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though under the Cellarer,[1] and if he were not a monk, he nevertheless was to enjoy the portion of a monk.[2] But it appears from Somner, that at Christ Church, Canterbury, the Lardyrer was the first or chief cook;[3] and this officer, as we have seen, was often an ecclesiastic. However, the great Houses had Cooks of different ranks;[4] and manors and churches[5] were often given ad cibum and ad victum monachorum.[6] A fishing at Lambeth was allotted to that purpose.[7] But whether the Cooks were Monks or not, the Magistri Coquinæ, Kitcheners, of the monasteries, we may depend upon it, were always monks; and I think they were mostly ecclesiastics elsewhere: thus when Cardinal Otto, the Pope's legate, was at Oxford, A. 1238, and that memorable fray happened between his retinue and the students, the Magister Coquorum was the Legate's brother, and was there

  1. ↑ In Somner, Ant. Cant. Append. p. 36. they are under the Magister Coquinæ, whose office it was to purvey; and there again the chief cooks are proveditors; different usages might prevail at different times and places. But what is remarkable, the Coquinarius, or Kitchener, which seems to answer to Magister Coquinæ, is placed before the Cellarer in Tanner's Notitia, p. xxx. but this may be accidental.
  2. ↑ Du Fresne, v. Coquus.
  3. ↑ Somner, Append. p. 36.
  4. ↑ Somner, Ant. Cant. Append. p. 36.
  5. ↑ Somner, p. 41.
  6. ↑ Somner, p. 36, 37. 39, sæpius.
  7. ↑ Somner, l.c.

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