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 802: 1479-1480', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484, (London, 1955) pp. 704-710. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol13/pp704-710 [accessed 19 April 2024]
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Lateran Regesta, Vol. DCCCII. (fn. 1)
9 Sixtus IV.
De Diversis.
| 1479[–80]. 6 Id. Feb. (8 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 16v.) |
To William Mawdisley, priest, of the diocese of York. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches, etc., and to resign them, etc. Vite etc. [1¾ pp.] |
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| 1480. 8 Id. June. (6 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 22v.) |
To Robert Rygdon, a monk of the priory of Staynysgate, O. Clun., in the diocese of London. Dispensation to receive and retain (fn. 2) any benefice with or without cure wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if a parish church, etc., and to resign it, etc. Religionis zelus, vite etc. [1 p.] |
| 1479. (fn. 3)
3 Non. Oct. (5 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 24r.) |
To Walter Forbes, rector of Abbotroul in the diocese of Glasgow, M.A. Dispensation to him, to whom the pope has this day granted provision of the perpetual vicarage of Inu(er)roury (fn. 4) in the diocese of Aberdeen, and who is of noble birth, to receive and retain it for life with the said church of Abbotroul, or without the said church any one other benefice, or without both of them any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two parish churches, etc., and to resign them, etc. Nobilitas generis, litterarum scientia, vite etc. [1½ pp.] |
| 1479. 3 Kal. Jan. (30 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 27v.) |
Union, as below. The parish church of Lillescleue in the diocese of Glasgow has become void at the apostolic see, and therefore reserved to the pope, by the resignation of Robert Turnbul, made this day to the pope by his proctor Andrew Leal, treasurer of Aberdeen. And the recent petition of the chapter of Glasgow contained that the said church was formerly united to their capitular mensa for the daily distributions to those who are present at divine offices, that its union was dissolved by means of the said Robert, and that he obtained provision of it on its voidance by the said dissolution, and that the fruits etc. of the said mensa are very slight. The pope therefore, at the said petition, hereby unites the said church, value 24l. sterling, to the said mensa (value not expressed) for ever, for the said purpose, and grants that the chapter may have its cure of souls exercised, etc. by a vicar or chaplain removeable at their pleasure. Ad perp. rei mem. Ad apostolice dignitatis apicem. [2 pp.] |
| 1479[–80]. Primo Sexto Kal. March. (24 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 29v.) |
To William Morland, rector of Sutton in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation, as below. Nicholas V dispensed him to receive and retain for life with the parish church of Ripton Regis in the diocese of Lincoln one other benefice, or without that church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two parish churches, etc., and to resign them, etc. [Cal. Papal Lett., Vol. X, p. 136]. The pope now dispenses him (who alleges that he resigned the said church of Ripton Regis, and obtained in virtue of the said dispensation those of Sutton and Torre Draian [sic] in the dioceses of Winchester and Exeter, and still holds them), to receive and retain for life with the said two churches, or with the said two other incompatible benefices, any third benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if a parish church etc. and to resign it, etc., provided that of such three incompatible benefices not more than two be parish churches, etc. Vite etc. [2 pp.—] |
| 1480. 8 Kal. April. (25 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 42v.) |
To Reginald ap David, rector of Llandissull in the diocese of St. Asaph. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church any one other benefice, and if he resign that church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches, etc., and to resign, etc. Vite etc. [1½ pp.] |
| Non. April. (5 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 44r.) |
