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Topic analysis

The whole corpus

7,919Documents
0Discrete acts
4,912People named
1Mapped places
0Years covered

Frequency over time

yeardecadereignmonth

Scanned coverage: Patent Rolls 1216–1486, Close Rolls 1231–1395 (dashed markers). A fall-off after 1486 reflects Patent rolls not yet ingested, not a decline in activity.

Where

Top counties: Papal court (2864) · Lincolnshire (1661) · Somerset (1)

What kind of act

When in the year

Sample entries

  1. Undated, Avignon

    To William de Thorritest, one of the king's clerks, who holds by papal dispensation the rectories of Kneshale, Walington, Fonstone, and Doderhulle, in the dioceses of York, Lincoln, and Worcester. Indult, at the request of Thomas, cardinal of St. Sabina s, to accept two other …

  2. Undated, Avignon

    Mandate not to exact certain sums of money, as they had been ordered, from members of a firm of Mozzi, Florentine merchants dwelling in England, Scotland, and Ireland. May. To William, cardinal of St. Pudentiana s. Faculty to induct : and defend a fit person or his proctor in …

  3. Undated, Avignon

    To the abbots of Westminster and Dunfermlin, the priors of Durham, of Holy Trinity, Dublin, and of Athisill, in the 142d.) diocese of Cashel, and the archdeacon of Armagh. They, among others, are appointed protectors of the privileges of the Cistercian order. April. To John de …

  4. Undated, Avignon

    To the same. Indult, while engaged in the king's service, to put off being ordained priest and to be non-resident for three years, on condition of being ordained subdeacon within a year. To the king, urging him to seize the Templars and hand them over to the bishops of the …

  5. Undated, Avignon

    Mandate to cite John Tanguard, who, on the death of Donatus, had been wrongfully elected bishop of Killala, and whose election had been confirmed by the archbishop of Tuam, and against which Master John Heine, canon of Killala, on the ground that he had no part in it, had …

  6. Undated, Avignon

    To the same. Indult to spend seven years with a companion in the study of civil law, while holding their benefices. To the same. Dispensation to retain bis benefices, being under age. c ) To the same. Dispensation, being in his eleventh year, to retain his benefices, and also …

  7. Undated, Avignon

    Licence to retain the same. To the Augustinian prior and convent of Scheledford. Appropriation, at queen Margaret's request, of a moiety of Gedlinge, in the diocese of York, value 20 marks, of their patronage, to take effect on its voidance, a perpetual vicar being appointed. …

  8. Undated, Avignon

    To the abbot and convent of the Cluniae monastery of Reading, in which king Henry, who built it, is buried. Appropriation, at the request of queen Isabella, of the church of Thatcham, value 50 marks, in the diocese of Salisbury. Concurrent mandate to the abbots of Chertsey …

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