1. Every canon save the seneschal and cellarer must attend Matins, High Mass, and the Hours. The seneschal, if present in the priory for two nights together, must attend one Matins, and the cellarer must be present at service on alternate nights at least. 2. Six canons must be enrolled for celebrating Our Lady's Mass; the prior must celebrate on all great feasts at High Mass, and on Saturdays at Our Lady's Mass, and must wear a surplice not a rochet. 3. Canons in priests' orders must celebrate daily, those who are not must repeat eleven Psalms with a Litany or Psalter of Our Lady every day. 4. Four confessors must be appointed to hear the confessions of the canons. 5. Latin or French must be the languages spoken. 6. No one save the prior or officers, without special leave, must ride or leave the Priory. 7. Two-thirds of the canons must dine daily in the refectory; the door must be kept by a secular watchman whose duty it is to remove servants and idle people from the door during dinner; the almoner must prevent any canon carrying his commons to the laundry-people or people of the town. 8. All the canons must sleep in the dormitory, each in his own bed. 9. The infirmary must be visited daily by the prior or sub-prior. 10. Two canons must act as treasurers, and a yearly account must be presented. 11. The common seal must be kept under four locks, and documents sealed in full chapter, not as heretofore during Mass. 12. Canons must not play at chess or draughts, nor keep hounds or arms (save in the custody of the prior), nor have a servant (save when on a journey), nor write nor receive letters without leave. The prior may keep hounds outside the priory buildings. ARCHBISHOP ARUNDEL'S INJUNCTIONS, 1404 No. 1. Ordered the destruction of an old hall and an adjoining chamber known as the sub-prior's hall after the departure of Sir Thomas West its then occupier, as noblemen were in the habit of occupying it to the great disturbance of the order and the keeping open of gates which ought to be closed. No. 2. Enjoined the building of a house for the proecentor, and a new chamber for the sick. No. 3. Ordered the setting apart of a chamber for recreation apart from the infirmary (it may be supposed that the canons during recreation hours were noisy, thereby disturbing the sick). No. 4. Directed the provision of separate studies for the canons. It would appear that nobles, such as the Montacutes and Wests, put the priory to such great expense by taking up their abode, together with their retainers, in the domestic part of the buildings. THE NORMAN CASTLE