Note 104 — II. The Necessity for Dissolution.

Adding ‘It were well to suppress the nunnery of Sopwell as you may see by the comperts’ (Letters and Papers, 1535, No. 661). The state of affairs would thus really seem to have been worse in the smaller houses than at St. Albans; but of Binham, on the other hand, there is direct evidence that, except that its numbers had grown smaller, it was in good condition (Letters and Papers, 1534, No. 574).