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usual number may be considered as fluctuating between the 

 two extremes. 



The names of the brethren who were in the monastery at the 

 dissolution, eleven years after the date of this Compotus, are 

 preserved in the Monasticon Anglicanum ; on comparing them 

 with those recorded in the four lists in the Compotus, we find 

 that eight only of those which occur in these lists, appear in 

 that of the Monasticon. The rest of the brethren, with the 

 exception of Ralph Hartley, who had been appointed, and was 

 at the time of the dissolution. Prior of Wetherhall, had either 

 been removed, or, as is most probable, had died. One of the 

 eight remaining, wasTho. Singleton, the Chamberlain, himself; 

 who, with two others, John Byrkhed and Rob. Lowthrope, 

 received an annual pension from the Crown of £6. 8s. 4d. 

 each ; the remaining five, W. Walton, W. Hopton, Th. Eshe, 

 Th. Marss and Edm. Metcalfe, having each a pension of £6. 



Among the brethren who voted at the election of Simon de 

 Warwick, we find a Sub-Prior, and also a third Prior : a Master 

 of the works also, and a Receiver of the Guests. There may 

 have been the same officers in the Monastery in the time of 

 Abbot Whalley when this Account-roll was written, but they 

 are not mentioned in it ; but the following, beside the Abbot 

 and Prior, are noticed : the Chamberlain, Tho. Singleton who 

 was also keeper of the Spicery, the Precentor, whose name 

 is also given, the Master of the Manors, the Master of the 

 College, the Bursar, the Sacrist, the Almoner, the Receivers 

 of the Monastery, the Master of the Wine (Cellarer), the 

 Granarer, the Magister parvae Communiee, the Infirmarer, the 

 Keeper of the lamps in the dormitory ; the Foresters of Galtres 

 also may have been two or more of the brethren. 



It was usual, especially in Monasteries of the Benedictine 

 order, to send some of the younger and more promising brethren 

 to one of the Universities ; generally to Oxford. It appears 

 that when this Compotus was written, there were scholars from 

 St. Mary's studying at Cambridge. Their number is not stated. 

 The Accountant provides out of his two departments for the 

 expenses of one : the sum for which he accounts, viz. 66'. 8"*. 



