E.R. Roger de
Merlay, Lord of
Morpeth,
twelfth century
93. NUNCOTON St Mary C.Pr. Linc. Linc. Alan de
Mounceaux,
before 1129
94. NUNEATON St Mary B.Pr. Warw. Worc. Robert, Earl
of Leicester,
c. 1155, for
nuns of
Fontevrault
95. NUNKEELING St Mary and B.Pr. York., York Agnes de
St Helen E.R. Arches, widow
of Herbert St
Quintin, 1152
96. NUNMONKTON St Mary B.Pr. York., York William de
W.R. Arches and
Ivetta his
wife, temp.
Stephen
97. PINLEY St Mary C.Pr. Warw. Worc. Robert de
Pillarton,
temp. Henry I
98. POLESWORTH St Edith B.Ab. Warw. C.L. Saxon
foundation.
Refounded by
Robert Marmion,
temp. Stephen
99. POLSLOE St Katherine B.Pr. Devon Ex. Traditional
founder,
William Bruere,
before 1169
100. REDLINGFIELD St Andrew B.Pr. Suff. Norw. Manasses, Count
and St Mary of Guisnes, and
Emma de Arras
his wife, 1120
101. ROMSEY St Mary and B.Ab. Hants. Win. Edward the
St Elfrida Elder, c. 907:
refounded by
King Edgar, 967
102. ROSEDALE St Mary and C.Pr. York., York Robert, son of
St Lawrence N.R. Nicholas de
Stuteville,
temp. Richard I
103. ROTHWELL St John A.Pr. Northants. Linc. ... de Clare,
Baptist thirteenth
century
104. ROWNEY St John B.Pr. Herts. Linc. Conan, Duke of
Baptist Britanny and
Earl of
Richmond, temp.
Henry II,
suppressed 1459
105. RUSPER St Mary B.Pr. Suss. Chich. Twelfth century,
Magd. probably by one
of the Braose
family
106. ST STEPHEN'S St Stephen B.Pr. York, York Uncertain.
(Foukeholme) N.R. Disappeared
after 1349
107. SETON St Mary B.Pr. Cumb. York Henry son of
(Lekeley) Arthur son of
Godard, Lord
of Millom,
twelfth century
108. SEWARDSLEY St Mary C.Pr. Northants. Linc. Richard de
Magd. Lestre, temp.
Henry II
109. SHAFTESBURY St Mary and B.Ab. Dorset Salis. King Alfred,
St Edward c. 888
110. SHEPPEY St Mary and B.Pr. Kent Cant. St Sexburga,
(Minster) St Sexburga 675
111. SINNING- St Mary C.Pr. York, York Bertram Haget,
THWAITE W.R. c. 1160
112. SOPWELL St Mary B.Pr. Herts. Linc. Under abbey of
St Albans
113. STAINFIELD St Mary B.Pr. Linc. Linc. William or
Henry de Percy,
temp. or before
Henry II
114. STAMFORD St Mary and B.Pr. Northants. Linc. William
St Michael Waterville,
Abbot of
Peterborough,
c. 1155
115. STIXWOULD St Mary C.Pr. Linc. Linc. Lucy, Countess
of Perche,
temp. Stephen
116. STRATFORD- St Leonard B.Pr. Midd. Lon. William, Bishop
BY-BOW of London,
temp. Henry I
117. STUDLEY St Mary B.Pr. Oxon Linc. Probably
Bernard of St
Valery, before
1176
118. SWAFFHAM -- B.Pr. Cambs. Ely Uncertain,
BULBECK before temp.
John
119. SWINE St Mary C.Pr. York., York Robert de
E.R. Verli, temp.
Stephen
120. SYON St Saviour, Brig. Midd. Lon. King Henry V,
St Mary and Ab. 1414
St Bridget
121. TARRANT St Mary and C.Ab. Dorset Salis. Ralph de
KEYNES All Saints Keynes, before
1235
122. THETFORD St George B.Pr. Norf. Norw. Hugh, Abbot of
and St Bury St
Gregory Edmunds, c.
1160 (removed
from Ling)
123. THICKET St Mary B.Pr. York., York Roger FitzRoger,
E.R. temp. Richard I
124. USK -- B.Pr. Monm. Llan. Sir Richard de
Clare, before
1236
125. WALLINGWELLS St Mary B.Pr. Notts. York Ralph de
Chevrecourt,
temp. Stephen
126. WATERBEACH St Mary of Fr.Pr. Cambs. Ely Denise de
Pity and Mountchesney,
St Clare 1294. Removed
to Denny, 1348
127. WESTWOOD St Mary B.Pr. Worc. Worc. Osbert son of
Hugh and
Eustacia de
Saye, his
mother, temp.
Henry II (for
nuns of
Fontevrault)
128. WHERWELL Holy Cross B.Ab. Hants. Win. Queen Elfrida,
and St Peter c. 986
129. WHISTON St Mary C.Pr. Worc. Worc. Walter de
Magd. Cantilupe,
Bishop of
Worcester,
before 1255
130. WILBERFOSS St Mary B.Pr. York., York Uncertain,
E.R. temp. Stephen
131. WILTON St Mary, St B.Ab. Wilts. Salis. St Alburga, c.
Barthlomew 800: refounded
and St Edith by King Alfred,
c. 871
132. WINCHESTER St Mary and B.Ab. Hants. Win. King Alfred and
St Edburga Queen Ealhswith,
c. 900.
Refounded by St
Ethelwold, 963
133. WINTNEY St Mary, St C.Pr. Hants. Win. Richard Holte
Mary Magd. and Christine
and St John his wife,
Baptist daughter of
Thomas Cobreth,
twelfth century
134. WIX St Mary B.Pr. Ess. Lon. Walter
Mascherell,
Alexander and
Edith, children
of Walter the
Deacon, temp.
Henry I
135. WOTHORPE St Mary B.Pr. Northants. Linc. Uncertain:
united to St
Michael's,
Stamford, 1354
136. WROXALL St Leonard B.Pr. Warw. Worc. Hugh, Lord of
Hatton and
Wroxall, temp.
Henry I
137. WYKEHAM St Mary and C.Pr. York., York Pain FitzOsbert,
St Michael N.R. c. 1153
138. YEDINGHAM St Mary B.Pr. York., York Helewise de
E.R. Clere, before
1163
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I. EPISCOPAL REGISTERS
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Rowney for leave to have a proctor to beg alms for them, as their
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Prioress and Convent of Clerkenwell, asking her to obtain the King's
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arrest of apostate nuns, nine in all).
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(_a_) _Bath and Wells_
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3 vols.
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(_g_) _Hereford_
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(_i_) _Lincoln_
Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln, ed. A.
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Monasteries in his Diocese, 1531, ed. E. Peacock. (Archaeologia,
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(_j_) _London_
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Stephani Gravesend, Episcoporum Londoniensium, 1306-38, ed. R. C.
Fowler. (Canterbury and York Soc. 1911.)
(_k_) _Norwich_
Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich, 1492-1532, ed. A. Jessopp.
(Camden Soc. 1888.)
(_l_) _Rochester_
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York Soc. 1914 ff., in course of publication.)
(_m_) _Salisbury_
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C. T. Flower. (Canterbury and York Soc. 1914, in course of
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(_n_) _Winchester_
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(Worcester Hist. Soc. 1898-1902.) 2 vols.
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(Surtees Soc. 1872.)
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of Henry of Newark, Archbishop of York, 1298-99, ed. W. Brown. Vol.
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(1531-44), ed. W. Brown. (Yorks. Archaeol. Journal, XVI, 1901, pp.
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(_q_) _Foreign Visitations_
Des Augustinerpropstes Iohannes Busch Chronicon Windeshemense und
Liber de Reformatione Monasteriorum, bearbeitet von Dr Karl Grube.
(Halle, 1886.)
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Visites Pastorales d'Eude Rigaud Archeveque de Rouen, 1248-69, pub.
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II. ACCOUNT ROLLS
(_a_) _Catesby_ (_2-3 Hen. V_)
Baker, History of Northampton (1822-30), vol. I, p. 278.
(_b_) _Romsey_ (1412-13, _summary_)
Liveing, H. G. D., Records of Romsey Abbey (1906), p. 194.
