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of y'' grete joye that she hadd when she bare Criste Jhu., and 

 she a pure chaste virgyne. And y^ iii''. Sauter in y^ worship of hir 

 glorious Assumpcion. And furthermore, that thei say every day 

 onys our Lady Sawter for all Christen soulis. And if eny poremen 

 be admytted to y* said hous that is lettered, we wull that he say 

 every day afore none [moom] besyde Matyns of our Lady vii psalms, 

 XV psalms and lecaux. [«Vsso?Js ?'\ And oone sauter of our Lady. And 

 that he say atte afternone " Placebo and Dirige" with y^ comenda- 

 cion. And over that, that he rede and declare to his brethern y^ 

 poremen and woman every month oones the Acts and statutes of this 

 presente ordynances concerning ye said poremen and woman. 



XXIII. Item. We wull and ordeyne that y'' saide nowe pore- 

 men and woman and their successours every day after Soper come to 

 geder unto y^ Chapell of y"^ said Almeshous, and sey there togeders 

 they that canne, for y" soules above specified and for y^ soules of 

 all cristen, y^ Psalm of " De Profundis" with y* versicles and 

 Orisons accustomed to be saide for dede men : and they that cannot, 

 sey devoutly for y"^ same soules iii paternosters with as many aves 

 and a crede of y^ feith. The wich so don and saide oone of y*^ 

 senyors of y® poremen shall sey openly in English, 



" God have 

 mercy of y® soulis of y® nobill Knight 

 Walter sumtyme Lord Hungerforde, 

 Kateryne his wiff : and that nobill 

 Knyght Ptobard late Lord Hungerford 

 and Margarete his wiff, our foundours." 

 And all y® other poremen shall answer " Amen." 



XXIV. Item. We wull and ordeyne that y^ forsaide now 

 poremen and woman and all their successours holde comenly and 

 contynuell resydens to geder within a place called the Almeshous 

 of Haytesbury, made and founded for theyme, and y^ boundes of y^ 

 same as such other poremen in like houses of Alraes or Hospitals 

 bith bounde for to holde residens to geder. And that y'= said pore- 

 men and woman every day, as well at mete as at soper, ete to geders 

 within y^ said house onlesse that infirmyte or other causes resonabill 

 lette theym. And y^ while thei be at tabill ther to absteyne them 



