APPENDIX, N^. HI. 



CHRONOLOG 



A. D. 1309 



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'^VVheat, 53 quarters. . • • 

 Malt, 5S quarters .... 



Wine, 1 1 tuns 



Oats, 20 quarters .... 



Spiceries, total 



Wax, 300 lb 



Almonds, 500 lb 



Oxen, 30 carcases .... 



Hogs, 100 



Sheep, 200 



Geese (or auks ' aucis') 1000 

 Capons and hens, 300 . • • 



Pullets, 473 



Pigs, 200 



Swans, 34 



Rabbits, GOO i£xv * . . . 

 Shields of braun, 17 • _• • 

 Partridges, mallards, bit-"| 

 terns, and larks, total . J 

 Earthen potS) 1000, total . . 

 Salt, 9 quarters + ('sumraas') 1 



total J 



Woodenbowls ('ciphis') 400l 



Dishes and plates 3300 J 



Faggots and goss or furze '^ 

 for the tires (' scopis et V 



gachis' J) J 



Fish, cheese, milk, garlic . . 



Eggs, 9600 



SaftVon and pepper .... 

 Coals, ' doleis', § and setting | 

 up furnaces . . • • j 

 300 ells of canvass (' can-1 



eum'll) J 



Setting up tables, tressels] 



and dressers .... 3 



Given to the cooks and their 1 



boys J 



and to the minstrels . . • 

 The whole expense of the \ 



feast was J 



There were above 6,000 

 guests, who appear to have 

 had 3,000 dishes, i. e. a dish 

 set between every two who 

 sat opposite to each-other. 

 The prior appears to have paid 

 hi[;h prices for many of his 

 articles. 



A pair of shoes 



Pay of a man at arms . - • 

 . a cross-bow man . 



an archer or long-bow man 



A cross-bow (' balista') . 



Quarrells (arrows with 



square heads) . . • 



quarter 



tun 

 quarter 



lb.' 



carcase 



total 



dayly 



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no price Thorn, Chron. col. 2C10, 

 \ and also in Leland's 

 I Collectanea,V.ii,p.34. 



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Spelm. Gloss, vo. Vate" 

 rius. 



. Fcedera, V. iir, p. 211. 



heavy I h^^dred O 1 6 



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« ' Inftead of £xt read £v ; and then the rabbits will 

 = be 2<y a piece, at vhWh price, 1 find, they were fold 

 ' about that time from old accounts in Merton college. 

 fM S. note written in my copy of Fleetwood by a lor- 

 iner pofTefTor of it.] Fleetwood alfo faw the miftahe. 



+ There feems an error in the quantity or the price. 



4 Thefe words, which Fleetwood could make nothing 



of, »re fo trannated by a former owner of my copy of hie 

 ChonUon preciofum. Spelman has^.^j^^"^ and gamm, which, 

 he fays, mean a -very thicl -^ood- 



K Apparently old tuns or other cafts, ufed as fire wood. 



\ Hearne [in l-el. Colj. copying from a very antient 

 printed copy, has ' canvis'. 



