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tion of remote properties was fess frequent. The monasteries, 

 too, whose interest on many grounds was bound up with the 

 existence of easy and safe communication, must have done 

 their best to keep roads open and in good repair. It does not 

 seem, however, that in England, at least, the monasteries were 

 often resorted to for lodging or accommodation. When the 

 Warden of New College waits on Wykeham at Farnham, the 

 lodging of this personage, as well as that of his company, is 

 at the common inn. We shall, however, see below, when 

 we consider what the cost of carriage was, when the distance 

 is known, and the weight of the article carried can be esti- 

 mated, that communication in the fourteenth century was far 

 from difficult. The road taken on January the 5th, 1332, from 

 Oxford to the North, the details of which are given, vol. ii. 

 pp. 635-641, lay through the following stages: Mudlington 

 (Middleton Stony), Brackley, Daventry, Lilbourn, Leicester, 

 Prestwold, Betyngham, Alresford, Blithe, Doncaster, Cawood, 

 York, Esingwold, Thirsk, Yarme, Durham, Newcastle. The 

 bishop seems to have been at Ackland, i. e. Aukland. The 

 travellers seem to have been detained for seven weeks before 

 they could get their business completed. The return journey 

 was made through Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, though not, 

 it appears, for the purpose of visiting the estates in the latter 

 county. The college gave a feast to the parishioners of Pontc- 

 land on the i8th of January. 



The fees paid for the grant are various. An inquisition is 

 taken, probably that known by the name c ad quod damnum,' 

 and the official is paid, and fees are given to his servants. The 

 sequestrator of the bishop receives a fee. The decanus loci, 

 perhaps, or rural dean, receives a fee. The chancellor another, 

 who receives his money in a pair of gloves. The notary an- 

 other. Twenty marks are paid to the diocesan almonry and 

 certain stipulated sums are given to the college lawyers. 



Similar journeys are given in vol. ii. pp. 610. ii., 612. ii., 

 614. i., eight days being generally occupied in the route. 

 Another journey, with an account of the return route, is given 



