ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF
WORCESTER *
FOR THE YEAR 13-14 HENRY VIII.
A. D. 1821-2.
EDITED FOR THE WORCESTERSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
BY THE REV. JAMES MAURICE WILSON, D.D.,
Canon of Worcester.
AND A CATALOGUE OF THE
ROLLS OF THE OBEDIENTIARIES
PREPARED BY THE
REV. J. HARVEY BLOOM, M.A.,
Vicar of Whitchurch, Stratford-on-Avon,
AND REVISED AND EDITED BY
SIDNEY G. HAMILTON, ESQ., M.A.,
Librarian and late Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
\
»
$rinteb for tfje OTorcestersfjtre Historical Societg,
BY JAMES PARKER AND CO., OXFORD.
1907.
PREFACE.
historical documents, which have been in the care of the
* Dean and Chapter of Worcester since the Dissolution of the
monastery, are numerous and varied. Those charters and letters
which possess obvious historical interest have been, for the most
part, long ago published by antiquaries and historians. But there
remain many documents, still unread, which may be of use to
students of mediaeval and monastic history, and may possess a wider
interest. I do not possess the knowledge requisite to trace the
past history of these documents, or to indicate the various volumes
in which those which have been published may be read. That
must be done by some one else. The object of this preface is only
to put on record some account of what has recently happened to
them, and to state what is their present condition.
In the fourteenth Report, Appendix, Part VIII., of the His-
torical Documents Commission, 1895, Mr. Reginald Lane Poole
has given the following outline: — "The Records of the Prior and
Convent," he writes, " and of their successors the Dean and Chapter
of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Worcester, are preserved in
a room adjoining the Bishop's Registry in the Gateway Tower,
to which they were removed in recent years from the long chamber
over the south aisle of the nave of the Church, where is now the
Cathedral Library. The muniments have in past time suffered
considerably from damp and the ravages of mice. At present there
is no danger of damp since fires are constantly kept in two or
three of the adjoining rooms, and both in January and in April
I have found the documents in a satisfactorily dry condition."
Mr. Poole notes, however, that the shelves are not high enough for
the books to stand upright, and that the charters require to be
laid out flat, and numbered, and so arranged that any one can
easily be found.
As to the place from which the documents were removed to
a 3
IV PREFACE.
the Gateway or 'Edgar' Tower, it seems to me possible that
Mr. Poole misunderstood the information given him. It is a small
matter, but not without interest. In the triforium over the south
aisle of the nave of the Cathedral there are, and must always have
been, two rooms, separated by a stone wall. One is over the two
western bays ; the other, higher by five steps, over the seven eastern
bays of the south aisle. The former of these two rooms is the
antechamber to the latter; and the latter is 'the long chamber
where is now the Cathedral library.' The spiral staircase by which
the library is approached leads up the south-western turret of the
aisle into the antechamber ; and another spiral staircase leads up
the south-western turret of the nave from the antechamber into
the clerestory, and thence to the roof of the nave. It was, I think,
in the short antechamber, not in the long chamber or library, or
possibly in one of the compartments into which the long chamber
was then divided, that the documents were housed in those recent
years to which Mr. Poole refers.
For, in the first place, Alderman Noake, writing in 1866 (Monas-
tery and Cathedral of Worcester, p. 410), says explicitly that he
consulted the documents " in the triforium over the two western
bays of the south side of the nave."
And, in the next place, a former member of the Cathedral
choir school, now a respected clergyman in the diocese, lately told
me how, at about this date, he and another choir-boy used to get
nto the Cathedral by night, while some repairs were going on.
He pointed out to me a window in the west staircase of the north
aisle of the nave by which at that time it was possible to enter.
On one occasion they went up to the roof of the nave, crossed
the vaulting, and descended, by the staircase I have mentioned, into
the southern triforium, and there, in the small antechamber, they
found themselves among the documents. He selected a stout and
large one, as suitable for a drum, and carried it off. But it was
unfortunately discovered by the Headmaster, who ascertained that
it had come from the muniment room, and ordered him to replace
it. The Headmaster does not seem to have enquired how the
muniment room was entered, nor whether his orders to replace
the document were carried out.
These two testimonies are, I think, conclusive that in the middle
of the nineteenth century the documents were stored, at any rate
PREFACE. V
in part, in the antechamber to the library, over the two western
bays of the south aisle.
It may be possible to go back one step farther in their history.
In 1827 a chapter order was made that "The chapter records and
documents now kept in the muniment room be divided, and all
which are not necessary for immediate reference to be placed in
the new muniment room, and the latter to be transferred to the
lower presses of the Chapter Library, with new keys in triplicate
for the Dean, the Receiver, and the Treasurer."
If this was carried out it seems probable that the ' new muniment
room ' here spoken of is identical with the antechamber to the
library ; but there is nothing to shew what room is referred to
as ' the muniment room ' in which up to that date the documents
were kept.
The collection of documents has suffered not only from damp,
and the indiscriminate destruction by mice, beetles, and choir-boys,
but even more severely by the discerning selection by antiquaries,
collectors and other visitors, who appear to have had, at certain
periods, easy access to the documents. For example, of the 420
charters and indentures catalogued with great care by Dr. Peter
Prattinton in 1824, about 70 are now missing, as I am informed
by the Rev. J. Harvey Bloom ; and several of the ancient charters,
referred to by historians as in our collection, are no longer to be
found. Mr. R. L. Poole wrote to me on 20 May, 1907: — "The
collection has indeed suffered more than most in the last two
centuries. At one time it was perhaps unequalled in its store of
Anglo-Saxon and Norman Charters : witness Wanley's list in Hickes'
Thesaurus. But I suspect that former Deans and Prebendaries
must have been unduly generous in presenting them to their friends.
It is clear that the first Lord Somers became possessed of a good
many of them ; and some seem to have passed into the hands of
William Lambard. But no small loss has occurred within living
memory. When I was working in the 'Edgar' Tower I met an
old man who had formerly been a clerk in the registry. He told
me of a box full of Anglo-Saxon Charters which he remembered
to have been destroyed by rain coming in from the roof."
In the autumn of 1906 I looked at some of the documents in
the drawers and shelves and boxes, both in the small room adjoining
the Bishop's Registry and in the turret approached by step-ladder
PA
410
VI PREFACE.
from it, and found that they were suffering from dirt as well as
from the want of room and absence of arrangement described by
Mr. Poole ; and with the advice of Mr. Charles Sayle, of the Cam-
bridge University Library, who was then staying with me, I formed
an outline of a plan for dealing with them. In November of that
year the Chapter adopted the plan, and gave me permission to
remove them to my house for cleaning and smoothing and for
preliminary classification, with a view to final removal to boxes in
properly constructed cases to be placed in our Cathedral library,
and authorised the subsequent preparation of a catalogue by some
competent person.
Our chapter clerk, Mr. J. H. Hooper, who has long been in-
terested in these documents, and, as Deputy Steward of the Manors
which passed in 1859 into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners, has also the care of the Manor and Court rolls, kindly
gave me every facility for the removal ; and also allowed the Manor
and Court rolls to be sent with the rest, for examination and
cataloguing. These will remain in the library, in the possession
of the Dean and Chapter, but under the custody of the chapter
clerk.
The number of documents proved to be far greater than any one
had anticipated, and the cleaning, pressing, and sorting of them
occupied me during the first three months of 1907. In April, in
pursuance of the permission granted me by the Dean and Chapter,
I asked the Rev. J. Harvey Bloom, M.A., Vicar of Whitchurch,
Stratford-on-Avon, who had done similar work elsewhere, to come
and take entire charge of the work of preparing a Catalogue of the
whole collection ; the Chapter having made a grant to meet the
necessary expense. He discharged the work with great promptness ;
and the documents are now classified under the heads shewn in the
next paragraph ; arranged in each class, numbered, and an abstract
made of each ; stamped as belonging to the Dean and Chapter ;
and placed in 120 cardboard boxes, similar to those used in the
British Museum. Catalogues are made of each class, so that any
document can be at once found. These catalogues will of course
need careful revision, and then it is hoped will be indexed and
published.
PREFACE.
vil
The classes are as follows : —
A. The volumes of MS. arranged and numbered to correspond
with Mr. Poole's numbers in the Report referred to
(pp. 165 — 184). So far as they go, all of these are in the
cases, with the exception of the volume marked XV. Of
these there are 213.
B. Charters and indentures, &c., numbering more than 1,800.
C. Rolls and Accounts of the officers of the Convent and the
bailiffs of their estates. Of these there are more than 900,
of which about 500 belong to the former class.
D. Correspondence.
E. Manor and Court rolls.
F. Documents which appear to belong to the Bishop rather than
to the Chapter, or refer to other dioceses than Worcester.
G. Fragments.
These documents are referred to by the letter giving the class,
and the number of the particular document.
During the process of cleaning and sorting the documents, and
afterwards availing myself occasionally of Mr. Bloom's kind assis-
tance, I became able to read some of them, and thought that the
publication of some of the Compotus rolls, in Class C, would be
of value to historical students, as an illustration of what our col-
lection contains. The documents are far too numerous to be all
printed ; and I finally selected for various reasons the accounts
for the year 13-14 Henry VIII. [1521-2], which are on paper, and
fastened together as a volume — A xvii. in the catalogue. I sub-
sequently discovered that these accounts exist in roll form in C. 106.
The transcription of the accounts of the obedientiaries, or the
officials of the monastery, for that year forms the nucleus of the
paper that follows.
I am fortunate enough to be able to publish along with this
a corresponding portion of Mr. Bloom's catalogue of our MSS.
The portion now published is that part of Class C, about half, which
contains the accounts of the obedientiaries. This will shew to all
students what we possess of such records. The Catalogue was made
in April and May, 19x17, by Mr. Bloom, and was carefully revised
by Mr. S. G. Hamilton, M.A., Librarian of Hertford College, Oxford,
VH1 PREFACE.
in the autumn of the same year. It will be remembered that
Mr. Hamilton, in co-operation with Mr. Floyer, prepared the Cata-
logue of the MS. books still remaining in the Cathedral library,
which formed part of the library of the monastery.
It is scarcely necessary to add that these documents are published
with the sanction of the Dean and Chapter.
JAMES M. WILSON.
COLLEGE, WORCESTER.
November^ zgof.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
iii
PREFACE ....
CATALOGUE OF ACCOUNT ROLLS
YXV11
INTRODUCTION . • • •
ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER
APPENDIX I. MANOR OF BRADWAS
II. THE ADVENT ANTIPHONS 46
III. THE PRIOR'S MITRE AND STAFF 47
IV. THE NUMBER IN THE ESTABLISHMENT . 49
V. LIST OF OFFICIALS . S1
VI. CONVENTUAL DIETARY S3
VII. A WINCHESTER ROLL 58
GLOSSARY .
INDEX . • • • • " '
CATALOGUE OF THE
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS OF THE PRIOR
AND CONVENT OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL.
I. ANNIVERSARIUS.
C. i. John Redyng, 1464-65 *.
2. John Corbet, 1476.
II. BERCARIUS, ' le Shepreve.'
C. 3.
VVm. Crewey,
24-25 Hen. VI.
(1445-46).
4-
Roger Procter,
13-14 Edw. IV.
(1473-74).
5-
j?
19-20 „
(1479-80).
6.
Ric. Persones,
8-9 Hen. VII.
(1492-93).
7-
»
10-11 „
(1494-95).
III.
CAMERARIUS.
C. 8.
W. de London,
6-7 Edw. I.
(1278-79).
9-
Gilbert,
H-iS ..
(1286-87).
10.
John de Clyfton,
20-21 „
(1292-93).
ii.
John de Gloucester,
25-26 Edw. III.
(1351-52).
12.
John Malverne,
2-3 Ric. II.
(1378-79)-
13-
»
4-5 »
(1380-81).
14.
n
5
(1381-82).
15-
Thos. Dene,
12 „
(1388).
16.
Wm. Power,
12-13 .»
(1388-89).
i7-
n
I3-H ,,
(1389-90).
1 8.
»>
!5 »
(1391)-
19.
Thos. Dene,
i5-lfi »
(1391-92).
20.
u
16-17 »
(1392-93).
21.
Robt. Hambury,
19-20 „
(1395-96).
22.
Thos. More,
20-21 „
(1396-97).
33-
»
21-22 „
(1397-98).
24.
>i
22-23 „
(1398-99).
24^.
»
22 Ric. II. — i
Hen. IV. (^preced.)
\Duplicate of the preceding roll.]
1 All the other rolls in this list (it will be presumption that these rolls do not properly
noted) are dated by the regnal years only : belong to Worcester.
and the fact that those of the Anniversaries IB the annual accounts, the year runs,
are dated annis Domini is in itself a strong as a rule, from Michaelmas to Michaelmas.
Xll
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
C. 25. Thos. More,
36. „
27. John Wyrcestre,
28.
29-
30-
3'- »
32. Ric. Tyburton,
33. Thos. Collewelle,
34- „
35-
36-
37. Thos. Blacwelle,
38-
38«. [illegible]
39. John Wyrcestre,
40. Thos. Blacwelle,
41. John Morton,
42. „
43- »
44. John Smethwyke,
45. Walter Fraunces,
46. Roger Kingstone,
47. Thos. Straynsham,
48. John Lychfeld,
49. Humfrey Grafton,
49«- »
50. John Wyrcester,
2-3 Hen. IV.
3-4 »
5-6 „
(1400-01).
(1401-02).
(1403-04).
(1409-10).
(1410-11).
(1411-12).
(1415-16).
(1419)-
12-13 »,
13-14 „
3-4 Hen. V.
7 ,,
9 H. V.— i H. VI.
(1421-22).
1-2 Hen. VI. (1422-23).
2-3 ,,
5-6
18-19 ,»
24-25 „
30-31 ,,
31-32 ,,
32-33 »
36-37 „
3-4 Edw. IV.
18-19 „
22 E. IV.— i R. III.
(1482-83).
14-15 Hen. VII. (1498-99).
15-16 „ (1499-1500).
19-20 „ (1503-04).
6-7 Hen. VIII. (1514-15).
(1423-24).
(1426-27).
(I432-33)-
(r433-34)-
(I436-37)-
(i439-4o).
(1445-46).
(1451-52).
(I452-53)-
(I453-54)-
(1457-58).
(1463-64)-
(I478-79)-
IV. CELLERARIUS.
51. Hugh de Inteberg, 20-21 Edw. I.
5ia. „ 21-22 „
52- „ 22-23 ,,
53. Thos. de Garndeslegh, 24-25 „
53«- » 25-26 „
54. John de Wyke, 26-27 »
55. Roger de Styvynton, 14 Edw. II.
6-7 Edw. III.
56. Robert de Weston,
57-
(1291-92).
(1292-93).
(1293-94).
(1295-96).
(1296-97).
(1297-98).
(1320-21).
(1332-33).
10-11
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
Xlll
C. 58. Robert de Weston,
12-13 Edw. III.
(I338-39)-
59-
18-19 »
(1344-45).
60. „
19-20 „
(1345-46).
61.
20-21 „
(1346-47).
62. Walter de Wynforton,
28-29 „
('354-5 5)-
63- »
30-31
(I356-57)-
64.
32
(1358).
65-
33-34
(1359-60).
66. Ric. de Wenlok,
43-44
(1369-70).
67. Wm. Power,
45-46 „
(1371-72).
68.
46-47 11
(I372-73)-
69-
50 E. III.— i R.
II.
('376-77)-
6ga. „ [Duplicate
of the preceding roll.}
70.
6-7 Ric. II.
(1382-83).
7 *• jj
9-10 „
(1385-86).
72.
10
(1386-87).
73. Wm. Owston,
10-11 „
(1387)-
74. Thos. Dene,
15
(1391-92).
75. Wm. Power,
IS'16 ••
(1392).
76.
16-17 „
(1392-93)-
763. „ [Duplicate
of the preceding roll. }
77-
19-20 „
(1395-96).
770. „ [Duplicate
of the preceding roll.}
78. Thos. Dene,
6-7 Hen. IV.
(1404-05).
79-
9 ti
(1407-08).
80. „
9-10 „
(1408).
8 1. John Clyve,
10-11 „
(1408-09).
8 iff. „ [Duplicate
of the preceding roll. ]
82. John Hambury,
12-13
(1410-11).
83. Ric. Tyburton,
8 Hen. V.
(1420).
84-
8-9 ,,
(1420-21).
85. Wm. Hodynton,
5-6 Hen. VI.
(1427-28).
850-
6-7 ,,
(1428-29).
86. ' Wm. Hodynton, and
}
Thos. Collewelle,
8-9 „
(1429-30).
' Bursare '
)
86a. Thos. Collewelle,
10-11 „
(1431-32).
' This is a long roll of paper, giving compiled with the aid of the Bursar. So
a more complete account than usual of the also the earliest Cellarer's roll (C. 51) is
financial position of the Cellarer's office, endorsed ' Comp'us Celer' et Burse,'
xiv
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
C. 87. Thos. Collewelle, 13-14
Hen. VI.
(H34-35).
88.
()
14-15
n
(1435-36).
89.
Wm. Hodynton,
17-18
„
(I438-39)-
90.
John Sudbury,
25-26
H
(1446-47).
91.
Ysaac Ledbury,
27-28
II
(1448-49).
92.
n
28-29
fl
(1449-50).
93-
Wm. Hodynton,
31-32
„
(I452-53)-
94-
„
32-33
fl
(I453-54).
94«-
John Smethwyke,
35-36
,,
(H56-57).
94^.
„
36-37
„
(1457-58).
95-
„
4-5
Edw. IV.
(1464-65).
96.
„
5-6
„
(1465-66).
97-
Robt. Malton,
6-7
)>
(1466-67).
98.
Roger Kyngslond1
19-20
11
(1479-80).
99-
„
2O-2I
ii
(1480-81).
TOO.
„
21-22
n
(1481-82).
101.
„
1-2
Ric. III.
(1483-84).
102.
„
2
R. III.— i
H. VII.
(1484-85).
I03.
John Stratford,
7-8
Hen. VII.
(1491-92).
IO4.
„
8-9
H
(1492-93).
I°5-
„
11-12
„
(1495-96).
106.
Transferrtd to C. 412
q.v.
V. COQUINARIUS.
C. 107.
Ric. de Dersynton,
20
E. II— i E
.III.
(1326-27).
1 08.
John de Preston,
2-3
Edw. III.
(1328-29).
109.
Robt. de Morton,
4-5
„
(1330-31),
1090.
„ [Duplicate of the preceding roll. ]
no.
Wm. de Clyve,
7-8
„
(1333-34).
in.
[PJohn de Hodyjnton
* 14-15
11
(1340-41).
112.
Nicholas Clanefeld,
2O-2I
„
(1346-47).
"3-
Ric. de Wenlak,
26-27
11
(I352-53)-
114.
Thos. de Roddeleye,
30-31
n
(I356-57).
"5-
Walter de Froucestre,
35
„
(1361).
116.
Nic. de Hodynton,
35-36
51
(1361-62).
117
Walter de Froucestre,
37
„
(1363)-
118.
n
37-38
n
(1363-64).
1 The same person probably who appears as Roger Kyngstone, C. 46 and C. 472.
• See below, C. 169.
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
XV
C. 119. Wm. Merston,
6-7 Ric. II.
(1382-83).
120. Thos. Hertilbury,
8-9
(1384-85)-
121. „
10-11 „
(1386-87).
122. ' „
14-15 »
(1390-91).
123. ,.
i5'16 »
(1391-92).
124. „
17-18 „
(I393-94)-
125- »
18-19 »
(I394-95)-
126. Wm. Owston,
19-20 „
(1395-96).
127. Ric. Duddeleye,
22-23 „
(1398-99).
128. Thos. Ruydyng,
1-2 Hen. IV. (1399 — 1400).
129. „
3 it
(1401).
130. Wm. Owston,
3-4 .,
(1401-02).
131. Thos. Hertilbury,
5-6 „
(1403-04).
132. „
6-7 ,,
(1404-05).
133-
7-8 „
(1405-06).
134. Thos. Alderton,
8-9 „
(1406-07).
135. Thos. Broctone,
IO-II „
(1408-09).
i35«- » [Duplicate
of the preceding roll^\
136. John Coulesdon,
14 H. IV.— i H
. V.
(1412-13).
137. Thos. Hertilbury, and "I
(1414).
Thos. Ruydyng
J
138. Thos. Ruydyng,
3-4 »
(1415-16).
139-
4-5
(1416-17).
140. Thos. Alderton,
8-9 „
(1420-21).
141. „
9 H. V.— i H.
VI.
(1421-22).
142. Thos. Norton,
1-2 Hen. VI.
(1422-23).
143. Thos. Collewell, and
Ric. Cowarn
} 7-8 „
(1428-29).
144. Wm. Browhcton,
9-10 „
(1430-31).
145. Wm. Hodynton,
11-12 „
(1432-33).
146. John Suddebury,
I7-I8 „
(1438-39)-
147. Wm. Hodynton,
22-23 „
(1443-44).
148. John Clyfton,
32-33 ..
(1453-54).
149. John Morton,
38-39 ,,
(1459-60).
1 50. John Smethwyk,
2 Edw. IV.
(1462).
1 Stitched to this roll is another roll of cester in the year Michaelmas, 1556, to
10 leaves of paper, containing a Survey Michaelmas, 1557 (3 & 4~ 4 & 5 phU'P and
(by Richard Owen) of the lands and pos- Mary),
sessions of the Cathedral Church of Wor-
XVI
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
C. 151. Wm. Hodynton, 5-6 Edw. IV.
(1465-66).
152- » 6'7 »
(1466-67).
153- » 7'8 »
(1467-68).
154. „ 8-9 „
(1468-69).
155. Ric. Clyfford, 11-12 „
(1471-72).
156. „ 12-13
(1472-73).
157- ,. I3'I4
(I473-74).
158. Ric. Upton, 15-16 „
(1475-76).
iS9- » J7'18 "
(1477-78).
1 60. John Stratford, 19-20 „
(1479-80).
i6oa. „ [Duplicate of the preceding roll.'}
161. Wm. Hodynton, 3-4 Hen. VII.
(1487-88).
1 6 1 a. „ [Duplicate of the preceding roll.']
162. „ 4-5 »
(1488-89).
163. Thos. Croppethorne, 6-7 „
(1490-91).
164. „ 7-8 »
(1491-92).
165. Hen. Chestur, 11-12 „
(1495-96).
1650. Humfrey Grafton, same year1.
166. „ 14-15 »
(1498-99).
167. Wm. More, 17-18 „
(1501-02).
168. „ 19-20 „
(1503-04).
i68«. „ [Duplicate of the preceding roll.}
169. John de Hodynton, account for every day
in a week,
13-14 [?Edw. III. (1339-40] '•
VI. ELEMOSINARIUS.
C. 170. John de Muchelneye, 15-16 Edw. III.
(1341-42).
171. „ 19-20 „
(1345-46).
172. Roger de Minstreworth, 29-30 „
(1355-56).
173. John Gloucester, 48-49 „
(I374-75)-
174. „ 1-2 Ric. II.
(1377-78).
175. Robt. Hambury, 3-4 „
(1379-80).
i?6- » 4-5 •>
(1380-81).
i77- » 6-7
(1382-83).
178. „ 7-8
(1383-84).
179- „ "-12 ».
(1387-88).
1 This roll is »t first sight identical (except for the name) with preceding; but not
entirely so throughout. * King's name lost. See C. in.
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
XVII
C. 180. Robt. Hambury, 13-14 Ric. II.
(1389-90).
181. „ 15-16 „
(1391-92).
182. Thos. Dene, 19-20 ,,
('395-96).
183. „ 21 „
(1397-98).
184. John Fordam, 21-22 „
(1398-99).
185. ,, 1-2 Hen. IV. (1399 — 1400).
186. „ 2-3 „
(1400-01).
187. John Hatfeld, 6-7 „
(1404-05).
1 88. „ 8-9 „
(1406-07).
189. „ 11-12 „
(1409-10).
190. „ 1-2 Hen. V.
(1413-14).
191. Thos. Musard 9 H. V.— i H.
VI.
(1421-22).
192- „ 1-2 Hen. VI.
(1422-23).
'93- » 5-6
(1426-27).
'93a- » 6-7 „
(1427-28).
194. Wm. Hertylbury, 10-11 „
(1431-32).
'95- 11 n-i2 ii
(1432-33)-
'96. „ 12-13 „
(I433-34).
J97- ii 13-14 ,,
(I434-35).
198. „ 15-16 „
(1436-37).
199. Thos. Collewelle, 20-21 Hen. VI.
(1441-42).
200. John Lawarne, 27-28 „
(1448-49).
2oort. „ [Duplicate of C. 200.]
2006. „ Rental of Office, 28 H. VI.
(1449).
201. William Hodynton, 2-3 Edw. IV.
(1462-63).
20\a. „ [Duplicate of the preceding roll.~\
202. John Sudbury, 8-9 „
(1468-69).
2°3- » 13-14 „
('473-74).
204. Robt. Multon, 18-19 »
(1478-79).
205. „ 21-22 „
(1481-82).
206. „ 22 E. IV.— i R. III.
(1482-83).
207. „ 2-3 Hen. VII.
(1486-87).
208. John Newtowne, 5-6 „
(1489-90).
209. John Stratford, 14-15 ,,
(1498-99).
209*7. „ Rental of Office, 14 H. VII.
(1498).
210. John Lychefeld, 16-17 Hen. VII.
(1500-01).
211. [name wanting] 20-21 ,,
(1504-05).
212. Robt. Lynsey, 22-23 »
(1506-07).
XV111
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
C. 213-
214.
2I5-
216.
217.
218.
219.
220.
220(7.
221.
222.
223.
224.
2241!.
225.
226.
226(7.
227.
228.
229.
230.
231.
232.
233-
234-
235-
236.
237-
238.
239-
240.
VII.
John Hatfeld,
Walter Kyrkeby,
Thos. Ruydynge,
John Clyve,
HOSTILLARIUS.
jo-ii Ric. II. (1386-87).
12-13 „ (1388-89).
15-16 „ (1391-92).
2-3 Hen. IV. (1400-01).
5-6 „ (1403-04).
lo-n „ (1408-09).
It-12 „ (1409-10).
12-13 » (I4IO-II).
[Duplicate of the preceding roll.]
13-14 „ (1411-12).
Thos. Hertilbury,
Roger Evesham,
Ric. Cowarn,
John Malverne,
)>
John Morton,
Robt. Cleeve,
Ric. Upton,
Thos. Cropthorn,
John Halys,
Humfrey Grafton,
14 H. IV.— i H. V.
(1412-13).
(1413-14).
(1414-15).
(1417-18).
(1420-21).
1-2 Hen. V.
2-3
5-6
8-9 ,,
9 H. V.— H. VI. (1421-22).
1-2 Hen. VI. (1422-23).
(1424-25).
(1425-26).
(1426-27).
(1427-28).
(1429-30).
(1431-32).
(I456-57)-
(1457-58).
(1462).
13-14 ,, (I473-74)-
14-15 » (I474-75)-
14-15 Hen. VII. (1498-99).
19-20 „ (1503-04).
23-24 ,, (i5°7-°8)-
3-4 »
4-5
5-6 ,,
6-7 ,,
8-9
10-11 „
3S-36
36-37
2 Edw. IV.
VIII.
C. 241. John Gloucestre,
242. John Grene,
243. John Lyndesey,
244-
2440. Ric. Duddeleye,
INFIRMARIUS.
2-3 Ric. II.
4-5
i5-16 »
19 ,.
19-20 „
(I378-79)-
(1380-81).
(1391-92).
(1395-96).
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
XIX
C. 245. Ric. Duddeleye,
246.
2460. John Duddeleye,
247. Thos Dene,
20-21 Ric. II.
21-22 „
22-23 .»
13-14 Hen. IV.
(1396-97).
(1397-98).
(1398-99).
(1411-12).
IX. MAGISTER SCOLARUM ', MAGISTER OR GUSTOS CAPELLE.
The first of these titles is given to C. 248 only; C. 249-277, 279-280 are
Custodes, C. 278, 281 291 Magistri, Capelle.
248.
John de Elyngham, 30-31 Edw. III.
(I356-57)-
249.
Thos. de Stokton, 49 „
(1375).
