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1463.
6 Kal. Sept.
(27 Aug.)
Tivoli.
(f. 34d.) |
To Richard Hawkedon, perpetual vicar of Tavystok, in the diocese of Exeter. Dispensation to him, all of whose benefices and their values etc. the pope holds to be sufficiently expressed [by these presents], to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage of Tov[y]stok (sic) any other benefice, or without the said vicarage or without them any two benefices, with cure and incompatible, even if major or principal dignities etc. or two parish churches or their perpetual vicarages or chantries (cantoria, rectius cantorie, i.e. cantarie), or such mixed, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxv. Residuum gratis de mandato domini nostri pape. G. de Porris. Jo. de Salas.) [In the margin:Augusti. 2 pp. —.] |
Ibid.
(f. 35d.) |
To William Wagot, rector of Heaunton in the diocese of Exeter. A like dispensation, mutatis mutandis. Registered briefly, with: ‘salutem etc. Vite ac morum etc. Alia similis dispensatio de verbo ad verbum inseratur, mutat(a) tantum parrochiali ecclesia de Heaunton, usque Datum Tibure ….. (G. ….. Salas), as in the preceding. [In the margin:
[Augusti.].] |
6 Id. May.
(10 May.)
[St. Peter's,]
Rome. (fn. 4)
(f. 63d.) |
To John Stokes, rector of Browghton by Ba[n]bury (fn. 5) in the diocese of Lincoln, M.A. Dispensation to him, who is a bachelor in decrees, to receive and retain for life with the said church, value not exceeding 40l. sterling, any other benefice. … or such mixed as to Richard Hawkedon above, f. 34d., mutatis mutandis, provided that the fruits etc. of one (alterius) of [the said] parish churches do not yearly exceed 100l. tournois, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. N. Bregeon. A. de Nepe. N. de Tongues.) [In the margin: Maii. 1½ pp.] |
1463.
Ibid.
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 64.) |
To William Brewne (sic), rector of Bodyngton in the diocese of Lincoln, M.A. Dispensation to him, who is a chaplain of George bishop of Exeter, to receive and retain for life with the said church, value not exceeding 20 marks of silver, any other benefice …. or such mixed as in the preceding, mutatis mutandis, provided that the fruits etc. of one (alterius) of the said parish [churches] do not exceed yearly 100 florins of gold of the Camera, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Litterarum etc. (G. … Tongues), as ibid. [In the margin: Maii. 12/3 pp.] |
Ibid.
(f. 65.) |
To William Ingilton, clerk, of the diocese of York. Dispensation to him, who is B.A. and in his twenty-first year, to receive and retain for life any two benefices with cure or otherwise incompatible, even if dignities etc. in cathedral or collegiate churches, and such dignities be [major] or principal accordingly, or two parish churches or their perpetual vicarages, provided that the fruits etc. of one (alterius) of the said parish [churches] do not exceed 100
florins of gold of the Camera, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases. Vite ac morum. (fn. 6)
(G. de Piccolominibus. | lx. N. Bregeon. N. de Tongues.) [In the margin: Maii. 1½ pp.] |
10 Kal. May.
(22 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 95d.) |
To Thomas Boteler, priest, rector of Mepertyshale in the diocese of Lincoln, I.U.B. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said church, value not exceeding 26l. 13s. 4d., any other benefice etc. as to Richard Hawkedon above, f. 34d., mutatis mutandis; provided that the fruits etc. of one (alterius) of such parish churches do not exceed yearly 100
florins of gold of the Camera. Litterarum etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. N. Bregeon. S. de Spada.) [In the margin: Aprilis. 2 pp. —.] |
7 Id. July.
(9 July.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 105.) |
To Owen (Owyno) Sympth (sic), a canon professed of the monastery of St. John the Evangelist, Karmadym, of the order of canons regular of St. Augustine, in the diocese of St. Davids. Dispensation to him, a priest and of noble birth, to receive and retain for life any benefice with cure wont to be governed by secular clerks, even if a parish church or its perpetual vicarage, or a chantry or an annual service wont to be given to secular priests in England, and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, and also to wear the habit of his profession under an honest priestly garment of dark (obscuri) colour. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxx. N. Bregeon. Jo. de Tartarinis.) [In the margin: Junii. 1 p. +.] |
Ibid.
(f. 110d.) |
To all Christ's faithful who shall see the present letters. Relaxation in perpetuity (the pope having learned that the inhabitants of the town of Beniptori (rectius Bempton) in the diocese of York, have to the glory of God and in honour of St. Michael the Archangel caused a certain chapel in the said town to be erected by the ordinary into a parish church, and have caused it to be enlarged, or rather almost entirely built at great expense, (fn. 7) and that the said church is not yet entirely provided with books and chalices and other ecclesiastical ornaments) of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance to penitents who on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel in September, from the first to the second vespers, visit the said church and give alms for the said books etc. and for its fabric and conservation. Quamquam propheta docente. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. N. Bregeon. Jo. de Tartarinis.) [In the margin: Junii. 1 p.] |
1462[–3].
