NOTIFICATION Of Robert Burnell, Mayor of Drougheda [Drogheda, cos. Louth and Meath], Ireland, Nicolas Courcy and Robert Flemynge, sheriffs, and the Aldermen, burgesses, etc., of the same town that, at a general congregation held in the Tolsell of Drogheda on Friday before the Feast of the Conver...
PAPAL INDULGENCE to the Abbot and Convent "de Quarraria" [Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight] to choose priests from their own convent to hear confessions of, impose penance on, and administer the Sacraments of the Church to, men in their service. Dat. at Interamnium [Terni in Spoleto] vi. Kal. Feb. 10 ...
PAPAL BULL addressed to the Abbots of Rievaux and Byland [N.R. co. York], interpreting an indulgence by Gregory IX. to the Sempringham order, "ne ultra duas pluresve dietas a domo sua per litteras apostolicas trahi possint in causam," as in favour not only of the principal house at Sempringham [...
PAPAL ORDER to the Abbots of Rievaulx and Byland [N.R. co. York] to protect the privileges of the master of the Sempringham order, exempting his person from excommunication, suspension, or interdict without a special papal mandate. Dat. at Lyons, iii. Id. Aug. 8 Innocent IV. [11 Aug. 1250]. Lat....
PAPAL ASSENT to the petition of Peter [de Harmeye], Abbot of Abindgon [co. Berks], for the promotion of six monks, under age, to the priesthood (provided they be in the twenty-second year of their age), to supply the lack of priests in the abbey and the consequent detriment of divine service. Da...
PAPAL CONFIRMATION to the Prior and Convent of the New House of the Mother of God, near London, of the Carthusian Order [the Charterhouse], of a papal bull dat. at Rome, Id. Dec. 1 Urban VI. [13 Dec. 1378], which, after reciting its foundation by Walter de Manny, "miles," of the see of Cambray, ...
PAPAL CONSTITUTION of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lincoln, and the Prior of Canterbury, as "Conservatores" and "Judices" of Norwich Priory. Dat. at Rome, xii. Kal. Maii, 15 Boniface IX. [20 April, 1404]. Lat. Boniface IX; Pope: Constitution of "Judices," etc., of Norwich Priory:...
PAPAL MANDATE to the Bishop of Norwich to hold an enquiry concerning a charge against John Thorp, archdeacon of Suffolk, of receiving procurations in money on his visitations, contrary to the statute of the Council of Lyons and the constitutions of Innocent IV. Dat. at Rome, xviii. (sic) Kal. Ju...
NOTARIAL INSTRUMENT made in the parish church of St. Benet Scherhog [Sherehog], London, in the presence of William Walderne, Alderman and Mercer of London, John Neuton, rector of St. Benet, Robert Neuton, chaplain, and John Bristowe, clerk, of London and of the see of Lichfield, by Peter Cherche...
PAPAL COMMISSION, addressed to John [Sante], Abbot of Abingdon [co. Berks], nuncio in England, Wales, etc., "to preach and publish an indulgence of the year of Jubilee" to all criminals of every kind. Dat. at Rome, ix. Kal. Jun. 5 Sixt. IV. [24 May], 1476. Lat. John Sante, Abbot of Abingdon: Pa...