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 676: 1480-1482', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 270-274. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp270-274 [accessed 25 April 2024]
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Vatican Regesta, Vol. DCLXXVI.
Liber Decimus Septimus Bullarum Diversarum.
9 Sixtus IV.
| 1480. Kal. April. (1 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 46r.) (fn. 1) |
To Anthony Seyntliger, clerk, of the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation for him, who is in or about his sixteenth year, is the illegitimate son of an unmarried nobleman and a married woman, and has been made a clerk, so that, after he has reached the lawful age, he may be promoted to all, even holy and priest's orders, and may from now onwards receive any compatible benefices, even if canonries and prebends, and, as soon as he attains his seventeenth year, any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible and any benefices with cure compatible with one another, even if such incompatible benefices be two parish churches, etc., and retain such incompatible benefices and benefices with cure in commendam until he reaches his twentieth year, and thereafter retain in titulum for life such benefices and those which he may now forthwith receive, and resign or exchange them all, etc. Vite etc. (In the margin: Mar.) [3 pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 47v.) |
To the wardens of the Mercers’ gild, London, (fn. 2) present and future. Indult for them and their wives, present and future, and for each of them and their said wives, to have a portable altar, on which they may have mass and other divine offices celebrated by their own or other fit priest, in the presence of themselves and their household servants. Sincere devocionis affectus. (In the margin: Mar.) [2/3 p.] |
10 Sixtus IV.
| 1480[–1]. Id. Feb. (13 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 132r.) |
To the dean of Emly (fn. 3) and Charles Macbryen, a canon of the same. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Philip Ykennedyg, (fn. 4) clerk, of the diocese of Killaloe, (fn. 5) contained that the fruits, etc. of the rectory of Dolud in the said diocese, which is annexed to the episcopal mensa, have been wont to be let to farm by the bishop, even to laymen, for long or short periods, and that on account of the diversity of such leases and of the lessees, (fn. 6) grave scandals, etc., arise and the said leases are harmful to the said church (of Killaloe). The pope, therefore, at the said petition, orders the above two, if they find (after proceeding in accordance with the letters of Paul II ‘Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Cum in omnibus judiciis sit rectitudo justicie etc.,’ ut in Paulina continetur), that it will be to the manifest benefit of the said rectory and mensa, to grant the said fruits, etc., to the said Philip for life under the wonted, and even, as he offers, a greater yearly cess. Ex iniuncto nobis. (In the margin: Fe.) [1¼ pp.] |
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9 Sixtus IV.
| 1480. Non. Aug. (5 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 156r.) |
Plenary indulgence in perpetuity of all their sins, in the hour of death only, to all who, being contrite and having confessed, depart this life within, or in the precincts of, the poor hospital which, with a chapel of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John Baptist, Alexander Hom, knight, lord of Hom and Dunglas’ in the diocese of St. Andrews, has built and endowed in the latter place, near the collegiate church which he had already built and endowed there to the praise and glory of Almighty God and the said Virgin for a provost and chaplains, which hospital the said Alexander proposes to enlarge, and to which both he and John Edwardi, provost of the said church, are singularly devoted; with ipso facto excommunication of all who hinder or disturb the said foundation, erection and endowment, or invade or misappropriate the possessions, etc., of the said hospital, etc. Ad perp. rei mem. Licet ex debito. (In the margin: Jul.) [2⅓ pp. Theiner, op. cit., p. 487.] |
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| 4 Kal. Aug. (29 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 213r.) |
To Robert Clyston (recte Clyfton) (fn. 7), canon of York. Grant and indult, as below. He was lately dispensed by the present pope to receive, as soon as he attained his nineteenth year, any benefice with cure, even if a parish church, etc., or an elective major or principal dignity, etc., and to retain the same for life, and resign or exchange it, etc. His recent petition contained that he obtained by collation made by authority of the ordinary, when he had attained the said year, a canonry of York and the prebend of Wistow (which, as some assert, requires priest's orders), and is at present in possession, but fears that the said letters do not apply thereto, inasmuch as they contain no mention that he could hold such a canonry and prebend. The pope, therefore, hereby grants that the said letters and their consequences shall hold good from the date of these presents, as if they had mentioned a canonry and prebend requiring holy and priest's orders, and further grants him indult so that he, who is in or about his twentieth year, and is in subdeacon's orders, may forthwith be promoted to deacon's and priest's orders by any catholic bishop in communion with the apostolic see, even extra tempora, notwithstanding the said defect of age, etc. Vite etc. (In the margin: Jul.) [2½ pp.] |
