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1441. 10 Kal. May. Florence (f. 5d.) | To the priors of Holy Trinity, Ballyboggan (de Lauda dei) (fn. 2) , and St. Mary's, Molynkeayr, in the diocese of Meath, and the archdeacon of Meath. Mandate to make provision to James Dalton, a canon of the Augustinian house or priory of Holy Trinity, Ballyboggan (de Lauda dei), in the diocese of Meath, if found fit, of the Augustinian monastery of SS. John and Peter, Clwanarde, in the said diocese, value not exceeding 20 marks sterling, void by the death without the Roman court of abbot Raynaldus; summoning and removing Peter Baston, [now] a canon thereof, who (after he had been by papal authority, on account of his demerits, deprived of the rule and administration of the said monastery, of which he was abbot, and after provision had been made thereof, thus void, by the said authority to the said Raynaldus, and after Raynaldus's said death, having been abbot for several years) took possession of the said rule and administration after and against the present pope's
reservation of all monasteries (fn. 3) , and otherwise without any canonical title, and has unduly detained the same for more than a year but less than two. In the event of their making provision to James, they are to grant to him that he may be blessed by any catholic bishop, who shall thereafter receive and send to the pope his oath of fealty as usual; without prejudice to the bishop of Meath, to whom the said monastery is by ordinary right subject. Ad exequendum pastoralis. (An. and G. de Elten. | An. xxxx. Quinto Kal. Maii Anno Undecimo. de Adria.) |
5 Kal. July. Florence (f. 19.) | To the dean of Kilfenora. Mandate (the pope having been informed by Edmund, an Augustinian canon, son of John Fitzmoris (fn. 4) , that John Oshannragayn, abbot of the Augustinian monastery of SS. Peter and Paul, Rathtuoig, in the diocese of Ardfert, has committed simony, is a public concubinary, and is reputed guilty in those parts of divers other crimes and excesses [not here specified]) if Edmund, who from fear of John's power has no hope of obtaining justice in the city or diocese of Ardfert, will accuse John before the above dean etc. as usual, to summon John, and if he find the above to be true to deprive John, and in that event to make provision of the said monastery, value not exceeding 40 marks sterling, to Edmund. In the event of his making provision to Edmund the dean is to bless him or grant that he may be blessed by a catholic bishop (fn. 5) , after which he or such bishop shall receive and send to the pope his oath of fealty as usual. Solicite considerationis indagine. (An. and Ja. Goier. | An. xxxxvi. de Adria.) |
Kal. April. Florence (f. 27.) | To the bishop of Valva and the abbots of St. John the Evangelist's, Tuam and St. Michael's, Mayo. Mandate to make provision to Thomas Yronayn, a canon of the Augustinian monastery of Holy Trinity, Ballintober (Ville Fontis Sancti Patricii), in the diocese of Tuam alias Mayo, priest (who was lately dispensed as the son of a priest, professed of the said order, and an unmarried woman (i) by authority of the ordinary to be promoted to minor orders and hold a benefice without cure, (ii) after he had made his profession of the said order and had been promoted to all, even holy orders (fn. 6) , to receive and retain by papal authority the perpetual vicarage of Omy in the said diocese of Tuam alias Mayo, in the event of its being granted to him in commendam in virtue of papal letters
whereby it was ordered to be so granted to him) the said monastery, value not exceeding 40 marks sterling, void and reserved (under the pope's late reservation of all monasteries void by his provisions of other monasteries) by the provision which has been made, by vigour of letters of the pope [above, p. 129], to Cornelius, its abbot, of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary, Knockmoy (Collis victorie). in the diocese of Tuam, of whose administration etc. the said Cornelius has obtained possession; whether the said monastery be void in the way stated, or by the death without the Roman court of Henry nuecolyn, or by the cession of the said Cornelius or Henry, or in any other way. In the event of their making the provision, they are to grant to Thomas that he may be blessed by any catholic bishop, and the pope hereby specially dispenses him on account of the said defect to hold the said monastery and exercise its administration, requiring him to resign the said vicarage, which was by vigour of the said letters granted to him in commendam, value not exceeding 3 marks sterling. The consecrating bishop shall send Thomas's oath of fealty to the pope as usual; without prejudice to the archbishop of Tuam or the bishop of Mayo, to whom the said monastery is by ordinary right subject. Ex suscepte servitutis. (B. and Ja. Petri. | B. l. Valven.) |
