单词 | battel-bills |
释义 | > as lemmasbattel-bills 2. In Univ. of Oxford: (a) college accounts for board and provisions supplied from the kitchen and buttery; (b) (in looser use) the whole college accounts for board and lodgings, rates, tuition, and contribution to various funds, as ‘My last term's battels came to £40’; also attributive, as battel-bills.The word has apparently undergone progressive extensions of application, owing partly to changes in the internal economy of the colleges. Some Oxford men of a previous generation state that it was understood by them to apply to the buttery accounts alone, or even to the provisions ordered from the buttery, as distinct from the ‘commons’ supplied from the kitchen: but this latter use is disavowed by others. See the quotations, and cf. those under battel v. and batteler n., which bear that battels applied in 17–18th centuries to provisions supplied to members of the college individually at their own order and cost, i.e. to battelers, who had no commons, but were charged their ‘battels’ only, and to commoners as extras ‘above the ordinary stint of their appointed commons’: but whether the battels were originally the provisions themselves, or the sums due on account of them, must at present be left undecided. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > accounts buttery book1583 battel1706 gate-bill1803 1557 Reg. Exeter Coll. 41 Ad solvendum debita seu batillos sociorum. 1636 in J. Griffiths Statutes Univ. Oxf. under Abp. Laud (1888) ii. §4 Diligenti examinatione habita tam libri Batellarum quam Obsonatoris cujuslibet Collegii et Aulæ.] 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 220 For sometime kept a name in ye Buttery Book; at wch time Dr. Charlett was sponsor for discharge of his Battles. 1792 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 716 The word battel, which..signifies to account, and battels the College accounts in general. 1842 T. Arnold in Life & Corr. (1844) II. x. 305 Their authority might be exerted to compel payment to tradesmen with nearly the same regularity as they exact their own battells. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. xii. 225 The dinners and wine are charged in their battel bills. 1882 Spectator 18 Mar. 352 Receipts..in respect of battels, room rent and tuition fees. < as lemmas |
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