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gard," 2s. 6d. Sum, 2os. 2d. Sum of all the expenses, 10. i8s. ifd., 

 so the receipt exceeds the expenses, 6. 175. ud. 



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, 435. iod. for pears and nuts 

 (" avelanis"), 45. 4d. for apples, i6d. for herbage, i^d. for dry 

 trees, iSs. 3d. "pro faggots and Astel " (= shavings], us. 3d. for 

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

 onions, 35. iod. for osiers, 35. 4d. for leeks, 6d. for "tasel" 

 (= teasel), 55. iod. for trees sold to the Master of the Cellar, 355. 4d. 

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

 the Cellar, 355. 4d. " pro lawyr of wythis," iod. Sum, 4. i8s. jd. 

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



Expenses 



First for rushes and carriage of the same, 55. for garlick and onions, 

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

 I2d. for parchment, 3d. In stipends of the servants to one of them, 

 los. 6d. to the other of them, los. for their "tunics," 8s. to the 

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

 35. 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, 35. for the boots of the gardener, I5d. for spades, 

 shovels and other utensils, i&d. in gifts, 6d. 



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



And so the receipts exceed the expenses, 3. 145. 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], 35. gd. "pro tasles," 6s. Sd. "pro star" (= sedge) and reed, 

 i6d. "pro lillys" (= lilies'), |d. for the small garden, 8d. for the 

 meadow demised, 373. 8d. rsum of Receipts, 10. 35. gd. 

 Expenses 



Arrears, 593. 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., 33. 9jd. for O O of the gardener, 263. 8d. 

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

 153. 2d. for their tunics, 8s. iod. on the day of the account, I2d. 

 Sum of the expenses, 8. 8s. 6d. with the arrears, 11. js. iod. 

 The expenses exceed the receipts, 243. id. 



