pitanciaria

pitanciaria [pitancia+-aria] , office of a religious house responsible for receiving, distributing, and accounting for pittances, pittancery; the estates and resources belonging to or administered by this office. b (~a coquinarii) ? kitchen or cookhouse spec. for preparation or distribution of pittances. c1183 que ‥ maneria ‥ pia largitione antecessorum meorum venerabilium abbatum Westmonasterii ad officium ~ie semper pertinuisse dinoscuntur Ch. Westm. 299; tunc a manu domini legati evasit, assignatis tamen pro bono pacis ‥ certis redditibus ad ~iam, quia prius vina et medones de celario et carnes de lardario abbatis statutis temporibus ad hoc accipere consuevimus Chr. Evesham 106; c1206 ad ~iam pertinet de nova terra in E. decem marce, ‥ de ecclesia de H. una marca, ‥ de molendino seneschalli de S. dimidia marca Ib. 214n; assignate fuerunt predicte sex marce per predictum abbatem ‥ ad ~iam ad inveniendum vinum conventui, quantum sffiucere potuerunt Swafham 104; per consensum conventus totum ‥ pratum idem abbas W. assignavit ad ~iam ad anniversarium ‥ domini ‥ abbatis annuatim honorifice faciendum Whittlesey 127; 13‥ hec cartula est sub titulo pitancierie Glastonie CS 816; abbas assignavit ~ie certos redditus, ad summam octo librarum, quatuordecim solidorum, et duorum denariorum taliter dispensandam J. Glast. 133.  b ~ia ‥ coquinarii cum volta ‥ ejus tempore et auxilio edificata est Chr. Evesham Cont. A 287.