5 Kal. Feb.
(28 Jan.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 120.) |
To all the inhabitants of the town of Poynton in the diocese of Lincoln. Grant and indult, at their recent petition (containing that it was formerly granted to them by papal authority that they might hear masses and divine offices in a certain chapel of the said town, and confess their sins to a fit priest therein, and receive from him the sacraments of Eucharist and Extreme Unction; and that on account of frequent floods in those parts it is at times dangerous for them to go to their parish church of Simpryngham in order to receive the other sacraments from the rector thereof), to have a baptismal font erected in the said chapel, have a cemetery hard by the chapel consecrated by a catholic bishop, have the sacrament of baptism and the other sacraments administered to them by the priest of the chapel for the time being, and have their dead buried in the said cemetery, saving the right of the said church. Apostolice sedis circumspecta benignitas. (G. de Piccolominibius. | xxx. S. de Spada. G. de Fuentes. S. Planas.) [In the margin:Martii. 1 p.] |
1463.
4 Kal. April.
(29 March.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 123.) |
To the bishop, the dean and the archdeacon of Glasgow. Mandate, as below. The pope recapitulates his late mandate ordering the bishops of Orte and St. Andrews and the abbot of Dumfer[m]lim in the said diocese, at the petition of the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Thomas the Martyr, Alberbroth (sic), in the diocese of St. Andrews, to inhibit all bishops and ordinaries, except only the bishop of St. Andrews, the ordinary, to molest the said abbot and convent etc., as above, Reg. Vat. CCCCLXXXV, f. 275d. (fn. 8) The recent petition of Thomas bishop of Aberdeen contained that the greater part of the parish churches in his diocese are united to various monasteries of the order of St. Benedict and other orders, which churches are for the most part ruinous and lacking in ornaments and other things necessary for divine worship, on account of the avarice and neglect of the religious who hold them and who have little regard for them except in the taking of their fruits, and very many of which would, if it were not for the care of the ordinaries, be totally fallen and destroyed, so that if the said abbot and convent had informed the pope of the foregoing they would not have obtained such letters from him; and that moreover, when the aforesaid is ripely considered, it is evident that the said letters are liable to be held surreptitious and were granted by and extorted from the pope under false pretences, inasmuch as the said bishop of Aberdeen and other bishops of those parts do not unduly and without cause vex the said abbot and convent, but reasonably and fittingly etc. admonish and require them by their ordinary authority to come to synods etc. The pope therefore (fn. 9) orders the above three to summon the said abbot and convent and others concerned, and if they find that the pope's said letters emanated from false pretences, to annul them and their contents as far as regards parish churches in the city and diocese of Aberdeen only, the said letters to remain in force as regards other [such churches], to decree and declare that they do not extend to them [the parish churches in the said city and diocese], but that the said parish churches in the said city and diocese of Aberdeen are altogether excepted from the said letters, and not to permit the said bishop to be molested by the said abbot and convent or any others contrary to such annulment, decree and declaration. Romani pontificis providencia. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxxv. S. de Spada. A. de Urbino.) [In the margin: Martii. 32/3 pp. See also below, Reg. Vat. DXI, ff. 239 and 240d.] |
Prid. Non. May.
(6 May.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 257d.) |
To Thomas Grene, chaplain of the chantry of St. Giles by the city of Lincoln, founded in the cathedral church of Lincoln. (fn. 10) Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said chantry, value not exceeding 5l. of petits tournois, any other benefice etc. as to Richard Hawkedon above, f. 34d., mutatis mutandis; provided that one (una) of such parish [churches] do not yearly exceed 100 florins of gold of the Camera. Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | l. N. Bregeon. S. de Spada.) [In the margin: Aprilis. 12/3 pp.] |
Ibid.
(f. 258.) |
To John Pontyngdon alias Portlond, perpetual vicar of Blanforde For(um), in the diocese of Salisbury. Dispensation to receive and retain for life with the said vicarage, with cure and value not exceeding 14l. sterling, one other benefice, or without that vicarage any two benefices, with cure or otherwise incompatible [even if they be dignities, personatus, administrations or offices in cathedral even metropolitan or collegiate churches, and such dignities be major or principal accordingly] and even if such dignities, personatus, administrations or offices be elective and have cure, and to resign them, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, and hold two other incompatible benefices, provided that they be not two parish churches or their perpetual vicarages. Vite etc. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxxx. N. Bregeon. S. de Spada.) [In the margin: Aprilis. 1⅓ pp.] |
Non. May.
(7 May.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 259.) |
To the prior and chapter of the Benedictine church of Rochester (Rossen., rectius Roffen.). Indult (the pope having learned that a number of his predecessors granted to their church and the prior for the time being that he might wear the mitre, ring (anulo) and other pontifical insignia, and in the said priory and other churches belonging to the prior and convent give solemn benediction after masses, vespers and matins, provided that no bishop or papal legate were present;
and they alleging that in the said grant concerning the mitre and pontifical insignia it was not expressed that the prior for the time being may use the staff and ring (annulo) (fn. 11)
and almuce) that the present prior and his successors may wear not only the aforesaid, namely, the ring (annulo) and other pontifical insignia, but also the staff and almuce, and give benediction after mass in the said priory and the parish churches belonging to the prior and chapter, provided that no bishop or papal legate be present. Exposcit vestre devotionis. (G. de Piccolominibus. | xxxv. S. [de Spada? ]. A. Oriens.) [In the margin: Martii. 1 p. The earlier grants referred to do not appear in the preceding volumes of the present Calendar.] |