To the bishop of Ross, John de Giliis, a canon of London, and Thomas Hope, a canon of York. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of John Lorde, perpetual vicar of Waltham Magna in the diocese of London, contained that when, as belonged to his office, he charitably monished and counselled Margery, wife of Walter Mildmay, layman, of the said diocese, a parishioner of the said church, to abstain from the excesses of which she was publicly defamed, she, alleging that she had been greatly defamed by the said monition, etc., brought him before Thomas Winterborne, auditor-general of the court of the archbishop of Canterbury; that although he appeared before the said auditor, and requested a copy of the libel or articles produced before the said auditor on Margery's behalf, and a competent term for answering them, the said auditor refused, but, alleging that the said John had not only defamed the said Margery but had also contemned the jurisdiction of the said archbishop, etc., pronounced that he was contumacious and a contemner of the said jurisdiction, etc., and excommunicate, and that he had maliciously defamed the said Margery, and also wrote to the bishop of London and Richard Lycheffelden, chancellor, and other officers of the said bishop (fn. 5) to deprive him of the said vicarage, and often moved them in the matter; and that although, as the said chancellor knew, he dared not reside in the said church and go to it for fear of the said Walter and Margery, and many clerks and laymen and women of the said diocese, adherents of the said Walter and Margery, who tried to take and mutilate him, the said chancellor, falsely alleging that he had absented himself too long from the said church and had deserted it, and ought therefore to be deprived, caused him, ex officio and at the instance of the said Walter and Margery and clerks etc., to be cited before him within too short a term, wherefore he appealed to the apostolic see but, hindered by a lawful impediment, has not prosecuted his appeal within the proper time. The pope therefore orders the above three, if they find what is alleged about the said impediment to be true, to summon the said Walter and Margery, and the said other clerks, laymen and women and others concerned, hear both sides, taking cognizance also of the principal matter, and decide what is just, without appeal, causing their decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure. Humilibus etc. [12/3 pp.] |
| 5 Kal. July. (27 June.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 84r.) |
To Benedict Dodyn, (fn. 6) rector of Vithiam (fn. 7) in the diocese of Chichester, M.A. Dispensation, as above, f. 42v. Litterarum etc. [2¼ pp.] |
De Vacantibus.
| — (f. 88r.) |
To the abbot of St. Mary's, Newry (de Viridi ligno), in the diocese of Dromore, the archdeacon of Ossory, and Thomas Macbruyn, a canon of Dromore. Mandate, the pope having learned that the archdeaconry of Down (Dunen.) is void by the death of Henry Fox extra R. c., and wishing to do a special grace to the said [sic] (fn. 8) William (who was lately dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all holy, even priest's orders, and receive and retain a benefice even with cure), to collate and assign to him the said archdeaconry, a non-major, non-elective dignity with cure, value 6 marks sterling. Vite etc. [1½ pp.—. Unfinished, and therefore without date, but not cancelled.] |
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De Diversis.
| 1480. 3 Non. July. (5 July.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 89v.) |
To John Ayskarch, rector of Stanhowe in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation, as above, f. 42v. Vite etc. [12/3 pp.] |
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| 1479. 17 Kal. Oct. (15 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 128v.) |
To Robert Wencelaghi [sic], perpetual vicar of Gargrave in the diocese of York, M.A. The like. Litterarum etc. [2⅓ pp.] |
| 6 Kal. Nov. (27 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 134v.) |
To Laurence Nevyll, [bishop] elect of Ferns. Motu proprio reservation to him (to whom the pope has this day made provision of the said church), of the parish church of Kyllkewan in the diocese of Ferns, value 8 marks sterling, which he was holding at the time of the said promotion, and still holds, to be held by him with, and for as long as he holds, the said church of Ferns. Personam tuam. [1 p. +] |
| 6 Id. Nov. (8 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 138v.) |
To William Shaldo, perpetual vicar of Braiborn in the diocese of Canterbury, S.T.B. Dispensation to him, who is a priest, to receive etc., as above, f. 42v. Litterarum etc. [2½ pp. +] |
| 9 Kal. Dec. (23 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 144r.) |
To Thomas Dowce (?), rector of Kyngeslane [sic] in the diocese of Hereford. Dispensation, as below. Paul II dispensed him to receive and retain for life with the said church any one other benefice, or without that church any two other benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches. etc., and to resign them, etc. The pope now dispenses him, who in virtue of the said dispensation holds the said parish church and that of Pech(a)m in the diocese of Rochester, to receive and retain for life with the said two churches, etc., or if he resign them with the said two incompatible benefices, any third benefice, etc., as above, f. 29v., mutatis mutandis. Vite etc. [2¾ pp.] |
