A MONASTIC KITCHENER'S ACCOUNT.

(From a volume of memoranda touching the monastery of Whalley, temp. Henry VIII., among the records of the Court of Augmentation.)

"Dyv'se somes of money leid oute by me Jamys More, monke and kechyner to the late Abbot of Whalley, for and conc'nynge dyv'se caitts bought by the seid Jamys of dyv'se p¯sons, as hereaft' dothe p¯ticlerly appire by p¯cells whiche came to thuse of the seid house, and spent yn the seid house from the last daye of December until the —— daye of Marche then next folowynge yn the xxviijth yere of the reign of Kynge Henry the viijth, whiche somes of money the said Jamys asketh allowance.

First payde to Edmunde Taillor Fischer
for —— salt salmons, spent in the seyd
late abbott kechyn syns the tyme of his
accompt 		xxvs
Itm. Payde to the seid Edmunde for xj
freshe salmons, bought of the said Edmunde
to thuse, &c. of the seid house,
there spent by the seid tyme 		xxvs
Itm. Payde to Will'm Newbbet for fresh
fische 		iijs iiijd
Itm. Payde for vj capons, bought at Fastyngeseven
of dyv'se p¯sons 		ijs
Itm. Payde for xxxv hennes, bought of
dyv'se p¯sons 		vs xd
Itm. Payde for eggs, butter, chese, bought
of dyv'se p¯sons betwixt Cristmas and
Fastyngsevyn, spent yn the seid house 		xxiiijs
Itm. Payde for mustersede vs
Itm. Bought of Will'm Fische viij potts
hony-pric 		xs
Itm. Bought of Anthony Watson vij gallons
hony 		ixs iiijd
Itm. Bought of John Colthirst ij gallons
hony 		ijs iiijd
Itm. Payde to Richard Jackson for xvijc
sparlyngs 		ixs viiid
Sum of the paymentsvjli xviijd (sic in orig.)
Itm. The same Jamys askyth allowance of xiiijs, whiche
the seid late abbott dyd owe hym at the tyme of his
last accompt, whiche endyd at Cristmas last past, as
yt dothe appire by the accompt of the seid Jamys
More.
Itm. The late abbott of Whalley dyd owe unto the
seid Jamys More, for a grey stagg that the seid
late abbott dyd by of the same Jamys by the space
of a yere syns 		xs
By me James Mor."

The advowson of the parish church of Whalley having been bequeathed to the White Monks of Stanlawe (Cheshire), they removed their abbey

there A.D. 1206; it being dedicated to the Virgin Mary ("Locus Benedictus de Whalley"), and having about sixty indwellers. (Tanner's Notitia.)

Anon.