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bei'e we shall have an interesting and necessavily faithful 

 picture of the social life of the House. 



The Society consisted, in the first place, of the 

 Preceptor and five Brethren, after whom were their servants 

 of varlous kinds, and the stranger guests, whom their rule 

 of hospitality obliged them to entertain. The cost of 94 

 quarters of wheat, which ^\ere made into bread for the 

 House, at 3s. a quarter, amounted to £14 2s. For their 

 beer, 130 quarters of grain, of which 52 were of barley, at 

 2s. a quarter, and 78 of oat malt, at 20d. a quarter, both 

 amounting to £11 14s. Then there were the expenses of 

 the kitchen, an outlay of 43. a-week, or £10 8s. a year. 

 The robes, mantles, and other necessaries of the Preceptor 

 and bis five Brethren, are stated at £10 8s-, allowing 

 £1 14s. 8d. to each, which, as it appears throughout the 

 returns, was the stated and ordinary sum. The stipend of 

 a chaplain, per annum, with a seat at the Preceptor's table, 

 20s. John le Port, a corrodary, or fellow-commoner, by 

 deed of the chapter, had a seat at the table, valued at 18s. In 

 the robes of the Preceptor's servants was expended 1 marc. 

 In the stipends of four clerks of the confraria, with coramons, 

 £4. In the wages of various servants, the cook, baker, 

 Steward, porter, woodreeve, chapel-clerk, gardener, swine- 

 herd, and Carter, 51s. 8d., of whom four received 2 marcs, 

 and each of the rest 5s. The stipends of four pages 

 amounted to 8s. They spont during the year,-in repairs 

 and roofing of their buildings, 40s. The Visitation of the 

 Prior of England, whose duty it was to make in person bis 

 annual examination, cost during the six days of bis presence 

 the heavy sum of £6. Lastly there Avas the annual pension 

 to the Sisters, which we have already noticed, amounting to 

 the Charge of 29 marcs. The sum total of all the expenses 

 and payments is 125 marcs, 3s. And the surplus, to be 



