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were carried thither, and was to provide them physic and all necessaries whilstliving, and to wash and prepare their bodies for burial when dead.

IftefccttonariuS, who looked after the hall, providing table-cloths, napkins,towels, dishes, plates, spoons, and all other necessaries for it, and even servants toattend there: he had likewise the keeping of the cups, salts, ewers, and all the silverutensils whatsoever belonging to the house, except the church plate.

There were also Coquinarius, Gardinarius, and Portarius.

The offices belonging to the abbey were generally these:

The pjall, or refectionary; and adjoining thereto, locutorium, or parlour, whereleave was given for the monks to discourse, who were enjoined silence elsewhere.

©rioltum, or the oriel, was the next room, the use whereof was for monks whowere rather distempered than diseased, to dine therein.

Uormt'um'um, the dormitory, where they all slept together.

Habatortum, generally called the landry, where the clothes of the monks werewashed, and where also, at a conduit, they washed their hands.

Sbmptorium, a room where the chartularius was busied in writing, especially inthe transcribing of these books : 1. Ordinals, containing the rubric of their missal,and directory of their priests in service; 2. Consuetudinals, presenting the ancientcustoms of their convents; 3. Troparies; 4. Collectaries, wherein the ecclesiasticalcollects were fairly written. This was the ordinary business of the chartularius andhis assistant monks; but they also employed themselves in transcribing the fathersand classics, and in recording historical events.

Adjoining to the scriptorium was the Library , which, in most abbeys, wasfurnished with a variety of choice manuscripts.

The i'tl'ttiKIT, with Harder and ^|antrg adjoining.

The abbey-church consisted of, 1. Cloisters, consecrated ground, as appears by thesepultures therein. 2. .flablS (StcIfSta, or the body of the church. 3. (KralJatoriultt, theascent out of the former into the choir. 4. ^rrsbgtcrttun, or the choir; on the rightside whereof was the stall of the abbot, with his moiety of monks; and on the left,that of the prior with his; and these, alternately, chanted the responsals in theservice. 5. UEStt'arfum, or the vestry, where their copes, surplices, and otherhabiliments were deposited. 6. Uattlta, a vault, being an arched room over part ofthe church, which, in some abbeys, as St. Alban’s, was used to enlarge the dormitory,where the monks had twelve beds for their repose.

CToncamtrntfo, being an arched room betwixt the east end of the church andthe high altar, so that in procession they might surround the same, founding

their practice on David’s expression, “ - and so will I encompass thy altar,

O Lord.”

To the church belonged also ©eraritUU, a repository for wax candles ; ©ampant'le,