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Semel in anno videlicet in die sancti Michaelis de manerio nostro, grangiis, officinis, et camera communiter inscriptis et per tallias computare solemus. Set quia illa die semper nobis non vacat incipere et cum tot et tanta una die nullatenus possent totaliter expediri, cito postea quando vacat incipimus computare, et interpolatim vel continue usque dum perfecerimus, prosequimur illud idem. Ita tamen quod semper in dicto compoto ilium statum recitamus in quo in die sancti Michaelis tunc proximo preterito fueramus, quia in die dicte festivitatis novas receptiones et novas expensas facere incipimus anni cuiuslibet circulo revoluto. Ille vero custos vel officialis qui compotum suum cicius preparaverit, cicius poterit computare, monachus tarnen camere post omnes alios computabit. Qui eciam monachus camere quater in anno, videlicet in Natali Domini, Pascha, Nativitate beati Johannis Baptiste, et in dicto festo sancti Michaelis antequam generaliter computet, abbati vel cui iusserit ipse, statum suum computando demonstrabit. Et sciendum quod duas cameras habemus preter illam de qua modo facimus mencionem. Unam videlicet in manerio de Farend' cuius curam habet socius custodis dicti manerii, et in omnibus habet modum et formam camere abbatie, excepto quod nullam facit remanentiam, sicut facit dicta camera abbatie, set quicquid recipit, solet camere abbatie liberare; illud vero quod ei debetur, arreragium dicitur, et antequam aliam liberacionem faciat dicte camere, dictum arreragium eidem camere liberat infra annum. Reliqua vero camera, tercia scilicet, ad differentiam maioris camere minor camera nuncupatur. Cuius notitiam qui scire desiderat, in eiusdem compoti titulo earn plene poterit indagare.

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1 Printed in N. Denholm-Young, Seignorial Administration in England (London, 1937), App. III; reprinted here with certain emendations from the MS.

page 46 note a MS. preteriti.

page 46 note b MS. beate.

page 48 note 2 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; see B.C., no. 30 and account No. 41.

page 52 note 1 For forinsecum, see the last paragraph and especially the last sentence of 1.

page 53 note 2 Perhaps from Bougie (today Bejaia) in Algeria, a major port in the late Middle Ages, since alexandrini must be from Alexandria.

page 55 note a MS. .xxij. li., probably a slip here, but causing an error in the sum total.

page 55 note b recte £10 19s. 11½d.

page 55 note 3 Infrequent word for bread of fine quality (cf. Medieval Archives of the University of Oxford, ed. Salter, H. E. (Oxford Hist. Soc., 2 vols., 19171919), ii, p. 132Google Scholar). It probably represents the French words clair matin; but could it mean that panis clermatin was the quality of bread given to the clerici matinales?

page 55 note 1 Wadley, now a large house just over 1 mile N.E. of Faringdon.

page 56 note c MS. lxviij.qu.; see Exitus, fabe.

page 56 note d recte £13s.d.

page 56 note e recte 13s.d.

page 56 note f recte 13s.d.

page 56 note g recte £66 14s. 4d.

page 57 note h recte £86 11s. 11d. (i.e. as always, adding the sub-totals of the MS.).

page 57 note i grangie: Frumentum, both erased, but not replaced by decime.

page 57 note j recte 64qu.5b.

page 57 note k Omission of in semine etc. Barley sold might explain the gap of £4 4s. in the Bladum venditum.

page 58 note a pralum de Rodehey, repeated in the margin in a much later hand.

page 58 note 2 Named in B.C., nos. 289, 290, 292 and 293, under dates 1260, 1261 and 1262.

page 58 note 1 Shilton lies just S. of Burford and well to the N. of Faringdon. Some of its buildings survive (see Introduction).

page 59 note 2 The consuetudines stated that 14 tenants were to pay 4s. 8d.

page 59 note 3 All the names in this section occur in Cons. Bodl., fo. 67r.

page 60 note b s interlined.

page 60 note c recte £4 5s.d.

page 60 note d recte 36s.d.

page 60 note e recte £11 13s.d.

page 60 note 4 Shilton had been appropriated to Beaulieu in Feb. 1232 (Cal. Papal Let., i, p. 129).Google Scholar

page 61 note f recte 109qu.2b.

page 61 note g B.L. manuscript begins at this point; variants in B.L. are noted henceforward.

page 61 note h B.L. supramixtis de dragio.

page 61 note 5 This seems to have been a meal to celebrate the end of hay-making and the opening of the meadows; it occurs also in Cons. Bodl., fo. 70v (cf. Neilson, N., Customary Rents (Oxford, 1910), p. 56).Google Scholar

page 62 note i MS. verre; B.L. verro.

page 63 note j B.L. parcharie.

page 63 note a B.L. omits compotum.

page 63 note 1 Across the Thames from Great Faringdon, just N. of Lechlade. For Beaulieu's standing in Langford, see Barrow, G. W. S., Feudal Britain (London, 1956), pp. 338–41.Google Scholar

page 63 note 2 Robert Acke held a water and a fulling-mill, rendering 40s. (Cons. Bodl., fo. 70v).

page 64 note b B.L. quietancie.

page 64 note c B.L. quietancie.

page 64 note d B.L. adds manerii.

page 64 note e B.L. recognicione hominum.

page 64 note 3 William Sewale of Langford; Ralph Bernard of Langford; widow Partrich of Little Faringdon (Cons. Bodl., fo. 70r).

page 65 note f B.L. perquisicionibus.

page 65 note g recte 7s. 3d.

page 65 note h B.L. ventilacione.

page 65 note 4 Widow Maynard of Little Faringdon (Cons. Bodl., fo. 70r).

page 65 note 5 Cons. Bodl., fo. 70v; see also Barrow, G. W. S., The Kingdom of the Scots (London, 1973), p. 15.Google Scholar

page 66 note i B.L. repeats the amount.

page 66 note j camere interlined; omitted by B.L.

page 66 note k B.L., fo. 3v ends here, when two folios are missing

page 68 note a totum inserted.

page 68 note 1 Inglesham and Upper Inglesham (Wilts.) just S. of Lechlade, at the extreme N.W. angle of Wiltshire, near the point where the Key and the Cole enter the Thames. The church is remote from the village.

page 68 note 2 Nicholas the chaplain held a house, orchard and croft, rendering 5s. (Cons. Bodl., fo. 73r).

page 68 note 3 Lechlade (Glos.), lying between Little Faringdon and Inglesham. Colle piscator held the fishery, rendering 5s. (Cons. Bodl., fo. 73r).

page 69 note b in inserted.

page 69 note c recte

page 69 note 4 Cons. Bodl., fo. 72v.

page 70 note d recte 31s. 6d.

page 70 note e MS. omits s; recte 60s. 5d.

page 70 note 5 The duty of the abbey to repair the chancel; Inglesham had been appropriated to Beaulieu with Shilton in 1232.

page 72 note f MS. remanente.

