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Vatican Regesta 507
1462

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Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 11: 1455-1464

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1921

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'Vatican Regesta 507: 1462', Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 11: 1455-1464 (1921), pp. 621-631. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=103763 Date accessed: 21 May 2013. Add to my bookshelf

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Vatican Regesta, Vol. DVII.
Secrete. Footnotes

Vatican Regesta, Vol. DVII. (fn. 2)

Secrete.

4 Pius II.

1462.
7 Kal. Sept.
(26 Aug.)
Pienza.
(f. 24.)		 To John Tapton, a canon of Lincoln, M.A. Dispensation to him, who is a priest, and all of whose benefices and their values etc. the pope holds to be sufficiently expressed by these presents, at his own petition and that of John earl of Worcester, high constable of England, to receive and retain for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if major or principal dignities etc., (fn. 3) even if two parish churches or their perpetual vicarages or chantries, or such mixed, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases; provided that the fruits etc. of one of such parish churches do not exceed yearly 100 ducats of gold of the Camera. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Urbino pro Reate. M. de Sole. Jo. de Salas.) [In the margin: Augusti. 1¾ pp.]
4 Kal. Sept.
(29 Aug.)
Pienza.
(f. 32.)		 To John Hornese, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary, Roche (de Rupe), in the diocese of York. Dispensation to him, a priest, to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure, secular or regular of any order, or a parish church, etc., even if of lay patronage, and resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, without requiring licence of his superior. Religionis etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxx. A. de Urbino. M. de Sole. Jo. de Tartarinis.) [In the margin: Augusti. 1 p. +.]
7 Kal. Sept.
(26 Aug.)
Pienza.
(f. 34d.)		 To William Ben', rector of St. Margaret's in the city of York, bachelor in decrees. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church, value not exceeding 10l. sterling, any other benefice with cure or otherwise incompatible, or without that church any two benefices with cure and incompatible, even if major or principal dignities etc. or two parish churches or their perpetual vicarages, or such mixed, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, etc.; provided that the fruits etc. of one of such parish churches do not exceed yearly 100 ducats of gold of the Camera. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Urbino. M. de Sole. Jo. de Salas.) [In the margin:Augusti. 1½ pp.]
1462 (rectius
1461).
7 Kal. Nov.
(26 Oct.)
Pienza.
(f. 35d.)		 To Thomas Jolyf, rector of Clifford Chamberer in the diocese of Worcester, M.A. Dispensation, at his own petition and that of John earl of Worcester, high constable of England, to receive and retain for life with the said church, (fn. 4) value not exceeding 20 marks sterling, any other benefice with cure etc., as in the preceding, mutatis mutandis. Litterarum … Salas), as ibid. [In the margin: Augusti. 2 pp. —.]
1461[–2].
3 Kal. Feb.
