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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. BRISTOL St Mary A.Pr. Glouces. Worc. Eva, widow of
Magd. 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 Fr.Ab. Suff. Norw. Edward III,
Mary 1366, at
instigation of
Lionel, Duke of
Clarence

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

19. BUNGAY St Mary and B.Pr. Suff. Norw. Roger de
Holy Cross 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 Robert de
W. Courcy, c. 1138

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

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

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

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

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., York. Thurstan,
W.R. Archbishop of
York, c. 1130

32. CLERKENWELL Assumption B.Pr. Midd. Lon. Jordan Brisett,
of St Mary 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 A.Pr. Norf. Norw. Roger, prior,
Magd. St and canons of
John Evang. Rainham, c.
St Thomas 1181
and St Peter

36. DARTFORD St Mary and A.Pr. Kent Roch. Edward III,
St Margaret (ac- 1355
cording
to rule
and in
charge
of Dom.
friars)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 A.Pr. Suff. Norw. Margery, widow
St Katherine 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 B.Ab. Oxon Linc. Edith, widow of
St John Sir William
Baptist 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 A.Pr. Leices. Linc. Rohese de
and St Mary 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 St John B.Pr. Midd. Lon. Roger son of
(Shoreditch) Baptist Gelren, before
1127

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

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

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

60. HEDINGHAM, Holy Cross, B.Pr. Ess. Lon. Aubrey de Vere,
CASTLE St Mary and Earl of Oxford,
St James 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 B.Pr. Cambs. Ely Uncertain, c.
Magd. 1190

66. ILCHESTER Holy Trinity A.Pr. Som. B. and William Dennis,
(White Hall) W. 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., York Robert de
N.R. Stuteville,
temp. Henry I

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

71. KINGTON St Mary B.Pr. Wilts. Salis. Before 1155
ST MICHAEL

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

73. LACOCK St Mary and A.Ab. Wilts. Salis. Ela, Countess
St Bernard 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 St Mary B.Pr. Kent Roch. King Stephen,
(Higham) before 1151

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

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

80. LONDON St Mary and Fr.Ab. Midd. Lon. Edmund, Earl of
St Francis 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 Almeneches)

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

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

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

86. MARLOW, St Mary B.Pr. Bucks. Linc. Uncertain,
LITTLE twelfth century

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

88. MOXBY St John A.Pr. York., York Henry II,
Evangelist N.R. 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- St B.Pr. Northumb. Durh. Uncertain,
UPON-TYNE Bartholomew twelfth century

