Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535

APPENDIX IV

Reading edition

LIST OF ENGLISH NUNNERIES. c. 1275-1535

[In this list Ab. = Abbey, Pr. = Priory; A. = Austin, B. = Benedictine, C. = Cistercian, Cl. = Cluniac, Dom. = Dominican, Fr. = Franciscan, Brig. = Brigittine. P. = Premonstratensian. Gilbertine houses are not included.]

House Dedication Order County Diocese Founder and date

1. Aconbury Holy Cross A.Pr. Her. Her. Margery, wife of Walter de Lacy, temp. John

2. Amesbury St Mary and St Meilor B.Pr. Wilts. Salis. Saxon Abbey: refounded as a priory for nuns of Fontevrault by King John, 1199

3. Ankerwyke St Mary Magd. B.Pr. Bucks. Linc. Gilbert de Muntfichet, c. 1160

4. Arden St Andrew B.Pr. York., N.R. York Peter de Hoton, temp. Henry II

5. Armathwaite St Mary B.Pr. Cumb. Carl. Unknown, before 1200

6. Arthington St Mary Cl.Pr. York., W.R. York Peter, son of Serlo de Arthington, middle of twelfth century

7. Barking St Mary and St Ethelburga B.Ab. Essex Lon. St Earconwald, Bishop of London, 675-93, probably in 666

8. Barrow Gurney (Minchin Barrow) St Mary and St Edward B.Pr. Som. B. and W. Unknown: probably a Gurney, before 1212

9. Basedale St Mary C.Pr. York., N.R. York Guy de Bovincurt, c. 1190 (see V.C.H. Yorks. III, 158)

10. Blackborough St Mary and St Katherine B.Pr. Norf. Norw. Roger de Scales and Muriel his wife, c. 1150

11. Blithbury St Giles B.Pr. Staffs. C.L. Hugh Malveysin, after 1129

12. Brewood (Black Ladies) St Mary B.Pr. Staffs. C.L. Unknown, twelfth century

13. Brewood (White Ladies) St Leonard C.Pr. Salop C.L. Unknown, twelfth century

14. Bristol St Mary Magd. A.Pr. Glouces. Worc. Eva, widow of Robert Fitzhardinge, c. 1173

15. Brodholme St Mary P.Pr. Notts. York Agnes de Camville, wife of Peter de Gousla, temp. Stephen

16. Bromhale St Margaret B.Pr. Berks. Salis. Unknown, before 1200

17. Bruisyard Ann. of St Mary Fr.Ab. Suff. Norw. Edward III, 1366, at instigation of Lionel, Duke of Clarence

18. Buckland (Minchin) St John Bapt. A.Pr. (nuns of St John of Jerusalem) Som. B. and W. Henry II, c. 1186 (instead of House of Austin canons founded 1166 by William de Erlegh)

19. Bungay St Mary and Holy Cross B.Pr. Suff. Norw. Roger de Glanville and Gundred his wife, c. 1160

20. Burnham St Mary A.Ab. Bucks. Linc. Richard, King of the Romans, 1266

21. Cambridge St Radegund B.Pr. Cambs. Ely c. 1133-8, temp. Nigel, Bishop of Ely

22. Campsey St Mary A.Pr. Suff. Norw. Theobald de Valognes, c. 1195

23. Cannington St Mary B.Pr. Som. B. and W. Robert de Courcy, c. 1138

24. Canonsleigh St Mary, St John Evangelist and St Audrey A.Ab. Devon Ex. Maud de Clare, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, temp. Edward I (previously a house of canons)

25. Canterbury St Sepulchre B.Pr. Kent Cant. St Anselm, 1100

26. Carrow St Mary and St John B.Pr. Norf. Norw. King Stephen, 1146

27. Catesby St Mary, St Edmund and St Thomas the Martyr C.Pr. Northants. Linc. Robert de Esseby, c. 1175

28. Chatteris St Mary B.Ab. Cambs. Ely Eadnoth, Abbot of Ramsey, c. 1010

29. Cheshunt St Mary B.Pr. Herts. Lon. Unknown, twelfth century

30. Chester St Mary B.Pr. Chester C.L. Ranulf, Earl of Chester, c. 1140

31. Clementhorpe St Clement B.Pr. York., W.R. York. Thurstan, Archbishop of York, c. 1130

32. Clerkenwell Assumption of St Mary B.Pr. Midd. Lon. Jordan Brisett, c. 1100

33. Cokehill —— C.Pr. Worc. Worc. Isabel, Countess of Warwick, end of twelfth century

34. Cornworthy St Mary A.Pr. Devon Ex. Uncertain, fourteenth century

35. Crabhouse St Mary Magd. St John Evang. St Thomas and St Peter A.Pr. Norf. Norw. Roger, prior, and canons of Rainham, c. 1181

36. Dartford St Mary and St Margaret A.Pr. (according to rule and in charge of Dom. friars) Kent Roch. Edward III, 1355

37. Davington St Mary Magd. B.Pr. Kent Cant. Fulk de Newenham, 1153

38. Delapré (de Pratis) St Mary Cl.Ab. Northants. Linc. Simon of Saint-Liz, Earl of Northampton, temp. Stephen (first at Fotheringay)

39. Delapré (de Prato) St Mary B.Pr. Herts. Linc. Under abbey of St Albans

40. Denny St James and St Leonard Fr.Ab. Cambs. Ely Mary de Valence, Countess of Pembroke, 1342

41. Derby (Kingsmead or de Pratis) St Mary B.Pr. Derby C.L. Aubin, Abbot of Darley, c. 1160

42. Easebourne Nativity of B.V.M. B.Pr. Suss. Chich. ... de Bohun, before 1248

43. Ellerton (in Swaledale) St Mary C.Pr. York., N.R. York Uncertain, before 1227

44. Elstow St Mary and St Helen B.Ab. Beds. Linc. Judith, Countess of Huntingdon, late eleventh century

45. Esholt St Mary, St Leonard and St James C.Pr. York., W.R. York Uncertain, twelfth century

46. Fairwell St Mary B.Pr. Staffs. C.L. Roger, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, c. 1140

47. Flamstead St Giles B.Pr. Herts. Linc. Roger de Tony, temp. Stephen

48. Flixton St Mary and St Katherine A.Pr. Suff. Norw. Margery, widow of Geoffrey de Hanes and daughter of Bartholomew de Crek, 1258

49. Fosse St Nicholas C.Pr. Linc. Linc. The men of Torksey, before the reign of John

50. Godstow St Mary and St John Baptist B.Ab. Oxon Linc. Edith, widow of Sir William Launcelene, c. 1133

51. Gokewell St Mary C.Pr. Linc. Linc. William Dawtrey, before 1148 or 1185

52. Goring St Mary A.Pr. Oxon Linc. Thomas de Druval, temp. Henry I

53. Gracedieu Holy Trinity and St Mary A.Pr. Leices. Linc. Rohese de Verdon, c. 1239

54. Greenfield St Mary C.Pr. Linc. Linc. Eudes of Grainsby and Ralph his son, before 1153

55. Grimsby St Leonard A.Pr. Linc. Linc. Before 1184

56. Haliwell (Shoreditch) St John Baptist B.Pr. Midd. Lon. Roger son of Gelren, before 1127

57. Hampole St Mary C.Pr. York., W.R. York William de Clarefai and Avice de Tany his wife, c. 1170

58. Handale (or Grendale) St Mary C.Pr. York., N.R. York William Percy of Dunsley, 1133

59. Harrold St Peter A.Pr. Beds. Linc. Sampson le Fort, before 1148 (as Arroasian house). Nunnery, 1181

60. Hedingham, Castle Holy Cross, St Mary and St James B.Pr. Ess. Lon. Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Lucy his wife, before 1191

61. Henwood St Margaret B.Pr. Warw. Worc. Ketelbern de Langdon, between 1149 and 1161

62. Heynings St Mary C.Pr. Linc. Linc. Reyner d’Evermue, temp. Stephen

63. Hinchinbrooke St James B.Pr. Hunts. Linc. Removed from Eltisley, Cambs., temp. William I

64. Holystone —— B.Pr. Northumb. Dur. ... Umfraville of Harbottle, before 1235

65. Ickleton St Mary Magd. B.Pr. Cambs. Ely Uncertain, c. 1190

66. Ilchester (White Hall) Holy Trinity A.Pr. Som. B. and W. William Dennis, c. 1220 (as a hospital). A nunnery before 1281

67. Irford St Mary P.Pr. Linc. Linc. Probably Ralph d’Albini, temp. Henry II

68. Ivinghoe St Margaret B.Pr. Bucks. Linc. [William Giffard?], Bishop of Winchester, twelfth century

69. Keldholme St Mary C.Pr. York.,N.R. York Robert de Stuteville, temp. Henry I

70. Kilburn St Mary and St John Baptist B.Pr. Midd. Lon. Herbert, Abbot of Westminster, 1139

71. Kington St Michael St Mary B.Pr. Wilts. Salis. Before 1155

72. Kirklees St Mary and St James C.Pr. York., W.R. York Reiner le Fleming, temp. Henry II

73. Lacock St Mary and St Bernard A.Ab. Wilts. Salis. Ela, Countess of Salisbury, 1232

74. Lambley St Patrick B.Pr. Northumb. Durh. Adam de Tynedale, temp. John

75. Langley St Mary B.Pr. Leic. Linc. William Pantulf and Burga his wife, temp. Henry II

76. Legbourne St Mary C.Pr. Linc. Linc. Robert, son of Gilbert of Tathwell, after 1150 (removed from earlier site)

77. Lillechurch (Higham) St Mary B.Pr. Kent Roch. King Stephen, before 1151

78. Littlemore St Mary, St Nicholas and St Edmund B.Pr. Oxon Linc. Robert de Sandford, temp. Stephen

79. London (Bishopsgate) St Helen and Holy Cross B.Pr. Midd. Lon. William, son of William, the goldsmith, before 1216

80. London St Mary and St Francis Fr.Ab. Midd. Lon. Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, 1293

81. Lymbrook St Mary A.Pr. Her. Her. Uncertain

82. Lyminster St Mary B.Pr. Suss. Chich. Roger de Montgomery, c. 1082 (as cell of Almenèches)

83. Malling St Mary and St Andrew B.Ab. Kent Roch. Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, 1090

84. Marham St Mary, St Barbara and St Edmund C.Ab. Norf. Norw. Isabel, widow of Hugh de Albini, Earl of Arundel, 1249

85. Markyate Holy Trinity B.Pr. Beds. Linc. 1145, under influence of Geoffrey, Abbot of St Albans

86. Marlow, Little St Mary B.Pr. Bucks. Linc. Uncertain, twelfth century

87. Marrick St Andrew and St Mary B.Pr. York., N.R. York Roger de Aske, temp. Henry II

88. Moxby St John Evangelist A.Pr. York., N.R. York Henry II, before 1167 (removed from double house at Marton)

89. Neasham St Mary B.Pr. Durh. Durh. Probably the Lord of Greystoke, before 1157

90. Newcastle- upon-Tyne St Bartholomew B.Pr. Northumb. Durh. Uncertain, twelfth century

91. Nunappleton St Mary and St John Evangelist C.Pr. York., W.R. York Eustace de Merch and Alice St Quintin his wife, c. 1150

92. Nunburnholme —— B.Pr. York., E.R. York Ancestors of 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 St Helen B.Pr. York., E.R. York Agnes de Arches, widow of Herbert St Quintin, 1152

96. Nunmonkton St Mary B.Pr. York., W.R. York William de 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 and St Mary B.Pr. Suff. Norw. Manasses, Count of Guisnes, and Emma de Arras his wife, 1120

101. Romsey St Mary and St Elfrida B.Ab. Hants. Win. Edward the Elder, c. 907: refounded by King Edgar, 967

102. Rosedale St Mary and St Lawrence C.Pr. York., N.R. York Robert, son of Nicholas de Stuteville, temp. Richard I

103. Rothwell St John Baptist A.Pr. Northants. Linc. ... de Clare, thirteenth century

104. Rowney St John Baptist B.Pr. Herts. Linc. Conan, Duke of Britanny and Earl of Richmond, temp. Henry II, suppressed 1459