(30 Jan.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 46.)		 To Henry Fowell, rector of the chapel called the chantry (cantorie) of Tenhem in the diocese of Canterbury. Dispensation to him, a priest, to receive and retain for life with the said chantry (which has cure, and whose net yearly value does not exceed 5 marks sterling, and according to whose foundation its holder cannot, as the pope has learned, hold with it any other benefice) the [perpetual] vicarage of the parish church of Linstede (fn. 5) in the said diocese, which is so near the chantry that they can be conveniently served by one priest, or without the chantry any other benefice with cure or without cure, even if a parish church or its perpetual vicarage, or another chantry or an annual service, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases; notwithstanding the foundation of the said chapel or chantry etc. Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxxx. M. Amici. A. de Nepe. G. de Puteo.) [In the margin: Decembris. 1 p. In the top right-hand corner of the page, above the folio number, is the date ‘Die ultima Januarii, 1462.’]
1461[–2].
17 Kal. March.
(13 Feb.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 49.)		 To William Faldyngworth, rector of Gayton le Marsh (in Maresco), in the diocese of Lincoln. Dispensation to him, who is a master in grammar, and all of whose benefices and their values etc. the pope holds to be expressed by these presents, to receive and retain for life with the said church one benefice, or if he resign that church two benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two parish churches or their perpetual vicarages (provided that the fruits of one of such parish churches do not exceed 100l. tournois a year), or as many major or principal dignities etc., or such mixed, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Reate. S. Crusiliati. S. de Spada.) [1½ pp. (fn. 6) ]
1461[–2].
8 Id. Feb.
(6 Feb.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 50.)		 To John Ramesei alias Picheley alias Stude, a monk professed of the Benedictine house or priory in the town of St. Neots (de Villa Sancti Neoti), in the diocese of Lincoln. 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 or its perpetual vicarage, and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Religionis etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxxx. [sic]. A. de Reate. S. Crusiliati. S. de Spada.) [In the margin:Januarii. 1 p.]
1461[–2].
Kal. Feb.
(1 Feb.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 52d.)		 To John Newton, rector of Newton Regis in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, bachelor in laws. Dispensation to him, all of whose benefices and their values etc. the pope holds to be expressed by these presents, to receive and retain for life with the said church any other benefice with cure etc., as to William Ben’ above, f. 34d., mutatis mutandis, e.g. without the 100 ducats clause. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Reate. Je. de Sala.) [In the margin: Februarii. 12/3 pp.]
1461[–2].
10 Kal. March.
(20 Feb.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 59d.)		 To John Chapeleyn, priest, of the monastery of St. Mary, Keynesham, of the order of canons regular of St. Augustine, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure wont to be governed by secular clerks or regulars of any order, even if a parish church or its perpetual vicarage, or a chaplaincy or chantry or annual service, and of lay patronage, and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Religionis etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxx. A. de Reate. S. de Spada.) [In the margin: Februarii. 1 p.]
1462.
5 Id. April.
(9 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 79.)		 To John Loveybondi (?), (fn. 7) perpetual vicar of Egglossayel in the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to him, who holds the said vicarage and a canonry of Salisbury and the prebend of Lyure (rectius Lyme) therein, value not exceeding 20 and 25 marks sterling respectively, to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage any other benefice with cure etc. as to William Ben’ above, f. 34d., mutatis mutandis, e.g. without the 100 ducats clause. Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. Spinosis pro Reate. Jo. de Buccabellis.) [In the margin: Martii. 1½ pp.]

