io A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 



always show a balance on the right side, and the receipts not 

 infrequently failed to cover the expenses. 

 Pin early times the monks seem to have worked better, or 

 at any rate managed more carefully, for the garden paid its 

 expenses ; but at Norwich, as the years went on, the office got 

 more and more, into debt. In 1429 " the expenses exceed the 

 receipts, £8 2s. 8|d. "; in 1431 there is a deficit of £13 16s. 8|d. 

 Then a new plan began, and the garden was let to a certain 

 William Draper, who paid 40s. for the farm of it j 1 this state 

 of things continued to the end of the period covered by these 

 accounts. The following are transcriptions of some of the 

 rolls ; the greater part are translated from the Latin, but the 

 words in quotation marks are spelt as they occur in the 

 originals. 

 The earliest roll, a.d. 1340, is here given complete : 



Account of brother Peter de Donewich of the garden in the 14th year 

 of Dan William de Claxton Prior. 



Receipts — 



Remainder of preceding account, 73s. 8d. 



Of rent of assize that is to say from Adam Gilbirt now holding one 

 shop in Nedle rowe, i8d. — of " fagot " branches and roots, 

 28s. 2jd.- — of rods [of] " osiers," 13s. qd. — of timber " Stamholt 

 and wrong," gs. 8d. — of hay, 36s. iod.— of beans, 156.. — of 

 herbs, 13d. — of garlick, ud. — of apples & pears, 13s. 4^d. — of 

 " Sandice " (Sandal wood ?), 5s. 6d.— of eggs, 14s. — of " hemp- 

 sede," id. — of wax, 9s. 7d.— -of " forage," 2s. — of " lapp," 3s. 



Sum of receipts, £8 19s. 6d. 



Of 1 cow, 3 bullocks, 27s. — of calves, 8s. 2d. — of milk, 65s. gd. — of 



the farm of 1 cow demised to farm, 2s. — sum, 102s. ud. 

 Sum of whole receipts, £17 16s. ijd. 



Expenses — 



In the wages of servants, 13s. — in their stipends, 10s. — in the wages 

 of the " garcionem," 14s. nd. — in stipends, 2s. — also given to 

 the same of favour, 20s. — given to a certain " pageto " by the 

 year, 2s. 3d. 



1 Examples of the entries : 



1471. Receipts " From the great garden demised to John Plomer 



for the term of 20 years this being the sixth, 25s." 

 1487. " From Robert Castyr for the farm of the great garden, 



demised to him for the term of 10 years this being the 



second, 26s. 8d." 



