Chapter I

1. In the year 1181 AD, in the month of March.

2. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

3. On the Sunday of Mid-Lent (= Laetare, i.e., the 4th Sunday of Lent), I, Jobert, a servant of the holy sick, in the great chapter, in the presence of the 'Brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem, the clergy and laity,' issued these special rights for the glory of God, for the glorification of his saints, for the promotion of spiritual life and for the benefit of the holy sick.

4. I want these our laws to be made known to those who live now and to those who come after, that we, with the common will of our entire chapter and after common deliberation, have decided on these special rights and have commanded those who come after us to observe them.

5. I command forever and ever to give to the Blessed One, our Lord Sick, and Brother Stephen, who is now Hospital Master, and to those who will be Hospital Masters after him, two splendid estates as their perpetual possession.

6. One (property) is named after Our (Dear) Lady "Holy Mary", the other is called Caphaer, so that the holy sick always receive white bread from it, with all the land and everything that belongs to it, inside and out.

7. If it should happen that the same goods were ravaged by storms or by unrest, so that the bread could not be given in sufficient quantity to the holy sick, our blessed lords, then we desire that the hospital master take from our treasury enough to buy white bread for the holy sick, our lords, for their needs.

8. Should the grain coming from the aforementioned estates be mixed with weeds, then one should take it from our fields, from where the finest grain lies, a Metzen (≙ approx. 15 kg) (exchanged) for another Metzen.

9. But we have guaranteed with our document that the sick will receive their livelihood in full.

10. But if anyone were to act against our laws in word or deed, we condemn him as Judas, the traitor, for all eternity. With Cain, as well as with Dathan and Abiram, whom the earth swallowed alive, shall the curse fall upon them for all eternity. Amen.

Chapter II

The bread given to two sick people should weigh two half pounds.

Chapter III

, we have instructed those present to affix our seal.

Chapter IV

This was given in Jerusalem in the year 1176 (1177) after the birth of Christ.

These are the customs to be observed in the church and the statutes (bylaws) issued by Master Roger in the year 1181 AD. These are the laws of Master Roger: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Chapter I

1. We command that these commandments be observed forever and ever in the house of the holy hospital in Jerusalem.

2. First, we command that no early morning mass be sung before the start of the day.

3. Furthermore, that no superior or caretaker of the houses should command a priest to sing two masses a day, unless a corpse was present (lying in state).

4. Then the priest should sing the first Mass of the Sunday or of a saint, followed by the second Mass of the dead, if the body is present.

5. In whatever house a brother dies, his anniversary should be written in the calendar, and Mass should be sung for his soul on thirty days.

6. As soon as the thirtieth day is celebrated, his anniversary should be commemorated forever in the house where he died.

7. If there are three priests in the house where the thirtieth birthday is celebrated, one should solemnly celebrate his thirtieth birthday with the office, while the other two sing the Mass appropriate for that time.

8. However, if there are only two priests, they share the office (= Exequies) equally between them.

9. However, if there is only one priest, a foreign priest should be invited for thirty days so that the service can be celebrated.

Chapter II

1. When the feast day is solemnly celebrated, he (the priest) should be given a stipend (Mass stipend), a shirt and new trousers according to the house.

2. However, if it is the case that no priest can be found and the priest of the house remains without assistance, he may observe the thirtieth day by singing the Requiem Mass daily for the deceased, with the exception of Holy Week and Sundays, and he shall say a prayer for the brother's soul at the altar.

3. After thirty days, he then counts the days on which he did not sing a requiem mass and adds that many days afterwards so that he is still given the pious remembrance of the house.

4. If he were to die during Lent and there were only a priest in the house, and the thirtieth birthday were to extend until after Easter, then one would complete his thirtieth birthday after Easter week.

Chapter III

1. We also command that the brothers keep a light burning in the church at all times.

2. and that the chalice and the censer be made of silver.

Chapter IV

1. We also command that the bodies of pilgrims or other Christians who die after Vespers be kept in the hospital where they died until after Prime.

2. The dead should not lie on the bier without light, and after Prime, when the first Mass is sung, the body should be carried to the grave.

3. The bier on which the dead are carried should be like the one in Jerusalem.

Chapter V

1. The bodies of the brothers should be kept in the church, and the clergy should keep watch there all night, standing on all sides around the bier with burning candles and offering prayers of praise and supplication to our Lord and God for the soul of the brother.

2. Of the thirtieths that are given to the priests, the house shall not retain anything but shall give it all to them.

3. The house shall keep half of the thirtieth of the foreign brothers.

Chapter VI

In masses sung without solemnity, the priests should have no legal claim to the offering, except as much as the brothers give them voluntarily.

Chapter VII

1. Of what is obtained in confession, one should give the priests one-sixth part out of goodwill and not according to law.

2. Furthermore, we command that where there are no citizens and only a priest, it is at the discretion of the prior to give or allocate to him as he wishes; only the benefices of the priests he cannot allocate as he wishes.

Chapter VIII

1. The testamentary gifts, which are given except for a penny for emergency expenses, shall be returned in half, and everything that is given to the hospital shall be given by the brothers, clergy and laity, without division.

2. Here he divides the laws.