by Jill Blackwell Hughes, BA Thesis submitted to the University of ...

nuncios, for the creation of the bp. l Payment of
40s. to lady Lucy de Devorcis.
Memorandum quod T[homas] de Eadburbur', de
precepto episcopi, liberavit Galhardo de Pursato
et Johanni de Corbino, nunciis pape, de creacione
ipsius, de sigillo decem marcas. Et postea domine
Lucie de Devorcis xL. s.
365 [Undated. ) Request from Alexander, nuncio of
abp. of Canterbury (Cant') that letters dimissory
be made to John de Perewyche, clerk of Coventry
and Lichfield dioc., having no title, to receive
all orders.
366 (Fo. 20v] 18 March 1300, London. Eudes de
Derb', clerk, acknowleged his seal before M.
Thomas de Abberbur', the bp. 's chancellor, which
he had placed upon a bond the same day agreeing to
pay the bp. 50 marks for the fruits of Heanor
(Henore) church which he received for the above-
said year, to be paid in equal amounts on the
1. Pursato and Corbino were in England in 1306-7,
see W. E. Lunt, Financial Relations of the Papacy
with England to 1327 (Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1939), pp. 461,467,557,
appx. ix. Eadburbur' (M.
Thomas de Abberburyj died in May 1307, see Emden.
Oxford, i, p. 2. This entry probably represents an
instalment payment of the fees charged by the pope
for Langton's confirmation as bp., the common
service tax, see W. E Lunt, Papal Revenues in the
Middle Ages, 2 vols. (Columbia University Press,
1934), i, pp. 82-7. Thanks are due to Dr. D. M.
Smith, Director of the Borthwick Institute,
University of York, for his advise concerning this
entry.
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