(_c_) _St Helen's, Bishopsgate_ (_sixteenth century, extracts_)
Victoria County History: London, I, p. 460.
(_d_) _St Radegund's, Cambridge_ (1449-51, 1481-2)
Gray, A., The Priory of St Radegund, Cambridge (1898), pp. 145-179.
(_e_) _St Mary de Pre, St Albans_ (1487-9)
Dugdale, Monasticon, III, p. 358.
(_f_) _Swaffham Bulbeck_ (1483-4)
Dugdale, Monasticon, IV, p. 458.
(_g_) _Syon_ (_Cellaress' and Chambress' Accounts_, 1536-7)
Myroure of Oure Ladye, ed. J. H. Blunt. (E.E.T.S. 1873.) Introduction,
pp. xxvi-xxxi.
(_h_) _Miscellaneous_ (_Extracts_)
C. T. Flower, Obedientiars' Accounts of Glastonbury and other
Religious Houses. Trans. St Paul's Ecclesiological Soc. vol. VII, Pt.
II (1912), pp. 50-62.
III. INVENTORIES
(_a_) _Brewood_ (1536)
Dugdale, Monasticon, IV, p. 500.
(_b_) _Cheshunt_ (1536)
Cussans, History of Hertfordshire, Hertford Hundred, App. II, pp.
267-71.
(_c_) _Easebourne_ (1450)
Sussex Archaeol. Coll. IX, pp. 10-13.
(_d_) _Gracedieu_ (1536)
Nichols, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (1804),
III, pp. 653-4.
(_e_) _Hedingham, Castle_ (1536)
Trans. Essex Archaeological Soc. IX, pp. 289-92.
(_f_) _Kilburn_ (1536)
Dugdale, Monasticon, IV, p. 424.
(_g_) _Langley_ (1485)
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at Langley, Co. Leicester, 1485. (Leicestershire Architec. Soc. 1872.)
(_h_) _Lillechurch_ (1525)
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3rd series (privately printed, 1906-13), pp. 403-8.
(_i_) _Sheppey_ (1536)
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Martin New-Work, Dover, and the Benedictine Priory of SS. Mary and
Sexburga in the Island of Shepey for Nuns. (Reprinted from
Archaeologia Cantiana, 1868, pp. 18-35.)
(_j_) _Wherwell_ (_Sacristy_, c. 1340)
Victoria County History, Hants. II, pp. 134-5.
(_k_) _Wintney_ (_Frater_, 1420)
Victoria County History, Hants. II, pp. 150-1.
(_l_) _Miscellaneous Fragments_
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IV. CARTULARIES
(_a_) _Buckland_
A Cartulary of Buckland Priory in the County of Somerset, ed. F. W.
Weaver. (Somerset Rec. Soc. 1909.)
(_b_) _Crabhouse_
The Register of Crabhouse Nunnery, ed. Mary Bateson. (Norfolk and
Norwich Arch. Soc. Norfolk Archaeology, XI, 1892.)
(_c_) _Godstow_
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Text Soc. 1905-11.)
V. WILLS
Calendar of Wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, ed.
R. R. Sharpe (1889).
Early Lincoln Wills, ed. A. Gibbons (1888).
The Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, London, ed. F.
J. Furnivall. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1882.)
Lincoln Diocese Documents, ed. A. Clark. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1914.)
Lincoln Wills, ed. C. W. Foster. Vol. I. (Lincoln Record Soc. 1914.)
Testamenta Eboracensia, a Selection of Wills from the Registry at York,
ed. James Raine. 6 vols. (Surtees Soc. 1836-1902.)
Somerset Medieval Wills (1383-1558), ed. F. W. Weaver. 3 vols. (Somerset
Record Soc. 1901-5.)
VI. MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS AND LETTERS
Calendar of Close Rolls.
Calendar of Patent Rolls.
Calendar of Papal Letters.
Calendar of Papal Petitions.
Dugdale. Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel. 6
vols. in 8 (1817-30).
Ellis, H. Original Letters illustrative of English History, 1st series,
vol. II (1824).
Fowler, J. T. Cistercian Statutes, A.D. 1256-7, with supplementary
statutes of the order, 1257-8. (Reprinted from Yorks. Archaeol. Journal,
vols. IX-XI, 1885-90.)
Gasquet, F. A. Collectanea Anglo-Premonstratensia, 3 vols. (Camden Soc.
1906.)
Gibbons, A. Ely Episcopal Records (1891).
Lyndwood. Provinciale (1679).
Madox. Formulare Anglicanum (1702).
Paston Letters, ed. J. Gairdner. 4 vols. (1900).
Rotuli Parliamentorum. (Record Com. 6 vols. n.d. Index, 1832.)
Valor Ecclesiasticus. (Record Com. 1810-34).
Wharton. Anglia Sacra, 2 vols. (1691).
Wilkins. Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, 4 vols. (1737).
Wood, M. A. E. Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain. 3
vols. (1846).
VII. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE[2160]
An Alphabet of Tales, An English 15th Century Translation of the
Alphabetum Narrationum once attributed to Etienne de Besancon, ed. M. M.
Banks. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1904-5.)
Amundesham. Annales Monasterii S. Albani (Rolls Series, 1870), I.
Ancren Riwle, ed. and trans. James Morton (Camden Soc. 1853). Also trans.
(by Morton) with introd. by F. A. Gasquet in The King's Classics, 1907.
Caesarius of Heisterbach. Dialogus Miraculorum, ed. Joseph Strange, 2
vols. (Cologne, 1851.)
Chaucer, Complete Works, ed. Skeat (1906).
Chronicle of Lanercost, translated by Sir Herbert Maxwell (1913).
Clene Maydenhod, ed. F. J. Furnivall. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1867.)
Court of Love, The, printed in Chaucer's Complete Works, ed. R. Morris
(1891), vol. IV.
Early English Lives of Saints, ed. F. J. Furnivall. (Trans. of the
Philological Soc. 1858.) For _The Land of Cokayne_ and _Why I can't be a
Nun_.
Etienne de Bourbon. Anecdotes Historiques, etc., ed. Lecoy de la Marche.
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Fifteenth Century Cookery Book, A, ed. R. W. Chambers, and Two Fifteenth
Century Franciscan Rules, ed. W. W. Seton. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1914.)
Gower. Vox Clamantis, ed. G. Macaulay (1902).
Hali Meidenhad, ed. O. Cockayne. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1866.)
Jacobi Vitriacensis Exempla e Sermonibus Vulgaribus, ed. T. F. Crane.
(Folk Lore Soc. 1890.)
Langland. Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, ed. Skeat, 2
vols. (1886).
Medieval Garner, A, selected, translated and annotated by G. G. Coulton
(1910).
Myroure of Oure Ladye, The, ed. J. J. Blunt. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1873.)
Rule of St Benedict, ed. Gasquet. (King's Classics, 1909.)
Tale of Beryn, The, ed. Furnivall and Stone. (Chaucer Soc. 1887.)
Three Middle English Versions of the Rule of St Benet, ed. E. A. Kock.
(Early Eng. Text Soc. 1902.)
Walsingham. Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, ed. H. T. Riley (Rolls
Series, 1867-9), 3 vols.
---- Historia Anglicana, ed. H. T. Riley (Rolls Series, 1863), vol. I.
VIII. PLANS
Burnham Abbey, by H. Brakspear, in Archaeol. Journal, LX (1903). (See
Bucks. Archit. and Archaeol. Soc. Records, XXXI.)
Carrow Priory, by R. M. Phipson, in Norf. and Norw. Arch. Soc. Trans. IX,
and Rye, Carrow Abbey (1889).
Kirklees Priory, by J. Bilson, in Yorks. Archaeol. Journ. XX (1908).
Lacock Abbey, by H. Brakspear, in Archaeologia, LVII (1900). (See also
Wilts. Archaeol. Journ. XXXI.)
Marlow, Little, by C. R. Peers, in Archaeol. Journ. LIX (1902).
Marrick Priory, facsimile of plan taken at time of Dissolution in Coll.
Topog. et Gen. V (1838).
St Radegund, Cambridge (now Jesus College) in Gray, The Priory of St
Radegund, Cambridge (1898).
C. MODERN WORKS
I. ON PARTICULAR NUNNERIES (INCLUDING CHARTERS, ETC.)
_Aldgate (Minoresses)._ Fly, H. Some account of an Abbey of Nuns, formerly
situated in the street now called the Minories. Archaeologia, XV (1803).
