HOSPITALLER SOURCES 1476

1 February, 1476
To Fr. Johann Schilling, preceptor of Mainz, and to another unnamed brother: order to introduce Fr. Peter Stolz von Bickelheim into actual possession of the preceptory Meisenheim and its pertinentia.

3 February, 1476
Licence for Fr. Peter Stolz von Bickelheim, preceptor of Meisenheim in the priory of Alemania, to leave the Convent and travel to his preceptory and to act in his office of receptor in Alta Alamania.

4 February, 1476
Licence for Fr. Georg von Bombast, preceptor of Rohrdorf, to admit as frater miles into the Order the noble Johann Schenk von Castel.

10 June, 1476
Note on discussions in the Council before the death of the Master Fr. Giovanbattista Orsini concerning foreign priests: ad evitandum scandala these calogeri Greci have to leave the islands, and it will not be allowed that others come to Rhodes.

24-29 July, 1476
Discussion of Master and Council concerning the legation to King Edward IV. with the purpose to establish the turcopolier Fr John Weston as Prior of England. The envoy, the draper Fr Nicolau Zaplana, the conventual bailiff of the Aragonese-Catalonian tongue, has to proceed very carefully not to rouse the king's anger or to cause damage in respect of the order's incomes from England.

13 October, 1476
Master and council name Didaco de Villazan lieutenant of the chancellor.

18 December, 1476
The Master Fr. Pierre d'Aubusson proposes to the Council of the order to rebuild a part of the wall at the back of the cathedral S. Mary and the archbishop's house that has collapsed due to a storm.

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