250.
Wm. Owstone, 15-16 Ric. II.
(1392).
251.
» i6-i7 ,,
(1392-93).
252.
» l8-J9 „
(I394-95)-
253-
John Wyrcestre, 19-20 „
(1395-96).
254-
20-21 „
(1396-97).
255-
„ 21-22 „
(1397-98).
256.
1-2 Hen. IV.
(1399-1400).
257-
i, 2-3 „
(1400-01).
258.
4-5 ,,
(1402-03).
259-
John Whytechurch, 8-9 „
(1406-07).
260.
„ 9'10 ..
(1407-08).
261.
,, 10-11 „
(1408-09).
262.
Ric. Duddeleye, 11-12 „
(1409-10).
263.
Wm. Croppethorne, 12-13 „
(1410-11).
264.
» I3-M „
(1411-12).
265.
14 H. IV.— i H.
V.
(1412-13).
266.
1-2 Hen. V.
(1413-14).
267.
» 2-3 „
(1414-15).
268.
i> 3"4 »
(1415-16).
269.
» 5-6 ,,
(1417-18).
270.
Thos. Collewall, 7 „
(1419).
271.
Wm. Broughton, 8-9 „
(1420-21).
2-jia.
„ [Duplicate of the preceding rol/.]
272.
1-2 Hen. VI.
(1422-23).
272^.
„ [Duplicate of the preceding roll.]
273-
2-3 „
(1423-24).
274.
» 3"4 »
(1424-25).
274*.
„ [Duplicate of the preceding roll.]
Possibly SCOLARIUM, MS. scalar'.
\)2
XX
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
C. 275.
Wm. Broughton,
5-6 Hen. VI.
(1426-27).
276.
,,
6-7 .,
(1427-28).
377.
n
7-8 „
(1428-29).
278.
Ric. Welles,
8-9
(1429-30).
279.
Wm. Lodelow,
I3-H ,,
(1434-35)-
279«.
M
14-15 „
(1435-36).
280.
„
IS'1 6 „
(1436-37)-
281.
John Smethwyke,
7-8 Edw. IV.
(1467-68).
282.
John Malverne,
12-13 »
(1472-73)-
283.
Wm. Dene,
14-15 ».
(1474-75)-
284.
„
15-16 „
(1475-76).
285.
n
19-20 „
(1479-80).
2850.
„
20-21 „
(1480-81).
286.
,,
1-2 Ric. III.
(1483-84).
287.
„
4-5 Hen. VII.
(1488-89).
288.
John Gloucestre,
5-6 „
(1489-90).
289.
John Stratford,
15
(1499-1500).
290.
John Hardewyke,
16-17
(1500-01).
291.
Wm. Clifton,
19-20
(1502-03).
X.
PlTANCIARIUS.1
C. 292."
Nic. de Clanefeld,
23-24 Edw. I.
(1294-95).
293-2
„
25-26 „
(1296-97).
294.
Simon Crompe,
12-13 Edw. H-
(1318-19).
295-
Robt. de Morton,
17-18 „
(1324).
296.
n
18-19 „
(1324-25).
297.
\
as ' Pitanciarius
de Hermitagio ' 3
2970.
/ 1-2, 2-3 Edw. III. (1327-29).
298.
[John] de Leye,
13-14 Edw. III.
(i339-4o).
299.
Wm. de Clyve,
H-'S »
(1340-41).
300.
M
17-18 „
(I343-44).
301.
n
18-19 „
(I344-45).
302.
„
20-21 „
(1346-47).
3°3-
Ric. de Wenlok,
29-3° »
("sss-s6)-
1 This is the form of the word in the (without a numeral), and are therefore
earlier rolls. By the reign of Hen. VIII. placed under Edw. I.
it had become Pitansarius.
3 These two very short accounts (scarcely
• These two rolls should perhaps be long enough to form rolls) would seem to
referred to the corresponding years of belong to a hermit's cell attached to the
Edw. III.: cf. C. 112. They are, how- Priory,
ever, dated by the years ' regis Edwardi '
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
xxi
C. 304.
Ric. de Wenlok,
3o-3i
Edw. III.
(I356-57)-
3°5-
H
34-35
„
(1360-61).
306.
Thos. de Wyke,
36-37
„
(1362-63).
307.
„
37-38
„
(1363-64).
308.
Ric. de Wenlok,
44-45
„
(1370-71).
309-
Thos. de Wyke,
46-47
1)
(1372-73)-
310.
Robt. Stanes,
49-5°
))
(1375-76).
3"-
John Wytteneye,
3-4
Ric. II.
(1379-80).
312.
„
5
„
(1381).
3'3-
Wm. Merstone,
II- 1 2
n
(1387-88).
3*4-
„
13-14
n
(1389-90).
315. „ [no date]
316.
»»
17
»
(i393)-
3i7-
H
I7-I8
»
(I393-94)-
318.
John Senar,
19-20
,,
(1395-96).
3i9-
Wm. Owston,
2-3
Hen. IV.
(1400-01).
320.
Wm. Merstone,
8-9
„
(1406-07).
321.
„
13-14
„
(1411-12).
322.
H
2-3
Hen. V.
(1414-15).
323-
Thos. Collewelle,
3-4
„
(1415-16).
324-
„
4-5
H
(1416-17).
325-
Ric. Cowarne,
9
H. V.— i H.
VI.
(1421-22).
326.
Robt. Lawarne,
2-3
Hen. VI.
(1423-24).
327-
n
4-5
J)
(1424-25).
328.
Wm. Croft,
5-6
ft
(1425-26).
329-
Thos. Lylleshull,
IO-II
It
(1431-32).
330-
Thos. Blacwell,
13-14
H
(1434-35)-
33i-
John Hanley,
14-15
n
(1435-36).
332.
ii
15-16
„
(1436-37)-
333-
John Langley,
24-25
n
(1445-46).
334-
John Smethewyke,
29-30
,,
(1450-51).
335-
„
33-34
H
(I454-55)-
336.
John Webley,
1-2
Edw. IV.
(1461-62).
337-
John Byshampton,
3-4
„
(1463-64).
338.
„
12-13
»
(I472-73)-
339-
Ric. Croppethorne,
15-16
n
(1475-76).
34«-
,.
17-18
„
(1477-78).
34i-
Wm. Hinkley, 'Michaelmas Term, 19 Edw.
IV.'
(i479)-
342.
„
20-21
Edw. IV.
(1480-81).
XX11
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
C. 343-
John Newtowne,
1-2 Ric. III.
(1483-84).
344-
»
3-4 Hen. VII.
(1487-88).
345-
John Hardewyke,
5-6 „
(1489-90).
346.
jj
10-11 „
(1494-95).
347-
j>
11-12 „
(1495-96).
348.
j»
12-13 »»
(1496-97).
349-
John Stokys,
I6-I7 »,
(1500-01).
35°.
»
17-18
(1501-02).
XI.
PRECENTOR.
c. 351-
John de Leye,
20-21 Edw. III.
(1346-47).
352.
»
22 „
(i348).
353-
John de Lemenstre,
23-24 ,,
(i349-5°)-
354-
ii
24-25 »
(I350-51)-
355-
»
28-30 „
(1354-56).
356.
Henry de Lawerne,
32-33
(I358-59)-
357-
11
34-35 ».
(1360-61).
358.
Ric. de Henkseye,
35-36
(1361-62).
359-
»
36-37
(1362-63).
360.
John Malverne,
47
(i373)-
361.
Wm. Power,
48-49 „
(I374-75)-
362.
John Malverne,
3 Ric. II.
(1379-80.
363-
Robt. Stanes,
7-8 ,,
(1383-84)-
364.'
n
8-9 „
(1384-85)-
365-
John Malverne,
11-12 „
(1387-88).
366.'
ii
12 „
(1388).
367-
John Hatfeld,
M-I5 ..
(1390-91).
368.
»
I7-I8 „
(1393-94).
369-
n
I8-I9 ».
(I394-95)-
370.
n
2 Hen. IV.
(1400-01).
37'-'
John Clyve,
3 ..
(1401-02).
372.
Roger Shrovesbury,
7-8 „
(1405-06).
373-
Thos. Broctone,
12-13 »
(1410-11).
374-
H
I3-M »
(1411-12).
375-
John Tendbury,
7-8 Hen. V.
(1419-20).
376.
)*
1-2 Hen. VI.
(1422-23).
' These rolls have indentures attached, The most interesting is described as a
executed between the outgoing precentor ' jewel ' (iocale) in the form of an M,
and his successor in office, containing a list adorned with precious stones, no doubt a
of articles belonging to the office which badge worn or carried on a wand,
were handed on from one to the other.
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
XX111
C. 377-
John Stodeley,
4-5 Hen. VI.
(1425-26).
378-
Thos. Lyllesull,
i5'16 »
(1436-37).
379-
John Sudbury,
28-29 »
(1449-50).
380.
John George,
29-3°
(1450-51).
381.
Walter Fraunces,
5-6 Edw. IV.
(1465-66).
382.
John Kydyrmynster,
7-8 „
(1467-68).
383-
Ric. Mynston,
16-17
(1476-77).
384-
„
18-19 „
(1478-79).
385-
John Newton,
21-22 „
(1481-82).
386.
n
22-23 ' »
(1482-83).
387-
Ric. Mynston,
4-5 Hen. VII.
(1488-89).
388.
Thos. Mildenham,
7-8 „
(1491-92).
389-
Edm. Ledbury,
10-11 „
(1494-95).
390-
„
11-12 „
(1495-96).
39i-
Wm. Wircetur,
14-15 ..
(1498-99).
392.
Edm. Ledbury,
I6-I7 »
(1500-01).
393-
„
I7-I8 „
(1501-02).
394-
Wm. Lylsyll, *
2 Hen. VIII.
(151°)-
XII. PRIORS' ROLLS.
John [de Evesham], 1340-70.
C. 395-
14-15 Edw. III.
(1340-41).
John Hertilbury, 1444-56.
C. 396.
23-24 Hen. VI.
(1444-45).
397-
25-26 „
(1446-47).
398.
26-27 „
(1447-48).
399-
31-32 „
(I452-53)-
Thomas Musard, 1456-69.
C. 400.
38-39 >.
(1459-60).
401.
3-4 Edw. IV.
(1463-64).
402.
4-5 ,,
(1464-65).
Robert Multon, 1469-92
C. 403.
9-10 ,,
(1469-70).
404.
10- II „
(1470-71).
405-
12-13 »
(I472-73)-
406.
18-19 ,,
(1478-79).
407.
21-22
(1481-82).
408.
1-2 RiC. III.
(1483-84).
409.
2-3 Hen. VII.
(1486-87).
410.
4-5
(1488-89).
411.
6-7 „
(1490-91).
1 Sic, for I Ric. III.
The same name as occurs C. 329, 378.
XXIV
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
William More, 1518-36.
C. 412 (= 106).
4120,
414.
4140.
4143.
4i5-
The rolls of Prior More are different in form from those of his pre-
decessors. They contain the accounts for the year of all the officials, and
exhibit a complete conspectus of the receipts and expenditure of the Convent.
This is doubtless the reason why so few separate accounts of officials during
the reign of Henry VIII. are preserved.
13-14 Hen. VIII.
(I52I-22).
14 ,,
(r522).
15-16 ».
(1523-24).
16-17 „
(I524-25)-
21-22 „
(1529-30).
23-24 ,,
(1531-32).
25-26 „
(! 533-34)-
XIII. REFECTORARIUS.
C. 416. Thos. More,
417. Roger Evesham,
418. John Savage,
419. Ric. Tyberton,
420. Thos. Wiche,
421. Robt. Aylysbury,
422. John Byshampton,
423. Wm. Worcestur,
424. John Halys,
17-18 Ric. II.
(I393-94)-
19-20 „
(1395-96).
10-11 Hen. VI.
(1431-32).
z8-i9 Hen. VI.
(1439-40).
33-34 „
(M54-55)-
6-7 Edw. IV.
(1466-67).
20-21 „
(1480-81).
15-16 Hen. VII.
(1499—1500).
17-18 „
(1501-02).
XIV. SACRISTA.
C. 425-
426.
427.
428.
429.
John Clyve,
John Weddesbury,
»
Robt. Alvechurche,
2-3 Hen. VI.
17-18 Hen. VII.
21-22 „
23-24 »
8-9 Hen. VIII.
15 »
(1423-24).
(1501-02).
(1505-06).
(1507-08).
(1516-17).
(1523)-
1 This is a roll of a character quite dif-
ferent from the other Prior's rolls. It
contains the accounts of Prior More as
Vicar General for Cardinal Julius de' Medici,
to whom Leo X. had given the bishopric
to hold in comnutidam after the death of
the bishop Silvester de Gigliis. But the see
is stated to be vacant, the Cardinal not
having been enthroned.
ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
XXV
XV. SUBCELLARARIUS.
C. 431-
Wm. de Peyto,
19 Edw. II.
(i325)-
432-
Ric. Colys,
6-7 Edw. III.1
(I332'33)-
433-
John de Gloucestre.
15-16 „
(1341-42).
434-
Philip de la Broke,
17-18 „
(1343-44).
435-
Ric. de Morton,
19-20 „
(1345-46).
John de Troubrugge,
23-24 »
(i349-5o)-
437-
„
25-26 „
(^S'-S2)-
438.
Walter de Froucestre,
26-27 „
(i352-53)-
439-
Ric. de Hengseye,
29-3° »
(1355-56).
440.
Walter de Froucestre,
30-31
(I356-57)-
441.
I(
3i-32 »
(1357-58).
442.
M
32"33 ».
(I358-59).
443-
33-34 »
(i359-6o).
444-
Wm. Merstone,
3-4 Ric. II.
(1379-80).
445-
John de Uptone,
I3'1 4 ..
(1389-90).
446.
T.R.(?Thos. Ruydyng),
20-21 „
(I396-97)-
447-
John Morton,
19-20 Hen. VI.
(1440-41).
448.
„
29-3° »
(1450-51).
449.
Ric. Upton,
12-13 Edw. Iv-
(i472-73).
45°-
John Gloucestre,
2 R. Ill— i H
.VII.
(1484-85).
451-
Thos. Stafforde,
6-7 Hen. VII.
(1490-91).
452-
Hen. Chester,
9-10 „
(1493-94).
XVI. TUMBARIUS.
The title given to the first (only) of these officers
whose computus is
preserved is
Gustos feretrorum sanctorum Oswaldi et Wulstani.
C. 453-
John Wytteneye,
49-50 Edw. III.
(1375-76).
454-
H
1-2 Ric. II.
(1377-78).
C. 455-
John Tewkesbury,
12-13 Ric. II.
(1388-89).
456.
B
I3-M „
(1389-90).
457-
„
14-15 »
(1390-91).
458.
n
16-17 „
(*392-93)-
459-
it
18
(I394)-
45 9«-
Wm. Merstone,
18-19 „
(1394-95).
460.
„
19-20 „
(1395-96).
' In the reign of Edw. III. the Subcellarer is de»cribed as having the charge of a miU
or mills at Mildenham.
xxvi ACCOUNT ROLLS OF THE OFFICIALS.
C 461. Wm. Merstone, 20-21 Ric. II. (J396-97).
462. „ 21-22 „ (1397-98).
463- ,, 22-23 .. (i398-99)-
464. „ 1-2 Hen. IV. (1399 — 1400).
465. „ 2-3 „ (1400-01).
466. „ 3-4 „ (1401-02).
467- » 4-5 » (1402-03).
468. „ 5-6 „ (1403-04).
469. Thos. More, 6-7 „ (1404-05).
47°- .. "-I2 „ (1409-10).
471. John Sudbury, 33-34 Hen. VI. ^454-55).
472. Roger Kyngstone, 15-16 Edw. IV. (1475-76).
C. 473—498 are Defective Rolls: among which one at least deserves
special notice :
€.482. John.... 7 Edw. I. (1279-80).
Apparently a Cellarer's Roll, it is complete, except that the heading
is unfortunately torn off. It contains an interesting list of presents (casks
of wine, salmon, &c.), given to royal and noble personages.
INTRODUCTION.
T^HESE introductory remarks are intended simply to bring out
into clearer light the facts mentioned in the documents them-
selves. I do not possess the requisite knowledge for comparing
them with the similar documents of other convents or other periods.
That must be left to antiquaries and historians of far wider know-
ledge than I possess ; and I hope that this small contribution of
materials may be of some interest and service. The documents
suggest many questions to which I am able to give no answer.
The accounts here printed are the annual abstracts for the year
mentioned, A.D. 1521-2, presented by the officials, or some of the
officials, of the Benedictine Monastery of Worcester, at the annual
audit held shortly after Michaelmas. These officials are the Prior,
the Cellerarius, the Subcellerarius, the Elemosinarius, the Magister
Capellae, the Camerarius, the Pitansarius, the Precentor, the Tum-
barius, the Hostillarius, the Magister Communis Cenae, the Refecto-
rarius, the Infirmarius, the Coquinarius, and the Sacrista. The
total of the sums that pass through their hands in the year is
£1,352 igs. %^d. corresponding to about £14,000 or £15,000 of our
money. Part of this, however, is counted twice over, as paid by one
official to another. From other sources it is learnt that the net
income of the monastery at the Dissolution was £1,290 los. 6\d. \
These accounts were in general submitted to the prior and auditor;
but some suspicion had recently arisen as to the accounts ; for in
Prior More's Journal it is stated that in the year A.D. 1521-2, to
which these accounts belong, the Sacrist was bound on oath to
submit his accounts to the Bishop or his deputy, and not to the
Prior.
It is, perhaps, worth recalling that this was an eventful year in
the history of the monastery, though no traces of the events occur
1 Noake— Monastery and Cathedral of Worcester, p. 230.
xxvill INTRODUCTION.
in the accounts. In the year A.D. 1521, Sylvester Giglis, Bishop of
Worcester, died at Rome ; and the bull of Leo condemning Luther
was delivered to the prior, sede vacante. In July, A.D. 1521, the
prior and convent returned a submissive answer, and Noake tells us x
that the populace of Worcester, to manifest their sympathy with
the cause of the Reformation, defaced the high cross before the
Guildhall.
The great majority of the accounts of the monastery that still
exist are written on parchment, the skins being sewn together end-
wise so as to form a long strip, and then rolled up and tied. They
are often written on both sides. But it happens that the accounts
for four consecutive years, not all of them complete, are written on
paper, as was the custom after the dissolution of the monastery, and
are in the form of a volume. Its nature can be judged from the
facsimile of p. 133 of the manuscript, printed opposite p. 26 2. It is
the second of these four years that I have selected for transcription.
The volume also contains the accounts of the bailiffs and col-
lectors of some of the manors for the same years. The total of their
accounts in the first of these years, prior to deductions, is £704
13*. 34<£, and the net total is considerably less. It is plain, there-
fore, that this volume does not give a complete account of the
revenues of the priory.
" The contents of the volume, of which some leaves have been
misplaced in binding, are as follows : —
pp. 1—43. 12-13 Hen. VIII. Accounts of bailiffs, &c.
» 44 — 69- » ,, Accounts of all officials,
except Coquinarius
and Sacrista.
„ 70—113. 13-14 Hen. VIII. Accounts of bailiffs, &c.
,,115 — 140. „ „ Accounts of all officials,
except Sacrista.
„ 149—189. 14-15 Hen. VIII. Accounts of bailiffs, &c.
„ 191 — 216.1
, r » „ Accounts of all officials.
„ 141— 146. J
„ 217—254. 15-16 Hen. VIII. Accounts of bailiffs, &c.
,,255—287. „ „ Accounts of all officials.
' P- 214- Road, Worcester, and leave nothing to be
* All the facsimiles are from photographs desired,
taken by Mr. Arthur Neale, Braemar, Bath
INTRODUCTION. XXIX
" The disarrangement of leaves made it at first appear that the
accounts of officials were more incomplete than they are. The
absence of the Sacrist's accounts in the first two years is probably
not accidental, nor due to the loss of a couple of leaves, as might be
conjectured for the second year. It must be considered in connexion
with the statement as to these accounts in the Prior's Journal. The
absence of the accounts of the coquinarius in the first year is not due
to the loss of leaves: for the Infirmarius's accounts end on p. 69,
and the verso (p. 70) contains the commencement of the Bailiffs
accounts for the second year." These two paragraphs are extracted
from a letter written to me by the Dean of Westminster.
The accounts of a single year may be taken as fairly representative
of the period ; a large proportion of the items in any one year
being identical with items in the years before and after ; but in order
to give a more comprehensive view of the accounts of the period
I have in this introduction noted occasionally some of the items
occurring in the abstracts of other years which are not represented
in that of the year selected.
Before proceeding to the examination of these abstracts it may
be well to say a few words on the accounts of which they are the
abstracts. For besides these abstracts there were the detailed
accounts of the bailiffs and rent collectors of the different manors
to which I have referred ; a specimen of these is given in Ap-
pendix I. There were also the detailed accounts of the officials of
the monastery, as to their expenditure : and these are constantly
referred to in the abstracts — parcelle particulariter plenius liquent —
parcelle plenius liquent per jornale suum — ut patet per rentale — per
indenturas — ut patet per tallium — per jornale coram domino priore
et auditore debits examination. The nature of these detailed
accounts of expenditure can be inferred from Prior More's journal,
which gives his weekly accounts for many years, and appears
from his abstract to have been in some form submitted to audit.
A specimen page of this is given in facsimile in Appendix III., p. 47.
A facsimile is also given at p. 54 of a portion of the roll of a
coquinarius, which supplies the menu, and the cost of the dinner,
for every day in the year. There were also the detailed accounts
of the receipts of each official, giving the rents of lands and tene-
ments actually paid tenninis sanctorum Michaelis, Andree, Annun-
ciationis et sancti Johannis Baptiste. C. 200 (b) is a good specimen
XXX INTRODUCTION.
of such an account of the elemosinarius. Two or three lines from
it may be given as an illustration : —
Ex tenemento uno scilicet sexto a •
porta in Sudbury Strete sinistra parte
ex opposito tenement! Henrici Brun-
> 2s. 6d., 2s. 6d., 2s. 6d., 2s. 6d.
fords per annum ad terminos usuales
videlicet.
Ex tenemento quondam Rusby,
quondam Thomae Carter, et modo
William Wybbe tenet per annum ad
terminos usuales.
The former of these two entries shows that houses in streets
were not yet numbered, and the latter entry may interest some of
the great family of Webbs, who still live in Worcester. It shows
how regularly one of their possible ancestors paid his modest
quarterly rent.
The length and apparent complexity of the abstracts of the
accounts of the monastery arises in part from the fact that the
manors and farms were given or assigned to certain offices in the
convent, and not to the convent as a whole. Each of the officers has,
therefore, his own estates and revenues and officials, and holds his
own curia or court, and pays his own contribution to the Order of id.
per mark. The elemosinarius, for example, rides out to Icome with his
seneschal to hold a curia as lord of the manor. Some of our documents
are the records of such courts. Then further, each of the manors,
though held by one official, was subject to certain charges upon it
payable to other persons. The second item in the prior's receipts —
percipit de cellerario pro secunda vestura de Dydeley per annum . . .
6s. Sd. — is of this nature. The home estate, ' Wigorn.,' is appropriated
in part to the cellerarius. He receives rents of tenements and lands in
civitate Wigorn. et suburbiis [pp. I, 70, 149, 2I7]1, and the rents of
some farms, among them 40?. pro secunda vestura — the aftermath —
de Dydeley (? Diglis). But he has to pay to the Bishop a quit rent
"duoritm tenementorum de novo edificatorum juxta lle Cardynalls Hatte'
quondam vocatum Holdefords Inne" [p. i], and a quit rent \2d. for
a tenement in Broad Street. He pays to the precentor a rent of
1 The numbers in square brackets refer to the pages in the manuscript volume from
which the transcription is made.
INTRODUCTION. XXXI
26s. 8d. for a tenement in Newport : to the Bishop pro via liabenda —
a right of road — in Dudeley izd., and, as has been said, to the prior,
fro secimda vestura de Dydeley, 6s. %d.
The variations from year to year in the receipts arise partly from
fines on renewal of rents. Thus [p. 261] the cellerarius enters — de
fine Ricardi Chylde pro Myldenliams Mylle hoc anno — £20. There
are also variable 'heriotts'; for example in 18 Henry VIII. the
Elemosinarius reports at his curia the death of Henry Staunton,
and the payment by his widow of a furiott videlicet optimum animal
bovem colons rubii pretii I2s., on the payment of which amount
ipsa fecit fidelitatem et admissa est tenens. The sale of wood, cattle,
salt, coal, building materials, &c., is also variable. The rents of
houses are also a varying item. Some houses are reported as
indecassa, or indecata, which seems to mean out of repair (decasus).
In some cases the tenant negat solvere ; in others recessit cum redditu
or redditu non soluto ; in others redditus detinetur. Sometimes there
is no rent, quia tenementum vacuum jacet. In addition to rents paid
in money, presents or tribute were sent from the manors. For
example, on fol. 5 1 of the Prior's ' Jornale ' is a note that during
the year he had received 120 pairs of pigeons from Crowle, 44 pairs
from the Priory Cote, 100 couple of conies from Henwick, 25 couple
from Batnall, and 14 from Hallow.
The abstracts of the receipts of each official are rendered in a
nearly identical form, as will be seen by reference to the printed
specimens that follow. The main item in the receipts is the net
total of the rents received through bailiffs and collectors of certain
lands, farms and tenements, and of the pensions or payments from
certain Churches. A detailed account of these has previously been
submitted to the auditor. To this main item are added small fixed
payments which come mainly through other officials of the monas-
tery, and variable items often of considerable interest, such as
legacies, and offerings by pilgrims in money and wax. The last
of these, as will be seen by reference to the Sacrist's accounts,
amounted in value to £49 gs. I \d.
The abstracts of the expenditure are more varied. In general
we have first the redditus resoluti, fixed charges on the rents, due
to outsiders. In some cases there follow the decassorum redditus,
allowances for rents not received ; stipendia monac/iorum, payments
made to the officers, members and servants of the convent : feoda
XXXli INTRODUCTION.
et vadia, payments made to officials who are not monks by
way of salaries or gratuities ; corodia, or allowances ; solutiones
necessarie, payments for repairs of tenements, for the repair of the
chancel of the church in his manor, and for repair of bridges, for
articles used in the office, and the fee to the professional accountant
for making the abstract — pro factura prcesentis compoti ; then follow
items for hospitality, and for the special duties of his office, and for
the furniture of his chamber or camera, and finally for sundries
impossible to classify.
A few remarks may now be made on the accounts of each officer
in order ; and first of the Prior, or the Lord Prior, as he was now
styled.
In addition to these abstracts there exists in our collection a
journal of William More, the last prior but one, giving his daily and
weekly expenditure from A.D. 1518 — 1535.
This journal has never been published in extenso, but it has been
often quoted and referred to : it is full of interest, but in this intro-
duction I do not propose to make more than a very few quotations
from it. It contains 1 57 folios.
The prior's total receipts in the year selected were £248 $s. 8d.,
of which £237 12s. 2\d. comes from rents and pensions. Among
the few variable items in his receipts are such as these [p. 255], de
elemosinario pro bona cujusdam felonis apud Icombe 35. $d. [p. 191],
de relevio"1 Margarete Alflete de Bonhamstede, \2d,
His expenditure was on a large scale; he had several manor-
houses in which he used periodically to reside ; he had a large retinue
of gentlemen and servants in attendance ; he entertained magnates
and gave liberal presents. An entry in the year A.D. 1524 runs:
in expends et regardis datis domino episcopo etfamulis suis existentibus
apud monasterium nostrum hoc anno £j y. ^d. A visit to London
cost him £23 I2j. &,d. There were gifts to the King in that year of
£9 13^. 4^., and to the Cardinal of 6or. The last roll preserved of
the priorate of William More is dated 25-26 Henry VIII. [A.D.