page 73 note 1 ‘Kennelweremulle’, in the manor of Wyke, which is within the lordship of Great Faringdon (Cal. Inquis. Misc., vi, p. 473Google Scholar). An enquiry of 1260 stated that Kindelwere was in Berkshire (Bodl., fo. 51v).

page 74 note 2 Faggots: may be connected with ‘bung’ in their function of blocking the mill-stream.

page 74 note 3 Radcot, a distinct township in Langford, Oxfordshire.

page 75 note a Yet not included in Bladum venditum above.

page 75 note 1 In Faringdon there was a Ridon Hill in 1551.

page 76 note a recte 56s.d.

page 76 note b Liberacio absent here and also in the account of the camera of Faringdon (13). If paid, it should have been 54s. 10d.

page 76 note a B.L. custos de Wike.

page 76 note b B.L. omits in autumpno.

page 76 note c B.L. exitus manerii.

page 76 note 1 Every parish in this part of Berkshire has a lost or a surviving place of this name, since wica = meadow or dairy farm. Dissolution documents place ‘Wike’ in Berkshire, probably close to Westbrook, Faringdon.

page 77 note d MS. verre.

page 77 note e B.L. bovis warda per annum de forvenge.

page 77 note f B.L. fabri per annum pro ferrura equarum.

page 78 note g B.L. pundfaldo.

page 78 note h B.L. omits et reparandis.

page 78 note i MS. grangie deleted; B.L. famulorum grangie.

page 78 note 2 This must mean ‘to saw’, but the word is rare.

page 79 note j B.L. inverts these last two items.

page 79 note k This figure, altered clumsily to £6 13s.4d. in Bodl., is clear in B.L., and is the figure required by the sum total. For omnibus B.L. reads minutis.

page 79 note l B.L. omits camere.

page 79 note m B.L. adds grangie.

page 79 note n B.L. per annum.

page 79 note o B.L. Basilie.

page 79 note p B.L. adds grangie.

page 79 note q B.L. Basel'.

page 79 note 3 Named in B.C., nos. 289, 290, 292 and 293 (Geole).

page 80 note r B.L. adds grangie.

page 80 note s B.L. pantarii Wymarc et Basilie.

page 80 note t B.L. adds grangie.

page 80 note u B.L. exitu grangie.

page 80 note v B.L. adds grangie.

page 81 note w B.L. adds grangie.

page 81 note x .iij.qu. interlined.

page 81 note y recte 3qu.

page 82 note z B.L. porcharie.

page 83 note aa B.L. adds casei.

page 83 note bb B.L. adds butiri.

page 83 note cc B.L. expensis domus.

page 83 note dd B.L. hoc anno.

page 83 note ee B.L. hoc anno

page 84 note a B.L. anno predicto coram predictis.

page 84 note b B.L. omits camere.

page 84 note c B.L. Scoth.

page 84 note d B.L. omits defectus.

page 84 note e B.L. inserts manerii.

page 84 note f B.L. inverts the last two items.

page 84 note g B.L. venditis cum latronibus.

page 84 note h B.L. omits suspensi.

page 84 note i B.L. here twice reads nundinarum for in nundinis.

page 84 note 1 Great Faringdon had always been a trading centre. It stood at an important road crossing.

page 85 note j B.L. Netelcumbe.

page 85 note k B.L. omits .vj.d. which is required for the total.

page 85 note l B.L. Gaunnefeld.

page 85 note m B.L. expensa necessaria. This fluctuation appears also for recepta and recepte and for arreragia etc., no doubt affecting also the transcription.

page 85 note n B.L. altered to .vj.d., yet reaches the same total as Bodl.

page 85 note o Erasure follows ballivi, where B.L. reads regis.

page 85 note p MS. .ix.d.ob.; B.L. .x.d.ob. correctly.

page 86 note q B.L. eadem dotted under, with the amount repeated.

page 86 note r B.L. Rampayn'.

page 86 note s B.L. hoc anno.

page 86 note t B.L. hoc anno.

page 86 note u Bodl. and B.L. both here sell 2,207 horse-nails, but in Exitus both sell only 1,207.

page 86 note 2 Toll of a dish of salt for every cartload sold, or even carted, through the town (Cons. Bodl., fo. 80v).

page 86 note 3 Most probably this person is Basilia, but the spellings vary.

page 86 note 4 The two separate pounds of cumin appear in Cons. Bodl., fo, 79r.

page 86 note 5 Toll of one horse-shoe for each day at the market (Cons. Bodl., fo. 80v).

page 86 note 6 Toll of six nails for each day, whether carried by horse or on the human back (Cons. Bodl., fo. 80v).

page 87 note a B.L. Westebroke.

page 87 note b camere interlined; B.L. omits.

page 87 note c decenna written over an erasure.

page 87 note d B.L. adds manerii.

page 87 note e B.L. repeats the total.

page 87 note 1 Westbrook, in Faringdon itself, where the brook now runs underground.

page 87 note 2 The whole tithing pays marsh-gavel, ½ mark yearly, i.e. 1½d. per virgate (Cons. Bodl., fo. 83r).

page 87 note 3 Cons. Bodl., fo. 82v.

page 88 note f B.L. omits necessaria.

page 88 note g B.L. repeats the total.

page 88 note h camere interlined; B.L. omits.

page 88 note a B.L. anno predicto coram predictis.

page 88 note b camere interlined; B.L. omits.

page 88 note c B.L. assiso Parve Cok'.

page 88 note 4 Cons. Bodl., fo. 82r.

page 88 note 1 Great Coxwell lies just S.W. of Faringdon, Little Coxwell just to the E. of Great Coxwell. The grange was probably on the site of Court House Farm (V.C.H., Berks., iv, p. 487Google Scholar). The famous barn stands at the northern end of Great Coxwell, about a mile from Little Coxwell. The chapel of Coxwell had been included in the appropriation of Shilton and Inglesham.

page 89 note d B.L. Burnemede.

page 89 note e B.L. repeats the sum.

page 89 note d B.L. porcis et i verro venditis.

page 89 note g B.L. forvenge.

page 89 note 2 The whole villata paid 35. for pasture on Thornhulle and every other year 5s. for Bernemede, both in Little Coxwell (Cons. Bodl., fo. 86v).

page 89 note 3 Widow Gunilda held 1 virgate and more, rendering 6s.8d. and a house at 2s. (Cons. Bodl., fo. 84r).

page 89 note 4 The whole villata held Redcumbe meadow, rendering 55. (ibid., fo. 84v).

page 90 note h B.L. pro.

page 90 note i B.L. pro fine die visus ante iudicium.

page 90 note 5 Cons. Bodl., fo. 84r.

page 90 note 6 Cons. Bodl., fo. 85v.

page 91 note j Bodl. recte £15 14s.1¾d.; B.L. (because of its variant) reads £8 3¾d.

page 91 note k B.L. omits famulorum.

page 91 note l recte £51 19s. 10½d.

