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14 - Letter of Pope Urban IV to the Bishop of Carlisle and Abbot of St Augustine‘s, Canterbury, 1 June 1263 [Bl Ms Harley 638, Fols 143v – 144v]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2023

Francis Young
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The expulsion of the Friars Minor from the town of St Edmund.

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 signification 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.

Likewise, our predecessor granted the said minister by his letters, that if a place were granted him in the said town for this use by the devotion of the faithful (or in any other just way), he should be able to build a house in the same place, and have there an oratory or cemetery, according to the indult to the same order conceded by the Apostolic See, notwithstanding that the said abbot and convent have spiritual and temporal jurisdiction. And because an indult was previously spoken to them by the Apostolic See, that no religious whatsoever was allowed to build a church or chapel or have a cemetery within the bounds of their liberty without their consent and mandate, or whatever other indulgences granted by whosoever by whose grace of this kind they were impeded or able to be distracted; and which fully and expressly, or word for word, ought to make mention in the said letters.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2023

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