4 Kal. May. Florence (f. 34.) | To Ingram [Lindsay] (fn. 7) Provision to him, a canon of Aberdeen, doctor of canon law, in priest's orders, of the said church, immediately subject to the Roman church, void by the death without the Roman court of Henry [de Leighton], (fn. 8) during whose life the present pope specially reserved it. Apostolatus officium. |
| Concurrent letters to the chapter, to the clergy and to the people of the city and diocese, and to the vassals of the church—Apostolatus etc.; and to James, king of Scotland (Scocie)—Gratie divine premium. (An. and B. de Monte. | An. xx.x.x.x.x.x. de Adria.) |
8 Kal. Nov. Florence (f. 45d.) | To John White. Provision to him, minister of the houses of the province of Ireland, of the order of Friars Minors, S.T.B. (fn. 9) , in priest's orders, of the church of Clonfert, void by the death without the Roman court of Thomas, during whose life the present pope specially reserved it. Apostolatus etc. |
| Concurrent letters to the chapter, to the clergy and to the people of the city and diocese, and to the vassals of the church—Apostolatus etc.; to the archbishop of Tuam—Ad cumulum; and to Henry, king of England—Gracie etc. (An. and Ja. Goier. | An.xx.x.x.x.x.x.x. de Adria.) |
5 Kal. Aug Florence (f. 49d.) | To John Kegill. Provision to him, a Friar Minor, in priest's orders, of the church of Philippopolis (Philopolen.), void by the death without the Roman court of James, during whose life the present pope specially reserved it. As soon as he has had the present letters expedited, he is to betake himself in person to the said church and reside therein, and shall be unable to exercise pontifical offices outside his city and diocese (fn. 10) . Apostolatus etc. (B. and B. de Monte. | B. xx. Valven.) |
7 Id. Oct Florence (f.51.) | To John de Burgo (fn. 11) . Provision to him, abbot of the Augustinian monastery of Cong in the diocese of Tuam, in priest's orders, of the church of Tuam, on whose voidance by the death without the Roman court of John, the pope translated thither the late Thomas, then bishop of Clonfert, who has died without the said court, without having possession, and during whose life the pope specially reserved the said church. Divina disponente. |
| Concurrent letters to the chapter of the church, to the clergy and to the people of the city and diocese, and to the vassals and to the suffragans of the church—Divina etc.; and to Henry, king of England—Gracie etc. (B. and Ja. Goier. | B. xxii.xi.xi.xi.xi.xi.xi. Valven.) |
6 Non. Oct. Florence (f. 54.) | To John, [son] of Hector Macgcillon (fn. 12) (rectius Macgilleon). Provision to him, in priest's orders, of the church of Sodor, void by the death without the Roman court of Angus (Angussii), during whose life the present pope specially reserved it. Apostolatus etc. |
| Concurrent letters to the chapter of the church, to the clergy and to the people of the city and diocese—Apostolatus etc.; to the archbishop of Trondhjem (Nidrosten.)—Ad cumulum; and to James, king of Scots (Scotorum)—Gracie etc. (B. and B. de Monte. | B. xx. x. x. x. x. x. Valven.) |
4 Non. Nov. Florence (f. 56d.) | To the archbishop of Tuam. Mandate to make provision to Doloys alias Doluicius Macgynnan, a canon of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary de Portu patrum in the diocese of Annadown (Enochdunien.), the son of a priest
and an unmarried woman, if found fit, of the said monastery, value not exceeding 16 marks sterling. void by the death without the Roman court of abbot Matthew. The archbishop is to grant that Doloys may be blessed by any catholic bishop, who shall thereafter send to the pope his oath of fealty as usual, and the pope hereby specially dispenses him, notwithstanding the said defect etc., to exercise the administration etc. Ex suscepte servitutis. (An. and Ja. Goier. | An. l. de Adria.) |
