11 - The Process of the Executors in the Matter of the Expulsion of the Friars Minor [Bl Harley Ms 638, Fols 33r – 34v]
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2023
Summary
In the name of God, Amen. This is a copy of the process or processes of the executors or judges and sublegates written below by them, by the authority of Pope Urban IV of happy memory, as to those things of the delegates subsequently to be done by the Apostolic See. The beginning, continuance and limit of their commission and authority, which I faithfully transcribed and committed to a word-for-word copy in another instrument, I have here had annotated.
In truth, the courses of the processes resulting from the authority of the said apostolic letters, as much those of the executors as of the subexecutors, which I, the notary written below, undertook to exemplify and copy, next to what was shown to me in the same authentic letters patent. And, as aforesaid, having been commissioned to copy them, to thus verify what they contained, with nothing added or taken away from them, I led them to be inserted in the present instrument.
The copy of the apostolic letters and commission made by the executors, of which there is mention above, thus begins:
Urban the bishop, servant of the servants of God, to the venerable bishop of Carlisle and to his beloved son the abbot of St Augustine's of Canterbury, greeting and the apostolic blessing. Our beloved sons the abbot and convent of the monastery of St Edmund of the Order of St Benedict, of the diocese of Norwich, pertaining to the Apostolic See with no intermediary, having considered these things regarding the salvation of souls, at the suggestion of the minister of the Friars Minor in England, have shown to us that a house in the town of St Edmund, king and martyr (which is called Bury) in which certain of the order of Friars Minor might live will be most opportune, in which the same abbot and convent obtained complete spiritual and temporal jurisdiction from the said diocese by Pope Alexander our predecessor of happy memory, etc.
And thus it ends:
Or if, because they are not able to be excommunicated, suspended or interdicted by the same minister and friars or by any others, let there be an indult from the Apostolic See. Given at Orvieto on 1 June, in the second year of our pontificate.
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- The Franciscans in Medieval Bury St Edmunds , pp. 71 - 83Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023