ANTIQUITIES. 



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;ause of your going forth was by 

 •eason of the great cruelty of your 

 <nastcr, or by his negligence, not 

 calling you home to your cloister? 



40. Item ; Whether ye be weekly 

 haven, and do not nourish or suf- 

 'er your hair to be long ? and 

 vhethcr ye wear your apparel ac- 

 :ording to the rule, not too exces- 

 sive, nor too exquisite ; and in like 

 wise the trappings of your horses, 

 iud other your bearing beasts ? 



4 1. Item; Whether the master 

 and head of this house do iise his 

 brethren charitably, without par- 

 tiality, malice, envy, grudge, or dis- 

 pleasure, more shewed to one than 

 another ? 



42. Item; Whether he douse his 

 disciplines, corrections, and punish- 

 ments upon his brethren, with mer- 

 cy, pity, and charity, without 

 cruelty, rigorousness, and enormous 

 hurt, no more favouring one than 

 another ? 



43. Item ; Whether any brother, 

 or religious person of this house, be 

 incorrigible ? 



14. Item; Whether the master of 

 tliis house do use his brethren cha- 

 ritably when they be sick and dis- 

 eased ? and whether, in time of their 

 bickness, he do procure unto them 

 jjliysicians, and all other necessa- 

 ries ? 



45. Hem ; Whether he make his 

 ..( compts (as he ought to do) once 

 every year before his brethren, and 

 chiefly the seniors and officers, to 

 the intent tliey may be made privy 

 U> the state and condition of the 



' house, and know perfectly the due 



', jldministration thereof? 



' 4C. Item ; Whether the prior, 



[l sub-prior, cellerar, kitchener, fer- 

 rure, sacristan, or any such-like of- 

 ficer, having administration of any 



I planner rcvcaucs of this housC; do 



make his whole and true accompt, 

 according as he is bound to do, not 

 applying any thing by him received 

 to his own proper use or commo- 

 dity? 



47. Item ; Whether any religious 

 person of this house do bear, occu- 

 py, or exercise, more offices than 

 one, for and to his own singular 

 commodity, advantage, or profit, 

 by the partial dealing of the mas- 

 ter ? 



48. Item ; W^hether all and sin- 

 gular the revenues and profits of this 

 house be converted and employed 

 to the behove and use thereof and 

 of the brethren, and according to 

 the founder's mind and giver? 



49. Item ; Vv'hethcr the master 

 do make sufficient reparations upon 

 his monastery, as the church and all 

 other housing thereto adjoined, and 

 •also upon all other the lands, granges, 

 farms, and tenements belonging to 

 the same, and whether he sutler any 

 dilapidation, decay, or ruin, in any 

 part of them ? 



50. Item ; Whether there be any 

 inventory made of all and singular 

 the moveable goods, which froni 

 time to time have been, and yet be, 

 in this house, as of jewels, reliques, 

 ornaments, vestments, ready money, 

 plate, bedding, with other utensils ; 

 also of corn, chattels, and other 

 commodities, to the intent the state 

 and condition of this house may be 

 alwa3's known ? 



51. Item; That ye express truly 

 and sincerely the whole state and 

 condition of this house, as in money, 

 plate, cattle, corn, and other goods? 



52. //fw ; Whether this monas- 

 tery be indebted ? to whom ? aiid 

 for what cause ? 



53. Item ; ^Vhethcr any of the 

 lands be sold, or mortgaged ? and 

 for what sums ? 



54. Item ; 