3 Pius II.

1460[–1].
Prid. Non. Feb.
(4 Feb.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 91d.)		 To the bishops of London and Llandaff. Mandate, after absolution and temporary separation, to dispense Thomas Gray, nobleman, of the diocese of Durham, and Elizabeth, noblewoman, daughter of Edward Nevile, nobleman, lord of the town of Bergeveny in the diocese of Llandaff, to re-contract the marriage which they (who allege that although they are of noble birth they do not succeed (fn. 8) to their paternal estates, Thomas not being the elder brother and Elizabeth having a brother) formerly contracted per verba alias legittime (sic) de presenti, not in ignorance that they were related in the second and third degrees of kindred. Oblate nobis. (Ja. Papien. | l. T. de Castello. Je. de Sala.) [1 p. +. In the right-hand margin is: Composuit cum datario.]

4 Pius II.

1461[–2].
3 Kal. March.
(27 Feb.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 102.)		 To John bishop of Tenos (Tinen.) (fn. 9) . Dispensation, as below. The pope lately granted him indult to retain in commendam with the said church of Tenos, which is in partibus infidelium and from which he was receiving and at present receives no fruits, the parish church of St. Laurence, Lydiard, in the diocese of Bath and Wells, which he was holding at the time of his promotion made by the present pope to the said church of Tenos, and to do so for life or as long as he should be bishop of that church. At his recent petition, containing that the fruits etc. of the said parish church do not exceed 40 marks sterling, with which he cannot keep up his episcopal state, the pope hereby dispenses him to receive in commendam and retain for life with the said two churches any other benefice with or without cure, secular or regular of any order, even that of canons regular of St. Augustine, of which he has made his profession, even if a parish church or its perpetual vicarage or a priorship or a provostship, even conventual, etc., and to resign it and St. Laurence's, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Exigentibus meritis. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Reate, S. Crusiliati. S. de Spada.) [In the margin:Februarii. 1⅓ pp. In the right-hand margin, referring either to the foregoing letter or to the following bull to John Boor, is ‘die ultima Februarii, 1462.’]
1461[–2].
Prid. Non. March.
(6 March.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 103.)		 To John Boor, rector of Great Fraunsham, in the diocese of Norwich. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth, to receive and retain for life with the said church, value not exceeding 18l. sterling, one other benefice with cure etc., as to William Ben’ above, f. 34d., mutatis mutandis, e.g. without the 100 ducats clause. Nobilitas generis, vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Reate. S. Crusiliati. L. Therunda.) [In the margin: Februarii. 12/3 pp.]
Ibid.
(f. 104.)		 To Gilbert de Rerick, rector of Kirkgunzan in the diocese of Glasgow. Dispensation to him, who is of noble birth, and all of whose benefices and their values the pope holds to be expressed by these presents, to receive and retain for life with the said church any one benefice with cure etc. as in the preceding, mutatis mutandis, here also without the 100 ducats clause. Nobilitas etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Reate. L. Therunda.) [In the margin:Februarii. 12/3 pp.]
1462.
Non. June.
Viterbo.
(f. 107d.)		 To Thomas Paslewe, rector of Brughclere in the diocese of Winchester, doctor of decrees. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church, value not exceeding 40 marks sterling, one other benefice with cure etc. as in the preceding, mutatis mutandis, here also without the 100 ducats clause. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Reate. Jo. Baptista. D. de Piscia.) [In the margin:Maii. 11/5 pp.]

5 Pius II.

1463.
Id. April.
(13 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 126.)		 To Reginald Thomas, rector of SS. Peter and Paul's, Swanscombe, in the diocese of Rochester, bachelor in laws. Dispensation to him, who is a priest and all of whose benefices and their values the pope holds to be sufficiently expressed by these presents, to receive and retain for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible with one another, even if major or principal dignities etc., or two parish churches or their perpetual vicarages or chantries, or such mixed, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases; provided that the fruits of one of such parish churches do not exceed yearly 100 ducats of gold of the Camera. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. N. Bregeon. S. Planas.) [In the margin: Aprilis. 1¾ pp.]

