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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
always show a balance on the right side, and the receipts not 
infrequently failed to cover the expenses. 
In 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. 2^-d.—of rods [of] “ osiers,” 13s. 4d.—of timber “ Stamholt 
and wrong,” 9s. 8d.—of hay, 36s. iod.—of beans, 13d.—of 
herbs, 13d.—of garlick, nd.—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. pd.—of 
the farm of 1 cow demised to farm, 2s.—sum, 102s. nd. 
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 “ page to ” 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.” 