I533-4]t and the last item named in his expenditure is solutum
1 Kelevium — droit qui se paye au seigneur was given me by Father Gabriel, the learned
a chaque mutation de proprietairefaite autre- librarian of the Benedictine monastery of
ment qu' a prix d'argent. Lexicon Manuale Einsiedeln, to whom, in Sep. 1907, I shewed
par W. H. Maigne d'Annis. It gives me this manuscript,
pleasure to acknowledge that this reference
INTRODUCTION. XXXlil
magistro Thome Cromewell pro feodo suo per annum, 53*. ^d. In
Appendix II. we see how largely he would spend, and incur debt,
for a new mitre and pastoral staff: and in other years we see proofs
of his expenditure on his manor-houses. The following extracts are
illustrative : —
[p. 256.] Et computat solutum pro diversis ntenciliis et aliis
rebus necessariis emptis videlicet pro hangings de Say lectis sterniis
tarn ad cameram domini prioris apnd Wigorn. quam apud manerium
de Crowle hoc anno £12 os. od. Et computat solutum domino regi sibi
concessum per clerum in favorem ct auxilium officii cellcrarii hoc anno,
£20 os. od. Item solutum est Johanni ffowlys et aliis carpinteriis labor-
antibus pro nova edificacione manerii nostri de Crowle in favorem et
auxilium cellerarii hoc anno, £18 i$s. id. In the following year
(C. 414) we read : pro canvas empto pro picturis camere, 6oJ. 4d. Item
solutum pro un0 lapide mormorio cum apparatu ejusdem empto apud
London vocato a buryle stone, £10 os. od.
I will give one quotation from the Prior's Journal for this year.
" Mem. that I have bourth to lend to my lorde Cardinall towards his
"jorney to Calys for to treate of peese bytweene the frenche king
" and the empor, 6 horses, the price of them £40 4*. od. Item payd
" for 6 saddulls, brydulls, and the harnes to the same with 6 letherne
" halters for them 46s. iod."
Nothing but a transcription of his journal, however, or a full
analysis of its contents, can give an adequate idea of his varied
expenditure and interests.
The cellerarius has a large income, amounting in this year to
£455 i$s. io^d. The item from fines, &c., varies considerably : the
average of 5 years being £6$ 135-. od., whereas in the year selected
it is only £45 los. 2d. No details are given as to his expenditure
in these abstracts. It is simply stated as pro omnibus expends et
allocationibus.
We may, however, infer from a roll of the cellerarius of 11-12
Henry VII. (C. 105) that at that time he drew his income from 29
manors, besides profits from wool and beer ; and that his outgoings
were classed under many heads — Redditus resoluti ; pensiones
perpetue (such as the payments to chaplains at Grimley, Tedynton
and Alston, and to the rector of Himbleton) ; fees to lay officials ;
cost of visits of the King's Judges of Assize ; purchase for the
C
XXXIV INTRODUCTION.
convent of extra beer and bread ; of corn, malt, and barley ; repair
of pipes that bring water, of the Gestenhall, of the cloister, of
pavements in the city, of the aula Hostillarii, et aliarum domorum
infra monasterium ; the purchase of firewood, eggs, butter, cheese,
milk ; of oats and mustard ; cost of shoeing his horses and those of
the prior ; salaries of brewers and bakers and barbers and millers
and valets and others; among them to two 'ffere beters,' a pal-
fridarius, and uni garcioni coquino ; cost of a new antiphon ; ex-
penses of the prince, and a gift to the king.
He acted, in fact, as treasurer to the monastery.
The subcellerarius has to give an account of all the corn, rye and
barley that is delivered in kind. We learn from his accounts that
the convent consumed about 6 quarters of wheat per week, and that
520 quarters of barley were used during the year in making beer.
An attempt is made in Appendix IV. to approximate on these data
to the number of persons who lived at the convent.
The accounts of the elemosinarius are of much interest. His
total receipts in the selected year were £88 i$s. id. and vary but
little. The chief item, £80 IQS. 8d., comes, as in the case of other
officials, from rents of land, houses and ' pensions,' dicto officio
pertinentibus. Some of these were endowments given to perpetuate
the memory of John Evesham, W. Mollens, T. Carter and R.
Molton, hy providing annual payments to members of the convent.
It appears from one of the items in his receipts that he was lord
of the manor of Icombe. The roll C. 200 (b), referred to above,
furnishes full particulars of the income of this office.
His expenditure deserves analysis ; after deducting the fixed
charges of 22J. gd., and the deductions in the next group amounting
to i6j. 8d., the whole of the rest of his expenditure this year is
either in the form of gifts to the poor, or of salaries and allowances
to the members of the convent. It will be found that out of total
net receipts of £86 ijs. n\d., £29 is. $d. is the sum given to the
poor, and £57 i6s. 6\d. is spent within the convent.
Other years show little variety. In C. 414 is an item pro
renovatione vasorum in domo elemosinarii, 6s. 8d. ; which shows that
he had a separate house, or may refer to the almonry, a special
INTRODUCTION. XXXV
building in which the poor men lived, and in which other poor
men were fed. There is also an interesting item denarii soluti
Johanni Wasshebourne generoso pro lite sedenda pro tilna (toll) de
Ancredam nuper in discordia inter dominum priorem et predictum
Johannem . . . 2os. The elemosinarius was lord of the manor of
Ankerden.
There are other instances of arbitration referred to in these
accounts. Thus on [p. 108], after an entry of a sum has been
made, there is added the explanation— ut patet per arbitrium domini
Abbatis Wynckecombe et Roberti Wye.
There is an item, such as that which follows, occurring fre-
quently in the accounts of other years, which happens not to be
represented in that of this year— pro fecuniis distribute pro obitu
fratris Ricardi Lynsey morientis hoc anno 2s. 6d.
The magister capellce appears from these accounts to have the
charge of the Lady Chapel, and of the boys and novices of the
convent, and to have a master under him. His income amounts
to £26 14*. 8d. from houses and land, and there appears to be
an endowment of 40^. founded by Bishop Alcock. His chief ex-
penditure is on the salary of the Master, Daniel Boyse, and on
the food and clothes, boots and slippers of the boys. There is
no actual record of the number of the boys, unless it may be
inferred from the first item in the stipendia that it was 14. Daniel
Boyse held this post from this year till his death in 25-26
Henry VIII. He was probably a priest, as we may infer from
the sacrist's account.
That the magister capella was in charge of the Lady Chapel
and its service books appears probable from the standing items
in his accounts, pro olio empto pro sustentatione unius lampadis
pendentis in capelle Beate Marie, and, pro cera empta ad usum
dicte capelle; and also from occasional items, such as [p. 202],
pro factura duorum magnificat et unius misse de square note et
alterius misse de quinque partibus una cum le prikinge ejusdem
... 13^. 6,d. [p. 267], pro le prykinge unius libri de priksonge ad
usum officii hoc anno . . . 6s. Sd. item pro duobus antifonis . . .
3-r. 4</. ; and in C. 414, pro novis cantilenis emptis ad usum capelle.
He also supplies the master with a ' surples.'
xxxvi INTRODUCTION.
The Camerarius or Chamberlain is lord of the manor of Stoke
and Cudston, and receives from all sources £66 IQS. 6d. Of this
sum 6s. 8d. is given to the poor, £8 i6s. 6d. is spent on fixed
fees and wages, £32 i/j. od. is spent in payments to monks
and other salaries ; expenses and repairs amount to £5 los. ^d.
The special province of the Camerarius appears to be the provision
of clothes for the monks, and on this is spent nearly the whole of
the last group of items, £11 8s. $d. Among his receipts a few
years later (C. 415), we find, de proficuis vestimentorum fratris
Willelmi Lynsyll morientis hoc anno una cum vestimentis dementis
Hartylbury, I2s. 8d. In these entries and in the entry in the
account of the Elemosinarius just referred to, a record is preserved
of the deaths of the monks.
It throws some light on the office of the Camerarius to quote
here a few entries from other years, e.g. [p. 59], pro tribus desens l
et una quere de corves (leather), 24$. ; pro ocriis et vampes emptis
pro conveniu, £3 2s. od. [p. 59], pro 24 virgatis panni vocati lyncy
wyncy at 6d. per ell, 1 2 s., pro panno lanio pro soccis et caligis inde
fiendis ; [p. 205] pro panno linio empto pro maundy clothis inde
fiendis, and [p. 270], pro clausura unius sepis cum le quicke sette
apud sanctum Johannem . . . 6s. id., pro quatuor peciis de stamine
largo . . . 6os., pro una pecia staminis stricti continenti xxx virgatas
. . . IOJ. He also possesses a house of his own, and has to repair
its kitchen chimney.
The pitanciarius has an income of £53 15.?. \Qd. ; a small part
of this is spent on fixed payments, and repairs, and other working
expenses ; but the bulk of his income, £45 "js. lid., provides allow-
ances and stipends in money for the members of the convent.
When a monk celebrates his first mass, the pitancer gives a special
allowance of food to the convent, thus [p. 207] — pro pitancia data
conventui pro Thoma Grymley celebrante primam missam hoc anno
2s. This entry also occurs in the accounts of other officials.
The importance in the convent of the office of Precentor must
not be estimated by the relative magnitude of his official income.
1 desens, perhaps dozens, ocriis et vampes, of short stockings or hose, which came up
perhaps leggings and short leather ' spats." only to the ancles " ; also " the upper
Bailey's Dictionary gives for vamps " a sort leather of a shoe."
INTRODUCTION. XXXV11
He only receives £10 izs. %d. per annum. In his expenditure,
besides the £j us. lod. which is spent within the convent in
salaries, there are interesting items recurring every year in the form
of payments to the Passionistri, or singers of the Passion Gospels
in Lent, and to the special preachers in Lent, Advent, and on the
Rogation Days. He pays them at the rate of 3-r. 4</. for a sermon.
The only other item that specially pertains to his office is for the
repair of books in the choir.
In other years there is the allowance of 2s. to the convent when-
ever a monk celebrates his first mass; and in A.D. 1524-5 (C. 414)
begins the solutum domino regi sibi per clerum conctssum, ios., item
in denariis solutis domino cardinali, 1 8d.
The tumbarius has the charge of the tombs, with the income
of £12 145. od., and this is mainly expended on the candles burnt
at the tombs. He appears to own property in St. Clement's and
' the Knowle,' and elsewhere in Worcester. The relics appear to
have been carried round the cathedral or the city in a torchlight
procession, for which the tumbarius was responsible.
In the previous year [p. 64] there are items, pro cera et clavis pro
cista in quo Johannes Constacius episcopus jacet1 ; . . . iod., item pro
tribus ceris pendentibus ad pixides sanctorum Oswaldi et Wolstani . . .
izd. ; and in 1524—5 he too is called on to pay increased sums to
the king and cardinal.
The hostillarius conies next, with the small income of .£8 2s. od. :
this however is a total specially augmented hoc anno by the last
two items amounting to £$ os. od.
It will be seen from the facsimile opposite p. 26 that the name of
Robert Alchurche, the subprior, was substituted for that of Clement
Hartylbury at the last moment, after the account was drafted and
partly filled in ; for it is evident that the last two items were written
in after the words Summa totalis recepte had been written. The
expenditure is equally exceptional. It is perhaps reasonable to
conjecture that Clement Hartylbury, who had this year accepted
the office, wanted a new bed, but that his office did not provide him
1 John de ConsUntiis, died Sep. 14, 1198, buried in the Cathedral.
xxxviii INTRODUCTION.
income enough to buy one ; and that his friend the subprior stepped
in, took the office, raised a special subscription for the purpose,
cut off the usual payment to the fratres prczdicatores et minores, and
some other gifts, ran into debt a few shillings, supplied an excellent
bed, and then retired from the office. We find Clement Hartylbury
is the hostillarius for the three following years ; and he continues
to improve the accommodation of the hostelry or guesthouse.
Besides the expenditure mentioned in the note, he buys in successive
years I brushe, 2 alias pro vino imponendo, a pulvinar or bolster,
and 4 alias de stanno, viz. " potell, quarte, pyte, and peny potte "...
4J. 5//. ; another pair of linthiamina or sheets, and a ' curten de
bokerltam ' emptum pro fenestra in camera hostillarii ; and finally
two 'fyre showlys' for iSd., and a ' chevy ndishe ' for i8d.
In the left-hand margin of the facsimile will be seen certain marks.
Similar marks occur elsewhere. In the account of the subcellerarius,
opposite the first ' Summa' [p. 118], they are in 5 columns, not 3 as
in the facsimile ; in [p. 1 19] opposite the ' Summa totalis ' in 3
columns ; in [p. 121] opposite the 'Summa totalis' in 4 or 5 ; and
in other years in 3, 4, and 5 columns. I am not able to explain
what they mean. They are known to be connected with the way of
counting by chequers.
The magister communis cence has an income of ^13 6s. yd. The
main items in his expenditure are the purchase in the city of beef
for breakfast in the convent for 38 weeks at i$d, a week, and the
cost of food for supper for 41 weeks, at 2s. ^d. a week. He is
charged with the payment to his brethren for masses every week to
be said in the Chapel of Saint George for the soul of Sir Thomas
Lyttelton. He appears also to be in charge of the dovecotes.
The refectorarius is one of the less important officials. In suc-
cessive years we have John Berowe, William Fordham (who is also
cellerarius), William Wyche, and Thomas Hurbrugge. The income
is only £2 12s. 6d. It is his duty to light the refectory, and to
supply table-cloths and napkins, and other table requisites. There
is little variation in his accounts ; but in following years he buys i
'pottell potte' for i^d., and pays/ro emendacione lez aundyers in mia,
(andirons in the misericordia), etc., 2s. $d. ; for tribus candelabris, 45-. ;
and duobus lampadibus cum cordulis, $d, ; i>ro renovatione trium
INTRODUCTION. XXXIX
salienum (probably saltcellars), \2d., and pro uno coopertorio pro cipho
supprioris, ^d., and the renewal of a ' bason ' in the lavatory.
The infirmarius has an income of .£13 13^. od. Payments within
the convent absorb £7 i6s. iod.; and the special items connected
with his office for food and other expenses incurred on behalf of the
sick vary with their number, as indicated in the note. In the year
preceding that for which the account is printed there were no such
expenses. It is in his accounts that in each year we read of pay-
ments to le dandry et duobus deycis. These three are monks, since
together with the 5 officials who precede them, and the 33 monks
that follow, they make up the number 41, corresponding to the
accounts of the pitancer, who gives allowances to subprior, precentor
and 39 other monks. But who are the ' dandry ' and the two
' deyces ? '
The coquinarius has a very important post as provider of all the
meat and fish— pro omnibus victualibus tarn carnium quam piscium
emptis septimanatim — consumed in the convent. His receipts from
the estates assigned to him amount to £131 15^. 6d. ; and this sum
is considerably increased by the sale of hides, fat, dripping, &c.,
and by the profits of his own farms, and byres, and piggeries. The
total amounts to £162 ijs. 8d.
There are many interesting items in his expenditure ; we learn
that there was a magister tabulae in refectorio, a larderer and other
assistants. He gives pitance to the Passionistri, who gave help
on Palm Sunday. He pays the stipends in whole or in part of
many officers of the prior and the convent ; of the generosi or
esquires, the porter, groom, and valet de chambre of the prior,
and several others. Two years later we note the additional item of
4os. to the king.
Then follows a statement of the cost of each week's supplies,
varying from 42^. to £4 2s. od. at Christmas, and averaging
£2 1 5^. 2d. The week is, generally speaking, defined by the first words
of the introit for the Sunday. I do not know what the cost of meat
was at that time ; but if it is taken at \d. per. lb., this sum, if spent
only on meat, would provide about 190 Ibs. a day. Some specimens
of the detailed weekly accounts of a coquinarius, shewing the cost,
but not the quantity, of all the items supplied, is given in Ap-
pendix VI.
xl INTRODUCTION.
Finally, there is the sacrista. His total income is £168 $s. 6d. ;
and some of the items in his receipts are of special interest. What
is meant by pro brasio de collect ore cum cruce Sancti Wolstani hoc
anno . . . 12s. ? in the year following the amount thus raised is
13^. lod. Brasium is brace or malt. The quadrantes Penticoste, or
Whitsun farthings, the profits Sigilli fraternitatis beatce Maries,
and the brevia, all call for further elucidation. The offerings of
pilgrims in money and wax, and perhaps of cattle, are of large
amount. The weight of wax given must have been about 13 cwt.
There are many items also in the expenditure that should be
noted. Among the fixed payments, such as those to the Bishop and
the Abbot of Bordesley, and allowances to members of the convent,
we find items — pro portacione draconis l et vexillarum in septimana
rogationis, and charges connected with the feast Corpus Christi,
which show that processions were under the charge of the sacrist.
Then follows the large salary of £10 i6s. od.—magistro Lewes
magistro carnarie — probably the capella carnaria (charnel house) ;
and salaries to many other officials ; salaries to a capellanus, a
subsacrista, three clerici ecclesice, two servants in the sacristy ; to the
caretaker of the bells, the cymbal in the cloister which sounded for
meals, and the clock ; and to the cocus sacriste and other officials.
The sacrist was, therefore, the head of a considerable staff of
ministrants in the cathedral.
He pays for the bread used in the mass — ' Syngynge bredd,' and
for the wine ; for wax candles, oil, lamps, incense ; for gloves for the
convent, albs and other vestments ; hangings for the altar ; and in
a word for all that is required for the services except the books.
He pays the lathami or masons pro consummation nove altaris
vocati Jesus alter, £10 is. lod. In the only other sacrist's account
which is nearly contemporary, a sacrist pays pro ffrynges de cerico et
satten de Brugges, etc. [286], £6 us. \od. ; pro duobus calicibus,
£8 I is. od. ; pro uno schippe de argento et deaurato cum uno cochltario,
£$ lOs. od. ; and he has the repairs of certain roofs, ubi magis indiget,
in the cathedral, spending £24 8s. od. on lead alone, a sum which
would purchase more than 4 tons. He has the repair of windows,
paying vitriaribus pro sowder plumbo, etc. In the latest roll [1533-4],
4 For the processional Dragon see Dr. Wickham Legg's references in Westminster
Missal \\\. 1511.
INTRODUCTION. xli
Humphrey Webley is sacrist, and there is an item pro reparations
organorum in capella Beats Marie, £4 1 2J. $d.
I have now indicated some of the chief points of interest in
the separate accounts of the officials of the convent which are here
printed, and I will add a few paragraphs on various matters arising
out of the accounts, which may find here a more natural place than
in either notes or appendices.
For example, a few notes on prices obtained from the records
of this period may be interesting. Barley is at 5.?. ^d. a quarter ;
wheat at 4*. 4^., 5-y., 6j. 8d., 8j. a quarter. If we consider that a
man consumes about i quarter of wheat in a year, and take the cost
of I quarter of wheat at 6j. and of the bread that is made from
it at I2J., it appears that the cost of bread for a man for a day is
about \d. ; cattle (boves), are at about icw., but elsewhere 2 boves
and I vacca, who died ex morina (of a murrain), are counted as
worth 36^. 8d., and the optimum animal bovem colons rubii taken
as a heriott was worth I2J. A hogshead of claret is 24?. 6d. A Ib.
of almonds is \\d. ; of rice, id. A 'lyttel black ambling horse'
(Prior's Journal, fol. 50), 14^. yd. A grey horse, 2or. ; others from
i6s. od. to 28s. Set. A cart, 22s. Lead, $j. 8</. a cwt ' Brussell '
carpet, 8d. an ell. Dyeper, ^d. and 6d. an ell. An alb is 4^. jd. ;
wax is 8d. a Ib.
The names of various streets and localities in Worcester occur
in these accounts, and it may interest local antiquaries to see a list
of them. Besides the altus vicus, or High St., and latus vicus, or
'brode' St., we find Gosethorne Strete, ffroggmylle lane, Wod-
staffe (or Woddestaffe) St., Hylton St., Byrteporte, Keyen Strete,
Eporte, Cokenstrete, Greyfrers St., le Melechoppynge, Banhams-
vyne, Busshopstrete, Knowle yende, fforgate St., barreyate, rotten-
rewe, crepulgate, Newport, le Archard, Crokebarowe hylle, and
Sudbrugge. The number might be considerably increased from
the documents in class B.
The sums mentioned in these abstracts as spent outside the
convent, in the manors belonging to the convent, are small. We
read of the repairs of the chancel of Stoke Church, 13^., of a bridge
near the forest of Feckenham, zs. $d., and of another, vocati
Knightsforde Brugge [265], icxw., of pavement in St. Clement's, 7s.,
of the glass in a window of the chancel of Cropthorne Church,
d
xlii INTRODUCTION.
and a few similar items. But it must be noted that it is not to
these abstracts that we should look for such payments, but to
the accounts of the bailiffs of the manors with which this intro-
duction does not deal. Thus in the accounts [pp. 22, 23] of the
bailiff and collector of Tedynton, the gross rents are £32 12s. $d.,
but among the deductions from this are, in denariis solutis duobus
capellanis de Tedynton et Alvston pro stipendiis eorum £6 i$s. ^d.
So in the accounts for Worcester there are payments, super pre-
ceptorem S. Wolstani, to the prior minoris Malverni, and super
preceptorem S. Oswaldi, before the balance is paid into the hands
of the prior and cellerarius.
I do not know whether from any source the dedications of all the
altars in the Cathedral are known. In these accounts may be noted
nine altars, Nomine Jesu, Beate Marie, S. Johannis Baptistse,
S. Stephani, S. Oswaldi, S Wolstani, S. Cecilise, S. Georgii, and
S. Edmundi. But there were others besides these.
A few words should be said on the principles which I have
endeavoured to follow in the transcriptions. They will be best
understood by reference to the facsimile opposite p. 26.
There is no doubt that the recognised contractions, such as occur
in pradictum and in qvia and primus in the first two lines, should be
fully expanded for the convenience of the reader. The doubt and
difficulty arises as to the inflections and case endings which are
usually omitted, and as to often recurring symbols which barely
suggest the words they are known by experience to stand for. The
word campus, or comput. in the first two lines, and in the first lines of
the two later paragraphs, will serve as an illustration. Any inflection
of the verb compute, or its participles, or of the substantives computus
and computator, may be intended. To some extent the completion
is conjectural, but it is often determined by reference to other
documents where it is less contracted. For example, the comput. in
the second line is sometimes found as computant. suggesting com-
putantis.
Another doubt and difficulty is illustrated by the first two
words of the third line. The letters s and r are the only letters
decipherable. Do they stand for Summa receptce, or Summa
reddituum, or for some other words ? They are found, by reference
to other documents, to stand for Sed responded
Other words can only be transcribed by comparison with parallel
INTRODUCTION. xliii
passages. For example, the fourth word from the end of line 4 in
the last paragraph can only be read as predicatorum from its constant
association with minorum, sometimes in expanded forms.
The use of capitals is not consistent ; for example, Officii in the
last paragraph occurs both with capital letter and without it. I have
not, therefore, been scrupulous to copy capitals.
Finally, I wish to acknowledge my obligations to the general
editor of these transactions for advice as to the proofs, and infinite
patience with my corrections, and further obligations, which I cannot
overrate, to the Dean of Westminster (Dr. J. Armitage Robinson),
and to the Rev. R. R. Rackham, for comparing the whole of the
transcript with the original, and correcting, by their wide experience,
several systematic errors into which as a beginner I had fallen, and
some other blunders which would have disfigured these pages but
for their most kind, prolonged, and efficient help.
I have also to thank Mr. I. H. Jeayes, of the Department of
Manuscripts of the British Museum, for revising my transcript of the
roll given in Appendix VI., and for some notes upon it which I have
embodied.
It is hoped that some further selections may be published from
this interesting collection of documents relating to the Priory of
Worcester.
JAMES M. WILSON.
COLLEGE, WORCESTER.
November, 1907.
CORRIGENDA.
p. xi. Add to note ', These two rolls belong to Winchester.
p. 51. Line 10, n,for cellarius read cellerarius.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
To face
A. Facsimile of the offidum hostittarii (p. 133 of A. xvii.) n" x 8".
Worcester Cathedral Library . . . p. 26
B. Facsimile of a page (fol. 41 A. xi) 12" x 8" of Prior More's
' Jornale ' (A.D. 1522). Worcester Cathedral Library . p. 47
C. Facsimile of part of a Coquinarius roll (C. 169), giving the
kitchen account for every day in the year. This page
contains two weeks, Dominica ad te tevavi, and Dominica
populus Syon. Dated 13-14 [Ed. III.?] The roll is 10"
wide. Worcester Cathedral Library . # . p. 54
ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY
OF WORCESTER
FOR THE YEAR 13-14 HENRY VIII.
1521—2.
[p. 115.] Compotus Willelmi More prioris hujus monasterii
a ffesto sancti Michaelis Archangel! anno regni regis Henrici
Octavi xiii° usque ad idem ffestum sancti Michaelis Arch-
angeli anno ejusdem regis xiiii0 videlicet per unum annum
integrum.
£ s. d.
Remanentia1. Respondet de remanente anni pre- \ o i i
cedentis ut in pede ejusdem /
Sed 1 respondet de certis redditibus terris ffirmis ~\
ac pencionibus prout parcelle particulariter V 237 12 2£
plenius liquent ex certitudine per annum J
Item percipit de cellerario pro secunda vestura 2 -j
de Dydeley per annum J
Item percipit de predicto cellerario pro ffyrrettis \
per annum /
Item percipit de predicto cellerario pro uno dolio 1
: . ioo
vmt per annum J
Item percipit de capitalibus redditibus in Crop- )
thorn per annum J
Item percipit de infirmario pro medicinis per 1
13 4
annum J
Item de tumbario per annum 18
Item de camerario pro capitalibus redditibus de \
Stoke per annum J
1 The word Nulla after remanentia has of Charter rolls, vol. i., p. 114, there is
been struck out. This explains the sed pre- a summary of a grant to John of Monmouth
fixed to the next item. In the duplicate and his heirs, of the forest of Trivel (diocese
roll C. 106 nulla is altogether omitted, and of Hereford) with the lands and growth
the s ed is replaced by ft. (vestura) of the said forest. "It seems to
' secunda vestura. This is a standing be a Latinized form of Weax-nes (from
item in the prk>r's accounts. It appears Anglo-Saxon weax-an, to grow) = increase
to mean 'second growth." The Rev. Ed- growth."
mond McCIure tells me that in the Calendar
ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
£ S. d.
Item de ffirma warenne de Chorleton per manus v
Willelmi Dyngley per annum
Item de redditu pro le Churchehous de Grymley \
2
per J
Item de redditu pro le Churchehous de Hallowe •»
per annum J
Item de le Churchehous de Doderhylle per annum 4
Item de le Churchehous de Tyberton per annum 2
Summa totalis recepte £248 y. 8d.
De quibus allocatur eidem domino priori pro sti-
pendio famulorum ospicii sui hoc anno
Item allocatur eidem pro vestura famulorum ejus-
dem hospicii sui hoc anno
20
Item pro victualibus emptis et expenditis in eodem 1
58 4 o
hospicio suo hoc anno J
Item solutum pro vino amaro olio et aliis condi- ^
I 20
mentis emptis pro eodem hospicio /
Item solutum pro speciebus1 diversorum generum 1
emptis ad usum ejusdem hospicii J
Summa £111 IDS. 8d.
[p. 116.] Item eidem domino priori pro vino clareto 2 •»
et rubio empto ad usum dicti hospicii hoc anno }
Item pro vino duke empto et expendito in dicto \
hospicio hoc anno /
Item pro candelis de cepo8 emptis ad usum dicti \
hospicii hoc anno )
Item solutum pro indumentis emptis ad usum cor- \
poris ejusdem domini prioris hoc anno i
Item in regardis 4 datis clavigeris civitatis Wigorn ")
una cum le typpestaffe /
Item solutum conventui pro speciebus ad ffestum 1
20 o
omnium sanctorum per annum )
' species — spices. The roll has et com- Prior More's journal being 24*. (>d. a hogs-
pulat solutum. head.
* claretum — this sum would buy about 16 3 ctpum — fat, tallow, for common use.
hogsheads of such wine, the price named in * regarJum — a gratuity.
PRIOR.
Item solutum conventui ad manus magistri com-
munis cene pro O Sapiencia1
Item solutum pro aucis z datis conventui hoc anno
Item conventui pro jantaculo8 in fferia secunda
pasche per annum
Item vicario sancti Petri pro decimis de Batynhalle
per annum
Item solutum barbitonsori ejusdem domini prioris
hoc anno
Item solutum Ricardo Godeyer pro Colmore hoc
anno
Item allocatur eidem domino priori pro diversis
expencis solutionibus regardis datis et emptis
prout parcelle plenius liquent per jornale suum
hoc anno
Item solutum pro pane distribute pauperibus in
solennibus ffestis hoc anno
Item pro factura presentis compoti
Summa .£101 i8s. $d.
