CHAPTER IV. MONASTIC HOUSEWIVES

The obedientiaries 131

Allocation of income and obedientiaries' accounts 134

Chambresses' accounts (clothes) 137

Cellaresses' accounts (food) 137

Servants 143 (1) chaplain 144 (2) administrative officials 146 (3) household staff 150 (4) farm labourers 150

Nunnery households 151

Relations between nuns and servants 154

Occasional hired labour 157

Villages occasionally dependent upon nunneries for work 158