Nov. 8, Peter's Rome

To the archbishop of Taranto, the bishop of Lincoln, and the official of London. Mandate to summon prior John and the convent of Tykford in the diocese of Lincoln, and to aggravate LATERAN REGESTA, VOL. LXXI. the processes made against them by James bishop of Plock, sometime papal chaplain and auditor, and to invoke if necessary the aid of the secular arm. The recent petition of Thomas Overton, rector of Great Crawle in the said diocese, contained as above, p. 98 (here with readings Richard Down, and Robert Esbache (or Esbathe), canon of Lincoln [sic, ef. p. 98]) as far as James, [now] bishop of Plock, then chaplain and auditor, who gave sentence against the prior and convent condemning them in costs; and that Thomas obtained letters executory [i.e. the mandate on p. 93] addressed to the bishop of Tuy and two others (not here named), which bishop warned the prior and convent, under pain of excommunication, suspension and interdict, to give up the tithes to Thomas and make satisfaction to him for the said costs, all which they still refuse to do, thereby incurring the said sentences, under which they still lie. Exhibita nobis. (De mandato.) Relaxation of a year and forty days of enjoined penance to penitents who give or bequeath aught for the repair of the bridge over the Toryge between Great and Little Toryton in the diocese of Exeter. The pope strictly forbids these presents to be sent by pardoners (questuarit), and if this be done they are invalid. Univ Christifid. ete. Quoniam ut ait apostolus. To Henry Bowet, archdeacon of Lincoln. Indulté for seven years to visit his archdeaconry by deputy and to receive. procurations in ready money to the daily amount of 30 silver gros Tournois, 12 to the gold florin of Florence. Vite ac morum. Concurrent mandate to the bishop of Monopoli, the abbot of Westminster, and the dean of London. Vite etc. (De mandato.) To Walter Meddeford, clerk, of the diocese of Salisbury. Absolution from sentence of excommunication and other : penalties, as below, with dispensation on account of consequent irregularity, if any, and rehabilitation. Provision of the canonry and prebend of Faryndon in Salisbury, previously reserved, was made by the pope on their voidance through the promotion by him and the subsequent consecration of Guy, bishop of St. Davids, to Christopher, cardinal priest of St. Ciriac s, which provision Walter hindered from taking effect. Master James Steube, papal chaplain and auditor, acting by papal commission, ordered Walter to resign and make satisfaction to the cardinal for fruits received, under pain of excommunication, deprivation and disability, and subsequently Master James de Aquila, chaplain, ete., declared him, as contumacious, to have incurred the said penalties and sentences. Sedes apostolica. (De mandato.) To John Payn, perpetual vicar of Somborn Regis in- the diocese of Winchester. Indult for ten years to take and let j to farm, to clerks or layman, the fruits of his said vicarage 11 BONIFACE IX. 278 and other benefices while studying letters at an university, or engaged in the service of a prelate or temporal lord, or residing in the Roman court or one of his benefices. Vite ac morum. Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Taranto, the abbot of Hyde without the walls of Winchester, and the archdeacon of Winchester. Vite ete. Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjoined oo to penitents who on the feasts of the Invention and xaltation of Holy Cross visit and contribute aught from their _ to the altar of Holy Cross in the parish church of St. eter, in the town of Makeseye, in the diocese of Lincoln. Univ. Christifid. ete. Licet is. (De mandato.) To John Traharn, canon of Llandaff, bachelor of canon and civil law. Faculty to grant marriage dispensations to six men and as many women of the city and diocese of St. Davids, related in the fourth degree of kindred or affinity. Personam tuam. (De mandato.) To Magonius Oduda, precentor of Killala. Dispensation to him, who is of noble race, to hold for life together with the said precentorship, which is a simple office without cure, value not exceeding 2 marks, any benefices. in the said church of any number and kind, and so many other benefices with or without cure, that their annual value may ascend to 60 marks, even if they be canonries and prebends and dignities, one being