£ s. d.
6 8
2 4
3 4
6 8
6 8
20
62 2
26
20
Summa omnium allocationum £213 gs. et sic remanet super
compitum £34 14^. 8d.
Et predictus Willelmus More prior emit hoc anno unam novam
mitram 4 de argento et deaurato cum gemmis et lapidibus preciosis
precii ejusdem £50.
Item predictus prior emebat hoc anno unum baculum pastorale
ad usum prioris et successorum suorum ad valorem £28 i$s. od.
ratione cujus excedit super compitum £44 os. nd.
OFFICIUM CELLERARII.
[p. 117.] Compotus fratris Willelmi ffordam gerentis officium
predictum a ffesto sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno regni
regis Henrici Octavi xiii° usque ad idem ffestum sancti Mi-
chaelis Archangeli anno ejusdem regis xiiii0 sic per unum
annum integrum.
1 0 Sapientia — see Appendix II.
* aiictt— geese.
3 jantaculum — breakfast.
4 See AppendixIII.
B 2
ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
d.
Remanenlia. (Nulla quia primus ingressus ejusdem
cellerarii) 1
Sed respondet de certis redditibus tern's ffirmis
ac diversis aliis possessionibus tam spiritua-
libus quam temporalibus de claro omnibus
expencis deductis ut patet per rentale et per
indenturas ex certitudine
Item percipit de officio pitansarii pro certis terris
et tenementis jacentibus in diversis locis ut
patet per rentale per annum
Item percipit de elemosinario ut patet per dictum
rentale per annum
Item percipit de certis ffmibus heriettis perquisitis
curie vendicatione bosci et de aliis casualibus
accidentibus hoc anno ut patet per jornale
ejusdem cellerarii debite examinatum et ap-
probatum
Item recepit de ffurfure et carbonibus et aliis pro- 1
ficuis provenientibus de pandoxatore2 hoc anno J
Item percipit de redditibus apud Duddurhylle cum \
membris per annum /
Item percipit de redditibus apud Claynys cum "I
prychecrofte per annum J
Item percipit de redditibus apud Hylhampton et \
Pypulton per annum 3 /
Summa totalis recepte4 .£455 15^.
41 18
343 07}
17 4
45 10 2
3 3
3 3
1 02
20
De quibus allocatur eidem cellerario pro omnibus
expencis et allocationibus primi quarterii hujus
anni prout parcelle particulariter plenius liquent
septimanatim per jornale suum
74 10
1 The words in brackets are struck out.
' pandoxator — a seller of beer : pandoxere
=-cerevisiam venum exponere. Du Cange.
3 A marginal note is added in a dif-
ferent hand. " memd. de incremento red-
ditus in Hilhampton erga annum futurum,
y. tf."
4 The sum total does not correspond with
the items given.
CELLARER.
Item allocatur eidem cellerario pro omnibus expencis
et allocationibus secundi quarterii hujus anni
prout plenius patet per jornale dicti cellarii
super hunc compotum ostensum
Item allocatur predicto cellerario pro omnibus ex-
pencis et allocationibus tertii quarterii hujus
anni ut patet per dictum jornale coram domino
priore et auditore debite examinatum
Et allocatur eidem cellerario pro omnibus expencis
solucionibus et allocationibus ultimi quarterii
hujus anni ut patet per dictum jornale suum
debite examinatum
1 Et allocatur eidem pro emptione ordii ad usum
officii cellerarii videlicet 5 1 quarters 2 bush.
Et allocatur eidem de emptione 83 quarters — bush,
ordii empti hoc anno ad usum dicti officii nihil
in pecuniis hie quia prius solvitur per Thomam
Wenloke nuper cellarium
Et allocatur eidem de emptione frumenti videlicet
7 quarters 4 bush, ad usum ejusdem officii
hoc anno
1
92
s. d.
3 Si
9O 12 2
IS2 19
13 6 4
Summa omnium allocationum £426 2s. s^d. de qua summa
allocatur domino priori ut in parte solutionis facte domino regi
ex mutuo £6 i$s. ^d. Et sic dominus prior debet super compitum
officio cellerarii ^23 os. 2\ \d. qua summa idem dominus prior solvit
et deliberavit ad manus Willelmi ffordam cellerarii. Et sic predictus
dominus prior gerens officium cellerarii hoc anno recessit— quietus 2.
8Creditores ratione solutionis pecuniarum domino regi ex mutuo
1 Hence the price of barley was 5*. 2d.
a quarter, and of wheat 6s. &/.
* It appears that the prior assumed the
office of cellerarius, and his receipts of
;£455 tSs- ioj<£ Out °f th'5 he paid the
charges ,£426 2s. 3jr/., and the sum of
£6 13*. 4</. to the king, and this left him
£23 os. 2f</. due to the cellerarius. This
he paid ; and the receipt is indicated by
the word quietus.
3 This is a side note. It is of great in-
terest, but not quite clear. Does it mean
that these sums had been paid to the
king? The cellarer appears to act as trea-
surer. In April, 1524, a visitation was held
by the lord legate, Thomas, Cardinal and
Archbishop, and the monastery agreed to
Pay £4° '° 'ne surrogate commissary in
London in 3 annual instalments. See
Noake, The Worcester Monastery, p. 218.
6 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
hoc anno videlicet domino priori £20 thesaurario nostro £120 et
Roberto Alchurche suppriori £20.
OFFICIUM SUBCELLERARII.
[p. 1 1 8.] Computus fratris Thome Sudbury gerentis officium
predictum de omnibus granis per ipsum receptis tarn de cer-
titudine quam ex certitudine anno quo supra.
Remanentia. Respondet de . . . 26 qu. I bus. frumenti receptis de
remanentibus anni precedentis rem. in garnario. Et de 5 quar-
teriis de multura l remanentibus in dicto garnario.
Frumenti. Respondet de . . . 322 qu. 4 bush. 2 pks. receptis de
omnibus ffirmis et terris custumariis 2 dicto officio pertinentibus
prout plenius patet per rentale et per indenturas ex certitudine
per annum.
Item recepit de magistro Bruerton de debitis anni precedentis
9 quarteria. Item de Willelmo Parsons 9 qu. 6 bush.
Item de Johanne Horborne 2 qu. 4 bush. Item respondet de . . .
1 1 quarterns frumenti receptis de frumento emptis hoc anno.
Summa 385 quarters 7 bush. 2 pks.
Et respondet de . . . 5 qu. 6 bush, frumenti receptis de toto exitu
orrii de Bradwas hoc anno.
Et de . . . II qu. frumenti receptis de toto exitu orrii de Hymulton
hoc anno.
Et de . . . n qu. 7 bush, receptis de toto exitu orrii de Grymley
hoc anno.
Summa 28 quart. 5 bush.
Summa totalis recepte ffrumenti 414 qu. 4 bush. 2 pks.
1 Du Cange explains multura, also molta, dinibus seu tributis obnoxii. Villani cotarii,
as " pensitatio quam a vassallis exigit domi- coustumiers. Vetus inquisitio apud W.
nus pro frumenti molitura in molendinis Dugdalura in Antiq. Warwicensis provincial,
suis." It was sometimes in kind, a certain p. 665, "et etiam omnes illi qui tenuerunt
fraction of the quantity sent to be ground. in bondagii tenura solebant vocari custu-
' custumarii = consuetudinarii, consuetu- marii." Du Cange, sub voce consuetude.
SUBCELLARER. 7
De quibus liberata x lotrice domini prioris ex certitudine per annum
4 bush. Item in distructione per vermes et muros 3 quart. Item
deliberata pro perdicibus et aliis volatilibus inde sustend. ex cer-
titudine per annum I quar. Item deliberata cocis pro potagio
inde fiendo 4 bush. Item in expends domini prioris pro hospicio
suo et pro conventu ut in pane ffurnito septimanatim per totum
annum 234i quar. i bush. Et sic stat qualibet septimana secun-
dum magis et minus 6 quarteria.
Summa 346 quarters I bush.
Summa omnium allocationum frumenti 346 quart, i bush, de
qua summa liberata elemosinario pro bladis 3 sancti Wolstani i quart,
et sic debet super compitum 67 qu. 3 bush. 2 pks. Unde pendet
super Johannem Rudgale pro Overbury hoc anno 30 qu. z bush.
Item pendet super Ricardum Aly de Chorleton hoc anno 8 qu.
Item pendet super Willelmum Langston ffirmarium de Segebarowe
hoc anno I qu. Item pendet super Johannem Staple de Bradwas
hoc anno 2 qu. 4 bu. Item pendet super Johannem Horborne hoc
anno 3 qu. 6 bu. Et sic debet clare super compitum remanentis in
granario ad ffestum sancti Michaelis archangeli ultime preteritum
21 qu. 4 bush.
[p. 119.] Siligo. Item respondet de . . . 30 qu. 4 bush, siliginis*
recepte de toto redditu ffirmariorum et tenentium nostrorum cus-
tumariorum ex certitudine per annum. Item respondet de . . .
2 qu. 4 bush, de remanentibus anni precedentis remanentibus in
garnario. Item respondet de . . . 2 qu. 7 bush, per manus
Willelmi Parsons de debito ultimi anni.
Summa 35 qu. 7 bush.
Item respondet de . . . 7 bush, siliginis receptis de toto exitu ordii 6
de Bradwas hoc anno.
Item respondet de . . . 23 qu. 6 bush, receptis de toto exitu orrii
de Grymley hoc anno.
Summa 24 qu. 5 bush.
Summa totalis recepte siliginis ... 60 qu. 4 bush.
1 liberata — liberare = prsebere or dare. or triticum hibemum L, It seems to be
* See Appendix IV. fine sifted wheat, but is sometimes used
3 bladum — quodvis triticum. Fr. ble. for rye.
4 siligo — probably either secalt cereale L. s The roll corrects this into orrii.
8 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
De quibus liberata quatuor generosis1 domini prioris hoc anno
... 6 qu. Item custodi parci nostri de Hallowe per annum . . .
2 qu. Item custodi warenne de Hynwyk per annum ... 4 qu.
Item ballivo nostro de Grymley et Hallowe per annum 2 qu.
Item custodi bosci nostri de Eymore per annum ... I qu. Item
pro bladis sancti Wolstani per annum ... 3 qu. Item in dis-
tructione per vermes ... 2 quar. Item deliberata 13 pauperibus
vocatis maundymen hoc anno i qu. 5 bus. 2 pks. Item 14 homi-
nibus et feminis pro cibo regis hoc anno ... 20 qu. Item custodi
de Monkewodde per annum ... 2 qu. Item Thome Hoper hoc
anno . . . nil. Item in pane ffurnito septimanatim pro carpinteriis
latamis tegulatoribus et aliis operariis conductis per totum annum
una cum le werelyvereys 2 hoc anno . . . 9 qu. 4 bush. Item allo-
catur eidem ... 3 qu. soluta ad manus Johannis Molton de parte
oneris dicti nunc computantis. Item allocatur eidem ... 3 qu. de
parte oneris ejusdem computantis vendita per Willelmum ffordam
cellerarium rectori de Herforton hoc anno.
Summa3 58 qu. I bu. 2 pks.
Summa omnium allocationum siliginis 58 qu. i bu. 2 pks.
et sic debet super compitum 2 qu. 2 bu. 2 pks.
[p. 1 20.] Ordtum. Et respondet de . . . 385 qu. 4 bush, ordii re-
ceptis de toto redditu ffirmariorum et tenentium nostrorum prout
plenius patet per rentale et per indenturas ex certitudine per
annum. Item respondet de ordio empto hoc anno 148 qu.
4 bush. Item respondet de remanentibus anni precedentis
remanentibus in granario 12 qu.
Summa 546 qu.
qu. bu.
Item recepit de toto exitu orrii de Bradwas hoc 1
anno J 3 3
Item recepit de toto exitu orrii de Hymulton hoc 1
anno /
1 generosi — gentlemen in the prior's given to those who worked for the Con-
suite, vent. See p. 33.
• Werelyvertys—?vt\a$& suits of livery 3 The true total is 59 qu. i bu. 2 pks.
12 3
SUBCELLARER. 9
qu.
Item recepit de toto exitu orrii de Grymley hoc )
f IO
anno
Item receoit de toto incremento facture brasii 1 hoc 1
t 20
anno J
Summa 46 qu. 6 bu.
Summa totalis recepte ordii 592 qu. 6 bu.
qu. bu. pk.
De quibus liberata cocis domini prioris et aliis
officiariis hujus monasterii pro sustentatione
aucarum gallinarum et aliorum volatilium ut
patet per tallium super hunc compitum osten-
sum
Et allocatur eidem ut in distructione per vermes
et muros hoc anno
Item in expencis hospicii domini prioris et conventus
et aliorum magnatum supervenientium per totum 52°
annum pro servicia2 inde fienda
Item allocatur eidem deliberata ad usum hospicii )
domini prioris apud More hoc anno /
Summa 538 qu. 3 bu. 2 pks.
Summa omnium allocationum 538 qu. 3 bu. 2 pks.
Et sic debet super compitum hoc anno 54 qu. 2 bu. 2 pks.
unde pendet super Johannem Rudgale pro Overbury hoc
anno 37 qu. 3 bu. Item pendet super Johannem Horborn
hoc anno 10 qu.
OFFICIUM ELEMOSINARII.
[p. 121.] Compotus fratris Willelmi Hodynton gerentis officium
predictum a ffesto sancti Michaelis Archangel! anno regni
regis Henrici Octavi xiii° usque ad idem ffestum sancti Mi-
1 brasium — brace or malt : hence tracina, ' servicia •=» cerevisia, beer.
Fr. brasserie, a brewery.
10 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
chaelis Archangeli anno ejusdem regis xiiii0 sic per unum
annum integrum.
£ s. d.
Remanentia. Idem nunc computans respondet de re- \
manentibus anni precedents ut in pede ejusdem J
Item respondet de certis redditibus terris et tenemen-
tis ac pencionibus dicto officio pertinentibus I go IO g
ut patet per rentale et per indenturas ex certi-
tudine per annum
Item percipit de officio coquinarii pro le maundy )
ex certitudine per annum j
Item percipit de precentore 2od. ; De pitansario \
20d. ; De hostillario 2od. ; De tumbario 20d. ; j- 84
et de refectorario 2od. ; sic in toto J
Item percipit de officio cellerarii de redditu trium )
tenementorum in le Cokynstrete per annum j
Item percipit de eodem officio cellerarii pro certis 1
decimis in Cleve et Conderton per annum J
Item de ballivis de More et Newenham pro duobus |
quarterns frumenti venditis hoc anno pro j
Item recepit de herietto1 Simonis Mylborn armigeri )
7, 20 O
apud Icome hoc anno )
Item recepit de elemosina fratris Johannis Dudley "1
per annum J
Summa totalis recepte £88 155. id.
Redditus resohiti. De quibus computat de redditu resolute
domino regi pro tenemento in alto vico modo in tenura Johannis
Roberts per annum . . . 2s. Item domino episcopo pro Wodwalls
forlonge per annum . . . 2s. Et eidem domino episcopo pro Sters
medowe per annum ... 8^. Item magistro capelle ... i$d. Item
heredi domini de Beauchame pro Lawarn mylle per annum . . .
13.?. 4</ Item cellerario pro certis capitalibus redditibus per annum
. . . 3-r. Et solutum ballivis civitatis Wigorn. pro una purpesture2
apud le Knolle yende per annum . . . 6d.
Summa 22s. gd.
1 Heriettum — heriot, a tribute to the lord * Purpesture = purprestura, an encroach-
of the manor on the death of the tenant. ment. Fr. pour prise.
The roll inserts moricntis after armigeri.
ALMONER. II
Decasorum 1 Redditus. Et allocatur eidem computanti pro capitali
redditu unius tenement! in alto vico juxta Ricardum Woddylle quia
indecasum hoc anno . . . 3*. 4d. Et eidem de capitali redditu unius
tenementi in Gosethorn lane quia indecasum hoc anno . . . \2d.
Et eidem de redditu trium cotagiorum in ffroggemyllelane in
tenura le maundymen hoc anno . . . gs. Et solutum domino priori
pro terra in Whittenton vocata Stokynge . . . 3^. ^d.
Summa i6s. 8d.
[p. 122.] Et computat solutum domino priori pro corodio sanc-
torum Oswaldi et Wolstani per annum . . . £6 js. od. Et com-
putat solutum pro obitu Johannis Evesham videlicet suppriori IOT.
precentori js. et 30 aliis monachis sacerdotibus quilibet eorum 6s.
et sic in toto . . . £<) i?s. od. Et solutum quatuor clericis ecclesie
pro pulsatione campanarum ad idem tempus quilibet eorum 6d. et
sic in toto . . . 2s. Et in pane distribute pauperibus ad idem
tempus . . . 2s. 6d. Et computat solutum pro obitu Willelmi Mollens
videlicet suppriori i8d. et 40 aliis monachis quilibet eorum i8d. et
sic in toto . . . 6os. i8d. Et solutum quatuor clericis ecclesie ad
idem tempus . . . 2s. Et in pane distributo pauperibus ad idem
tempus . . . 2s. 6d. Et allocatur eidem pro obitu Thome Carter vide-
licet suppriori et 31 aliis monachis sacerdotibus quilibet eorum 2s. et
sic in toto ...£34*. od. Et solutum quatuor clericis ecclesie ad
idem tempus . . . 2s. Et in pane distributo pauperibus . . . 2s. 6d.
Et computat solutum pro obitu Roberti Molton videlicet suppriori
ac 39 aliis monachis quilibet eorum 6d. et sic in toto . . . 19^. 6d.
Et solutum quatuor clericis ecclesie ad idem tempus . . . 2s. et in
pane distributo pauperibus ad dictum tempus . . . 2s. 6d.
Summa £24 js. od.
Et computat solutum precentori nomine augmentacionis officii sui
per annum . . . 53^. qd. Et allocatur eidem pro tabula capellani do-
mini prioris per annum ... ^s. Et eidem pro officio tumbarii per annum
. . . 13-r. 4d. Et subelemosinario pro tabula sua per annum . . . los.
' Decasi- — apparently from decasus, out ments from the estate. The word also
of repair. No rent was paid, and a deduc- appears as indecassum, and in decasu.
tion therefore made from the regular pay-
12 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
Et eidem subelemosinario pro custodia le amery1 in refectorio
per annum . . . $s. Et conventui pro speciebus per annum . . .
6s. 8d. Et pro le O Emanuel per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Et solutum
domino priori pro caponibus per annum . . . 4^. Item famulis domini
prioris in adventu pro eorum cena . . . 2od. Item diversis servien-
tibus hujus monasterii pro eorum caligis per annum . . . z?s. ^d.
Item valecto elemosinarii pro stipendio suo per annum . . . 46s. 8d.
Et eidem pro toga sua per annum . . . 10s. Item custodi altaris sancti
Edmundi per annum . . . 8s. Item custodi altaris sancte Cecillie
per annum . . . $s. ^d. Item custodi altaris sancti Johannis Bap-
tiste per annum . . . y. qd. Item pro sustentacione unius lampadis
pendentis in capella sancti Johannis Baptiste per annum . . . 8d.
Item pro jantaculo facta eidem conventui in crastino pasche et
die assencionis pro obitu Roberti Molton per annum . . . IQJ. Et
pro aucis datis conventui per annum ... 2s. ^d. Et solutum
Waltero Borne valecto hostillarii per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Et solutum
magistro scholarium pro conventu per annum . . . 20s. Item pro
jantaculo facta conventui in ffesto Nativitatis sancti Johannis
Baptiste et die sancti Petri per annum . . . 2s.
Summa £12 6s. od.
[p. 123.] Et computat in denariis distributis ad le maundy vide-
licet 13 pauperibus quilibet eorum $d. et sic in toto . . . y. $d. Et
solutum 40 monachis ad idem tempus quilibet eorum 6d., et sic in
toto . . . 2os. 6d. Item pro panno lanio de ffryce2 empto pro 13 pau-
peribus vocatis maundymen quilibet eorum 5 sticks3 . . . 32.?. 6d. Et
in denariis distributis pauperibus eodem die et in die Veneris
sequente ... i$s. ^d. Item solutum pro pulceto empto pro panis
sancti Wolstani hoc anno . . . 28$. Item pro pistacione ejusdem panis
. . . 6s. 8d. Item pro molacione ejusdem panis . . . 2s. Item solutum
pro cariagio bladorum sancti Wolstani . . . 2od. Item solutum quatuor
hominibus ad distrubendos panes eodem die . . . 8d. Item solutum
Thome Lyttelton seneschallo pro feodo suo . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro
ingrossione rotuli curie in pergameno . . . 3-r. ^d. Item solutum pro
cera empta pro capella sancti Johannis Baptiste hoc anno . . . IOJ.
Summa £6 8s. "jd.
' amery— aumbry, or cupboard. stuck, piece? or is it a measure of length?
' ffryce = frieze. The frieze costs 6V. a ' stick." A stick of eels
3 stick. Is this a form of the German was 25.
ALMONER. 13
Et computat solutum pro ffocali empto ad usum hospicii sui una
cum cariagio ejusdem hoc anno . . . 26s. 8d. Item solutum pro vic-
tualibus emptis et expensis diversis vicibus super dictum nunc compu-
tantem clericos elemosinarii et super diversos alios honestos homines
supervenientes per totum annum . . . £$ ly. $d. Item solutum
lotrice elemosinarii hoc anno . . . 4s. Item solutum Roberto Wellys
equitanti usque Icome Berowe et Ancreden pro pecuniis colligendis
diversis vicibus hoc anno . . . los. Item in regardis datis clavigeris
civitatis Wigorn. una cum le typpestaffe hoc anno . . . 2od. Item
in regardis datis fratribus predicatorum et minorum hoc anno . . .
3-r. ^d. Item pro contributione generalis capituli videlicet id. de
marca . . . 2s. ^\d. Item pro candelis de cepo emptis ad usum
hospicii sui hoc anno . . . 6s. 8d. Item solutum pro expends dicti
cornputantis equitantis usque Icome et aliis locis pro curia ibidem
tenenda hoc anno . . . 26s. 8d. Item allocatur eidem pro tenemento
in quo Johannes Roberts modo inhabitat quia indecasum hoc
anno . . . 22s. Item computat pro reparatione et edificatione ejus-
dem domus sive tenement! una cum omnibus misis1 et expencis
circa dictam reparationem ut patet per billam ejusdem computi super
hunc computum ostensum . . . £13 6s. 8d. Item solutum bre-
viatori portanti brevia hoc anno . . . 8s. Item pro pergameno
paupiris et atramento empto hoc anno una cum factura presentis
compoti hoc anno . . . $s. ^d. Item solutum Roberto Newdyke
et aliis pro curia tenenda apud Icome et aliis locis hoc anno
. . . 5s. Item pro diversis utenciliis clavis clavibus et aliis rebus
necessariis emptis ad usum Elemosinarii hoc anno . . . 6s. 8d.
Summa £2$ 6s.
[p. 124.] Et allocatur eidem computo pro elemosina data et
distributa pauperibus pro domino priore et conventu ubi magis
indiget per totum annum . . . £18 ios.
Summa omnium allocationum £88 173. 4^d. et sic excedit
super compitum 2s.
1 misa— charge or expense. The roll omits the words sive ttnementi.
14 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
OFFICIUM MAGISTRI CAPELLE.
Compotus fratris Johannis Molton gerentis officium predic-
tum anno quo supra.
Remanentia. Nulla quia primus ingressus ejusdem nunc computantis.
Redditus assise. Sed respondet de . . . £ig ^s. $d. recepta de
certis redditibus terris ffirmis ac tenementis predicto officio
pertinentibus quorum parcelle particulariter plenius liquent per
rentale ex certitudine per annum.
£ s. d.
Item percipit de officio cellerarii pro 14 1 panes mona-
chales et 14 gustatus servicie conventualis septi-
manatim per totum annum 468
Item percipit de officio cellerarii ex ordinatione domini ^
Johannis Alcoke2 quondam episcopi Wigorn. per >• 40 o
annum J
Item percipit de officio sacriste pro cera ad susten- 1
tationem luminis in capella beate Marie per annum J
Item percipit de predicto officio sacriste pro missis "j
nominis Jesu et Salve regina per annum J
Item percipit de officio elemosinarii pro capitalibus •»
redditibus in Doddenham per annum J
Summa totalis Recepte £26 143. 8d.
[p. 125.] Redditus resolutt. De quibus computat de redditu re-
soluto domino episcopo Wigorn. pro capitali redditu unius tenementi
in le fforyatestrete modo in tenura Nicholai Mondy per annum . . .
2s. $d. Et eidem domino episcopo pro capitali redditu unius tene-
menti in dicto vico in tenura Henrici Burley per annum . . . $s. io^d.
Et solutum domino de Coterugg pro capitalibus redditibus duorum
1 Panes monachales. Abbot Gasquet, Worcester translated from Rochester in
writing to me on Sep. 3, 1907, refers to 1476. The original account of his instal-
the Valor Ecclcsiasticus for Worcester and lation is given in Noake's History of the
quotes, 'Item pro 98 panibus voc. Monke Monastery, p. 123. He baptized the young
Loves et pro 9 panibus voc. Toman Paste Prince Arthur at Winchester. He was
Loves septimanatim deliberatis 14 scholar' President of the Council, and afterwards
elemosinar . . . £12 us. ^d.,' and adds, Lord Chancellor of England. Hewastrans-
' There were therefore 14 boys, and they lated to Ely in 1486. It appears from the
also had each week 84 flagons of beer text that he left a sum of money to the
which cost yearly £6 131. qd.' monastery, for the use of the magister
* John Alcock was a great bishop of capellae.
MASTER OF THE CHAPEL. IJ
tenementorum in eodem vico in tenura Jacobi Sawyar et Godfridi
Tyler per annum ... 2s. \d. Et eidem domino de Coterugge pro
capital! redditu unius tenement! in Wodstaffe Strete per annum . . .
2od. Et solutum pitansario hujus monasterii pro capitalibus red-
ditibus in Hylton Strete per annum . . . \6d. Et solutum hostillario
pro capitalibus redditibus in eodem vico per annum . . . 2s.
Summa
Stipendia. Et computat solutum Danielli Boyse1 de parte sti-
pendii sui pro 14 panes monachales et 14 gustatus servicie con-
ventualis septimanatim per deliberationem cellerarii per annum . . .
£4 6s. 8d. Et eidem Danielli per manus cellerarii nostri per annum
. . . 40^. Et eidem per manus sacriste per annum . . . 23^. ^d. Et
eidem nomine partis stipendii sui per annum . . . los. Et allocatur
eidem pro panno lanio empto pro vestura puerorum capelle ex
certitudine per annum . . . 46$. Sd. Et pro caligis 2sotulariis et
aliis necessariis emptis pro eisdem pueris per annum . . . 14^. Et
eidem pro victualibus emptis et expenditis super predictos pueros
ex certitudine per annum . . . 53^. ^d. Et solutum pro jantaculo facta
conventui in septimana pasche ex certitudine per annum . . . 6s. 8d,
Et pro pane et servicia et aliis victualibus emptis et expenditis
in ffesto oblationis beate marie per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro
olio ernpto pro sustentatione unius lampadis pendentis in capella
beate marie ex certitudine per annum . . . IQJ. Et eidem pro cera
empta ad usum dicte capelle pro ceriis inde fiendis una cum factura
ejusdem per annum . . . los. Et solutum pro focali empto ad usum
dicti hospicii una cum candelis de cepo . . . $s. ^d. Et solutum
Willelmo Synger nomine partis stipendii sui hoc anno . . . 40^.
Et eidem pro toga sua ... 13^. 4</.
Summa £18 4-r. od.
