Wherever there is question of paying money or providing food in portions, the cellaress has to give double to the chief officers of the house, such as the prioress, the cellaress, etc.
Of condiments thecellaress has to provide almonds, twelve lbs.
A description follows of the food which the cellaress has to provide for the convent on special days in the year.
The duties of the cellaress stand next in the additional rules (c.
It likewise falls to the cellaress to hire pasture, to see to the mowing of her hay, to see that all manner of houses within her office be duly repaired, not only within the monastery but without, on her farms and manors.
At the death of the prioress Johanna de Northampton (1291), the cellaress of the house was elected in her stead by the nuns; but the election having been made without a licence, the bishop of Lincoln declared it void.
The cellaress at Sion also bought salt salmon, herrings by the barrel, and red herrings by the 'caade'; also stubbe eels.
The cellaress reported to the prioress, who settled the allowances and gave out the food.
There was one cellar and one kitchen for the whole settlement, for the cellaressin the women's house acted as caterer both for the canons and the nuns.
This cellaress also charged herself with various sums received for hides, calf-skins and wool-felles or sheep-skins.
The management of the department was done by the head cellaress herself, with an under-cellaress to assist her and a clerk to keep her accounts and write her business letters, at a wage of 13s.
Her sister the cellaress also went to London that year and spent 6d.
The cellaress had to purvey 22 "gud oxen" by the year for the convent.
The cellaress had to provide the convent with butter at certain times, to every lady and double one "cobet," every dish containing three cobets.
Very few separate obedientiaries' accounts survive for nunneries, partly because the majority were small and the treasuress not infrequently acted as cellaress and did the general catering herself.
For the cellaress sets down as follows the entry which her clerk is to make in her book each week: on Saturday 20 Sept.
After chapel she begged a pittance from the cellaress and stowed it with her bundle in the little wallet Lilith had given her, excusing her early going on the plea that she had far to walk that day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cellaress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
