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This building, which is entered on the south side through a vestibule, "ingressus," comprises the sitting and sleeping apartments of the guests of higher rank, chambers for their servants, and stables for their horses. These rooms occupy the circumference of the building. In the centre of the whole is a large refectory, "domus hospitum ad prandendum." There are also indicated in the same, a large central fire-hearth, "locus foci," and along the walls tables, "mensæ," and benches, and one of the four doors is flanked by a pair of presses, "toregmata." From the refectory we enter into the four sleeping rooms, "caminatæ cum lectis," lying at the two opposite sides of the house, and well furnished with stoves, beds, &c. Two other doors, situated opposite to each other, lead from the refectory into ante-rooms, one of which, the entrance hall of the whole, "ingressus," is also connected with the chambers of the servants, "cubilia servitorum;'" the second leads to the stables, "stabula caballorum," (in which the mangers, "præsepia," are indicated,) and other useful offices.

At a short distance from the hospitium is a building which contains under one roof, first, the kitchen for the guests, "culina hospitum," with the fire-place in the middle of the room; secondly, the store-room, "promptuarium;" thirdly, the bake-house, "pistrinu," with an oven, "fornax," side-benches and troughs. Also in an adjoining room, "interendæ pasice locus," a table and vessels for wetting and leavening the meal. Lastly we arrive at the brewhouse, "domus conficiendæ celiæ," with fires, and coppers for wetting and malting the grain in the same room, and the cooling apparatus in a separate place, inscribed "hic refrigeratur cervisa."

Opposite to the hospitium, and erected against the wall of the church, are the apartments of the porter, portarius, also called the ostiarius, one of the first officials of the monastery, who receives the guests, and therefore his dwelling is placed without the monastery. It consists of two rooms, namely, his sitting-room, warmed by means of a stove, "caminata por-