Et allocatur eidem ut in regardis datis fratribus predicatorum
et minorum hoc anno . . . I2d. Et in regardis datis clavigeris
civitatis Wigorn. hoc anno . . . 8d. Item pro candelis de cepo
' Daniel Boyse (or Boyce) was the master per noctem utebantur in sestate . . . Tali, id
in charge of the pueri capellae. In roll est ancli, de quibus caligae nocturnales sub-
nomine partis, instead of de farte. talares vocantur quia sub talis sunt. Du
* sotularii = subtalares, calcei, souJiers, Cange, sub voce subtalares.
pedulium genus quibus maxinie monachi
l6 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
emptis ad usum dicti officii hoc anno . . . izd. Item in stipendio
collector-is reddituum hoc anno . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro factura presentis
compoti . . . i6d. Et allocator eidem computanti de redditu unius
tenement! in parochia sancti Andree quia vacuum per unum annum
. . . IQS. Item allocatur eidem de redditu alterius tenementi in
Byrteporte nuper in tenura Ricardi Synger quia vacuum hoc
anno . . . 8^. Et eidem de parte redditus unius tenementi in dicto
vico nuper in tenura Johannis Byrde quia vacuum per quarterium
anni . . . 2s. 6d. Et eidem de parte redditus unius tenementi in
Wodstaffstrete quia vacuum per dimidium anni ... 2s. Et eidem
de capitali redditu tenementi nuper Jobsons quia vacuum hoc anno
. . . 4J. Et eidem de capitali redditu tenementi nuper Botylls quia
detinetur hoc anno . . . :8«/. Item eidem de redditu in Feckynham
quia detinetur hoc anno . . . \2d.
Summa l 39^. ^d.
[p. 126.] Et allocatur eidem pro diversis reparationibus misis
et expencis factis super tenementum in quo Henricus Wellys modo
inhabitat una cum meremio2 tegulis findulis bricks zabulo luto
et aliis necessariis ad dictam reparacionem ut patet per billam
super hunc compitum ostensum hoc anno . . . 43^. $d. Item
allocatur eidem pro reparatione alterius tenementi in Byrteporte
nuper Griffini Apprice 3 cum omnibus necessariis ad eandem repara-
tionem prout plenius patet per dictam billam super hunc compitum
ostensam hoc anno . . . uj. lid. Item allocatur eidem pro
diversis reparationibus misis et expencis factas super cameram ejus-
dem computantis hoc anno . . . nil. Item pro clavis et ceris emptis
ad usum officii hoc anno . . . I2d. Item solutum pro paupiro et
pro factura diversarum missarum de novo factarum hoc anno . . .
us. 8d.
Summa .£3 js. lod.
Summa omnium allocationum £24 43. 8^d. Et sic debet
super compitum 495-. n\d. De quibus allocatur eidem pro expencis
factis super extranios vocatos syngyngmen provenientes hoc anno
5 s. Et sic sic debet 44^. 1 1 \d.
1 An error for 30^. 8rf. laths. On p. 22 we find virgis. Both occur
" meremium = materia, any timber for on p. 40.
building ; zabulum is sand. — Fr. sable. » The name suggests a Welshman.
findulis ; probably for sindulis, shingles or
CHAMBERLAIN. IJ
OFFICIUM CAMERARII.
Computus fratris Ricardi Calaman gerentis officium predic-
tum anno quo supra.
Remanentia. Nulla quia primus ingressus ejusdem nunc com-
putantis.
Redditus Assist. Sed respondet de . . . £64 os. i^d. recepta de
certis redditibus ffirmis terris et pencionibus quorum parcelle
plenius liquent per rentale et per indenturas ex certitudine
per annum.
Item percipit de redditibus apud Loxley ex consuetudine s. d.
per annum 18 o
Item recepit de perquisitis curiarum tentarum apud Stoke \
et Cudston prout plenius patet per rotulos curiarum V n 4
earundem hoc anno )
Item recepit de vendicatione bosci apud Stoke hoc i
20 o
anno
Summa £66 los. 6d.
Solutiones ex certitudine. De quibus computat solutum domino
episcopo Wig. pro pencione ecclesie de Stoke per annum . . . 6s. 8d.
Item solutum domino priori pro portione sua per annum . . . 6os. Et
eidem domino priori pro heddesylver 1 ... 6s. 8d. Et eidem domino
priori pro caponibus . . . 2s. 8d. Et solutum suppriori pro portione
sua per annum . . . 2?s. 6d. Item scholaribus Oxon. 2 pro eorum por-
tionibus per annum . . . 6oj. Item famulis domini prioris in adventu
pro eorum cena ... I2d. Item diversis servientibus hujus monas-
terii pro eorum caligis per annum . . . 2js. 4d. Item Johanni Middel-
more pro feodo suo per annum . . . 26s. 8d. Item in stipendiis Thome
Smyth Johannis Taylour et Edwardi Bluett quilibet eorum 26s. 8d.
et sic in toto . . . £4 os. od. Et eisdem pro eorum togis . . . 30^.
Item in stipendiis pillipari3 et unius page stabuli ... I3J. ^d. Item
in stipendio lotrice . . . 8s. Item in stipendio ballivi et wodwardi
ibidem . . . 2OJ. Item in stipendio collectoris reddituum . . . 6s. 8d.
* heddesylver ', a capitation tax. scholars. There was also a pension de
* scholaribus Oxon. Besides the pay- Bybery of £3.
ments mentioned in these accounts it ap- 3 pillipari — qui pelles parant, currier,
pears that the manor of Blackwell was tanner,
charged with a payment of £12 to these
1 8 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
Item in denariis distributis pauperibus ex consuetudine per annum
. . . 6s: 8d.
Summa £ig 35. zd.
[p. 127.] Stipendia monachorum. Et computat solutum conventui
videlicet 38 monachis quilibet eorum \2d. ad ffestum conceptionis
beate Marie et sic in toto . . . $8s. Et solutum 37 monachis pro
O Emanuel quilibet eorum \2d. Sic in toto . . . 37^. Et solutum
precentori ad idem tempus . . . 2s. Et solutum 38 monachis ad
ffestum purificacionis beate Marie quilibet eorum I2d. et sic in
toto . . . 38^. Et solutum 38 monachis ad ffestum annunciacionis
beate Marie quilibet eorum I2d. Sic in toto . . . 38^. Et solutum
27 monachis pro eorum pencionibus ad fifestum sancti Kenelmi
regis quilibet eorum 6s. et sic in toto . . . £8 2s. od. Et solutum
38 monachis ad ffestum assumpcionis beate Marie quilibet eorum
\2d. et sic in toto . . . 38.?. Et solutum 29 monachis sacerdotibus pro
obitu Walteri Lye quilibet eorum \6d. et sic in toto . . . 38s. &d. Et
solutum 29 monachis sacerdotibus ad ffestum Nativitatis beate Marie
quilibet eorum Js. et sic in toto . . . .£10 35-. Et solutum septem
monachis non sacerdotibus ad predictum ffestum quilibet eorum $s.
Sic in toto . . . 35^. Et allocatur eidem pro tabula Camerarii per
annum . . . 6s. %d. Et solutum conventui ad manus magistri com-
munis cene pro O Emanuel per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Et eidem
conventui pro speciebus ad ffestum omnium sanctorum ex certi-
tudine per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Et eidem conventui pro aucis ad
ffestum sancti Michaelis Archangeli per annum . . . 2s. <\d. Et
solutum subcamerario ratione officii sui per annum . . . $s.
Summa £32 ifs. od.
Et computat solutum pro contributione generalis capituli videlicet
id. de marca . . . 4*. 6d. Et solutum breviatori portanti brevia hoc
anno . . . Ss. Item in expencis Thome Smythe equitantis usque
Stoke et 'Cudston pro pecuniis ibidem colligendis hoc anno . . .
6s. 8d. Item solutum pro focali empto ad usum hospicii hoc anno . . .
6s. 8d. Item pro candelis de cepo emptis pro eodem hospitio hoc
anno . . . 3^. Item pro victualibus emptis et expenditis super
tenentes et alios extranios supervenientes per totum annum . . .
26s, 8d. Item in regardis datis fratribus predicatorum et minorum
CHAMBERLAIN. 19
una cum servientibus ad claves . . . i6d. Item pro scriptura ac-
quietancie . . . i2d. Et pro falcatione et cariagio feni hoc anno . . .
i6d. Item pro cellis frenis et aliis necessariis ad equitandum hoc
anno . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro fferrunis1 equorum . . . 2s. Item pro
factura presentis compoti . . . 2s. 6d. Item solutum pro ingrossione
rotuli curie in pergameno hoc anno . . . $s. 4^. Item solutum pro
reparatione cancelli de Stoke ut patet per billam super hunc compi-
tum ostensam ... i$s. Item pro reparatione pontis juxta fforestam
de ffeckenham hoc anno . . . 2s. $d. Item solutum Roberto Newdyke
pro curia tcnta apud Cudston hoc anno . . . 2s. Item in expencis
ejusdem computantis equitantis ad Cudston pro dicta curia ibidem
tenenda hoc anno . . . 6s. Item pro reparatione unius tenement!
apud sanctum Johannem ut patet per billam ejusdem computi hoc
anno . . . $s. Item solutum fabri pro factura unius trabes apud
lavatorium in claustro hoc anno ... I2d. Item pro emendatione
latrine in dormitorio hoc anno . . . Sd. Item pro feno empto hoc
anno . . . 6s. Sd.
Sumnia £$ ior. ^d.
[p. 128.] Et computat solutum pro sex peciis de stamen2 emptis
pro conventu hoc anno . . . S7S- Item solutum pro panno laneo
empto pro caligis et soccis pro conventu hoc anno . . . igs. Item
in panno linio empto pro mappis manitergiis3 et aliis necessariis
ad usum officii hoc anno ... 12s. Item solutum pro factura eorun-
dem hoc anno . . . I2d. Item solutum pro decem quers* de corves
emptis pro ocriis 5 pro conventu hoc anno . . . 28s. Item solutum
pro uno dyquer6 corrii empto ad usum conventus hoc anno . . .
46^. 8d. Item pro le currynge ejusdem . . . los. Item solutum
duobus peciis panni nigri vocatis ffrocks pro professione duorum
monachorum hoc anno . . . 26s. 3d. Item solutum pro filo empto
pro emendatione vestimentorum hoc anno . . . 3-f. Item solutum
1 This word is elsewhere corrected into ' manitergiis, napkins.
fferruri$ [p. 58]. * qturs or queres de corves — i.e. bundles
* stamen, lanea interula ceu camissa of leather,
(chemise), qua monachi quidam vice cilicii s ocrii are gaiters, leggings,
utebantur. Nam Benedictinis lineas cami- 6 dyquer corrii — (corium, leather) that is
sias interdixit Innocentius III. Du Cange, half a quire or bundle.
sub voce. Stamen is also a kind of woollen
cloth, specially made in Norfolk.
C 2
2O ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
magistro Rudgale pro concilio suo habendo in lege versus tenentes
de Stoke hoc anno . . . IOT. Item Johanni Stede attornato monasterii
pro concilio l . . . i$s. id.
Summa £11 8s. $d.
Summa omnium allocationum £68 i8s. ud. Et sic excedit
super compitum 48^. t,d.
OFFICIUM PITANSARII.
Computus fratris Thome Asteley gerentis officium predictum
a ffesto sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno regni regis Henrici
Octavi xiii° usque ad idem ffestum sancti Michaelis Archangeli
anno ejusdem regis xiiii0.
Remanentia. Nulla quia primus ingressus ejusdem nunc com-
putantis.
£ f- d.
Sed respondet de certis redditibus terris tenementis
ac ffirmis una cum pencionibus ecclesiarum ut
plenius patet per rentale et per indenturas ex
certitudine per annum 47 9 6
Item percipit de officio cellerarii pro magistro operum 1
per annum
Item percipit de certis officiariis hujus monasterii vide- -i
licet de precentore los. de coquinario los. et I 30
de subcellerario los. et sic in toto J
Item percipit de officio cellerarii pro parte prati de "1
Dudeley per annum J
Item percipit de tumbario pro certis oblationibus per }
annum J
Item percipit de sacrista pro pencione ecclesie de ]
Sodbury per annum J
Item percipit de magistro capelle pro capitali redditu 1
unius crofti in Hylton Strete J
Summa totalis recepte £53 153. xod.
[p. 129.] Redditus resoluti. De quibus computat de redditibus
resolutis domino episcopo Wigorn. pro certis terris in parochia
1 The roll reads pro expends in lege.
PITANCER. 21
sancti Johannis Baptiste per annum . , . 2s. $d. Item domino
de Temple Lawarn per annum ... \2d. Item tumbario pro tene-
mento in Sudbury in quo Johannes Taylor modo inhabitat per
annum . . . I2d. Item solutum gardiano ecclesie sancti Johannis
Baptiste pro sustentacione unius lampadis pendentis in ecclesia
ibidem per annum . . . 6d. Item cellerario pro certis terris et tene-
mentis quorum parcelle plenius liquent per rentale per annum . . .
17 's. $d. Item solutum suppriori $s. et precentor! 5.?. pro quadam
portione exeunte de tenemento in quo Humfridus Dedycote modo
inhabitat in Eporte sic in toto per annum . . . IDS. Item solutum
domino episcopo pro via habenda1 in Dydeley per annum \2d.
2 nil hie quia per cellerarium.
Summa 33^. 2d.
Stifendia monachorum. Et computat solutum domino priori
pro le O virgo virginum per annum Ss. suppriori 4^. 6d. precen-
tori 4^. ac 39 aliis monachis ad idem tempus quilibet eorum $s.
et sic in toto ... ^6 13^. 6d. Et allocatum eidem pro le O virgo
virginum per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Et solutum domino priori ad
ffestum annunciationis beate Marie 15.?. suppriori Js. 3^ ^d. pre-
centori Js. 3^ \d. et 39 aliis monachis ad idem ffestum quilibet eorum
5-r. et sic in toto . . . £11 43. "]\d. Et solutum domino priori pro lana
ad ffestum Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste 4^. suppriori 2s. 6d.
precentori 2s. 6d. et 39 aliis monachis ad idem ffestum quilibet
eorum 2s. et sic in toto . . . £4 Js. od. Et solutum domino priori
pro termino sancti Michaelis Archangeli i8s. suppriori 8s. 74 ?d.
precentori 8s. "j\ %d. ac 39 aliis monachis quilibet eorum ad dictum
tempus 8s. $d. et sic in toto . . . £18 os. ^\d. Et solutum eidem
domino priori et conventui pro eorum minucionibus 3 cum duplicibus
dicti domini prioris vocat. senymoney per annum . . . 58.?. 8d. Et
solutum conventui pro speciebus ad ffestum omnium sanctorum per
annum . . . 6s. 8d. Et eidem conventui pro servicia ad ffestum
Nativitatis domini et pasche per annum . . . 2s. Et eidem conventui
pro aucis per annum . . . 2s. $d. Et eidem domino priori pro
1 via habenda — is this a right of way ? the cellerarius. It is omitted in the roll.
" The note, in different writing, seems to The total is in error.
be added by an auditor to point out that 3 minucionibus — i.e. blood letting; seny-
this item of I2d. entered as paid to the money, or seynymoney (saigtter), is a pay-
Bishop and reckoned here as among the merit on account of this.
outgoings of the pitancer, has been paid by
22 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
caponibus per annum . . . zs. 8d. Et Elemosinario pro elemosina sua
per annum . . . zod. Item socio in choro per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Item
famuli's domini prioris in adventu pro eorum cena . ; . izd. Item
in expends factis in die sancti Egidii ex certitudine per annum . . .
5-y. Item in stipendio collectoris reddituum per annum . . . los.
Summa £45 7s. nd.1
[p. 130.] Et computat solutum pro contributione generalis capi-
tuli videlicet id. de marca . . . 2s. 4\d. Item in regardis datis
fratribus predicatorum et minorum ac servientibus ad claves . . .
\6d. Item pro portacione pencionis de Balsale a London hoc anno
. . . 6s. 8d. Item pro amerciamento in curia domini episcopi apud
sanctum Johannem hoc anno . . . $d. Item pro pergameno paupiro
et pro factura presentis compoti . . . zs. 6d. Item pro scriptura
acquietancie hoc anno . . . i zd.
Summa l
Et computat solutum pro diversis reparacionibus misis et ex-
pends factis super diversas domos tarn in parochia sancti Johannis
Baptiste quam in parochia sancti dementis ubi magis indiget
ut patet per billam ejusdem computi super hunc compitum ostensain
hoc anno . . . 23^. 8d. Item solutum pro meremio tegulis virgis
cake usto zabulo et aliis necessariis ad dictam reparacionem emptis
hoc anno . . . 44?. Item allocatur eidem compute pro diversis repa-
rationibus factis super cameram ejusdem computantis ut in meremio
tabulis et in vitriis fenestris ac aliis necessariis ibidem factis hoc
anno . . . nil. Item allocatur eidem de redditu Georgii Smythe
apud sanctum Johannem quia indecassum hoc anno . . . $s. Item
pro tenemento Christine Home quia indecassum hoc anno . . . 4^.
Item de redditu alterius tenementi apud le Barreyate quia indecassum
hoc anno . . . $s. Item de redditu unius tenementi in le Rottenrewe
quia tenens recessit cum redditu hoc anno . . . zs. 6d. Item in alloca-
tione redditus unius tenementi in Crepulgate quia tenens recessit
cum redditu hoc anno . . . zs. 6d. Et eidem de redditu unius tene-
menti de novo edificati in parochia sancti Swithini hoc anno . . .
$j. Item de redditu alterius tenementi in alto vico Humfridi Swyner-
ton quia negat solvere redditum hoc anno . . . 4_r. Item pro tene-
mento Johannis Crike quia negat solvere redditum hoc anno ... izd.
1 These amounts are slightly in error.
PRECENTOR. 23
Et ctiam de redditu tenement! Ricardi Styllfylde quia vacuum jacet
hoc anno . . . 4*. Et allocatur eidem de redditu tenement! Ricardi
Burfylde quia vacuum hoc anno . . . S-f. 6d. Item eidem de redditu
unius crofte apud Bradwas modo Arnolphi Gower quia negat sol-
vere redditum hoc anno . . . \id. Item de redditu apud le More
quia Willelmus Archard recessit cum redditu hoc anno . . . 2s.
Summa 109^. 2d.
Summa omnium allocationum £53 35. n^d. Et sic debet
super compitum us.
OFFICIUM PRECENTORIS.
[p. 131.] Computus fratris Willelmi Lynsylle gerentis officium
predictum a ffesto sancti Michaelis Archangel! anno regni regis
Henrici Octavi xiii° usque ad idem festum sancti Michaelis
Archangel! anno ejusdem regis xiiii0.
Remanentia. Nulla. £ s. d.
Sed respondet de certis redditibus terris tenementis "1
ac pencionibus dicto officio pertinentibus ex cer- 668
titudine per annum J
Item percipit de officio Elemosinarii ut patet per 1
rentale per annum j
Item percipit de Coquinario pro le ffardynge1 per 1
annum J
Item percipit de officio cellerarii ut patet per rentale •»
per annum J
Item percipit de pitansario de redditu tenement! in 1
quo Humfridus Dedicote modo inhabitat J
Summa totalis recepte £10 I2S. 8d.
De quibus computat solutum domino priori pro le O Adonai
4j. suppriori 3.?. lod. et precentor! 3J. lod. ac 39 aliis monachis
ad idem tempus 2s. et sic in toto . . . £4 gs. 8d. Et solutum
' le ffardynge — also called Whitsun ffar- one of the ' offering Sundays ' ; they went
dynges and quadrantes Penticostes, i.e. to the support of the clergy- See pp. 33,
oblations made on Whitsunday, which was 36.
24 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
pitansario pro le O Adonai per annum . . . IDJ. Item solutum pro
jantaculo facta conventui ad le O Adonai per annum . . . 6s. 8d.
Item infirmario pro pencione ecclesie de Tiberton per annum . . . 2s.
Item conventui pro speciebus per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Et eidem con-
ventui pro aucis per annum . . . 2s. ^d. Item domino priori pro
caponibus per annum . . . 2s. 8d. Item Elemosinario pro elemosina sua
per annum . . . 2od. Item subcentori ratione officii sui per annum . . .
1 3s. ^d. Item solutum pascionistris 1 in quadragesima per annum . . .
3-r. qd. Item famulis domini prioris in adventu pro eorum cena
. . . I2d. Item in stipendio valecti precentoris per annum . . . 8j.
Et eidem ut in denarii's solutis domino priori pro terra pertinente
ecclesie de Tyberton per annum . . . gs. 6d. Et in denariis solutis
predicatoribus in adventu domini et quadragesima et in diebus
rogationum ut in xiii sermones per eos factos per annum . . . 43^. qd.
Et in victualibus emptis et expenditis super eosdem predicatores
. . . 3*. 4*t.
Summa £10 $s. od.z
Et computat solutum pro contributione generalis capituli vide-
licet id. de marca . . . i2d. Et solutum breviatori portanti brevia
hoc anno . . . 3^. ^d. Item in regardis datis fratribus predica-
torum et minorum . . . &d. Item solutum pro pergameno pro
brevibus scribendis hoc anno . . . 2s. Item pro factura presentis
compoti . . . I2d. Item pro renovatione librorum in choro hoc
anno . . . $s. ^d.
Summa IDJ. 8d. 2
Summa omnium allocationum £10 133. 8d. Et sic excedit
super compotum 1 2d.
OFFICIUM TUMBARII.
[p. 132.] Compotus fratris Rogeri Stanford gerentis orncium
predictum anno quo supra.
Remanentia. Nulla. £ s. d.
Sed respondet de certis redditibus ffirmis terris et \
pencionibus dicto officio pertinentibus per annum }
1 Passionistris. See p. 33. These must have been the singers of the Passion Gospels
on Palm Sunday and other days. * In error.
TUMBARY. 25
£ s- d-
Item percipit dt officio Elemosinarii pro obitu domini
Robert! Molton
lini "j
Item recepit de oblationibus ad tumba sanctorum )
Oswaldi et Wolstani hoc anno
Summa totalis recepte £12 143. od.
Redditus resoluti. De quibus computat de redditu resolute
domino episcopo pro capital! redditu unius tenement! exapposito
ecclesie sancti Michaelis per annum . . . i8d. Item solutum coquinario
pro orto in parochia sancti dementis per annum . . . I2d. Item
solutum domino priori pro oblacione ad pixidem sancti Wolstani
per annum ... i8d. Item subtumbario per annum ... i8d. Item
pitansario pro oblatione ad capita sanctorum Oswaldi et Wolstani
. . . Jj. Item Elemosinario pro elemosina sua per annum , . . 2Od.
Item in stipendio collectoris reddituum . . . 6s. 8d.
Summa i8s. lod.
Et computat solutum pro duobus c. et dimidio [ac] 3 quarteriis
cere empte ad usum dicti officii pretii cujuslibet c. quinque marcas
sic in toto . . . £10 6s. 8d. l Item solutum pro factura ejusdem cere
. . . 6s, 8d. Item pro lichino empto pro eodem . . . 8d. Item
solutum pro torchis una cum regardis datis pro portacione eorun-
dem in die reliquiarum ... i8d. Item solutum pro cordulis emptis
ad usum fferatri hoc anno . . . i^d. Item pro focali empto ad
usum dicti officii hoc anno . . . $s. Item pro jantaculo facta
Danieli Boyse 2 et pueris capelle in die sancti Wolstani . . . $s. ^d.
Item in regardis datis fratribus predicatorum et minorum hoc
anno . . . 8d. Item pro renovatione ceriorum circa fferatra . . .
nil. Item in regardis datis clavigeris civitatis Wigorn. . . . Sd. Item
solutum pro cariagio cere a London ... 3$. Sd. Item pro factura
presentis compoti . . . I2d. Item solutum pro paviamento in vico
in parochia sancti dementis hoc anno . . . 7s. Item solutum pro
tegulatione unius domus in quo Johannes Wyllys inhabitat hoc
1 zj cwt. + 3 quarters make 3j cwt. , and a breakfast given them on St. Wolstan's
this at 5 marks a cwt. comes to ;£lo ids. 8t£ day, Jan. 19.
• Daniel Boyse and the pueri capelle have
26 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
anno . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro tegulatione alterius domus in le fforegate
strete hoc anno . . . 3^. 4d.
Summa £12 8s. od.
Summa omnium allocationum £13 6s. icd. et sic excedit
super compitum 12s. lod.
OFFICIUM HOSTILLARII.
[p. 133.] Computus Robert! Alchurche1 supprioris gerentis
officium predictum anno quo supra.
Remanentia. Nulla quia primus ingressus ejusdem nunc com-
putantis.
s. d.
Sed respondet de certis tern's et tenementis ac pen-
cionibus predicto officio pertinentibus prout par- ,
celle particulariter plenius liquent per rentale ex
certitudine per annum
Item percipit de officio magistri capelle ex certitudine 1
per annum J
Item recepit per manus domini prioris ad usum officii )
j- 40 o
hoc anno
t I 20 o
hoc anno )
Summa totalis recepte £& zs. od.
Stipendia ex certitudine. De quibus computat in exhiniis2
missis domino priori per annum . . . 2s. 8d. Item solutum Ele-
mosinario pro elemosina sua per annum . . . 2od. Item pro aucis
datis conventui in ffesto omnium sanctorum . . . 2s. ^d. Item
pro pitanciis datis conventui in ffesto Omnium sanctorum (nil hoc
anno) . . . 3^. 40?. 3 Item pro speciebus erga dictum ffestum . . .
6s. 8d. Item in stipendio lotrice . . . 4^. Item in stipendio unius
page hostillarii (hoc anno nil). Item famulis domini prioris in
1 The name dementis Hartylbury is ' Exhinium for exenium, or \ivtav, a little
struck out, and that of Robert Alchurche present.
is substituted. But in the roll the former 3 The 3*. 4</. is underlined to shew that
name does not appear. it is struck out. The item is not in the roll.
PLATE A.
To face p. 26.
B-WhpSL^ai
U ^ * * I v I I
FACSIMILE OF THE OFFICIUM HOSTILLARII (p. 133 of Axvii.) u" x 8"
Worcester Cathedral Library.
HOSTILLAR. 27
adventu pro eorum cena . . . izd. Item in stipendio unius valecti
hostillarii per annum . . . 6s. ftd.
Summa1 255. 4d.
Et computat solutum pro focali empto ad usum officii predict!
una cum cariagio ejusdem hoc anno . . . Ss. Item pro candelis de
cepo emptis ad usum dicti officii hoc anno . . . 3J. tyd. Item in ex-
pends factis super diversos extranios ballivos et collectores reddituum
tempore auditus ac diversis aliis vicibus hoc anno . . . 3-r. 4<£ Item
in regardis datis fratribus predicatorum et minorum hoc anno . . .
nil. Item pro contribucione generalis capituli hoc anno . . . \\d.
Item pro factura presentis compoti . . . izd. Item pro cirpis2
emptis hoc anno . . . nil. Item computat solutum pro duobus
paribus de blankettis emptis ad usum dicti officii hoc anno . . . los.
Item solutum pro sex cochliariis de argento continentibus 6 uncias
emptis ad usum ejusdem Officii hoc anno . . . 2os. Item solutum
pro uno novo superlecto de aryse8 empto ad usum ejusdem Officii
hoc anno una cum le lynynge ejusdem . . . 46^. 8d. Item solutum
pro quatuor mattres de novo emptis ad usum dicti Officii hoc anno
... i8s. &d. Item pro reparacione alterius le mattres hoc anno
. . . 2s. 2d. Item solutum pro una culcitra plumali cum le bolstere
empta hoc anno . . . 14^. Item pro duobus paribus linthiaminum
emptis ad usum ejusdem officii hoc anno ... 12s. Item pro repara-
cione unius coopertorii de verdure hoc anno . . . 2s. 8d. Item pro
uno coopertorio coloris grene empto ad usum ejusdem officii hoc
anno . . . los.
Summa £j us. n\d.
Summa omnium allocationum £8 ijs. 3$d. et sic excedit
super compitum ... 1 5 s. -i,\d.
1 The total does not exactly correspond money. Next year, however, the hostillarius
to the items. buys another coopcrlorium de aryse for 2os.