105. Rusper St Mary Magd. B.Pr. Suss. Chich. Twelfth century, probably by one of the Braose family

106. St Stephen’s (Foukeholme) St Stephen B.Pr. York, N.R. York Uncertain. Disappeared after 1349

107. Seton (Lekeley) St Mary B.Pr. Cumb. York Henry son of Arthur son of Godard, Lord of Millom, twelfth century

108. Sewardsley St Mary Magd. C.Pr. Northants. Linc. Richard de Lestre, temp. Henry II

109. Shaftesbury St Mary and St Edward B.Ab. Dorset Salis. King Alfred, c. 888

110. Sheppey (Minster) St Mary and St Sexburga B.Pr. Kent Cant. St Sexburga, 675

111. Sinningthwaite St Mary C.Pr. York, W.R. York Bertram Haget, 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 St Michael B.Pr. Northants. Linc. William Waterville, Abbot of Peterborough, c. 1155

115. Stixwould St Mary C.Pr. Linc. Linc. Lucy, Countess of Perche, temp. Stephen

116. Stratford-by- Bow St Leonard B.Pr. Midd. Lon. William, Bishop of London, temp. Henry I

117. Studley St Mary B.Pr. Oxon Linc. Probably Bernard of St Valery, before 1176

118. Swaffham Bulbeck —— B.Pr. Cambs. Ely Uncertain, before temp. John

119. Swine St Mary C.Pr. York., E.R. York Robert de Verli, temp. Stephen

120. Syon St Saviour, St Mary and St Bridget Brig.Ab. Midd. Lon. King Henry V, 1414

121. Tarrant Keynes St Mary and All Saints C.Ab. Dorset Salis. Ralph de Keynes, before 1235

122. Thetford St George and St Gregory B.Pr. Norf. Norw. Hugh, Abbot of Bury St Edmunds, c. 1160 (removed from Ling)

123. Thicket St Mary B.Pr. York., E.R. York Roger FitzRoger, 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 Pity and St Clare Fr.Pr. Cambs. Ely Denise de Mountchesney, 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 and St Peter B.Ab. Hants. Win. Queen Elfrida, c. 986

129. Whiston St Mary Magd. C.Pr. Worc. Worc. Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester, before 1255

130. Wilberfoss St Mary B.Pr. York.,E.R. York Uncertain, temp. Stephen

131. Wilton St Mary, St Barthlomew and St Edith B.Ab. Wilts. Salis. St Alburga, c. 800: refounded by King Alfred, c. 871

132. Winchester St Mary and St Edburga B.Ab. Hants. Win. King Alfred and Queen Ealhswith, c. 900. Refounded by St Ethelwold, 963

133. Wintney St Mary, St Mary Magd. and St John Baptist C.Pr. Hants. Win. Richard Holte and Christine his wife, 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 St Michael C.Pr. York., N.R. York Pain FitzOsbert, c. 1153

138. Yedingham St Mary B.Pr. York., E.R. York Helewise de Clere, before 1163

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES

I. Episcopal Registers

(a) Lincoln Episcopal Registers

(b) Lambeth Palace Registers

II. Documents in the Public Record Office

(a) Account Rolls

Ministers Accounts, 867/21-6, 30, 33-6. (Delapré, St Albans. Between 16 Edw. III and 2 Ric. III.)

Ib. 1257/1 (Catesby, 11-14 Hen. VI).

Ib. 1257/2 (Denny, 14 Hen. IV-1 Hen. V).

Ib. 1257/10 (Gracedieu, 1-5 Hen. V).

Ib. 1260 (St Michael’s, Stamford, 24 rolls between 32 Edw. I and 20 Hen. VI).

Ib. 1261/4 (Syon, Cellaress’ Account, 21-2 Edw. IV).

Ib. 1307/22 (Syon, Cellaress’ Account, 36 Hen. VI).

(b) Petitions

Early Chancery Proceedings, 181/4 (Petition from Elizabeth Webley, late Prioress of Sopwell, concerning her deposition and imprisonment by John Rothbury, Archdeacon of St Albans Abbey).

Ib. 4/196 (Petition from Richard English and Margery his wife concerning a corrody withheld from them by the Abbess of Malling).

Ib. 7/70 (Petition from Richard Haldenby and Agnes his wife concerning the daughters of Agnes by a former marriage, one of whom has been made to take the veil by an uncle, for the sake of her inheritance).

Ib. 44/227 (Petition from Thomasyn Dynham, Prioress of Cornworthy, concerning two children at school in her house, whose fees have not been paid for five years).

Ancient Petitions 302/15063 (Petition from the Prioress and nuns of Rowney for leave to have a proctor to beg alms for them, as their buildings are ruinous).

Ancient Correspondence, 36/201 (Petition to Queen Isabel from the Prioress and Convent of Clerkenwell, asking her to obtain the King’s leave for them to receive certain lands, by reason of their poverty).

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(a) Bath and Wells

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(b) Canterbury

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See also The British Magazine, vols. XXIX-XXXII, passim (abstracts).

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(d) Durham, York, Carlisle

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(e) Durham

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(f) Exeter

(g) Hereford

Registrum Thome de Cantilupo, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1275-82, transcribed by R. C. Griffiths, with an introduction by W. W. Capes. (Canterbury and York Soc. and Cantilupe Soc. 1907.)

Registrum Ricardi de Swinfield, Episcopi Herefordensis, 1283-1317, ed. W. W. Capes. (Canterbury and York Soc. and Cantilupe Soc. 1909.)

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(i) Lincoln

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Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln, ed. A. Hamilton Thompson. Vol. II. Alnwick’s Visitations (1436-49). (Lincoln Record Soc. and Canterbury and York Soc.)

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(j) London

Registrum Radulphi Baldock, Gilberti Segrave, Ricardi Newport et Stephani Gravesend, Episcoporum Londoniensium, 1306-38, ed. R. C. Fowler. (Canterbury and York Soc. 1911.)

(k) Norwich

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(l) Rochester

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(m) Salisbury

Registrum Simonis de Gandavo Episcopi Saresbiriensis (1297-1315), ed. C. T. Flower. (Canterbury and York Soc. 1914, in course of publication.)

(n) Winchester

Registrum Johannis de Pontissara (1282-1304), ed. C. Deedes. (Canterbury and York Soc. 1913-15.)

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(o) Worcester

Register of the Diocese of Worcester during the vacancy of the see, usually called Registrum Sede Vacante, 1301-1435, ed. J. W. Willis-Bund. (Worcester Hist. Soc. 1893-7.)

(p) York

Registers of John le Romeyn Archbishop of York, 1286-96, Part II, and of Henry of Newark, Archbishop of York, 1298-99, ed. W. Brown. Vol. II. (Surtees Soc. 1917.)

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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.)

Regestrum Visitationum Archiepiscopi Rothomagensis, Journal des Visites Pastorales d’Eude Rigaud Archevêque de Rouen, 1248-69, pub. par Th. Bonnin. (Rouen, 1852.)

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.

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 Pré, 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.

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)

Walcott, Mackenzie E. C., Inventory of St Mary’s Benedictine Nunnery at Langley, Co. Leicester, 1485. (Leicestershire Architec. Soc. 1872.)

(h) Lillechurch (1525)

R. F. Scott, Notes from the Records of St John’s College, Cambridge, 3rd series (privately printed, 1906-13), pp. 403-8.

(i) Sheppey (1536)

Walcott, Mackenzie E. C., Inventories of St Mary’s Hospital, Dover, St 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

Fowler, R. C., Inventories of Essex Monasteries in 1536. (Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc. vol. IX, Pt. IV.)

Walcott, Mackenzie E. C., Inventories and Valuations of Religious Houses at the Time of the Dissolution. (Archaeologia, XLIII, 1871.)

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.)

The English Register of Godstow Nunnery, ed. Andrew Clark. (Early Eng. 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 Besançon, 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. (Soc. de l’Hist. de France, 1877.)

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. Archaeol. Journ. XXXVI (1879).

Notes on the Priory of Dartford in Kent. Ib. XXXIX (1882).

Delapré, Northampton. Serjeantson, R. M. A History of Delapré Abbey, Northampton (Northampton, 1909).

Delapré, St Albans. Page, W. History of the Monastery of St Mary de Pré. St Albans and Herts. Archit. and Archaeol. Soc. Trans., New Ser. X.

Easebourne. Hope, Sir W. H. St John. Cowdray and Easebourne Priory in the county of Sussex (1920).

Elstow. Wigram, S. R. Chronicle of Elstow Abbey (1909).

Fosse. Cole, R. E. G. The Royal Borough of Torksey, its Churches, Monasteries and Castle. Linc. Archit. and Archaeol. Soc. In Assoc. Archit. Soc. Reports and Papers, XXVIII (1905-6).

Ickleton. Goddard, A. R. Ickleton Church and Priory. Cambridge Antiq. Soc. Proc. and Commun. XLV (1905).

Ilchester, White Hall. See Barrow Gurney.

Kirklees. Armytage, Sir G. Kirklees Priory. Yorks. Archaeol. Journ. XX (1908).

Chadwick, S. J. Kirklees Priory. Yorks. Archaeol. Journ. XVI (1901), XVII (1902), XX (1908).

Lacock. Bowles, W. L. and Nichols, J. C. Annals of Lacock Abbey (1835).

Clark-Maxwell, W. G. Outfit for the Profession of an Austin Canoness at Lacock, etc. Archaeol. Journ. LXIX (1912).

Lillechurch. See Bromhale.

Marlow. Peers, C. R. The Benedictine Nunnery of Little Marlow. Archaeol. Journ. LIX (1902).

Nunburnholme. Morris, M. C. K. Nunburnholme and its Antiquities (1907).

Romsey. Liveing, H. G. D. Records of Romsey Abbey (1906).

St Helen’s, Bishopsgate. Hugo, T. The Last Ten Years of the Priory of St Helen, Bishopsgate (1865).

St Radegund, Cambridge. Gray, A. The Priory of St Radegund, Cambridge (1898).

Syon. Aungier, G. J. History and Antiquities of Syon (1840).

Swine. Duckett, Sir G. Charters of the Priory of Swine in Holderness. Yorks. Archaeol. Journ. VI (1881).

Thompson, T. History of the Church and Priory of Swine in Holderness (1824).

II. General

Butler, C. Benedictine Monachism (1919).

Clay, R. M. Hermits and Anchorites of England (1914).

Coulton, G. G. The Interpretation of Visitation Documents. (Eng. Hist. Review, 1914.)

—— Medieval Studies. (First Series, 1915.)

—— Monastic Schools in the Middle Ages. (Medieval Studies, No. 10, 1913.)

Deanesly, M. The Lollard Bible (1920).

Eckenstein, L. Woman under Monasticism (1896).

Fosbroke, T. D. British Monachism (1802).

Fowler, R. C. Episcopal Registers of England and Wales. (S.P.C.K. 1918.)

Gasquet, F. A. English Monastic Life (1904).

Graham, R. An Essay on English Monasteries. (Hist. Assoc. 1913.)

—— St Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertines (1901).

Green, M. A. Everett. Lives of the Princesses of England. Vol. II (1849).

Jacka, H. T. The Dissolution of the English Nunneries. Thesis submitted for the degree of M.A. in the University of London. (Unpublished; deposited at the University.)

Jarrett, B. The English Dominicans (1921).

Journal of Education, 1909 and 1910. (Articles and Correspondence by J. E. G. de Montmorency, G. G. Coulton and A. F. Leach on “The Medieval Education of Women in England.”)

Mode, P. G. The Influence of the Black Death on the English Monasteries. (A Dissertation for the Degree of Ph.D.) (Privately printed, Univ. of Chicago Libraries, 1916.)

Savine, A. English Monasteries on the Eve of the Dissolution, in Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, ed. P. Vinogradoff (1909), I.

Thiers, J. B. Traité de la Clôture des Religieuses. (Paris, 1681.)

Thompson, A. Hamilton. English Monasteries (1913).

—— Double Monasteries and the Male Element in Nunneries. (In The Ministry of Women, A Report by a Committee appointed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (1919), App. VIII.)

