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

20-22 BENEDICT XIII
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similar or dissimilar benefices with or without cure even if major
or principal dignities in cathedral or collegiate churches. Alexander
had recently been provided to the said church of Rathow but was
held to demit a canonry and prebend of Glasgow, and the parish
church of Old Roxburgh, Glasgow diocese, which he then held along
with the archdeaconry without a papal dispensation, although he
was dispensed to retain the archdeaconry along with the said parish
church of Rathow and now by this indult he is given powers of
exchange.
Peniscola, Tortosa diocese, n Kal. Feb., anno 22; expedited, Kal.
Feb., anno 22 [1 Feb., 1416].
27 January, 1416 Reg Aven 348, 440
To the bishop of Glasgow, Glasgow diocese, papal chaplain.
Appointment of the bishop as a papal chaplain.
27 January [sic], anno 22.1
27 January, 1416 Reg Aven 348, 440V
To the abbot of Paisley, o.clun., Glasgow diocese, papal chaplain.
Appointment of the abbot as a papal chaplain.
27 January [sic], anno 22.1
27 January, 1416 Reg Vat 328, 362V-363
To the bishop of Glasgow. Mandate to dispense Robert de Huyston,
layman, to marry anew Alice Cambale, Glasgow diocese. Robert
and Alice were related in the fourth degree of consanguinity but had
been dispensed by Henry, bishop of St Andrews, who claimed to
have special papal powers, and so they had contracted marriage
per verba legitime de presenti, and consummated the marriage. They
had since learned by papal letters that Henry did not have this
power and so they had feared their marriage was invalid; but a
dispensation is to be granted as above and any child already born
of the marriage or born in the future is to be legitimate.
1 Part of the page has been worn away and the place of origin, presumably Peniscola,
cannot be determined.