' cirpus, i.e. scirpus, a rush. The Drapers' Dictionary refers to an order
3 aryse or Arras. Here is all the furniture in Council dated 1382 permitting the Pope's
of a very comfortable bed,— 2 pair of Collector in Bristol to export certain house-
blankets, counterpane of Arras lined, 4 new hold goods, and among them are quinque
mattresses, a feather bed, bolster, two pair paria linthiaminum et duos blanketos pro
of linthiamina or linen sheets, and a green uno lecto.
coverlet. The total cost is £5 us. tf., The word blanket is perhaps derived from
equivalent to between .£50 and £60 of our the French blanchttte.
28
ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
OFFICIUM MAGISTRI COMMUNIS CENE.
[p. 134.] Computus ffratris Ricardi Cleve gerentis officium
predictum anno quo supra.
Remanentia. Nulla quia primus ingressus ejusdem nunc com-
putantis.
Sed respondet de certis terris et tenementis predicto
officio pertinentibus quorum parcelle particulariter
plenius Hquent per rentale ex certitudine per
annum
Item percipit de domino priore 6s. 8d. ; De sacrista
6s. 8d. ; De cellerario 6s. 8d. ; De Elemosinario
6s. 8d. ; De Camerario 6s. 8d. ; De pitansario
6s. 8d. ; et de precentore 6s. 8d. ; et sic in toto per
annum
£ s. d.
io 13 5
53 4
Summa totalis recepte £13 6s. gd.
Solutiones ex certitudine. De quibus computat solutum diversis
confratribus celebrantibus missas in capella sancti Georgii pro
anima Thome Lyttelton militis videlicet unus eorum septimanatim
per totum annum 14^. et sic in toto per annum . . . 6os. 8d. Item
solutum conventui pro speciebus per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Item solutum
domino de Stronseham pro capitali redditu tenementi in tenura
Ricardi Castylle ... i8d. Item in expencis factis super conventum
in die2 carni privii et adventu domini . . . 2s. Item solutum pro
inductione victualium emptorum in villa pro jantaculo conventus una
cum collectione reddituum hoc anno . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro carnibus
bovinis emptis in villa pro jantaculo conventus per spatium 38 septi-
manarum videlicet pro qualibet septimana i$d. et sic in toto . . .
47 s. 6d. Item pro victualibus emptis pro cena dictorum confratrum
per spatium 41 septimanarum videlicet qualibet septimana 2s. ^d.
et sic in toto . . . £4 15 s. 8d.
Summa £11 os. 8d.
1 53*. 4<£ represents 8 half-marks ; the
items give only 7. This error is repeated
in each of the four years in the volume.
That he had to account for half a mark
in respect of his own office also would be
some explanation.
" carni privii — carniprivium and carnis-
privium— tempus quo carnibus privati et ab
iis abstinere incipiunt Fideles ante jejunia
Quadragesime. Ita porro peculiariter ap-
pellata dominica Septuagesime. Du Cange.
)
j
)
>
J
MASTER OF THE COMMON ROOM AND REFECTORER. 29
S. d.
Item in regardis datis fratribus predicatorum et
minorum ac servientibus ad claves hoc anno
Item in regardis datis extraniis portantibus carnem
ferinam pro conventu hoc anno
Et allocatur eidem pro domo columbaria apud le
Swynny quia indecasum hoc anno
Et eidem pro domo columbaria supra domum capituli 1 )
quia indecasum hoc anno
Item pro factura presentis compoti 12
Et eidem pro speciebus emptis hoc anno 3 4
Item solutum pro diversis reparacionibus misis et
expencis factis super diversa tenementa ubi .
magis indiget ut patet per billam super hunc '
compitum ostensam hoc anno
Et allocatur eidem de parte redditus unius tenementi
apud le banamys vyne 2 quia tenens recessit red- J- 34
ditu non soluto hoc anno
Summa
Summa omnium allocationum £12 ijs. 5^d. Et sic debet
super compitum gs.
OFFICIUM REFECTORARII.
[p. 135.] Computus ffratris Willelmi ffordam gerentis
officium predictum anno quo supra.
Remanentia. Nulla. s. d.
Sed respondet de certis redditibus et pencionibus '
dicto officio pertinentibus ex certitudine per . 52 6
annum
Summa totalis recepte 523. 6d.
1 Domus capituli. It appears from this that there was a dovecot on the roof of the
Chapter House : unless indeed the Edgar Tower was called the domus capituli.
* This in parallel accounts is Banhams vyne.
30 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
Solutiones ex certitudine. De quibus allocatur eidem computanti
de redditu in Hylhampton per annum . . . 14^. Item pro cera
empta ad usum refectorii per annum . . . 4$. Item pro factura
ejusdem una cum lichino empto per annum . . . i8</. Item pro
olio empto pro duobus lampadibus pendentibus ibidem per
annum ... i8d. Item in expends factis in Vigillia Epiphanie
per annum . . . 3J. 40!. Item solutum Elemosinario pro elemosina sua
per annum . . . 2od. Item in stipendio valecti ibidem per annum . . .
13$. Afd. Item in stipendio lotrice per annum ... 5-y. Item pro
candelis de cepo emptis ad usum officii sui per annum . . . $j.
Summa 36.?. 6d.
Item in regardis datis fratribus predicatorum et minorum hoc
anno . . . 8d. Item pro contribucione generalis capituli hoc anno . . .
id. Item pro factura presentis compoti . . . 124?. Item allocatur
eidem pro 8 elles de dyeper x emptis pro una mappa inde fienda
ad usum officii precii cujuslibet ulni . . . ^d. et sic in toto . . .
2s. 8d. Item solutum pro 8 ulnis de dyeper emptis pro uno
manitergio inde fiendo ad usum dicti officii precio ulni 6d. et sic
in toto hoc anno . . . 4.?. Item solutum pro panno linio empto
pro quatuor mappis inde fiendis hoc anno . . . 12s. Item pro factura
ejusdem ... \2d.
Summa 2is. 6d.
Summa omnium allocationum 575. nd. Et sic Excedit super
compitum $s. $d.
OFFICIUM INFIRMARII.
[p. 136.] Computus fratris Willelmi Lemstyr gerentis
officium predictum anno quo supra.
Remanentia. Nulla quia primus ingressus ejusdem nunc computantis.
£ s. d.
Sed respondet de certis redditibus terris tenementis
ac pencionibus prout plenius patet per rentale j. 974
et per indenturas ex certitudine per annum
1 Diaper is linen cloth wrought with ders, or from Diaspro, Jasper. An ulna
flowers and other figures. The derivation or ell is ij yard. The mappa and maniter-
is uncertain. Perhaps from Ypres in Flan- gitim here are each 8 ells in length.
INFIRMARER. 31
s. d.
Item percipit de officio cellerarii pro decimis de Hy- ) 66 8
multon per annum )
Item percipit de predicto officio cellerarii pro pencione |
ecclesie de Hymulton per annum )
Item de predicto officio cellerarii pro sustentatione "I
unius lampadis ibidem pendentis per annum J
Item percipit de officio precentoris pro pencione ecclesie "1 20
de Tyberton per annum
Item percipit de officio sacriste pro cera per annum 5 o
Summa totalis recepte £13 133.
De quibus computat solutum domino priori in ffesto exaltacionis
sancti crucis 3J. suppriori 2s. ^d. precentor! 2s. $d. ac 39 aliis
monachis quilibet eorum i8</. et sic in toto . . . £$ 6s. od. Et
solutum domino priori 4^. suppriori 4,d. precentori $d. cellerario
4<f. infirmario 4d. refectorario 4^. le dandry ^d. 1 et duobus
deycis 8d. ac 33 aliis monachis quilibet eorum 2d. et sic in
toto . . . 8s. 6d. Et solutus socio in choro . . . 6s. 8rf. Item
domino priori pro medicinis per annum ... 13^. ^d. Item sup-
priori pro consuetudine per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Item domino priori
pro caponibus per annum . . . qs. Item famulis domini prioris in
adventu pro eorum cena . . . \2d. Item solutum Willelmo Barbour
pro stipendio suo per annum . . . zos. Item clerico infirmarii pro
stipendio suo per annum . . . ids. Item in stipendio lotrice per
annum . . . 4*. Item pro jantaculo facta suppriori et conventui
in die sancti Andree ex certitudine per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro
sustentacione unius lampadis pendentis ibidem per annum . . . $s.
Item solutum le page de la ffarmery 2 pro stipendio suo per annum
. . . $s.
Summa £7 i6s. lod.
Et computat solutum pro contribucione generalis capituli videlicet
id. de marca . . . lo^d. Item solutum pro rosis inde stillandis ! hoc
anno . . . 3-r. i,d. Item pro candelis de cepo emptis ad usum dicti
1 The dandry and the two dtyca must abbreviated into the ' farmery,' as the dor-
be monks holding some offices. mitorium into the ' dorter,' and the refec-
" In parallel places the account has in- torium into ' frater.'
Jlrmarii. The infirmary seems to have been 3 rosis emflis ad stillandum elsewhere.
32 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
officii . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro ciphis terenis emptis hoc anno . . . 4<t.
Item solutum pro portacione focalium hoc anno . . . i2d. Item
solutum pro panno linio empto pro mappis manitergiis et pro rastyr 1
clothis inde fiendis hoc anno . . . $s. 2d. Item solutum pro renova-
tione vasorum ad usum officii hoc anno . . . $s. 6d. Item solutum
pro vitriis 2 emptis pro aqua imponenda hoc anno . . . 2s.
Summa 22s. \o\d.
[p- 1 37-] Et computat solutum pro cera et clavis emptis ad
usum officii predicti hoc anno . . . 6d. Item in regardis datis
fratribus predicatorum et minorum ac clavigeris civitatis Wigorn.
. . . \6d. Item solutum pro virido succo8 empto ad usum dicti
officii hoc anno . . . $d. Item solutum pro una olla de stanno
empta ad usum ejusdem officii hoc anno . . . 2od. Et computat
solutum pro victualibus tam carnium quam piscium expenditis in
dicto hospicio hoc anno ...53^. ^d. Item solutum pro diversis
expencis factis super varios confratres ibidem existentes egrotos
hoc anno . . . 33.?. qd* Item pro factura presentis compoti hoc
anno ... I2d.
Summa £4. us. "jd.
Summa omnium allocationum £"13 us. sjd. Et sic debet
super compitum 2Q\d.
OFFICIUM COQUINARII.
[p. 138.] Computus ffratris Humfridi Grafton gerentis officium
predictum a ffesto sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno regni regis
Henrici Octavi xiii° usque ad idem ffestum sancti Michaelis
Archangeli anno ejusdem regis xiiii0.
Remanentia. Nulla.
1 rastyr — shaving cloths ? Item allocatum eidem pro expencis factis super
* vitriis — used in the infirmary for medical fratrem Johannem Berowe ibidem existentem
purposes : in some accounts the item appears egrotum per spatium xxu septimanarum . . .
as pro aqua egrotorum imponenda. 23*. 3<A Thomas Green was there 6 weeks ;
3 virido succo — Abbot Gasquet informs me William More 9 weeks ; William Wyche
that this is a drink made from the juice of II weeks; Richard Hallowe 8 weeks ; John
the green grape. Crowle 10 weeks ; and John Barbour 10
4 In the accounts of the infirmarius for a weeks. The total spent on this item was
later year, 15 Hen. VIII., we find details. in that year 86*. qd.
KITCHENER.
33
Redditus assise. Sed respondet de certis redditibus
terris ffirmis ac pencionibus predicto officio pertin-
entibus prout plenius patet per rentale ex certi-
tudine per annum
Item percipit pro quatuor werelyveres l dimissis variis
personis hoc anno
Item percipit de exitibus et proficuis coquine ut de
corriis et pellibus pecorum cepo flottes2 et aliis
proficuis inde provenientibus hoc anno
Item percipit de proficuis porcarie boverie et pasturarum
predicto officio pertinentium ex certitudine positis
per annum
£ s. d.
131 15 6
53 4
um ^
itis
13 8 10
15 o o
Summa totalis recepte £162 175. 8d.
Solutiones ex certitudine. De quibus computat in exhemiis
missis domino priori ut in capon per annum . . . 2s. 8</. Item
solutum suppriori ex certitudine per annum . . . 2os. Item ele-
mosinario pro le maundy per annum . . . 2Os. Item pitansario pro
le O Virgo Virginum per annum . . . IQJ. Item pro aucis datis
conventui per annum . . . 2s. ^d. Item socio in choro per annum
. . . 6s. 8d. Item pro pitanciis datis conventui pro le O Radix
Gesse 3 per annum . . . 6s. 8d. Item precentori pro le ffardynge
per annum . . . \zd. Item magistro tabule in refectorio per annum
. . . 4J. Item conventui pro speciebus per annum . . . 6s. %d.
Item pro pitanciis datis passionistris * in ffesto Ramis palmarum per
annum . . . Ss. 8d. Item solutum scholaribus Oxon. pro pencione
de Bybery per annum . . . 6os. Item pro jantaculo facta conventui
et servientibus hujus monasterii in ffesto Nativitatis domini per
annum ... 13$. ^d. Item solutum infirmario pro pastura juxta
le Archarde per annum . . . 6s. %d. Item solutum famulis domini
prioris in adventu pro eorum cena per annum ... I2d.
Summa £8 -js. %d. 5
1 See p. 8.
• flottes — flotamen, floating fat or grease.
' Case — i.e. Jesse.
4 See note on p. 24.
5 This total is in error.
34 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
[p. 139.] Stipendia monachorum ac diversorum servientium. Etcom-
putat solutum pro stipendiis diversorum famulorum hujus monasterii
quorum nomina sequuntur videlicet quatuor generosis domini prioris
quilibet eorum 4^. et sic in toto per annum . . . i6s. Item solutum
Ricardo Burfyld Janitori porte prioratus per annum . . . 33^. 6,d.
Item Ricardo Spellisbury valecto Camere domini prioris . . . 26s. 8d.
Item Thome Mores custodi parci de Battenhale . . . 26s. 8d. Item
1 valecto coquinarii cum toga sua per annum ... 335. 40!. Item
Ricardo Byrkyn valecto stabuli domini prioris . . . i$s. ^d. Item
Thome Here valecto subcellerarii . . . 30^. $d. Item duobus valectis
hostillarii per annum . . . 33^. 4</. Item valecto precentoris . . .
8s. 8d. Item valecto Camerarii . . . 8s. 8d. Item Thome Kyngett
lardererio per annum . . . 26s. Bd. Item Johanni ffreyser . . . 26s. 8d.
Item custodi porcorum . . . 2Os. Item lixe coquine . . . i6s. Item
Willelmo Barbour valecto Infirmarii . . . 8s. 8d. Item clerico
Infirmarii piston pandoxatori subjanitori et pagi hostillarii ut in
precio 80 allecium 2 quilibet eorum 8d. sic in toto . . . 2s. 8d. Item
pro factura tuceti8 pro conventu per annum . . . 2s. 6d. Item in
stipendio le tornebroche4 per annum . . . y. ^d. Item custodi
cimbe apud portam Sabrine per annum . . . i6s.
Summa £17 12s. lid.
Et computat solutum contribucione generalis capituli videlicet
id. de marca . . . qd. Item in regardis datis fratribus predicatorum
et minorum una cum servientibus ad claves . . . 2s. Item in
expencis ejusdem computantis et servientium suorum equitantium
ad Sturbrugge6 pro piscibus ibidem emendis et aliis locis hoc anno
... i8s. Item pro cellis frenis et aliis necessariis ad equitandum
einptis hoc anno . . . 12s. 6d. Item breviatori portanti brevia hoc
anno . . . 22d. Item pro candelis de cepo emptis ad usum officii
sui hoc anno . . . 22d. Item pro paupiro atramento una cum
factura presentis compoti . . . 2s. 6d.
Summa
1 Space for name left blank. 3 tucetum — a sausage.
' allec is a herring. Sardines and an- 4 tornebroche — turnspit,
chovies are also called allec. 5 Sturbrugge is Stourbridge,
KITCHENER.
35
[p. 140.] Idem nunc computans petit allocationem pro omnibus
victualibus tarn carnium quam piscium emptis septimanatim
per totum annum modo ut sequitur.
£ s. d.
Dominica Inclina 1 612
„ Justus es domine 48 5
„ Exultate 52 6
„ letetur 56 3
„ venite 53 6
„ omniaquefecisti 55 4
„ in voluntate 54 o
„ Si iniquitates 55 o
„ dicit dominus 55 o
„ ad te levavi 42 o
„ populus Syon 48 o
„ gaudete 52 2
„ mementote 56 6
„ puer natus 420
„ dum medium 54 5
„ in excelso 56 4
„ omnis terra 57 2
„ adorate prima 50 10
„ adorate secunda 53 2
„ adorate tertia 57 10
„ circumdederunt 58
„ Exsurge 57
„ esto michi 53
„ invocabit 58
„ reminiscere 56
„ oculi mei 52
„ letare 52
3
5
5
8
5
ii
4
Dominica Inclina2 me
„ de longe
„ resurrexi
„ quasi modo
„ misericordia
domini
„ Jubelate
„ Cantate
„ vocem jocun-
ditatis
£ s.
58
57
54
58
d.
4
6
2
54 10
55 6
54 6
56
Exaudi domine 57
Spiritus
domini 3 o
8
6
o
10
Summa3 £72 6s.
Summa omnium allocationum
super computum £8 us. od.
' See Appendix VI. « Error (otjujifa.
D 2
„ benedicta 54
„ in tua miseri-
cordia 58 10
„ factus est
dominus 53 n
„ respice in me 59 4
„ dominus illu-
minatio 57 ii
„ Exaudi 58 2
„ fortitudo 56 5
„ omnes gentes 59 3
„ suscepimus 57 10
„ ecce deus 53 9
„ dum clamarem 58 9
„ deus in loco 55 10
„ deus in ad-
jutorium 59 2
„ respice domine 53 8£
„ protector noster 58 5
Summa8 £71 y. id.
£171 8s. 8d. et sic excedit
3 These totals are in error.
ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
OFFICIUM SACRISTE.
[p. 143.] Computus fratris Roberti Alchurche1 gerentis officium
predictum a ffesto sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno regni regis
Henrici octavi xiiii0 usque ad idem ffestum sancti Michaelis
anno ejusdem regis xv°.
[Note. — The Sacrist's account for 13-14 Hen. VIII. is wanting.]
£ s. d.
Idem nunc computans respondet de certis redditibus ^
tern's tenementis et ffirmis una cum pencionibus
ecclesiarum dicto officio pertinentibus ut patet
per rentale per annum
Item percipit de officio cellerarii pro certis decimis in
Vallia per annum
Item percipit de officio hostillarii pro decimis de
Phepston per annum
Item percipit de quadrantibus penticostes in die
sancte Trinitatis in Wigorn. Claynes et de pa-
rochia Sancti Johannis Baptiste per annum
Item percipit de proficuis Sigilli2 fraternitatis beate
Marie hoc anno
Item percipit pro brasio3 de collectore cum cruce Sancti
Wolstani hoc anno
Item percipit pro brevibus in civitate Wigorn. et
Claynes hoc anno
Item percipit pro brevibus in archidiaconatu Glouces-
trensi hoc anno
Item percipit de legatis defunctorum per manus Com-
missarii hoc anno
Item percipit de legatis defunctorum in civitate Wigorn.
et aliis locis hoc anno
400
6 8
24 5
8 6
12
3 4
634
40 9
nil.
1 Robert Alchurche, as we learn from
William More's journal, is made in the year
1522 to take an oath to render his account
to the Bishop and not to the Prior.
We learn from Noake that he was one
of those before whom William Smyth, alias
Peynter, of Ombersley, was tried for heresy
on July II, 1511. (Noake, p. 210.)
* What is this fraternity?
3 brasium, or brace. Some kind of grain
used for brewing. "Cujus generis grani
fuerit Brace non satis constat." Du Cange.
is also malt.
SACRIST. 37
£ s. d.
Item recepit de oblatione peregrinorum posita in pixide \
f ^ ^ / "
beate Marie hoc anno
Item recepit de exitu et proficuis proecorum1 proven. \ ,
de oblatione peregrinorum hoc anno J
Item recepit de proficuis cere oblate ad ymaginem •>
beate Marie hoc anno /
Summa totalis recepte £168 55. 6d.
Redditus resoluti. De quibus computat de redditu resolute
domino episcopo Wigorn pro pastura de Dydeley per annum . . .
io6j. 8rf. Et eidem domino episcopo pro Newlonds . . . \gs. 4d.
Et eidem pro una libra cuminii per annum . . . ^d. Et eidem pro
certis terris et tenementis in parochia sancti Johannis Baptiste . . .
2s. 6d. Item domino de Temple Lawarne per annum . . . I2d.
Item Abbati de Bordisley pro hospicio Angeli . . . 2s. 6d. Et
allocatur eidem de redditu apud Northe pedylle quia detinetur hoc
anno . . . 8s. $d.
Summa £j CM. jd.
[p. 144.] Stipendia Monachorum. Et computat solutum pitan-
sario pro obitu Willelmi Bloyse per annum ... 13^. ^d. Item
solutum hostillario ad ffestum omnium sanctorum . . . 6s. 8d. Item
conventui pro le O oriens . . . 6s. Sd Item capellano domini prioris
pro virida cera . . . 2s. Item infirmario pro consuetudine ... $j. Item
scholaribus Oxon. pro consuetudine . . . 4^. Item domino priori pro
caponibus . . . 45. Item famulis domini prioris in adventu pro eorum
cena . . . 2O/. Item diversis servientibus hujus monasterii pro
eorum caligis . . . 2js. ^d. Item conventui pro aucis . . . 2s. ^d.
Item pro portacione draconis et vexillarum in septimana rogacionis
. . . 4-r. ^d. Item textoribus et fullonibus in ffesto corporis Christi
. . . 2s. Item pro preparatione fferratri in ffesto corporis Christi
per annum . . . 3.?. qd.
Summa £4 2s. %d.
Feoda et vadia. Et computat solutum magistro Lewes magistro
carnaie cum toga sua . . . £10 i6s. od. Item capellano celebranti
1 The pro of proecorum is here an ex- exilibus et proficuis pecorum provm. de
pansion, and is probably an error. In oblatione peregrinorum . . . £16 los. od.
15-16 Henry VIII. this item reads de [p. 284.]
38 ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
primam missam coram ymaginem beate Marie . . . 53$. ^d. Et eidem
capellano pro custodia ymaginis beate Marie ... 13^. 4d. Item
subsacriste pro officio suo . . . i6s. 8d. Item rectori sancti
Michaelis Archangel! pro sepultura mortuorum . . . 8s. Et eidem
pro quatuor quarteriis frumenti . . . \js. ^d. Item in stipendio
Thome Newes et trium clericorum ecclesie . . . £6 os. od. Item
Thome Smyth pro custodia campanarum . . . 3^. ^d. Item ffarrario
pro custodia cumbali1 et orilegii . . . $s. Item in stipendio coci
Sacriste . . . 26s. 8d. Item Johanni Perott waxchaundler . . . 2OS.
Item Thome Plymer pro feodo suo . . . 13^. ^d. Item lotrice
ecclesie . . . Ss. Item lotrice sacriste . . . 4^. Item barbitonsori . . .
3-y. fyt. Item Commissario domini episcopi pro collectione legatorum
una cum toga sua . . . 26s. 8d. Item magistro Willelmo Rudgale
pro ffeodo suo . . . i$s. ^d. Item officialibus Gloucestrensibus
et servientibus suis . . . 2OJ. Item ballivo de Radwyke ... 13$. $d.
Item archidiacono Gloucestrensi pro ecclesia de Sodbury . . . 6s. 8d.
Item Willelmo Potkyn tabellioni2 Archidiaconi Wigorn. . . . 13^. $d.
Item ffirmario de Sodbury pro toga sua . . . $s. Item Thome Newes
et duobus servientibus in sacristia pro eorum togis . . . 44J. Item
magistro capelle per manus Daniellis Boyce pro cera . . . 13$. ^d.
Item Danielli Boyce pro missis nominis Jesu et Salve regina per
annum . . . IQJ.
Summa £34 14.?. od.
[p. 145.] Et computat solutum pro singynge bredd3 empto ad
usum ecclesie hoc anno . . . 8s. 6d. Et solutum pro 400 cere empte
ad usum ecclesie hoc anno ... £15 i8s. ^d. Item pro lichino et olio
cmpto hoc anno . . . i^s. 6d. Et solutum pro olio empto pro lampade
hoc anno . . . los. Item pro incenso . . . 3^. ^d. Item pro pinguedine
empta pro campanis . . . 2s. Item pro capistris ristris 4 et cordulis
cmptis hoc anno f . . 15.?. lod. Item pro zonis et tokinggyrdylls
. . . 4s. Item pro carbonibus ad usum ecclesie hoc anno . . . 3^.
Item pro candelis de cepo ad usum ejusdem ecclesie . . . 3u. Item
pro lotura flammarum6 et corporalium beate Marie . . . 2s. Item
pro baudryks emptis pro campanis . . . 2s. 8d. Item pro cirothecis 6
* cumbalum — the cymbal in the cloister restibus = ropes. These items are for the
sounded for meals. bells.
• tabellio-3. notary, or secretary. * fl<"»manim. This is probably for
flammeorum. Mr. St. John Hope suggests
> aagyngt feMtf-bmd for the Mass. , washing of veils and kerchie6>,
4 In 15-16 Hen. VIII. we read restit or * cirotheca—3. glove, xe
SACRIST. 39
pro conventu . . . 4^. 6d. Item pro filo empto pro albis sutandis
. . . 22d. Item pro pulsatione magnarum campanarum . . . 7s. ^d.
Item solutum pro reparacione vestimentorum ecclesie hoc anno . . .
4-r. Item solutum pro octodecem albis de novo emptis ad usum
ecclesie hoc anno . . . £4 3.?. 2d. Item solutum pro curtens de
novo emptis pro altari sancti Stephani et sancti Johannis l hoc anno
. . . I2s. 2d. Item solutum pro uno vestimento2 de novo empto ad
usum ecclesie hoc anno . . . 6os. Item pro le gyldynge partis
altaris sancti Johannis Baptiste una cum factura trium ymaginum
ibidem hoc anno . . . £4 8s. nd. Item solutum pro vino empto
pro missis celebrandis hoc anno . . . £4 2s. od.3 Item pro fac-
tura candele benedicte . . . 2s. 8d.
Summa £38 os. 2id.
Et computat in expends hospicii sacriste ut in pane et ser-
vicia emptis in villa hoc anno . . . £g los. $d. Et pro carnibus
bovinis ovinis et vitulinis piscibus salcis et recentibus et aliis
necessariis emptis ad usum dicti hospicii hoc anno . . . £l$ 12s. 6d.
Et solutum pro focali et carbone empto hoc anno . . . 42$. Et pro
sale vino amaro sinapio et aliis condimentis emptis hoc anno . . .
i$s. Item pro candelis de cepo emptis ad usum dicti officii . . .
12s. iod. Item pro panno linio empto pro mappis manitergiis et
aliis necessariis hoc anno ... 13-y. ^d. Item pro vino diversorum
generum empto et expendito in dicto hospicio hoc anno . . . 41 s.
Item pro reparacione vasorum in coquina hoc anno . . . 8s.
Summa £31 i$s. id.
[p. 146.] Et allocatur eidem ut in regardis datis Danielli Boyce
pueris capelle fratribus predicatorum et minorum clavigeris civitatis
Wigorn. et diversis aliis extraniis hoc anno ... 13^. qd. Et solutum
pro contribucione generali capituli videlicet id. de marca . . . 2s. 6d.
Item pro paupiro pergameno et pro factura presentis compoti hoc
' The words et sancti Johannis are added payd to William Dysse vestment maker of
above the line. London for makyng of the said coape, chese-
* The following extract from Prior More's abull, tynnaculls, and 3 Albes to the same
journal throws some light on the vestments with the stoles and 3 fannells with the buck-
then in use : — ram for the lynnynge of ye same . . . 36^. 8J.
