HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1461

8 May (and seqq.), 1461. Rhodes.
The Master Fr. Jacques de Milly and Convent declare that the common treasury of the order owes Leo and Nathan Abraham certain sums 'lent' to the defence of Rhodes; two lists of other Jews who 'lent' money to the common treasury.

6 July, 1461. Rhodes.
Master and Convent grant the preceptory of Mechelen, vacant by the death of Fr. Rutgerius Jude, to Fr. Hermannus Schult, head of the preceptory of Columbaria (Colmar). (NLM Arch. 371, fol. 134v, register = liber bullarum 1461 / J. M. van Winter, Sources concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands, 1998, Bulls and Letters, n. 64)

7 November, 1461. Westminster.
[King Edward IV grants a] licence for John Langstrother, preceptor of Balsale, and Cincius de Ursinis, alien preceptor of the priory of the city [Rome], to carry out the commands of James de Mylly, master of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and the convent of Rhodes, to visit the houses of the order in England and Ireland. By p.s. (TNA, Patent Rolls Edw IV, membrane 13 / Foedera / Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, 1461-1467, p. 52)

12 November, 1461. Westminster.
[King Edward IV grants a] commission to Robert Botell, prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England, John Wenlok of Wenlok, knight, chief butler of England, and Peter Taster, dean of St. Severin, to determine infractions of the truce with the king's kinsman the duke of Burgundy. By K. (TNA, Patent Rolls Edw IV, membrane 5d / Foedera / Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, 1461-1467, p. 102)

18 Dezember, 1461. Westminster.
[King Edward IV grants an] exemption for life for John Formour, servant of the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, gentleman, of the county of Middlesex, from being put on assizes, juries, attaints, recognisances or inquisitions and from being made trier of the same, mayor, escheator, coroner, justice, collector, assessor, taxer [...], against his will. By p.s. (TNA, Patent Rolls Edw IV, membrane 15 / Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw IV, 1461-1467, p. 82)

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