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

92. NUNBURNHOLME -- B.Pr. York., York Ancestors of
E.R. Roger de
Merlay, Lord of
Morpeth,
twelfth century

93. NUNCOTON St Mary C.Pr. Linc. Linc. Alan de
Mounceaux,
before 1129

94. NUNEATON St Mary B.Pr. Warw. Worc. Robert, Earl
of Leicester,
c. 1155, for
nuns of
Fontevrault

95. NUNKEELING St Mary and B.Pr. York., York Agnes de
St Helen E.R. Arches, widow
of Herbert St
Quintin, 1152

96. NUNMONKTON St Mary B.Pr. York., York William de
W.R. Arches and
Ivetta his
wife, temp.
Stephen

97. PINLEY St Mary C.Pr. Warw. Worc. Robert de
Pillarton,
temp. Henry I

98. POLESWORTH St Edith B.Ab. Warw. C.L. Saxon
foundation.
Refounded by
Robert Marmion,
temp. Stephen

99. POLSLOE St Katherine B.Pr. Devon Ex. Traditional
founder,
William Bruere,
before 1169

100. REDLINGFIELD St Andrew B.Pr. Suff. Norw. Manasses, Count
and St Mary of Guisnes, and
Emma de Arras
his wife, 1120

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

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

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

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

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

106. ST STEPHEN'S St Stephen B.Pr. York, York Uncertain.
(Foukeholme) N.R. Disappeared
after 1349

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

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

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

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

111. SINNING- St Mary C.Pr. York, York Bertram Haget,
THWAITE W.R. c. 1160

112. SOPWELL St Mary B.Pr. Herts. Linc. Under abbey of
St Albans

113. STAINFIELD St Mary B.Pr. Linc. Linc. William or
Henry de Percy,
temp. or before
Henry II

114. STAMFORD St Mary and B.Pr. Northants. Linc. William
St Michael Waterville,
Abbot of
Peterborough,
c. 1155

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

116. STRATFORD- St Leonard B.Pr. Midd. Lon. William, Bishop
BY-BOW of London,
temp. Henry I

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

118. SWAFFHAM -- B.Pr. Cambs. Ely Uncertain,
BULBECK before temp.
John

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

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

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

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

123. THICKET St Mary B.Pr. York., York Roger FitzRoger,
E.R. temp. Richard I

124. USK -- B.Pr. Monm. Llan. Sir Richard de
Clare, before
1236

125. WALLINGWELLS St Mary B.Pr. Notts. York Ralph de
Chevrecourt,
temp. Stephen

126. WATERBEACH St Mary of Fr.Pr. Cambs. Ely Denise de
Pity and Mountchesney,
St Clare 1294. Removed
to Denny, 1348

127. WESTWOOD St Mary B.Pr. Worc. Worc. Osbert son of
Hugh and
Eustacia de
Saye, his
mother, temp.
Henry II (for
nuns of
Fontevrault)

128. WHERWELL Holy Cross B.Ab. Hants. Win. Queen Elfrida,
and St Peter c. 986

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

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

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

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

133. WINTNEY St Mary, St C.Pr. Hants. Win. Richard Holte
Mary Magd. and Christine
and St John his wife,
Baptist daughter of
Thomas Cobreth,
twelfth century

134. WIX St Mary B.Pr. Ess. Lon. Walter
Mascherell,
Alexander and
Edith, children
of Walter the
Deacon, temp.
Henry I

135. WOTHORPE St Mary B.Pr. Northants. Linc. Uncertain:
united to St
Michael's,
Stamford, 1354

136. WROXALL St Leonard B.Pr. Warw. Worc. Hugh, Lord of
Hatton and
Wroxall, temp.
Henry I

137. WYKEHAM St Mary and C.Pr. York., York Pain FitzOsbert,
St Michael N.R. c. 1153

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

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Registers of John de Sandale and Rigaud de Asserio, Bishops of
Winchester, 1316-23, ed. F. J. Baigent. (Hants. Rec. Soc. 1897.)

Wykeham's Register, 1367-1404, ed. T. F. Kirby. (Hants Rec. Soc.
1896-9.) 2 vols.

(_o_) _Worcester_

Register of Godfrey Giffard, 1268-1302, ed. J. W. Willis-Bund.
(Worcester Hist. Soc. 1898-1902.) 2 vols.

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_

Register of Walter Gray, Archbishop of York, 1216-55, ed. J. Raine.
(Surtees Soc. 1872.)

Register of Walter Giffard, Archbishop of York, 1266-79, ed. W. Brown.
(Surtees Soc. 1904.)

Register of William Wickwane, Archbishop of York, 1279-85, ed. W.
Brown. (Surtees Soc. 1907.)

Register of John le Romeyn, Archbishop of York, 1286-96, ed. W. Brown.
Vol. I. (Surtees Soc. 1913.)

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.)

Visitations in the Diocese of York, holden by Archbishop Edward Lee
(1531-44), ed. W. Brown. (Yorks. Archaeol. Journal, XVI, 1901, pp.
319-68.)

(_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 Archeveque 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.

(_c_) _St Helen's, Bishopsgate_ (_sixteenth century, extracts_)

Victoria County History: London, I, p. 460.

(_d_) _St Radegund's, Cambridge_ (1449-51, 1481-2)

Gray, A., The Priory of St Radegund, Cambridge (1898), pp. 145-179.

(_e_) _St Mary de Pre, St Albans_ (1487-9)

Dugdale, Monasticon, III, p. 358.

(_f_) _Swaffham Bulbeck_ (1483-4)

Dugdale, Monasticon, IV, p. 458.

(_g_) _Syon_ (_Cellaress' and Chambress' Accounts_, 1536-7)

Myroure of Oure Ladye, ed. J. H. Blunt. (E.E.T.S. 1873.) Introduction,
pp. xxvi-xxxi.

(_h_) _Miscellaneous_ (_Extracts_)

C. T. Flower, Obedientiars' Accounts of Glastonbury and other
Religious Houses. Trans. St Paul's Ecclesiological Soc. vol. VII, Pt.
II (1912), pp. 50-62.

III. INVENTORIES

(_a_) _Brewood_ (1536)

Dugdale, Monasticon, IV, p. 500.

(_b_) _Cheshunt_ (1536)

Cussans, History of Hertfordshire, Hertford Hundred, App. II, pp.
267-71.

(_c_) _Easebourne_ (1450)

Sussex Archaeol. Coll. IX, pp. 10-13.

(_d_) _Gracedieu_ (1536)

Nichols, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (1804),
III, pp. 653-4.

(_e_) _Hedingham, Castle_ (1536)

Trans. Essex Archaeological Soc. IX, pp. 289-92.

(_f_) _Kilburn_ (1536)

Dugdale, Monasticon, IV, p. 424.

