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ing, 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 predecessors,] 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. 



T f em 18th. Charges them with grievously burdening the 

 said Priory by means of sales, and grants of liveries, 1 and 

 corrodies. 2 



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

 lect and omission with respect to their perpetual chantry- 

 services. 



Item 20th. Tbo visitor here conjures the prior and 

 canons not to withhold their original alms, " eleemosynas ; " 

 nor those that they were enjoined to distribute for the good 

 of the souls of 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 together 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 stock, " sicut 

 antiquitus fieri consueverat ;" and have also the use of the 

 rooms of the infirmary: yet such is the tenor of this item. 

 It appears as though some one had claimed for himself a 

 property in the infirmary, to the exclusion of the others.] 



1 " Liberations s, or liberaturce, allowances of corn, &c., to servants, 

 'nUvered 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," Ap- 

 pendix, 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." G.W. 



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

 G. W. 