_Barrow Gurney._ Hugo, T. Medieval Nunneries of the County of Somerset
(1867).
_Brodholme._ Cole, R. E. G. The Priory of St Mary of Brodholme. (Linc.
Archit. and Archaeol. Soc.) in Assoc. Archit. Socs. Reports and Papers,
XXVIII (1905-6).
_Bromhale._ Scott, R. F. Notes from the Records of St John's College,
Cambridge (reprinted from The Eagle, 1890-1903, _passim_), Series I and
III. (Documents from Bromhale and Lillechurch.)
_Buckland._ Hugo, T. History of Minchin Buckland Priory and Preceptory in
Somerset (1861).
_Cannington._ See Barrow Gurney.
_Carrow._ Beecheno, F. R. Notes on Carrow Priory (1886).
Rye, W. Carrow Abbey (1889).
Rye and Tillett in Norfolk Antiq. Misc. II.
_Crabhouse._ Jessopp, A. Frivola (1896). For 'Ups and Downs of an Old
Nunnery' (Crabhouse).
_Dartford._ C. F. Palmer. Hist. of the Priory of Dartford in Kent.
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INDEX
Ff. after an entry implies that there are references to the same subject
on at least two immediately succeeding pages.
Abbess, autocratic power of, 64ff., 149
---- chaplain of (nun), 62ff., 112, 129, 250
---- entertainment of guests by, 59ff., 69, 118;
nuns by, 61
---- executrix or supervisor of wills, 73, 73_n. 2_
---- lodging and household of, 59, 135, 151, 167, 316, 317
---- of Fools, 311
_Abbey of the Holy Ghost_, 533
Abbot of Fools, 311
Aberford, Rector of, 220_n. 5_
_Accidia_, 293ff., 302, 437
Accounts, 96ff., 118ff., 245, 333ff., 639ff.;
annual statement of, 221;
audit of, 220, 221
---- presentation of, by head of house, 219, 220;
by obedientiaries, etc., 219, 224;
_see also_ _Status domus_
Aconbury Priory, 23_n. 1_, 339
---- Churches appropriated to, 113_n._
Adeburn, Alicia de, 21
Adeleshey, Joan, 443
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 271
Alcock, John, Bishop of Ely, 398, 533, 602
Aldelesse, Juliana, 399
Aldgate, St Clare outside, 171_n. 2_
Alesbury, Agnes of, 39, 40
Alfrad, the donkey of, 383, 588ff.
Alice, Prioress of Wintney, 87
Alienation of goods, 225
Allesley, Agnes, 272, 409
Almeneches, St Sauveur, 636;
moral state of, 666, 667
Almoness of nunnery, 132
Almsgiving by nuns, 118, 120, 121, 132, 649
Alnwick, William, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 23, 26, 32, 33, 62, 66ff., 71,
77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 154, 161, 162, 164, 165, 199, 204, 207, 210,
215, 221, 225, 226, 234, 245, 249, 250, 263, 264, 272, 273, 277,
278, 283, 304, 317, 320, 331, 332, 334, 336, 340, 357, 358,
361_n. 1_, 363, 367, 377_n. 2_, 380, 382, 397, 399_n. 1_, 400,
402_n. 3_, 405_n. 2_, 408, 412, 414, 416, 437, 449, 457, 461, 463,
481, 483, 486, 488, 490, 491, 500
_Alphabet of Tales, An_, 511_n._, 516_n. 2_, 519_n. 1_
Alsace, 239
Alsop, Robert of, 234
Amesbury Priory, 2, 3, 242_n. 8_, 268_n._, 350, 360_n. 2_, 454, 455,
470, 482, 497
Anchoresses, 271, 528ff.
_Ancren Riwle_, 156, 258, 271, 305, 383, 500, 525, 527ff., 557, 592,
650, 655
Ankerwyke Priory, 26, 81, 82, 111_n. 3_, 146, 166, 218, 333, 405_n. 2_,
441_n._, 460, 461, 487_n._, 491_n. 2_
---- financial mismanagement of, 205, 225_n. 2_;
illiteracy of inmates at, 250;
inventory of goods of, 222_n. 3_;
poverty of, 153, 154, 162, 167, 177, 234, 235;
Prioress of, 32, 62, 66, 163_n. 1_, 210, 304_n. 2_, 340, 414, 493;
_and see_ Kirkby, Margery; Medforde, Clarence;
_status domus_ of, 221, 222;
teacher for young nuns appointed, 260;
visitors at, 490
Anlaby, Josiana de, 53
Apelgarth, Sabina de, 469
Appropriation of benefices, 113, 135, 144, 224
Arden, Henry, 85
---- Priory, 16, 153_n. 3_, 184, 213, 242, 382_n. 1_, 494_n. 1_, 601
---- accounts of, 220;
boarders at, 579;
corrody granted by, 206;
custos of, 230_n. 8_;
dilapidations at, 170, 175;
mismanagement of, 85, 86;
poverty of, 184_n. 4_;
Prioress of, 83;
_and see_ Eleanor of Arden;
relics at, 116
Arderne, Katherine de, 189
Armathwaite Priory, 428, 429
Armstrong, Jane, 326
Arnecliffe, Hugh de, 234
Arthington, 213, 217, 291_n. 2_, 356_n. 4_, 400_n. 1_
---- accounts of, 220;
bequests to, 326;
children at, 579;
coadjutress appointed at, 224;
_custos_ of, 231;
dilapidations at, 170;
dorter of, 170;
frater of, 170;
moral state of, 598, 599;
private property at, 336, 337;
prioresses of, 180, 217;
_and see_ Berghby, Isabella de; Popeley, Elizabeth; Screvyn, Agnes de;
relics at, 117
Arundell, Elizabeth, 442
---- Sir John, 73, 74, 429ff.
---- Thomas, Bishop of Ely, 176
Aschby, William, 399_n. 3_
Aske, Robert, 282ff.
Asserio, Rigaud de, Bishop of Winchester, 188, 369
Asshe, John de, 198
Assize of bread and ale, 104
Astley, Lora, 30
Astom, Matilda, 453
Atwater, William, Bishop of Lincoln, 222_n. 3_, 273, 292, 382_n. 3_,
441_n._, 491, 596
Aubrey, John, 274, 381
_Aucassin and Nicolete_, 513, 514, 541
Auditor of nunnery accounts, 99, 100
Audley, Lady, 306, 412
---- Sir Hugh, 419
Aunselle, Alice, 337
Avernay, novice of, 500, 507
Avice of Beverley, 365_n. 3_
Aylesbury, Margaret, 318
Ayscough, Bishop, 182
Ayton, John of, 354, 391, 435
Babyngton, Katherine, 243
Backwell, Rector of, 233
Bacton, Margaret, 168
Badlesmere, Bartholomew de, 203
Bailiff of nunnery, 99ff., 109, 129, 138, 143, 147, 148, 219, 227, 228,
257
Bakewell, Mr, 124, 140
Baldock, Ralph, Bishop of London, 34_n. 2_
Ball, John, 138
Barber, Isabel, 268
Bardi, the, 91
Bardney, Abbot of, 364
Barking Abbey, 2, 13, 19, 42, 64_n. 6_, 142, 156_n. 7_, 162, 176, 186,
188, 258_n. 4_, 320_n._, 326, 347_n. 2_, 366_n. 3_, 404_n. 5_,
406_n. 3_, 407, 635
---- Abbess of, 60, 61, 105, 117, 185, 198, 420;
_and see_ Pole, Katherine de la
---- Cellaress of, 131_n._, 133, 257, 563;
accounts of, 136, 139_n. 5_;
_Charthe_ of, 562ff.
