Notes on the hospital of St. Bartholomew, Rochester.

Date:
[1896?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes on the hospital of St. Bartholomew, Rochester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    also to the Chamberlain of the Church of Rochester, 6d. ; also to Master de Magna Deice 13d. ; and 2 cocks and 10 eggs, price 43d. ; also (here follow other payments, amounting in all to 21s. 6d.) are not sufficient for the sustenance of the aforesaid Prior, brethren, and sisters. The Prior and Convent of the Church of Rochester give to the same Prior, brethren, and sisters any of the fragments which remain in the refectory of the same Church of Rochester, but to what value they know not; also they say, upon their oath, that there are in the said hospital 9 ... 7 sisters, of whom the Prior is a leper . . There are enclosed places for the cure cf the sick, and one struck with epilepsy disease. Sum of all the receipts aforesaid, according to the true value in money, £9 ; sum of all resolute payments 70s. 2^d. In witness whereof the jurors aforesaid to this inquisition and information have put their seals. Dated at Rochester the day, year, place aforesaid. ad/1348. Six years afterwards Edward III. grants Letter Patent, giving Patent Roll of ... r n r , 22nd Edward 9uittance irom all manner 01 taxes :— ill. in custody “The King, to all to whom, etc., greeting, know ye that we of our Rolls. especial grace and for the compassion which we have for the estate of the poor lepers of the Prior, brethren, and sisters of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, of Chatham, near Rochester, have granted for us and for our heirs as much as in us is to the same Prior, brethren, and Kilbum’sSur-sisters; that they and their successors shall be quit from all manner Kent’ of taxes, tallages, contributions, and other quotas and charges for ever, Note inserted whatsoever granted or to be granted to us or our heirs by the in later hand g in the old Commonalty or Clergy of our realm of England. In witness whereof, hoTpiud °i uf &c* Witness, the King, at Westminster, the 8th day of April. By writ of Privy Seal.” a.d. 1370. These Letters Patent of Edward III. were afterwards confirmed by Richard II. Parent Roll “ The King to all, etc. . . . greeting. We have inspected the Ad Rl(hard Letters Patent of Lord Edward, late King of England, our grand- tion in cus- father, in these words (here follows the recitation of the Letters of the Rolls Patent as given above), and we, the letters aforesaid having approved, freely