1345-07-16, Southwick

Order date: inferred Regnal year 19 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 22

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Dated in source: “July 16” · Place: Southwick (Wiltshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 22 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the and brethren of the hospital of Newark (novi operis), St. Mary, of their portion of the tenth and fifteenth last granted, if that does not exceed a mark, diretting the taxers and collectors thereof co. Kent, to supersede the demand upon them for the same, as the master brethren have shown the king that although the hospital was founded all the poor and infirm resorting thither and for maintaining divers and several other alms and it is so slenderly endowed that if it charged with the aids granted by the community of the realm, it will the master and brethren to diminish the said alms, yet the said and collectors distrain them for this portion, whereupon the master brethren have besought the king to order that distraint to be superseded. By C.

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