Good Evening All - Just obtained an excellent book by Peter Clery - "The Wealth and Estates of Glastonbury Abbey at the Dissolution in 1539" from which the following information comes for the list's interest I hope! This may not be exactly OEL, but Medarius was the title given to the person responsible for receiving rent and a separate amount of money or its value in honey, as rental for land held from the Abbey. He was quaintly know as "The Honey Monk". In the example given the rental was 4.8d per acre and the extra amount was 2s 6d which seems to have been a set amount regardless of the size of the property! Honey seems to have been an important product in those days, being used for making mead and as a dietary sweetener and was an important element in the domestic life of the monastery. The writer also says that Honey was an important product in the area and that both free and customary tenants had considerable responsibilities for its supply. Did this also apply does anyone know, to other areas of the British Isles and was it confined to monastic production? Kind Regards June & Roy (SANHS Member No 1066) http://www.btinternet.com/~roy.cox/index.htm