Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 88 1973 page 154

of Boxley together with making and setting four windows in the south wall of the church above the said cloister, that is to say of the size of the two other windows now set in the same place of which one will be of the same tracery and the three others of a different tracery, together with three doors, that is to say those of the Church, the Dormitory and Refectory in the fashion and time defined below, that is to say the aforementioned Stephen shall dig (out) the foundation of the old cloister and shall fill it in again to the ground-level and shall raise above the said foundation a wall of two feet and a half in height and of one foot and a half in thickness and shall place outside a gutter on all sides of cut stone and the aforementioned Abbot and Convent shall find the stones, chalk, sand and carriage for all those things. Then the aforementioned Stephen shall find the stones for the completion of the whole remainder of the work of the stone called grit-stone (Ston of grece) from the quarry of the same Abbot and Convent in Chyngele which the same Stephen rents at farm from the same, and all stones shall be sound and perfect without flaw and well and neatly cut and polished. And he shall place first above the said wall bases called cills half a foot in height and one and a half feet in breadth. Then he shall erect larger and smaller columns and all the larger columns shall be of the width of the base, that is to say one and a half feet in breadth, one foot in width and three feet in height, but the bases and columns at the corners		will be each of two feet in width in both parts (directions ?) the smaller columns will be of the same height but half a foot in width and one foot and a quarter in thickness and each one of the smaller columns shall be of one complete stone. Then he shall raise different traceries according to the differences of breadth and thickness of the pillars and of the same height, and above the said traceries he shall place one table all round under the roof-timbering. And the same Stephen shall complete all that work of the whole cloister, the windows and the doors together with the plastering and the brussuris⁴⁴and all that concerns them both mentioned and unmentioned between the date of the present indenture and the feast of St. John the Baptist which will be in the year of Our Lord 1378 in the manner mentioned below, that is to say in the first year he shall quarry, cut and smooth the stones and will prepare one walk, that is to say one quarter of the cloister, with the two doors of the Dormitory and the Refectory in such a way that the Abbot may be able to have it carted in the summer season of the same year before the hay harvest and Stephen himself may be able to shape and cut it in the following winter season and to set it and erect it in the following season of Lent with the aforementioned doors if the weather is favourable, otherwise in the summer season in such good time however that the carpenters and tilers (coopertores) ⁴⁴The meaning of this word is obscure
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