---- children at, 571, 572;
church appropriated to, 113_n. 1_;
claustration at, 348, 349;
Clemence of, 239;
corrodies at, 190, 197, 198;
library of, 242_n. 8_;
pensions demanded from, 195, 196;
pittances at, 143_n._, 323, 324;
_Puerilia solemnia_ at, 312;
resident chaplains at, 144;
sanctuary at, 420, 421
Barnehous, John, 269
Barnwell, Prior of, 125, 142_n. 3_, 202_n. 3_
Barrow Priory, 233, 385_n. 4_, 360_n. 1_;
_custos_ of, 233;
Prioress of, 233;
_and see_ Gurney, Joanna
Barsinghausen, 674
Barton, Elizabeth, 419_n. 2_
Bartone, Isabel, 399_n. 1_
---- Joan, 413
Basedale Priory, 445;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_, 231;
moral state of, 597, 598;
prioresses of, 205, 284_n._, 360_n. 2_;
_and see_ Davell, Elizabeth; Fletcher, Joan; Percy, Joan de
Basilia de Cotum, 361_n. 2_
Basle, Synod of, 314
Bassett, Christian, 69, 97, 102_n._, 105, 106, 201;
accounts of, 118_n._, 313, 334
Batayle, Margaret de la, 26
Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, 268
Bath and Wells, Bishops of, 37, 38, 71;
_and see_ Drokensford, John de
Bauceyn, Juliana, 185
Beatrice, story of, 512ff.
Beauchamp, Agnes de, 192
---- Katherine de, 25, 26, 330_n. 3_
---- Sir Guy de, 25, 330_n. 3_
---- Thomas, Earl of Warwick, 330
Beaumont, Lady, 257
---- Lord, 268
Beauvais, John, Bishop of, 418
Becon, Thomas, 282
Bedford, Jacquetta, Duchess of, 419
Bedford, Sheriff of, 195
Belers, Margaret, 367, 382
_Bel-Eyse, L'Ordre de_, 537, 537_n. 2_, 542
Belgrave, Bridget, 137;
_and see_ Syon Abbey, chambress of
Belle Doette, 555, 556
Benedict, Rule of St, 23, 50, 61, 66, 136, 150, 245, 278, 285ff., 300,
315, 322, 341ff., 356, 408_n. 4_
---- translations of, 251, 252, 341_n. 1_
Benet, Isabel, 80, 83, 278, 283, 292, 310, 378, 389, 449, 460, 486, 489,
493
Bengeworth, John, 449
Berghby, Isabella de, 224, 469, 598, 599
Berkeley, Lady Elizabeth, 410, 411
---- Lord, 74
Bernard, Eleanor, 360_n. 2_
Berners, Juliana, 240, 308
Bernier, 433ff.
Berre, Alice, 206, 207
---- William, 206
Berthold of Regensburg, 518_n. 1_
Berwick, North, Priory of, 418
Berwick-on-Tweed, Gild at, 11
Berze, Seigneur de, 542
Betsone, Thomas, 287
Bever, John, 86
Beverley, St Nicholas' Hospital, 365
Bible, reading of, by nuns, 254, 255
Bicester, Prior of, 234
---- Priory, 210_n. 2_
Birlaunde, Henry of, 233
Bischofsheim, Abbess of, 237
Bishopsgate, St Helen's, 2, 13, 55, 56, 58_n._, 109_n._, 292_n. 3_, 309,
311, 395, 402_n. 4_, 405, 408, 441_n._;
children at, 265, 273, 576, 577;
corrodies granted by, 209;
Prioress of, 55, 56, 265, 307
Bival Abbey, 636, 647;
Abbess of, 645;
financial state of, 637, 638
Bixley, John, 208
Blackborough Priory, 32, 170, 371, 412;
fair of, 106_n. 2_;
poverty of, 184_n. 4_;
Prioress of, 64, 65, 220
Black Death, the, 164, 177ff., 215, 457
Blacklow Hill, 419
Blankney, Vicar of, 232
Bleden, Joan, 5
Bleeding of nuns, 257ff., 259_n. 2_, 316, 324, 646;
of monks, 258, 259
Blois, Robert de, 8
Blund, Ann le, 6
---- Sir John le, 6
Boarders in nunnery, 112, 113, 158
Boccaccio, 516_n. 4_, 522
Bodenham, Cecily, 72
Boleyn, Anne, 54, 55
---- Thomas, 77
Bondeville Priory, 636, 646;
accounts of, 640;
_custos_ of, 640;
financial state of, 255_n. 2_, 637, 638;
inventory of, 641, 645;
Prioress of, 644, 645
Bonevyll, Sir William, 329
Boniface VIII, 201_n. 2_, 344, 350, 351, 353, 354
---- IX, 117, 175, 345
Booth, Archbishop William, 175
Bossall, Vicar of, 231
Boteler, Margaret la, 365
Botere, Walter, 33
Botulphe, Joan, 312
Bourbon, Etienne de, 309, 372, 516_n. 1_
Bourbon, Marie de, 558
Bowes, Agnes, 457
Bowet, Henry, Archbishop of York, 83_n._, 339, 477
Bowlis, Alice, 48ff.
Boy Bishop, the, 311ff.
Boyfield, Alice, 46
---- Elizabeth, 46ff.
Bradford-on-Avon, Church of, 176
_Braies au Prestre, Les_, 541
Brakle, Agnes, 88
Brampton Church, 463
Brantyngham, Thomas de, Bishop of Exeter, 353, 403_n. 5_, 417
Brasyer, Stephen, 103
Brentford, Chapel of the Angels, 99
Brenyntone, Alicia, 33
Bret, Isabel, 27, 32, 191, 192
---- Robert, 191_n. 2_, 192
Brewood (Staffs.), 98, 147_n. 4_, 308, 443_n. 2_
---- Prioress of, 183_n. 6_
Brid, Aleyn, 207
Bridlington, 427
Bristol, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 442_n. 2_
---- St Mary Magdalen, 183, 184_n. 4_
Brittany, Duke John of, 429
Brodholme Priory, 229_n. 1_, 244, 449;
_custos_ of, 230;
Prioress of, 423
Broke, Elizabeth, 88_n._, 149, 169, 389, 469
Bromele, Thomas, 267
Bromhale Priory, 73, 81, 87, 360_n. 2_, 377;
dissolution of, 603;
prioresses of, _see_ Juliana of Bromhale
Brompton, John, 326
---- Rector of, _see_ Playce, Robert de
Bromyard, John, 516_n. 2_
Broughton (Northants.), Rector of, 352
Browne, Agnes, 20
Bruce, Robert, 427
Brugge, Joan, 424_n. 2_
---- Peter, 424_n. 2_
Brun, Alicia, 21
Brunne, Robert of, 521
Brus, Elizabeth de, 420
---- Robert de, 420
Bruys, Joan, 441_n._
Bryce, Master, 149, 170
Buckingham, Archidiaconate of, 174
---- John, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 24, 220, 223, 226, 249, 273, 322_n._,
337, 386, 390_n. 5_
Buckland Priory, 1, 2, 37, 330;
poverty of, 165;
Prioress of, 37, 38
Bugga, Abbess, 237
Bungay, 33, 442_n. 2_
Buonvisi, Lucrezia, 474
Burghersh, Bishop, 450_n. 2_, 582
Burgo, Elizabeth de, 420
Burn, John, 242
Burnham Abbey, 146, 188, 191, 301, 326, 351, 442_n. 2_, 457;
education of children at, 263, 272, 569;
poverty of, 184_n. 4_
Burton, Abbot of, 4
---- Margaret of, 443_n. 2_
Burtscheid, Abbey of, 28
Bury St Edmunds, 48, 370
Busch, Johann, 271, 296, 345, 473, 670ff.
