CHAPTER III. WORLDLY GOODS Evidence as to monastic property in (1) the _Valor Ecclesiasticus_ 96 (2) monastic account rolls 97 Variation of size and income among houses 98 Methods of administration of estates 99 Sources of income: (1) rents from land and houses 100 (2) manorial perquisites and grants 103 (3) issues of the manor 109 (4) miscellaneous payments 112 (5) spiritualities 113 Expenses 117 (1) internal expenses of the convent 119 (2) divers expenses 123 (3) repairs 123 (4) the home farm 125 (5) the wages sheet 129 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 CHAPTER V. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES Poverty of nunneries 161 (1) prevalence of debt 162 (2) insufficient food and clothing 164 (3) ruinous buildings 168 (4) nuns begging alms 172