4 Pius II.

1462.
5 Id. April.
(9 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 146.) (fn. 10) 		To John Bayly, perpetual vicar of Romsey in the diocese of Winchester, S.T.B. Dispensation to him, who is also M.A., and all of whose benefices and their values etc. the pope holds to be expressed by these presents, to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage any other benefice with cure etc., as to William Ben’ above, f. 34d., mutatis mutandis, e.g. without the 100 ducats clause. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus, under which is ‘Car(dinalis.)’ | l. Spinosis pro Reate. Jo. de Bucabellis.) [In the margin: Martii. 12/3 pp.]
—
(f. 176d.)		 To John Newton, rector or warden of the free chapel of Liuhelpelei in the diocese of Salisbury. [Indult] to him, who holds the said chapel (here with the spelling ‘Luhelpelei’) which is situate in the manor or habitation of a certain nobleman, where rarely or never does any one inhabit, and has no parishioner, and whose yearly value does not exceed 6 marks of silver, [not to be bound] for seven years, whilst engaged in the study of letters at an university or in the service of Gilbert Kymer, dean of Salisbury, or other ecclesiastical prelate, [to have himself promoted] to any [holy orders] on account of the said chapel, [provided that within a year he have himself ordained subdeacon]. Vite ac morum. [½ p. The text breaks off with the words: ratione dicte capelle ad aliquos ex [sacris ordinibus …] and goes on: Registrata in alio quinterno de verbo ad verbum in quo scribit Ja. Sera.’ See above, p. 607.]
3 Non. April.
(3 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 189d.)		 To all Christ's faithful who shall see these presents. Relaxation in perpetuity of two years and of two quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feasts of St. Chad (sancte [sic] Cedde) and the Exaltation of Holy Cross and on Whitsun Monday visit and give alms for the conservation, maintenance of the below-mentioned priests, and the decoration etc. of the chapel of Holy Cross, situate in the parish church of St. Chad, in the town [of] Wybbynbruy (rectius Wybbynbury) in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, and the augmentation of divine worship in the said chapel, in which a confraternity has been recently established for the conservation and maintenance of the priests who celebrate divine offices in the said chapel, the master and brethren and sisters whereof propose to meet together in the said chapel at certain times of the year for the exercise of certain pious works. (fn. 11) Ante tronum divini. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xx. A. de Reate. S. Crusiliati. S. de Spada.) [In the margin: Martii. 1 p. See above, p. 606.]
1461[–2].
4 Id. March.
(12 March.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 244.)		 To Henry Duke, priest, master of the hospital of St. Nicholas in the city of Salisbury. Indult to have a portable altar, on which he may celebrate or have celebrated by a fit priest mass and other divine offices in presence of himself and his household servants, to choose a fit priest, secular or regular, as his confessor, who may, after hearing his confession, grant him absolution for his crimes etc., in cases not reserved to the apostolic see, as often as opportune, and in reserved cases (except certain cases specified, e.g. violation of interdict, etc.) once only, and enjoin penance, and who, or other confessor of his choice, may grant him, being penitent and having confessed, plenary remission of all his sins, likewise once only, namely in the hour of death, and may commute his vows of abstinence and pilgrimage, except those of pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Rome and Compostela (fn. 12) ; with the usual clauses providing for the making of satisfaction to whom it is due, against abuse of the present indult and requiring the usual Friday fasting for a year etc. (fn. 13) Sincere devotionis. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxv. A. de Reate. S. Crusiliati. S. de Spada.) [In the margin: Martii. 1⅓ pp.]

1 Pius II.

1458.
8 Kal. Dec.
(24 Nov.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 245d.)		 To Cornelius alias Cu[n]mara Maconmara [clerk], of the diocese of Killaloe (Laonien.). Reservation to the pope's gift, for collation to him, who, notwithstanding his illegitimacy as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, related in the simple fourth degree of affinity, was lately made a clerk, of a benefice with or without cure, even if a dignity etc. in a cathedral church or a vicarage or rural rectory, even if of lay patronage, provided that such dignity be not major, value not exceeding 25 marks sterling if with cure or a dignity, or 18 if not, in the collation etc. of the bishop and chapter etc. of Killaloe. Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | Gratis pro deo. Juravit. Spinosis pro Reate. T. de Treuio.) [In the margin: Martii. 2¼ pp.]
1458.
Ibid.
(f. 247.)		 To the abbot St. John the Evangelist's, Tuam, the dean of Killaloe (Loanien. rectius Laonien.) and the provost of Elphin. Mandate, recapitulating the preceding reservation of a benefice to Cornelius alias Cu(n)mara Maconmara, clerk, of the diocese of Killaloe (Loanien.), to collate and assign to him such benefice if void or when void, inducting him etc. Hodie dilecto filio. (G. de Piccolominibus. | Gratis. Juravit. S. Crusiliati. Spinosis. T. de Treuio.) [1 p.]

