ABSTRACT
From 1646 the Provost and Fellows bought their beer and bread from the Buttery and this was accounted both under the Dieta and the Fortuiti Proventus : the bread was rated at cost price and the beer at 6d. a hogshead above cost. Both Provost and Fellows were paid for such part of their fuel allowance as they did not consume and these sums were entered as expenses in the Fuel Account from 1678. The Provost commuted his 20 loads hay allowance for £30 yearly from 1682 and took £10 8s. in place of his 8 chaldron seacoal 1682-1744, but found it to his advantage to take his coal in kind from 1745 : he compounded in 1760 for £7 10s. instead of his 3 loads charcoal and in 1786 for 42s. in place of the two loads of straw. These allocations continue to 1830.
