Boniface IX, c 1355-1404 (Pope)

Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from [Richard II] to Pope Boniface [IX].

Date: [before June 1393].

Place: no place.

Subject matter: provision of Thomas Dalby to archdeaconry of Richmond; Cardinal of Pisa [F. Moricotti Prignani].

Mention of a seal? No.

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Copy of a letter from Richard II to Pope [Boniface IX].

Date: [June 1392-June 1393].

Place: no place.

Subject matter: petition in favour of Richard Felde, the king's almoner; prebend of Thame in Lincolnshire.

Mention of a seal? No.

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Copy of a letter from [Richard II's council] to [Boniface IX].

Date: [ca December 1389].

Place: no place.

Subject matter: election of new pope; Damian de Cataneis; signed by John duke of Lancaster and Aquitaine, Edmund duke of York, Thomas duke of Gloucester, William Wynton, bishop and chancellor, and John "Menevensis", bishop, treasurer.

Mention of a seal? No.

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Copy of a letter from [William Courtenay, archbishop of Canterbury] to Pope B[oniface IX].

Date: [Dec 1391].

Place: no place.

Subject matter: papal provisions; Nicholas, abbot of Nonantola, as king's messenger.

Mention of a seal? No.

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Copy of a letter sent [on the behalf of Richard II] to Pope [Boniface IX].

Date: [1392].

Place: no place.

Subject matter: Damian de Cataneis; Emanuele Zacarie; Statute of Provisors.

Mention of a seal? No.

Scope and Contents MS 183, the Royal Letter Book, is an English late medieval manuscript containing contemporary copies of 374 letters, most of which belong to the reigns of Edward III (1327-1377) and Richard II (1377-1397). The manuscript further contains a few copies of letters from the reign of Henry IV (1399-1413) and the copy of a single letter from the reign of Henry V (1413-1422), as well as several letters between other correspondents. The overall date range of the...