—— The Monasteries of Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century. (Leicester. Archit. and Archaeol. Soc. Trans. 1913-14.)

—— Registers of John Gynewell, Bishop of Lincoln, for the years 1347-50. (Archaeol. Journ. vol. LXVIII (2nd Ser. vol. XXI), 1914.)

—— Visitations of Religious Houses by William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln, 1436-49. (Proceedings of the Soc. of Antiquaries, 2nd ser. XXVI, 1914.)

Victoria County Histories. Articles on Religious Houses, passim. (Cited as V.C.H.)

Walcott, Mackenzie E. C. English Minsters (1879), 2 vols. Vol. II. The English Student’s Monasticon.

Workman, H. B. The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal (1913).

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, 73n. 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, 220n. 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, 23n. 1, 339 —— Churches appropriated to, 113n. 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, 171n. 2 Alesbury, Agnes of, 39, 40 Alfrâd, the donkey of, 383, 588ff. Alice, Prioress of Wintney, 87 Alienation of goods, 225 Allesley, Agnes, 272, 409 Almenèches, 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, 361n. 1, 363, 367, 377n. 2, 380, 382, 397, 399n. 1, 400, 402n. 3, 405n. 2, 408, 412, 414, 416, 437, 449, 457, 461, 463, 481, 483, 486, 488, 490, 491, 500 Alphabet of Tales, An, 511n., 516n. 2, 519n. 1 Alsace, 239 Alsop, Robert of, 234 Amesbury Priory, 2, 3, 242n. 8, 268n., 350, 360n. 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, 111n. 3, 146, 166, 218, 333, 405n. 2, 441n., 460, 461, 487n., 491n. 2 —— financial mismanagement of, 205, 225n. 2; illiteracy of inmates at, 250; inventory of goods of, 222n. 3; poverty of, 153, 154, 162, 167, 177, 234, 235; Prioress of, 32, 62, 66, 163n. 1, 210, 304n. 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, 153n. 3, 184, 213, 242, 382n. 1, 494n. 1, 601 —— accounts of, 220; boarders at, 579; corrody granted by, 206; custos of, 230n. 8; dilapidations at, 170, 175; mismanagement of, 85, 86; poverty of, 184n. 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, 291n. 2, 356n. 4, 400n. 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, 399n. 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, 222n. 3, 273, 292, 382n. 3, 441n., 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, 365n. 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, 34n. 2 Ball, John, 138 Barber, Isabel, 268 Bardi, the, 91 Bardney, Abbot of, 364 Barking Abbey, 2, 13, 19, 42, 64n. 6, 142, 156n. 7, 162, 176, 186, 188, 258n. 4, 320n., 326, 347n. 2, 366n. 3, 404n. 5, 406n. 3, 407, 635 —— Abbess of, 60, 61, 105, 117, 185, 198, 420; and see Pole, Katherine de la —— Cellaress of, 131n., 133, 257, 563; accounts of, 136, 139n. 5; Charthe of, 562ff. —— children at, 571, 572; church appropriated to, 113n. 1; claustration at, 348, 349; Clemence of, 239; corrodies at, 190, 197, 198; library of, 242n. 8; pensions demanded from, 195, 196; pittances at, 143n., 323, 324; Puerilia solemnia at, 312; resident chaplains at, 144; sanctuary at, 420, 421 Barnehous, John, 269 Barnwell, Prior of, 125, 142n. 3, 202n. 3 Barrow Priory, 233, 385n. 4, 360n. 1; custos of, 233; Prioress of, 233; and see Gurney, Joanna Barsinghausen, 674 Barton, Elizabeth, 419n. 2 Bartone, Isabel, 399n. 1 —— Joan, 413 Basedale Priory, 445; custos of, 230n. 8, 231; moral state of, 597, 598; prioresses of, 205, 284n., 360n. 2; and see Davell, Elizabeth; Fletcher, Joan; Percy, Joan de Basilia de Cotum, 361n. 2 Basle, Synod of, 314 Bassett, Christian, 69, 97, 102n., 105, 106, 201; accounts of, 118n., 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, 330n. 3 —— Sir Guy de, 25, 330n. 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, 537n. 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, 408n. 4 —— translations of, 251, 252, 341n. 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, 360n. 2 Berners, Juliana, 240, 308 Bernier, 433ff. Berre, Alice, 206, 207 —— William, 206 Berthold of Regensburg, 518n. 1 Berwick, North, Priory of, 418 Berwick-on-Tweed, Gild at, 11 Berzé, 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, 210n. 2 Birlaunde, Henry of, 233 Bischofsheim, Abbess of, 237 Bishopsgate, St Helen’s, 2, 13, 55, 56, 58n., 109n., 292n. 3, 309, 311, 395, 402n. 4, 405, 408, 441n.; 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, 106n. 2; poverty of, 184n. 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., 259n. 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, 516n. 4, 522 Bodenham, Cecily, 72 Boleyn, Anne, 54, 55 —— Thomas, 77 Bondeville Priory, 636, 646; accounts of, 640; custos of, 640; financial state of, 255n. 2, 637, 638; inventory of, 641, 645; Prioress of, 644, 645 Bonevyll, Sir William, 329 Boniface VIII, 201n. 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, 516n. 1 Bourbon, Marie de, 558 Bowes, Agnes, 457 Bowet, Henry, Archbishop of York, 83n., 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, 403n. 5, 417 Brasyer, Stephen, 103 Brentford, Chapel of the Angels, 99 Brenyntone, Alicia, 33 Bret, Isabel, 27, 32, 191, 192 —— Robert, 191n. 2, 192 Brewood (Staffs.), 98, 147n. 4, 308, 443n. 2 —— Prioress of, 183n. 6 Brid, Aleyn, 207 Bridlington, 427 Bristol, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 442n. 2 —— St Mary Magdalen, 183, 184n. 4 Brittany, Duke John of, 429 Brodholme Priory, 229n. 1, 244, 449; custos of, 230; Prioress of, 423 Broke, Elizabeth, 88n., 149, 169, 389, 469 Bromele, Thomas, 267 Bromhale Priory, 73, 81, 87, 360n. 2, 377; dissolution of, 603; prioresses of, see Juliana of Bromhale Brompton, John, 326 —— Rector of, see Playce, Robert de Bromyard, John, 516n. 2 Broughton (Northants.), Rector of, 352 Browne, Agnes, 20 Bruce, Robert, 427 Brugge, Joan, 424n. 2 —— Peter, 424n. 2 Brun, Alicia, 21 Brunne, Robert of, 521 Brus, Elizabeth de, 420 —— Robert de, 420 Bruys, Joan, 441n. Bryce, Master, 149, 170 Buckingham, Archidiaconate of, 174 —— John, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 24, 220, 223, 226, 249, 273, 322n., 337, 386, 390n. 5 Buckland Priory, 1, 2, 37, 330; poverty of, 165; Prioress of, 37, 38 Bugga, Abbess, 237 Bungay, 33, 442n. 2 Buonvisi, Lucrezia, 474 Burghersh, Bishop, 450n. 2, 582 Burgo, Elizabeth de, 420 Burn, John, 242 Burnham Abbey, 146, 188, 191, 301, 326, 351, 442n. 2, 457; education of children at, 263, 272, 569; poverty of, 184n. 4 Burton, Abbot of, 4 —— Margaret of, 443n. 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, 27n. 1, 28, 108, 274n., 277n. 1, 296, 297, 450n. 3, 511n., 516n. 3, 520, 531, 627ff., 656 Caldwell Priory, 308n. 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, 60n., 106n. 1, 122, 137ff., 148, 151ff., 157, 158, 175, 292n. 2, 356n. 2, 398, 571; accounts of, 98, 102n. 2, 103, 119, 123, 127, 128n. 1, 142, 152, 327, 571; alms given by, 121, 122; bailiff of, see Key, Thomas; chaplains of, 153; church of, 125; churches appropriated to, 135n. 5; confessor of, 152; clothes of nuns at, 323; dissolution of, 602; fire at, 172; Garlick Fair of, 106n. 1; gifts to, 175, 176; hospitality of, 119, 120; liveries of servants at, 137; poverty of, 184n. 4; prioresses of, 147n. 5, 152, 169, 177, 366n. 2; and see Lancaster, Joan; repairs at, 123ff., 169; servants of, 137, 152; visitation of, 494n. 1 Camoys, Margaret de, 73 Campsey Priory, 2, 39, 64n. 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, 113n. 1, 183n. 4, 248, 353, 376, 406n. 1, 411, 416n. 1, 417; Abbess of, 71n. 4, 224; coadjutress appointed at, 224; claustration relaxed at, 354, 355, 355n. 2; presentation of accounts at, 219 Canterbury, Archbishops of, 87, 347n. 2, 482n. 1 —— Holy Sepulchre, 41, 156n. 7, 224, 348, 350, 356n. 2, 359n. 2, 387, 399, 403n. 5, 413n. 2, 449, 487, 494n. 1, 581; alms given by, 120; custos of, 230n. 8, 232, 234, 487; poverty of, 234 —— Hospital of St James, 82n. 4, 184n. 5, 390n. 5, 494n. 1 —— pilgrimage to, 95, 145 —— Priory, 210n. 2; Prior of, 461, 482n. 1 Cantilupe, Thomas de, Bishop of Hereford, 248, 324, 347n. 2, 367n. 2, 369 Capron, John, 454 Carey, Eleanor, 54, 55 —— John, 54 Carinthia, Monastery of, 592 Carmaynton, David, 36, 37 Carrow Priory, 6, 12, 113n. 1, 148n. 1, 268, 292, 305, 366, 587; boarders at, 411, 577; children at, 267, 268; churches appropriated to, 113n. 2; complaints of bad food, etc., at, 168n. 2; enforced reception of nuns into, 212; lawsuit of, 202n. 2; pestilence at, 181; Philip Sparrow at, 590ff.; Prioress of, 72, 105n. 3; and see Wilton, Edith; revels at, 312; sanctuary at, 422; titles granted to, 116n. 1 Cassian, 294 Castile, Constance of, 421n. 1 Castle Hedingham Priory, 188, 192; Prioress of, 360n. 2 Catesby, Joan, 84 —— Priory, 78, 82, 83, 87, 106, 107n. 1, 110, 146, 186, 188, 225, 228, 292, 304, 335, 358n. 2, 378, 388, 395, 402n. 3, 408n. 2, 447, 477, 486, 489, 583; accounts of, 98, 102n. 2, 105n. 3, 115n. 1, 118n., 127, 220; children at, 265, 272, 409, 577; dilapidations at, 171n. 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, 184n. 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, 131n., 135 Chambress of nunnery, 119, 132, 134, 137, 368; accounts of, 119, 131n., 135 Champnys, Alice, 243 Chansons de Nonnes, 502ff., 604ff. Chantimpré, Thomas of, 584 Chantress of nunnery, 131, 132 Chaplains, 143ff., 148n. 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, 184n. 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, 184n. 