Series 4 > Calendar of Papal letters to Scotland of Benedict XIII of Avignon, 1394-1419

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curia over a canonry and prebend of Moray; and he is dispensed to
retain the said parish church along with the archdeaconry, but on
his peaceful assecution to the archdeaconry he is held to demit the
precentorship, and within two years of this assecution he is to
exchange the parish church or the archdeaconry for a compatible
benefice, otherwise he is to demit one or the other at the end of this
time.
Avignon, 13 Kal. Jun., anno 4; expedited, 15 Kal. Jul., anno 4 [17
June, 1398]; consigned, 13 Kal. Jul., anno 4 [19 June, 1398].
Concurrent mandate to the abbots of Paisley and Lindores and to
the provost of Lincluden.
25 May, 1398 Reg Aven 304, 176V-177V
To the abbots of Melrose and Paisley and the provost of Lincluden.
Mandate. Henry Wardlau, precentor of Glasgow, b.dec., nephew
of the late Cardinal Walter, had been provided by Clement vn to
the archdeaconry of Glasgow, vacant seemingly by the resignation
of John, bishop of Tusculum, whereas it was in fact vacant because
the late Duncan Petyt who had been provided to the archdeaconry
of the said church, a non-major dignity, had obtained the provostry
of the church of St Andrew, a dignity with cure, and had held it
for a month or more contrary to the decree Execrabilis; so the present
pope provides Henry to the archdeaconry with power to exchange
the parish church or archdeaconry for a compatible benefice, within
two years of peaceable assecution to the archdeaconry, notwith¬
standing that he holds the parish church of Caveris, Glasgow diocese,
the precentorship of Glasgow, which precentorship he is to demit,
a canonry and prebend of Aberdeen, and that he is litigating over a
canonry and prebend of Moray.
Avignon, 8 Kal. Jun., anno 4; expedited, 6 Non. Jul., anno 4 [2 July,
1398]; consigned, 4 Non. Jul., anno 4 [4 July, 1398].
4 June, 1398 Reg Aven 304, 49-50
To the bishop of St Andrews. Mandate to collate John de Hawyk,
perpetual vicar of Dunlop, Glasgow diocese, b.dec., priest, to
a canonry and prebend and the precentorship of Glasgow, a