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Et solutis Ric? Skypsy dalbanti super eundem domum per 

 unum diem iiij'". 



Summa x^ 



Expense minute. In primis. In una tunica data compu- 

 tanti ex consuetudine pro labore vj'. viij''. 



Et in renovacione cerearum coram ymaginibus Sancte Trini- 

 tatis ij'. vij**. ob. : Sancte Bege ij'. iiij**. et Sancte Ursula 

 xvij^. ob vj'. v**. 



Et in cera empta pro sigillo commune infra tempus compoti ij'. 



Et in expensis factis circa O Oriens/ ut patet per billam huic 

 compoti (sic) annexam xvj'. ob. 



Et in ix ulnis panni linei emptis pro manutergiis in claustro^ 

 preciiim ulna; v"* iij'. ix^. 



Et in fimbracione earundem per relictam Henrici Thomson vj**. 



Et in regardis^ datis confratribus Seneschallis Quadragesime*' 

 ex consuetudine yj''. 



Et solutis Magistro Mansell pro acquisicione j lez Whytwortt* 

 cum solucione facta Th. Watton de Sowthfereby in Comitatu 

 Lincoln iiij'. pro expensis apud Vicem Comitem Lincoln et pro 

 acquisicione et copia unius lez Wort cum littera attornatus viij'. 



Et in solucione facta pro uno equo empto de fratre Will? 

 Couerdale pro officio^ xij'. 



1 On the day of Oriens, the 21st of December, and so called from the beginning 

 of the Antiphon -wrhich was sung in the appointed service of that day. " Oriens 

 splendor lucis etemae, et sol justitia), veni et illumina sedentcs in tenebris et umbn 

 mortis ! " How beautifully appropriate to the shortest day in the year, and to tlw 

 season then so near, commemorative of the birth of Him who was " the light of tlw 

 world ! " 



2 In the cloister, it is probable, where the common lavatory was usually placed. 



3 Presents of money ; rewards. 



* The priests engaged in the performance of certain religious offices during thi 

 forty days preceding the festival of Easter. 



* Whytwortt or whytword. This very uncommon word most probably meao^ 

 'an acquittance' corresponding with 'whittance' which not unfrcquently is act 

 with in that sense. In mediaeval orthography, w or wh, is often used for qu. Td 

 what matters this acquittance related cannot be ascertained. The obtaining <f 

 this whytwortt appears to have been attended with some trouble and cxpence : tb 

 charge being not less than that in the next entry, for the purchase of a horse. 



® For the use of the accoimtant in the discharge of his duties. 