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, 88n., 233 Chivynton, Johanna, 399 Chondut, Agnes, 17 Chondut, Katherine, 17, 18 —— Ralph, 17 Chygwell, William de, 197 Chyld, Margery, 399 Cîteaux, Abbot of, 375n. 1 Clay, Richard del, 52 Clef d’Amors, La, 8 Clemence of Barking, 239 Clementhorpe Priory, 326, 360n. 2, 365n. 3, 384n. 1, 600, 601 Clene Maydenhod, 16, 525 Clerkenwell Priory, 2, 13, 179, 259n. 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, 419n. 2 —— Henry de, 421 Cokaygne, The Land of, 534ff., 542 Cokehill Priory, 165, 232n. 5, 385, 481, 482; chaplain of, 232n. 5; Prioress of, 185n. 6 Cokke, John, 124, 152 Colchester, 420 Coldingham, nuns of, 303n. 2, 365, 471 Coleworthe, Joan, 84 Cologne, Provincial Council of, 360n. 1 Colte, Anne, 447n. 6 Common Pleas, Court of, 70 Condé, Jean de, 539, 541, 542 Congé d’élire, 43n. 2, 44ff. Conyers, Alice, 328n. 2 —— Cecily, 31 Cook, Alice, 395 —— William, 395 Copeland, John, 197 Cornhill, 41, 192 Cornwallis, Katherine, 50 Cornworthy Priory, 267, 413n. 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, 261n. 2 Crabhouse Priory, 30, 42, 90ff., 169, 378n. 3, 461, 468, 477n. 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 Crécy, 10 Cressy, Sir Hugh de, 214 —— Jonetta, 214 Crioll, Margery de, 330 Crofton, John, 370 —— Juliana de, 329 Cromwell, Gregory, 263, 267 —— Thomas, 30n. 5, 32, 51n., 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, 360n. 2 Danne, Roger, 198 Dante, quoted, 294, 295 Darcy, Lord, 146 —— Margaret, 7, 322n. Dartford Abbey, 2, 3, 98, 247n. 2; alms given by, 120; boarders at, 573 Daubeney, Henry Lord, 146 Daubriggecourt, Sir John, 6 —— Margery, 6 Davell, Elizabeth, 360n. 2 Daventry Priory, 58 —— Roger de, 230n. 1 Davington Priory, 165, 184, 366, 604; custos of, 232; financial mismanagement at, 203; Prioress of, 183n. 4 Davy, Alice, 360n. 2 Davye, Agnes, 20, 319 Decun, Alice, 496 Delapré Priory (Herts.), 142, 244, 245, 313, 456, 479, 481; accounts of, 97, 102n., 118n., 121, 131n., 139n. 5, 163n. 4, 309, 335, 479n. 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, 479n. 4; see Bassett, Christian; Wafer, Alice Delapré Abbey (Northants.), 249, 321n. 2, 425, 457; Abbess of, 360n. 2; claustration at, 351ff.; nuns of, excommunicated, 441, 442; pensions demanded from, 195; poverty of, 175 Delft, Franciscan tertiaries of, 240n. 2 Dene, William de, 203, 204 Denesson, Henry, 123ff. Denny Abbey, 3, 13, 378n. 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 Monarché, 251 Dives and Pauper, 366n. 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, 358n. 4, 410 Du Bois, Pierre, 56 Dudley, Sir John, 279 Dunkirk, 258 Dunstable Priory, 308n. 1 Dunwyche, Alice, 484 Durant, Geoffrey, 40 —— Molde, 40 Durham, Bishops of, 31, 309n. 6, 427; see Hatfield, Thomas; Skirlaw, Walter —— Priory, 210n. 2 —— Sherburn Hospital, 361n. 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, 292n. 2, 330, 331, 340, 448n. 1, 452, 494n. 1, 582; boarders at, 415; churches appropriated to, 113n. 1, 182; dilapidations at, 170, 171n. 2; disorder at, 453, 454, 462; inventory of goods of, 222n. 3; library of, 241; poverty of, 177; prioresses of, 76ff., 83n., 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, 213n. 1, 416 Egglestone Abbey, 428n. 3 Eleanor, Prioress of Arden, 83, 85, 87, 94, 211, 218, 382n. 1 Eleanor, wife of Henry III, 455 Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, 196 —— of York, 19 Ellerton Priory, 31, 428 Elstow Abbey, 2, 22, 24, 51n., 64n. 6, 186, 217, 226, 291n. 2, 333, 335, 351, 369, 383, 387, 390, 401n. 1, 402n. 4, 404, 405, 407n. 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, 131n., 335n.; 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, 106n. 2; fashions at, 304, 586; hospitality at, 358n. 5; households of nuns at, 318, 320n., 321n. 1; learning of novices, 244; livings held by, 114; number of nuns at, 216; pensions demanded from, 195; Precentress of, 261n. 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’, 560n. Esholt Priory, 52, 170n. 3, 177, 213, 251n. 2, 390, 402, 405, 467n. 3, 601; bequest to, 326; children at, 263, 269, 284, 579; indulgence for contributors to repairs at, 175; immorality at, 284; Prioress of, 31, 57n. 2 Estates, management of, 71, 99, 100 Estrées, Angélique d’, 451n. 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, 442n. 2 Evesham Chronicle, 489n. 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, 18n. 4, 19, 20 —— Elizabeth, 328 —— John, 327 —— Margaret, 76, 77, 303n. 1, 327, 329, 399n. 3, 468n. 4, 500, 587 Fairs, 105, 106, 133, 138; and see Stourbridge Fair Fairwell Priory, 217n., 220n. 1, 248, 320n., 356n. 3, 384, 416n. 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, 442n. 2 Feriby, Benedict de, see Broughton, Rector of Ferrar, Agnes, 185 Ferry Woman, The, 616 Ffychmere, Joan, 202 Fisher, Jane, 247n. 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, 59n. 2, 351, 458, 461; children at, 573; churches appropriated to, 113n. 1, 181; custos of, 230n. 8; poverty of, 174, 177 Flemyng, Richard, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 24, 217, 223, 226, 249, 263, 308n. 1, 384n. 1, 386, 407n. 1, 415, 459, 477 Fletcher, Joan, 88n., 467n. 3 Flixborough, Rector of, 235 Flixthorpe, Agnes de, 353, 443ff., 457, 467n. 3 Flixton Priory, 59n. 1, 63, 79, 168, 292n. 2, 340, 489n. 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, 305n. 6, 360n. 2; cells of, 455; nuns of, 3, 343; rule of, 400n. 2 Fordham, John of, Bishop of Ely, 176, 177 Fosse Priory, 333; Master of, 231; poverty of, 165, 175, 184n. 4; Prioress of, 180, 250 Foster, Alice, 49 —— Thomas, 208 Foukeholm, St Stephen’s, 180, 448n. 1 Fountains, Abbot of, 375n. 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 Fréjus, Council of, 373 French, knowledge of, in 14th century, 246, 247 Froissart, 240, 428, 431, 435 Frost, Ellen, 22 Fulham, Nicholas de, 259n. 3 Furmage, Joan, 187, 338, 362 Fychet, John, 410 Gandersheim Abbey, 238; Roswitha’s history of, 238 Gascoigne, Agnes, 46 —— Thomas, 253, 254, 447n. 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, 516n. 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, 355n. 1, 399n. 3, 463, 472n. 1, 482, 494n. 1, 635 Glastonbury, Abbot of, 162; and see Whiting, Richard Gloucester, Duke of, 26 —— Eleanor, Duchess of, 328n. 5 —— Richard, Earl of, 161 —— Thomas of, 418 Godstow Abbey, 2, 121, 162, 248, 249, 291n. 2, 292n. 2, 325, 347n. 2, 348, 351, 353, 384n. 1, 395ff., 401, 402, 405n. 1, 407n. 1, 440, 448n. 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, 356n. 5, 357, 358n. 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, 206n. 3, 253; steward of, 205; visitors at, 408, 414 Gokewell Priory, 111n. 3, 332; children at, 576; households of nuns at, 318; poverty of, 163, 235; Prioress of, 23, 250; steward of, 235, 236n. 2 Goldesburgh, Joan, 469, 470 Goldwell, James, Bishop of Norwich, 461n. 1, 494n. 1 Goring Priory, 53n. 2, 301, 304, 351, 353, 358, 395, 457; custos of, 230n. 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, 110n., 111n. 3, 127, 149n., 154, 155, 205, 210, 358, 363, 364, 367, 382, 400n. 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, 320n.; jewels, etc., pawned by, 210; mismanagement at, 225n. 2; peculium for clothes given at, 323; Prioress of, 57, 61, 66, 80, 162, 180, 318, 413, 478, 484, 490; relics at, 116n. 3; treasuress of, 163, 323 Granary, repair of, 125, 157 Grandisson, John de, Bishop of Exeter, 183n. 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, 308n. 1, 319, 321, 325, 365, 396, 402, 405n. 1, 457, 488, 491 Great Billing, Rector of, 46 Green, Nicholas, 441n. Greenfield, Margaret, 455 —— Priory, 180, 241, 330; corrodies, etc., granted by, 214n. 4; Prioress of, 61, 78, 180, 214; solitary confinement at, 30; titles remitted, 184n. 2 —— William, Archbishop of York, 16, 26, 51ff., 214, 220, 222, 257n. 2, 264, 273, 302n. 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, 111n. 3, 174, 177, 457; fire at, 172; Master of, 231, 232n. 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, 200n. 4, 249, 262, 272, 273, 322n., 356n. 5, 357, 358, 374n. 1, 386, 400, 401, 415, 441n. Gyney, Joan, 189 Hainault, Bailiwick of, 105 —— John of, 435 Hales, Thomas of, 513n. 1, 525 Halewey, Agnes, 83 Hali Meidenhad, 16, 40, 441, 525ff. Haliwell Priory, 2, 13, 34n. 2, 422n. 2, 442; alms given by, 120; Prioress of, 71, 442 Hallam, Bishop, 385 Halle, St George (Marienkammer), 673, 681 —— St Maurice, 674 Hampole Priory, 113n. 3, 146, 213, 214, 320n., 326, 329, 339, 365n. 3, 401n. 1, 427, 428, 466n. 1, 477, 579, 601; and Richard Rolle, 532n. 2; bad administration at, 203; boarders at, 413n. 4, 414; children at, 272; custos of, 230n. 8; Prioress of, 26, 83n., 205, 329n. 5, 339, 477 Hampole, Richard, 254 Hampton, Alice de, 189 Hanam, Elianora, 361n. 1 Handale Priory, 52, 57n. 2, 146, 175, 220n. 5, 361n. 2; custos of, 230n. 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, 230n. 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, 442n. 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., 111n. 3, 155, 220, 226ff., 249, 291n. 2, 292n. 2, 322n., 337, 374n. 1, 400, 402n. 4, 459ff., 489, 581; accounts not kept at, 205; appropriation by, 209; children at, 263, 272, 273, 575, 576; claustration at, 357n. 1, 358n. 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, 380n. 4 Hildesheim, St Mary Magdalen, 672, 675, 677, 680, 682 Hilton, Sir Robert de, 399n. 3 Hinchinbrooke Priory, 361n. 1; Prioress of, 180 Hodesak, Beatrice de, 365 Hohenburg, 239 Holewaye, Elizabeth, 442n. 