Bustard, John, 231
Butler, Agnes, 449
Bycombe, Isolda, 410
---- John, 410
Byland Abbey, 427
Caen, Abbaye-aux-Dames, 305, 636, 646;
accounts of, 639;
financial state of, 637
Caesarius of Heisterbach's _Dialogus Miraculorum_, 27, 27_n. 1_, 28,
108, 274_n._, 277_n. 1_, 296, 297, 450_n. 3_, 511_n._, 516_n. 3_,
520, 531, 627ff., 656
Caldwell Priory, 308_n. 1_, 386;
Prior of, 46
Calle, Richard, 411, 412
Caluerley, Richard, 399
Calwell, Thomas, 120
Camberwell, 71
Cambridge, Elizabeth de, 398
---- Friars Minor of, 122
---- Jesus College, 270, 602
---- Mayor of, 122
---- St John's College, 603
---- St Radegund's Priory, 60_n._, 106_n. 1_, 122, 137ff., 148, 151ff.,
157, 158, 175, 292_n. 2_, 356_n. 2_, 398, 571;
accounts of, 98, 102_n. 2_, 103, 119, 123, 127, 128_n. 1_, 142, 152,
327, 571;
alms given by, 121, 122;
bailiff of, _see_ Key, Thomas;
chaplains of, 153;
church of, 125;
churches appropriated to, 135_n. 5_;
confessor of, 152;
clothes of nuns at, 323;
dissolution of, 602;
fire at, 172;
Garlick Fair of, 106_n. 1_;
gifts to, 175, 176;
hospitality of, 119, 120;
liveries of servants at, 137;
poverty of, 184_n. 4_;
prioresses of, 147_n. 5_, 152, 169, 177, 366_n. 2_;
_and see_ Lancaster, Joan;
repairs at, 123ff., 169;
servants of, 137, 152;
visitation of, 494_n. 1_
Camoys, Margaret de, 73
Campsey Priory, 2, 39, 64_n. 6_, 167, 168, 243, 336;
hospitality at, 417, 418;
mismanagement by Prioress of, 168, 417
_Canard Blanc, Le_, 617
Cannington Priory, 188, 194, 410, 452;
boarders at, 453, 578;
coadjutresses appointed at, 225;
corrodies, unauthorised sale of, at, 224;
Prioress of, 21, 224, 225, 410, 453;
simoniacal admission of nuns at, 224
Canons Ashby Priory, 231;
Prior of, 231
Canonsleigh Abbey, 2, 113_n. 1_, 183_n. 4_, 248, 353, 376, 406_n. 1_,
411, 416_n. 1_, 417;
Abbess of, 71_n. 4_, 224;
coadjutress appointed at, 224;
claustration relaxed at, 354, 355, 355_n. 2_;
presentation of accounts at, 219
Canterbury, Archbishops of, 87, 347_n. 2_, 482_n. 1_
---- Holy Sepulchre, 41, 156_n. 7_, 224, 348, 350, 356_n. 2_, 359_n. 2_,
387, 399, 403_n. 5_, 413_n. 2_, 449, 487, 494_n. 1_, 581;
alms given by, 120;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_, 232, 234, 487;
poverty of, 234
---- Hospital of St James, 82_n. 4_, 184_n. 5_, 390_n. 5_, 494_n. 1_
---- pilgrimage to, 95, 145
---- Priory, 210_n. 2_;
Prior of, 461, 482_n. 1_
Cantilupe, Thomas de, Bishop of Hereford, 248, 324, 347_n. 2_,
367_n. 2_, 369
Capron, John, 454
Carey, Eleanor, 54, 55
---- John, 54
Carinthia, Monastery of, 592
Carmaynton, David, 36, 37
Carrow Priory, 6, 12, 113_n. 1_, 148_n. 1_, 268, 292, 305, 366, 587;
boarders at, 411, 577;
children at, 267, 268;
churches appropriated to, 113_n. 2_;
complaints of bad food, etc., at, 168_n. 2_;
enforced reception of nuns into, 212;
lawsuit of, 202_n. 2_;
pestilence at, 181;
Philip Sparrow at, 590ff.;
Prioress of, 72, 105_n. 3_;
_and see_ Wilton, Edith;
revels at, 312;
sanctuary at, 422;
titles granted to, 116_n. 1_
Cassian, 294
Castile, Constance of, 421_n. 1_
Castle Hedingham Priory, 188, 192;
Prioress of, 360_n. 2_
Catesby, Joan, 84
---- Priory, 78, 82, 83, 87, 106, 107_n. 1_, 110, 146, 186, 188, 225,
228, 292, 304, 335, 358_n. 2_, 378, 388, 395, 402_n. 3_,
408_n. 2_, 447, 477, 486, 489, 583;
accounts of, 98, 102_n. 2_, 105_n. 3_, 115_n. 1_, 118_n._, 127, 220;
children at, 265, 272, 409, 577;
dilapidations at, 171_n. 2_;
home farm of, 109, 127;
households of nuns at, 320;
jewels pawned, 211;
master of, 231;
_peculium_ for clothes, 323, 333;
pilgrimages to, 117;
poverty of, 175, 184_n. 4_, 205;
Prioress of, 66, 107, 109, 121, 180, 192, 210, 211, 255, 272, 283,
320, 323, 333, 395, 452, 463, 477, 488, 493;
_and see_ Rich, Margaret; Wavere, Margaret
Catherine, nun of Bungay, 33
Catley, 18
Catton, Rector of, 30
Caxton, 241
Caynes, Sir Robert de, 192
Cellaress of nunnery, 117, 119, 132ff., 141, 143, 367, 368;
duties of, 133, 138;
accounts of, 119, 131_n._, 135
Chambress of nunnery, 119, 132, 134, 137, 368;
accounts of, 119, 131_n._, 135
Champnys, Alice, 243
_Chansons de Nonnes_, 502ff., 604ff.
Chantimpre, Thomas of, 584
Chantress of nunnery, 131, 132
Chaplains, 143ff., 148_n. 3_, 151;
residences of, 144
Chapter house, 249, 252, 475ff., 648ff., 672
Chark, John, 156
Charles V of France, 429
Charter, foundation, exhibition of, 221, 251
Charterys, Elizabeth, 152
Chatok, Elizabeth, 403
Chatteris Abbey, 19, 184_n. 4_, 306;
Abbess of, 65
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 19, 62, 74, 77, 94, 95, 371, 561, 588
Chaucy, Elizabeth, 19
_Checker_, 319
Chelles, nuns of, 345
Cheshunt Priory, 172, 313;
poverty of, 173, 174, 184_n. 4_
---- priest's chamber at, 145
Chester, 185
---- St Mary's, 146;
poverty of, 172
Chicksand Priory, 420
Children, education of, 261ff., 568ff.;
costs of, 269, 270
Chilterne, Alice de, 88_n._, 233
Chivynton, Johanna, 399
Chondut, Agnes, 17
Chondut, Katherine, 17, 18
---- Ralph, 17
Chygwell, William de, 197
Chyld, Margery, 399
Citeaux, Abbot of, 375_n. 1_
Clay, Richard del, 52
_Clef d'Amors, La_, 8
Clemence of Barking, 239
Clementhorpe Priory, 326, 360_n. 2_, 365_n. 3_, 384_n. 1_, 600, 601
_Clene Maydenhod_, 16, 525
Clerkenwell Priory, 2, 13, 179, 259_n. 3_
Cleveland, Archdeacon of, 51, 52
Clinton, Isabel, Lady, 7, 39
Clouvill, Isabel, 441
Coadjutress, 223, 224
Cobham, Thomas de, Bishop of Worcester, 39, 223
---- Eleanor de, 418, 419_n. 2_
---- Henry de, 421
_Cokaygne, The Land of_, 534ff., 542
Cokehill Priory, 165, 232_n. 5_, 385, 481, 482;
chaplain of, 232_n. 5_;
Prioress of, 185_n. 6_
Cokke, John, 124, 152
Colchester, 420
Coldingham, nuns of, 303_n. 2_, 365, 471
Coleworthe, Joan, 84
Cologne, Provincial Council of, 360_n. 1_
Colte, Anne, 447_n. 6_
Common Pleas, Court of, 70
Conde, Jean de, 539, 541, 542
_Conge d'elire_, 43_n. 2_, 44ff.
Conyers, Alice, 328_n. 2_
---- Cecily, 31
Cook, Alice, 395
---- William, 395
Copeland, John, 197
Cornhill, 41, 192
Cornwallis, Katherine, 50
Cornworthy Priory, 267, 413_n. 4_, 444, 445, 571;
boarders at, 269, 279;
Prioress of, 269;
_and see_ Dynham, _and_ Wortham
Corp, Isabella, 328
---- Thomas, 328
Corrodians, 188, 190, 197, 206ff., 409ff.
