12 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 



A.D. 1402. Account of brother Thomas Rughton of the office of gar- 

 dener, 22nd year of Prior Alexander, Michaelmas to Hilary. 

 Receipts — 



Excess of the account of the year preceding, 43s. lod. — for pears 

 and nuts (" avelanis "), 4s. 4d. — for apples, i6d. — for herbage, 

 I5d. — for dry trees, i8s. 3d. — " pro faggots and Astel " 

 {=shavings), lis. 3d. — for willows, gd. — for plants of herbs, 

 2S. 3d. — for cock and hens, i8d. — for onions, 3s. lod. — for 

 osiers, 3s. 4d. — for leeks, 6d. — for " tasel " ( =teasel), 5s. lod. — 

 for trees sold to the Master of the Cellar, 35s. 4d. — for " la-wyr 

 of crab thorn " and other things sold to the Master of the 

 Cellar, 35s. 4d. — " pro lawyr of wythis," lod. — Sum, £^ i8s. 7d. 

 — Sum total of the receipts, £'] 2s. 5d. 

 Expenses — 



First for rushes and carriage of the same, 5s. — for garlick and onions, 

 2s. — for mustard seed, 8s. 6Jd. — 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," 3s. 5d. — to the scholars of Oxford, 

 iSd. — 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, 3s. — for 

 the boots of the gardener, i5d. — for spades, shovels, and other 

 utensils, i3jd. — in gifts, 6d. 



Sum of all expenses, £2, 8s. id. 



And so the receipts exceed the expenses, £2, 14s. 4d. 



A.D. 1403. Extract from the account of brother Thomas do Corpsty, 

 Michaelmas, 5th year of Henry IV., to the same feast in the 23rd year 

 of Prior Alexander. 

 Receipts — 



" Pro albell " ( =ahele, white poplar), 8s. 8d. — for timber, 6s. 8d. — 

 " pro crabdractis and ok " {? crab draughts, cartloads of crab- 

 trees and oak), 3s. gd. — "pro tasles," 6s. 8d. — "pro star" 

 {—sedge) and reed, i6d. — " pro lillys " {=lilies), Jd. — for the 

 small garden, 8d. — for the meadow demised, 37s. 8d. — sum of 

 receipts, ;^io 3s. gd. 

 Expenses — 



Arrears, 5gs. 4d. — seed of onion bought, i2d. — for nails and keys, 

 6d. — tenths of the Lord the King, i Jd. — gloves, jd. — " Pro 

 tribul " ( =rake), spades, &c., 3s. g^d. — for O O of the gardener, 

 26s. 8d. — stipends of the servants : To one of them, i6s., to 

 the other of them, 15s. 2d. — for their tunics, 8s. lod. — on the 

 day of the account, i2d. 

 Sum of the expenses, £d, 8s. 6d. — with the arrears, £'ii 7s. lod. 

 The expenses exceed the receipts, 24s. id. 