(_g_) _Langley_ (1485)

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.)

(_c_) _Godstow_

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 Besancon, ed. M. M. Banks. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1904-5.)

Amundesham. Annales Monasterii S. Albani (Rolls Series, 1870), I.

Ancren Riwle, ed. and trans. James Morton (Camden Soc. 1853). Also trans. (by Morton) with introd. by F. A. Gasquet in The King's Classics, 1907.

Caesarius of Heisterbach. Dialogus Miraculorum, ed. Joseph Strange, 2 vols. (Cologne, 1851.)

Chaucer, Complete Works, ed. Skeat (1906).

Chronicle of Lanercost, translated by Sir Herbert Maxwell (1913).

Clene Maydenhod, ed. F. J. Furnivall. (Early Eng. Text Soc. 1867.)

Court of Love, The, printed in Chaucer's Complete Works, ed. R. Morris (1891), vol. IV.

Early English Lives of Saints, ed. F. J. Furnivall. (Trans. of the Philological Soc. 1858.) For _The Land of Cokayne_ and _Why I can't be a Nun_.

Etienne de Bourbon. Anecdotes Historiques, etc., ed. Lecoy de la Marche. (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).

_Delapre, Northampton._ Serjeantson, R. M. A History of Delapre Abbey, Northampton (Northampton, 1909).

_Delapre, St Albans._ Page, W. History of the Monastery of St Mary de Pre. 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. Traite de la Cloture 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, 73_n. 2_

---- lodging and household of, 59, 135, 151, 167, 316, 317

---- of Fools, 311

_Abbey of the Holy Ghost_, 533

Abbot of Fools, 311

Aberford, Rector of, 220_n. 5_

_Accidia_, 293ff., 302, 437

Accounts, 96ff., 118ff., 245, 333ff., 639ff.;
annual statement of, 221;
audit of, 220, 221

---- presentation of, by head of house, 219, 220;
by obedientiaries, etc., 219, 224;
_see also_ _Status domus_

Aconbury Priory, 23_n. 1_, 339

---- Churches appropriated to, 113_n._

Adeburn, Alicia de, 21

Adeleshey, Joan, 443

Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 271

Alcock, John, Bishop of Ely, 398, 533, 602

Aldelesse, Juliana, 399

Aldgate, St Clare outside, 171_n. 2_

Alesbury, Agnes of, 39, 40

Alfrad, the donkey of, 383, 588ff.

Alice, Prioress of Wintney, 87

Alienation of goods, 225

Allesley, Agnes, 272, 409

Almeneches, St Sauveur, 636;
moral state of, 666, 667

Almoness of nunnery, 132

Almsgiving by nuns, 118, 120, 121, 132, 649

Alnwick, William, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 23, 26, 32, 33, 62, 66ff., 71,
77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 154, 161, 162, 164, 165, 199, 204, 207, 210,
215, 221, 225, 226, 234, 245, 249, 250, 263, 264, 272, 273, 277,
278, 283, 304, 317, 320, 331, 332, 334, 336, 340, 357, 358,
361_n. 1_, 363, 367, 377_n. 2_, 380, 382, 397, 399_n. 1_, 400,
402_n. 3_, 405_n. 2_, 408, 412, 414, 416, 437, 449, 457, 461, 463,
481, 483, 486, 488, 490, 491, 500

_Alphabet of Tales, An_, 511_n._, 516_n. 2_, 519_n. 1_

Alsace, 239

Alsop, Robert of, 234

Amesbury Priory, 2, 3, 242_n. 8_, 268_n._, 350, 360_n. 2_, 454, 455,
470, 482, 497

Anchoresses, 271, 528ff.

_Ancren Riwle_, 156, 258, 271, 305, 383, 500, 525, 527ff., 557, 592,
650, 655

Ankerwyke Priory, 26, 81, 82, 111_n. 3_, 146, 166, 218, 333, 405_n. 2_,
441_n._, 460, 461, 487_n._, 491_n. 2_

---- financial mismanagement of, 205, 225_n. 2_;
illiteracy of inmates at, 250;
inventory of goods of, 222_n. 3_;
poverty of, 153, 154, 162, 167, 177, 234, 235;
Prioress of, 32, 62, 66, 163_n. 1_, 210, 304_n. 2_, 340, 414, 493;
_and see_ Kirkby, Margery; Medforde, Clarence;
_status domus_ of, 221, 222;
teacher for young nuns appointed, 260;
visitors at, 490

