26 PAPEKS, ETC. 



MS. in extenso, the result of which is that certain 

 errors run through the whole volume, a result but poorly 

 compensated for by the imagined — and only imagined — 

 greater facillty with which the accounts may be perused. 

 To well-instructed antiquaries it is as easy to read manu- 

 scripts with their contractions as in extenso, while to general 

 readcrs the matter presented in either form is equally 

 obscure and unintelligible. 



The return itself consists of a minutely-accurate balance- 

 sheet for every part of the property of the Order in 

 England, with an exact account of income and of outlay in 

 every bajulia, bailiwick or manor. Buckland figures pro- 

 minently among these ; and I will endeavour, by means of 

 the data here presented to us, to give my reader a picture 

 of the scene on which we are now engaged, as it appeared 

 during the form er half of the fourteenth Century. 



The establlshment consisted of various buildings, of 

 which three are mentioned, which either required some 

 outlay, or furnished a source of income. First, therc Avas 

 the court or manor-house, but it sadly needed a new roof. 

 The bakehouse attached to it also wanted repair, and is 

 described as in a very ruinous condition. A dovecot, 

 which, singularly enough, appears to have been an 

 appendage to almost every House, and a never-failing 

 source of emolument, is returncd as yielding, together with 

 the produce and herbage of the garden, the considerable 

 annual value of 10s. The proceeds of both were no 

 doubt disposed of in the neighbourhood, when the supply 

 exceeded the need at home. As tliat supply would neces- 

 sarily vary with different years, it is not unlikely, especially 

 as we constantly find this item set down in round numbers 

 throughout the various accounts, that it was computed at 

 a certain annual valuc, which in some years was exceeded 