| 13 Kal. Oct. (19 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 157r.) |
Confirmation with exemplification, at the recent petition of Edward, king of England, of his gift in frankalmoin to the dean and chapter of the church called the church of New St. Mary's, Leicester, in the diocese of Lincoln, of the hospital or house of St. John Baptist, Leicester, in his gift, and of its wardenship and all its lands, etc., as is more fully contained in the letters of the said king, viz. his letters patent ‘Sciatis quod nos ob internam devotionem,’ dated under his seal of the duchy of Lancaster, at his manor of le Moore, 20 June, anno 19 [1479]. Ad perp. rei mem. Apostolice nobis desuper iniuncte seruitutis officium. [2 pp. +] |
| 18 Kal. Oct. (14 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 159r.) |
To William Rowsyng, rector of Swyneshed in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation as above, f. 42v. Vite etc. [2 pp.+] |
| 17 Kal. Oct. (15 Sept.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 160r.) |
To John Steyll, a canon of the monastery of St. Mary, Alnewyyk, P. Praem., in the diocese of Durham. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice, etc., as above, f. 22v. Religionis etc. [1 p. +] |
| 1479[–80]. Non. Jan. (5 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 184r.) |
Union as below. The commenda of the perpetual vicarage of Killicly in the diocese of Limerick, granted by papal authority to Donald Macravan, priest, of the diocese of Killaloe (Laonien.), having ceased by his resignation thereof this day to the pope by his proctor, Thomas Cantulu(n), priest, of the diocese of Limerick, whereby the said vicarage is void in the same way as it had last become void before the said commenda was granted, the pope, at the recent petition of Richard Stakapol, a canon of Limerick, hereby unites the said vicarage, value 6 marks sterling, to his canonry and the prebend of Donachmor in that church, value 8 marks sterling, for as long only as he shall hold the said canonry and prebend. Ad fut. rei mem. Pastoralis officii debitum. [2 pp. +] |
| 1479[–80]. 6 Id. Feb. (8 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 209r.) |
To John Frome, a monk of the monastery of Bewley, O. Cist., in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice, etc., as above, f. 22v. Religionis etc. [¾ p.] |
| 4 Kal. March. (27 Feb.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 217r.) |
To the prior and convent of St. Peter's, Eye (de Eya), O.S.B., in the diocese of Norwich. Faculty, at their recent petition (containing that the said monastery suffers from a lack of religious in priest's orders, especially in the celebration of masses, wherefore many of the faithful are kept from visiting it), for the present prior and the prior for the time being to dispense twenty-four of the monks, after reaching their twenty-second year, and upon presentation by the convent, to be promoted to priest's orders and minister therein. As soon as such twenty-four monks have been so dispensed, the said faculty shall expire. Expossit [sic] vestre deuotionis sinceritas. [1⅓ pp.] |
| 1480. 8 Kal. April. (25 March.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 223r.) |
To Thomas Copley [sic], rector of Hounesdon in the diocese of London, bachelor of laws. Dispensation as above, f. 42v. Litterarum etc. [1½ pp.] |
| 1479. 6 Id. Oct. (10 Oct.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 234v.) |
To the abbot of Peterborough and the prior of Spaldyng, in the diocese of Lincoln, and the official of Lincoln. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of John Clys (?), rector of St. Michael's in the market of the town of Stamford, in the diocese of Lincoln, contained that although the poor hospital called Claymonte hospital in the said town is within the bounds of the parish of the said church, and although the right of administering the sacraments to the inmates thereof belongs to the rector of the said church only, nevertheless Thomas Stokcke, perpetual vicar of All Saints’ in the said town, untruly alleging that the said hospital is within the bounds of that church, and that the cure of souls of the inmates and the right of administering the sacraments to them belong to him, brought the said John before the then auditor-general of causes of the court of Thomas, cardinal priest of St. Ciriac's in Termis, archbishop of Canterbury by grant and dispensation of the apostolic see, legatus natus of the said see; that after the said auditor had proceeded, short of a conclusion, the said Thomas Stokcke appealed from some grievances, falsely alleged to have been inflicted on him by the said auditor, to the said see; and that at his instance the pope committed the appeal cause and that of the principal matter, etc. to Master Peter de Ferraria, a papal chaplain and auditor, before whom the cause has been pending for three years and more, etc. The pope now, at the said petition stating (inter alia) that the cause could be better determined in those parts, hereby calls it up to himself, and orders the above three to summon the said Thomas Stokcke and others concerned and resume the said cause, hear it further and determine it, causing their decision to be observed by ecclesiastical censure. Humilibus sup[p]licum votis. [3½ pp.] |
