74 ANNOTATION. 



There was another person who ought to have been 

 mentioned when speaking of those by whom John de 

 Villula was surrounded. This was Hugelinus, or 

 Hugelo, who has in a charter the addition cum barba, 

 but in Domesday Book the addition is Interpres, a 

 man possibly of many languages, as Adelard and 

 doubtless the Bishop himself were. This Hugelo had 

 a beautiful estate at the time of the Norman Survey, 

 Ijdng about Bath-Easton, Warley, and Claverton. 

 His lands came afterwards to the Monks of Bath. 

 He was of the class of tenants called the Taini Kegis. 



[7] The physicians of Bath in early times seem to 

 have lived in the abbey. Prior Robert, in a chapter 

 held April 5, 1328, granted " Magistro Johanni de 

 Bathonia, medico," a suitable chamber within the 

 gates of the priory, with free ingress and egress for 

 life, and he was to have daily a white loaf of the 

 larger size from the convent bakehouse, and another 

 of the smaller size ; also a gallon of convent-beer, 

 " cervisiae conventualis," and a " ferculum" and a 

 " pitancia" from the kitchen, as well on flesh days as 

 on fish days, according to the exigency of each. 

 He was also to be provided every year with a robe, 

 such as their clerks wore. In return for these privi- 

 leges he promises to exercise care and due diligence 

 in everything belonging to his faculty about the prior 



