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I am looking at the register of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter (1420-55), who
wrote to John Heyne, Bishop of Clonfert (in Galway, Ireland) on 20th August
1448 asking him to visit the Deanery in order to consecrate “capellam Sancte
Senane dependentem ab ecclesia parochiali et matrice Sancte Beriane in Cornub’
nostre diocesis”—and to perform other episcopal duties, such as delivering
the chrism, blessing the holy water and confirming children. Lacy himself
was unable to do this, he said, because of his great age and infirmity, and the
pressure of other business. ( GR Dunstan (ed) The Register of Edmund Lacy,
Bishop of Exeter 1420-1455 (Canterbury & York Society, in conjunction with
the Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1966), vol iii, p. 9, and vol ii,
p. 391.)
Apart from the fact that the Deanery was a Peculiar, and outside Lacy's
jurisdiction (the only appeal was to the Crown), and thus not in his diocese, I
have no problem with this. What I would like to know is whether letters of
this kind were common: and could a bishop write to any other bishop, or would
there have to be a formal link, between dioceses or between the men?
I assume that John Heyne was in these parts for some other reason; the
journey from Clonfert just for this would be asking a bit much!
Susan
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