Chapter 84: 4. ADMISSION FEES
A considerable pecuniary benefit accrued to hospitals by the custom of
receiving contributions from newly-admitted members of the household.
In some cases a benefaction was made when persons were received into a
community; thus Archbishop Wichwane as patron granted permission for a
certain Gilbert and his wife to bestow their goods upon Bawtry hospital
and dwell there (1281).[111] [p184]
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