576 ANTIQUITIES 



borne. Requires that it be observed in future, under 

 pain of suspension.] 



In Item 17th, the prior and canons are accused of 

 suffering, through neglect, notorious dilapidations to 

 take place among their manorial houses and tenements, 

 and in the walls and enclosures of the convent itself, 

 [sumptuously erected by the industry of their prede- 

 cessors,] to the shame and scandal of the institution : 

 they are therefore enjoined, under pain of suspension, 

 to repair all defects within the space of six months. 



Item 18th. Charges them with grievously burdening 

 the said Priory by means of sales, and grants of liveries 7 

 and corrodies 8 . 



The bishop, in item 19th, accuses the canons of 

 neglect and omission with respect to their perpetual 

 chantry-services. 



Item 20th. The visiter here conjures the prior and 

 canons not to withhold their original alms, " eleemosy- 

 nas ;" nor those that they were enjoined to distribute 

 for the good of the souls ef founders and benefactors : 

 he also strictly orders that the fragments and broken 

 victuals, both from the hall of their prior and their 

 common refectory, should be carefully collected toge- 

 ther by their eleemosynarius, and given to the poor 

 without any diminution; the officer to be suspended 

 for neglect or omission. 



[Item 21st. It could scarcely be anticipated that it 

 should have been necessary to enjoin that the brethren 

 should be supplied, when sick, with suitable food and 

 drink, and with fitting medicines, out of the common 



7 " Liber ationes, or liberaturce, allowances of corn, &c. to servants, deli- 

 vered at certain times, and in certain quantities, as clothes were, among the 

 allowances from religious houses to their dependants." See the corrodies 

 granted by Croyland abbey. Hist, of Croyland, Appendix, No. XXXIV. 



" It is not improbable that the word in after-ages came to be confined 

 to the uniform of the retainers or servants of the great, who were hence 

 called livery servants." Sir John Cullum's Hist, of Hawsted. 



8 A corrody is an allowance to a servant living in an abbey or priory. 