4 Pius II.

1462.
Kal. May.
(1 May.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 272d.)		 To Robert Newton, a monk professed of the Benedictine monastery, of St. Mary, Glastonbury (de Glastonia), in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Dispensation to him, a scholar student in theology, to receive and retain for life any benefice wont to be governed by secular clerks etc. as to John Ramesei above, f. 50, mutatis mutandis. Religionis zelus etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxx. A. de Reate. G. de Porris.) [In the margin: Aprilis. 1¼ pp.]
4 Kal. Aug.
(29 July.)
Abbadia San
Salvatore in the
diocese of Chiusi.
(f. 300.)		 To all Christ's faithful who shall see these presents. Relaxation in perpetuity of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feasts of the Annunciation of St. Mary the Virgin and SS. Peter and Paul the Apostles in the month of June [29 June] visit and give alms for the repair and maintenance of the Augustinian monastery of St. Molanfayd in the diocese of Lismore, in which there is a copious number of canons, in which Christ's poor and other needy are charitably received, and the buildings of which are through divers misfortunes in times past in a state of ruin, and for the repair of which its own means are not enough. Licet is. (Jo. Germanus pro G. de Piccolominibus absente. | lv. A. de Reate. T. de Treuio. [In the margin: Augusti. 1⅓ pp.]
17 Kal. Nov.
(16 Oct.)
Petriolo in the
diocese of Siena.
(f. 317. r.)		 To Thomas Toller, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of Bindon in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to receive and retain for life any secular benefice or a regular benefice of the said order, with or without cure, even if a parish church or its perpetual vicarage or a free chapel or a chantry, even if of lay patronage, and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxx. A. de Reate. D. de Piscia.) [In the margin: Octobris. Briefly registered, thus: salutem etc. Religionis zelus etc., inseratur ut in proxima de verbo ad verbum usque ‘pontificatus nostri anno quinto.’ The ‘proxima’ in question is a fully registered dispensation to the foregoing effect, on ff. 316d.–317r., to John Hutteman, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of Riddaghehusen, in the diocese of Halberstadt, a remarkable feature about which is that amongst the non obstantibus clauses is ‘ac generalis concilii et quibusvis aliis apostolicis necnon bone memorie Ottonis et Ottoboni olim in regno Anglie apostolice sedis legatorum ac in provintialibus et synodalibus conciliis editis generalibus vel specialibus constitutionibus et ordinationibus … The Otto and Ottobon constitutions clause is naturally found regularly in similar dispensations concerning England, but not in those which concern other countries. There is evidently an error of registration at this point, this German and some other English dispensation having perhaps been mixed up and the two rolled into one. This Anglo-German combination has the same subscriptions and marginal date as above.]
Ibid. To Richard Paynel, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of Beaulieu (Belliloci Regis) in the diocese of Winchester. The like. Registered briefly, thus: salutem etc. Religionis [zelus] etc. Similis dispensatio et inseratur ut in proxima usque ’pontificatus nostri anno quinto.’ (G. … Piscia), as in the preceding.) [In the margin: Octobris.]
Ibid. To John Pedel, a monk of the Cistercian monastery of Bindon in the diocese of Salisbury. The like. Registered briefly, thus: salutem etc. Religionis zelus etc. Similis dispensatio ut supra etc. usque ‘pontificatus nostri anno quinto.’ (G. … Piscia), as ibid. [In the margin: Octobris.]
—
Pienza. (fn. 14)
(f. 347.)		 To Richard Foston, rector of Blathirwit in the diocese of Winchester. Dispensation to him, all of whose benefices and their values etc. the pope holds to be expressed by these presents, at his own petition and that of John earl of Worcester, high constable of England, to receive and retain for life with the said church any other benefice with cure etc. as to William Ben’ above, f. 34d., mutatis mutandis (here with the 100 ducats clause). Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus.| A. de Urbino pro Reate. M. de Sole. Jo. de Tartarinis.) [1½ pp.]
