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teyning to an honeste woman, and to be diligently attendyng to y® 

 saide poremen alwey in their sikenesse and specially to them that 

 be impotent and may not helpe themselfe. Alwey provyded that 

 y« saide woman be of goode conversacion and goode governaunce. 



XXX. Item. We ordeyne furthermore and sette that ye saide 

 keper, poremen and woman, and successours, have a comen cheste 

 and a comen seale. In y" wich cheste y^ same seale shalbe putte 

 and kepte. And also the Charters, letters and pryveleges, wry- 

 tynges and y^ tresour of y^ saide hous, and other thyngis as shalbe 

 sene expedient to y^ saide keper poremen and women. The wich 

 cheste to be putte in a sure place within y® same hous. And to 

 y® saide cheste shall be iii keyes and none like a nother, and havyng 

 dy vers lokkis. Wherof y^ said Margarete shall have oone duryng 

 her liff, and after hir deth y^ forsaide John Mervyn duryng his 

 lifiF, and after their discesse y" Officiall of y« Deane beforsaide for 

 y« tyme beyng havyng and exercysyng jurisdiction ordynary with- 

 in ye parisshe of Haytesbury biforesaide y« same keye shall have 

 severelly. And ye keper of y^ forsaide house for ye tyme beyng a 

 nother keye. And oone of y^ parisshe biforesaide of ye most dis- 

 crete and trewest to be named by y« forsaide Officiall shall have 

 also y' iii''' key. And that none of theyme presume to holde to- 

 geders all iii keys or ii of them, ne no thyng sealle with y' saide 

 comen seale withoute leve and concente of all y° kepers of y' keys 

 for y^ tyme being. 



XXXI. Item. We wull and ordeyne that y^ forsaide keper 

 poremen and woman and their successours, have a nother cheste 

 in y« saide Parisshe Church for bokes, chalices, vestymentis and 

 other dailly necessaries belongyng to y" forsaid hous standing 

 under ii keys and lokkis dyvers. Wherof oone key shall remayne 

 with hym that shalbe keper of y^ same hous for y^ tyme beyng. 

 And a nother key remayne in oone of y' poremen of y^ same hous 

 most discrete to be assigned yerely by y^ Officiall aforesaide. 



XXXII. Also we wull that the forsaide poremen and woman 

 and their successours in their discesse by deth shall leve y^ halfe of 

 all ther goodes for the helthe of there soulis to y« forsaide hous to 

 y^ reparacyon and sustentacyon of y^ same hous belongyng. The 



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