page 92 note m recte Bodl. £4 12s. 7½d.; B.L. £A 12s. 8d.

page 93 note n recte 258qu.

page 93 note o recte .iij.qu.

page 93 note p B.L. omits exitu grangie; a little cross indicates the slip.

page 93 note q B.L. adds grangie.

page 95 note r B.L. deperditis.

page 96 note s B.L. adds annalibus.

page 97 note t B.L. hoc anno.

page 97 note u B.L. repeats the amount.

page 98 note a sic in MS., but the correct form is found in 13c.

page 98 note b recte £4 17s.d.

page 98 note 1 Of these parallel accounts 13a and 13b are considered in Bodl. as one account and numbered as xx, though the number itself is missing.

page 98 note 2 For royal visits to Faringdon, see Introduction, p. 10

page 98 note 3 Roger Mortimer (1231?–1282), close friend of the Lord Edward. At this time he was one of the guardians of Edward's children in view of the crusade.

page 99 note a recte 103s.; the 6d. is also absent in 13c.

page 99 note b Erasure, probably of camere.

page 99 note c MS. vj.d.ob. When this entry is corrected to 5½d. from 13c, the total is in order.

page 99 note 4 The Knights had tenants at Littleworth (Wilts.); cf. B.C., no. 13 and V.C.H., Wilts., iii, p. 269.Google Scholar

page 99 note 1 Considered by Bodl. as part of the preceding account. Partly printed by Denholm-Young, N., Seignorial Administration in England, pp. 174–6Google Scholar, but with folios reversed and sections displaced.

page 100 note d The ¼d. is not accounted for here, yet it is needed for the debit. It reappears in the final account (81), in the total livery of £152 2s.d.

page 100 note a Recovered from 13b or 81.

page 100 note 2 For the rent in Wantage (Berks.), see B.C., no. 25.

page 100 note 3 How was this total reached?

page 100 note 1 This combines Bodl. 13a and 13b into one account. For the persons named, see notes to 13a.

page 101 note b This total differs from 13b; see Coxwell account (12).

page 101 note c recte £171 17s.d.

page 101 note d recte £179 17s. 11¼d.

page 101 note 2 See B.C., no. 25.

page 102 note e This Memorandum is quite different from that of 13b and refers to five conversi instead of four.

page 102 note 1 The vast parish of St Keverne in the Lizard.

page 102 note 2 Nansclegy or Nanclegy mill, in Clodgy Lane, St Keverne. There was once a lazar-house there (clajy); see Cartulary of St Michael's Mount, ed. Hull, P. L. (Devon and Cornwall Rec. Soc., 1962)Google Scholar, no. 39; Henderson, C., ‘Topography of the Parish of St Keverne’, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, New Series, vii (1931), p. 69.Google Scholar

page 103 note a recte 54s. 11d.

page 103 note b recte £43 13s.d.

page 103 note c racte £60 4s.d.

page 103 note 3 From Poitou.

page 103 note 4 cf. Cornwall documents in B.C.

page 104 note d No extension of this word is found in the MS.

page 105 note e per fam' crossed out in MS.; or familiam.

page 105 note f MS. .vij.qu., but see below under Brasium.

page 105 note 5 See B.C., no. 264, which mentions the annual pension of 1d.

page 105 note 6 Richard de Tregod, of Tregod Gilly; see B.C., no. 257.

page 105 note 7 See B.C., no. 271.

page 106 note g MS. omits qu.

page 106 note h .i.qu. gruelli underlined in MS.

page 106 note i MS omits dragii; but see above under Dragium.

page 107 note j No extension of this word is found in the MS.

page 107 note k MS. omits anni.

page 107 note l MS. cc.

page 108 note 1 Gorley, Bickton, Blashford and Ellingham lie, like Burgate, in the Avon valley in Hampshire. Little Canford (Dorset) is near Wimborne.

page 109 note a recte 101s.d.

page 109 note b MS. omits .ij.s.

page 109 note c recte £19 11s.

page 110 note d recte 49s.d.

page 110 note e feni interlined.

page 110 note f There is 8d. available for this small space.

page 110 note g recte £12 15s.d.

page 110 note h vicario, priori, monachis of Ellingham?

page 110 note 2 For Ellingham priory, see V.C.H., Hants., ii, pp. 229–30.Google Scholar

page 110 note 3 This must be the widow of Geoffrey of Pusires or Pisers; see B.C., nos. 179–81, 202 and 203; today, Peas Ash, in Fordingbridge (Hants.).

page 111 note i supra interlined.

page 112 note j MS. supervendita.

page 112 note k MS. omits equi.

page 113 note l MS. reads petra, but the addition requires libra.

page 114 note a .iij.d. interlined faintly, with, a cross in the margin.

page 114 note b This price clearly belongs to cera above.

page 114 note 1 Soberton, in the Meon valley, Hants.

page 115 note c emptis interlined.

page 115 note d recte 19½d.

page 115 note e In later hand.

page 115 note 2 Soberton had been purchased from Jordan de Walkerville and Geoffrey de Caritate; see B.C., nos. 7, 80 and 81.

page 116 note f MS. calcem.

page 116 note g This is a large excesses, but there was a supplusagium of £10 15s. 6d. and £16 spent on constructing a grangia.

page 116 note h dim. not accounted for in the items.

page 116 note i recte 149qu.

page 116 note 3 Meonstoke, Hants. For the tithe composition, see B.C., no. 89, where the sum named is 60s.

page 116 note 4 See B.C. no. 81.

page 117 note j recte 141qu.

page 117 note k MS. remanent .ij.qu.

page 117 note l MS. .ix.qu. underdotted, viij interlined.

page 117 note m recte 5qu.7b.

page 118 note n Long gap of 2½ inches.

page 118 note o Recovering iij from Coria below.

page 119 note p MS. has a gap, viij faintly in the margin.

page 119 note q This entry squeezed in by another hand.

page 120 note r dim. erased from MS.

page 120 note 1 Colbury lies well to the N. of the Beaulieu group of granges. One third of the folio, namely the whole of the grain account, has been cut away.

page 121 note a recte £12 7s. 6d.; there is no ob. or q. in the items.

page 121 note b recte 35s. 6d.

page 121 note 2 A land holder in Eling; see B.C., nos. 214 and 234.

page 122 note 3 Isabella de Fortibus (d. 1293), countess of Devon and Aumale, Lady of the Isle of Wight. She held Breamore as of the honour of Christchurch Twynham (V.C.H., Hants., iv, p. 596).Google Scholar

page 122 note 4 The loss is not really so depressing as it looks. Burgate, Soberton and Colbury were not among the ‘home’ granges of Beaulieu; they delivered no grain to the abbey. At Soberton the exitus totals are identical with the figures for threshing and winnowing, except for the wheat. Fortunately we have the wheat figures for Colbury. We may therefore take the threshing figures at least as minimal figures for the harvest at Colbury. We know the amounts purchased and sold, and also the reserve kept for seed. The figures for the grain account, keeping in mind the gap, cannot have been less than these:

The seed entry for vetches and oats may have had some bushels. But the gap which is unaccounted for is slight. As for the oats, every grange shows a very considerable home consumption, usually with a purchase. At Burgate there were no remainders, everything being sold by the end of the year, and here at Colbury there was no remainder of wheat. If there were remainders left from the preceding year, they were very small. These are, then, minimal figures which can stand comparison with those in the tables of grain set out in the Introduction.

page 124 note c Something he is been lost in the left margin after this conclusion of the account.

page 125 note a This is the largest excision, but on this side of the folio, where the picture stood, we can have lost only the headings, i.e. the names of the species of grain threshed at the three rates indicated.

page 125 note b A later insertion, standing above the bracket.

page 125 note c From this point to the right is a large excision for 3½ inches, covering some 6 lines of text; it is uncertain if anything has been lost.

page 126 note d Recovered here and below from 2 and 63.

page 127 note e sic in MS.

page 127 note f Recovered here and below from 77.

page 127 note 1 The grain remaining when the bran has been removed.

page 128 note g MS. omits .ij.b.; a cross in the margin, but no correction is made.

page 130 note a fit interlineated.

page 130 note b fit inserted.

page 130 note 1 burdo: one reduced in status for disciplinary reasons. There are few in this category to be found in the book.

page 131 note a recte 12s. 11½d.

page 131 note 1 Holbury is situated to the E. of Beaulieu and nearer to Southampton Water.

page 131 note 2 Lepe, to the S. of Holbury, on the Solent.

page 132 note b MS. expense.

page 132 note c .ij.s, deleted.

page 133 note d Sum available for these two entries: 16s. 8d.

page 133 note e siligo is absent from the Exitus grangie below.

page 133 note f in messione, probable; cf. harvest costs at Soberton, 16.

page 133 note g Originally .vj.d., emended to .iiij.d.

page 133 note h herciatorum, probable; cf. below under Avena; sum available for these two stipendia: 16s. 8d.

page 135 note i MS. annales.

page 135 note j MS. galon', which could be a slip for galo, or intentional if galonus is the form being used.

page 136 note 1 Sowley lies to the S. of Beaulieu, close to the Solent. For its great pond, see note to 67.

page 137 note a recte 31s.11½d.

page 137 note b Conjectural reconstruction, based on the qu.

page 137 note c From the Granary account, 76.

page 139 note d An excision follows immediately; probably no text is lost.

page 139 note 1 St Leonards lies well to the south of Beaulieu: important remains of its great barn stand to mark the centre of Beaulieu's largest grange. This important account was carelessly copied and has further been badly mutilated.

page 140 note a recte £15 5s.10d.

page 140 note b .ij.d. interlined.

page 140 note c recte £103 15s.5d.

page 140 note d recte 100s.4d.; 7s.7d. missing.

page 140 note e MS. rubei, albi.

page 141 note f recte £49 1s.d.

page 141 note g From Exitus grangie below.

page 141 note h recte £5 4s.d.

page 141 note i The large gap between the sum of the sub-totals of the Expensa necessaria, i.e. between £94 5s.d. and £103 15s.d., makes one fear the loss of a subtotal, for which there does not seem any room or need.

page 141 note j cf. account 30: Expense forinsece.

page 141 note k recte £126 3s. 7d.

page 141 note l recte £4 15s.5d.

page 142 note m In the MS. the first summa for the wheat reads 656½qu. and the second 556½qu. Next, the Granary account (76) gives the livery from St Leonards as only 53½qu., but the total of these Granary entries has itself to be corrected by 550qu. This can be given only to St Leonards, since all the other liveries are correct. The Granary wheat account needs the livery from St Leonards to be 603½qu. However, when we adopt this correction, it leaves only 53qu. for seed reserve. This is too low as compared with Holbury 24; Sowley 8; Beufre 95½; Hartford 82½; Otterwood 52½qu.

page 142 note n The v.b. has been corrected from .i.b. as above, to meet the total required below.

page 142 note o The excessus in the MS. has been altered and now reads 3qu.5b., but the livery to the Granary (76) is 54qu. It seems best, therefore, to assume the omission of in semine .iij.qu.

page 143 note p recte 747qu.3b.

page 143 note q MS. omits preterito.

page 144 note r MS. reads 96 cows, but see under Vituli below.

page 145 note 8 recte 27½ stone.

page 146 note a recte £18 15s.d.

page 146 note b MS. .q.ob.; the ½d. is not required for the total.

page 146 note 1 Beufre, or Bovery, less than a mile south of Beaulieu and the nearest grange to the abbey.

page 147 note c MS. pull.

page 147 note d recte £40 15s. 10½d.

page 147 note 2 Are these hens? In the context one would have preferred some word for ‘pulley’ such as pulein or puleium.

page 148 note e recte £87 0s 10d.

page 148 note f dim. absent from the detail given.

page 149 note g recte 552qu.

page 150 note h In margin a cross against Capones and Caseus indicating that the order should be reversed.

page 150 note 3 Nicholas de Raunvile witnessed a charter for Beaulieu (B.C., no. 172).

page 151 note i The account of the sub-cellarer (80) enters only 19 pondera of cheese from Beufre.

page 151 note j recte 22 pond. 4½ stone 81b.

page 152 note a recte £59 16s.

page 152 note 1 Hartford is about a mile north of Beaulieu.

page 153 note b Probably meant for quadriga.

page 153 note c recte £36 8s. 3d.

page 153 note d recte £9 4s. 7d.

page 154 note e MS. xxiij.s.i.d.ob., but 9½d. is required for the Summa.

page 154 note f recte 53s. ½d.

page 154 note g The Granary account (76) requires a livery of 13qu., hence the seed will be 1qu.

page 155 note h Only one was sold under Exitus manerii; even so the total is too high. One foal appears there as sold, but it has not been deducted from the total of Pullani just below.

page 157 note i MS. interlines dim.

page 157 note j MS. omits dim.

page 157 note k The minor camera (64) only accounts for a livery of 121b. of wax.

page 158 note a recte 112s. 10½d.

page 158 note b recte £41 19s.d.

page 158 note 1 Otterwood, to the west of Beaulieu across the Beaulieu River, which had been known as the River Otter until the time of the abbey.

page 158 note 2 For this rent at Exbury, see B.C., no. 228.

page 159 note c Change of hand.

page 159 note d The entry for mackerel is repeated in the MS. as the former hand resumes.

page 159 note e recte £14 16s. 11d.

page 159 note f recte 104s. 4d., entered by the previous hand.

page 159 note g recte £6 5s. 9d.

page 159 note h recte £50 12s.d.

page 159 note i recte £50 9s. 7d.

page 162 note j The livery to the sub-cellarer is recovered from 80.

page 163 note a Bercarius here; Bercaria in 28.

page 163 note 3 See Introduction, pp. 39–40.