—
Pienza.
(f. 347d.)		 To Nicholas Withill, perpetual vicar of Cary in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The like, mutatis mutandis (here also with the mention of his own petition and that of John earl of Worcester, high constable of England, and with the 100 ducats clause). Vite etc. (G. … Tartarinis), as in the preceding. [1½ pp.]
—
Pienza.
(f. 348d.)		 To William Savage, rector of St. Nicholas's de Shypperton, in the diocese of London. The like, mutatis mutandis (here at his own petition and that of Edward king of England, and also with the 100 ducats clause). Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. A. de Urbino. M. de Sole. Jo. de Salas.) [In the margin: Augusti. 1½ pp.]
1462.
16 Kal. Sept.
(17 Aug.)
Pienza.
(f. 376d.)		 To the abbot of St. Mary's, Fermoy (de Castro dei), in the diocese of Cloyne (Clonen.), and John Roche, a canon of Cloyne. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of William Condun, clerk, of the diocese of Cloyne, contained that the prior and convent of the monastery of Glasharge, of the order of Tiron (Turnen. ordinis), in the diocese of Ferns, have been wont from time immemorial to give and grant the fruits etc. of the rectory of the parish church of Letram in the said diocese of Cloyne, which fruits etc. belong to the said monastery, on farm or yearly pension to persons who, allowing the said church to fall to ruin, have converted the fruits found therein to their own depraved uses; and that they neglect divine worship therein. At the said petition, adding that if the said fruits etc. were granted for life to him, who is of the stock of the founders of the said monastery and rectory, to farm or yearly pension, under the pension wont to be paid, it would be very profitable to the said monastery, the pope hereby orders the above two, if they find the facts to be as stated, and if the prior of the said monastery consent, to grant to the said William that he may hold the said fruits etc. for life, provided that the present prior's grant do not extend to fee or alienation. Humilibus et honestis. (G. de Piccolominibus. | Gratis. A. de Reate. T. de Treuio.) [1½ pp.]
15 Kal. Sept.
(18 Aug.)
Pienza.
(f. 381d.)		 To John Bothe, archdeacon of Richmond in the church of York, licentiate in laws. Dispensation to him (whom Nicholas V dispensed to receive and retain for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if parish churches or their perpetual vicarages or major or principal dignities, with the power of exchanging; and who is a nephew of the archbishop of York by his brother, and is a secretary of Edward king of England, and all of whose benefices and their values etc. the pope holds to be expressed by these presents) to receive and retain for life with the said archdeaconry any two other benefices, or if he resign the archdeaconry (fn. 15) any three benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if two of such three be parish churches or their perpetual vicarages, or such three be major or principal dignities etc., or such mixed, and to resign all, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases etc. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxxx. A. de Urbino pro Reate. G. Condolmario pro M. de Sole. G. de Porris.) [In the margin: Augusti. 2 pp. +. See Cal. Papal Lett., X, p. 134.]
7 Kal. Sept.
(26 Aug.)
Pienza.
(f. 383d.)		 To all the inhabitants of both sexes near (prope) the chapel of St. Mary, called Merchchapelle, situate by (circa) the seashore within the bounds of the parish of the parish church of Fulstowe, in the diocese of Lincoln. Grant, at their recent petition (containing that the said chapel is distant a mile of those parts from the said parish church, and that it is often difficult for them, on account of bad weather, floods and other perils of the roads, to go to the said church for burials) to have a cemetery near the said chapel, and after it has been consecrated by the ordinary or by any other catholic bishop, to bury their dead therein with the wonted solemnities of the country, summoning the rector or his deputy, or any other priest invited for the purpose by the said rector. (fn. 16) Sincere devotionis affectus. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxv. A. de Urbino pro Reate. M. de Sole. A. de Collis.) [In the margin: Augusti. 1½ pp.]