Anlaby, Josiana de, 53

Apelgarth, Sabina de, 469

Appropriation of benefices, 113, 135, 144, 224

Arden, Henry, 85

---- Priory, 16, 153_n. 3_, 184, 213, 242, 382_n. 1_, 494_n. 1_, 601

---- accounts of, 220;
boarders at, 579;
corrody granted by, 206;
custos of, 230_n. 8_;
dilapidations at, 170, 175;
mismanagement of, 85, 86;
poverty of, 184_n. 4_;
Prioress of, 83;
_and see_ Eleanor of Arden;
relics at, 116

Arderne, Katherine de, 189

Armathwaite Priory, 428, 429

Armstrong, Jane, 326

Arnecliffe, Hugh de, 234

Arthington, 213, 217, 291_n. 2_, 356_n. 4_, 400_n. 1_

---- accounts of, 220;
bequests to, 326;
children at, 579;
coadjutress appointed at, 224;
_custos_ of, 231;
dilapidations at, 170;
dorter of, 170;
frater of, 170;
moral state of, 598, 599;
private property at, 336, 337;
prioresses of, 180, 217;
_and see_ Berghby, Isabella de; Popeley, Elizabeth; Screvyn, Agnes de;
relics at, 117

Arundell, Elizabeth, 442

---- Sir John, 73, 74, 429ff.

---- Thomas, Bishop of Ely, 176

Aschby, William, 399_n. 3_

Aske, Robert, 282ff.

Asserio, Rigaud de, Bishop of Winchester, 188, 369

Asshe, John de, 198

Assize of bread and ale, 104

Astley, Lora, 30

Astom, Matilda, 453

Atwater, William, Bishop of Lincoln, 222_n. 3_, 273, 292, 382_n. 3_,
441_n._, 491, 596

Aubrey, John, 274, 381

_Aucassin and Nicolete_, 513, 514, 541

Auditor of nunnery accounts, 99, 100

Audley, Lady, 306, 412

---- Sir Hugh, 419

Aunselle, Alice, 337

Avernay, novice of, 500, 507

Avice of Beverley, 365_n. 3_

Aylesbury, Margaret, 318

Ayscough, Bishop, 182

Ayton, John of, 354, 391, 435

Babyngton, Katherine, 243

Backwell, Rector of, 233

Bacton, Margaret, 168

Badlesmere, Bartholomew de, 203

Bailiff of nunnery, 99ff., 109, 129, 138, 143, 147, 148, 219, 227, 228,
257

Bakewell, Mr, 124, 140

Baldock, Ralph, Bishop of London, 34_n. 2_

Ball, John, 138

Barber, Isabel, 268

Bardi, the, 91

Bardney, Abbot of, 364

Barking Abbey, 2, 13, 19, 42, 64_n. 6_, 142, 156_n. 7_, 162, 176, 186,
188, 258_n. 4_, 320_n._, 326, 347_n. 2_, 366_n. 3_, 404_n. 5_,
406_n. 3_, 407, 635

---- Abbess of, 60, 61, 105, 117, 185, 198, 420;
_and see_ Pole, Katherine de la

---- Cellaress of, 131_n._, 133, 257, 563;
accounts of, 136, 139_n. 5_;
_Charthe_ of, 562ff.

---- children at, 571, 572;
church appropriated to, 113_n. 1_;
claustration at, 348, 349;
Clemence of, 239;
corrodies at, 190, 197, 198;
library of, 242_n. 8_;
pensions demanded from, 195, 196;
pittances at, 143_n._, 323, 324;
_Puerilia solemnia_ at, 312;
resident chaplains at, 144;
sanctuary at, 420, 421

Barnehous, John, 269

Barnwell, Prior of, 125, 142_n. 3_, 202_n. 3_

Barrow Priory, 233, 385_n. 4_, 360_n. 1_;
_custos_ of, 233;
Prioress of, 233;
_and see_ Gurney, Joanna

Barsinghausen, 674

Barton, Elizabeth, 419_n. 2_

Bartone, Isabel, 399_n. 1_

---- Joan, 413

Basedale Priory, 445;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_, 231;
moral state of, 597, 598;
prioresses of, 205, 284_n._, 360_n. 2_;
_and see_ Davell, Elizabeth; Fletcher, Joan; Percy, Joan de

Basilia de Cotum, 361_n. 2_

Basle, Synod of, 314

Bassett, Christian, 69, 97, 102_n._, 105, 106, 201;
accounts of, 118_n._, 313, 334

Batayle, Margaret de la, 26

Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, 268

Bath and Wells, Bishops of, 37, 38, 71;
_and see_ Drokensford, John de

Bauceyn, Juliana, 185

Beatrice, story of, 512ff.

