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MONASTIC GARDENING.
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The gloves are not uncommon entries ; they appear among the
accounts of Bicester,* Bury, Holy Island, and other places.
They were probably thick gloves for weeding.
The O of the gardener is also of regular occurrence, as
it was expenses at a yearly feast, and the O refers to the
Psalm sung on the occasion by the Hortulanus, commencing
“ O Radix Jesse.” In the Abingdon Accounts it is entered,
“To O Radix, 6s. rod.,” and another time (a.d. 1388) still
more at length, “ In expensis factis pro mittent-exennia ad O
Radix XVId.” This “O Radix Jesse” was the third of the seven
Roman or Gregorian Great Os.t The first, O Sapientia, was
sung on December 16th, and the day is still marked in the
Kalendar of the Book of Common Prayer. The well-known
Advent hymn, “ O come, O come, Emmanuel,” is a translation
by John Mason Neale (1818-1866) of a Latin versification of
five of the Great Os written about the thirteenth century; the
second verse of this hymn being a paraphrase of the O of the
gardener.
It will be noticed also that in these and other accounts the
tithe is deducted. The year in which it first was enacted that
tithe should be paid “ of fruit trees and every seed and herb of
the garden,” was a.d. 1305, the decree insisting on the payment,
being issued by the Council at Merton, in Surrey. J
The chief variations as a rule are in the tools bought, and in
the repairs. “For a saw,” “knives for herbs,” “mending a
hatchet,” “ repairs of the garden wall,” “ lock and keys for the
gates,” &c.; and sometimes fruit, apples, cherries, beans,
onions, or such like, had to be bought when the garden supply
fell short. But this “ great garden ” under the care of the
Hortulanus was not by any means the only garden. Many
other office holders had gardens too.
In a plan compiled from the remains and the records of
Bicester Priory the relative positions of the various gardens, the
* Biomefield, History of Bicester.
f Archceologia, Vol. XLIX. Article by Everard Green, f.s.a.
J Wilkins’ Concilia, Vol. II., p. 278; “ Mertonense,” 1305, “et de fructibus
arborum et seminibus omnibus et herbis hortorum.”
15
The gloves are not uncommon entries ; they appear among the
accounts of Bicester,* Bury, Holy Island, and other places.
They were probably thick gloves for weeding.
The O of the gardener is also of regular occurrence, as
it was expenses at a yearly feast, and the O refers to the
Psalm sung on the occasion by the Hortulanus, commencing
“ O Radix Jesse.” In the Abingdon Accounts it is entered,
“To O Radix, 6s. rod.,” and another time (a.d. 1388) still
more at length, “ In expensis factis pro mittent-exennia ad O
Radix XVId.” This “O Radix Jesse” was the third of the seven
Roman or Gregorian Great Os.t The first, O Sapientia, was
sung on December 16th, and the day is still marked in the
Kalendar of the Book of Common Prayer. The well-known
Advent hymn, “ O come, O come, Emmanuel,” is a translation
by John Mason Neale (1818-1866) of a Latin versification of
five of the Great Os written about the thirteenth century; the
second verse of this hymn being a paraphrase of the O of the
gardener.
It will be noticed also that in these and other accounts the
tithe is deducted. The year in which it first was enacted that
tithe should be paid “ of fruit trees and every seed and herb of
the garden,” was a.d. 1305, the decree insisting on the payment,
being issued by the Council at Merton, in Surrey. J
The chief variations as a rule are in the tools bought, and in
the repairs. “For a saw,” “knives for herbs,” “mending a
hatchet,” “ repairs of the garden wall,” “ lock and keys for the
gates,” &c.; and sometimes fruit, apples, cherries, beans,
onions, or such like, had to be bought when the garden supply
fell short. But this “ great garden ” under the care of the
Hortulanus was not by any means the only garden. Many
other office holders had gardens too.
In a plan compiled from the remains and the records of
Bicester Priory the relative positions of the various gardens, the
* Biomefield, History of Bicester.
f Archceologia, Vol. XLIX. Article by Everard Green, f.s.a.
J Wilkins’ Concilia, Vol. II., p. 278; “ Mertonense,” 1305, “et de fructibus
arborum et seminibus omnibus et herbis hortorum.”