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

10-13 BENEDICT XIII
13 October, 1403 Reg Aven 309, 444V-445V
To James de Lindsay, canon of Aberdeen, m.a. Provision of James,
subdeacon, kinsman of David, earl of Crawford, having studied
theology at Paris for more than two years, recently dispensed of a
defect of birth as the son of an unmarried man and an unmarried
woman to be promoted to all holy orders and to hold a benefice
even if with cure, by virtue of which he had himself raised to sub¬
deacons orders and had obtained the parish church of Insula St Briete,
St Andrews diocese, and subsequently dispensed to hold two other
benefices even if canonries and prebends, dignities, parsonages and
offices with powers of exchange for similar or dissimilar benefices,
to a canonry of Aberdeen with expectation of a prebend whether
a dignity, parsonage or office with or without cure, provided it is
not a major dignity in that church, vacant after 7 Id. Oct., next
[9 Oct., 1404], notwithstanding he is known to hold the said parish
church which, however, on his peaceful assecution to a benefice as
above he is to demit.1
Sallon, Arles diocese, 3 Id. Oct., anno xo; expedited, 3 Kal. Mar.,
anno 11 [27 Feb., 1405].
Concurrent mandate to the bishop of St Andrews and to the deans
of Dunkeld and Brechin.
13 October, 1403 Reg Aven 309, 496V-497V
To Robert de Moffet, canon of Glasgow, b.c.l. Provision of Robert,
of noble birth on both sides, nephew of Mathew, bishop of Glasgow,
to a canonry of Glasgow with expectation of a prebend whether a
dignity, parsonage or office with or without cure, even if the dignity
1 See CPP, i, 630.