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The convocation of 1523

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

Edited by
Gerald Bray
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The archbishop's mandate for the convocation

Willelmus, permissione divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopus, totius Angliae primas et apostolicae sedis legatus, venerabili fratri nostro Domino Cuthberto, Dei gratia Londoniensi episcopo, salutem et fraternam in Domino caritatem. Literas domini nostri regis, sigillo suo sigillatas, nuper recepimus in haec verba:

Henricus VIII, Dei gratia Angliae et Franciae rex, fidei defensor et dominus Hiberniae, reverendissimo in Christo patri Willelmo, eadem gratia archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, totius Angliae primati, salutem. Quibusdam arduis et urgentibus negotiis, nos securitatem et defensionem Ecclesiae Anglicanae, ac pacem, tranquillitatem, bonum publicum et defensionem regni nostri et subditorum nostrorum concernentibus, vobis in fide et dilectione quibus nobis tenemini rogando mandamus, quatenus praemissis debito intuitu attentis et ponderatis, universos et singulos episcopos vestrae provinciae, ac decanos et priores ecclesiarum cathedralium, abbates et priores et alios electivos, exemptos et non exemptos, necnon archidiaconos, capitula, conventus et collegia, totumque clerum cuiuslibet dioceseos eiusdem provinciae, ad comparendum coram nobis in ecclesia Sancti Pauli Londoniarum vel alibi, prout melius expedire videritis, cum omni celeritate accommoda, modo debito, convocari faciatis, ad tractandum, consentiendum et concludendum, super praemissis et aliis quae sibi clarius exponentur, tune ibidem ex parte nostra; et hoc sicut nos, et statum regni nostri, ac honorem et utilitatem ecclesiae praedictae diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium, sexto Februarii, anno regni nostri decimo quarto [6 February 1523].

Quocirca fraternitati vestrae committimus et mandamus quatenus, omnes et singulos dictae ecclesiae nostrae Christi Cantuariensis suffraganeos, infra dictam nostram provinciam Cantuariensem constitutos, ac absentium episcoporum et diocesium vacantium vicarios in spiritualibus generales citetis peremptorie, ac per eos, decanos ac priores ecclesiarum cathedralium ac singula capitula earundem, archidiaconos, abbates, priores, conventus sub se habentes, et alios ecclesiarum praelatos, exemptos et non exemptos, clerumque cuiuslibet dioceseos provinciae nostrae antedictae citari peremptorie et praemoneri volumus et mandamus, quod iidem episcopi suffraganei, vicarii generates, decani, abbates, priores, archidiaconi ac ceteri ecclesiarum praelati, exempti et non exempti, personaliter, et quodlibet capitulum ecclesiarum cathedralium per unum, clerusque cuiuslibet dioceseos provinciae antedictae per duos, sufficientes procuratores habentes auctoritatem, potestatem et mandatum sufficiens continuationi et prorogationi dierum extunc sequentium, et locorum (si oporteat), consentiendum, coram nobis aut nostris in hac parte locum tenentibus sive commissariis (si nos tune impediri contigerit),

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Records of Convocation , pp. 77 - 100
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
First published in: 2024

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