[nextos]

Oxford colleges use quite a lot of antique jargon. Battel is also something related that took me a while to figure out.

A battel is an account of items supplied by a buttery, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battel.

[QuercusMax]

And they pronounce 'Magdalen' as 'maudlin' because that's briefly how people pronounced it hundreds of years ago.