Regesta 239: 1357 | British History Online

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Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 3, 1342-1362. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1897.

Citation:

Regesta, Vol. CCXXXIX.

5 Innocent VI.



1357. Id. Jan. Avignon. (f. 9.)	To Edward, prince of Wales. Recommending to him the Cistercian abbot and convent of Grandselve, in the diocese of Toulouse, whose house in the suburb of Bordeaux has suffered in the war.
Kal. March. Avignon. (f. 30d.)	To John, king of France. Praying him to dispose his mind to peace with the king of England, in the treaty about to be held at Bordeaux.
Ibid.	To Edward, prince of Wales. The like.
Ibid.	To Talairand, bishop of Albano, papal nuncio. Touching the same, and requesting full reports, as he rarely receives letters from him.
Ibid. (f. 31.)	To Nicholas, cardinal of St. Vitalis, papal nuncio. The like, omitting the clause about the letters.
Ibid.	To the French plenipotentiaries about to treat touching the said peace. Exhorting them to promote and confirm the said treaty.
Ibid. (f. 31d.)	To the English plenipotentiaries. The like.
14 Kal. May. Avignon. (f. 49d.)	To king Edward. Desiring him to assist the proctors of Nicholas, cardinal of St. Sixtus, in obtaining possession of the archdeaconry of Ely, conferred on him by the pope, when void by the death of Galhardus, cardinal of St. Lucy's in Silice, at the apostolic see, certain ambitious persons having pretended that the collation thereof belonged to the king.
Ibid. (f. 50.)	To the archbishop of Canterbury. Touching the same, and desiring him to use his influence with the king for the removal of the person on whom the archdeaconry was conferred contrary to the papal provision.
Ibid.	To William, bishop of Winchester; John, bishop of Rochester; John Wynewyk, treasurer of York; Hugh Pelegrini, treasurer of Lichfield. The like.
12 Kal. May. Avignon. (f. 52d.)	To Talairand, bishop of Albano, papal nuncio. Power to dispense fifty Englishmen of illegitimate birth, so as to be ordained and hold a benefice apiece.
Ibid. (f. 53.)	To the same. Power to dispense fifty Englishmen and as many women, who have intermarried in ignorance that they were related in the fourth degree of kindred or affinity, to remain in the marriage so contracted, and to declare their past and future offspring legitimate.
Ibid.	To the same. Power to grant leave to twenty-five persons, of either sex, secular or regular, in England, to choose their confessors, who shall give them plenary remission at the hour of death on the usual conditions.
Kal. May. Avignon. (f. 59d.)	To Hugh Pelegrini, treasurer of Lichfield, papal nuncio. Provision that he shall pay next Whitsuntide without delay 5000 gold florins out of the money collected by him for the papal camera on the order of the pope, or of the camera to a person to be named.
16 Kal. April. Avignon. (f. 67d.)	To the same. Mandate to exact fruits, rents, and profits reserved and applied to the papal camera in England, any indult to the contrary notwithstanding.
9 Kal. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 73d.)	Safe-conduct for Peter, cardinal priest of the basilica of the Twelve Apostles, going from the Roman court to England on certain business.
6 Kal. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 78.)	To Raymond (Hugh) Pelegrini, treasurer of Lichfield, papal nuncio. Mandate to assign secretly and cautiously the 5000 gold florins ordered to be collected in the pope's letter of Kal. May to John, king of France, and receive from him a simple letter under his seal to the effect that he will restore the same to the pope or the Roman church at his or its requisition.
Ibid. (f.78d.)	To John, king of France. Informing him of the same, and telling him to get the money from the said Hugh.
4 Kal. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 81.)	To John, bishop of Lincoln. Desiring him to assist the proctors of Master Francis de Sancto Maximo, papal notary and secretary, in obtaining possession of the canonry and prebend of Leighton Manor in Lincoln, reserved to the pope, and given to Francis on their voidance by the consecration of Peter [de Sancto Martiali], bishop of Rieux.
Ibid. (f. 81d.)	To Simon de Briselee, dean of Lincoln, and to the chapter of Lincoln. Touching the same.
