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1472[–3.]
9 Kal. April.
(24 March.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 60v.) |
To Robert Ker, abbot de Calco, immediately subject to the apostolic see, O.S.B., in the diocese of St. Andrews. Grant, etc., as below. His recent petition contained that on the voidance of the monastery by the death of Alan without the Roman court, the convent unanimously elected Richard Robson, a monk thereof; that in virtue of the election, which by the ancient custom of the monastery required no confirmation, the said Richard obtained possession of the rule and administration, and got provision by apostolic authority; that Richard subsequently resigned to the convent, and that the convent elected the said Robert, that he similarly obtained the rule, etc., that provision was made him by apostolic authority, and that in virtue of the said election and provision he has been abbot for more than four years. Seeing that Richard Wyly, alleging that provision was made to him by the same authority, and that, without having obtaining possession of the rule, etc., he has resigned the said rule etc., and all his right, to the pope by James Inglis, canon of Glasgow (acting as substitute for Richard's proctor, Andrew, bishop of Glasgow); and seeing, also, that it is alleged that the monastery became and is void perhaps otherwise than as above, the pope grants that the said provision to Robert shall hold good from the date thereof, in whatsoever way the monastery be void; with ex habundanti cautella provision to him hereby of the monastery, value 800l. sterling, after deducting the burdens of the abbatial mensa. Personam tuam. [In the margin: Apri. 3 pp.] |
1472[–3.]
4 Kal. March.
(26 Feb.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 180r.) |
Annulment of the exemption, and subjection to Patrick, archbishop of St. Andrews, of the monasteries of Kelso (de Calco), O.S.B. and Holyrood, O.S.A. (which latter was exempted by Paul II), [See Cal. Papal Lett. Vol. XII, p. 725], the collegiate church of St. Salvator, founded by the late James, bishop of St. Andrews, near the archiepiscopal palace, and the church of St. Giles, Edinburgh, erected by the above archbishop Patrick into a collegiate church, all in the diocese of St. Andrews; with mandate executory hereby to the archbishop of Antivari and the abbots of Driburg and Belmeryn[o]ch. Ad perp. rei mem. Romanus pontifex. [In the margin: Apri. 3⅓ pp. Theiner, op. cit., p. 470.] |
1473.
4 Id. April.
(10 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 183v.) |
To the priors of Dearg and Saints Island (Insula Sanctorum), in the diocese of Ardagh (Ardakaden.), and Roger Oferagail, canon of Ardagh. Mandate to collate and assign to Tomultheus Omulmichil, priest, of the diocese of Elphin, the perpetual vicarage of Chilltrostan alias St. Patrick, in that diocese, and a canonry of Elphin and the prebend of Chilltrostan therein, void by the respective deaths of Cristinus Machedian and Odo Oflonnagayn without the Roman court, and value 4 and 8 marks sterling, respectively, although Charles Machydian, son of the said Cristinus, without any dispensation immediately to succeed his said father in the said vicarage, has detained it, collated to him by authority of the ordinary, for ten years, and has detained the said canonry and prebend, without any canonical title, for between two and three years; summoning and removing Charles, whom Tomultheus cannot safely meet in the city and diocese of Elphin. Vite ac morum. [In the margin: Maij. 2¾ pp.] |
3 Non. April.
(3 April.)
St. Peter's, Rome.
(f. 188r.) |
To William, bishop of Ostia. Mandate, as below. Pius II ordered the deprivation of John Pincher, prior of Coldingham, in the diocese of St. Andrews, the dissolution of the union of the said priory to the priory of Durham, and the grant of it in commendam to Patrick Hom, archdeacon of Teviotdale [Cal. Papal Lett., XI, p. 425 andXII, p. 232], in virtue of which he obtained and has held the said priory in commendam for a number of years; and the present pope, at the petition of king James, ordered the above bishop to unite the said priory of Coldingham to the chapel royal of St. Mary, in the diocese of St. Andrews [above, p. 14]. At the recent petition of the said king, the pope orders the same bishop to receive Patrick's resignation of the commenda, erect the priory into a collegiate church, to be called the chapel royal of Coldingham, make to the said Patrick (who holds, besides the said archdeaconry, the parish church of Kerington in the diocese of St. Andrews) provision of the deanery of the said chapel, and reserve the patronage thereof and future presentations to the said king and his successors, etc. Ex superne providentia. [In the margin: Maij. 5½ pp. Theiner, op. cit., p. 472, with a faulty summary, and ‘Kervigton’ for ‘Kerington.’] |
1473.
11 Kal. June.
(22 May.)
S. Maria Maggiore,
Rome.
(f. 219r.) |
To the bishop of Nocera. Mandate, as below. The recent petition of Adam Gordon, priest, of the diocese of Moray, contained that after Paul II's reservation of all sentences against simoniacs, he simoniacally induced the late William Rat to resign his canonry of Caithness and prebend of Keldonen,’ got himself provision of them, thus void, obtained possession, and has detained them for more than two years; that a canonry of Aberdeen and the prebend of Banchie (recte Banchir) called de Vynyk (i.e. Devynyk) became void by Paul II's promotion of John, bishop of Brechin, to that see, and by his consecration at the Roman court, and that both Master Patrick Home, a papal notary, and John Laufas (fn. 1) clerk, of the diocese of St. Andrews or (sive) Dunkeld (Dukaden.), alleged that provision had been made to them thereof; that, whilst the cause between them was pending before a papal auditor, Adam agreed with Patrick and John's proctor that they should give up the suit and all right in or to the said canonry and prebend of Aberdeen, and that he should resign the said canonry and prebend of Caithness and another benefice, to the end that provision thereof should be made to Patrick and John, respectively; that, inasmuch as they were not content with the said canonry and prebend and benefice, he promised and paid money to Patrick and John's proctor, Patrick subsequently resigning by proctor, and John by himself, the said cause and all right in or to the said canonry and prebend of Aberdeen to the bishop of Aberdeen; that the bishop, perhaps ignorant of the said agreement and suit, admitted the resignation, and made collation and provision of the said canonry and prebend of Aberdeen to Adam, who got possession, and still detains them; that he resigned the said canonry and prebend of Caithness and benefice, as he had promised, and that provision of the canonry and prebend was made to a person agreeable to Patrick, and of the benefice to John; that, finally, Adam promised to assign to the lay patron of a certain benefice certain yearly rents if he would present him, although the agreement has not taken effect. The collation and provision to Adam of the canonry and prebend of Aberdeen being therefore without force, and they being consequently still void, the pope hereby calls up the said suit to himself, and extinguishes it, and orders the above bishop to absolve Adam from simony and its penalties, impose penance, rehabilitate him, and thereupon collate and assign to him the said canonry and prebend of Aberdeen, value 18l. sterling, after he has resigned them. Sedes apostolica. [In the margin: Maij. 10 pp.] |