Ripon. Sometimes the entertainer was a jester, or, as they said, a fool. One of the bursar's items shows a payment of fourpence "to a fool called Solomon (who came again)." These diversions would perhaps be given on the cellarer's terrace; that is, in the space to the west of the cellarium, which was once enclosed within a wall, from the church porch to the cellarer's office.
One of Abbot Grenewell's purchases was a great clock, made by John Ripley, and probably set in the south transept of the church. In the middle of the hot day in summer, after the service of sext, and late in the afternoon in winter, after nones, when the clock pointed to the proper hour, a bell in the cloister rang for dinner; either a bell or a board struck with a mallet. Outside the refectory door, on either hand, were stone troughs with running water from the riven In the middle of the cloister is a great stone bason. When that welcome sound was
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