Beauchamp, Agnes de, 192

---- Katherine de, 25, 26, 330_n. 3_

---- Sir Guy de, 25, 330_n. 3_

---- Thomas, Earl of Warwick, 330

Beaumont, Lady, 257

---- Lord, 268

Beauvais, John, Bishop of, 418

Becon, Thomas, 282

Bedford, Jacquetta, Duchess of, 419

Bedford, Sheriff of, 195

Belers, Margaret, 367, 382

_Bel-Eyse, L'Ordre de_, 537, 537_n. 2_, 542

Belgrave, Bridget, 137;
_and see_ Syon Abbey, chambress of

Belle Doette, 555, 556

Benedict, Rule of St, 23, 50, 61, 66, 136, 150, 245, 278, 285ff., 300,
315, 322, 341ff., 356, 408_n. 4_

---- translations of, 251, 252, 341_n. 1_

Benet, Isabel, 80, 83, 278, 283, 292, 310, 378, 389, 449, 460, 486, 489,
493

Bengeworth, John, 449

Berghby, Isabella de, 224, 469, 598, 599

Berkeley, Lady Elizabeth, 410, 411

---- Lord, 74

Bernard, Eleanor, 360_n. 2_

Berners, Juliana, 240, 308

Bernier, 433ff.

Berre, Alice, 206, 207

---- William, 206

Berthold of Regensburg, 518_n. 1_

Berwick, North, Priory of, 418

Berwick-on-Tweed, Gild at, 11

Berze, Seigneur de, 542

Betsone, Thomas, 287

Bever, John, 86

Beverley, St Nicholas' Hospital, 365

Bible, reading of, by nuns, 254, 255

Bicester, Prior of, 234

---- Priory, 210_n. 2_

Birlaunde, Henry of, 233

Bischofsheim, Abbess of, 237

Bishopsgate, St Helen's, 2, 13, 55, 56, 58_n._, 109_n._, 292_n. 3_, 309,
311, 395, 402_n. 4_, 405, 408, 441_n._;
children at, 265, 273, 576, 577;
corrodies granted by, 209;
Prioress of, 55, 56, 265, 307

Bival Abbey, 636, 647;
Abbess of, 645;
financial state of, 637, 638

Bixley, John, 208

Blackborough Priory, 32, 170, 371, 412;
fair of, 106_n. 2_;
poverty of, 184_n. 4_;
Prioress of, 64, 65, 220

Black Death, the, 164, 177ff., 215, 457

Blacklow Hill, 419

Blankney, Vicar of, 232

Bleden, Joan, 5

Bleeding of nuns, 257ff., 259_n. 2_, 316, 324, 646;
of monks, 258, 259

Blois, Robert de, 8

Blund, Ann le, 6

---- Sir John le, 6

Boarders in nunnery, 112, 113, 158

Boccaccio, 516_n. 4_, 522

Bodenham, Cecily, 72

Boleyn, Anne, 54, 55

---- Thomas, 77

Bondeville Priory, 636, 646;
accounts of, 640;
_custos_ of, 640;
financial state of, 255_n. 2_, 637, 638;
inventory of, 641, 645;
Prioress of, 644, 645

Bonevyll, Sir William, 329

Boniface VIII, 201_n. 2_, 344, 350, 351, 353, 354

---- IX, 117, 175, 345

Booth, Archbishop William, 175

Bossall, Vicar of, 231

Boteler, Margaret la, 365

Botere, Walter, 33

Botulphe, Joan, 312

Bourbon, Etienne de, 309, 372, 516_n. 1_

Bourbon, Marie de, 558

Bowes, Agnes, 457

Bowet, Henry, Archbishop of York, 83_n._, 339, 477

Bowlis, Alice, 48ff.

Boy Bishop, the, 311ff.

Boyfield, Alice, 46

---- Elizabeth, 46ff.

Bradford-on-Avon, Church of, 176

_Braies au Prestre, Les_, 541

Brakle, Agnes, 88

Brampton Church, 463

Brantyngham, Thomas de, Bishop of Exeter, 353, 403_n. 5_, 417

Brasyer, Stephen, 103

Brentford, Chapel of the Angels, 99

Brenyntone, Alicia, 33

Bret, Isabel, 27, 32, 191, 192

---- Robert, 191_n. 2_, 192

Brewood (Staffs.), 98, 147_n. 4_, 308, 443_n. 2_

---- Prioress of, 183_n. 6_

Brid, Aleyn, 207

Bridlington, 427

Bristol, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 442_n. 2_

---- St Mary Magdalen, 183, 184_n. 4_

Brittany, Duke John of, 429

Brodholme Priory, 229_n. 1_, 244, 449;
_custos_ of, 230;
Prioress of, 423

Broke, Elizabeth, 88_n._, 149, 169, 389, 469

Bromele, Thomas, 267

Bromhale Priory, 73, 81, 87, 360_n. 2_, 377;
dissolution of, 603;
prioresses of, _see_ Juliana of Bromhale

