1099

Mar 14. Jerusalem. In the Hospital of St John. In the general chapter of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Rogier/Rogerius serf des poures de Crist/servus pauperum Jhesu Christi promulgates statutes dealing with the duties of the conventual prior and local commanders, the provision of physicians, the treatment of male and female patients, the ward duties of the brothers and servants, and the provision of materials for the Hospital in Jerusalem by the European provinces and by officers in the Latin East. Of the latter, the bailli/baylivus of Antioch should send 2,000 canes/brachia of cotton for making bed coverlets, and the prior of Mont Pèlerin and the bailli/baylivus of Tiberias should each send 2 quintaus/quintalia of sugar for making lectuaries and medicines. An appendix, issued after frère/frater Rogier/Rogerius de Molinis maistre/magister and frater Bernardus prior had heard testimony, lists customary regulations for the treatment of patients, including children, for the duties of the frere corvoisier and the aumonier/elemosinarius, for prayers for benefactors and for alms-giving.