HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1426

25 March, 1426. Rhodes.
Master Antoni de Fluvia to Jean Guilelmet magistro scutiffero: Orders that pro maiori cautela debeat accedere per omnias albergias conventus Rhodi omnium linguarum for announcements. (NLM, Arch. 347, fol. 81[92]r)

20 May 1426. Rhodes.
Master Antoni Fluvian and the convent on Rhodes confirm the receipt of the rent for Nisyros by fr Renaud de Vasselles, rented out for five years until September 1427 with a yearly rent of 750 fl.

1 July, 1426. Westminster.
[King Henry VI] to the escheator in Herefordshire and the march of Wales adjacent: Order to remove the king's hand from the manor of Upleden and the issues thereof taken. As it is found by inquisition, before the escheator taken of his office, that contrary to the statute parcel of the said manor called Wyliammeslonde of the value of 10 marks a year is occupied by brother William Roocke knight of the order of St. John of Jerusalem in England to his own use without ever obtaining licence of the king or any amortisation, to the hurt of the king, the lords of the fee and the heirs of the donor, and that all of the residue thereof was given to the house of St. John aforesaid to the intent that they should find for ever three priests celebrating in the chapel there, which they have ceased to do all the time of the said William's occupation, and should find in the manor five sick beds, and in every bed two sick men with meat and raiment during life. introducing another one if one should die, which they have ceased to do as aforesaid, also that they should entertain in their need all travellers by the way on foot and in horse, to refresh them with meat and drink, if they should crave it for love of St. John, which they have likewise ceased to do. And proclamation was made in the chancery for any who would give the king and the council information in that behalf, and after deliberation with the justices, sergeants at law and others of the council learned in the law it seemed that the seizure of the manor was of no force, wherefore by their advice it was determined that the king's hands be removed. (TNA, Close Rolls Henry VI, membrane 5 / Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI, 1422-1429, p. 244)

22 October, 1426. Westminster.
[King Henry VI] to the customers and searchers of the great and pity custom in the port of London: Order by advice and assent of the council to suffer the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England in galleys of Venice now in the realm to ship to Rodes for defence of the Christian faith there two hundred bows, two hundred sheaves of arrows, four hundred sheaves of arrow heads, rwo hundred palettes and wirehattes, forty gross of bowstrings, twelve dozen wardebraces, twelve pairs of leathern bottles (utrium), three dozen horns and four dozen spurs. By p.s. (TNA, Close Rolls Henry VI, membrane 18 / Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI, 1422-1429, p. 280)

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