major, personatus and offices, with or without cure, in the said church, and three of them be otherwise incompatible, and such dignities, personatus or offices be elective. Nobilitas generis, vite ac morum. (De mandato.) Ordinance providing penalties as below, in the causes which lately arose between bishop Henry and the prior and chapter of Norwich about the correction and punishment of any excesses of monks of the said church detected in visitation, the exhibition of titles, the letting (arrendacione) and resignation (dimissione) of benefices, portions, and pensions, the sale of corrodies, the suspension and removal of the proctor of the prior and chapter, Di edging (insinuacionibus) and probate (approbacionibus) of wills of priests of the cemetery (Carnarii) within the enclosure of the priory of the said church, and of the wills of any persons deceased within the jurisdiction of the said prior and chapter and of the hospital of St. Paul, and any matters touching the jurisdiction of the prior and chapter, the induction of vicars and of the dean, the convocation of the prior and chapter for treating with the bishop for the time being, the custody of muniments belonging to the bishop and chapter, and other matters (not here expressed), After the causes had been long ventilated in the apostolic palace and in England, the pope called them up to himself, and on the bishop's disregarding this and obtaining a pretended sentence in England, the pope by further letters called them 16368 8 LATERAN REGESTA, VOL. LXXI. up again, and imposed silence on the bishop and on the prior and chapter until commission should be given to another auditor. Having learned that a doubt has arisen whether the bishop and his adherents or the prior and chapter may not act against his last letters, no penalty being inflicted for such action, the pope hereby ordains that those who do s0, if individuals, incur excommunication, or if a chapter or college, suspension, from which they cannot without his knowledge be absolved, except at the hour of death. Ad fut. rei mem, Olim cum inter. . Concurrent mandate to the archbishop of Taranto, the bishop of Tuy, and the abbot of St. Albans. Olim ete. (De mandato.) [See above, p. 11, and Cal. Lett. 1v. p. 525.] LATERAN REGESTA, VOL. LXXIII. 11 BONIFACE IX. DE DIVERSIS FORMIS, To William Lytstere, priest, of the diocese of Norwich. Indult Rome. to him, who is in his twenty-fourth year and in priest s orders, to celebrate mass. Vite ae morum. Relaxation of seven years and seven quadragene of enjomed Rome. penance to penitents who on the principal feasts of the year and 13.) those of St. Nicholas and the dedication, the octaves of certain of them and the six days of Whitsun week; and of a hundred days to those who during the said octaves and days visit and give alms for the conservation of the church of St. Nicholas Wylle of Bristol, and the chapels of St. John the Evangelist in the cemetery of the said church, and St. Mary on Bristol Bridge. Univ. Christifid. ete. Licet is. April. To Gruffin ap Rys, priest, of the diocese of Llandaff. Rome. Rehabilitation he having received successive papal dispensations as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried woman (i) to be promoted to all even holy orders, and hold a benefice even with cure, after which he was ordained priest and obtained the parish church of St. Lethian; (ii) to resign that church for purpose of exchange or otherwise, and to receive in its place a similar or dissimilar benefice, which he did by exchange with Lewis ap David for the parish church of Salsburi, both in the 11 BONIFACE IX. 275 said diocese, the resignations being made to bishop John and having afterwards exchanged Salsburi with Gilbert Beteys for the chantry of St. Mary in the church of Llandaff, value not exceeding 7 marks, the resignations being similarly made. He has hereby dispensation to hold the said chantry and any mutually compatible benefices with and without cure, of any number and kind, even if canonries and prebends and dignities, personatus and offices in metropolitan, cathedral or collegiate churches, and to exchange it and them as often as he pleases for similar or dissimilar mutually compatible benefices. His illegitimacy need not be mentioned in future graces. Sedes apostolica. To the Augustinian abbot and convent of St. Mary's, Cong, in the diocese of Tuam.