The  next  paragraph  is  of  interest  for  its  references  to  the  servants
of  the  monastery  and  to  the  vineyards.  The  newly  planted  vines  are,
as  we  have  seen,  mentioned  in  the  Domesday  Survey:  their  memory
survived  till  recently  in  the  name  of '  Vine  Street.'  The  last  paragraph
refers  to  the  Maundy.
It  is  worth  while  to  compare  this  document  as  a  whole  with  a  some-
what parallel  statement  preserved  in  the  Liber  Eliensis,  which  refers
to  the  troublous  period  when  Ranulf  Flambard  was  extorting  the  last
penny  from  the  Church  for  his  master  William  Rufus1.
Lib.  2,  c.  136.  Quod  Ranvlfus  quidamjussu  regis  annonam  monachis,  sed  brevem,
constitute.  Haec  igitur  sunt  quae  idem  Ranulf  us  et  Symeon  abbas  ex  jussu  regis
Willelmi  constituerunt  uno  quoque  anno  dari  ad  opus  fratrum.  ad  vestimenta
eorum  septuaginta  libras2.  ad  coquinam  eorum  sexaginta  libras,  et  ad  sagimen
ducentos  porcos,  et  porcos  qui  in  curia  pascuntur,  et  totum  caseum  et  butirum,
excepto  hoc  quod  est  in  firma  praepositorum ;  et  unaquaque  ebdomada  septem
treias  frumenti  et  decem  treias  braisii.  ad  luminaria  monasterii,  praesentem  eccle-
siam  cum  sepultura  villae,  et  totum  quicquid  pertinet  ad  sanctum  Botulfum  cum
festivitate.  et,  si  tantum  fuerit  de  vino,  semper  habebunt  in  lectionibus  [in]  duo-
decim  caritatem  et  in  sabbato ;  sin  autem,  medietatem  medonis  habebunt.
This  Ely  reckoning  was  made  about  1093,  and  no  doubt  it  represents
the  maximum  which  was  left  to  the  monks  when  for  the  last  seven
years  of  his  reign  the  abbey  was  in  the  king's  hands.