Corrodies, 151, 155, 190ff., 197, 206ff., 225, 226
Cotnall, William, 454
Coton Priory, _see_ Nuncoton
Cotton, Ellen, 459
Courtenay, Joan, 242
---- Lady Elizabeth, 417
---- Sir Hugh de, 417
---- William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 176, 226, 383, 459, 468
_Court of Love_, 509, 511
Couvel, Isabella, 224, 337
Coventry, 256
Cox, Agnes, 261_n. 2_
Crabhouse Priory, 30, 42, 90ff., 169, 378_n. 3_, 461, 468, 477_n. 1_;
dilapidations at, 170;
fire at, 171, 172;
Prioress of, 65;
_and see_ Wiggenhall;
Register of, 134, 135, 207;
repairs at, 92ff., 169
Cranmer, 270
Crayke, Cecilia, 57
Crecy, 10
Cressy, Sir Hugh de, 214
---- Jonetta, 214
Crioll, Margery de, 330
Crofton, John, 370
---- Juliana de, 329
Cromwell, Gregory, 263, 267
---- Thomas, 30_n. 5_, 32, 51_n._, 55, 57, 72, 146, 263
Crosse, Margaret, 363, 364
Croxton, 231
Cumberworth, Sir Thomas, 72, 166, 330, 370
Cunyers, Alice, 328
_Custos_ of nunnery, 229ff.
Dalderby, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 78, 173, 174, 231, 351ff., 366, 423,
443ff.
Damory, Roger, 420
Danby, Margaret, 360_n. 2_
Danne, Roger, 198
Dante, quoted, 294, 295
Darcy, Lord, 146
---- Margaret, 7, 322_n._
Dartford Abbey, 2, 3, 98, 247_n. 2_;
alms given by, 120;
boarders at, 573
Daubeney, Henry Lord, 146
Daubriggecourt, Sir John, 6
---- Margery, 6
Davell, Elizabeth, 360_n. 2_
Daventry Priory, 58
---- Roger de, 230_n. 1_
Davington Priory, 165, 184, 366, 604;
_custos_ of, 232;
financial mismanagement at, 203;
Prioress of, 183_n. 4_
Davy, Alice, 360_n. 2_
Davye, Agnes, 20, 319
Decun, Alice, 496
Delapre Priory (Herts.), 142, 244, 245, 313, 456, 479, 481;
accounts of, 97, 102_n._, 118_n._, 121, 131_n._, 139_n. 5_, 163_n. 4_,
309, 335, 479_n. 4_;
dissolution of, 604;
grades of inmates at, 244, 245;
huntsman of, 308;
illiterate inmates at, 244, 245;
litigation by, 201;
master of, 231;
merrymaking at, 309;
pittances at, 324;
Prioress of, 206, 370, 479_n. 4_;
_see_ Bassett, Christian; Wafer, Alice
Delapre Abbey (Northants.), 249, 321_n. 2_, 425, 457;
Abbess of, 360_n. 2_;
claustration at, 351ff.;
nuns of, excommunicated, 441, 442;
pensions demanded from, 195;
poverty of, 175
Delft, Franciscan tertiaries of, 240_n. 2_
Dene, William de, 203, 204
Denesson, Henry, 123ff.
Denny Abbey, 3, 13, 378_n. 3_;
Abbess of, 122
Depeden, Margaret, 326
---- Sir John, 325
Derby, Earl of, 146
Dereham, William de, 195
Derneburg, 673, 680
Deschamps, Eustache, 500, 507
Despenser, Hugh, 30, 420
---- Juliana, 198, 199
_Diolog concerning the Monarche_, 251
_Dives and Pauper_, 366_n. 4_
Dorset, Marquess of, 146
Dorter, 155, 169ff., 272, 273, 283, 313, 319, 409
Draycote, Cecilia de, 224
Dreffield, Maud de, 214
Drokensford, John de, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 71, 233, 358_n. 4_, 410
Du Bois, Pierre, 56
Dudley, Sir John, 279
Dunkirk, 258
Dunstable Priory, 308_n. 1_
Dunwyche, Alice, 484
Durant, Geoffrey, 40
---- Molde, 40
Durham, Bishops of, 31, 309_n. 6_, 427;
_see_ Hatfield, Thomas; Skirlaw, Walter
---- Priory, 210_n. 2_
---- Sherburn Hospital, 361_n. 2_
Dychere, Agnes, 167
Dymmok, Elizabeth, 413, 417
Dynham, Thomasyn, 269, 571
Eadburg, Abbess of Thanet, 237
Easebourne Priory, 4, 33, 63, 79, 188, 209, 255, 292_n. 2_, 330, 331,
340, 448_n. 1_, 452, 494_n. 1_, 582;
boarders at, 415;
churches appropriated to, 113_n. 1_, 182;
dilapidations at, 170, 171_n. 2_;
disorder at, 453, 454, 462;
inventory of goods of, 222_n. 3_;
library of, 241;
poverty of, 177;
prioresses of, 76ff., 83_n._, 205, 255, 454;
_see_ Montfort, Isabel de; Sackfelde, Margaret; Tawke, Agnes
Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, 191
Edward I, 455, 462
Edward II, 197, 204, 247, 427, 419
---- III, 9, 12, 198, 234
Edyndon, William of, Bishop of Winchester, 173, 213_n. 1_, 416
Egglestone Abbey, 428_n. 3_
Eleanor, Prioress of Arden, 83, 85, 87, 94, 211, 218, 382_n. 1_
Eleanor, wife of Henry III, 455
Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, 196
---- of York, 19
Ellerton Priory, 31, 428
Elstow Abbey, 2, 22, 24, 51_n._, 64_n. 6_, 186, 217, 226, 291_n. 2_,
333, 335, 351, 369, 383, 387, 390, 401_n. 1_, 402_n. 4_, 404,
405, 407_n. 1_, 454, 459ff., 463ff., 477, 581, 583;
Abbesses of, 19, 61, 64, 171, 195, 196, 217, 318, 464, 477;
_and see_ Boyfield, Eliz., _and_ Gascoigne, Agnes;
accounts, 131_n._, 335_n._;
bailiffs of, 227, 228, 249;
boarders at, 411, 415;
dilapidations at, 171;
education of children at, 262, 263, 272ff., 569;
election of Abbess at, 46ff.;
fair of, 106_n. 2_;
fashions at, 304, 586;
hospitality at, 358_n. 5_;
households of nuns at, 318, 320_n._, 321_n. 1_;
learning of novices, 244;
livings held by, 114;
number of nuns at, 216;
pensions demanded from, 195;
Precentress of, 261_n. 2_;
sacrist's accounts at, 136;
treasuress to be appointed at, 223;
visitations of, 497
Ely, Archdeacon of, 175
---- Bishops of, 423;
_see_ Alcock, John; Arundell, Thomas; Fordham, John of; Grey, William
---- fair, 138
Embroidery by nuns, 255ff., 287
Emma of Stapelton, 52, 53
---- of York, 51ff.
Ensfrid of Cologne, 54
Erasmus, 139, 376;
_Colloquies_, 549ff.
Erfurt, St Cyriac, 674
---- St Martin, 676
Erle, Peter, 327
Erlham, John de, 268
Escherde, 681, 682
_Escoufle, L'_, 560_n._
Esholt Priory, 52, 170_n. 3_, 177, 213, 251_n. 2_, 390, 402, 405,
467_n. 3_, 601;
bequest to, 326;
children at, 263, 269, 284, 579;
indulgence for contributors to repairs at, 175;
immorality at, 284;
Prioress of, 31, 57_n. 2_
Estates, management of, 71, 99, 100
Estrees, Angelique d', 451_n. 5_, 474
Eton, Robert de, 448
Etton, Alice, 31
Euphemia, Abbess of Wherwell, 29, 89, 90, 94, 169, 243, 501
Everesdon, John, 152
Everingham, Margaret, 449
Everyngham, Alice de, 442_n. 2_
Evesham Chronicle, 489_n. 1_
Evreux, St Sauveur, 636ff., 646
Ewer, Margaret, 370
Excommunication of nuns, 183
Exeter, Bishops of, 444, 445;
_and see_ Stapeldon, Grandisson, etc.
Eynsham Abbey, 449;
Abbot of, 234
Fairfax family, 7, 15, 18_n. 4_, 19, 20
---- Elizabeth, 328
---- John, 327
---- Margaret, 76, 77, 303_n. 1_, 327, 329, 399_n. 3_, 468_n. 4_, 500,
587
Fairs, 105, 106, 133, 138;
_and see_ Stourbridge Fair
Fairwell Priory, 217_n._, 220_n. 1_, 248, 320_n._, 356_n. 3_, 384,
416_n. 1_;
children at, 272, 273, 578;
dissolution of, 604
Falowfeld, Isabel, 362
"Farms," 101, 102, 209, 335
Favences, Antoinette de, 258
Faversham, Vicar of, 232
Feast of Fools, 312ff.
