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AND yff hit woll lyke the kynge to yeve no corodie nor pencion, wich he hath be ryght off his corowne, off euery abbey priory, and oþer howses founded vpon hospitalite be any off his progeni|tours, in to þe tyme that his entente þerin be co|muned
and delybered with his fforsaid counsell, and þat his hyghnes haue vnderstond þer openyon in þe same; than shall men off his howsold be rewarded with corodyes, and haue honeste sustenance in þer olde dayis when thai mey no longer serue; and þe clarkes off is chapell þat haue wyfes, or be not avaunsed, be rewarded with pencions with owt grete abatynge off þe kynges revenues, ffor þer rewardes or sustenance. Ffor such corodes and pencions were ffirst geven to þe kyng ffor the same entent. But nowe off late tyme, oþer men then þe kynges servauntes haue askyd þem, and be importune sute haue geyten gret parte off thaym, to þe kynges gret harme and hurt off his said seruantes; wich be þe cause þeroff lyuen in þe gretter penurie, and in non suyrte off þer sustenance in tyme comyng, when thai shall not mowe do þe kyng seruice.