4 Kal. April. Florence (f. 75.) | To Branda, bishop of Sabina. Commission (the pope having been informed by Alexander Brady, a Cistercian monk of Cupar in the diocese of St. Andrews, that Thomas de Lewynston, [now] a monk, sometime abbot of the monastery of Dundranen in the diocese of Whiteherne, of the said order, remained at Basel after the pope's transfer of the Council thence to Ferrara and took part in its acts, thereby incurring deprivation etc.) to summon in audience of the pope's littere contradicte the said Thomas and others concerned, and if he find the above to be true, to proclaim the said Thomas (who, as Alexander alleges, is one of a number of persons expressly named in the pope's processes against the adherents of those who remained at Basel under pretext of a Council) to have been and to be deprived, and potiori pro cautela deprive him, and in that event to make provision of the said monastery, value not exceeding 80l. sterling, to the said Alexander, who is at present at the apostolic see, is a priest, and (believing, as he had heard, that a petition in the matter from him, then in those parts, had been signed by the pope's order and in his presence, and that the apostolic letters, for whose expedition he had sent the necessary money to the Roman court, had been drawn up) has engaged in the rule of the said monastery in temporals, without, however, receiving any of its fruits. Besides approving and confirming the acts of Alexander's said administration in temporals, the bishop is to grant that he may be blessed by any catholic bishop, who shall thereafter send his oath of fealty to the pope as usual. Ex suscepte servitutis. (An. and B. de Monte. | An. xxxvi. Sed gratis de mandato domini nostri pape in plumbo et registro. de Adria.) |
5 Kal. July. Florence (f. 86.) | To the archdeacon of Elphin and the dean and William Ocharneayn, a canon, of Clonmacnoise (Cluanen.) Mandate (the pope having been informed by Rory Omadeyn, an Augustinian canon of St. Mary's, Thom, in the diocese of Killaloe, that William Omadeyn, abbot of St. Mary's de Portu puro in the diocese of Clonfert, of the said order, has committed simony and dilapidation and, being a homicide and a notorious fornicator and irregular, is held guilty (pernotatus habelur) of apostasy and many other vices and excesses [not here specified]) if Rory, who on account of
William's power has no hope of obtaining justice in the city or diocese of Clonfert, will accuse William before them etc. as usual, to summon William, and if they find the above or two of them to be true, to deprive William. and in that event to make provision to Rory, if found fit, of the said monastery, value not exceeding 30 marks sterling. They are further to grant ... usual, as in the preceding, without prejudice to the bishop of Clonfert, to whom the said monastery is by ordinary right subject. Solicite considerationis. (An. and G. de Elten. | An. l. de Adria.) |
Prid. Id. July. Florence (f. 87.) | To Robert Wodborn. (fn. 13) Provision to him, an Augustinian friar, of the church of Holar (Holen.) [in Iceland], void at the apostolic see, and therefore reserved, by the resignation of John, [now] bishop in the universal church, then of Holar, made at the said see, by his proctor Master Peter de Monte, an apostolic notary, to William, cardinal priest of St. Martin's in Montibus. who admitted it by special mandate of the pope. Divina disponente clementia. |
| Concurrent letters to the chapter of the church, and to the clergy and to the people of the city and diocese—Diving etc. (An. and Ja. Goier. | An. xxii. xi. xi. xi. de Adria.) [There is no letter to the metropolitan, the archbishop of Trondhjem.] |
5 Kal. Oct. Florence (f. 97.) | To Geoffrey. Provision to him, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary, Aunay (de Alneto), in the diocese of Bayeux, of the same monastery, void at the apostolic see, and therefore reserved, by the recent resignation of Nicholas, [now] a monk, then abbot thereof, made at the said see by his proctor John le Guilloys, dean of Rouen, to Branda, bishop of Sabina, who admitted it by special mandate of the pope. Summi dispositione rectoris. |
| Concurrent letters to the convent and to the vassals of St. Mary's—Summi etc.; to Henry, king of England—Gratie divine premium etc.; and to the abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Savigny (de Savigniaco) in the diocese of Avranches—Summi etc. (An. and M. Pinardi. | An. xvi. viii. viii. viii. viii. de Adria.) |
6 Id. May. Florence (f. 107d.) | To Denis. Provision to him, dean of Kilmacduagh (Duacen.), in priest's orders, on whose behalf also some of the canons have petitioned, of the said church, void by the death without the Roman court of John, during whose life the present pope specially reserved it. Apostolatus officium. |
| Concurrent letters to the chapter of the church, to the clergy and to the people of the city and diocese, and to the
vassals of the church—Apostolatus etc. (An. and Ja. Petri. | An. xx.x.x.x.x. de Adria.) (fn. 14) |