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230 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
has been transcribed by the Rev. C. Hartshorne, and published in the
journal of the British Archaeological Association (vol. xviii., p. 67), 1862.
The document in question is called " Rotulus de expensis Hospicii
"Bogonis de Clare," during the twelfth year of Edward I. (1284).
The roll
seems to be imperfect at the beginning and end, as it
abruptly commences
with an entry upon Monday, the feast of the apostles Philip and James,
at Ruthin, near which place Bogo must have been previously, and ends
at Lincoln.
Some of the items are curious as indicating the manner of life and
travelling in those days. On Tuesday, at Conway, they were as follows :
" In bread, two shillings in
; wine, sixteen pence in eggs, two-pence half-
;
" penny
;
in butcher's meat, two shillings and seven pence ; in goat's flesh,
" three pence ; in potage, one penny ; in salt, a farthing
;
in plaice for those
" who fasted, eight pence ; in hay and forage, twenty pence ; in one quarter
" of oats, three shillings
;
in salt fish, two pence ;
in wood, three pence ;
" in candles, two pence in
; mending a boat for conveying the harness
" over the water, and for carriage of the harness, for stabling, and for
" horses, sixpence ; in the dinner of the lord and family at Denbigh, two
" shillings and a penny halfpenny."
The journey on from Conway, Tuesday ; Bangor, Wednesday ; Carnarvon,
Thursday to Saturday ; thence Oswestre, Shrewsbury, Newcastleunder-Lyne,
Derby, Nottingham, to Axholme-in-the-Isle, where a payment
of four pence occurs " for wood to dry the clothes of my lord, on account
" of the great rains." Eventually they come to Lincoln, where the ordinary
expenses are increased by six pence (in pisce de dulce aqua) for freshwater
fish, and eight pence, ale. Thence they journey back to Carnarvon
in fifteen days, at the rate of two shillings per diem, where he sojourned,
waiting the will of the King and Queen, from the day of Pentecost, 1284.
Amongst his expenses here are, "for parchment purchased for the
" rolls of account, and for making letters, six pence ; for six pounds of
" wax, of which were made candles and torches for the lord, two shillings
"and three pence."
Another account, from the feast of St. Gregory to the feast of
St. Michael here following, i3th Edward I., 1284, shews that he set out
from Thacham towards London. They travelled with twenty horses,
fourteen grooms, and one page.
At Maidenhead, where they supped, bread cost sixteen pence ; wine,
tenpence ; and the same sum for a pike,
" lupus aquaticus ;" a letter, two
shillings and a halfpenny ; beds, five pence ; wood and charcoal, seven
pence three farthings.
But when Bogo de Clare reached London, he entertained, on Saturday
the vigil of Pentecost, according to his confidential attendant, Walter de