The Cantor Or His Delegate Is To
Read In The Refectory During Meal Times And During Infirmary Time,
And He Who Reads In The Refectory Is To Have A Quart [?] Of Bread,
As Also Are The Two Junior Monks Who Wait At Table.
The cantor is
to instruct the boys in the singing of the office and in morals,
and is to
Receive their portions of bread, wine and pittance, and
besides all this he is to receive one florin for each of them, and
he is to keep them decently; and the prior is to certify himself
upon this matter, and to see to it that he victuals them properly
and gives them their food.
"The sacristan is to provide all the lights of the church whether
oil or wax, and he is to give out small candles to the hebdomadary,
and to keep the eight lamps that burn both night and day supplied
with oil. He is to keep the lamps in repair and to buy new ones if
the old are broken, and he is to provide the incense. He is to
maintain the covered chapel of St. Nicholas, and the whole church
except the portico of the same; and the lord abbot is to provide
sound timber for doors and other necessaries. He is to keep the
frames {62} of the bells in repair, and also the ropes for the
same, and during Lent he is to provide two pittances of eels to the
value of eighteen groats for each pittance, and one other pittance
of dumplings and seasoning during rogation time, to wit, five
dumplings cooked in oil for each person, and one quart of bread and
wine, and all the house domestics and serving men of the convent
who may be present are to have the same.
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