates. Cum te ad regnum Scotie. [2 pp. +]
Ibid. (f. 109r.)	To the same. Faculty to dispense a hundred persons on account of any kind of illegitimacy, to be promoted to all, even holy orders, and hold one, two, three and four compatible benefices with or without cure, even if canonries and prebends in collegiate churches, and resign or exchange them as often as they please. Cum te etc., as in the preceding. [¾ p.]
Ibid. (f. 109v.)	To the same. Faculty and power to visit and reform, etc., all monasteries, exempt and not exempt, and their members, except only those of the mendicant orders. Cum te etc. [²/3 p.]
Ibid. (f. 110r.)	To the same. Faculty to dispense a hundred men and women related in the simple third and the third and third, and the simple fourth, and the fourth and fourth degrees of kindred and affinity, to marry, or, in the case of those who have married, to contract anew and remain in their marriages, after absolving from excommunication those who have done so wittingly, and enjoining penance, and after temporary separation; decreeing past and future offspring legitimate. He is to make a money composition with such persons for the preparing of a fleet against the Turks, and send such money to the Camera within six months after the dispensation. Cum te etc. [1¼ pp.]
Ibid. (f. 110v.)	To the same. Faculty to grant indult to fifty persons to choose their confessors, who may grant them absolution for their sins, except in cases reserved to the apostolic see, enjoining penance, and commute their vows of pilgrimage and abstinence, except those of pilgrimage to the Holy Land and those of SS. Peter and Paul [Rome] and St. James [in Compostella]. Cum te etc. [½ p.]
Ibid. (f. 111r.)	To the same. Faculty to confer the office of notary public on a hundred persons, even if married or in holy orders; with the form of oath of fealty to be taken by them. (fn. 5)Cum te etc. [1⅓ pp.]