MYNCHIN BUCKLAND PEIORY. 29 



paid to the general treasuiy of the Order, figures at 61 

 niarcs, 7s. 4d. 



The Preceptor and his brethren wlio at this time 

 represented the Hospital at ßuckland were Brother 

 John Dlluwe, Preceptor, chaplain; Brother Robert Mount- 

 fort, chaplaln ; Brother Adam de Catvvorth, chaplain ; 

 Brother Thomas de Talmeworth, chaplain; Brother Andrew 

 de Shafteworth, sergeant-at-arms ; and Brother Henry de 

 "VVhaddon, sergeant-at-arms and steward of the Sisters. 

 To these we must add John le Port, the corrodary, to 

 whom we have already referred. 



The retm-n concludes with an account of the Sisterhood. 

 It descrlbes their House as having been founded by the 

 kings of England, and themselves as wearing the hablt of 

 the Hospital, and as commonly amounting to fifty in number. 

 It further states that, by the Ordination of their founders, 

 their possessions were managed by themselves. Intent on 

 making a correct report, and with a scarcely disguised 

 feeling of resentment against everything which could tend 

 to diminish the surplus by which his activity and good 

 management could best be exhibited, the Preceptor most 

 ungallantly adds that he and his brethren neither did nor 

 could have or get aught from these ladies, "sed potius onus 

 et gravamen," but rather bürden, charge, and grievance — 

 inasmuch as by a fixed Ordination they were to have a 

 brother of the Priory of England, at the expense of the 

 Prior and Preceptor of the place, to be their steward, and 

 two brethren for chaplains, and one secular chaplain to serve 

 their church — also, it is not omitted to add, at the expense 

 of the Preceptor. In the same place they had three 

 carucates of land, of the annual value, in common years, of 

 £G. Besides this, they are described as being in possession 

 of other propcrty, with somc of which we are already 



