MONASTIC GARDENING. 27 



Account of Adam Vynour, gardener ("ortolan! ") of the Lord Bishop of Ely, 



in his Manor of Melbourne, and collector of the rents, belonging to the said 



manor, from Michaelmas in the 46th to jth June in the 47 year of Edward III. 



(1372-3). (Then follow rents of assize, and payments for the farm of shops. 



77 s. 6d.) 



Issues of the Garden And of i6s. for onions and garlick sold. And of gs. 26.. 

 for herbs, "lekes," parsley, and herbage sold. And of 485. 6d. for 

 pasture in " le grasjerd " sold, and of 55. 4d. for beans in the husks 

 sold, sum, 795., also 6. 6s. 8d. from Sir Thomas Wylton, sum total of 

 receipts, 14. 35. 2d. 



Expenses Rents repaid to various churches, &c. 



Costs of the Vineyard and Curtilage and in divers labourers and women for 

 digging the vines and curtilage, and also for cleansing and pulling up 

 weeds in the curtilage, as appears by the parcels sewn to this account, 

 695. id., and in thorns bought, viz. 4 cartloads of thorns for making 

 the hedges round the great garden, 6s. 8d., and in the stipends of 2 

 men making 6 score and I perches of hedges round the same garden, 

 355. 3jd., by the perch, 3^. 1 1 is. id. 



Costs of repairs, &c. : 



Wages of the Bailiff In the wages of the accountant for 35 weeks and 6 days, 

 625. gd., taking by the day, 3d. In the wages of I boy digging in the 

 vineyard, and in the curtilage from the last day of December until I7th 

 day of April, in the feast of Easter, for 106 days, 175. 8d., taking by 

 the day, 2d. In the stipend of the same boy for the same time, 55. 

 And in the stipend of the accountant for the half-year, 135. 4d. Sum, 

 14. i8s. gd. 



Small Expenses Paid to the Rector of the Church of St. Andrew, in Holbourne 

 for the tithe of the pasture of the great garden, 45. lod. Sum of all the 

 expenses, 15. 125. 6$d. 



Afterwards there is allowed to the same [accountant] 2is. 6|d., which he 

 paid to Sir Walter de Aldebury, Prebendary of the Prebend of 

 Holbourne, for the rent of the vineyard of the Prior of Ely for 6 years 

 and for one quarter of a year last past, viz. 35. 5^d. by the year, viz. 

 for the whole time during which the Lord Bishop held the said 

 vineyard of the Prior at farm, and there is allowed to the same 93. 4d* 

 for his stipend from the day of the death of the Lord. until the feast of 

 Michael for 16 weeks taking by the week 7d. for the custody of the said 

 vineyards and the pasture aforesaid. And so the sum of both surpluses 

 is 6os. 3^d., which he received of Sir Roger Beauchamp. And so he 

 departed content. 



(On the dorse) Verjuice The same answers for 30 gallons of verjuice of 

 the issues of the vineyard sum, 30 gallons thereof in tithe 3 gallons 

 And for one peck of parsley seed (" seminis petrosilli "), and for 

 one quart hyssop ("ysop ") seed And for i quart savory ("savori") 

 seed, and for I quart leek (" lekes ") seed. 



Dead Stock There remain there two iron spades ("vange ferree"), i rake 

 ("tribal"), 4 hoes ("howes"), and i lamp (lucerna), i "shave," i axe 

 '" bolex "), i box for candles, i box for spices, the latter broken. 