Brompton, John, 326

---- Rector of, _see_ Playce, Robert de

Bromyard, John, 516_n. 2_

Broughton (Northants.), Rector of, 352

Browne, Agnes, 20

Bruce, Robert, 427

Brugge, Joan, 424_n. 2_

---- Peter, 424_n. 2_

Brun, Alicia, 21

Brunne, Robert of, 521

Brus, Elizabeth de, 420

---- Robert de, 420

Bruys, Joan, 441_n._

Bryce, Master, 149, 170

Buckingham, Archidiaconate of, 174

---- John, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 24, 220, 223, 226, 249, 273, 322_n._,
337, 386, 390_n. 5_

Buckland Priory, 1, 2, 37, 330;
poverty of, 165;
Prioress of, 37, 38

Bugga, Abbess, 237

Bungay, 33, 442_n. 2_

Buonvisi, Lucrezia, 474

Burghersh, Bishop, 450_n. 2_, 582

Burgo, Elizabeth de, 420

Burn, John, 242

Burnham Abbey, 146, 188, 191, 301, 326, 351, 442_n. 2_, 457;
education of children at, 263, 272, 569;
poverty of, 184_n. 4_

Burton, Abbot of, 4

---- Margaret of, 443_n. 2_

Burtscheid, Abbey of, 28

Bury St Edmunds, 48, 370

Busch, Johann, 271, 296, 345, 473, 670ff.

Bustard, John, 231

Butler, Agnes, 449

Bycombe, Isolda, 410

---- John, 410

Byland Abbey, 427

Caen, Abbaye-aux-Dames, 305, 636, 646;
accounts of, 639;
financial state of, 637

Caesarius of Heisterbach's _Dialogus Miraculorum_, 27, 27_n. 1_, 28,
108, 274_n._, 277_n. 1_, 296, 297, 450_n. 3_, 511_n._, 516_n. 3_,
520, 531, 627ff., 656

Caldwell Priory, 308_n. 1_, 386;
Prior of, 46

Calle, Richard, 411, 412

Caluerley, Richard, 399

Calwell, Thomas, 120

Camberwell, 71

Cambridge, Elizabeth de, 398

---- Friars Minor of, 122

---- Jesus College, 270, 602

---- Mayor of, 122

---- St John's College, 603

---- St Radegund's Priory, 60_n._, 106_n. 1_, 122, 137ff., 148, 151ff.,
157, 158, 175, 292_n. 2_, 356_n. 2_, 398, 571;
accounts of, 98, 102_n. 2_, 103, 119, 123, 127, 128_n. 1_, 142, 152,
327, 571;
alms given by, 121, 122;
bailiff of, _see_ Key, Thomas;
chaplains of, 153;
church of, 125;
churches appropriated to, 135_n. 5_;
confessor of, 152;
clothes of nuns at, 323;
dissolution of, 602;
fire at, 172;
Garlick Fair of, 106_n. 1_;
gifts to, 175, 176;
hospitality of, 119, 120;
liveries of servants at, 137;
poverty of, 184_n. 4_;
prioresses of, 147_n. 5_, 152, 169, 177, 366_n. 2_;
_and see_ Lancaster, Joan;
repairs at, 123ff., 169;
servants of, 137, 152;
visitation of, 494_n. 1_

Camoys, Margaret de, 73

Campsey Priory, 2, 39, 64_n. 6_, 167, 168, 243, 336;
hospitality at, 417, 418;
mismanagement by Prioress of, 168, 417

_Canard Blanc, Le_, 617

Cannington Priory, 188, 194, 410, 452;
boarders at, 453, 578;
coadjutresses appointed at, 225;
corrodies, unauthorised sale of, at, 224;
Prioress of, 21, 224, 225, 410, 453;
simoniacal admission of nuns at, 224

Canons Ashby Priory, 231;
Prior of, 231

Canonsleigh Abbey, 2, 113_n. 1_, 183_n. 4_, 248, 353, 376, 406_n. 1_,
411, 416_n. 1_, 417;
Abbess of, 71_n. 4_, 224;
coadjutress appointed at, 224;
claustration relaxed at, 354, 355, 355_n. 2_;
presentation of accounts at, 219

