1325-11-04, Cippenham

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the by the sheriff of Kent in the lands of the king's hospital of for divers sums of money for the king's use by reason of the sixteenth, and twentieth lately granted to the king by the commuof the realm to be superseded, and to discharge the master and brethren the hospital thereof at the exchequer upon this occasion, as the hospital, was founded by Henry III., is so poor in the things and means perto it that the goods thereof scarce suffice for the maintenance of the and brethren and of the weak and infirm folk in the hospital and of other alms to be made according to the ordinance of Henry III.. and would be necessary for the master and brethren to diminish the alms if they are charged at this time with the aids granted to the king the community of the realm.