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, 441n. Humberstone Abbey, 377n. 2 Hunter, Matilda, 442n. 2 Huntingdon, Archidiaconate of, 175 —— Priory, 308n. 1, 360n. 1 —— St James’ outside, 175 Hutton, Joan, 467n. 3 Hyde Abbey, 369; Abbot of, see Bromele, Thos. Hylyarde, Elynor, 326 Hythe, Hamo of, Bishop of Rochester, 204, 218 Ickleton Priory, 184n. 4, 306, 400n. 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, 88n., 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, 184n. 4, 357n. 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, 342n. 1, 345 Jecke, Philippa, 66 Jerves, John, 265, 269 Joan de Barton, 88n. —— Princess of Wales, 418 Jocelin of Brakelond, 45ff., 496 John of Gaunt, 19, 370n. 5, 418, 421n. 1 Johnson, Margaret, 326 —— William, 399 Jordan, Isabel, 54, 55, 392 Joseph, Stephen, 37 Josiana de Anelagby, 362 Julian of Norwich, 366, 502n. 1 Juliana of Bromhale, 87, 211 Jumièges, Abbot of, 310n. 2 Jurdane, Isabel, 67 Keldholme Priory, 51ff., 111n. 3, 306, 360n. 2, 443n. 2, 448n. 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 à, 243 Kent, Holy Maid of, see Barton, Elizabeth —— Isabella de, 423, 424 Kentwood, Dean, 209, 261n. 2, 273, 307, 309, 405, 408 Kessingland, Rectory of, 114 Key, Thomas, 138, 147, 152 Kilburn Priory, 13, 18n. 4, 528; chaplain’s chamber at, 144; library of, 241 King, Philippa, 453, 454 King’s Mead Priory, 4, 262, 361n. 1; children at, 571; custodes of, 234; hospitality of, 200; poverty of, 180, 234; Prior of, 230; relics at, 116n. 3 King’s Quair, The, 510 Kington, St Michael, 255, 350, 360n. 2 Kippax, Rector of, 231 Kirkby, Margery, 81, 82, 167 Kirk Deighton, Rector of, 231 Kirklees Priory, 320n. 1, 325, 448n. 1; custos of, 220n. 5, 230n. 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, 249n. 7 Kyrkeby, Margery, 405n. 2 Lacock Abbey, 2, 19n. 3, 268n., 497; alms given by, 121; claustration at, 350; visitors at, 238 Lacy, Henry de, 420 Lambley Priory, 426, 429 Lamentations de Matheolus, Les, 542, 543 Lampet, Julian, 366n. 3 Lancaster, Isabella de, 240, 455 —— Joan, 138, 147n. 5, 327 —— Margaret de, 417, 418 —— Thomas of, 419 Lanercost Chronicle, 426 Langeland, Thomas, 88 Langeloft, Isabella de, 52 Langendorf Nunnery, 305n. 4 Langland, William, 30, 178, 202, 263, 297ff., 301, 308n. 1, 309, 310, 373, 390, 544 Langley Priory, 22, 23, 32, 111n. 3, 210, 306, 313n. 5, 333, 336, 402n. 3, 408, 412, 587; children at, 409, 575; corrody sold by, 207; embroidery at, 256, 257; households of nuns at, 318; illiteracy at, 250; poverty of, 162, 163, 205, 211; Prioress of, 207, 210, 250, 252 Langton, Thomas, 149 Lateran Council, Fourth, 21 Latin, knowledge of, by nuns, 246, 247 Latymer, Matilda, 330 Lawrence, Robert, 399 Lay-brothers, 288 Lee, Edward, Archbishop of York, 61n. 2, 154, 211, 220, 251n. 2, 284n. 1, 356n. 5, 390, 402, 405 Legbourne Priory, 23, 68, 78, 111n. 3, 153, 228, 330, 332, 356n. 5, 409, 412, 413; bailiff of, 148, 149, 205; boarders at, 576; corrody in, 205; custodes of, 231, 236n. 2; dilapidated condition of property of, 170n. 1, 181; households of nuns at, 318; poverty of, 164, 205; Prioress of, 67, 71, 163, 170n., 205, 221; status domus of, 221 Legenda aurea, 241 Legh, Margaret, 261n. 2 Leicester, Countess of, 257 Lelle, Avice de, 448n. 1 Leominster Priory, Sub-prior of, 449 Leycroft, Thomas Leygrave, Alice de, 196 —— Ellen de, 196 —— Juliana de, 196 Leyva, Virginia de, 474 Libaud, Sibyl, 421n. 1 —— Thomas, 421n. 1 Libel of English Policie, 112 Liber Poenitentialis of Theodore, 450n. 3 Lillechurch Priory, 143n., 603 Lilleshall, 265 Limburg Chronicle, 604 Limington, Rector of, 233 Lincoln, Archdeacon of, 90 —— Bishops of, 44, 47, 120, 123; and see Alnwick; Buckingham; Flemyng; Gravesend; Longland; Sutton —— Cathedral, 465, 466 Lindesay, Sir David, 251, 510, 511, 549, 552ff. Lindesay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits, 510, 549, 552ff. Lingiston, Thomas de, 449 Lioba, see Bischofsheim, Abbess of Liseway, Roger, 198 Lisieux, St Désir, 636; financial state of, 637 Lisle, Honor, Viscountess, 258, 279 —— Sibil de, 365 Little Chester, Simon of, 234 Little Coates, Vicar of, 232n. 1 Littlemore, Agnes de, 366 —— Priory, 26, 60n., 265, 267, 269, 301, 448n. 1, 452, 578, 604; dilapidations at, 169; ill-fame of, 397, 491, 492, 582; moral state of, 595, 596; Prioress of, 180, 469, 477; and see Wells, Katherine Llewelyn, 30, 185 Lokton, Anabilla de, 52 Londesborough, Rector of, 220, 231 London, 68, 70, 105, 191, 233 —— Council of, 1200, 21, 585 —— nunneries of, 99 Longland, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 23, 79, 153, 170, 208, 211, 273, 304, 312, 321, 356n. 5, 369, 374, 380, 387, 399, 404 Longspey, Alice, 397, 398, 449, 456, 460 Loughborough, 146 Loveday, Anne, 19 Loweliche, Denise, 64n. 5, 88n., 458, 460, 469, 486n. 2, 493 Ludlow, Gild of Palmers, 11 Luitgard of Tongres, 500, 525 Luue Ron, A, 16, 513n. 1, 525, 527 Lylis, John, 77 Lymbrook Priory, 113n. 1, 183, 248, 263, 309ff., 347n. 2, 356n. 5, 359n. 3, 367n. 2, 369, 377, 384, 403n. 5, 408n. 2, 449, 586; children at, 573; Prioress of, 361n. 1; private property at, 324, 325, 339n. 2 Lyminster, 478, 635 Lynn, King’s, 43, 138, 147 Maiden Bradley, Prior of, 451 Malling Abbey, 2, 13, 56, 58n., 146; Abbess of, 20n., 57, 155n. 1, 180, 203, 204, 218; and see Retlyng, Lora de; corrody granted in, 208n. 2; fair of, 106n. 2; financial mismanagement at, 203, 204; falling mill of, 107n. 1; poverty of, 184n. 4; prebends of, 144; seal of, 218 Malnouë, nuns of, 345 Malory, Sir Thomas, 514 Malory’s Morte Darthur, 556, 557 Manorial courts, 103ff. Marcens, 433ff. Marcham, Agnes, 26, 397 Mare, Thomas de la, 244, 479 Margaret, Countess of Ulster, 39 Marham, Abbess of, 105, 380n. 4; chartulary of, 107 Marie de Bretagne, 305n. 6 —— de France, 558 Marienberg, 682 Mariensee, 678ff. Markyate Priory, 154, 156, 351, 358, 408, 423, 450n. 2, 452, 457, 460; custos of, 230n. 8; debts of, 162, 210; disorder at, 457, 458, 488, 491, 492; domestic economy of, 332; illiteracy at, 250; Prioress of, 64, 180, 250, 352; and see Loweliche, Denise; visitation at, 351, 352, 354 Marlow, Little, Priory to, 174, 351, 366; children at, 570; poverty of, 184n. 4; prioresses of, 17n. 2; and see Bernard, Eleanor; Vernon, Margaret Marmyll, Cecily, 455 Marrick Priory, 111n. 3, 201, 213, 214, 230n. 8, 326, 328, 356n. 5, 401n. 1, 428, 579; Prioress of, 148n. 3, 214 Marshall, Richard, 243 Marshalsea, the, 201 Martin IV, Pope, 209 Mason, Barbara, 380n. 4 Matheolus, Les Lamentations de, 542, 543 Matrimony, The Christen State of, 378 Matthew Paris, 240 Maundy Thursday, 142, 142n. 3, 143n. Mautravers, Sir John, 194 Maxstoke Priory, 210n. 2 Meaux Abbey, 449 Mechthild of Hackeborn, 239, 500 —— of Magdeburg, 500, 525, 533 Medforde, Clemence, 73, 76, 77, 81, 82, 166, 167, 218, 221, 234, 330, 361n. 1, 377, 405n. 2, 490 Melton, William de, Archbishop of York, 199, 235, 248n. 7, 264, 301, 329, 356n. 4, 365, 373, 427, 467, 468n. 1, 469, 477 Menagier de Paris, 563 Messe des oisiaus, etc., 539 Mestowe, Hundred of, 105, 422, 422n. 2 Metham, Margaret, 138 Middle class, rise of, 9ff. Middleton, manor-house at, 90 Minchin Barrow Priory, 4, 188, 358n. 4; custos of, 153; poverty of, 184n. 4; Prioress of, 71 Minories, the, 2, 3, 12, 13, 26, 39, 100, 114, 146, 176n. 3, 328n. 5 Minster Priory, 20 Misericord, 316 Mistress of novices, 134 Mitford, Katherine, 33 Molynes, Lord, 423 Montagu, Katherine, 442n. 2 Montfort, Isabel de, 73 —— Peter de, 30 —— Simon de, 346 Montivilliers Abbey, 560n., 636, 641, 647; Abbess of, 644, 650; financial state of, 637 Montmartre, nuns of, 345 More, Avice de la, 58, 59 Mori, Gui de, 532 Mortimer, daughters of, 420, 450, 451 —— Roger, 420 Mortival, Bishop, 213 Morton, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 219, 230n. 6, 480, 482n. 1 Mortuaries, 107ff. Mounceaux, Ella de, 457 Mowbray, Katherine, 598 Moxby, 58n., 122, 199, 217n., 325, 385, 402n. 4, 429, 447, 580; bakehouse and brewhouse of, dilapidated, 170; debts of, 200, 220n. 4; destroyed by Scots, 427; masters of, 231; moral state of, 599; prioresses of, 148n. 3, 427; and see Apelgarth, Sabina de, and Bartone, Joan; Whenby Church appropriated to, 113n. 1 Muisis, Gilles li, 305, 542, 543, 661 —— “Register” of, 543, 544 Munkton, John, 77, 303n. 1, 399n. 3 Musgrave, Agnes, 365 Mydelsburg, Thomas, 220n. 5 Myroure of Oure Ladye, 253, 254, 293, 531, 532 Myssenden, James, 326 Neasham, St Mary’s, 31, 170n. 3, 402n. 4; Prioress of, 360n. 2 Needlework in nunneries, 255, 256 Nether Sutton, 184 Nevers, nuns of, 305, 593; and see Vert-Vert Neville’s Cross, Battle of, 428 Newark, Henry of, Archbishop, 248, 338n. 3 —— Ermentrude, 441 Newburgh Priory, 232; Prior of, 184 Newcastle, St Bartholomew’s Priory, 362n. 3; appropriations to, 172; custos of, 234; fire at, 172; poverty of, 234; Prioress of, 360n. 2 Newemerche, Elizabeth de, 329 Newhouse Abbey, 230, 387, 399n. 3 Newington, Prioress of, 305 Newman, Nicholas, 149 Newmarch, Jane, 18 Newton, Matilda, 366n. 3 Nicke, Richard, Bishop of Norwich, 63, 65, 183, 388, 461, 484n. 1 Nicolson, Margaret, 48 Nonnes, Chansons de, 437 Norbery, Lady Anne, 267 Norbury, Roger de, Bishop of Lichfield, 21, 190n., 248 Noreton, Roger de, 165 Norfolk, Thomas, family of, 35 Northallerton, St Stephen’s nunnery, 428n. 3 Northampton, Archdeacon