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ROLLS OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD.
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dam lapidibus qui vocautur scuwes[1] et ponuntur in opere in tecto parve domus retro coquinam. Item xviij.d liberat, eidem pro viij pedibus de pynun[2] table. Item eidem ij.s vii.d ob. pro xiiij pedibus de pynun[2] table pret. ij.d qa. Item comput. vj.s viij.d liberat. Payn le quareour de Teynton in partem solucionis pro franc. lapidibus ad novam coquinam, per unam dividendam, in qua patet de conventione inter Custodem et predictum Payn. Summa iiij.lib. iiij.s iij.d ob.

[1286.] Recepta. Item de Ecclesia Sancti Johannis in Oxon, xxx.s.

[1288.] Expense in Ecclesia Sci. Johis. In Consuetudinario[3] empt. xj.d. Item in Prefacionibus scriptis de novo iij.s. Item pro illuminatione, xij.d. Item pro ligatura Missalis, xij.d. Item in cera empta, vj.s ij.d qa. Item in lampadibus et oleo ix.d ob. Item in incenso, iv.d. Item in vino vij.d ob. Item in stramine per tres vices, viij.d ob.

Expense Straminis et aliorum in Ecclesia. Item in stramine ad Ecclesiam in vigilia Sancti Nicholai, iiij.d. Item in cendiapilo[4] empto ad tergendas calices, iii.d ob. Item in emendacione j. seruri ad hostium vestiarii, j.d. Item in j corda ad velum quadragesimale, j. d. Item in anul' empt' ad idem. ij.d. It in stramine empto quando missa deberet celebrari pro Magistro I. de Cytenesvale, iiij.d ob. &c. &c. It in ij cordis emptis ad campanas, xv.d ob.qa. Item in stipendio ij operariorum ad preparanda scanna[5] ante crucem, iij.d. Summa vj. s. viij.d. qa.

It' in emend' j. serure in port' anachor'[6] et j. clau' ad hostium aule Custodis, ij.d. It' in emendacione host' predicti, j.d. It' in stipendiis ij. carpen' per vj. dies ad reparand' coopertor' fornac' et j. spure[7] in celar', iij.s vij.d qa. Item in stipen' ij. homin' qui fecerunt mur' anachor' per iij. dies et di', ad tax' xij.d. Item in stramin' emp' ad cooperiend' predictum mur' xj.d ob. Item in stipendio j sclatt' et j operarii per ij dies super Ecclesiam, xj.d.

Liberatio Petri empta ad Ecclesiam. Item in lxx ped' de vousur'[8] emptos, v.s, precium pedis, j.d. Item in xl. ped' de egivs[9] empt' iiij.s ii.d, precium pedis, j.d qa. It in xviij ped' de skyues[1] empt' xviij.d, precium pedis, j.d. Item in xij ped' de Moyneles[10] empt' xii.d. Item in x sumers[11] de Walaffard[12] empt' v.s. Item in cariagio, iiij.s ix.d. It in c ped' de Chaumbrances[13] empt' iiij.s, pretium ped' ob.

Expense Orologii. Item liberat. Domino G. Capellano ad opus orologii, iiij.s iiij.d.

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skews, stones cut askew, or sloping. Skew? a sloping face. Willis's Nomencl., p. 30. The word is written in the roll of the year 1288 "scyues."
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Probably the coping stones of the gable, from the French pignon.
  3. ↑ Rituale.
  4. ↑ A kind of silken tissue. See Ducange, v. Sendapillum.
  5. ↑ Scanna, the seats.
  6. ↑ Anachorite, the cell of an Anchorite.
  7. ↑ Probably sper, a partition.
  8. ↑ Voussoirs are the wedge-shaped stones of which arches are constituted. See Professor Willis's remarks on the word "vousoirs," Archit. Nomenclature, p. 42.
  9. ↑ This word is written in the roll "egius," probably for ogivs, or "oggifs," as written in the Ely Sacrist's roll, 31 Edw. III., implying ogee mouldings. Willis's Nomencl., p. 11.
  10. ↑ Mullions. Willis's Nomencl., p. 47.
  11. ↑ Great beams, from the French sommier, which is rendered by Cotgrave, "the summer, or great master beame in building."
  12. ↑ Wallingford, Berks, about twelve miles from Oxford. The Roll reads also Wallafford.
  13. ↑ Probably jamb-pieces.
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