ABSTRACT
There was no important change in the accounting system to 1553. Owing to rising prices the College authorities began in that year to make provision to ensure cheap supplies of foodstuffs by agreements with their tenants embodied in the leases. The tenants agreed to deliver to the College specified quantities of grain, livestock or fodder yearly as part of their rent,1 the remainder being paid in money as previously. A similar system was introduced at Winchester College at the same time.2