of, 174, 175, 353, 441 —— Battle of, 45 —— Friary at, 388 —— St James, Abbot of, 220 Northeleye, Rector of, see Joseph, Stephen Northlode, Alice de, 194, 452 —— John de, 194 Norwich, Bishops of, 57, 63, 65, 175, 309n. 6, 411; and see Goldwell and Nicke —— Isabel, 168, 336 —— Priory, 210n. 2, 388 —— Tombland in, 91 Nottingham, Archdeacon of, 444 Novellae Definitiones of Cistercians, 362 Novice, the, 1ff., 352, 260, 261; mistress of, 134, 261n. 2; teacher of, 260 Noyon, Robert de, 263 Nun who Loved the World, The, 511 Nun, Why I can’t be a, 545ff. Nunappleton Priory, 16, 52, 61n. 2, 87, 154n. 1, 200, 213, 251n. 2, 248n., 322n., 326, 338n. 3, 339, 373, 374, 389, 400, 402n. 4, 406, 410, 445, 601; accounts of, audited, 220; boarders at, 417, 580; custos of, 230n. 8; gifts to, 326ff.; poverty of, 184n. 4, 200; Prioress of, 326; visitations of, 497, 635 Nunburnholme Priory, 53n. 2, 213, 365n. 3, 400n. 1, 428, 478; boarders at, 580; custos of, 220, 230n. 8; Prioress of, 478 Nuncoton Priory, 22, 23, 33, 111n. 3, 153, 211, 215, 217n., 263, 291, 292, 301, 330, 332, 337, 358, 371, 374, 380, 381n. 2, 382, 387, 399, 402n. 4, 408n. 4, 457; boarders of, 413, 576; bondmen of, alienated, 205; corrodies sold at, 205, 207, 208; debts of, 225n. 4; frater at, 317n. 1; households of nuns at, 318; invalids at, 259n. 1; jewels, etc., pawned, 211; master of, 231; Prioress of, 79, 153, 205, 211, 408; revels at, 312, 313; seculars at, 409 Nuneaton Priory, 2, 3, 14, 34n. 1, 146, 186, 421n. 1, 441n.; alms given by, 120; numbers of nuns at, 215 Nunkeeling Priory, 6, 52, 58, 184n. 4, 212, 257, 291n. 2, 357n. 5, 427, 448n. 1, 477, 598; boarders at, 580; bursars of, 223; cellaress of, 469; enforced reception of nuns at, 212; Prioress of, see More, Avice de la; St Quintin, Isabella de Nunmonkton Priory, 7, 15, 18n. 4, 111n. 3, 399n. 3, 427, 469, 494n. 1, 580, 587, 601; Prioress of, 19, 242; see Fairfax, Margaret Nunneries, amusements in, 303, 304ff., 662; animals in, 662, 663; aristocratic members of, 3ff., 12ff., 73, 74, 194, 212, 255, 324, 503; books of, 239ff.; children in, 264ff., 496, 568ff., 655ff.; episcopal disapproval of, 270ff., 568ff., 655ff.; custodes of, 228ff.; discipline in, 300ff.; disputes in, 300ff.; education of girls in, 260ff., 568ff.; and see children in; election of superior in, 43ff.; expenses of, 117ff., 134, 183, 211, 636ff.; farm labourers of, 150, 151; financial difficulties of, 161ff., 180ff., 217ff., 655; mismanagement of, 166ff., 179n. 3, 203ff., 235; food supplies of, 138ff., 332ff., 334ff., 640ff.; girls forced into, 33ff.; home farms of, 109ff.; hospitality at, 200, 201, 401ff., 417ff., 649; household staff of, 150, 151; illiteracy in, 250ff.; income of, 2, 3, 100ff., 134, 161, 183, 223, 270, 641; earmarked, 135; Latin, study of, in, 246, 247, 249, 250, 276, 286, 288; middle-class members of, 10ff., 26; moral state of, 436ff., 597ff., 665ff., 675; numerical size of, 2, 3, 161, 213, 215, 215n. 4; overcrowding of, 212ff., 225; payments for reception into, 17ff., 658; pensions demanded from, 194ff.; private rooms in, 318ff., 328, 336, 654; quarrels in, 663ff.; reasons for entering, 25ff., 290; repairs to, 123ff., 135; right of nominating to, 189ff., 244n. 1; routine in, 285ff., 475ff.; ruinous condition of, 168ff.; satirists on, 533ff.; seculars in, 401ff., 446, 470, 660ff.; separate households (familiae) in, 272ff., 316ff., 332, 335, 336, 338, 654, 655; servants of, 129, 143ff., 651; status domus of, 221, 484; weak-minded in, 33, 34; widows in, 38ff. Nuns, almsgiving by, 118, 120, 121, 132, 649; annuities for, 324, 325; beer allowance of, 141, 141n., 167, 168n. 1; bread allowance of, 141n., 167, 168n. 2; Bible reading by, 254, 255; claustration of, 7, 71, 72, 78, 173, 201n. 2, 228, 259, 303, 341ff., 543, 660ff.; clothes of, 119, 135, 136, 211, 235, 255, 302n. 1, 303ff., 315, 329ff., 585ff., 663, 674, 675; dowries of, 17ff., 191n. 1, 214, 224, 268; education, etc., of, 237ff.; food allowances for, 334, 564ff., 648, 649; journeys out of cloister by, 354ff.; legacies to, 325ff.; linguistic learning of, 246, 247, 276, 288; love and, in medieval popular literature, 622ff.; money allowance of, 141, 338ff.; penances of, 466ff.; personal property of, 19, 20, 272, 273, 315ff., 322ff., 337ff., 651ff., 672ff.; pets of, 302, 303, 305ff.; pilgrimages of, 371ff.; pocket money (peculium) of, 322, 323, 331, 334, 336ff.; occupations of, 251ff., 285ff.; recreation of, 259; songs about, 502ff. Nuremberg, library of Dominicans at, 240n. 2 —— St Clare, 239 Obedientiaries, 131, 132, 150, 219, 319, 322, 367; and see Cellaress, Treasuress, etc. Odiham, John de, 198 Oignies, Mary of, 525 Okeley, Katherine, 397, 398 Oldyngton, Henry de, 197 Olifaunt, Elizabeth, 420 —— William, 420 Olyfard, Hugh, 420, 421 Origny, nunnery of, 432ff. Orwell, 188 Oseney, Abbot of, 396 Ottobon, Constitutions of, 338, 346, 354, 367, 369 Oundyl, Henry, 203 Overton, William, 242 Oxborow, Parson of, see Wiggenhall, John Oxford, Council of, 1222, 21, 165, 310, 323, 337, 338, 415 —— St Frideswide, 308n. 1 —— scholars of, 325, 395, 396, 398, 456, 460 Page, Robert, 152 Palmer, Robert, 152 Panham, Countess of, 257 Pantolfe, Sir William, 251 Pape, Thomas, 399n. 3 Papelwyk, Sibil, 67, 68 Paris, Faculty of Theology at, 314 Paston, Edmond, 10 —— John, 10n., 72, 423 —— Margaret, 267n. 1, 302 —— Margery, 411, 412 Patent, Joan, 322n. Pateshull, Sir John, 411 Patryk, Alice, 327 Pavy, Joan, 412 Paynel, Cecilia, 370 Peasants’ Revolt, 114 Peckham, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 27, 60, 62, 64, 149, 156n. 7, 167, 188, 191, 217, 223, 224, 230n. 8, 232, 248, 258n. 4, 306, 307, 312, 313, 346ff., 353, 358, 385n. 2, 387, 390n. 5, 407, 416, 456, 464, 487, 581, 586 Pecok, Reginald, Bishop of Chichester, 447n. 6 Peke, William, 18 Pelayo, Alvar, 545n. 1 Pelham, Maud, 452 Pembroke, Countess of, 330 Percy, Joan de, 597, 598 —— Lady Margaret, 411 —— Sir W., 146 Peresson, John, 152 Pergolotti, Francesco, 111 Periculoso, 343n. 3, 344ff., 350, 353, 354, 360, 367, 376, 440 Persones Tale, Chaucer’s, 295, 296 Peruzzi, the, 9 Perys, Edmund, 43, 91, 92 Peterborough Abbey, 200, 291 —— Abbots of, 44, 45, 115, 230, 444, 481 Philippa, Queen, 198 —— Duchess of York, 418 Pilgrimage of Grace, 282 Pilgrimages, 371ff. Pilly, Katherine, 57, 58 Pinley, 30 Pirckheimer, Charitas, 239, 500 —— Wilibald, 501 Pisan, Christine de, Livre du dit de Poisy, 558ff. Pittancer, 143 Pittances, 112, 118, 120, 135, 142, 143, 147, 155, 221, 223, 323, 328n. 2, 334, 336, 370, 522, 567, 568 Plagues, medieval, 178ff.; and see Black Death Plantagenet, Bridget, 276, 279ff. —— Elizabeth, 279 Playce, Robert de, 18 Pocket money (peculium), 322, 323 Poer, Maude, 410 Poisy, Livre du dit de, 558ff. Poisy, Priory of, 558ff. —— Prioress of, see Bourbon, Marie de Poitiers, Holy Cross, 345 Pole, Katherine de la, 42, 263, 270, 571 Polesworth Abbey, 160, 366, 416n. 1; Abbess of, 42n. 1, 217n. 1; alms given by, 120; children at, 265, 267, 282, 579; servants of, 159 Poleter, Robert le, 198 Polsloe Priory, 171n. 2, 190, 242, 248, 259n. 1, 286, 353, 386, 403n. 5, 408n. 2, 416n. 1; claustration relaxed at, 354, 355; meals at, 317; poverty of, 192, 193; presentation of accounts at, 219 Poncher, Étienne, 345 Pontefract, 419 Pontoise, John of, Bishop of Winchester, 156, 183, 195, 218ff., 244n., 259n. 1, 336, 350, 387 Poore, Richard, Bishop of Salisbury, 527 Popeley, Elizabeth, 88n. Porter, Alice, 67 —— James, 198 —— Richard, 152 Portsmouth, Joan, 453 Potton, Rectory of, 114 Poutrelle, Agnes, 67 Powes, Emma, 361n. 1 Pratica della Mercatura, 111 Pratt, Ralph, 462 Praty, Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 340 Preaux, St Leger, 636; Abbess of, 643; financial state of, 637 Precentrix of nunnery, see Chantress Prémontré, nuns of, 343 Prestewych, Margaret de, 35, 36 Preston, Anne, 46, 49 —— Margery, 49 Prioress, see Head of house Proctors for begging, 173, 174 Punchardon, Margaret de, 365 Punder, Margaret, 63 Pyghtesley, Richard, 103 Pykering, Joan de, 51ff. —— Margaret de, 328n. 1 Pykkell, Robert, 152 Rading, Philippa de, 198 Radyngton, Joan de, 224 Raoul de Cambrai, 432ff., 560n. Rasponi, Felice, 474, 501 Ratclyff, Margaret, 44, 102 Raulyn, 202 Rayn, John, 46, 47 Raynevill, Thomas de, 466n. 1 Reading, Abbot of, 279 Receiver of nunnery, 99, 100, 147, 151, 219 Redlingfield Priory, 64n. 6, 249, 263, 319n. 3, 452, 468, 578 —— Prioresses of, 64, 65, 467; see Hermyte, Isabel Redynges, Margaret, 202 Relics, 116, 117 Rennes, Cloth of, 76, 77 “Rents of Assize,” 101, 102 Rents from lands and houses, 100, 101, 118, 119 Retlyng, Lora de, 204 Reymound, Thomas, 242 Reynolds, Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, 36, 37, 179 Rich, Margaret, 117 Richemond, Elianore, 152 Ridel, Mary, 198, 199 Rievaulx, Abbot of, see Aelred Rigaud, Eudes, Archbishop of Rouen, 163n. 4, 255n. 2, 258, 271, 305n. 3, 308n. 2, 310n. 2, 312, 324, 337n. 2, 338n. 3, 380n. 4, 450n. 3, 473, 491, 587, 635ff. Ripon Minster, 377n. 2 Roche, Abbot of, 214 —— Joan de la, 189 Rochester, Bishops of, 208n. 2; and see Hythe, Hamo of Roger atte Bedde, 197 Rolf, Katherine, 157 Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 532n. 2, 533 Rolls of Parliament, quoted, 196 Romayn, Alice, 442n. 2 Romeyn, John de, Archbishop of York, 26, 53, 184, 231, 361n. 1, 411 Romsey, Abbess of, 60ff., 118, 167, 170n. 2, 185, 195, 216, 217, 224, 248, 252, 306, 308, 350, 410, 461; and see