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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'Lateran Regesta 777: 1476-1477', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 578-584. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp578-584 [accessed 25 April 2024]
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Lateran Regesta, Vol. DCCLXXVII. (fn. 1)
6 Sixtus IV.
De Diversis.
| 1477. Non. June. (5 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 31r.) |
To the archbishop of York and the prior of St. Andrews without the walls of York. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of the inhabitants of the vill of the hamlet (fn. 2) of Ratsey in the diocese of York contained that although they are parishoners of the parish church of Hiwton Cranswyk in the said diocese, which is united to the Gilbertine priory of Waton in the said diocese, they cannot for certain reasons go to the said church without bodily peril, wherefore their children sometimes die without baptism and others of the said inhabitants without the Eucharist, and few of them are well instructed in the catholic faith. At the said petition, which added that if licence were granted to them to have their own chaplain or rector for the hearing of their confessions and the administration of baptism and other sacraments in a certain chapel newly erected in the said vill, the said perils would be obviated, and which alleges that in the said vill there was wont to be of old a chapel with a cemetery for the burial of the said parishioners, (fn. 3) the pope hereby orders the above two to summon the prior and convent of the said monastery and the present perpetual vicar of the said parish church of Hiwton, and others concerned, and if they find the facts to be as stated, to grant licence to the said inhabitants to have a perpetual chaplain, who shall be sustained from the profits of the said vill, and who shall celebrate in the said chapel, and have a baptismal font, and administer the sacraments, without prejudice to the said parish church. (fn. 4)Circa pastoralis officii debitum. [1½ pp.] |
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| 8 Id. July. (8 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 38v.) |
Appropriation in perpetuity, at the recent petition of the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Westminister, O.S.B., in the diocese of London, immediately subject to the Roman church (containing that the fruits of the said monastery, which was founded and partly built by the ancestors and progenitors of Edward king of England, and in which lies the body of St. Edward the Confessor, sometime king of the English, do not suffice for the repair and maintenance of the said monastery and its church and buildings, which on account of age are threatened with ruin, and for their other needs and burdens), of the parish church of St. Mary, Hendon, in the said diocese, and its annexed chapel, which is in the gift of the said abbot and convent, of St. Mary's, Hampsted’, in the same diocese. (fn. 5) A fit portion of the fruits of the said church and annex is to be reserved for a perpetual vicar appointed and removed at pleasure by the abbot and convent. Ad perp. rei mem. Romanus pontifex. [1¾ pp.] |
| 4 Non. Aug. (2 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 63v.) |
To Thomas Ady, a canon of the house of the Cruciferi de Osprenge, O.S.A., in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if a parish church etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Religionis zelus, vite etc. [1 p.] |
| 6 Id. Aug. (8 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 66r.) |
To the prior of St. Mary's, Luth, in the diocese of Armagh. Mandate, as below. The pope has learned that the rectory of the parish church of Clocluayneas (fn. 6) in the diocese of Clogher has been so long void that there is no certain knowledge of the mode of its voidance, and that its collation has lapsed to the apostolic see; and the recent petition of Philip Macmaghuna, a canon of Clogher, contained that the fruits, etc., of his canonry and prebend of that church are too slender for his maintenance and for the burden of hospitality which he keeps up for all pilgrims, and that if the said rectory, which is sufficiently near (fn. 7) the church of Clogher, were united for his lifetime to the said canonry and prebend he could better bear his burdens and keep up hospitality. At the petition, therefore, of the said Philip (who alleges that his father, James Macmaghuna, layman, of the said diocese, has usurped the fruits etc. of the said rectory for between thirty and forty years, that he is of royal race, and that the yearly value of the fruits etc. of the said canonry and prebend and rectory do not exceed 16 and 30 marks sterling, respectively), the pope hereby orders the above prior to summon those concerned, and if he find the foregoing to be true, to unite the said rectory to the said canonry and prebend for as long only as the said Philip shall hold them. Romanum decet pontificem. [2⅓ pp.] |
| 4 Non. Aug. (2 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 79r.) |
To John Raa, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Hedynhale in the diocese of Carlisle. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage any other benefice, and if he resign the said vicarage any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches etc., or dignities etc., and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. [2 pp. +] |
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Ibid. (f. 80r.) |