10 Sixtus IV.
| 1481. 7 Kal. June. (26 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 256r.) |
To the archbishop of York. Mandate to dispense Geoffrey Frank, layman, and Margaret Middelton, mulier, of his diocese, to marry, notwithstanding that they are related in the third and third degrees of affinity. Oblate nobis. (In the margin: Junij.) [1 p.] |
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| 1481. 3 Id. June. (11 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 262r.) |
To Andrew, bishop of Orkney (Ockaden., recte Orkaden.). Faculty, for two years from the date of the presentation to him of these presents, to dispense fifty men and as many women in the province of Scotland, notwithstanding that they are related in the simple or double or triple or quadruple third and fourth degrees of kindred or affinity, etc., (fn. 8) to marry, or, having married in ignorance or wittingly, to remain in their marriage, absolving from excommunication when incurred, etc., and decreeing past and future offspring legitimate. Personam tuam. (In the margin: Junij.) [1½ pp. Diplomatarium Norvegicum, Vol. XVII., p. 1086.] |
| Non. July. (7 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 267v.) |
To prior Thomas and the convent of St. Pancras's, Lewes, O. Clun., in the diocese of Chichester. Indult for the said prior and his successors to bless or consecrate chalices and ornaments for the use of divine worship in the said priory and its subject places, and to confer minor orders on the monks and novices dwelling in the said monastery and its subject priories, cells, etc. Exposcit vestre devocionis. (In the margin: Jul.) [1 p.] |
12 Sixtus IV.
10 Sixtus IV.
| 1480. 12 Kal. Nov. (21 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 317v.) |
To William Soldwyn, (? recte Goldwyn), clerk, of the diocese of London, M.A. Grant and indult for him (who is also a bachelor in medicine, and holds the chapels without cure called the wardenships of Winterborne Monketon and Tyndagell, in the dioceses of Salisbury and Exeter), to receive and retain for life with the said chapels or with any other benefices of like quality, or without them, any benefices without cure requiring anysoever holy orders, or requiring personal residence, and not to be bound on account thereof to be promoted to any of the said holy orders or to reside in person. Litterarum sciencia, vite etc. (In the margin: Oct.) [2 pp.] |
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| 1481. 4 Non. May. (4 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 351v.) |
Statute and decree, at the recent petition of the prioress and nuns of the monastery of Chestonte, O.S.B., in the diocese of London (containing that the bell-tower, houses and some of its buildings are threatened with ruin, and that its lands and possessions are at times so much flooded that they can hardly be cultivated), that all faithful, being penitent and having confessed, who on the first Sunday in Lent and the feasts of Whitsuntide and SS. Benedict and Giles, from the first vespers till sunset of the second vespers, visit their dependent chapel of St. Giles in the parish of Chestonte, and give alms for the repair and conservation of the said bell-tower, etc., and possessions, and for the purchase and maintenance of chalices, books, lights and other ecclesiastical ornaments, shall gain twenty years and as many quarantines of indulgence for each of the said feasts and days; with indult to the said prioress and nuns to appoint as many fit priests as they shall think good, who may hear the confessions of such faithful and absolve them from all their sins, except those on account of which the apostolic see has to be consulted, and enjoin penance, and may commute their vows of pilgrimage and abstinence, except only vows of pilgrimage over sea, SS. Peter and Paul and St. James in Compostella. If like indulgence, in perpetuity or for a time not yet elapsed, have been granted by the pope, these presents shall be null and void. Ad perpetuam (fn. 9)rei mem. Licet is. (In the margin: Aug.) [2½ pp.] |
11 Sixtus IV.
| 1481[–2]. Prid. Id. Jan. (12 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 432v.) |
To William Plummer, a canon of the priory of St. Mary, Buttele, O.S.A., in the diocese of Norwich. Grant, as below. He was lately dispensed by the present pope to receive and retain for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible wont to be held by secular clerks, even if parish churches, etc., even if of lay patronage, and even if in the gift of the prior of the above priory, and to resign or exchange them. His recent petition added that at the time of the pope's letters he was holding the rectory of Wyrlyngham Magna in the said diocese, provision of which had been made to him by authority of the ordinary, and that he fears lest the said letters be held to be surreptitious because no mention was made in them of the said rectory, which he still holds. The pope, therefore, hereby grants that the said dispensation and letters shall hold good from the date of these presents, as if the said mention had been made, and as if he had been dispensed by the said letters to receive and retain for life with the said rectory, or with any other benefices, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible or, without it, any two other benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, wont to be held by secular clerks. (fn. 10)Religionis zelus, vite etc. (In the margin: Ap.) [2 pp. +] |
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