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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. i^d., 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 1 perches of hedges round the same garden, 35s. 3|d., by 
the perch, 3^. his. 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 1 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, 
£14 18s. gd. 
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. iod. Sum of all the expenses, £15 12s. 6|-d. 
Afterwards there is allowed to the same [accountant] 21s. 6fd., 
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. 5^d. 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 1 quart savory (“ savori ”) seed, and for 1 quart leek 
(“ lekes ”) seed. 
Dead Stock —There remain there two iron spades (“ vange ferree ”), 
1 rake (“ tribul ”), 4 hoes (“ howes ”), and 1 lamp (“ lucerna ”), 
1 “ shave,” 1 axe (“ bolex ”.), 1 box for candles, 1 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 
