Series 3 > Letters of James the Fourth, 1505-1513

LETTERS OF JAMES IV
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and a Jubilee, with indulgence for sins, by commissioned
Minorite Friars. Gilbert Nycholas, of the said order, who
was accordingly ordered to take the necessary money, col¬
lected in Scotland, to Rome, now urges James that he
should be provided with a colleague. He has been for some
years expecting the indulgence, and heard that it was sent,
but had been detained in England, as the Archdeacon of
Moray, his procurator, would show. Asks also for a renewal
of the indulgence granted by Julius for the hospital at
Montrose. ‘ Ex palatio nostro.’’
541. Leo X to Laurence Taillefer, Rome, April 7, 1513.
R.O., r.t. i. vol. 1, f. 157. brodie, 1759.
Brieve to Laurence Taillefer, M.A., vicar of the parish
church of Kirkpatrick, in the diocese of Glasgow, now in
his twenty-fourth year, dispensing for two years with his
taking holy orders.
542. James IV to [Leo X], Edinburgh, [April 7, 1513].
N.L. 385 ; BRODIE 1757.
Andrew, Abbot of the Augustinian monastery of Cam-
buskenneth, ‘ qui nobis a juventate familiariter inservierat,’
died recently. His house, which James reverences above
all other places in his kingdom (que nobis pre ceteris regni
locis venit observanda) because his father and mother are
buried there, is left without a head. He has therefore
chosen as abbot one who is not the least of his servants (ex
nostris familiaribus non infimum), and begs that Patrick
Paniter, his Secretary, may be admitted as abbot, and that
His Holiness will graciously allow him two years in which
to make his profession and assume the habit.
With note : A similar letter to the Cardinal, with the
addition that the matter is entrusted to him because of
his influence in the Papal Court.