HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1439

[undated, 1439-1440]. [Rhodes].
Master Fr. Jean de Lastic and the Convent order Fr. Rogerius de Jude in Mechelinie, as well as the heads of the preceptories of Herford, Lage, Würzburg, Neuenburg, šÜberlingen, Rohrdorf and Sulz [...] ut reperietur in Castellanie Emposte [...]. [This text has been abbreviated to such an extent, that its contents and date seem to have been left out.] (NLM Arch. 354, fol. 182v, register = liber bullarum 1439-1440 / J. M. van Winter, Sources concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands, 1998, Bulls and Letters, n. 39)

1 January, 1439. Kenilworth.
Henry [VI] to Robert Mallorre prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England, brother Thomas Chippenham master or warden of Chippenham co. Cantebrigge, and the brethren of the said Thomas there: Order to take again their letters patent concerning a corrody or maintenance which Henry Stokes has in the house of Chippenham by grant of the king, to admit him and John Norman the king's servant, groom of his robes, to the said house, and minister to them for their lives and the life of the longest liver such corrody or maintenance as one Gifford or any other before him had by the king's prerogative, making and delivering to them other letters patent under the common seal of the house with mention of what they shall take, and writing again by the bearer what they will do [...]. By p.s. (TNA, Close Rolls Henry VI, membrane 29d / Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI, 1435-1441, p. 238)

25 April, 1439. Westminster.
Henry [VI] to the customers in the port of Sandwich: Order to deliver to the prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England and to Robert Botell his brother, precentor [sic] of Melchebourne, or to their deputies without payment of custody or subsidy eighteen barrels of wine of Rodes containing six butts of wine, one valet of Turkey carpets, sheets and napkins, one chest with armour, and cloths of silk and chamelett in a carrack in that port, Anthony Querinus master or owner (patronus), which were bought and purveyed at Rodes for the consumption and needs of the prior's household, and five cartels of wine of Rodes containing two butts, and two chests of cipresse in the said carrack likewise bought etc. for consumption of the precentor, as witness has been borne in chancery. (TNA, Close Rolls Henry VI, membrane 10 / Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI, 1435-1441, pp. 214-15)

8 August, 1439. [Rhodes].
Note concerning the decision of the Master Fr. Jean de Lastic to confirm the Catalan Gabriel Martí the rights as citizen of Rhodes town already given to him by the Lieutenant Master Fr. Roberto de Diana.

26 September, 1439. Guildford.
The prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England is summoned to parliament. (TNA, Close Rolls Henry VI, membrane 34d / Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI, 1435-1441, p. 337)

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