page 163 note 1 i.e. Norton, in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

page 163 note 2 gardus': perhaps to be connected with ‘carding’, removing impurities and so ‘combings’ or ‘remainders’.

page 163 note 3 Dregs.

page 164 note a MS. annorum.

page 164 note b recte £16 17s. 8d.

page 164 note 1 Bercaria was the whole organisation of sheep and wool, yet at the same time a place, well to the south of the abbey.

page 165 note c MS. omits i sacca; but see Exitus lane.

page 165 note d recte £14 os 1¼d.

page 165 note e Change of hand from this point to the end of the section.

page 165 note 2 Beaulieu here distinguished six grades. At Whalley (Lanes.) there were four: good, medium, select locks and small locks (Lambeth Palace Library, MS. 499, fo. 236r; the same folio has a contract for sale over years and on the verso an agreement with a dubbator). The famous list of Pegalotti only distinguishes three grades: good, medium and locks.

page 165 note 3 i.e. preparation.

page 166 note f In the Instaurum below, the figure is 186, which is correct there.

page 166 note g recte £26 16s.d.

page 166 note 4 peronis et peronellis: swingle-tree, i.e. a cross-bar pivoted in the middle, to the end of which traces are fastened in cart or plough.

page 167 note h recte £86 15s. 5d.

page 167 note 5 Meonstoke (Hants.).

page 168 note i MS. 2,750.

page 169 note j MS. cc.iiij.lxiij; corrected to 343 from Oves above.

page 169 note k MS. 10 corrected to 40 from Hurcardi above.

page 169 note l MS. 157 corrected to 147 from Oves above (ad lardariam). With these three corrections the total of 1534 is reached.

page 169 note m recte 16½ sacks 11 stone.

page 170 note 1 cf. Protection to the abbot of Beaulieu taking his ship to Gascony from time to time with corn etc., and returning with wine etc. (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1272–81, p. 457).Google Scholar

page 170 note 2 Cole-fish or coley, sometimes known as ‘black jack’.

page 170 note 1 Other ships of Beaulieu were la Mariote, 1254 (Cal. Close Rolls, 1253–4, p. 25Google Scholar), and la Stoyle or la Stelle, 1268 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1266–72, pp. 192 and 308Google Scholar).

page 171 note 2 Great Yarmouth, or further north?

page 172 note a qui faciunt etc. in a different hand, as also in the next entry.

page 172 note b One would have expected proxime sequente.

page 172 note c This last sentence written by the same hand as noted above.

page 173 note d The excised portions recovered from the Ordinacio infirmitorii (33).

page 174 note e Various elements in this folio are in a different hand for no apparent reason.

page 174 note 1 cf. Regula S. Benedicti, c. 31.

page 176 note a recte £28 8s. 7d.

page 176 note b recte £35 13s.d.

page 176 note c recte £5 18s. 10d.

page 176 note d recte £35 10s. 7d., with remainder 2s.d.

page 177 note e MS. omits dim., restored from Recepta above.

page 177 note f MS. dim.

page 177 note 1 Cîteaux was the mother-house of Beaulieu and, as such, had the duty of making visitations; Waverley privileged, no doubt, as being the first Cistercian foundation in England (1128).

page 179 note a vel alibi interlined.

page 180 note b Recovered from Ordinacio portarii (31).

page 180 note 2 cf. Regula S. Benedicti, c. 31.

page 181 note a The items available among the receipts amount to £29 2s.d., leaving £2 7S.3½d. unaccounted for.

page 182 note b The detail available amounts to £30 15s. 6d., leaving only 1s.d. for the two missing items.

page 182 note a This probably indicates that four were delivered (cf. 37). So read: qui recipit iiij.

page 185 note a This note is squeezed into the right hand margin, so as to refer to all the above.

page 185 note 1 Larder, in its function of slaughter-house.

page 186 note a precium baconis .ij.s. crossed out in MS.

page 187 note b MS. iiij carcoysia dim.

page 189 note a There are 4qu. of salt available for this gap. The granges enter their salt received in terms of cash, thus: Hartford 3s. 6d. (25), Otterwood 1s. 11¼d. (26). As in the order of the granges Otterwood always follows Hartford, it is Otterwood which must receive the ½qu., the dim. which is waiting. Hence the sharing of the 4qu. must be 3qu. and 1qu.

page 189 note 1 For the saltern at Lymington, see B.C., nos. 146 and 147.

page 190 note a et: this word indicated a double title and the first element can be recovered from the Camera account (81): custos de Gernemuhe.

page 189 note b In left margin above Expensa, a later hand has carefully written: Hec indentura facta decimo die mensis.

page 189 note 1 The Beaulieu base in Great Yarmouth—land with sheds acquired by the abbey (see B.C., no. 30), was in Norvilla, on the south bank of the Yare and now under Bredon Water. That by this time they had acquired more than their original foot-hold is clear from the rents at the time of the ‘Free Fair’ (Michaelmas till Martinmas). See Henry Manship's Great Yarmouth, ed. Eccleston, A. W. (Yarmouth, 1971)Google Scholar; Manship was the Town Clerk in the early seventeenth century. Later acquisition is also clear from the valuation of £6 13s. 4d. in Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae autoritate Papae Nichelai IV, circa 1291, p. 124.Google Scholar

page 190 note 2 Last, i.e. a boat-load or 12 barrels (O.E.D.), by rapid counting of 132,000 fish (using the long hundred of 132).

page 190 note 3 Perhaps ‘gutted’ (see O.E.D., corpion).

page 191 note c MS. leaves a blank, probably for Blieburg'.

page 191 note d MS. omits ob.

page 191 note e MS. omits .ij.s.

page 191 note 4 This use of the singular seems to reflect the E. Anglian use of ‘herring’ as a plural; cf. plaice.

page 191 note 5 Frail, a fish-basket, still used in E. Anglia.

page 191 note 6 The Augustinian priory of Blythburgh (Suffolk) had property adjoining that of Beaulieu (see B.C., no. 30, and its Introduction). Norwich cathedral, too, had a priory in Yarmouth to serve the church of St. Nicholas.

page 192 note a Restored from 33, end.

page 192 note b Restored from 79.

page 192 note 1 Curtilage has here the sense of the kitchen-garden. It employed five men who seem to have cultivated the intervals between the monastic buildings and workshops. They also looked after the graveyard.

page 195 note a Understand here gradus, as given in the account under Recepta.

page 195 note a recte 19s.1½d.

page 195 note 1 This department also did the book-binding.

page 196 note b recte 7s.

page 196 note c Crossed through in MS.

page 196 note d MS. .i.d.ob.

page 196 note e idem.

page 197 note f MS. reads secundam, tercium, quartum.

page 197 note g MS, omits multolini.

page 198 note h MS. omits duzanis.

page 198 note i MS. xxxiiij. Above, in Recepta, 33 dozen were sold @ 3d. for 8s. 3d.; yet both these readings are arithmetically correct where they stand.

page 198 note 1 Needing repair.