'Item payd for the offreys to a coape of Summa totius . . , £17 us. &t.
cloth of golde for the cheseabull and the > This implies a consumption of more than
2 tynnaculls £15 y. 4^. Item payd for 3 hogsheads of sacramental wine,
lynnyn cloth for 3 Albes . . . us. &i. Item
4° ACCOUNTS OF THE PRIORY OF WORCESTER.
anno . . . 6s. 8d. Et allocatur eidem pro expends suis equitanti
diversis vicibus hoc anno . . . 30^. Et solutum pro meremio tegulis
findulis1 virgis emptis hoc anno . . . 3U. 8d. Et solutum pro bricks
zabulo calce usto et aliis necessariis emptis hoc anno . . . $gs. gd.
Et allocatur eidem pro stipendiis operariorum carpinteriorum tegu-
lariorum et aliorum conductorum hoc anno . . . £3 i8s. 8d. Item pro
ceris2 clavis clavibus et aliis rebus ferriamentis emptis ad usum dicti
officii hoc anno . . . 44^. id. Item pro fferrunis3 equorum hoc
anno . . . 6s. 8d. Item pro cellis frenis et aliis necessariis ad
equitandum emptis hoc anno . . . 8s. Item solutum pro duobus
cruettis de argento in capella beate Marie ponderis 8 unciarum et i
quarter, emptis hoc anno . . . 30^. i id. Item solutum pro pendicione
magne campane et le newe clapper hoc anno . . . £$ i6s. 2d. Item
solutum Thome Plymer pro stipendio suo ratione coopture ecclesie
supra le vestri hoc anno . . . 2$s. lod. Item solutum pro plumbo
posito in eodem loco hoc anno continente 27 c. et 59 li. et sic in
toto ... ^7 15.?. 8d. Et allocatur eidem pro pitanciis datis conventui
pro Thoma Grymley celebrante primam missam hoc anno . . . 2s.
Et computat solutum lathamis pro consummatione nove altaris
vocati Jesus alter ut patet per jornale ejusdem computantis hoc
anno . . . £10 os. 22d.
Summa £38 us. gd.
Summa omnium allocationum £154 53. lod. et sic debet
super compotum ... ^13 19*. 8d.
' findulis. See note, p. 16. On [p. 287] it is serts. So eella for sella, a
1 ceris, perhaps for sera or sentra, a bolt, saddle. 3 See note, p. 19,
APPENDIX I.
MANOR OF BRADWAS.
THE same volume of accounts contains four summaries of the
payments made both in grain and in money from some of the
manors. They are apparently not complete accounts of the income
of the monastery, as the total payments do not equal the
rents received. The list that follows gives the gross payments
from a series of manors, from which, however, some deductions
were made for expenses of collecting, and under other heads.
Besides these payments in money there are payments in kind.
One specimen of the accounts presented will suffice, that of Bradwas,
an adjacent manor, for the year 12-13 Henry VIII. The payments
are made not to the convent as a whole or to its treasurer, but
divided between certain officials : some divided between the prior
and the cellerarius, or between the cellerarius, camerarius and coqui-
narius, or among other officials.
ABSTRACT OF MONEY RENTS FROM CERTAIN MANORS IN THE
YEAR 12-13 HENRY VIII. [pp. 1—43]-
£ s. d.
Prioratus Wigorn. - 37 I2 °
Hardewyke - 24 o o
Sancti Johannis 102 6
Bradwas - 27 n Q\
Teberton - 16 12 i
Crowle 17 3 u
Hymulton - - - 55 " "i i
Hallowe - 38 7 i
Grymley - 30 13 o
More 58 16 iij i
Newenham - 65 14 I
Netherton - 12 8 2
Segebarowe - 26 13 4
Tedynton - . 32 12 S
Herforton - - 25 9 i
42 APPENDIX I.
£
s. d.
Cleve
40
16 10
Schipston -
43
o 5
Blackwell -
23
18 7*
Alston
39
O 2Oj
Cropthorn -
44
9 34
Overbury -
46
4 10
Eymore
-
27 7
Wolverley -
43
IO 2\
ACCOUNTS OF THE MANOR OF BRADWAS FOR THE YEAR
12-13 HENRY VIII.
[p. 5.] Bradwas. Exitus grangie per Rogerum Tovy ballivum
ibidem anno quo supra.
De remanentibus Nulla. Sed respondet de . . . 3 qu. 2 bu.
frumenti receptis de toto exitu grangie terrarum dominicalium
proveniente de tertia garba 1 ut patet per tallium super hunc
compitum ostensum menc2 rac. tritur. in denariis ut infra. Et de
... 4 qu. receptis de portione decime rectorie omnium tenentium
ibidem.
Summa 7 qu. 2 bush, frumenti.
Frumenti. De quibus computat liberata Elemosinario pro bladis
SanctiWolstani . . . 4 bush. Et liberata Johanni Molton subcellerario
de ffirma portionis decime predicte de oneris8 Rectoris ibidem per
annum ... 4 qu. Et liberata eidem subcellerario de parte exitus
terrarum dominicalium provenientis de tertia garba prout plenius
patet per tallium super hunc compitum ostensum debite examinatum
et approbatum . . . 2 qu. 6 bu. et nil Remanet.
Siligo. De remanentibus nil. Sed respondet de . . . nil hoc
anno receptum de toto exitu dicti grangie terrarum dominicalium
menc. rac. triturat. in denariis ut infra.
Summa nil . .". Que liberata subcellerario.
Ordium. De rem. nil. Sed respondet de . . . 7 bush, ordii
receptis de toto exitu dicti grangie terrarum dominicalium pro-
1 ttrtia garba, every third sheaf. " ralione triturationis , ' measured for the pur-
• menc. rac. ttitur. Can this be mentis pose of thrashing ? ' 3 On [p. 153] mere.
MANOR OF BRADWAS. 43
veniente de tertia garba ut patet per tallium super hunc compitum
ostensum.
Summa ... 7 bush. Que libata dicto subcellerario.
Pulcetam. De Remanentibus nil. Sed respondet de . . . 2 qu.
2 bush, pulceti receptis de toto exitu dicti grangie terrarum domini-
calium ut supra.
Summa 2 qu.. 2 bu.
De quibus liberata Johanne Walker ffirmario ibidem pro sus-
tentatione unius apris . . . i qu. Et deliberata predicto subcellerario
de parte exitus dicte grangie terrarum dominicalium proveniente
de tertia garba ... 4 bush. Et cellerario pro expencis hospicii sui
ut in pisis * . . . 6 bus. et nil remanet.
Avene. De remanentibus nil. Sed respondet de . . . 4 qu.
avenarum receptis de portione decime Rectorie ibidem per annum.
Summa ... 4 quarteria.
[p. 6.] Bradwas. Visus compoti Rogeri Tovy ballivi ibidem
et Johannis Noxon2 collectoris reddituum ibidem anno quo supra.
Arreragia. Nulla.
Redditus assise. Sed respondet de . . . £22 17.?. ^\d. re-
ceptis de toto redditu assise tarn liberorum tenentium quam
custumariorum prout plenius patet per rentale ex certitudine per
annum.
Summa . . . £22 ijs.
Firma terrarum dominicalium. Et de . . . 33J. $d. receptis de
firma terrarum dominicalium sic dimissa Johanne Walker per in-
denturam per annum. Et de . . . 6s. 8d. receptis de precio unius
apris ratione capcionis3 ejusdem fnrme.
Summa 4<os.
Perquisita curie. Et de . . . 53^. %d. receptis de perquisitis curie
tente ibidem hoc anno ut patet per rotulos curie.
Summa . . . 53^. 8rf.
Summa totalis recepte £27 us. o£d.
1 in pisis — in parallel accounts are added * Elsewhere Noxton.
the words ' vocal, grene pese' and 'de grene 3 capcio — quicquid ad expensas Regis seu
viridis pisis. ' domini capitur.
44
APPENDIX I.
Peticiones battivi. De quibus computat in allocatione facta
eidem ballivo pro toga sua hoc anno . . . 6s. %d. Et allocatur eidem
pro trituracione ... 6 quar. 3 bush, omnium granorum capiendorum
pro trituracione cujuslibet quarterii frumenti et siliginis $d. Et pro
omnibus aliis granis 2d. sic in toto 15^. Et allocatur eidem pro
ventulatione . . . 6 qu. 2 bush, omnium granorum videlicet pro
quolibet wey 2d. sic in toto . . . zd.
Summa 8s. id.
s.
d.
Peticiones collectoris reddituum. Et computat in de-
nariis liberatis domino priori de parte oneris dicti
collectoris reddituum ad diversas vices ut patet per
billam ejusdem domini prioris super hunc com-
putum ostensam
Et in denariis solutis Willelmo ffordam Camerario de
parte oneris ejusdem computantis
Et in denariis liberatis Thome Grene Coquinario de
parte oneris ejusdem
Et in denariis liberatis Thome Wenloke Cellario ut
patet per jornale dicti Cellerarii
Et allocatur eidem ut in solutione facta hundredo de
Dodyntre per annum
Et eidem pro collectione reddituum hoc anno
Et eidem de precio unius apris
Et allocatur eidem de ffine Ricardi Kynnard
Et eidem de ffine Johannis Dee
Et eidem de ffine Humfridi Dodynge
Et in denariis solutis ad manus domini prioris pro
officio Cellerarii
Et in denariis solutis Humfrido Grafton coquinario de
novo electo ad primum ingressum suum 1
Summa £26 i$s. $d.
Summa omnium allocationum et lib. £27 35. 6d.
10 o o
400
45
too o
3
6
3
6
40
4
8
4
8
33 4
IS o
1 In the next year (p. 76) we read Et in
denariis solutis dicto coquinario (Humfrey
Grafton) de parte oneris ejusdem pro alio ter-
mino quia non est primus ingressus . . . 15*.
And in the next (p. 154), Et in denariis
solutis eidem coquinario (Humfrey Grafton)
pro alio termino quia non est primus ingressus
. . . 15*.
And in the next (p. 220), Eidem coqui-
nario nomine primi ingressus . . . 15*-
MANOR OF BRADWAS. 45
Et sic ballivus excedit super compitum 4*. $d. quos recepit per
manus domini prioris. Et collector redditus debet super compitum
nj. n\d. ultra aper. quos solvit ad manus dicti domini prioris et sic
tarn predictus ballivus quam collector reddituum a compito predicto
recesserunt — quieti.
There is a marginal note here : —
£ s. d.
Remanet clare super compitum 9 10 loj
unde ad manus domini pro officio cellerarii 40 io£
et recepit per manus nuper cellerarii 7 10 o
APPENDIX II.
THE ADVENT ANTIPHONS.
OF the Advent antiphons 6 are mentioned in this year's accounts.
They are O Sapientia, O Adonai, O Radix Jesse, O Oriens,
O Emmanuel, and O Virgo Virginum. There is no mention of
the O Clavis David, or of the O Rex Gentium.
For the O Sapientia the prior gives to the magister Corn-
munis Cence for the convent 6s. 8d. For the O Adonai the pre-
centor gives ioj. to the pitancer, and 6s. 8d. to the convent (pro
jantaculo), 4?. to the prior, 3.?. lod. to the sub-prior, 3-r. lod. to
himself, and to each of the other monks (39) 2s. For the O Radix
Jesse the Coquinarius gives to the convent 6s. 8d. For the
O Oriens the Sacrist gives the same. For the O Emmanuel the
Elemosynarius gives to the convent 6s. 8d. ; and the Camerarius
gives to the magister Communis Cence for the convent 6s. 8d., to
the precentor 2s., and to each of the other monks (37) is. For
the O Virgo Virginum the Pitansarius gives to the prior 8s., to
the sub-prior 4$. 6d,, to the precentor 4^., and to each of the other
monks (39) 3-r. ; and he gives to the convent 6s. 8d, Also the
Coquinarius gives to the pitancer IQJ.
These antiphons were sung at magnificat in vespers in the
octave beginning Dec. 16. One may be given in full from Blunt's
" Annotated Book of Common Prayer," 4th S. in Advent.
O Sapientia qua; ex ore Altissimi prodisti attingens a fine
usque ad finem, fortiter suaviterque disponens omnia : veni ad
docendum nos viam prudentise.
Five of these antiphons were embodied in a Latin Hymn, Veni,
Veni, Emmanuel (Thesaurus Hymnologicus, Daniel, vol. ii. p. 336),
which is familiar in its English form as Hymn 49 in ' Hymns
Ancient and Modern.' Seven of them are given in ' Church
Hymns,' No. 74, ' O Wisdom who on earth below.'
It may be mentioned that in cellerarius roll (C. 105) of 11-12
Henry VII., he pays to the Prior and Convent £6 iqs. od. for the
O Clavis David : and in the Worcester Register the Magister
operum/aa'/ O Rex Gentium (p. 99 i>).
PLATE B.
To face p. 47.
i
V
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FACSIMILE OF A PAGE (fol. 41 A xi.) 12" x 8" OF PRIOR MORE'S 'JORNALE' (A.D. 1522).
Worcester Cathedral Library.
APPENDIX III.
THE PRIOR'S MITRE AND STAFF.
IT is worth while to print an extract from the Journal of
William More the Prior, which gives an exact account of this
new mitre. This ' Jornale ' or Diary is preserved in the Library
of Worcester Cathedral. It has not been published in extenso,
but was very largely used by Alderman Noake, and all subsequent
writers. Noake gives a copy, not quite correct, of the extract
given below.
The following is an exact copy of the entry on fol. 61. It is
for the year A.D. 1522 Ebdomada xi.
In the margin are the words, "The Charge of ye makyng of
ye New Myf by Will More prior y" xth day of December a° Dom.
millesimo quingentesimo vicesimo secundo."
Item to John Crancks goldsmith of London for al maner of stuff
belonging of ye new mytr with ye makyng of ye same as hit
apere by parcells foloyng.
£ s. d.
In primis for 5 grete stones 16 8
Item for 80 and 6 stones price 8d. a peece to y* fronte 57 4
Item for 21 stones sett in golde weyng di. unce (£ oz.) 13 4
Item for 40 medyll stones price 6d. a stone 20
Item for 75 smale stones price 4^. a stone to garnesshe 25
Item for 3 unces and a quarter of fyne peerll at £
the unce
Item for 3 unces of medull peerll at ids. ye unce 600
Item the selver warke weys in all 93 unces whiche is -v
with ye fassheon and all /
Item to the broderar 6 woks 12s. a day besyde mete 1
30 o
and dryncke
Item payd for lynnen cloth to coweche ytt over with "I
peril
Item for sylke to thred ye seid peril and steche ye \
peerll i unce and di. J
48 APPENDIX III.
s. d.
Item for yalow thred i
Item for Rybande of 4 d brede 2 yeards 8
Item for Reband. of 2 d brede a yearde 2
Item for rownde selke abowt ye bordure \\
Item for red selke to sow hytt with all di. groats •»
y6 unce /
Item for past 4
for a quarter of sarcenett to lyne hytt 14
Item for a case to the mytr of lether 4 o
Summa— £49 \$s. od. ye cost of ye mytr.
Summa 15^. 4</.
The following is the entry in Prior More's journal as to the
purchase of the pastoral staff.
Item payd to John Crancks goldsmyth of London for a roystaff
selver gylt weyng 115 unces ast $s. ye unce summa £28 i$s. Item
for a case to the same of lether — 3^. qi. Item for the lynnen fyne
cloth with the fronge for the same and ye makyng 5*. $d.
APPENDIX IV.
ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS IN THE CONVENTUAL
ESTABLISHMENT.
THERE is no direct evidence obtainable as to the number of
servants engaged in all the varied occupations that gathered round
a great establishment. It is known from the complaint made to
the lord Visitor a few years later by John Musard, one of the monks
(Noake, p. 199), that the Prior had 33 servants. There must have
been servants for the Church, the infirmary, the cellar, the kitchen,
the brewhouse, the bakehouse, the stables, the wood yard, cowsheds
and pigsties ; men engaged as artizans, butchers, fishermen, carriers,
carters, besides body servants, gardeners, porters, tailors, and others ;
and many of these doubtless received food in the monastery.
But we can form some indirect estimate from the amount of
wheat consumed as bread, and of barley consumed as beer.
The total quantity of wheat consumed in the establishment
in the year A.D. 1522 was 341 quarters I bushel. In the following
years it was 345 quarters 3 bushels, and 344 quarters 7 bushels.
Now Mr. Burden, of Worcester, informs me that i quarter of
wheat makes 372 Ibs. of flour, and 480 Ibs. of bread. This estimate
is exactly confirmed by Mr. Hughes, also of Worcester, and
both these gentlemen speak with knowledge The allowance of
bread to our soldiers is i Ib. a day. Ordinary household con-
sumption is somewhat less. But in households where bread is
the main article of diet it is more. From the very carefully
compiled tables of diet given in the " Report on Housing and In-
dustrial conditions in Dundee" (John Lang, Dundee, 1905), it
may be inferred that the consumption of bread in such house-
holds is on the average between 8 and 9 Ibs. a week per man, or
about i£ Ibs., and in some few instances largely exceeding this,
reaching even 2 Ibs. a day. Perhaps li Ibs. is a fair allowance,
or at the outside i£ Ibs. per man. Now the average consumption
E
50 APPENDIX IV.
is about 450 Ibs. a day ; and this indicates an establishment of
360 persons, or at least 300.
The estimate from the consumption of beer is more precarious.
It appears that 520 quarters of barley were used for brewing in
this year, and in the two subsequent years.
Now Mr. Spreckley, of Worcester, writes that in his opinion
"about 7,632 gallons of strong ale would be brewed from 100
quarters of malt in those days ; but if they brewed a weak ale as
was done for servants and labourers in country houses, double might
be made of it." The consumption of beer, therefore, was from 40,000
to 80,000 gallons a year, according to its strength, or from 1 10 to
220 gallons a day. Messrs. Allsopp's estimate is from 56,160 to
93,600 gallons per annum, or from 150 to 250 gallons a day. If we
assume that it was 'small beer," and that the consumption was
200 gallons a day, this would give to each member of the establish-
ment as above calculated from 2 to 2$ quarts a day. When we
remember that they drank no tea or coffee or mineral waters,
and that little mention is made of milk, this is not excessive.
We may conclude with some probability that the number of
persons fed in the monastery was from 300 to 350 at this period.
It will be interesting to compare this with a list of the Evesham
Community (A.D. 1086 — 1096) which has been preserved and
printed in " St. Egwin and his Abbey of Evesham," by the Bene-
dictine Convent of Stanbrook, Worcester, 1904. This list gives
the number of monks as 67, twelve of whom were in Denmark.
Besides these there were five nuns, three poor people, ' ad man-
datum,' and three clerics. All these received the same portions
as the monks themselves. There was a large number of servants,
63 in all; five for the church, two for the infirmary, two for the
cellar, five for the kitchen, seven for the bakehouse, four for the
brewing, six for the baths, two tailors, two orchard keepers, three
gardeners, one porter at the cloister gate, two at the great gate,
five in the vineyard, four to attend on the monks when they
went out, four fishermen, four servants for the abbot's rooms, three
in the hall, and lastly three watchmen, p. 7.
It is certain that the proportion of servants to monks had
considerably increased between the nth century and the i6th.
APPENDIX V.
LIST OF OFFICIALS.
IT may be interesting to give a list of the officers of the monas-
tery, constructed from these accounts, most of them receiving
salaries : —
The Prior.
The Sub-Prior.
Precentor.
Sub-Centor.
Sacrista.
Sub-Sacrista.
Cellarius.
Sub-Cellarius.
Infirmarius.
Clericus infirmarii.
Tumbarius.
Sub-Tumbarius.
Camerarius.
Sub-Camerarius.
Magister Communis Cenae.
Thesaurarius.
Lardererius.
Magister carnariae.
Pitansarius.
Elemosinarius.
Sub-elemosinarius.
Coquinarius.
Hostillarius.
Refectorarius.
Magister tabulae in refectorio.
Magister capellae.
Magister scholarum.
Magister operum.
Socii in choro.
Le dandry.
2 deyces.
Capellanus.
Auditor.
4 clerici ecclesie.
Capellanus prioris.
Custodes altarium.
Among other officials connected with the monastery and the
Prior's establishment who were probably not monks may be men-
tioned : —
An adviser in the law.
An attorney.
Collectors.
Bailiffs.
Custodes parcarum.
Gustos porcorum.
4 generosi prioris.
Valectus camerae prioris.
Valectus stabuli prioris.
Janitor portae prioratus.
Sub-janitor.
Famuli prioris.
52 APPENDIX V.
Gustos cimbe. Valectus Elemosinarii.
Gustos campanarum. Coquinarii.
Gustos cumbali et orilegii. Precentoris.
Pistor. Camerarii.
Pandoxator. Cellerarii.
Lixae coquinse. Sub-Cellerarii.
Tornebroche. Infirmarii.
Breviator. 2 valecti Hostillarii
Diversi servientes Pages.
Barbitonsor. Lotrices.
Seneschalli Pilliparus.
Coci. Syngyngmen.
Maundy men.
APPENDIX VI.
ACCOUNTS OF THE COQUINARIUS.
THE list of weekly expenses printed in the text, p. 35, recurs
in the same form in the accounts of three other years. The lists
are identical as regards the names given to the week, and all begin
with the I5th Sunday after Pentecost, though the day of the year
on which their Sunday fell must have varied. Moreover, they all
agree in omitting the i6th, i8th and igth Sundays after Pentecost;
and in inserting in their places the introits for the three days from
the Ember week in September. The Sundays are described by
the first word or words of the Introit of the day's mass, which is
usually taken from a Psalm. The 3 omitted Sundays are Miserere
mihi, Da pacem, and Salus populi.
It may assist in identifying the Sundays in the printed list
to add that Ad te levari is the first Sunday in Advent ; Puer Natus
is Christmas Day; Invocabit, the first Sunday in Lent; Resurrexi,
Easter Day, and Spiritus Domini, Pentecost.
Besides the abstract, or total for the week, the Coquinarius
appears to have submitted a roll giving details for every day in
the year. We have no such contemporary roll ; but it will be
interesting to see the following specimen weeks of a roll (C. 169),
which probably belongs to 13-14 Edward III. [A.D. 1340,1].
I acknowledge gratefully my obligations to Mr. I. H. Jeayes of
the Department of MSS. in the British Museum for revising and
correcting my transcript of this roll, and for adding some notes.
COQUINA— PER FRATREM JOHANNEM DE HODYN-
TONE COQUINARIUM WYGORN. ANNO XIII. ET
XIIII. INTRANT. (C. 169.)
SELECTIONS FROM THE CONVENTUAL DIETARY.
Dominica "adtelevavi." [ist Sunday in Advent.] 'j s. d.
In carne bovina 9*. &d. in 28 cass. IAS. in
... }• Summa 28
carne vit. et porcell. igd. in pisce msco 2s.
in aucis gd. in pulcinis
54
APPENDIX VI.
fferia secunda. In carne vit. et pore. 12 den. In
porcell. 6d. In 4 aucis I2d.
fferia tertia. In carne vit. et pore. \T\d. In
porcell. 6d. in aucis i$d.
fferia quarta. In allec. 5-y. In congre et leng
2s. In morurcal lod. In anguillis 2s. 6d.
In stocf. \2d. In pisce frisco 2s. in lacte 2d.
fferia quinta. In carne vit. et pork ijd. In por-
cell. I2d. In anguillis 2s.
fferia sexta. In congre frisco gs. In allec. 4*.
In congre et leng \2d. In stocf. 6d. In
pisce frisco $d.
Sabbato in allec. 4^. In congre et leng I2d. In
stocf. lod. In pisce frisco 15^., in anguillis
6d, In lacte *d.
Ova pro ebdomada 6s. "jd. Minut. lib. \6d. 2
s.
Summa 2
Summa 3
d.
6
Summa 13 6
Summa 4 5
Summa 14 9
Summa 7 9
Summa 7 n
Summa totalis pro ebdomada £4 2s. yd. et sic ultra certum
2s. jd. praeter 6 lamprenas de gurgite et 2 porcellos de porcheria,
causa tante expense3 in ista ebdomada quia multi magnates
comederunt cum domino priore feria quarta existentes in villa
pro ncgocio Domini Regis.
Dominica " invocabit." [ist Sunday in Lent]
In allec, 5.?. 6d. In tenches IQJ. In salmone
frisco i8d. In salmone salso 8d. In leng
et congre 2s. In Stocf. lod. In 13 lib.
amigdal. ig\d. In 9 lib. de ris lod. minut.
pro certo pisce 8d. In C. Lampern. <>d.
fferia secunda in allec. js. $d. In leng et congre
et hake 2s. In salmone frisco i8d. In
salmone salso I2d. 4In M. et C. Lamperns
2s. 6d. In stocf. lod. In pisce frisco i8d.
In amygdal. $d. In Ris id. Minut. 8d.
Summa 24
Summa 17 8
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minute liberation*!.
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fferia tertia. In allec. 4^. In leng congre et •
hake 2od. In salmone salso \2d. In salmone
frisco I2d. In stocf. lod. In 10 Ib. amigdal.
i$d. In 9 Ibs. de ris lod. Minut. pro
dupplic. pisce \6d. 1 In lamperns $d.
fferia quarta. In allec. 4^. In salmone frisco
I2s. Sd. In leng congr. et hake 2s. In stoc-
fish 8d. In pisce frisco I2d. In 9 lib. amigd.
i&d. In 8 Ibs. de ris gd. In salmone salso
I2d.
fferia quinta. In allec. 4*. $d. In salmone salso
I2d. In salmone frisco 6d. In leng congre
et hake 2s. In stocf. lod. In 10 Ibs. amigd.
i$d. In 8 lib. de ris gd.
fferia sexta. In allec. 45. 6d. In salmone frisco
14$. 4d. In leng congre et hake 2s. 6d.
In salmone salso I2d. In stocf. lod. In
9 lib. amygdal i^d. In ris $d. In pisce
frisco I2d.
Sabbato. In allec. 4^. In salmone frisco lod.
In salmone salso I2d. In leng congre et
hake 2s. 6d. In pisce frisco \2d. In 10 lib.
amygdal. i$d. In 8 lib. de ris gd.
Minut. liberal. i6d.
s. d.
Summa 12 4
Summa 23 2\
Summa 10 9
>• Summa 25
Summa n 4
Summa 16
Summa totalis pro ebdomada £6 6s. 2jd. et sic ultra certum
46s. 2\d. prseter pisces friscos de exitu gurgitis pretii 2s. 6d. et
praeter fructum nondum computatum causa tanti excessus prout
supra.
Dominica " Respice in me." [3rd Sunday after
Pentecost] In carne bovina frisca pro con-
ventu gs. 8^d. In carne bovina de lardario
45. 6d. In 13 cass. multonum 4s. io\d. In \ Summa 24
carne multonum frisca 4s. In 2 porcellis lod.
In carne vitulina 2s. $d. In aucis gd. In
pork 2d. In pulcinis 6\d. In lacte id.
' dupplic. pistt. Could this mean ' fish of doubtful kind ' ?
56 APPENDIX VI.
s. d.
fferia secunda. In carne vitulina 2s. $d. In 2 } gumma 2
porcellis jd. In pork 2d. In lacte id. }
fferia tertia. In carne vitulina 2s. In pork 2d. } gumma 2 g
In porcellis $d. In lacte i^. J
fferia quarta. In salmone icw. In congre et \
leng 2s. jd. In stocf. lod. In pisce frisco I Summa 14 u
\$d. In amygdalis $d. In fabis i</.
fferia quinta. In congre et leng gs. id. In ] „
/- ollITMTltl II Q
salmone 200. In stocf. loa. )
1 fferia sexta. In salmone frisco 13^. In congre "l
et leng 4^. gd. In stocf. 23^. In anguillis I Summa 21 i
i^d. In fabis et pisis $d.
Sabbato. In salmone i8d. In congre et leng ~|
3-r. ^d. In stocf. et makerel 5-r. 2d. In I Summa 10 9
pisce friso gd. }
Ova pro ebdomada Ss. gd. In vase pro mule2 ~| „
. , [ Summa 10 5
4«. Minute hberaciones ioa. )
Summa totalis pro ebdomada £4 i8s. iijd. et sic ultra
certum i8s. n^d. praeter pore, de lardario et M. D. (= 1500)
lampern de gurgite.