To William Sloughtur, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Chew in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The like. Vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| 1476[–7]. Prid. Kal. Feb. (31 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 88r.) |
To William Wybbe, rector of the parish church of Sowthefeld in the diocese of Norwich, bachelor of decrees. The like, mutatis mutandis. Litterarum scientia, vite etc. [2¼ pp.] |
| 1477. 17 Kal. Sept. (16 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 94r.) |
To William Aithlek, rector of the parish church of Conuetht [sic] (fn. 8) in the diocese of St. Andrews. Dispensation to receive with the said church any other benefice, and, if he resign the said church, any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches, etc., or dignities etc. and to retain them for ten years only, if they be parish churches or perpetual vicarages, or for life if they be other incompatible benefices, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases; with dispensation not to be bound for seven years to be promoted to the orders of deacon and priest on account of the said church or any other benefice requiring priest's orders, provided that within a year he be promoted to the order of subdeacon. Vite etc. [3 pp. +] |
| 6 Id. Aug. (8 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 158v.) |
To Thomas May, rector of the parish church of Bloxham in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 79r., mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [1½ pp.] |
| Non. May. (7 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 173r.) |
Indult, as below. The recent petition of the abbot and convent of the monastery of St. Peter, Westminster, O.S.B., immediately belonging to the Roman church, contained that as the said monastery is situate near the palace of the king of England, and hard by the place where the justice of the realm is rendered, there is a continual concourse to the said monastery for the hearing of divine offices, as the most convenient place or church, both of natives and of the strangers who come to the said realm and to the said place in which justice is rendered, wherefore the monks and ministers of the said monastery cannot continue divine worship without great labour, especially in times of pestilence and the other sinister events which befall daily, in consequence of which there have been and at present are few monks in the said monastery in priest's orders who can celebrate masses and other divine offices at fitting hours for the people who resort to the said monastery. (fn. 9) At the said petition, therefore, the pope hereby grants indult to the present abbot and to the abbot for the time being and to the convent of the said monastery that they may choose four of their professed monks who shall have attained their twenty-second year, and that such four may have themselves promoted to the priesthood. Ad perp. rei mem. Benigno decet Romanum pontificem vota illa fauore complecti. [1½ pp.] |
| 8 Id. May. (8 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 173v.) |
Decree, etc., as below. The recent petition of the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Westminister, etc. (as in the preceding), contained that divers abbots have sold, pledged, and even alienated for ever, on account of their own debts and burdens, divers possessions and goods of the said monastery, have granted its manors and granges, not only for a long time, but for a very long time, have bound it to divers persons in great sums of money, and have granted to divers nobles and others the advowsons or patronage of divers of its benefices, before they were void, for that turn only, in order that when they became void the said nobles etc. might present whom they pleased. The pope therefore, at the said petition, hereby decrees and ordains that such sales, (fn. 10) pledges, bonds or alienations, on account of the present abbot's own debts or burdens, or those of his successors, or under pretext of the bad administration of the fruits etc. hitherto assigned to the abbatial mensa, leases of manors etc., except only in cases permitted by law, etc., and grants of advowsons, etc., shall be null and void; the penalty for abbots who shall contravene the present decree and ordinance being eo ipso sentence of excommunication and eo ipso deprivation for ever, without any hope of ever recovering office, etc. Ad perp rei mem. Pastoralis officii. [2⅓ pp.] |
| 4 Id. April. (10 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 176r.) |
To Robert (fn. 11) Cokke, rector of the parish church of Cathorp in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church any other benefice, etc., as above, f. 79r., mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [1¾ pp.] |
| 4 Kal. April. (29 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 178v.) |
To Thomas Canon, a canon of Holy Trinity, Bustlesham de Montegu, O.S.A., in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice etc., as above, f. 63v. Religionis etc. [1 p.] |
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Prid. Kal. April. (31 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 180r.) |
To Thomas Gurnell, perpetual vicar in the church of St. Mary, Suthwell’, in the diocese of York. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage, which has cure of the parishioners of the parish of the said church, one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 79r. Vite etc. [1¾ pp.] |
| 6 Kal. May. (26 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 182r.) |