page 198 note 1 For the Faringdon perch of 15 feet, see B.C., no. 10; for the New Forest perch of 20 feet, see Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1321–24, p. 366.Google Scholar

page 199 note a MS. pedum.

page 199 note 2 i.e. deniers struck at Paris, worth one fourth more than those of Tours (O.E.D.); and see the last line of this Table.

page 199 note 3 Perhaps used here just adverbially: by the reckoning in parisis'.

page 199 note 4 Too much has, therefore, been made of the note and the end of 26: cellarias vinarias non habemus; but the account (47) shows Beaulieu itself using 375 out of a total production of 775 vine stakes. We must say they had grapes, but had no wine; or, when they had sufficient vines, then they would make wine. For vines in medieval England, see William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum. ed. Hamilton, N. E. S. A. (Rolls Series, 1870), pp. 291–2.Google Scholar

page 199 note 5 Faggots for heating ovens, probably just for bread.

page 199 note 6 This insight into charcoal-burning is valuable, yet is not reflected at all in the account itself. These small logs (coti) one foot long were laid on end, inclining inwards, in layers to build up the kiln.

page 200 note 1 To have the name of a Frater given in full is exceptional; hence it is very possible that the word lost was not Frater and that Guy was the forester who received 60s. a year.

page 201 note a MS. inverts the figures to give £9 7s.d.

page 201 note b The total of the expenses and the livery should be £39 7s.d. and the amount due £3 13s. ½d.

page 201 note c MS. 90 dozen.

page 201 note d MS. 326 bundles.

page 203 note a These next two sentences written by a different hand.

page 203 note b This entry is followed immediately by an excision, but the beginning of 50 shows 2s. to be the correct figure.

page 204 note a recte £12 16s.d.

page 204 note 1 Puckpool, near Bembridge, Isle of Wight, source of large flat stones.

page 204 note 2 Used throughout for ‘boat-load’.

page 204 note 3 Pokers; cf. Fr. fourgon.

page 206 note b The amounts missing reach a total of 7qu. 2b.; two of the cross references are given in cash value.

page 208 note 1 For houses in Lymington (Hants.), see B.C., no. 294.

page 209 note a MS. omits coriis.

page 209 note b recte £73 14s.d.

page 209 note c MS. omits forinseca.

page 209 note d recte £9 4s. 2d.

page 209 note e recte £90 1s. 10½d.

page 210 note f recte £12 5s.d.

page 210 note g recte £77 7s.9d.

page 210 note h recte £78 14s.2d.

page 212 note i The sacristy received 101b. (59). A cash entry only is made for the subcellarer (80); there seems very little to spare for the shoe-maker and the sub-cellarer combined, only 4½ stone 71b.

page 213 note j JMS. lxxj paria.

page 214 note 1 In Benedictine monasteries, it is the camerarius who distributes the clothes. To keep the distinction, we have retained vestiarius.

page 215 note a MS. tondendo.

page 215 note 2 The complete outfit of clothing.

page 217 note 3 Half a cowl seems like a mis-reading, but the solution is given in the next sentence.

page 217 note 4 The distribution of cowls to priests indicates 25 not holding major offices.

page 217 note 5 i.e. Denis, d. 1272.

page 217 note 6 For scapulars, the number is 31. The number of offices not held by priests can be recovered from the capucia; those not held by conversi from the scapularia.

page 219 note b Recovered from 72.

page 220 note a recte 55s.10d.

page 220 note b panibus dim. roughly interlined.

page 221 note c recte £8 0s.s.

page 221 note d MS. xiiij sacce .xiij, petr.dim.

page 221 note 1 To calculate at 30 stone to the sack, we have here to posit an error of one stone in the detail, which will produce a total of 14 sacks 14½ stone.

page 222 note e recte 72½ ells.

page 222 note 2 Sizes; cf. Fr. pointure.

page 223 note f recte 10 pairs.

page 223 note 3 These are key figures for the monastic population.

page 223 note 4 i.e., by favour, i.e. in advance of the normal time.

page 224 note g Note that liberacione in consecutive entries is found with an ablative and a genitive.

page 225 note a There is a change of hand here and a clumsy abbreviation. This word could derive from perna loins, haunches; or from prenum pin. The first makes a parallel with lumbaria, so probably ‘loin-cloths’.

page 226 note 1 This account underlines the enormous losses of lambs (cf. Bergerie (28)), with 187 leaving skins good enough for use.

page 228 note a Conjectural restoration.

page 229 note 1 i.e., 6¼ gallons.

page 230 note b vini interlined.

page 230 note c The price is 40s. under Expense and Exitus vini (57), but 240 × 3d. = £3

page 230 note d This sentence in a different hand.

page 232 note a The restorations are from 61.

page 232 note 2 cf. Powieke, F. M. and Cheney, C. R., Councils and Synods, with other Documents relating to the English Church, ii, pt. i (Oxford, 1964), p. 514Google Scholar, n. 1. The Circumcision, it will be noted, is omitted here.

page 233 note 1 For monastic beer-drinking, see Knowles, M. D., The Monastic Order in England, 943–1216 (Cambridge, 2nd edn, 1963)Google Scholar, App. XX; and Donnelly, J. S., The Decline of the Medieval Cistercian Lay Brotherhood (Fordham, 1949), pp. 2832Google Scholar. The prohibition on beer at the granges had finally been lifted in 1238.

page 234 note a MS. .xl.s.

page 234 note b recte £8 2s.d.

page 235 note c recte 170 gallons.

page 235 note 2 240 gallons = 1 dolium; the detail amounts to 262 dolia.

page 235 note 3 Hartford and Sowley are not included here. But their inclusion would not meet this sub-total. 5 × 34 gallons = 170 gallons, not 1 dolium 69 gallons.

page 236 note d recte 253 dolia 48 gall.

page 236 note 4 The deaf man at Holbury seems to have been employed out of charity; he was included in food allowances, but not in wages.

page 237 note e The ½ gall. is forgotten here, but remembered in the Summa below.

page 237 note f recte 23½ gall. only.

page 237 note a MS. .vij.qu.vj.b. The total produce of beans has been entered here; we restore the sales from the Exitus below.

page 237 note b There is an obliteration here and only the final j. is visible. At the given rate of 2s., the figure for the oats should be 10s. 9d. The sum available now to reach the total is 5s. Vetches were sold at Wyke @ 2s. 8d. and at Soberton @ 3s. Though 6s. is too high for the vetch, the oats also ought not to be lifted higher by 5s.

page 237 note 1 This is clearly the orchard, though the department has produce other than cider.

page 238 note c recte £6 7s. 4d.

page 240 note a There is a drawing of a dog (or a cat) in the margin, bearing the name Mite.

page 240 note 1 See note to 56.

