298 Ancient Statutes of Heyteshiiry Almshouse. 



Ordinations concerning the Poor. 

 XYII. And furthermore we wull sette and ordeyne that if the 

 said poremen and woman or their successores be wasters or destroy- 

 ers of y® godes of y*^ said Almeshous, or openly forsworne for not 

 kepyng of y^ statutes or ordynances of ye saide hous : or and thei 

 be open lechoursor adoutrers and wullnot be corrected, or and they 

 baunte Tavernes, or be unsufferabill debatefull or brygous ^ and 

 namely [i.e. notoriousbj~\ in this company of this saide hous, or be 

 noted in any cryme that shulle cause disclaunder or infamye to ye 

 saide Almeshous, and thereof be noted openly and cannot thereof 

 lawfully purge theyme self or otherwise before his ordynary of the 

 same or of eny of y* prerayssez convicte shall in the same dede be 

 be removed and depryved of all his title and profite that he hadde 

 in the same hous before. 



XVIII. Item. "We wull and ordeyn that no poreman admytted 

 in the said house exercise ne use, ne besynesse, ne bandwerke, ne 

 foldewerke, after his admyssion, ne do no such works ne to thayme 

 be compelled, but all thing put a parte, study and intende to 

 execute and fulfil y charges expressed in ye foundacion and statutes 

 beforesaide with all his power as a poreman shulde do. 



XIX. We wull that every poreman that shalbe provyded and 

 admitted to y^ saide hous destitute of temporall goodes wherewith 

 he myght Ij've ellis where, be meke in spirite, chaste of body, and 

 of good conversacion. Therfore we pray, desire and requyre, mekel}'' 

 and devoutely theyme to whom of our ordynaunce it shall perteyne 

 after ye deth of ye saide Margarete, for to prov3'de for eny poreman 

 to y^ said hous, and theyme as we may with reverens charge before 

 God as they wull answere atte y® dredefuU day of Jugement, that 

 cessyng all inordynat aflPection and all corruption of pris and prayer^ 

 they admytte, and not provyde no poreman to y* saide place, when 

 eny place of a poreman is voyde, but such as be and shalbe named, 

 in no maner wise.^ And therfore we ordeyn that all such persones 

 as have ben servauntes, or that shall happe to be servauntes to y® 



^ Brygous, quarrelsome : hrigoso, Ital : hriga, an old Latiu word for a dispute. 



^ Bribery and private influence. 

 ^ i.e. On no account any others than of the degi'ees and qualities about to be 

 described. 



