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 1921 IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM 417 to Huntingdon Priory. Martinus. Bulla lost. ■ Cum a nobis '. Aug. ii. 119. 219. Rome, SS. Apostoli, 24 June 1428. Mandate to archbishop of York to grant dispensation for marriage contracted between William Kellum and Catherine Schakersdale in spite of ' impedimentum cognationis spiritualis '. Martinus. Bulla ; string ; the end of the string has later been looped up and stitched to a part of the flap of the letter. ' Oblate nobis pro '. [An earlier, cancelled, mandate to bishop of Durham, to the same effect, in Twemlow, Calendar, vii. 392.] Stowe Ch. 579. Eugenius IV (1431-47) 220. Rome, St. Peter's, 1 June 1431. Licence to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and Eleanor his wife to have mass, &c, privately celebrated in places under an interdict. Eugenius. Holes (2) for threads of bulla. ' Deuotionis uestre sinceritas '. [Twemlow, Calendar, viii. 363.] Add. Ch. 44531. 221. Florence, ' in Sessione publica Synodali solenniter in ecclesia maiori celebrata ', 6 July 1439. Announcement, with consent of Emperor John [VII] Palaeologus, of agreement arrived at, in council of Florence, between eastern and western churches, with definition of doctrines on disputed points ; in Latin and Greek. First line. Rota, subscriptions (of the pope and forty-two others). Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. EYPENIOC ETTICKOnOC SovAos iw Sovkwv rov Oeov' cts ai&'iov tov TTpdyfxaTos /jLvrjfjLrjv ; subscription of emperor in red ink. Holes (2, repaired) for threads of bulla. * Consentiente ad infrascripta. . . Letentur celi et ' ; o-vvauvovvros rots v-rroyeypa/x' fx€voipaLV€(rO(i)orav ot ovpavoi*. [Magnum Bullarium Romanum, vol. v, Aug. Taurinorum, 1860, pp. 39-42.] Cleop. E. iii, fos. 80-81. 222. Florence, 28 January 1440/1. Licence to provost and officials of Eton College to lease possessions of the college, even to laymen. First line. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Silk threads of bulla. 1 Ad exequendum debitum '. [New Palaeograph. Soc, ser. i, pi. 100.] Add. Ch. 15570. 223. Rome, St. Peter's, 11 May 1444. Plenary indulgence to all faithful who visit Eton collegiate church from first to second vespers of the Assumption. Eugenius. Bulla ; silk. ' Dum precelsa meri- torum '. [Official Correspondence of Thomas Bekynton, Rolls Series, 56, ii. 306-9 ; Twemlow, Calendar, viii. 271.] Add. Ch. 15569. 224. Rome, St. Peter's, 26 October 1446. Mandate to abbots of St. Benigne de Dijon and St. Pierre de Chalon and prior of St. Pierre, Macon, to publish and enforce mandate of Urban IV (10 March 1262, ' Ilium ad apostolicam ', Potthast 18243, ii. 1483) to arch- bishops and bishops not to interfere with execution of orders given by conservators of privileges of Cluniac Order. Eugenius. Traces of holes (2) for threads of bulla. ' Dudum siquidem felicis '. Add. Ch. 1563. VOL. XXXVI. — NO. CXL1II. Ee