2 Kal. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 82d.)	To Talairand, bishop of Albano, and Nicholas, cardinal of St. Vitale's, papal nuncios. As king Edward takes it ill that his clerks and others are brought to the Roman court, the pope is writing to him, and to king John and others, touching the reformation of peace between the said kings, of which copies are enclosed, and desires the nuncios to use their influence that the pope's wishes may be complied with.
Kal. June. Avignon. (f. 83.)	To Talairand, bishop of Albano, papal nuncio. Desiring him to induce king Edward to restore the temporalities of the see of Ely to bishop Thomas.
Ibid.	To Nicholas, cardinal of St. Vitale's, papal nuncio, and Peter, cardinal priest of the basilica of the Twelve Apostles. The like.
2 Kal. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 85d.)	To king Edward. The pope has received his letters in duplicate touching his secretary, Thomas de Brembre, canon of Salisbury, cited by papal authority at the instance of his adversary, and asking the pope to refrain from such citations, which the king says were formerly issued only in extreme cases against tyrants and rebels of the Roman church. The pope replies that he is not conscious of having injured any of the king's servants, that he wishes to administer justice without respect of persons, and desires the king to take care that his servants do not, through ignorance or dissimulation, make justice yield to injury, or reason succumb to will. He implores the king to restrain the licence of his servants against ecclesiastics, in whose persons an injury is done to the church.
4 Kal. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 87.)	To the same. The pope has heard from the cardinal nuncios and others of the treaty of peace arranged in their presence between king John and the prince of Wales before the departure of the latter from Gascony, subject to king Edward's assent, and urges him to receive favourably Peter, cardinal priest of the basilica of the Twelve Apostles, who was a party to the treaty on behalf of the king of France, and to dispose his mind to peace with the king of France, so that the Holy Land may be freed from the Saracens. [Fœdera.]
4 Non. June. Avignon. (f. 92d.)	To John, king of France. As the time is at hand for the cardinal nuncios to go to England to complete the treaty of peace between him and king Edward, the pope prays him to dispose his mind to peace.
Ibid.	To queen Isabella. The like, requesting her to use her influence with her son, king Edward, to whom the pope is writing.
Ibid. (f. 93.)	To queen Philippa; Henry, duke of Lancaster; Edward, prince of Wales; Lionel, son of king Edward; William, earl of Northampton; Roger, earl of March; Richard, earl of Arundel; Thomas, earl of Warwick; Robert, earl of Suffolk; Robert (Ralph), earl of Stafford; Bartholomew de Burghersh, knight; Guy de Briane, knight; the archbishop of York; the archbishop of Canterbury; the bishop of Winchester; the king's chancellor; the bishop of Rochester; Philip son of John, king of France; John, count of Tancarville, and other French nobles. The like, mutatis mutandis.
8 Id. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 94.)	To William de Grenlaw, M.A. Extension of dispensation so as to hold the archdeaconry of St. Andrews and the deanery of Glasgow, of which he has not yet got possession, he having had provision of the archdeaconry of Brechin.
2 Id. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 109.)	Safe-conduct for Charles Jorii, papal serjeant-at-arms, going to France and England.
12 [Kal.] July. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 116.)	To the lieutenants of Edward, king of England, in Bordeaux. Desiring to liberate and make restitution to Stephen Lestrada, lord of Aguda, and Raimund de Veyraco, knights companions of William Rogerii, viscount of Turenne, who, after the truce made between the kings of France and England, when on their way to the Roman court, and to the said viscount there dwelling, were seized by Bertugabus de Lebreto, and despoiled of their goods.
Ibid. (f. 116d.)	To the lieutenants of Edward, king of England, in the duchy of Aquitaine. The like.
Ibid.	To John, count of Armagnac. Desiring him to interpose on behalf of the said knights.
Ibid. (f. 117.)	To Bernard, lord of Lebret, knight; Roger, count of Perigord, the seneschal of Bordeaux; William Sancii de Pomeriis, knight and another not named. The like.
