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visions to eache of the brethren and sisters, as nowe or hereafter shall, 
by God’s providence, and by the devotion of charitable minded men, 
be allotted unto the saide Hospitall. 
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CAP. XV. ‘ 
Off the howse of the evidences, chestes, and comon seale. 
Whereas I have allotted owte a speciall roome in the gatehowse 
next unto the streete, for keepinge of the evidences of the lands and 
revenewes of my saide Hospitall, and for other thinges of some 
momente, beinge not of daily use; I doe ordeine, that in the saide 
roome shalbe one cheste withe three lockes and keyes of severall 
wardes and fashions; one keye whereof to be kepte by the wardeine, 
another by the saide schoolemaster, and the third by the auncienteste 
brother, so he be able to goe and walke abroade, or ells the next in 
auncientye that is able; in whiche cheste shalbe kepte the comon 
seale, one coppy of theis ordinaunces, and suche stocke of mony as 
yearlye remaininge after all allowaunces shalbe reservid for reparations 
and for other necessarye disbursments. 
CAP, XVI. 
I doe ordeine and appointe, that the saide Hospitall, uppon any 
reservation or otherwise, shall not encrease the rentes or revenues of 
those lands I leave, or shall give them any higher or greater proportion 
then as the rents thereof now are, and accordinge to that rate they are 
nowe lett for. 
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And allso I doe ordeine and appointe, that such mony as they shall 
make or raise in fines uppon leases, or uppon sale of woods or trees, or 
by overpluss of their yearelye reavenues or otherwise shalbe laide upp 
in their comon treasorie, and kepte together untill it wile or shall 
amounte to the sume of a hundrethe pounds; and then the overpluss 
of that sume of a hundred pounds shalbe equalye devided by the 
wardeine or schoolemaster for the time beinge (calling to them two of 
the senior brethren) amongste all the poore brethren and sisters of the 
saide Hospitall, and then to have theire equall portions with the reste; 
which saide some cf one hundrethe pounds or under shalbe preserved 
and kepte in the place aforesaide, for any extraordinary occasions, as 
for sutes in lawe, reparations of the saide Hospitall and schoolehowse, 
and suche like ; and as the same shalbe by such charges demineshed, 
so to be allways replenished with like receiptes as they shall come in 
or be receavide. 
CAP. XVII. 
Every yeare, on the fourethe day of December, the schoolemaster, 
in the presence of the other two clavigers, and of all the other brethren 
and sisters that cann and wilbe presente, havinge caste up afore and 
sumed all accounts, aswell as receptes as of disbursments, for the yere 
endinge at the feaste of St. Michael next afore, shall declare unto them 
and goe over the perticulers of all the accounts for the said hole yere, 
that the estate of the Hospitall howe that it standethe may yerely so 
fippere unto every one of them, 
