this is now blocked up within, but it is very distinct on the outside towards the vestry; it belongs to the same class as the openings so frequently found by the side of the chancel-arch, formerly called squints, and of late named Hagioscopes.
Extracts from the Bursar's Rolls of Merton College.
[1277.] Item (computat lib.) Domino Roberto Capellano xiiij.s ix.d pro dedicacione summi altaris. Item lib. eidem viij.d pro superaltari benedicendo.
[1278.] Item, de ij.s ix.d pro ligatione quinque librorum, qui erant de dono Magistri Ricardi de Clyf. Item, de viij.d pro pergameno pro predictis libris.
Item de viij.d liberatis cuidam reparanti stillicidia[1] Ecclesie, per duas vices. Item de xiiij.d iij.qa. pro stagno[2] ejusdem operis.
Then follow various payments for building a new kitchen, and furnishing the same.
- ↑ Gutters.
- ↑ Solder.
- ↑ Free-stone.
- ↑ Sills, from the French seuil.
- ↑ Wheatley, about five miles from Oxford: these quarries are still in use.
- ↑ Strings, or string-courses.
- ↑ Skews, stones cut askew, or sloping. Skew? a sloping face. Willis's Nomencl., p. 30. The word is written in the roll of the year 1288 "scyues."
- ↑ Taynton, two miles from Burford, and about twenty from Oxford; these quarries are still in use and in good repute.
- ↑ Probably the coping stones of the gable, from the French pignon.
- ↑ Ragstone, a term still in use.
- ↑ Talstone, probably cut stone, from the French pierre de taille.
- ↑ Mullions. Willis's Nomencl., p. 47.