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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
a.d. 1402. Account of brother Thomas Rughton of the office of gar¬ 
dener, 22nd year of Prior Alexander, Michaelmas to Hilary. 
Receipts — 
Excess of the account of the year preceding, 43s. iod.—for pears 
and nuts (“ avelanis ”), 4s. 4d.—for apples, i6d.—for herbage, 
I5d.—for dry trees, 18s. 3d.—“ pro faggots and Astel ” 
(= shavings ), ns. 3d.—for willows, gd.—for plants of herbs, 
2s. 3d.—for cock and hens, i8d.—for onions, 3s. iod.—for 
osiers, 3s. 4d.—for leeks, 6d.—for “ tasel ” ( =teasel), 5s. iod.— 
for trees sold to the Master of the Cellar, 35s. 4d.—for “ lawyr 
of crab thorn ” and other things sold to the Master of the 
Cellar, 35s. 4d.—“ pro lawyr of wythis,” iod.—Sum, ^4 18s. 7d. 
—Sum total of the receipts, ^7 2s. 5d. 
Expenses — 
First for rushes and carriage of the same, 5s.—for garlick and onions, 
2s.—for mustard seed, 8s. 6Jd.—for beans, 3d.—for planting 
beans, I2d.—for parchment, 3d. In stipends of the servants 
to one of them, 10s. 6d.—to the other of them, 10s.—for their 
“ tunics,” 8s.—to the labourers in the garden, 2s. 4d.—to other 
labourers about “ tasel,” 3s. 5d.—to the scholars of Oxford, 
i8d.—in the presence of the Lord Prior for small things and 
other recreations, 2s. 6d.—for milk for the convent, 2s. 2d.—to 
the cellarer for knives, 2s.—in oblations at Christmas, 3s.—for 
the boots of the gardener, 13d.—for spades, shovels, and other 
utensils, I3jd.—in gifts, 6d. 
Sum of all expenses, £3 8s. id. 
And so the receipts exceed the expenses, £3 14s. 4d. 
a.d. 1403. Extract from the account of brother Thomas de Corpsty, 
Michaelmas, 5th year of Henry IV., to the same feast in the 23rd year 
of Prior Alexander. 
Receipts — 
“ Pro albell ” ( —abele, white poplar), 8s. 8d.—for timber, 6s. 8d.— 
“ pro crabdractis and ok ” (? crab draughts, cartloads of crab- 
trees and oak), 3s. gd.—“ pro tasles,” 6s. 8d.—“ pro star ” 
{—sedge) and reed, i6d.—“ pro lillys ” ( =lilies ), £d.—for the 
small garden, 8d.—for the meadow demised, 37s. 8d.—sum of 
receipts, £10 3s. gd. 
Expenses — 
Arrears, 5gs. 4d.—seed of onion bought, i2d.—for nails and keys, 
6d.—tenths of the Lord the King, i|d.—gloves, 7d.—“ Pro 
tribul ” ( =rake), spades, &c., 3s. gjd.—for O O of the gardener, 
26s. 8d.—stipends of the servants : To one of them, 16s., to 
the other of them, 15s. 2d.—for their tunics, 8s. iod.—on the 
day of the account, i2d. 
Sum of the expenses, £8 8s. 6d.—with the arrears, £11 7s. iod. 
The expenses exceed the receipts, 24s. id. 