Broke, Elizabeth; Rowse, Joyce; Walerand, Agnes; accounts of, 101n., 118, 219; animals at, 307; coadjutress appointed to, 224; children at, 572, 573; corrodies at, 190, 198, 199; dilapidations at, 169, 170; disorder at, 461, 462; magister noviciarum at, 261; Manor courts of, 104n. 2; mills of, 118; mismanagement at, 167, 218; numbers at, 215n. 4, 216; obedientiaries of, 132; pensioners at, 195; pittances at, 259n., 324; poverty of, 173, 181, 210; prebendary canons of, 144, 229; private property at, 337, 339n. 5; pupils at, 273; servants of, 156; taxation of, 185; too many nuns at, 212, 213; visitations of, 496; visitors at, 238, 407, 408, 416 Romsey Abbey, 2ff., 7, 21, 26, 58n., 88n., 111n. 2, 113n. 1, 132, 149, 162, 186ff., 210, 213n. 1, 217n., 218, 220, 259, 263, 291n. 2, 292n. 2, 301, 304n. 1, 320n., 322n., 348ff., 353, 358n. 3, 361n. 1, 367n. 2, 369, 380, 384n., 386, 389, 395, 400n. 1, 402n. 4, 404, 416, 424, 448n. 1, 454, 482, 558, 583, 584, 586, 587 Roos, Eleanor, 242 —— Joan, 328 —— Sir Robert de, 242, 328 Rosedale Priory, 53, 111n. 3, 205, 306, 339, 360, 400n. 1, 467n. 3, 580, 584, 601; dilapidations at, 170; destruction of, by Scots, 427; process of, 222; relics at, 117; status domus of, 222 Roselis, Joan de, 52 Roswitha, 238, 239 Rotherham, Thomas, Archbishop of York, 177, 374, 389, 406, 417 Rothwell Church, 463 Rothwell Priory, 98, 161, 171n. 2, 304n. 1; begging license granted to, 174; boarders at, 424; debts of, 162, 173, 211; Desborough church appropriated, 113n. 1; Prioress of, 180, 250, 445; violent scene at, 424 Rouen, St Amand, 636; Abbess of, 644; accounts of, 639; financial state of, 637, 638 Rouen, St Paul by, 636, 641, 646 Rowney Priory, 171n. 2, 176n. 3, 423, 443; alms-collector appointed for, 173; master of, 231; Prioress of, 584 Rowse, Joyce, 149, 493 Rudd, Agnes, 326 Rummynge, Elynour, 389 Rusper Priory, 4, 79, 91n., 144, 245, 399n. 3, 462, 494n. 1, 583; poverty of, 153; Prioress of, 79, 221n. 1, 462 Russel, Alice, 464 Rutebeuf, 375 Sackfelde, Margaret, 209 Sacrist of nunnery, 131, 132, 134; accounts of, 136 Sadler, Hugh, 397 St Agnes of Bohemia, 500 St Albans Abbey, 70, 230, 245, 335, 456n. 4, 479, 482 —— Abbots of, 56n. 2, 259n. 1, 335, 361n. 2, 476, 480; see Mare, Thomas de la St Albans, The Boke of, 239 St Albans Chronicle, 429ff. St Aldhelm, 303 St Andrews, Bishop of, 418 St Aubin’s Priory, 636, 646; financial state of, 637, 638; moral state of, 667, 668 St Bernardino of Siena, 518n. 1 St Boniface, 237 St Caesarius of Arles, 343 St Catherine, Life of, 239 St Christina of Stommeln, 501 St Clare, 500 —— Order of, 417, 418 St Douceline, 501 St Elizabeth of Schönau, 239 St Francis of Paula, 345 St Francis de Sales, 363, 392 St Hildegard of Bingen, 239 St Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 262, 263 St John Baptist, Fair of, 138, 139 St Katherine of Alexandria, Life of, Capgrave’s, 243 St Lydwine of Schiedam, 501 St Mary Graces, Abbot of, 375n. 1 St Paul, John de, 195 St Quintin, Anne, 327 —— Isabella de, 469 St Saens Priory, 636, 641, 646; financial state of, 637ff.; inventory of, 641; moral state of, 668, 669 St Sepulchre’s, Canterbury, see Canterbury, Holy Sepulchre St Theresa, 501 Salimbene, 27, 634 Salisbury, Bishops of, 189, 190 Saltmershe, Maud, 22 Salwayn, Sir Roger, 260 Sanctuary, 420ff. Satyre of the Thrie Estaits, Ane, 510, 549, 552ff. Sauvage, William, 420 Savernake, Forest of, 105, 172 Saxony, 239 Saxton, Roger de, 235 Scorue, Isabella de, 487 Screvyn, Agnes de, 336, 337 Scrope, Eleanor Lady, 39 Scroupe, Jane, 278 Seal, Common, of nunnery, 218, 225, 248n. 7 Seckworth, William de, 40 Sele, William, 399 Sempringham Priory, 35, 228, 326, 328, 420; fire at, 171n. 3 —— Chronicle of, 419 —— Order of, 537 Senoke, Sir John, 415 Sens, Council of, 369 Sermons, medieval, 249, 518ff., 518n. 1 Seton Priory, 36, 478, 479 Sevekworth, John de, 447 Sewardby, Elizabeth, 19, 166n. 4 —— William, 19 Sewardsley Priory, 34n. 1, 174, 351, 353, 419, 457ff., 461; appropriation of church to, 181; begging license granted to, 174; church appropriated to, 113n. 1; disorder at, 458, 459; fair of, 106n. 2; master of, 231 Shaftesbury, Abbess of, 78n. 5, 162, 185, 188, 190, 195; see Bauceyn, Juliana; Ferrar, Agnes; Furmage, Joan; Giffard, Mabel —— Abbey, 2, 30, 101n., 146, 181, 186, 188, 189, 243, 268n., 300n. 1, 338, 339, 385n. 2, 421n. 1, 464, 482, 558; appropriations to, 113n. 1, 176, 182; bread allowance at, 141n.; claustration at, 350; corrodies at, 198, 199; financial difficulties of, 162, 177, 182, 187; hospitality at, 238; license to crenellate, 424; number of nuns at, 213, 215n. 4; pensions demanded from, 195; prebendary canons of, 144, 228n. 5; Prioress of, 328; Register of, 141n.; resident chaplains at, 144; steward of, 146 Sheen, Agnes of, 440 Sheldon, Matilda, 46, 48 Shelley, Elizabeth, 279ff. Sheperd, Richard, 107 Sheppey Priory, 13, 20, 147, 154n. 1, 156, 158, 159, 221n. 1, 300n. 2, 313, 325n. 1, 330n. 6, 336, 403, 494n. 1; cattle owned by, 126, 127; “confessor’s chamber” at, 145, 147n. 1; dorter at, 319; library at, 241; numbers at, 216; servants of, 159; “steward’s chamber” at, 147n. 1 Sherburn, Bishop, 170, 462 Shouldham Priory, 7, 25, 26, 330n. 3, 420; Prior of, 91, 420 Shrewsbury, George, Earl of, 146 —— Ralph of, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 21, 188, 194, 224, 410, 452 Sinclere, Elizabeth, 49 Sinningthwaite Priory, 214, 217, 249n. 7, 251n. 2, 284n., 291n. 2, 302n. 1, 320n., 381n. 2, 402, 428, 446; children at, 273, 580; claustration relaxed at, 356n. 5; custos of, 231; jewels pledged, 211; poverty of, 154, 165, 211; Prioress of, 31, 217, 273, 302n. 1; relics at, 116; visitation of, resisted, 482 Skelton, quoted, 139, 278, 590ff., 603 Skerning, Roger de, Bishop of Norwich, 175 Skirlaw, Joan, 327, 328 —— Walter, Bishop of Durham, 73, 327, 328 Skotte, Alice, 22 Slibre, John, 152 Slo, Katherine, 328 Smith, John, 453, 454 —— Margaret, 167 Snawe, Helen, 46ff. Snowe, William, 399n. 3 Sompnour, Richard, 452 Sonnenburg, Abbess of, 377n. 4 Sopwell Priory, 13, 245, 259n. 1, 265, 370, 378n. 3, 402n. 4, 456n. 4, 476, 479, 481, 581; accounts of, 267; custos of, 230; children at, 263, 573; Prioress of, 245, 370, 480; and see Berners, Juliana; Flamstead, Matilda de; Germyn, Helen; Webbe, Elizabeth; seculars at, 406; warden of, 480 Southwark, St Thomas the Martyr, 442n. 2 Spalding, Robert de, 231 Sparrow, Philip, 305, 412, 590ff. Sperri, Reyner, 26 Sperry, Joan, 365n. 3 Spina, Juliana de, 244n. 1 Spinning by nuns, 255 Spiritualities, 100, 113ff. Spofford, Thomas, Bishop of Hereford, 23n. 1, 339, 356n. 5, 377, 384 Stafford, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 447n. 6 Stainfield Churchyard, 390n. 5 —— Priory, 38, 111n. 3, 199, 292, 365, 381n. 2, 409; church appropriated to, 113n. 1; Prioress of, 61 Stamford, St Michael’s, 23, 44, 49n., 70, 117, 122, 123, 128, 129, 135n. 3, 142, 164, 180, 200n., 236, 310, 332, 334, 350, 358, 368, 402n. 3, 408, 443ff., 449, 450, 457, 460, 465, 480, 481, 584; accounts of, 70, 97, 98, 115, 117n. 4, 118n., 120, 128, 136, 143n., 163, 202, 221, 323, 370; alms given by, 121; begging license granted to, 174; boarders at, 414, 415, 577, 578; chambress of, 136, 323; children at, 265, 272, 283, 459; churches appropriated to, 115, 128, 135n. 4, 143n.; debts of, 221; disorder at, 491, 492; financial mismanagement at, 204, 225n. 2; guests at, 120; households of nuns at, 318; litigation by, 201; peculium for clothes at, 323; pension paid by, 199, 200; pittances at, 143n., 324, 334; Prior of, 230, 233; Prioress of, 57, 62, 66, 80, 162, 199, 204, 221, 233, 235, 250, 310, 318, 323, 368n. 4, 452, 460; treasuresses of, 111, 128, 185n. 6, 202, 205, 235, 368n. 4; warden, special, appointed, 233 Stanley, Agnes, 442n. 2 —— Isabel, Prioress, 4 —— Sir John, 263 Stapeldon, Walter de, Bishop of Exeter, 219, 224, 248, 259n. 1, 286, 354, 357, 376, 406n. 1 Stapelton, Emma of, 52, 53 Starkey, Cecilia, 46, 47, 49 Status domus, 221 Staunton, Richard de, 229 Steinfeld Monastery, 108 Stevyn, Joan, 454 Steward of nunnery, 99, 100, 103, 112, 143, 146, 147, 149, 221, 250, 267 Stil, Clarice, 35ff., 500 —— Robert, 36, 37 —— William, 37 Stixwould Priory, 111n. 3, 228ff.; boarders at, 413, 417, 576; children at, 265, 409; debts of, 162, 184n. 4; domestic economy of, 332; frater at, 317n. 1; households of nuns at, 318, 320n.; master of, 230; Prioress of, 66, 78 Stok, William de, 230n. 5 Stokesley, John, Bishop of London, 447n. 6 Stommeln, Christina von, 27n. 2 Stonore, John, 17n. 2 Stories, medieval, 515ff. Story, Edward, Bishop of Chichester, 453 Stourbridge Fair, 125, 138 Stow, William, 241 Strasburg, 239 Stratford, Abbot of, 375n. 1, 481 —— John de, Bishop of Winchester, 7, 189, 212 —— Priory, 13, 27, 32, 51n., 191, 577; poverty of, 191, 192; Prioress of, 191, 192 Stretford, Jonette de, 189 Stretton, Robert de, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 36, 248, 272, 384 Studley, Isabella de, 301n. —— Priory, 26, 153n. 3, 156, 168n. 1, 208, 268n., 304n. 1, 351, 380, 397, 398, 399n. 1, 408n. 2, 587; claustration relaxed at, 356n. 5, 358; custos of, 230n. 8; debts of, 211; Prioress of, 66, 208, 209, 358, 447 Sturges, Dorothy, 32, 33 Style, N., 453 Suffewyk, William, 445 Suffield, Walter de, Bishop of Norwich, 175 Surlingham Church, 113 Suthwell, John de, 85 Sutton, Oliver, Bishop of Lincoln, 176n. 3, 231, 232, 440, 447 —— Richard, 441n. —— William de, 233 Sutton-on-Derwent, Rector of, 