HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1377

1 March, 1377. Rome.
Pope Gregory XI allows the Hospitallers the sale or lease of properties of the order in Italy, up to the worth of 60.000 fl., to help the oriental Christians under threat with a contigent of 500 knights of the order. (NLM Arch. 12, no. 27, original parchment / Sarnowsky, Johanniter und Smyrna, 2, n. 16, p. 55)

7 March, 1377. Rome.
Pope Gregory XI confirms the permission of the master dated 10 August 1376 to acquire money for Smyrna and the other bases of the order in the Eastern Mediterranean by sales of the order's properties because the responsions and other incomes are not sufficient. (NLM Arch. 12, no. 29, notarial vidimus of 17 April, 1377 / Sarnowsky, Johanniter und Smyrna, 2, n. 17, p. 55 / Paoli, Codice diplomatico, 2, Nr. LXXX, p. 99. / cf. Delaville, Hospitaliers, p. 190, n. 1)

4 August, 1377. Westminster.
The prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England is summoned to parliament (TNA, Close Rolls Richard II, membrane 37d / Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II, 1377-1381, p. 84)

8 October, 1377. Westminster.
Writ of aid for Walter Haule and John Legg, king's serjeants-at-arms, whom Robert de Hales, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, has constituted his deputies in the office of admiral of the fleet from the mouth of the Thames westwards. By C. (TNA, Patent Rolls Richard II, membrane 9 / Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II, 1377-1381, p. 26)

8 December, 1377. Westminster.
Revocation of the protection with clause volumus until Easter, to Roger atte Halle, ablaster, going over sea on the king's service in the company Robert de Hales, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, the king's admiral in the West, on certificate by the sheriffs of London that he has not yet gone. (TNA, Patent Rolls Richard II, membrane 15 / Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II, 1377-1381, p. 75)

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