Reference
PR285
Title
Licence to choose a confessor:
Date free text
6 May 1361
Production date
From: 1361 To: 1361
Scope and Content
Francis Cardinal - priest
to Joan Smyt(h), diocese Lincoln Avignon: 6 May 1361
(Joan Smyth does not appear at this date in PR deeds; a John Smyth of Keysoe, 1326, and of Caxton, 1345. Thomas and Alan Smyth of Little Staughton appear 1358-83, and Isolda, widow of Walter and son John at Great Staughton, 1413. Walter Smyth of Great Staughton appears 1386-95)
Text of PR285
Franciscus mis(erat)ione divina et (favore)… presbiter Cardinalis dilect' in Xto. Johanne Smt(h) (m)ulieri lincolnien' dioc' salutem in domino. Ut anime tue sanatura consolatur (auctoritate) domini pape onus penitenciarie curam gerimus Devocioni cui … … quantum liceat tibi discretum et ydoneum presbiterum in confessorem eligere qui super peccatis que sibi confiteberis (nisi talia sint propter que merito facit sedes apostolica consulendum) tibi auctoritate predicta provideat de debit' absolucionis … penitencia salutari hinc ad Triennium (?) quociens fuerit oportunum vo(t….) peregrinacionis et abstinentie siqua e… que commode observandum pares Ultramarino beatorum Petri et Pauli atque Jacobi apostolorum votis dumtaxat except(is) (convincet) nobis idem confessor hac vice in alia opera pietatis. Dat' Avinion ii Non' Maii Pontificat domini Innocentis pape vi Anno nono
on seal fold: re(?) de chan'
on dorse: Jo. De Lovesdal/ Jur'
Level of description
item