8 Kal. June. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 121d.)	To Peter, cardinal of the basilica of the Twelve Apostles, nuncio to the kings of France and England. Faculty to confer the office of notary on twenty unmarried clerks not in holy orders, and on ten others being subdeacons, deacons, or priests, in France and England, after due examination, receiving from them the oath of fealty to the pope and the Roman church.
6 Kal. Aug. Avignon. (f. 139d.)	To king Edward. Praying him to assist Nicholas, cardinal of St. Sixtus, or his proctors, in obtaining possession of the archdeaconry of Ely, the occupier of the same being removed.
Ibid. (f. 140.)	To John de [Woodrove], Friar Preacher, king Edward's confessor. Desiring him to use his influence with the king touching the same, as the cardinal, wishing to act towards the king in a friendly way, does not intend to make use of the papal citation against the occupier of the archdeaconry.
16 Kal. Aug. Villeneuve by Avignon. (f. 152d.)	To king Edward. Touching the matter of complaint about his secretary, Thomas de Brambre, canon of Salisbury, the king asserting that the citation granted to Thomas, bishop of Ely, against some justices and other persons of the realm is in derogation of the laws of England, and that the processes by the said justices against the bishop are duly held. The pope replies as before (2 Kal. June), and adds that the king is not to take it ill if the vicar of Christ defends prelates and their churches when attacked by the justices, not in discharge of their office, but moved by personal hatred. Ignorance is no excuse, and if there be dissimulation the king is implicated in it. The pope beseeches the king (as before) to restrain the licence of his servants, and if the bishop of Ely has transgressed, he is to be made by strict administration of justice to keep the rules of canonical observance. The pope is writing about the same to the cardinal nuncios, to whom the king may give full credence.
Ibid. (f. 154d.)	To Talairand, bishop of Albano, and Nicholas, cardinal of St. Vitale's, papal nuncios. The king has seen their letters and those of the prince of Wales and of king Edward, touching the business of the bishop of Ely, and encloses a copy of his answer to the king, desiring them to present the same to him, and to endeavour to remove his rancour against the said bishop, and to bring about a peaceful settlement of the matter.
6 Kal. Aug. Avignon. (f. 155.)	To Simon, archbishop of Canterbury. Touching the same matter, and desiring him as metropolitan of the bishop of Ely, and successor of St. Thomas the Martyr, to act as befits him, and not, as the pope is grieved to hear that he and other prelates and ecclesiastics have done, to keep silence, and like dumb dogs not dare to bark against the doers of such things.
Ibid. (f. 155d.)	To William, bishop of Winchester, John, bishop of Rochester, and John de Winewyke, treasurer of York. The like, mutatismutandis.
12 Kal. Aug. Avignon. (f. 156.)	To all prelates, secular and regular, nobles, and officers. Safe-conduct for Nicholas d'Amory and Thomas de Fulnethby, knights, ambassadors and envoys of king Edward to the pope.
Kal. Sept. Avignon. (f. 205.)	To Talairand, bishop of Albano, papal nuncio. Praying him to interpose on behalf of Nicholas, cardinal of St. Sixtus, touching the archdeaconry of Ely, collation of which has been made to him by the pope.
Ibid.	To Nicholas, cardinal of St. Vitale's, and to Peter, cardinal of the basilica of the Twelve Apostles, papal nuncios. The like.
16 Kal. Oct. Avignon. (f. 218d.)	To John, king of France. Praying him to assist Lewis, viscount of Rochechouart, to recover his castle of Tonnay-Charente, in the diocese of Saintes, taken by Robert de la Diran, knight, when in the service of king Edward.
Ibid. (f. 219.)	To king Edward. The like.
Ibid.	To Talairand, bishop of Albano, papal nuncio. Praying him to use his influence with the said kings touching the same.
Ibid. (f. 219d.)	To the bishop of Winchester; Michael, bishop of London; William, archbishop of Sens; Nicholas, cardinal of St. Vitalis, papal nuncio; Peter, cardinal of the basilica of the Twelve Apostles; the prince of Wales; Henry, duke of Lancaster; John (Richard), earl of Arundel; Bernard, count of Ventadour; Guy de Brian, knight. The like.
Id. Oct. Avignon. (f. 230.)	To John, archbishop of Reims. Thanking him for the honours, favours, and subsidies granted by him to Charles, duke of Brittany, and his children, so that his escape from going to England, and from the charge of perjury, and their liberation from prison is due to the archbishop's beneficence alone.