Felawe, William, 328
Felton, Mary de, 442_n. 2_
Feriby, Benedict de,
_see_ Broughton, Rector of
Ferrar, Agnes, 185
_Ferry Woman, The_, 616
Ffychmere, Joan, 202
Fisher, Jane, 247_n. 2_
FitzAleyn, John, 267
---- Katherine, 368
Fitzjames, Richard, Bishop of London, 385
FitzRichard, Elizabeth, 326
---- John, 326
Fitzwilliam, Lady Isabel, 329
Flagge, Alice de la, 43, 45, 173
Flamstead, Matilda de, 57
---- Priory, 59_n. 2_, 351, 458, 461;
children at, 573;
churches appropriated to, 113_n. 1_, 181;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_;
poverty of, 174, 177
Flemyng, Richard, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 24, 217, 223, 226, 249, 263,
308_n. 1_, 384_n. 1_, 386, 407_n. 1_, 415, 459, 477
Fletcher, Joan, 88_n._, 467_n. 3_
Flixborough, Rector of, 235
Flixthorpe, Agnes de, 353, 443ff., 457, 467_n. 3_
Flixton Priory, 59_n. 1_, 63, 79, 168, 292_n. 2_, 340, 489_n. 2_;
cloister and frater defective at, 170;
poverty of, 181;
Prioress of, 63, 65, 66, 307;
_and see_ Pilly, Katherine
Folgeham, Cecily, 22
Fonten, Margaret de, 446
Fontrevrault, Abbess of, 305_n. 6_, 360_n. 2_;
cells of, 455;
nuns of, 3, 343;
rule of, 400_n. 2_
Fordham, John of, Bishop of Ely, 176, 177
Fosse Priory, 333;
Master of, 231;
poverty of, 165, 175, 184_n. 4_;
Prioress of, 180, 250
Foster, Alice, 49
---- Thomas, 208
Foukeholm, St Stephen's, 180, 448_n. 1_
Fountains, Abbot of, 375_n. 1_
Fox, Richard, Bishop of Winchester, 149, 252, 392
---- John, 449
---- William, 449
Franke, Beatrice, 365, 366
Frater, 315ff., 328, 648, 649;
children in, 273;
repair of, 125
Fratress of nunnery, 131, 132
Fraunceys, John, 207
Free Warren, Grants of, 105
Frejus, Council of, 373
French, knowledge of, in 14th century, 246, 247
Froissart, 240, 428, 431, 435
Frost, Ellen, 22
Fulham, Nicholas de, 259_n. 3_
Furmage, Joan, 187, 338, 362
Fychet, John, 410
Gandersheim Abbey, 238;
Roswitha's history of, 238
Gascoigne, Agnes, 46
---- Thomas, 253, 254, 447_n. 6_, 531
Gaveston, Piers, 419
Geoffrey de Saint Belin, 345
George, Christopher, 149
Germyn, Helen, 480
Gertrud the Great, of Helfta, 239, 500
_Gesta Romanorum_, 516_n. 2_, 541
Ghent, Simon of, Bishop of Salisbury, 195, 201, 350, 528
Gibbs, Elizabeth, 243
Giffard, Agatha, 463, 464
---- Alice, 462
---- Godfrey, Bishop of Worcester, 350, 463, 464
---- Juliana, 463, 462
---- Mabel, 463
---- Sir Osbert, 463ff.
---- Walter, Archbishop of York, 21, 166, 214, 229, 232, 247, 302,
355_n. 1_, 399_n. 3_, 463, 472_n. 1_, 482, 494_n. 1_, 635
Glastonbury, Abbot of, 162;
_and see_ Whiting, Richard
Gloucester, Duke of, 26
---- Eleanor, Duchess of, 328_n. 5_
---- Richard, Earl of, 161
---- Thomas of, 418
Godstow Abbey, 2, 121, 162, 248, 249, 291_n. 2_, 292_n. 2_, 325,
347_n. 2_, 348, 351, 353, 384_n. 1_, 395ff., 401, 402, 405_n. 1_,
407_n. 1_, 440, 448_n. 1_, 449, 460, 582, 586, 635;
Abbess of, 180, 270;
_and see_ Henley, Alice;
bailiff of, 148;
boarders forbidden at, 414, 416, 578;
books of, 253, 254, 277;
claustration at, 348, 356_n. 5_, 357, 358_n. 1_;
debts of, 164, 234;
disorder at, 456;
education of children at, 263, 273, 283, 319, 456;
households of nuns at, 318ff.;
Prior of, 230ff.;
_Puerilia solemnia_ at, 312;
_Register_ of, 17, 40, 206_n. 3_, 253;
steward of, 205;
visitors at, 408, 414
Gokewell Priory, 111_n. 3_, 332;
children at, 576;
households of nuns at, 318;
poverty of, 163, 235;
Prioress of, 23, 250;
steward of, 235, 236_n. 2_
Goldesburgh, Joan, 469, 470
Goldwell, James, Bishop of Norwich, 461_n. 1_, 494_n. 1_
Goring Priory, 53_n. 2_, 301, 304, 351, 353, 358, 395, 457;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_;
dilapidations at, 171;
poverty owing to lawsuits of, 202;
violence at, 423, 424, 435
Gorsyn, Alice, 301
Gosden, William, 454
Gower, John, 447, 499, 509, 544, 545
Gower's _Temple of Glas, The_, 509, 510;
_Vox Clamantis_, 499, 544, 545
Gowring, Jane, 32
Gracedieu Priory, 97, 110_n._, 111_n. 3_, 127, 149_n._, 154, 155, 205,
210, 358, 363, 364, 367, 382, 400_n. 1_;
bailiff of, 257;
boarders at, 418, 573ff.;
cellaress of, 146, 272, 409;
chaplain of, 145, 146;
children at, 268, 272, 283, 409;
debts of, 163;
embroidery made at, 257;
households of nuns at, 318, 320_n._;
jewels, etc., pawned by, 210;
mismanagement at, 225_n. 2_;
_peculium_ for clothes given at, 323;
Prioress of, 57, 61, 66, 80, 162, 180, 318, 413, 478, 484, 490;
relics at, 116_n. 3_;
treasuress of, 163, 323
Granary, repair of, 125, 157
Grandisson, John de, Bishop of Exeter, 183_n. 4_, 192, 193, 353
Grangyer, Joan, 152
Gravesend, Richard de, Bishop of Lincoln, 175
---- Stephen, Bishop of London, 188, 481
Gray, Barbara, 48
---- Richard, 465, 466
---- William, Bishop of Lincoln, 24, 83, 216, 244, 249, 253, 272,
308_n. 1_, 319, 321, 325, 365, 396, 402, 405_n. 1_, 457, 488, 491
Great Billing, Rector of, 46
Green, Nicholas, 441_n._
Greenfield, Margaret, 455
---- Priory, 180, 241, 330;
corrodies, etc., granted by, 214_n. 4_;
Prioress of, 61, 78, 180, 214;
solitary confinement at, 30;
titles remitted, 184_n. 2_
---- William, Archbishop of York, 16, 26, 51ff., 214, 220, 222,
257_n. 2_, 264, 273, 302_n. 1_, 337, 339, 357, 362, 478, 491
Gregory X, 212
Grey, William, Bishop of Ely, 176
Grimeley, William de, 45
Grimsby, St Leonard's Priory, 111_n. 3_, 174, 177, 457;
fire at, 172;
Master of, 231, 232_n. 1_
Grome, Katherine, 168
Grosseteste, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, 309, 471
Guest-house, 118, 119, 125, 157;
accounts of, 120
Guiot de Provins, 542
Gurney, Joanna, 233
Gynewell, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 7, 200_n. 4_, 249, 262, 272, 273,
322_n._, 356_n. 5_, 357, 358, 374_n. 1_, 386, 400, 401, 415,
441_n._
Gyney, Joan, 189
Hainault, Bailiwick of, 105
---- John of, 435
Hales, Thomas of, 513_n. 1_, 525
Halewey, Agnes, 83
_Hali Meidenhad_, 16, 40, 441, 525ff.
