ABSTRACT
Costs of liveries followed stipends in the accounts. Money allocations in place of livery cloth were made to the Provost and Fellows from the beginning of the sixteenth century at the yearly rate of £5 to the former and 50s. to each of the latter and to the Schoolmaster, while 13s. 4d. or 10s. was allotted for livery to each member of the Provost’s household according to rank. From 1562 livery cloth was provided only for scholars, choristers and College servants : all others entitled to clothing2 henceforward received a commutation in money. The Provost and Fellows voted a varying annual sum from 1602 to 1653 to increase the payments made to themselves and the minor officials and servants for stipends and liveries : this sum was discontinued thereafter.
