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SoLUCiONES AD EXTRA. Et in libcris firmis solutis, viz., 

 Receptoribus Monasterii pro officio : Granatori iiij'. et Magistro 

 Maneriorum xli'. xj'^. Sacriste xiiij'. x**. Elemosinario vj'. ■viij''. 

 Magistro parve communie ^ x'. Heredibus Domini Fythught^ xij**. 

 Phylippo Sewell \'. Priori de Wotton'^ yj'. Magistro Chris- 

 tofero Danby xvij*. Edmundo Dalton v**. Bursario Monasterii 

 xij'. viij''. Elemosinario Monasterii pro Anniversariis parentum 

 nostrorum"* vj**. et Forestariis de Galtres ad manus Will. 

 Emerson ij'. Infirmario yj'. yj'*. 



Summa yj". viij*. vj^. 



Gustos Anniversariorum.^ Et in expensis faetis in A.nni- 

 versario Rob. Bullock ut patet per billam huic compoto an- 

 nexam xxvij'. viij**. 



Et in pecunia soluta in Anniversario Dom. Job. Lewlyng, 

 viz., Dom. Abbati xx*^. Priori Monasterii xv]**. Precentori^ xij''. 

 et xxxvij Confratribus, quolibet capiente yj*" xxij'. ij**. 



Et in pecunia soluta confratribus ad altare S! Rumbaldi'^ tri- 

 bus diebus septimane per annum integrum qualibet septimana ad 



* In every Monastery there was a Domiis Communis or Common House, a sitting 

 Eoom, in which the monks assembled when not engaged in study or devotion. The 

 remains of such a room were discovered in the excavations of the Monastery of St. 

 Mary, York, and the fire-place belonging to that room is still to be seen, as it was 

 found, in the lower part of the Museimi. It appears to have been a large and 

 splendid room. "We learn from this entry that there was another room of the same 

 description, but smaller, and under the care of its own officer. 



2 For Fitzhugh. The Fitzhughs were Lords of Ravensworth in Richmondshire, 

 where they flourished from the time of Edw. III. to that of Hen. VIII. Clarkson'a 

 Hist, of JRichmond, p. 55. 



' "Watton in Holdemess : Vetadim of Bede : probably the most ancient religious 

 house in Yorkshire : founded about 686, as a Convent of Benedictine nuns. Having 

 been destroyed in the Danish invasions, it was refounded, aB a Gilbertine Priory, by 

 Eustachius Fitz-John, about 1150. 



* Anniversaria, were yearly obits, or solemn services for the dead. It is very 

 doubtful for whom the rites here referred to wore performed ; whether for the 

 parents of the Accoimtant only, or for those of all the brethren. 



* The officer of the Monastery under whose superintendence these annual rites 

 were performed, and whose charges are here accoimtcd for. 



fi Nic. Bumyshton, as appears from one of the bills annexed to the Compotus. 

 ' More properly Romaldi. This Saint was bom at Ravenna, about the middle 

 of the tenth century, and was founder of the order of Camaldolites. 



