OF 8ELB0BNE, 
463 
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^em 18th. Charges them with grievously burdening the 
said Priory by means of sales, and grants of liveries,^ and 
corrodies.^ 
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. 
Tt appears as though some one had claimed for himself a 
property in the infirmary, to the exclusion of the others.] 
^ " Liberationes, or liberaturce^ allowances of com, &c., to servants, 
''olivered 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 pric ry. 
— G. W. 
