HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1371

8 January, 1371
The Hospitaller prior of England is summoned to Parliament. (TNA, Close Rolls Edw III, membrane 1d / Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III, 1369-1374, p. 204)

8 September, 1371
[King Edward III] to W. Archbishop of Canterbury, and to the collectors in the diocese of Canterbury of the subsidy last granted to the king by the clergy of that province.
Order, upon petition of the brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, if assured that the brethren have heretofore paid the fifteenths and all other charges and subsidies granted to the king and his forefathers for all their lands and rents in that diocese, their ecclesiastical benefices excepted, with laymen and not with clergy as it is said, to stay altogether the demand made upon them for payment of the said subsidy in respect of the lands for which they are assessed among laymen.
As their petition shews that in all times past they and their predecessors paid as foresaid with laymen and not with the clergy, and that they are with laymen assessed for all their lands towards the subsidy last granted as used to be done of old time, but that the archbishop and collectors not considering this are endeavouring by ecclestical censures to compel them with the clergy to pay to the king's use the subsidy last granted by the clergy for their lands and rents so taxed among laymen, as though the same were annexed to their spiritualities which they are not, praying remedy.
Proviso that they pay as well with the laity the subsidy granted by the laity for all their lands and rents as with the clergy the subsidy granted by the clergy for their ecclesiastical benefices.
[Similar letters to the bishops of Winchester, London, Norwich, Lincoln, Coventry and Lichfield, Worcester, Exeter, Salisbury, Ely (...) and the collectors in their dioceses.] (TNA, Close Rolls Edw III, membrane 15 / Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III, 1369-1374, p. 251)

25 October, 1371
[King Edward III] to the sheriff of Westmorland: reluctance of certain abbots to contribute to the tax of 50.000 pd. granted to the king by the clergy and measures to be taken against them, including the prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England. (TNA, Close Rolls Edw III, membrane 10 / Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III, 1369-1374, p. 262)

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