Haliwell Priory, 2, 13, 34_n. 2_, 422_n. 2_, 442;
alms given by, 120;
Prioress of, 71, 442
Hallam, Bishop, 385
Halle, St George (Marienkammer), 673, 681
---- St Maurice, 674
Hampole Priory, 113_n. 3_, 146, 213, 214, 320_n._, 326, 329, 339,
365_n. 3_, 401_n. 1_, 427, 428, 466_n. 1_, 477, 579, 601;
and Richard Rolle, 532_n. 2_;
bad administration at, 203;
boarders at, 413_n. 4_, 414;
children at, 272;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_;
Prioress of, 26, 83_n._, 205, 329_n. 5_, 339, 477
Hampole, Richard, 254
Hampton, Alice de, 189
Hanam, Elianora, 361_n. 1_
Handale Priory, 52, 57_n. 2_, 146, 175, 220_n. 5_, 361_n. 2_;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_, 231
Harcourt, Catherine d', 558
Harmer, Margaret, 168
Harold, Henry, 105, 422
---- Isabel, 105
Harreyes, John, 449
Harrold Priory, 154, 226, 457, 465;
children at, 272, 569;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_;
debts of, 162;
financial mismanagement at, 205;
Prioress of, 66, 205, 210
Harvesting, 128
Hatfield, Thomas, Bishop of Durham, 234
Haukeforth, Elizabeth, 33
Haunsard, John, 457
Hauteyn, Alice, 41
---- Walter, 40, 41
Haverholme Priory, 35, 442_n. 2_
Head of house, conduct of, 80, 86, 87, 94, 643ff.;
disciplinary powers of, 300, 302;
dress, etc., of, 76, 77, 94;
favouritism by, 66ff.;
financial mismanagement by, 81ff., 203ff., 217ff.;
hospitality of, 78, 79;
journeys of, 69, 70ff.;
luxurious living of, 74ff., 94, 211;
_and see_ Abbess
Hede, Dr, 282, 461, 482
Hedington, Sir Nicholas, 121
Hedsor, Margery, 457
Heidenheim, 237
Helewell, Ada de, 444
---- Peter, 444, 445
---- William, 444
Helfta, Convent of, 89, 239, 500
Helmsley, 242
Helmstedt, 682ff.
Helswindis, Abbess, 28
Henley, Alice, 252, 253
Henry II, 308
---- III, 346
---- IV, 247
---- VIII, 46, 78, 216, 313
Henwood Priory, 180;
Prioress of, 180
Herars, John, 397
Hereford, Countess of, 196
Herminal, John de, 233
Hermyte, Isabel, Prioress, 88, 94
Herrad, Abbess, 239
Herryson, John, 152
Herward, Elene, 138
Hexham Priory, 426
---- schools of, 426
Heyden, John, 325
Heynings Priory, 7, 22ff., 111_n. 3_, 155, 220, 226ff., 249, 291_n. 2_,
292_n. 2_, 322_n._, 337, 374_n. 1_, 400, 402_n. 4_, 459ff., 489,
581;
accounts not kept at, 205;
appropriation by, 209;
children at, 263, 272, 273, 575, 576;
claustration at, 357_n. 1_, 358_n. 1_;
corrodies at, granted by, 209;
_custos_ at, 231;
hospitality at, 200;
poverty of, 162, 177, 184, 209;
Prioress of, 66, 67, 205, 210;
restriction of numbers at, 215;
seculars at, 409, 415, 416;
treasuress of, 223
Heyroun, Margaret, 328, 330
---- William, 328
Higham Ferrers College, 380_n. 4_
Hildesheim, St Mary Magdalen, 672, 675, 677, 680, 682
Hilton, Sir Robert de, 399_n. 3_
Hinchinbrooke Priory, 361_n. 1_;
Prioress of, 180
Hodesak, Beatrice de, 365
Hohenburg, 239
Holewaye, Elizabeth, 442_n. 2_
Holland, Robert de, 36
Holm, Mary de, 52, 53
Holystone Priory, 427
Home Farm of Nunnery, 125ff., 133, 135, 137, 150, 151;
harvesting on, 128, 129
Horde, Dr, 492
_Hortus Deliciarum_, 239
Hosey, Agnes, 33
Hours, Canonical, 286, 291ff.;
irreverence at, 292, 293
Hubbart, Alicia, 441_n._
Humberstone Abbey, 377_n. 2_
Hunter, Matilda, 442_n. 2_
Huntingdon, Archidiaconate of, 175
---- Priory, 308_n. 1_, 360_n. 1_
---- St James' outside, 175
Hutton, Joan, 467_n. 3_
Hyde Abbey, 369;
Abbot of, _see_ Bromele, Thos.
Hylyarde, Elynor, 326
Hythe, Hamo of, Bishop of Rochester, 204, 218
Ickleton Priory, 184_n. 4_, 306, 400_n. 1_
Ilchester, St John's, Rector of, 233
---- White Hall Priory, 386, 447;
coadjutresses appointed at, 224;
condition of, 233;
_custodes_ of, 233;
poverty of, 172;
Prioress of, 88_n._, 172, 224, 233;
_and see_ Chilterne; Draycote
_Imitatio Christi_, 243
Indulgences, 174, 175
Infirmaress, 134
Infirmary, 316, 322, 649
Ingham, Katherine de, 39
Inglewood Forest, 429
Ingoldesby, Margaret, 412
Ingoldesthorpe, Sir John, 90
Innocent III, 363
Irford Priory, 244, 330
"Issues of the Manor," 109ff.
Ivinghoe Priory, 175, 184_n. 4_, 357_n. 1_;
Prioress of, 363, 364
Jafford, William de, 220
James I of Scotland, 510
James I's _King's Quair_, 510
James V of Scotland, 552
Jeanne de France, 342_n. 1_, 345
Jecke, Philippa, 66
Jerves, John, 265, 269
Joan de Barton, 88_n._
---- Princess of Wales, 418
Jocelin of Brakelond, 45ff., 496
John of Gaunt, 19, 370_n. 5_, 418, 421_n. 1_
Johnson, Margaret, 326
---- William, 399
Jordan, Isabel, 54, 55, 392
Joseph, Stephen, 37
Josiana de Anelagby, 362
Julian of Norwich, 366, 502_n. 1_
Juliana of Bromhale, 87, 211
Jumieges, Abbot of, 310_n. 2_
Jurdane, Isabel, 67
Keldholme Priory, 51ff., 111_n. 3_, 306, 360_n. 2_, 443_n. 2_,
448_n. 1_, 467, 477;
moral state of, 598;
Prioress of, _see_ Emma of Stapelton; Emma of York; Pykering, Joan de
Kemp, John, Archbishop of York, 86, 175, 374
Kempe, Alice, 489
Kempis, Thomas a, 243
Kent, Holy Maid of, _see_ Barton, Elizabeth
---- Isabella de, 423, 424
Kentwood, Dean, 209, 261_n. 2_, 273, 307, 309, 405, 408
Kessingland, Rectory of, 114
Key, Thomas, 138, 147, 152
Kilburn Priory, 13, 18_n. 4_, 528;
chaplain's chamber at, 144;
library of, 241
King, Philippa, 453, 454
King's Mead Priory, 4, 262, 361_n. 1_;
children at, 571;
_custodes_ of, 234;
hospitality of, 200;
poverty of, 180, 234;
Prior of, 230;
relics at, 116_n. 3_
_King's Quair, The_, 510
Kington, St Michael, 255, 350, 360_n. 2_
Kippax, Rector of, 231
Kirkby, Margery, 81, 82, 167
Kirk Deighton, Rector of, 231
Kirklees Priory, 320_n. 1_, 325, 448_n. 1_;
_custos_ of, 220_n. 5_, 230_n. 8_, 235, 236;
moral state of, 599, 600;
Prioress of, 180, 258, 620, 621
Kitcheness of nunnery, 131ff.
Knaresborough, St Robert's, 231
Knight, Laurens, 267, 269
---- Richard, 198
Knyghte, Elizabeth, 269, 279
---- Jane, 269, 279
Koc, Margaret, 422
---- William, 422
Kyme, 249_n. 7_
Kyrkeby, Margery, 405_n. 2_
Lacock Abbey, 2, 19_n. 3_, 268_n._, 497;
alms given by, 121;
claustration at, 350;
visitors at, 238
Lacy, Henry de, 420