Canterbury, Archbishops of, 87, 347_n. 2_, 482_n. 1_

---- Holy Sepulchre, 41, 156_n. 7_, 224, 348, 350, 356_n. 2_, 359_n. 2_,
387, 399, 403_n. 5_, 413_n. 2_, 449, 487, 494_n. 1_, 581;
alms given by, 120;
_custos_ of, 230_n. 8_, 232, 234, 487;
poverty of, 234

---- Hospital of St James, 82_n. 4_, 184_n. 5_, 390_n. 5_, 494_n. 1_

---- pilgrimage to, 95, 145

---- Priory, 210_n. 2_;
Prior of, 461, 482_n. 1_

Cantilupe, Thomas de, Bishop of Hereford, 248, 324, 347_n. 2_,
367_n. 2_, 369

Capron, John, 454

Carey, Eleanor, 54, 55

---- John, 54

Carinthia, Monastery of, 592

Carmaynton, David, 36, 37

Carrow Priory, 6, 12, 113_n. 1_, 148_n. 1_, 268, 292, 305, 366, 587;
boarders at, 411, 577;
children at, 267, 268;
churches appropriated to, 113_n. 2_;
complaints of bad food, etc., at, 168_n. 2_;
enforced reception of nuns into, 212;
lawsuit of, 202_n. 2_;
pestilence at, 181;
Philip Sparrow at, 590ff.;
Prioress of, 72, 105_n. 3_;
_and see_ Wilton, Edith;
revels at, 312;
sanctuary at, 422;
titles granted to, 116_n. 1_

Cassian, 294

Castile, Constance of, 421_n. 1_

Castle Hedingham Priory, 188, 192;
Prioress of, 360_n. 2_

Catesby, Joan, 84

---- Priory, 78, 82, 83, 87, 106, 107_n. 1_, 110, 146, 186, 188, 225,
228, 292, 304, 335, 358_n. 2_, 378, 388, 395, 402_n. 3_,
408_n. 2_, 447, 477, 486, 489, 583;
accounts of, 98, 102_n. 2_, 105_n. 3_, 115_n. 1_, 118_n._, 127, 220;
children at, 265, 272, 409, 577;
dilapidations at, 171_n. 2_;
home farm of, 109, 127;
households of nuns at, 320;
jewels pawned, 211;
master of, 231;
_peculium_ for clothes, 323, 333;
pilgrimages to, 117;
poverty of, 175, 184_n. 4_, 205;
Prioress of, 66, 107, 109, 121, 180, 192, 210, 211, 255, 272, 283,
320, 323, 333, 395, 452, 463, 477, 488, 493;
_and see_ Rich, Margaret; Wavere, Margaret

Catherine, nun of Bungay, 33

Catley, 18

Catton, Rector of, 30

Caxton, 241

Caynes, Sir Robert de, 192

Cellaress of nunnery, 117, 119, 132ff., 141, 143, 367, 368;
duties of, 133, 138;
accounts of, 119, 131_n._, 135

Chambress of nunnery, 119, 132, 134, 137, 368;
accounts of, 119, 131_n._, 135

Champnys, Alice, 243

_Chansons de Nonnes_, 502ff., 604ff.

Chantimpre, Thomas of, 584

Chantress of nunnery, 131, 132

Chaplains, 143ff., 148_n. 3_, 151;
residences of, 144

Chapter house, 249, 252, 475ff., 648ff., 672

Chark, John, 156

Charles V of France, 429

Charter, foundation, exhibition of, 221, 251

Charterys, Elizabeth, 152

Chatok, Elizabeth, 403

Chatteris Abbey, 19, 184_n. 4_, 306;
Abbess of, 65

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 19, 62, 74, 77, 94, 95, 371, 561, 588

Chaucy, Elizabeth, 19

_Checker_, 319

Chelles, nuns of, 345

Cheshunt Priory, 172, 313;
poverty of, 173, 174, 184_n. 4_

---- priest's chamber at, 145

Chester, 185

---- St Mary's, 146;
poverty of, 172

Chicksand Priory, 420

Children, education of, 261ff., 568ff.;
costs of, 269, 270

Chilterne, Alice de, 88_n._, 233

Chivynton, Johanna, 399

Chondut, Agnes, 17

Chondut, Katherine, 17, 18

---- Ralph, 17

Chygwell, William de, 197

Chyld, Margery, 399

Citeaux, Abbot of, 375_n. 1_

Clay, Richard del, 52

_Clef d'Amors, La_, 8

Clemence of Barking, 239

Clementhorpe Priory, 326, 360_n. 2_, 365_n. 3_, 384_n. 1_, 600, 601

_Clene Maydenhod_, 16, 525

Clerkenwell Priory, 2, 13, 179, 259_n. 3_

Cleveland, Archdeacon of, 51, 52

Clinton, Isabel, Lady, 7, 39

Clouvill, Isabel, 441

Coadjutress, 223, 224

Cobham, Thomas de, Bishop of Worcester, 39, 223

---- Eleanor de, 418, 419_n. 2_

---- Henry de, 421

_Cokaygne, The Land of_, 534ff., 542

Cokehill Priory, 165, 232_n. 5_, 385, 481, 482;
chaplain of, 232_n. 5_;
Prioress of, 185_n. 6_

