[370] Blunt, op. cit. pp. xxvi-xxviii.
[371] Gray, op. cit. pp. 149, 165, 167.
[372] A barrel contained ten great hundreds of six score each.
[373] A cade contained six great hundreds of six score each.
[374] A warp was a parcel of four dried fish.
[375] Gray, op. cit. See the accounts, pp. 145-79 passim.
[376] Ib. pp. 10-11.
[377] Catholicon Anglicum, ed. S. J. Herrtage (E.E.T.S. 1881), p. 365.
[378] Blunt, op. cit. p. xxx. In 1481-2 their Lenten store included “saltfysshe,” “stokfyssh,” “white heryng,” “rede haryng,” “muddefissh,” “lyng,” “aburden,” “Scarburgh fysshe,” “salt samon,” “salt elys,” “oyle olyue” (34¾ gallons), a barrel of honey and figs. At other times this year the cellaress purchased beans (1 qr. 4 bushels), green peas (7 bushels), “grey” (i.e. dried) peas (4 bushels), “harreos” (3 bushels), oatmeal (2 qrs. 7 bushels), bread, wheat, malt, various animals for meat and to stock the farm, a kilderkin of good ale, 15 lbs. of almonds, 39 Essex cheeses, 111½ gallons of butter, white salt and bay salt, also firewood and coals. P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1261/4.
[379] Poems of John Skelton, ed. W. H. Williams, pp. 107-8 (from “Colyn Cloute,” ll. 210-13). For the curious custom of eating dried peas on the fifth Sunday in Lent, called Passion or Care Sunday, see Brand, Observations On Popular Antiquities (1877 ed.), pp. 57 ff. In the north of England peas boiled on Care Sunday were called carlings. Compare the St Mary de Pré (St Albans) accounts (2-4 Hen. VII) “Item paid for ij busshell of pesyn departyd amongs the susters in Lente xvj d.” Dugdale, Mon. III, p. 359, and the Barking cellaress’ Charthe, below, [Note A].