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MONASTIC GARDENING.
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two “famuli” in the garden, and their payment (circ. 1170 a.d.)
was “ to each of them fourteen loaves,” and two acres of
land.* But in spite of various small rents and money received
from the surplus garden produce, or grain grown on the lands
belonging to the garden office, the accounts do not always show
a balance on the right side, and the receipts not infrequently
failed to cover the expenses.
In early times the monks seem to have worked better, or
at any rate managed more carefully, for the garden paid its
expenses; but at Norwich as the years went on, the office got
more and more into debt. In 1429 “ the expenses exceed the
receipts, £8. 2s. 8id.;” in 1431 there is a deficit of £13. 16s. 8fd.
Then a new plan began, and the garden was let to a certain
William Draper, who paid 40s. for the farm of it; t this state
of things continued to the end of the period covered by these
accounts. The following are transcriptions of some of the rolls,
the greater part are translated from the Latin but the words in
quotation marks are spelt as they occur in the originals.
The earliest roll, a.d. 1340, is here given complete.
Account of brother Peter de Donewich of the garden in the 14th year of
Dan William de Claxton Prior.
Receipts—
Remainder of proceeding account, 73s. 8d.
Of rent of assize that is to say from Adam Gilbirt now holding one shop
in Nedle rowe, l8d.—of “fagot” branches and roots, 28s. 2^d.—of
rods [of] “ osiers,” 13s. 4d.—of timber “ Stamholt and wrong,” 9s. 8d.
-—of hay, 36s. lod.—of beans, 13d.—of herbs, 13d.—of garlick, nd.—of
apples & pears, 13s. 4^d.—of “Sandice” {Sandal 'wood?}, 5s. 6d.—
of eggs, 14s.—of “hempsede,” id.—of wax, 9s. yd.—of “forage,” 2s.—
of “ lapp,” 3s.
Sum of receipts, £8- 19s. 6d.
* At Durham monastery the payment was to “ Robert Kyrvour, ortulanus,
per annum 5s.,” together with a few other small payments amounting to about
another 5s. [Durham Household Book, Surtees Society.)
f Examples of the entries:—-
1471. Receipts “ From the great garden demised to John Plomer for the term
of 20 years this being the sixth, 25s.”
1487. “ From Robert Castyr for the farm of the great garden, demised to him
for the term of 10 years this being the second, 26s. 8d.”
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two “famuli” in the garden, and their payment (circ. 1170 a.d.)
was “ to each of them fourteen loaves,” and two acres of
land.* But in spite of various small rents and money received
from the surplus garden produce, or grain grown on the lands
belonging to the garden office, the accounts do not always show
a balance on the right side, and the receipts not infrequently
failed to cover the expenses.
In early times the monks seem to have worked better, or
at any rate managed more carefully, for the garden paid its
expenses; but at Norwich as the years went on, the office got
more and more into debt. In 1429 “ the expenses exceed the
receipts, £8. 2s. 8id.;” in 1431 there is a deficit of £13. 16s. 8fd.
Then a new plan began, and the garden was let to a certain
William Draper, who paid 40s. for the farm of it; t this state
of things continued to the end of the period covered by these
accounts. The following are transcriptions of some of the rolls,
the greater part are translated from the Latin but the words in
quotation marks are spelt as they occur in the originals.
The earliest roll, a.d. 1340, is here given complete.
Account of brother Peter de Donewich of the garden in the 14th year of
Dan William de Claxton Prior.
Receipts—
Remainder of proceeding account, 73s. 8d.
Of rent of assize that is to say from Adam Gilbirt now holding one shop
in Nedle rowe, l8d.—of “fagot” branches and roots, 28s. 2^d.—of
rods [of] “ osiers,” 13s. 4d.—of timber “ Stamholt and wrong,” 9s. 8d.
-—of hay, 36s. lod.—of beans, 13d.—of herbs, 13d.—of garlick, nd.—of
apples & pears, 13s. 4^d.—of “Sandice” {Sandal 'wood?}, 5s. 6d.—
of eggs, 14s.—of “hempsede,” id.—of wax, 9s. yd.—of “forage,” 2s.—
of “ lapp,” 3s.
Sum of receipts, £8- 19s. 6d.
* At Durham monastery the payment was to “ Robert Kyrvour, ortulanus,
per annum 5s.,” together with a few other small payments amounting to about
another 5s. [Durham Household Book, Surtees Society.)
f Examples of the entries:—-
1471. Receipts “ From the great garden demised to John Plomer for the term
of 20 years this being the sixth, 25s.”
1487. “ From Robert Castyr for the farm of the great garden, demised to him
for the term of 10 years this being the second, 26s. 8d.”