5 Pius II.

Prid. Id. Sept.
(12 Sept.)
Pienza.
(f. 390.) (fn. 17) 		To Adam White, a canon of the Augustinian monastery of St. Peter by Trym, in the diocese of Meath. Dispensation to him, a priest, and the son of unmarried parents, to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure, wont to be governed by secular clerks etc., as to John Ramesei above, f. 50, mutatis mutandis. Religionis etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxxx. A. de Urbino pro Reate. M. de Sole. G. de Porris.) [In the margin: Augusti. 1⅓ pp.]

4 Pius II.

Non. June.
(5 June.)
Viterbo.
(f. 431d.)		 To Robert Shawe, priest, a canon professed of the Augustinian monastery of St. Mary's, Kenyllewo[r]th, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Dispensation to him, a priest, to receive and retain for life any benefice with or without cure, secular or regular etc. as in the preceding, mutatis mutandis. Religionis etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxx. A. de Reate. Jo. de Tartarinis.) [In the margin:Maii. 1 p.]

Footnotes

2 On the back of the volume is the usual modern red leather label, with: ‘Pii ii. Secret. Lib. x. T. xxxx,’ and on the bottom edge of the volume is the usual contemporary description: ‘[Liber] ii. Anni iiii. Liber x. Pii.’ Inside the volume is the front half of the original thick parchment binding, with the contemporary description: ‘Secundus Anni iiii. G. de Piccolominibus, [a] Julio usque ad Jan.,’ also the contemporary ‘Vidit Ph.’ and the usual 16th century ‘Vis(um) V(ictorius) Cl(ementinus). There are no Rubricelle, and the text extends from f.i. to f. [ccccli], the number of the last folio, on which is the usual ‘Gaspar Blondus,’ having been torn off.
3 etiam si dignitates personatus administrationes vel officia in cathedralibus etiam metropolitans [vel collegiatis ecclesiis, et dignitates ipse in cathedralibus etiam metropolitanis] post pontificales majores vel [in] collegiatis ecclesiis [huiusmodi] principales, etiam si due parrochiales ecclesie … The text is incomplete at this point, to the extent supplied within the brackets.
4 Spelt in the text of the letter ‘Cliford Camberer,’ and ‘Clifford Camberer.’
5 The ‘t’ is ill written.
6 Without the usual marginal date.
7 The third letter has been corrected, apparently from a ‘y,’ and the result it not clear.
8 pro parte Thome et Elizabeth predictorum asserentium quod licet ipsi de nobili genere procreati sint, tamen in paternis hereditatibus Thomas videlicet quia antiquior frater non est et Elizabeth que (? rectius quia) fratrem habet non succedunt.
9 Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica, ad loc., briefly records, without giving his authority, the provision made in 1459 to the titular see of ‘Tinen. in patr. Hierosolym.,’ of ‘Joannes Valens (de dioec. Bathon. et Wellen.).’
10 The text of the quinternion which contains this dispensation begins on f. 127, which is the second folio of the quinternion. The folio which precedes, and is therefore the first folio of the quinternion, is unnumbered. It is headed ‘Aprilis, 1462, anno 4to,’ below which is a brief list of the contents of the quinternion arranged line by line, the third line from the end being ‘Johanni Bayly, Anglicana,’ i.e. [Dispensatio] Anglicana. This is the first time such a list of the contents of a quinternion has occurred.
11 in qua sicut accepimas pro conservatione et manutentione sacerdotum qui divina in dicta capella celebrant officia confraternitas quedam denuo inchoata existit, in ipsaque magister et confratres ac sorores eiusdem certis anni temporibus pro quibusdam operibus exercendis piis convenire proponunt.
12 ultramarino beatorum Petri et Pauli atque Jacobi apostolorum votis duntaxat exceptis.
13 This last clause is briefly registered, viz., ‘Quodque per unum annum etc. in forma.’
14 Datum Pientie anno etc. mcccclxii. [space] pontificatus nostri anno iiiito, i.e. a space is left for the day of the month, as in the case also of the two following letters.
15 vel ipso archidiaconatu per te dimisso. This is unusually explicit.
16 convocato ad hoc ipsius ecclesie rectore vel eius locumtenente aut alio quocunque prestytero per eundem rectorem ad hoc pro tempore invitato.
17 On f. 399d., under date 1462, 5 Id. July, anno 4, is a licence and faculty to Martin Ricardi, a Carmelite friar, who is in or about his fifty-fourth year, and whose house and diocese are not mentioned, to migrate from his said order, in which he has been for nearly forty years, to that of St. Augustine.