1338-12-20, Byfleet

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 14

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Dated in source: “Dec. 20” · Place: Byfleet (Surrey)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 14 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the taxers and collectors in co. Kent, of the triennial tenth and fifteenth granted by the community of the realm. Order not to molest the master and brethren of the hospital of Ospryng, as the hospital was founded by Henry III, and is so slenderly endowed that if the hospital is charged with the aids granted by the commun'ty of tke realm, it will behove the master and brethren to diminish the appointed alms.

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