page 241 note 1 The offerings of the faithful at mass had primitively been excluded from the revenue acceptable to the Order. General Chapter was very slow in permitting grange chapels even to be erected. If there were offerings, then others than conversi frequented these two chapels. A bull of Alexander IV of 1255, permitting mass to be said in grange chapels, was copied into the Faringdon Cartulary (B.L. Cotton MS. Nero A xii, fos. vii–ix). There was no parochial church in the New Forest, but it seems that there were two chapels dating from before the arrival of the monks.

page 241 note 2 Througham appears to be the original name of the district to the S., close to the sea, now known as Park Farm. The chapel is described as 13th century (Warner, R., Topographical Remarks Relating to the S.W. Parts of Hampshire (London, 1793) pp. 231–3)Google Scholar; it was still standing in the 18th century, but was destroyed by fire in the 19th century. When Wriothesley was granted Beaulieu in 1539, three chapels were mentioned as being within the Great Close: Beufre, Througham and St Leonards. For the possibility that there was a chapel there before the monks came, see also B.C., Introduction, p. lxv. If we are correct in identifying Trokam' with Througham (B.C., no. 155), then the district had been sold to Beaulieu by Breamore Priory (Hants.), but the charter does not mention any chapel.

page 242 note a recte 12s.d.

page 243 note 1 One is surprised that this account is so slight. Except for bread and beer, it affords little information about diet or consumption, but is concerned with repairs and replacements. There is, however, a valuable conclusion on costs.

page 243 note 2 ‘Joust’, round-bellied pot, with the content of the justa mensura.

page 244 note 3 More usually the word employed for a fly-flap is muscatorium.

page 244 note 4 Nothing remained; they had eaten 5½b. more than they had received!

page 245 note a sic. in MS.

page 245 note 5 For the blood-letting days, see also 19.

page 245 note 6 For burdones, see 20.

page 246 note a MS. .viij.s.; the Camera account (81) gives the 3s. required for the total.

page 246 note 1 The calefactory was not just a place for getting warm; there the brothers greased their boots.

page 246 note 2 Bulrushes.

page 247 note a The excisions have here been recovered from 2, where, however, the price of bateria is 1½d.

page 247 note 1 The minor camera has little in common with the camera (81); it dealt with all kinds of indoor requirements other than normal food supplies.

page 249 note a recte £14 11s. 2d.

page 250 note b MS. 421b.

page 252 note c These headings, after being in the genitive case, are now in the nominative.

page 253 note 1 The unique use in these accounts of the spelling as found in King John's charter (B.C., nos. 1 and 3).

page 254 note 1 Pigs were slaughtered at the infirmary as well as at the larder; see Receptus forinsecus of 66.

page 255 note a recte £10 14s.d.

page 255 note b Calculating the Alexandrine sugar @ 8d. (63) and the pigs @ 2s. (36), the sum available for the gap is 7s. 8d.

page 255 note c recte £10 11s. 6d.

page 255 note d recte 15.1¼d.

page 256 note a MS. .vj.S.

page 256 note 1 For property in Southwark, where the abbot had a town house, see Cal. Close Rolls, 1323–27, p. 304. Dissolution accounts place this in the parish of St Margaret.

page 257 note 2 For litigation concerning Faringdon, see B.C., nos. 282–93.

page 257 note 3 For Cornwall, see B.C., nos. 255–79, long years of litigation.

page 257 note 4 For Burgate charters, see B.C., VI.

page 257 note 5 The abbot had been allowing sheep from Soberton to enter and graze in the forest, where he had no pasture rights (P.R.O., E.32/158).

page 257 note 6 For this Forest eyre at Winchester, see Introduction, p. 11.

page 257 note 7 i.e., Sowley pond (see 22 for construction of a bridge). This was probably a deed obtained from a local land-owner, who had rights in the stream higher up. There is nothing about it in the Charter Rolls, as a charter was not needed for a vivary. This pond covered 95 acres in the eighteenth century.

page 258 note a From the Granary account (76).

page 259 note b MS. carrectar'.

page 260 note 1 Norton, in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

page 260 note 1 This is the only account where the total expenditure cannot be recovered, one where expenses must have been heavy. There is, however, the final expense figure of £93 12s.d.

page 261 note a recte £42 13s.d.

page 261 note 2 The Latin arco or arcunus could have been used.

page 262 note 3 Similarly bucla.

page 265 note a recte £19 14s.d.

page 265 note b MS. molar'.

page 265 note c recte £32 6s.d.

page 266 note d recte £10 2s.d.

page 266 note e recte £42 7s.d.

page 266 note f recte £42 9s.d.

page 266 note g MS. cxij.

page 267 note h This complex account seems to be correct except for the 1 lb. found in the sum total which is in excess of the items, though it is required by the remainder.

page 267 note i This total is already in excess, without considering the gap.

page 267 note j Perhaps only one entry is missing, Boverie.

page 269 note a Formula borrowed from below.

page 269 note 1 A rare note of congratulation to a department.

page 270 note b The final o is clear, but the Granary account (76) reads singulis annis.

page 271 note c See 68 under brueriam.

page 273 note d MS. omits et.

page 273 note e MS. veniencium.

page 273 note 1 Perhaps because Cornwall was in his diocese.

page 275 note f Restored from Tables for Sub-cellarer (79) and Porter (31).

page 275 note g The remainder of this sentence is pushed into the margin.

page 276 note h MS. custode.

page 276 note i Deduced from the 10d.; see Table 2, p. 54.

page 276 note j From Table 48, p. 203.

page 277 note a recte 9s. 1d.

page 277 note h recte £7 14s. 10¾d.

page 278 note c recte 8s.d.

page 278 note 1 This makes it clear that 20 loaves were reckoned as 1 bushel.

page 279 note d MS. xxvj, corrected from the Brewhouse account (57).

page 279 note e This long list seems to add up to 75½ dolia 118½ gall., when the 118½ gall. have been treated as 120, i.e. half a dolium.

page 279 note f There are 6b. available for the gaps in this section.

page 280 note g plumbarie interlined.

page 280 note 2 The total consumption outside the guest-house is 2,800. Reckoning the last as 132,000 (O.E.D.), then the total consumption = 198,300, leaving for the guest-house 196,500, which seems incongruous.

page 281 note h MS. prec' m'.

page 281 note i MS. iiij here and also in the Summa. There is a little star to indicate an error. In account 80 the amount is 6b.

page 282 note a recte £9 16s.d

page 282 note b recte £2 6s.d.

page 282 note c recte £9 9s. 9d.

page 284 note a These two prices recovered from 2.

page 284 note b Inserted by a different hand.

page 284 note c Inserted by the same hand as above.

page 285 note d cum socio suo erased.

page 285 note e This last sentence erased and written in briefer form, showing the earlier wording. This is most unusual in this MS.

page 286 note a recte £119 2s.d.

page 286 note b In Granary account (76) 472qu.

page 286 note c recte £4 10s. 6d.

page 287 note d All the entries in this section can be checked by the cross references. The remainder is calculated from the first total, but there is still a gap of 550qu. in the detail of wheat received.

page 287 note e MS. sancti Leonardi.

