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wastellus

1 wastellus v. washellus
2 wastellus (g-) [AN gastel, guastel, ME wastel], sort of bread or cake made of fine flour, ‘wastel’ (also panis ~i or panis de ~o). b (w. dominicus) ‘pain-demaine’. statuit ‥ caritatem quandam albi vini conventui fieri, cum singulis guastellis piperatis singulis monachis Chr. Battle f. 100v; quod non faciunt quodlibet genus panis ‥ viz. quachetum, vastellum, symmellum Iter Cam. 9; nec ‥ gastella que vulgo miches vocitantur habere consueverant Cust. Westm. 98; quando quarterium frumenti venditur pro xij d., tunc ponderabit panis quadrantalis de ~o vj li. xvj s. Fleta 71; quibus ‥ diebus et festivitatibus siminella cum pane fermentato et quibus gastellum sive miche sint habituri fratres Cust. Cant. 160; panis ‥ symenelli ponderabit minus ~o Reg. Malm. I 135; 1337 in cc de gastellis pro pauperibus, iiij s. Househ. Ac. 204; pondus ~i in de Cene iiij li. sterlingorum Cart. Rams. III 159.  b 1194 duodecim de dominicis guastellis nostris et totidem de simenellis nostris dominicis et duodecim sextercia vini Rec. Scot. I Illustr. xxviii; s1194 cum ‥ rex Scotie ad curiam regis Anglie venerit ‥ habebit quotidie de liberatione ‥ xij ~os dominicos et xij siminellos dominicos R. Howd. III 245; habebit cotidie ‥ xij ~os dominicos ‥ et iv sexteria de dominico vino regis Flor. Hist. II 112.

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