Comment | Appointee was a Chaplain in ordinary and keeper of the privy oratory (oratorii secreti).
The order stated that he was to "be admitted and sworn a fellow or chaplain of the hospital and then forthwith admitted master". It goes on to state that "three of the fellows or chaplains are void by death or secession, one chaplain only remaining; so that by the statutes of the said house no election of another master or other fellows can be made and the nomination of both master and fellows or chaplains belongs to the Queen" |