Dominica " Inclina." [isth Sunday after Pente-
cost.] In carne bovina i6s. In 16 cassis ,
multon. QS. In porcellis 6d. In pulcinis pro
ebdomada 2s, gd. In pork 6d.
fferia secunda. In carne vitulina et porcell. 8s. Summa 8 o
fferia tertia. In carne vitulina et porcell. \2\d. \ ,
T , . . J- bumma 2 8*
In lamperms 2oa. j
fferia quarta. In allec. 13^. In anguillis 5^. In "j
pisce frisco i^d. In congre mulewel et leng I Summa 9 i
i6d. In stocf. 6d.
fferia quinta. In carne porcell. 2d. In lamper- ) ,
nis Summa 22
1 There is a marginal note. Duo Justic. places quite plain, Mule is probably the
domini Regis comederunt cum domino fish elsewhere called milewel, a kind of cod,
priore isto die et alii magnates patrie. but why a vessel should be required in each
* This occurs frequently, and is in many case is doubtful.
ACCOUNTS OF THE COQUINARIUS.
fferia sexta. In allec. 3-r. 8d. In salmone 2s. In
congre et leng Zd. fn anguillis qd. In lam-
pernis $s. In pisce frisco et stocf. \$d.
Sabbato. In allec. $s. 2d. In congre mulewel et
leng i6d. In stocf. yd.
57
• Summa 12 9
Summa 7 I
Summa totalis pro ebdomada 703. 3d. et sic minus certo
9J. gd. praeter 9 porcellos de porcherie et 4 sticks anguillarum de
exitu gurgitis.
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APPENDIX VII.
A WINCHESTER ROLL.
OFFICIUM HORDARII.
MEMORANDUM quod ffrater J. de Merlawe recepit de officio
hordarii anno xxix° praeter £,\"j icw. $d. quos R. Clericus sibi
liberavit unde idem frater J. non oneratur ut patet alibi £325 los.
Summa £325 ws.
De qua quidem summa predictus ffrater J. computat expendisse
predicto anno xxix° £314 7s. A&d. et sic excedit recepta expensas
de £11 3^. $d. Unde item frater J. tenetur respondere domino
priori.
Item dictus ffrater J. recepit de officio hordarii anno xxxmo
£331 os. ig\d. unde expendit eodem anno xxxmo £280 Js. g\ ±d.
Et sic excedit recepta expensas £$o 13*. <)\d. unde tenetur respon-
dere domino priori.
Item dictus ffrater J. recepit de officio predicto anno xxxi°
£313 i8s. 4$d. de qua quidem summa computat expendisse eodem
xxxi° anno £286 IOJ. od. et sic excedit recepta expensas de
£27 i?s. 6±d. unde tenetur respondere domino priori.
Item dictus ffrater J. recepit de officio hordarii anno xxxii0
^332 7s- &\d- de qua quidem summa computat expendisse eodem
xxxii0 anno £284 13^. lod. et sic excedit recepta expensas de
£47 i$s. S^d. unde tenetur respondere domino priori.
Item dictus ffrater J. recepit de dicto officio hordarii anno xxxiii0
£308 14$. 9^ \d. de qua quidem summa computat expendisse
eodem xxxiii0 anno £284 IDJ. Sd. et sic excedit recepta expensas
de £24 4J. ij \d. unde tenetur respondere domino priori.
Item dictus ffrater J. recepit de officio hordarii anno xxxiiii'0
praeter 6os. quos R. Clericus sibi liberavit £293 ijs. o\d. de qua
quidem summa computat expendisse eodem xxxiiii10 anno £267
gs. yd. et sic excedit recepta expensas de £26 $s. $%d. unde tenetur
respondere domino priori.
Item dictus ffrater J. recepit de officio hordarii anno xxxvto
A WINCHESTER ROLL. 59
£284 Ss. 5i</. de qua quidem summa computat expendisse eodem
xxxvto anno ,£269 6s. 6d. et sic excedit recepta expensas de
£1$ os. 2T,\d. unde tenetur respondere domino priori.
Item dictus ffrater J. recepit de officio hordarii anno xxxvito
£289 15^. 3^ ±d. de qua quidem summa computat expendisse in
eodem xxxvito anno. £268 i$j. %\d. et sic excedit recepta expensas
de £20 iqs. "j\d. unde tenetur respondere domino priori.
On the back
Summa denariorum unde predictus ffrater J. non oneratur, et
de quibus respondere tenetur domino priori de proficuis acrescent-
ibus de officio hordarie pro 8 annis infra scriptis £223 i?s. ^d.
Item tenetur respondere domino priori de soluto per dominum
priorem pro inst&uratiorie emenda ad officium Camerarii instauran-
dum. De qua quidem summa predictus ffrater J. cepit allocationem.
Note. — The sum of the 8 balances, £11 3-r. $d. ... to
£20 igs. ^±d. is £223 \TS.
Dean Kitchin, to whom I sent this transcript, confirms my belief
that this is a Winchester Roll, which has somehow got into the
collection at Worcester. He writes, Oct. 31, 1907, "Apparently
the title of Hordarius is not known to have existed elsewhere than
at St. Swithun's, Winchester. If so it follows that this interesting
summary roll you have sent me was one of the Winchester series :
and it seems likely as (i) the date suits the Winchester Hordarian
J. Marlowe, or Merlowe, or Merlawe. For our J. Merlawe was
Receiver and Hordarius there from 1330. It was in his hands as
Receiver of the Prior till 1337. He was afterwards Prior himself.
(2) One of the figures of your MS. for anno xxx° answers exactly to
the Winchester Roll of 1 330. (See Obedientiary Rolls of St. Swithun's,
Winchester, Hampshire Record Society, by Dean Kitchin, p. 260).
Summa £331 os. igd. The other sums are about the same,
but not exactly so."
[It may be noted that the correct addition of the items on p. 260
60 APPENDIX VII.
gives the additional farthing, £331 OJ. 19^., and makes the agree-
ment of the two totals accurate.]
It is plain therefore that anno xxx° means A.D. 1330."
Another roll of rental and accounts of an estate at Thormond
has been found among our rolls. The roll is dated A.D. 1343,
the i6th year of Prior Alexander. It also is plainly a Winchester
roll.
The Dean and Chapter of Worcester have presented these rolls
to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester.
GLOSSARY.
THE numbers in square brackets in this Glossary refer to pages on which the word
occurs.
I have to thank the Very Rev. Dean Kitchin and Mr. John Amphlett for some re-
ferences and suggestions embodied in this Glossary.
Aequietancia — a quittance, receipt. [19, 22.]
Allec — also as alec, alecia, allecia, herring (plural). [34, note.]
Allocatio — allowance ; allocate, to place to an account, [a, 3, &c., 35.]
Amerciamentum — a fine. [22.]
Amery — aumbry, armaria, cupboard. [12.]
Amygdalum — almond. [54.]
Aryse — Arras. [27.]
Assist — the body of rules of a Court. [14, 17.]
Auca — goose. [3, 9, 12, &c.]
Bladum—coin; Fr. Ble. [7, 8, 12, &c.]
Brasium — brace or malt. [9, note, 36, note.]
Breviator — brief or letter writer, " qui brtvia conficiebant." [13, 18, 24, &c.]
Capcio — anything claimed. [43.]
Capistrum — perhaps bell rope, usually a halter. [38.]
Carniprivium — a season of fasting. [28, note.]
Cass. — perhaps cassus ; carcase of sheep; see Durham Account Rolls. [53.]
Cella — for sella, a saddle. [19, 34, 40.]
Cepum — also sebum, fat, tallow. [2, 13, 33, &c.]
Cera — sera, serura, a bolt or lock. [16, 40.]
Cera — wax. [12, 14, 37, &c.]
Cerium — wax candle. [15, 25.]
Ciphus — scyphus, cup. [32.]
Cirotheca — glove. [38.]
Cirpus — scirpus, a rush. [27.]
Columbaria — adj. from columbare, a dovecot. [29.]
Cordula — rope or string. [25, 38.]
Corodium — or corrodium, conredium, allowance of food, [n.]
Corrium — corium, leather. [19, 33.]
Corves — leather, cheaper than corium. [19.]
Cotagium — cottage with lands, [u.]
62 GLOSSARY.
Culcitra — bed or duvet. [27.]
Cuminium — cummin. [37.]
Custumarii — subject to custom. [6, note, 43.]
Dandry—zxi officer in the monastery. [31.]
Decassus — decasus (de casu) out of repair, [n.]
Deliberare — to deliver, hand over [5, 7, 9, 1 5.]
r an officer in the monastery. [3 1 .1
Dcvcc— \
\ See Rites of Durham (Surtees, 1903), p. 275.
Dominicalis — belonging to the demesne. [42, 43.]
Dyquer — a half quire or bundle. [19.]
Exhennium — a present. [26, note, 33.]
Fardynge— oblations for clergy. [23, note, 33, 36.]
Fenum — hay. [19-]
( a bier for carrying the shrine. [37.]
Feratrum — \ ,
I See Rites of Durham (Surtees, 1903), p. 323.
Feodum — fee, fief. [17, 37, 38.]
Ferina — venison or game. [29-]
Findula — perhaps for sindula, scindula, shingles, or possibly from findere,
to cleave. [16, 40.]
Flamma — fat flammeum, flammeolum, veil. [38.]
Flotte—flotamen, grease. [33.]
Focak— fuel. [15, 18, &c.]
Furfur — bran. [4.]
Fyrretts — ferrets, [i.]
Garba — sheaf. [42, 43.]
Gardianus — warden. [21.]
Generosus — gentleman. [8.]
Grangie — a monastic grange or farm. [42.]
Gurges — whirlpool or fishing pool, usually below sluice or weir. [55.]
Heriettum — a heriott, or payment to the lord on the death of a tenant.
[4, 10.]
Indecassus — indccasus, out of repair, [n, 13, 22.]
Janlaculum — breakfast (feminine). [3, 12, 15, 24, 25.]
Latami, lathomi, (from Greek) masons. [8, 40.]
Liberare — to hand over, deliver. [7, 42.]
GLOSSARY. 63
Lichinum — a wick. [25, 30, 38.]
Linthiamen — a sheet. [27.]
Manitergium— towel. [30, note.]
Mappa— napkin, tablecloth. [19, 30, note.]
Meremium — building material. [16, 22, 40.]
Minutio— bloodletting. [21.]
Misa — expense. [13, 16, &c.]
Molatio — grinding. [12.]
Morurca — morufa, codfish. [54.]
Multo — a sheep or wether. [55.]
Multura— payment for grinding corn. [6, note.]
Mulwel— melwel, a sort of cod. [56.]
Ocrei— gaiters. [19.]
Ordium — hordeum, barley. [5, 8, 42.]
Orrium, horrtum, a barn. [6, 8, 9.]
Pandox, pandoxator— a seller of beer. [4, note, 34.]
Parcellx — details of an account, [i, 21.]
Passionistri— singers of the Passion gospels. [24, note, 33.]
Pensio— an allowance, or a fixed charge on a benefice, [i, 10, 18.]
Pilliparus — pelliparm, currier or tanner. [17.]
Pistacio— baking. [12.]
Pixis — reliquary or money-box. [25, 37.]
Puldnus — chicken. [53.]
Purpestura—purprestura, encroachment. [10, note.]
Quadragesima — Lent, Fr. careme. [2.]
Quer — quire, bundle. [19.]
Quietus— quit, with no debt. [5.]
Rastyr—rasura, rastura, shaving. [32.]
Jtegardum—a. gratuity. [2, 13.]
Scroicia — cerevisia, beer. [9, 14.]
Senymoney— money for bloodletting (saigner). [21.]
SiHgo—rye, or fine wheat. [7, note, 8, 42.]
Sotularii— slippers. [15, note.]
Species— grocery, specially spices. [2, 12, &c.]
Stamen, staminum, woollen cloth, including linsey wolsey (Rites of Durham,
p. 282). [19, note.]
64 GLOSSARY.
Tabellio — notary or secretary. [38.]
Tallium — tally, voucher. [42, 43.]
Tcgula — tiles or shingles. [8, 16, 22, 40.]
Tornebroche — turnspit. [34.]
Tucetum— sausage or haggis. [34.]
Vadium, vadta, vail or pledge; hence fixed payments as wages or salary. [37.]
Veslura — either dress, or growth, crop, [i, 2.]
Vinum amarum — vinegar. [2.]
Viridus succtts — verjuice. [32.]
Wertlyvereys— livery. [8, note, 33.]
Zabulum — sand, Fr. sable, [i 6, 22, 40.]
INDEX.
Names occurring more than once in a page are indexed only once.
Variations in spelling are for the most part disregarded.
" De " is usually left out.
Account Rolls, Catalogue, xi
Achard, William, 23
Advent Antiphons, 46
Alcock, John, Bishop, xxxv,
M
Alderton, Thomas, xv
Alflete, Margaret, xxxii
Alston, xxxiii, xlii, 42
Altars in the Cathedral, xlii
Alvechurch, Robert, xxiv,
xxxvii, 6, 26, 36
Aly, Richard, 7
Angelus, Hospice of, 37
Ankerdine, xxxv, 13
Anniversarius, Rolls, xi
Antiphons, Advent, 46
Apprice, Griffin, 16
Archard, the, 33
Arthur, Prince, 14
Assizes, dinner to Judges, 56
Astley, Thomas
Aylysbury, Robert, xxiv
B
Balsale, 22
Banham's Vyne, 29
Barbour, John, 32 ; Wil-
liam, 31, 34
Bargate, 22
Battenhall, xxxi, 3 ; parts
of, 34
Beauchamp, Lord, 10
Beicarius Rolls, xi
Berrowe, 13 ; John, xxxviii,
32
Bird, John, 16
Birdport, 16
Bishampton, John, xxi, xxiv
Black well, 42
Blackwell, Thomas, xii, xxi
Bloyse, William, 37
Bluett, Edward, 17
Bonhamstede, xxxii
Bordesley, Abbot of, xi, 37
Borne, Walter, 12
Botyll's tenement, 16
Boyse, Daniel, xxxv, 15, 25,
38,39
Bristol, 27
Broadwas, 6, 7, 8, 23, 42 ;
manor of, 41
Brocton, Thomas, xv, xxii
Broke, Philip, xxv
Broughton, William, xv, xix,
XX
Bruerton, Master, 6
Brunford, Henry, xxx
Burden, Mr., 49
Burfield, Richard, 23, 34
Burley, Henry, 14
Bybery, pension of, 33
Byrkyn, Richard, 34
Calais, xxxiii
Calaman, Richard, 17
Camerarius, office of, xxxvi ;
Rolls, xi, 17
Capelle Magister, office of,
xxxv ; Rolls, xix, 14
Cardinal's Hat, the, xxx
Carter, Thomas, xxx, xxxiv,
II
Castylle, Richard, 28
Cellerarius, office of, xxxiii ;
Rolls, xii, xxiv, 3
Chapter House, 29
Charlton, 7 ; Warren at, 2
Charnel House, xl
Chester, Henry, xvi, xxv
Chylde, Richard, xxxi
Claines, 4, 36
Clanefield, Nicholas, xiv, xx
Cleeve, 10, 42 ; Richard,
28 ; Robert, xviii
Clifford, Richard, xvi
Clifton, John, xi, xv ; Wil-
liam, xx
Clyve, John, xiii, xviii, xxii,
xxiv j William, xiv, xx
Cokyn Strete, 10
Collewelle, Thomas, xii, xiii,
xv, xvi, xvii, xix, xxi
Colmore, 3
Colys, Richard, xxv
Communis Cenoe, Magister,
office of, xxxviii
Conderton, 10
Conventual Establishment,
49
Coquinarius, office of, xxxix ;
Rolls, xiv, 32, S3
Corbet, John, xi
Cotheridge, lord of, 14, 15
Coulsdon, John, xv
Cowarn, Richard, xv, xviii,
xxi
Crancks, John, 47, 48
Crewey, William, xi
Crike, John, 22
Cripplegate, 22
Croft, William, xxi
Crompe, Simon, xx
Cromwell, Thomas, xxxiii
Cropthorn, I, 42 ; church,
xii; Richard, xxi; Tho-
mas, xvi, xviii ; William,
xix
Crowle, xxxi, xxxiii, 41 ;
John, 32
Cutsdean, xxxvi, ij, 18;
court of, 19
Dedicote, Humfrey, 21, 23
Dee, John, 44
Dene, Thomas, xi, xiii, xvii,
xix ; William, xx
Dersynton, Richard, xiv
Diglis, xxx
Documents of the Dean and
Chapter, iii
Doddenham, 14
Dodderhill, 4 ; church
house of, 2
Doddingtree, Hundred of,
44
Dodynge, Humphrey, 44
Dudeley, xxxi ; meadow at,
20
Dudley, John, xix, 10 ; Ri-
chard, xv, xviii, xix
Dydeley, xxx, I, 21 ; pasture
of, 37
Dyngley, William, 2
Dysse, William, 39
66
INDEX.
Edgar Tower, 29
Elemosinarius, office of,
xxxiv ; Rolls, xvi, 9
Elyngham, John, xix
Establishment, the Convent-
ual, 49
Evesham, John, xxm, xxiv,
II ; Roger, xviii, xxiv
Eyeport, 21
Eymore, 8, 42
Feckenham, 16 ; bridge
near, xli; forest of, 19
Ford, William, 3, 8, 29, 44
Fordam, John, xvii ; Wil-
liam, xxxviii
Foregate Street, 14, 26
Fraunces, Walter, xii, xxiii
Freyser, John, 34
Frog Mill Lane, n
Froucester, Walter, xiv, xxv
Garndeslegh, Thomas, xii
Gasquet, Abbot, 14, 32
George, John, xxiii
Gigliis, Sylvester de, xxiv
Gilbert, xi
Gloucester, Archdeacon of,
38; Archdeaconateof, 36;
officials of, 38 ; John, xi,
xvi, xviii, xx, xxv
Godeyer, Richard, 3
Gosethorn Lane, 1 1
Gower, Arnolph, 23
Grafton, Humphrey, xii, xvi,
xviii, 32, 44
Grene, John, xviii; Thomas,
32, 44
Grimley, xxxiii, 6, 7, 8, 9,
41 ; church house of, 2 ;
Thomas, xxxvi, 40
Guesten Hall, xxxiv
H
Hallow, xxxi, 8, 41 ; church
house of, 2 ; park of, 8 ;
Richard, 32
Halys, John, xviii, xxiv
Hambury, John, xiii ; Ro-
bert, xi, xvi, xvii
Hanley, John, xxi
Hardwyke, 41 ; John, xx,
xxii
Hartlebury, Clement, xxxvi,
xxxvii, xxxviii, 26; John,
xxiii ; Thomas, xv, xviii ;
William, xvii
Harvington, 8, 41
Henkseye, Richard, xxii,
xxv
Henwick, xxxi ; Warren of,
8
Here, Thomas, 34
Hereford, Diocese of, I
Herforton, see Harvington
Hatfield, John, xvii, xviii,
xxii
High Street, Worcester, xli
Hillhampton, 4, 30
Himbleton, xxxiii, 6, 8, 41 ;
church of, 31 ; tithes of,
3'
Hinkley, William, xxi
Hodynton, John, xiv, xvi,
53 ; Nicholas, xiv ; Wil-
liam, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi,
xvii, 9
Holdford's Inn, xxx
Hoper, Thomas, 8
Horborne, John, 6, 7, 9
Home, Christina, 22
Hostillarius, office of,
xxxvii ; Rolls, xviii
Hughes, Mr., 49
Hurbrugge, Thomas, xxxviii
Hylton Street, 15, 20
Iccombe, xxx, xxxii, xxxiv,
10, 13
Infirmarius, office of, xxxix ;
Rolls, xviii, 30
Inteberg, Hugh, xii
Jeayes, Mr. I. H., xliii, 53
{obson's tenement, 16
udges of Assize, dinner to,
K
Kidderminster, John, xxiii
Kingelt, Thomas, 34
Kingsland, Roger, xiv
Kingstone, Roger, xii, xiv,
xxvi
Kitchin, Dean, 59
Knightsford Bridge, xli
Knoll End, 10
Knowle, the, Worcester,
xxxvii
Kynnard, Richard, 44
Kyrkeby, Walter, xviii
Lady Chapel, the, xxxv
Langley, John, xxi
Langston, William, 7
Laughern Mill, 10
Lawerne, Henry, xxii ; John,
xvii ; Robert, xxi
Ledbury, Edmund, xxiii ;
Isaac, xiv
Legg, Dr. Wickham, xl
Leinenstre, John, xxii
Leinstyr, William, 30
Lewes, Master, xl, 37
Leye, John, xx, xxii
Lodelow, William, xx
London, xxxii, xxxiii, 5, 22,
47, 48 ; W., xi
Loxley, 17
Lychfield, John, xii, xvii
Lye, Walter, 1 8
Lylleshull, Thomas, xxi,
xxiii
Lylsyll, William, xxiii
Lynfylle, William, 23
Lynsey, John, xvii, xviii ;
Richard, xxxv
Lynsyll, William, xxxvi
Lyttelton, Sir Thomas,
xxxviii, 12, 28
M
Malton, Robert, xiv
Malverne, John, xi, xviii,
xx, xxii ; Prior of Little,
xiii
McCIure, Rev. E., I
Medici, Julius de', xxiv
Merlaw, J., 58, 59
Merston, William, xv, xxi,
xxv, xxvi
Middlemore, John, 17
Milborne, Simon, 10
Mildenham Mill, xxv, xxxi ;
Thomas, xxiii
Minsterworth, Roger, xvi
Mitre and staff, Prior's, 47
Mollens, William, xxxiv, n
Molton, John, 14, 42 ; Ro-
bert, xxxiv, 11, 12, 25
Monday, Nicholas, 14
Monkwood, 8
Monmouth, John of, I
Moor, see More
More, 9, 10, 23, 41
More, Prior, xxvii, xxix, 2,
39
More, Thomas, xi, xii, xxiv,
xxvi ; William, xvi, xxiv,
xxxii, I, 32, 47, 48
Mores, Thomas, 34
Morton, John, xii, xv, xviii,
xxv ; Richard, xxv ; Ro-
bert, xiv, xx
Muchelney, John, xvi
Multon, Robert, xvii, xxiii
Musard, John, 49 ; Thomas,
xvii, xxiii
Mynston, Richard, xxiii
INDEX.
67
N
Neale, Arthur, xxvii
Netherton, 41
Newdyke, Robert, 13, V)
Newenham, 10, 41
Newes, Thomas, 38
Newlands, 37
Newport, Worcester, xxxi
Newton, John, xxiii
Newtown, John, xvii, xxii
Noake, Alderman, 47
North Piddle, 37
Norton, Thomas, xv
Noxon, John, 43
Noxton, John, 43
Officials of the Priory, xxvii,
51
Ombersley, 36
Overbury, 7, 9, 42
Owen, Richard, xv
Owston, William, xiii, xv,
xix, xxi
Oxford, scholars at, 17, 33,
37
Parsons, William, 7
Passionistri, xxxvii
Peopleton, 4
Perrott, John, 38
Persones, Richard, xi
Peynter alias Smyth, Wil-
liam, 36
Peyto, William, xxv
Phepston, 36
Piddle, North, 37
Pitanciarius, office of, xxxvi ;
Rolls, xx, 20
Plymer, Thomas, 38, 40
Potkyn, William, 38
Power, William, xi, xiii, xxii
Precentor, office of, xxxvi ;
Rolls, xxii, 23
Preston, John, xiv
Prices of commodities, xli
Prior, headsilver, 17; his
mitre and staff, 47 ; office
of, xxxii ; Rolls of the,
xxiii, i
Priory pigeon cote, xxxi
Procter, Roger, xi
R. the cleric, 58
Rackham, Rev. R. R., xliii
Radwyke, 38
Redyng, John, xi
Refectorarius, office of,
xxxvui ; Rolls, xxiv, 29
Roberts, John, 10, 13
Robinson, Dr. J. Armitage,
xliii
Rochester, see of, 14
Roddeley, Thomas, xiv
Rottenrewe, 22
Rudgale, John, 7, 9 ; Mas-
ter, 20; William, 38
Rusby, xxx
Ruyding, Thomas, xv, xviii,
xxv
S. Andrew, parish, 16
S. Cecilia, altar of, 12
S. Clement, xxxvii, xli ;
parish of, 22, 25
S. Edmund, altar of, 12
S. George, chapel of, xxxviii,
28
S. John, church of, 21 ;
parish of, 22, 36, 37, 41
S. John Baptist, altar of,
12 ; chapel of, 12
S. Kenelm, feast of, 18
S. Mary, chapel of, 14
S. Michael, church of, 25 ;
rector of, 38
S. Oswald, corrody of, n ;
Preceptor of, xiii
S. Peter, vicar of, 3
S. Swithin, parish of, 22 ;
at Winchester, 59
S. Wolstan, corrody of, 1 1 ;
pix of, 25
SS. Oswald and Wolstan,
tomb, 25
Sacrista, office of, xl ; Rolls,
xxiv, 36
Savage, John, xxiv
Sawyer, James, 15
Scolarum, Magister, Rolls,
xviii
Sedgeberrow, 7, 41
Senar, John, xxi
Shipston, 42
Shrewsbury, Roger, xxii
Singer, Richard, 16; Wil-
liam, 15
Smethwick, John, xii, xiv,
xv, xx, xxi
Smyth, George, 22; John,
17 ; Thomas, 18, 38
Smyth alias Peynter, Wil-
liam, 36
Sodbury, church of, 38
Spellisbury, Richard, 34
Spreckley, Mr., 50
Stafford, Thomas, xxv
Stanbrook, Convent of, 50
Stanes, Robert, xxi, xxii
Stanford, Roger, 24
Staple, John, 7
Staunton, Henry, xxxi
Stede, John, 20
Sters Meadow, 10
Stillfield, Richard, 23
Stodeley, John, xxiii
Stoke, xxxvi, I, 17, 18 ;
chancel of, 19 ; church of,
xl, 17 ; tenants of, 20
Stokton, Thomas, xix
Stokynge, Whittington, u
Stokys, John, xxii
Stourbridge, 34
Stratford, John, xiv, xvi,
xvii, xx
Strensham, lord of, 28
Thomas, xii
Styvynton, Roger, xii
Subcellerarius, office of,
xxxiv ; Rolls, xxv, 6
Sudbury, 21 j John, xiv, xv,
xvii, xxiii, xxvi ; Thomas,
6 ; Street, xxx
Swinnerton, Humfrey, 22
Taylor, John, 17, 21
Teddington, xxxiii, xiii, 41
Temple Lawarn, 21 ; lord
of, 37
Tendbury, John, xxii
Tewkesbury, John, xxv
Thomas, Cardinal and Arch-
bishop, 5
Thormond, 60
Tibberton, 41 ; church of,
24, 31 ; church house of, 2
Tovy, Roger, 42
Trivel, I
Troubrugge, John, xxv
Tumbarius, office of, xxxvii ;
Rolls, xxv, 24
Tyburton, Richard, xii, xiii,
xxiv
Tyler, Godfrey, 15
Upton, John, xxv; Richard,
xvi, xviii, xxv
Vallia, 36
W
Walker, John, 43
Washbourne, John, xxxv
Webley, Humphrey, xli ;
John, xxi
Weddesbury, John, xxiv
Welles, Richard, xx
Wellys, Henry, 16 ; Robert,
'3
Wenlock, Richard, xiii, xiv,
xx, xxi ; Thomas, 5, 44
68
Weston, Robert, xii, xiii
Whitcchurch, John, xix
Whittington, II
Wiche, Thomas, xxiv
Winchcombe, abbot of,
XXXV
Winchester, 14 ; Dean and
Chapter of, 60 ; Rolls, 58,
60
Woddylle, Richard, II
INDEX.
Wodwalls Furlong, 10
Wolstan, 8
Wolverley, 42
Woodstaff Street, 15, 16
Worcester, Archdeacon of,
38; Bishop of, xi, 14, 17,
20, 37 ; City of, 2, 10, 13,
15, 25, 32, 36 ; Dean and
Chapter of, 60 ; Priory of,
41 ; streets in, xli ; John,
xii, xix, xxix ; William,
xxiii
Wybbe, William, xxx
Wyche, William, xxxviii,32
Wye, Robert, xxxv
Wyke, John, xii ; Thomas,
xxi
Wyllys, John, 25
Wynforton, Walter, xiii
Wytteneye, John, xxi, xxv
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