1358-11-06, William Westminster

de Hatton, escheator in Kent. Order not to intermeddle hospital of St. Mary, Dover, void by the resignation of Walter the last master, as Hubert de Burgh, earl of Kent, granted to III, his right of patronage of that hospital, which he founded for and sick, and that king provided that the brethren at every might choose a master from their midst or elsewhere, whom they present to the king or to his chief justice if the king was not in for their assent, which should be given without difficulty, and the should afterwards be presented to the archbishop of Canterbury. to the spiritualities from him, that lest during a vacancy the hospital be oppressed by any bailiff, the keeping of the house with its should pertain to the brethren, so that one of them should the affairs of the house, and no bailiff of the king should presume hands upon the house or its goods.