231 Swaffham, Agnes, 327 Swaffham Bulbeck Priory, 263; accounts of, 98, 102n. 1, 279; children at, 265, 268, 279, 570, 571; mill of, 107n. 1; Prioress of, see Ratclyff, Margaret Swine Priory, 15, 21, 52, 53, 111n. 3, 146, 213, 214, 228, 229, 248, 291n. 2, 320n., 337n. 3, 355n. 1, 399n. 3, 427, 449, 472n. 1, 580, 581, 586; books left to, 242n. 5; custos of, 229ff., 230n. 8; dilapidations at, 170; disobedience at, 302; gifts to, 326; mismanagement at, 166, 223; papal exemption from tithes, 184n. 2; prioresses of, 73, 166, 169, 223, 302, 329; and see Anlaby, Josiana de; Skirlaw, Joan; visitation of, 449n. 1, 635 Swine, Vicar of, 242 Swinfield, Richard de, Bishop of Hereford, 183 Swynford, Elizabeth, 110, 333 Symon, Katherine, 168 Syon Abbey, 2, 3, 67, 98, 136, 140, 141n. 1, 146, 253, 256, 268n., 586; Abbesses of, 104, 105, 366n. 3; and see Gibbs, Eliz.; building accounts of, 92n.; cellaress of, 98, 111n. 1, 122, 131n., 136, 139, 368; accounts of, 136, 333; chambress of, 131n., 136, 137, 368; dumb signs at, 287; library of, 240n. 2, 242; Myroure of Oure Ladye written for, 531, 532; privileges of, 103, 104; Rule of, 132ff., 141, 286, 287, 584, 585; Sacrist’s accounts of, 131n., 136 Syward, John, 11 —— Dionisia, 11 Talbot, Thomasine, 167 Talke, Anne, 467n. 3 Tanfield, Amicia, 403 Tang, Margaret de, 467n. 3 Tarrant Keynes Abbey, 2, 101n., 350, 424; Abbess of, 71; and Ancren Riwle, 527, 528; debts of, 164; Fair of, 106n. 2 Tates, Joan, 88 Tawke, Agnes, 4, 88n., 211 Taylour, William, 82, 84, 463 Temporalities, 100ff., 182, 186, 187, 204, 205, 228, 235 Terbock, 149 Terrington, Maud of, 443n. 2, 467 Thanet, Abbess of, see Eadburg Thélème, Abbey of, 32, 539 Thetford Priory, 33, 210n. 2, 260, 267, 269, 361n. 1, 577; corrody granted by, 208; poverty of, 182; Prioress of, 32 Thicket Priory, 111n. 3, 146, 177, 213, 291n. 2, 428, 601; bequests to, 325; dilapidations at, 170; Prioress of, 61 Thirkleby, Vicar of, 231 Thomson, Johann, 326 Thormondby, Agnes de, 445 Thornton, Abbot, 365 —— Robert, 396 Thornton-upon-Humber, 387 Thornyf, Katherine, 374, 375 Thorpe, William, 241, 372n. 2 Timber, sale of, by nuns, 210, 217, 225, 226 Titchmarsh, Maud, 441 Tithes, 107, 113, 114, 128, 184 Titles, farming out of, 114, 115; granted to nunneries, 116 Tittivillus, 293, 646 Traherne, William, 413 Translations for nuns, 251ff. Treasuress of nunnery, 109, 110, 117, 118, 132, 134, 136, 219, 223ff.; accounts of, 118, 127, 137 Trent, Council of, 345 Treverbyn, Lady Margery, 411 Trimelet, Joan, 453, 467n. 3 Tuddenham, Sir Thomas, 30 Tudor, Edmund, 270 —— Jasper, 270 Tudowe, Agnes, 31 Tufton, Manor-house at, 90 Tunstede, Hugh de, 30 Turberville, Agnes, 189, 192n. 5 —— Johanete de, 192, 193 Turvey, Rector of, 46 Tusser, Thomas, quoted, 128, 129, 131 Tychenor, William, 399n. 3, 462, 583 Tydeswell, William de, 195 Tylney, Grace de, 418 —— Margery de, 413, 417, 418 Tyrelton, Simon de, 196 Tyttesbury, Katherine, 458 Ufford, Robert de, Earl of Suffolk, 330n. 3 Ulrich of Steinfeld, 108 Upton, Vicar of, 232 Urban IV, 181, 342n. 1, 344 Usk Priory, 223, 224, 348, 350; custos of, 230n. 8, 232 Valor Ecclesiasticus, 96ff., 114ff., 120, 146, 161 Ver, J. de, 224 Vergi, Châtelaine of, 303 Vernon, Margaret, 55, 56, 263, 267, 570 Vert-Vert, 413, 593ff. Vienne, Council of, 1311, 306n. 3 Villarceaux Abbey, 636, 645ff.; accounts of, 639, 640; financial state of, 637, 638; live stock of, 640, 641; moral state of, 665; Prioress of, 643 Virgin, Cult of the, 513ff. Virgin averse to Matrimony, The, 549ff. Virgin, The Penitent, 549, 551ff. Visitations, injunctions after, 494ff.; regularity of, 492; routine of, 483ff. Vitry, Jacques de, 372n. 1, 516n. 1, 519n. 1 Vox Clamantis, 499, 545 Vylers, Agnes de, 198 Wace, Humphrey, 195 Wachesam, Sir Robert de, 268 Wafer, Alice, 201 Wake, Anne, 46ff. —— Thomas, 419 Waldegrave, Rose, 273 Walerand, Agnes, 149 Waleys, Joan, 326 Wallingford, Richard de, 361n. 2, 479 Wallingwells Priory, 35, 52; Prioress of, 180 Walsheman, John, 103 Ward, Joan, 31 Warde, John, 399 —— Robert, 205 Wardon, Robert de, 231 Warenne, John de, 455 Warham, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 216, 221n. 1, 390n. 5, 494n. 1 Warland, Ingelram, 267 Warwick, Countess of, 18 Wason, Joan, 410 Waterville, William of, 480, 481 Watlington, Parson of, see Perys, Edmund Watre, Johanna atte, 442n. 2 Watson, Edward, 46 Watton Priory, 326, 412n. 2; gifts to, 326; pittances at, 326 Wavere, Margaret, 81, 82, 84ff., 94, 220, 299, 388, 460, 489, 583, 584 Webbe, Elizabeth, 480 Webster, John, 103 Weinhausen, 675 Welan, Thomas, 268 Wellingborough Church, 465 Wellisham, Sir Roger, 267 Wellow Abbey, 231, 232n. 1, 249n. 7 Wells, Katherine, 88n., 211, 299, 493, 584, 595, 596 Wennigsen, 677 Wester, Richard, 152 Westirdale, Isabella, 87 Westminster, Abbot of, 263 —— Council of, 1175, 21 Westmoreland, Joan, Countess of, 418 Weston, Matilda de, 191 Westwood Priory, 114, 184 Wherwell Abbey, 2, 3, 29, 156n. 1, 167n. 2, 186, 188, 195, 263, 320n., 329, 353, 461, 635; Abbesses of, 60, 61, 104, 105, 224, 252, 324n. 1, 410, 422; and see Colte, Anne; Euphemia of Wherwell; building at, 169; burning of, 425, 433; claustration at, 350, 351, 402n. 4, 404; children at, 573; coadjutress appointed at, 224; hospitality at, 401, 402; jocalia at, 330n. 3; library of, 242n. 8, 243n. 3; prebendary canons at, 144, 228n. 5; prosperous condition of, 89, 90; sacrist of, 330n. 3; sanctuary at, 422 Whiston Priory, 43, 45; poverty of, 173, 186; Prioress of, see Flagge, Alice de la Whitby, 471 Whiting, Richard, 265 Whitstable, Rector of, 234 Whittell, Roger, 121 Whytford, Richard, 254 Wickham, Vicar of, 232, 487 Wickwane, William, Archbishop of York, 6, 212, 338n. 3, 339 Wiggenhall, Joan, 42, 43, 90ff., 169, 170, 172, 502 —— John, 43, 92 —— St Peter’s, 91, 134 Wilberfoss Priory, 6, 30, 175, 212, 213, 325, 401n. 1, 416n. 1, 587, 601; custos of, 231; Prioress of, 58n. William of Stanton, 75 Willoughby, Sir Thomas, 57 Willynge, Hugh, 452 Wilton Abbey, 2, 3, 146, 186, 188, 189, 242n. 8, 392, 421n. 1; Abbess of, 54, 105, 172, 185, 188, 350; and see Bodenham, Cecily; Giffard, Juliana; and Jordan, Isabel; fire at, 172, 425; pensions from, 195, 198; prebendary canons at, 144, 228n. 5; resident chaplains at, 144 Wilton, Alice, 470n. 3 —— Edith, 422 Wimborne nunnery, 237 Winchelsea, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury, 33, 300n. 2, 325n. 1 Winchester, Bishop of, 118, 179, 252, 309n. 6; and see Asserio, Rigaud de; Pontoise, John of; Wykeham, William of, etc. —— St Swithun’s Priory, 369, 387; Compotus Rolls of, 131n., 313; register of, 310n. 2; revels at, 313 —— St Mary’s Abbey, 2, 3, 34n. 1, 151, 153, 159, 160, 171n. 2, 186, 188, 189, 195, 210, 279, 369, 387, 451, 454, 461; Abbess of, 5, 60, 185, 195, 252, 265, 276, 300, 451; and see Shelley, Elizabeth; appropriation to, 181, 187; boarders at, 151, 153; chaplains of, 151, 153; children at, 265ff., 279ff., 572; corrodies at, 190, 196, 197; debts of, 164, 173, 185, 187; disobedience at, 300; fire at, 425; hospitality at, 185, 200n. 3; library of, 241n. 4, 242n. 8; mistress of novices at, 201n. 2; obedientiaries at, 132; prebendal canons of, 144, 228n. 5 Windesheim, monastery of, 670; and see Busch, Johann Windsor, Lord, 99, 100, 146 —— Sir Anthony, 281 Wing, Manor-court at, 105 Wingate, Katherine, 47 Winterton Church, 365 Wintney Priory, 87, 153, 179, 448n. 1, 461; bad management at, 203; embroidery made by, 257; poverty of, 183, 184n. 4; Prioress of, 252, 452; and see Alice of Wintney Winton, William de, 449 Wireker, Nigel, 593 Wittlesey, Archbishop, 494n. 1 Wix, Priory of, 88, 308, 361n. 1, 374, 385, 467, 587; poverty of, 209, 210; Prioress of, 360n. 2 Wodhouse, John de, 328 Wolfe, Juliane, 489 Wolsey, Cardinal, 30, 54, 55, 392, 602ff. Womersley, Church of, 209 Wonnenstein, 240n. 2 Wood, grants of, 105, 172; unauthorised selling of, 205 Wood, Walter, 269 Woodlock, Henry, Bishop of Winchester, 156, 218ff., 248, 259n. 1, 319n. 3, 336, 416 Wool, sale of, by nunneries, 110, 111, 127, 217 Worcester, Priors of, 184, 186 Wortham, Margaret, 269 Wothorpe Priory, 115, 135n. 4, 171n. 2, 176n. 3, 180, 200n. 3, 353, 457, 584; Prioress of, 180; and see Bowes, Agnes Write, John, 149 Wroxall, 7, 39, 217n. 1, 223, 356n. 1, 359n. 3, 385, 402n. 4, 581; Prioress of, 58n., 78; and see Alesbury, Agnes of Wülfinghausen, 675 Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 146 Wykeham Priory, 18, 53n. 2, 111n. 3, 257, 291n. 2, 374, 428; dilapidations at, 170; fire at, 172; Prioress of; see Westirdale, Isabella Wykeham, William of, Bishop of Winchester, 5, 21, 63, 156, 167, 170, 216, 218, 219, 249, 261n. 2, 273, 300, 306, 324n., 337, 353, 358n. 2, 367n. 2, 369, 380, 401, 410, 451 Wyllyamesson, John, 152 Wylughby, Elizabeth, 465 Wynkyn de Worde, 254, 533 Wyteryng, Alice de, 204 Yedingham Priory, 18, 58n., 111n. 3, 170n. 3, 206n. 3, 257, 291n. 2, 325, 362, 532n. 2; custos of, 230n. 8; repairs at, 175 Yong, Juliana, 423n. 4 York, Abbot of, 200n. 1 —— Archbishops of, 58, 59, 165; and see Giffard, Walter; Greenfield, William; Romeyn, John de —— Cathedral, Chaplain of, see Burn, John —— council of, 1195, 373 —— Emma of, 51ff. —— friars of, 122, 199 —— St Clement’s, 53n. 2, 111n. 3, 122, 165, 175, 199, 301n. 1, 414n. 2; boarders at, 580; churches appropriated to, 113n. 1; relics at, 117 —— St Mary’s, 199 Yorkshire, moral state of nunneries in, 597ff. Ypres, William of, 433 Zouche, Elizabeth la, 443n. 2