26 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 



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, 69s. ijd., 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, 35s. 3^d., by 

 the perch, 2i\d. 11 is. id. 



Costs of repairs, &c. : 



Wages of the Bailiff — In the wages of the accountant for 35 weeks and 

 6 days, 62s. 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 17th day of April, in the feast of 

 Easter, for 106 days, 17s. 8d., taking by the day, 2d. In the 

 stipend of the same boy for the same time, 5s. And in the 

 stipend of the accountant for the half-year, 13s. 4d. — Sum, 

 ;^i4i8s.9d. 



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

 Holbourne for the tithe of the pasture of the great garden, 

 4s. lod. Sum of all the expenses, ;^i5 12s. 6Jd. 



Afterwards there is allowed to the same [accountant] 21s. 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. 3s. 5jd. 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 9s. 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 60s. 3jd., which he received of Sir Roger Beau- 

 champ. — And so he departed content. 



(On the dorse) Verjuice — The same answers for 30 gallons of ver- 

 juice 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 ("tribul "), 4hoes ("howes"), and i lamp ("lucerna"), 

 I "shave," i axe ("bolex"), i box for candles, i box for 

 spices, the latter broken. 



The Bishop of Ely's Holbourne vineyard did not stand 

 alone in that locality. Hard by was another belonging to the 

 Earl of Lincoln, from which about fifty gallons of verjuice were 



