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

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LETTERS OF POPE BENEDICT XIII
Glasgow diocese, M.A., student in civil law at Orleans, of noble race,
in possession of a canonry of Glasgow and the prebend of Renfru,
value not exceeding £20 old sterling. William, holding a canonry
of Moray and the prebend of Pectyn and Brachlyn, and John de
Hawyk, holding a canonry of Glasgow and the prebend of Renfru,
wishing to exchange their benefices, had resigned them, William
through his procurator John Vaux, canon of Glasgow, and John de
Hawyk personally, into the hands of William, bishop of Moray, and
Mathew, bishop of Glasgow, respectively. The bishops received the
resignations outside the curia by ordinary authority and by the same
authority provided William to Renfru and John to Pectyn and
Brachlyn. William, however, for certain causes had doubted the
validity of his provision, and this mandate thus confirms him in
possession, notwithstanding that he is known to hold the parish
church of Glenkam, Glasgow diocese, value not exceeding ^40
sterling to a non-resident.
Nice, 4 Non. Apr., anno 11; expedited, 14 Kal. Feb., anno 12 [19
Jan., 1406].
2 April, 1405 Reg Aven 320, 482-483V
To the bishop of St Andrews. Mandate to unite and annex in
proprios usus to the abbot and convent of Cambuskyneth the parish
church of Kynnoul, St Andrews diocese, with full possession of the
revenues reserving a suitable portion for a perpetual vicar, in the
presentation of the abbot and convent, on the death, cession or any
other demission of it by its present rector. It had been shown to
Clement vn that the monastery had suffered at the hands of raiders
and was too poor to carry out repairs, whereupon William, bishop
of St Andrews, with the consent of the chapter of St Andrews by
ordinary authority, united and annexed the said church to the abbot
and convent to whom the presentation had pertained. Clement had
then granted letters in mandate to an unnamed bishop of Glasgow
that, if the above were true, he was to effect the union by apostolic
authority which was subsequently carried out by Walter, bishop
of Glasgow. Recently, however, Benedict had declared null and
void all such previous grants annexations and unions, and therefore
confirmation of this union on behalf of the abbot and convent had