Chapter III: Worldly Goods

Evidence as to monastic property in
(1) the _Valor Ecclesiasticus_ 96
(2) monastic account rolls 97

Variation of size and income among houses 98

Methods of administration of estates 99

Sources of income:
(1) rents from land and houses 100
(2) manorial perquisites and grants 103
(3) issues of the manor 109
(4) miscellaneous payments 112
(5) spiritualities 113

Expenses 117
(1) internal expenses of the convent 119
(2) divers expenses 123
(3) repairs 123
(4) the home farm 125
(5) the wages sheet 129

CHAPTER IV. MONASTIC HOUSEWIVES

The obedientiaries 131

Allocation of income and obedientiaries' accounts 134

Chambresses' accounts (clothes) 137

Cellaresses' accounts (food) 137

Servants 143
(1) chaplain 144
(2) administrative officials 146
(3) household staff 150
(4) farm labourers 150

Nunnery households 151

Relations between nuns and servants 154

Occasional hired labour 157

Villages occasionally dependent upon nunneries for work 158