MONASTIC GARDENING. 13 



gard," 2s. 6d. — Sum, 20s. 2d. — Sum of all the expenses, ^10. i8s. i|d., 

 so the receipt exceeds the expenses, £6. 17s. iiid. 



A.D. 1402. Account of brother Thomas Rughton of the office of gardener, 

 22nd year of Prior Alexander, Michaelmas to Hilary. 



Receipts — 



Excess of the account of the year preceding, 43s. lod. — for pears and nuts 

 (" avelanis "), 4s. 4d. — for apples, i6d. — -for herbage, I5d. — for dry 

 trees, i8s, 3d. — "pro faggots and Astel" {== shavings), lis. 3d. — for 

 willows, gd. — for plants of herbs, 2s. 3d. — for cock and hens, i8d. — for 

 onions, 3s. lod. — for osiers, 3s. 4d.— for leeks, 6d. — for "tasel" 

 {=teasel), $s. lod. — for trees sold to the Master of the Cellar, 35s. 4d. 

 — for " lawyr of crabthorn " and other things sold to the Master of 

 the Cellar, 35s. 4d. — "pro lawyr of wythis," lod. — Sum, ^'4. iSs. ']d. 

 — Sum total of the receipts, ^7. 2s. 5d. 



Expenses — 



First for rushes and carriage of the same, 5s. — for garlick and onions, 

 2s. — for mustard seed, 8s. 6|d. — for beans, 3d. — for planting beans, 

 1 2d. — for parchment, 3d. In stipends of the servants to one of them, 

 IDS. 6d. — to the other of them, ids. — for their "tunics," 8s. — to the 

 labourers in the garden, 2s. 4d. — to other labourers about "tasel," 

 3s. 5d. — to the scholars of Oxford, i8d. — in the presence of the Lord 

 Prior for small things and other recreations, 2s. 6d. — for milk for the 

 convent, 2s. 2d. — to the cellarer for knives, 2s. — in oblations at 

 Christmas, 3s. — for the boots of the gardener, I5d. — for spades, 

 shovels and other utensils, I3id. — in gifts, 6d. 

 Sum of all expenses, ^3. 8s. id. 

 And so the receipts exceed the expenses, ^3. 14s. 4d. 



A.D. 1403. Extract from the account of brother Thomas de Corpsty, 

 Michaelmas, 5th year of Henry IV., to the same feast in the 23rd year of Prior 

 Alexander. 

 Receipts — 



"Pro albell " {-^abele, white poplar), 8s. 8d. — for timber, 6s. 8d. — "pro 

 crabdractis and ok " {? crab draughts, cartloads of crab-trees and 

 oak), 3s. gd. — "pro tasles," 6s. 8d. — " pro star" {— sedge) and reed, 

 i6d. — " pro lillys " {=^ lilies), Id. — for the small garden, 8d. — for the 

 meadow demised, 37s. 8d. — sum of Receipts, ^10. 3s. gd. 



Expenses — 



Arrears, 5gs. 4d. — seed of onion bought, I2d. — for nails and keys, 6d. — 

 tenths of the Lord the King, i|d. — gloves, 7d. — "Pro tribul " 

 (= rake), spades, &c., 3s. g|d. — for O O of the gardener, 26s. 8d. — 

 stipends of the servants: To one of them, 165., to the other of them 

 15s. 2d. — for their tunics, 8s. lod. — on the day of the account, I2d. 



Sum of the expenses, .^8. 8s. 6d. — with the arrears, ^11. 7s. lod. 



The expenses exceed the receipts, 24s. id. 