page 287 note f MS. omits .vj.b.

page 287 note g The Beufre account (24) reads: .xij.qu.dim.; we have not corrected this as the total of 68qu. received matches the livery of 68qu.

page 287 note h integrarum / .v.qu. fractarum omitted from MS., but recovered from 80, where crushed and uncrushed beans were distinguished. It has been restored here as the 5qu. was needed to reach the total of 68qu.

page 288 note i recte 107qu. It would seem that the missing 6b. belong to the remainder from the previous year, since the rest can be cross-checked.

page 289 note j dim. absent from the MS., recovered from Beufre account (24).

page 294 note a MS. ostria, probably meant for ostias, altar-breads.

page 295 note 6 After this the MS. has crossed out: duobus servientibus hospicii cuilibet eorum unum panem conventualem liberat cotidie et panem hospitum quantum sufficit.

page 295 note c There seems to be condensation or omission here. Perhaps read quando liberacionem lane in abbaciam faciunt, recipiunt, or quando liberacionem lane faciunt, in abbacia recipiunt.

page 297 note 1 The calculations here are more bewildering than the distribution of the different grades of bread in the Table.

page 298 note a recte £9 2s. 11d.

page 298 note b recte £8 18s.d.

page 299 note c recte 867qu.

page 299 note d recte 429qu. 5½b. 7 loaves.

page 299 note e recte 63qu. 1½b. 1 loaf.

page 299 note f MS. omits .dim.b.ij.panes, recovered arithmetically.

page 300 note g MS. v panes.

page 300 note h recte 44qu. 5 loaves.

page 301 note i recte 341qu. 1½b. 13 loaves.

page 301 note j recte 2qu. 6b.

page 301 note k recte 405qu. lb. ½ a loaf.

page 301 note 2 Perhaps Nutley (Hants.); or, since there is no capital letter, it could be nucele.

page 301 note 3 Eleanor, the wife of the Lord Edward.

page 301 note 4 This is almost certainly Robert Walerand, counsellor of Henry III and leader of Edward's friends in 1264. See Powicke, F. M., King Henry III and the Lord Edward, s.v.Google Scholar Walerand.

page 301 note 5 His hounds killed stock; see Index under Giffard.

page 302 note l recte 1094qu. 6b. 5 loaves.

page 302 note m recte 37qu. 5½b. 6 loaves.

page 302 note n MS. custodis.

page 302 note o recte 186qu. 5½b. 18½ loaves.

page 302 note 6 i.e. constructing the causeway along Sowley pond.

page 303 note p recte 169qu. 6½b. 9½ loaves.

page 303 note q recte 145qu. 5½b. 4 loaves.

page 303 note r recte 335qu. 7b. 7 loaves.

page 303 note s recte 1091qu. 1½b. 3½ loaves. If any of the above corrections are disputed, the grand total at any rate, is correct to half a loaf.

page 304 note t Right hand marginal note: omnes qui furfur faciunt declarare, or perhaps more meaningfully opportet quantum furfur faciunt declarare.

page 304 note a At this point two thirds of the folio are cut away.

page 304 note 1 No section of the manuscript has been so brutally cut about as this table, but fortunately the account itself is virtually intact. By using the index, we have ventured to enter in skeleton form the substance of what is missing. Therefore what is in English has only editorial authority.

page 305 note b Restored from 18.

page 305 note c The probable heading of a list of prices (cf. 50). Of this there survive, on the right hand stub of the folio, genitive plural endings with: .xvj.d., .viij.d., .x.d., .vj.d., .iiij.d. communibus annis.

page 305 note 2 We have printed these scraps in the hope that some other Cistercian document may be found to help.

page 305 note 3 The only mention of paid copyists.

page 306 note d Recovered from 19.

page 308 note a MS. omits ob.

page 308 note b recte £61 12s. 1d.

page 309 note c This is not a slip, the number of eggs entered is 17,017.

page 309 note d recte £6 os. 2¾d.

page 309 note e Almost certainly in turba fodienda.

page 309 note f This ob. is not required by the sum total or the adjustments.

page 310 note g The Holbury account (21) has 540.

page 310 note h The detail amounts to 8 lasts 3,600 without increasing Holbury.

page 311 note i b and a in the margin indicate that Haddock should have preceded Mackerel, as elsewhere.

page 311 note j The Otterwood account (26) reads 400.

page 311 note k The items only amount to 7,750.

page 312 note l dim.: supplied from the St Leonard's account (23) gives the desired total.

page 312 note m recte 57cwt. 6 stone 41b.

page 312 note n recte 6cwt. 6 stone 71b.

page 312 note o recte 5cwt. 6 stone ilb.

page 313 note p For the profits from the boat which brought the fish, see 29 and 30.

page 313 note q Marginal note similar to the note in vinarium (26).

page 313 note 1 Fortunately the account of the central financial office is complete and correct.

page 315 note 2 Probably Philip Porter (cf. 15), since the top of the / is visible. He does not appear in B.C.

page 315 note 1 The series of accounts comes to an end, correctly according to Cistercian principles, with the statement of the centralised receipt, the camera (81). But both the Beaulieu and the Faringdon books append tables for the hours of hired workers, their ordinario and their payment. Beaulieu divides this into two parts: Tabula mercenariorum and Tabula stipendiorum familie, while Faringdon has only one section: Tabula quantitatis mercenariorum. Since the matter is parallel but not identical we will first put the conditions (82) and then the wages (83), though this involves slightly breaking the sequence of the books.

page 315 note 2 What monks call ‘eating in second table’ (for servers and the reader during the meal).

page 316 note a More probably gratiam piscium, a gift of fish, than grampus.

page 316 note b MS. omits Loci.

page 316 note 3 Abbot, el. 1340.

page 318 note 1 The grange of St Leonards extended to the river and also to the sea while the grange system lasted. The land along the river below Saltershill and round the coast to Sowley is low-lying and must all originally have been marshy. There have been frequent invasions by the sea and the farms there (Park and Warren) still have their marsh grazing. However, nothing of this is mentioned in Account 23.

page 320 note a sic in MS.

page 320 note 1 In the Account-Book these five documents are written on the first third of a folio pasted inside the front cover. The second third is blank, then there is a tear beginning on the left and going down to the middle of the base. This has removed half of the document written on the lowest third. The first five documents concern Faringdon only and were also incuded in B.C. with slight variations. In B.C. they are numbered 297, 299, 3013, 298 and 300.

page 321 note 2 cf. B.C., no. 300.

page 321 note 3 One third of this document is missing, as shown by the videlicet, which stretches over the whole line. It concerns the payment of tallage by the men of Faringdon, whenever the king exacted tallage (see B.C., Index: tallagium). The names of the tenants here named can be found in a rent-roll of 1273 (Berks. Record Office, D/EE1 M92). If the badly written word before Petrum is indeed fratrem, he will be the monk-custodian of Faringdon.

page 321 note 4 Named in Cons. Bodl., fo. 82v.