To Robert Medley, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Ouston in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation, as below. The pope lately dispensed him, when in his eighteenth year, to receive forthwith and retain any benefice with cure or otherwise requiring priest's orders, even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleased. The pope now dispenses him, who in virtue of the said dispensation holds the said vicarage, collated to him by authority of the ordinary, and who is in his twentieth year, to receive and retain with the said vicarage any other benefice, etc., as above, f. 79r., notwithstanding the said defect of age, etc. Vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| 6 Id. May. (10 May.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 187r.) |
To Thomas Chaundeler, chancellor of York, S.T.M. Indult for five years to take the fruits etc. of the said chancellorship, which is a non-major dignity, and of his other benefices, whilst residing in one of them, or studying letters in an university, and not to be bound meanwhile to reside in them. Litterarum etc. |
| Concurrent mandate to the bishop of London, the abbot of Westminster, and the official of York. Hodie dilecto filio. [3½ pp.] | |
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Ibid. (f. 191v.) |
To Elizabeth, queen of England. Indult, at her petition and that of Edward king of England on her behalf, to enter whenever she pleases, with eight or ten honest women her servants, any churches or houses or convents of the Carthusian order in her realm of England (fn. 12) which (fn. 13) the said king or she or kings or queens of the said realm have founded, and hear masses and other divine offices therein; provided that the priors of such houses or convents consent. Devocionis tue probata sinceritas. [2/3 p.] |
| 4 Non. Aug. (2 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 195r.) |
To Richard Multon alias Prowell, a canon of the monastery of Brunne, O.S.A., in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice, etc., as above, f. 63v. Religionis etc. [4/5 p.] |
| 11 Kal. Sept. (22 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 200v.) |
To Thomas Whytaeris (recte Whytacris), rector of the parish church of All Saints, Lechworth, in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church one other benefice, etc., as above, f. 79r., mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [1⅓ pp.] |
| 1476. Prid. Kal. Sept. (31 Aug.) Foligno. (f. 222v.) |
To the deans of St. Mary's, Erfurt (Erfforden.), St. Mary's, Hamburg, and St. Nicholas's, Stendal (Stendalien.), in the dioceses of Mainz, Bremen and Halberstadt. Exemplification of the letters of Benedict XII, Ad perp. rei mem. Vas electionis Paulus apostolus, dated at Avignon, 15 Kal. Jan. anno 2 [18 Dec., 1336]; with mandate, at the recent petition of the provost, dean, chapter and canons of the church of St. Cross, Hildesheim, to defend them and not permit them to be molested against the tenour of the said letters, proceeding against contradictors and rebels by ecclesiastical censure, without appeal, and invoking, if necessary, the aid of the secular arm, and with faculty to make monitions and citations by public edicts posted in public places, which monitions etc. shall be binding as if personally served. Ne predecessorum nostrorum. [7 pp.] |
| 1477. 11 Kal. Sept. (22 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 241r.) |
To William Alder, rector of the parish church of St. Mary, Esse, in the diocese of London. Dispensation as above, f. 200v. Vite etc. [1⅓ pp.] |
| Id. June. (13 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 273r.) |
To the bishops of Worcester, Carlisle and Rochester. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of William [Dudley], bishop of Durham, contained that from its primeval foundation the church of Durham was constructed with walls and sumptuous buildings, and endowed with competent revenues, but that the buildings of the said church and the manors, places, houses and other buildings belonging thereto and to the episcopal mensa have been ruined, dilapidated, wasted and consumed, and its fruits etc. diminished, by the neglect of divers of the said bishop's predecessors, especially Laurence [Boothe], [now] archbishop of York, sometime bishop of Durham, the said bishop's immediate predecessor, who, having been recently (fn. 15) translated to York, has left the walls, enclosures and roofs of the said manors, places, houses and other buildings in ruin and in need of great repair, has dilapidated, wasted and consumed divers goods and utensils belonging to the said church and mensa, and has given granted, alienated and usurped its fees not only to his kinsmen but also to other magnates and powerful men, for a time and on perpetual lease and otherwise, contrary to law and the oath which he took when he was promoted to the said church, to the great injury and loss of that church. (fn. 16) Seeing that, as the said petition added, the said bishop William desires the said buildings to be repaired, and the said goods to be restored, the pope hereby, at the petition of the same bishop, who alleges that he is a suffragan of the said archbishop, for the commission to upright men in those parts of all the causes which he intends to bring against the said archbishop and against all other detainers and occupiers of the said goods, utensils and fees, orders the above three bishops to summon the said archbishop, detainers and occupiers, and others concerned, hear both sides, and decide what is just, without appeal, causing their decision to be observed by the said archbishop by the pope's authority, and by others by ecclesiastical censure. Humilibus supplicum etc. [1½ pp.] |