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Prid. Non. Nov.
(4 Nov.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 253d.) |
To Thomas Stokemede, an Augustinian friar. (fn. 5) Dispensation to receive and retain any benefice with or without cure, wont to be held by secular clerks, even if a parish church or its perpetual vicarage, or a chantry [or] a chaplaincy, and if of the patronage of laymen, and to resign it, simply or for exchange, as often as he pleases, notwithstanding the constitutions of Otto and Ottobon, sometime legates in England, etc. Religionis zelus, vite etc. (P. and A.de Piscia. | P. xxx. de Varris.) [1 p.] |
8 Id. Nov.
(6 Nov.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 256.) |
To all Christ's faithful who see the present letters. Extension etc., as below. Eugenius IV granted to all the faithful who visited on the feast of St. Patrick the house and church of Corpus Christi, Benfada, of the order of Augustinian friars, in the diocese of Killala (Aladen.), and gave alms for its repair and conservation, an indulgence of five years and five quarantines in perpetuity, as is more fully contained in the said pope's letters. At the recent petition of the prior and friars of the said house, containing that it is situate in a desert and barren place, and lacks choir, cloister, chalices, books and other things needful for divine worship, (fn. 6) and that the friars who dwell therein are in want for their food etc., and that if the said indulgence of five years were extended to two other years, so that the faithful visiting the said house and giving alms there might gain an indulgence of seven years, they would visit it with the greater devotion and would give alms more frequently and more freely etc., the pope hereby extends the said indulgence of five years to seven years and as many quarantines, granting to all faithful, being penitent and having confessed, who visit on the feast of St. Patrick the church of the said house and give alms as above, a relaxation of seven years and seven quarantines of enjoined penance, these presents to last in perpetuity. Splendor paterne glorie. (P. and L. Dathus. | P. xx. de Varris.) [2 pp. See Cal.Papal Lett., Vol. IX, p. 455.] |
3 Kal. Jan.
(30 Dec.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 300d.) |
To the dean of Killaloe (Laonien.). Mandate (the pope having been informed by Odo Okennedy, clerk, of the diocese of Killaloe, that Maurice Okennedy, prior of the Augustinian
priory of St. John Baptist by Le Naenach in the said diocese, has dilapidated etc. its goods, and, an open fornicator, has uselessly consumed them with a certain concubine and for other evil uses, has neglected to exercise the cure of souls pertaining to the priory, or cause it to be exercised, and to correct the excesses of the canons, that the priory itself and its buildings are, through his neglect, in a state of much ruin, and that he has committed other excesses and crimes about which he is much defamed in those parts) to cause Odo, who is of noble birth by both parents, to be received as a canon of the priory and confer on him the regular habit and receive his profession, and moreover, after he has made his profession, if and after he accuses Maurice before the above dean, to summon Maurice and others concerned, and if he find the foregoing to be true, to deprive and remove Maurice, and in that event to collate and assign the priory, which is conventual and dependent on the monastery of the same St. John, Dublin, of the same order, is wont to be governed by canons of the order, and whose value does not exceed 30 marks sterling, to the said Odo; whether it become void by such deprivation, or be void by the death of William Ymcara (recte Ymeara), a canon of the said order, or by the resignation of the said Maurice, or in any other way.Dignum etc. (P. and G. Gonne. | P. xxxii. Decimo octavo Kal. Februarii Anno Tertio. de Varris.) [32/3 pp.] |
1460[–1].
Prid. Kal. Feb.
(31 Jan.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 310d.) |
To the bishop of Lincoln and the abbot of Reysby in the diocese of Lincoln. Mandate as below. The recent petition of the abbot and convent of the Cistercian monastery of Kyr[k]sted in the diocese of Lincoln contained that lately it and the animals and other goods therein were accidentally destroyed by fire, on account of which the abbot and convent have sustained and still sustain great loss and are burdened with debts. (fn. 7) At the said petition, adding that if licence were given to them to sell and alienate or grant in fee or on lease, in perpetuity or for a time, (fn. 8) under a fixed yearly cess, a number of lands and possessions of the monastery, to the value of 10l. sterling, they would rebuild and restore the houses and granges of the monastery, and would furnish it with animals, granges and other goods as before, and pay their debts, the pope hereby orders the above two, if they find the foregoing to be true etc., to grant the desired licence. In the event of such lands etc. being so granted in fee or on lease, the said yearly cess, or in case of sale the price, is to be deposited with a fit person or persons chosen by the above two, to be converted solely to the said repair and restoration etc. Ad ea que. (O. and A. de Tuscanis. | O. xxv. Pontanus.) [2⅓ pp.] |