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?
no one here has an idea about what
"They have an income of 250 pounds; they owe about a hundred pounds"
or
"They have an income of 250 pounds; more was owed to them than they owed"
or
"They had an income of about 300 pounds"
might mean?
c
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Received: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:40:29 PM EDT
From: Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [M-R] Odo Rigaud @ L'Aigle [<Vulgate in England]
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> my interest in Odo Rigaud's visitations is limited to his descriptions of
the
> priory of St. Lomer of Blois at St-Sulpice-sur-Risle, near L'Aigle (diocese
of
> Evreux), and i have a question or two about how to interpret what he
says...
>
> it seems that he visited this house four times --in 1250, 1255, 1258 and
1269
> (pp. 79, 348, 348 and 720 in the O'Sullivan edition,
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06039.0001.001).
>
> all the visits are similar --to the Archbishop's shock and dismay, the
monks
> are eating meat, sleeping on feather beds and, in one instance, even
wearing
> linen shirts[!].
>
>
> in several entries, the income of the priory is given:
>
> --They have an income of 250 pounds; they owe about a hundred pounds.
>
> --They have an income of 250 pounds; more was owed to them than they owed.
>
> --They had an income of about 300 pounds.
>
>
> am i right in understanding this amount as the total *annual* income of the
> priory?
>
> to whom do they owe this 100 pounds?
>
> is it some kind of accumulated back tithes?
>
> did the priory owed tithes?
>
> to whom?
>
> the bishop?
>
> or is this what the priory owes to the mother house (i.e., Blois)?
>
> thanks for any help.
>
> c
>
> the Latin texts can be found here:
>
> http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1020649/f86.image
>
> http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1020649/f235.image
>
> http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1020649/f642.image
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