| 1479. 10 Kal. Dec. (22 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 249v.) |
To John Lane, perpetual vicar of Kydlyngton in the diocese of Lincoln, bachelor of theology. Dispensation as above, f. 42v. Litterarum etc. [2¾ pp.] |
| 1480. 8 Id. April. (6 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 259r.) |
To John Oby, perpetual vicar of the parish church of St. Gluvias (sancti Glubiaci) in the diocese of Exeter. The like. Vite etc. [1½ pp. +] |
| 8 Kal. May. (24 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 266v.) |
To William Combe, rector of Shaw in the diocese of Salisbury, bachelor of laws. The like to him, who is a priest. Litterarum etc. [1½ pp.] |
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Ibid. (f. 267v.) |
To Edmund Warde, perpetual vicar of North Walsham in the diocese of Norwich. The like. (fn. 9)Vite etc. [1½ pp.] |
| 5 Kal. May. (27 April.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 268r.) |
To John Herbert, prior of St. James the Apostle's, Thremhale, O.S.A., in the diocese of London. Dispensation to receive with the said priory one other benefice, or if he resign the priory any two other benefices, with or without cure, wont to be held by canons of the said order, even if they be priorships, etc., or one of them be wont to be held by secular clerks, and even if such secular benefice be a parish church, etc., and to retain whichever one of them he prefers in titulum, and the other (not being a conventual or a claustral benefice), even if it be a secular benefice, in commendam, for life, and to resign, etc. Religionis etc. [1⅓ pp. +] |
| 1479. 7 Kal. Sept. (26 Aug.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 282r.) |
To William [son] of Master Clayton, (fn. 10) rector of Syggeston in the diocese of York, M.A. Dispensation as above, f. 42r. Litterarum etc. [2 pp. +] |
| Id. Dec. (13 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 288r.) |
To Robert Barton of Holme by Newerk, clerk, of the diocese of York. Dispensation to him, who is less than twelve years of age, to receive and retain as soon as he reaches his twelfth year a canonry and prebend of any cathedral church, even a metropolitan church, notwithstanding the said defect, etc. Laudabilia tue puerilitatis inditia. [1 p.] |
| 3 Kal. Dec. (29 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 293r.) |
To Robert Bayton, perpetual vicar of Slypton in the diocese of Lincoln. bachelor of laws. Dispensation as above, f. 42v. Litterarum etc. [2 pp.] |
| 4 Kal. Dec. (28 Nov.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 302r.) |
To Matthew Obrien, a canon of Killaloe (Laonien.). Grant, as below. Lately, upon learning that the perpetual vicarage of Kilmalle had been so long void that its collation had lapsed to the apostolic see, the pope ordered provision of it to be made to the said Matthew, dispensing him (who had been dispensed by papal authority on account of illegitimacy, as the son of a bishop and an unmarried woman, to be promoted to all, even holy orders and hold a benefice even with cure, and afterwards to receive and retain a canonry of Killaloe and the prebend of Clondagad provision of which was ordered by the same authority to be made to him), to receive and retain the said vicarage, one of the executor of the letters of which provision is said to have proceeded to it execution. At his recent petition, containing that it is alleged that the said vicarage became and is void otherwise than as above, the pope hereby grants to him (who has obtained possession of it, and holds it and the said canonry and prebend) that the said letters and dispensation, and their consequences shall hold good from the date of these presents, even if the said vicarage value 6 marks sterling, be void by the deprivation, made by the ordinary, of Denis Yunger, or in whatsoever other way it be void. Vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| 13 Kal. Jan. (20 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 303r.) |
To Thomas Roley, rector of North Tavton in the diocese of Exeter, bachelor of laws. Dispensation as above, f. 42vLitterarum etc. [2 pp.] |
| 6 Kal. Jan. (27 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 305v.) |
To William Petyte, rector of Stepul Gydyng in the diocese of Lincoln. The like. Vite etc. [2 pp.] |
| 3 Id. Dec. (11 Dec.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 317v.) |
To Richard Joce, priest, of the diocese of Exeter, M.A Dispensation as above, f. 16v. Litterarum etc. [12/3 pp.] |