THE GROUND-PLAN OF BURTON ABBEY. 251 
the description given in the Rites. Entering by the door 
you would ascend some stone stairs, the sub-vault under 
containing the cellars, the pantry or covey, where the 
remains of the food from the monks’ table was taken, and 
afterwards handed through a little window to two children 
of the Almerie, who came daily for it for the use of the 
poor children of the Infirmary School, so say the Rites. 
On entering ‘‘within the said Frater House door, on the 
left hand as one goes in, there is a strong Ambrie”’ which 
held the Mazers and plate, and another on the right hand 
against the west wall, ‘‘ wherein lay table-cloaths, salts, and 
mazers, a basin, an ewer of latten, with other things per- 
taining to the Frater House.’ Each monk had his own 
mazer cup of wood with silver gilt edges. The high table 
stood across the east end and aside near the south end of 
the high table stood that of the novices. lose against 
the south wall, built into it, was the pulpit where one of 
the novices read aloud during meals. The meals were 
served from the kitchen by hatches in the side wall near 
its west end; this is where we should expect to find it, 
and it would then, as at Durham, have served the Abbot’s 
house, the frater, and also the guest hall. I should 
quite expect to find this building octagonal, as at Durham, 
Glastonbury, and other places. From the frater house 
door to the angle we might find ‘a stoole with iiij feete, 
and a back of wood joyned to the said stoole, which was 
maid fast in the wall for the porter to sytt on, which did 
keape the Cloister doure.”’ We now turn into the 
WEST WALK, 
and at the corner next the frater we should meet with 
the parlour door; this was the outer parlour described in 
the Rites ‘‘a place for marchannts to utter ther waires.’’ 
It was the main entrance to the cloister, and a place where 
the monks might see and talk with friends from the outer 
world; this may have been divided, as at Westminster, into 