Cokke, John, 124, 152

Colchester, 420

Coldingham, nuns of, 303_n. 2_, 365, 471

Coleworthe, Joan, 84

Cologne, Provincial Council of, 360_n. 1_

Colte, Anne, 447_n. 6_

Common Pleas, Court of, 70

Conde, Jean de, 539, 541, 542

_Conge d'elire_, 43_n. 2_, 44ff.

Conyers, Alice, 328_n. 2_

---- Cecily, 31

Cook, Alice, 395

---- William, 395

Copeland, John, 197

Cornhill, 41, 192

Cornwallis, Katherine, 50

Cornworthy Priory, 267, 413_n. 4_, 444, 445, 571;
boarders at, 269, 279;
Prioress of, 269;
_and see_ Dynham, _and_ Wortham

Corp, Isabella, 328

---- Thomas, 328

Corrodians, 188, 190, 197, 206ff., 409ff.

Corrodies, 151, 155, 190ff., 197, 206ff., 225, 226

Cotnall, William, 454

Coton Priory, _see_ Nuncoton

Cotton, Ellen, 459

Courtenay, Joan, 242

---- Lady Elizabeth, 417

---- Sir Hugh de, 417

---- William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 176, 226, 383, 459, 468

_Court of Love_, 509, 511

Couvel, Isabella, 224, 337

Coventry, 256

Cox, Agnes, 261_n. 2_

Crabhouse Priory, 30, 42, 90ff., 169, 378_n. 3_, 461, 468, 477_n. 1_;
dilapidations at, 170;
fire at, 171, 172;
Prioress of, 65;
_and see_ Wiggenhall;
Register of, 134, 135, 207;
repairs at, 92ff., 169

Cranmer, 270

Crayke, Cecilia, 57

Crecy, 10

Cressy, Sir Hugh de, 214

---- Jonetta, 214

Crioll, Margery de, 330

Crofton, John, 370

---- Juliana de, 329

Cromwell, Gregory, 263, 267

---- Thomas, 30_n. 5_, 32, 51_n._, 55, 57, 72, 146, 263

Crosse, Margaret, 363, 364

Croxton, 231

Cumberworth, Sir Thomas, 72, 166, 330, 370

Cunyers, Alice, 328

_Custos_ of nunnery, 229ff.

Dalderby, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 78, 173, 174, 231, 351ff., 366, 423,
443ff.

Damory, Roger, 420

Danby, Margaret, 360_n. 2_

Danne, Roger, 198

Dante, quoted, 294, 295

Darcy, Lord, 146

---- Margaret, 7, 322_n._

Dartford Abbey, 2, 3, 98, 247_n. 2_;
alms given by, 120;
boarders at, 573

Daubeney, Henry Lord, 146

Daubriggecourt, Sir John, 6

---- Margery, 6

Davell, Elizabeth, 360_n. 2_

Daventry Priory, 58

---- Roger de, 230_n. 1_

Davington Priory, 165, 184, 366, 604;
_custos_ of, 232;
financial mismanagement at, 203;
Prioress of, 183_n. 4_

Davy, Alice, 360_n. 2_

Davye, Agnes, 20, 319

Decun, Alice, 496

Delapre Priory (Herts.), 142, 244, 245, 313, 456, 479, 481;
accounts of, 97, 102_n._, 118_n._, 121, 131_n._, 139_n. 5_, 163_n. 4_,
309, 335, 479_n. 4_;
dissolution of, 604;
grades of inmates at, 244, 245;
huntsman of, 308;
illiterate inmates at, 244, 245;
litigation by, 201;
master of, 231;
merrymaking at, 309;
pittances at, 324;
Prioress of, 206, 370, 479_n. 4_;
_see_ Bassett, Christian; Wafer, Alice

Delapre Abbey (Northants.), 249, 321_n. 2_, 425, 457;
Abbess of, 360_n. 2_;
claustration at, 351ff.;
nuns of, excommunicated, 441, 442;
pensions demanded from, 195;
poverty of, 175

Delft, Franciscan tertiaries of, 240_n. 2_

Dene, William de, 203, 204

Denesson, Henry, 123ff.

Denny Abbey, 3, 13, 378_n. 3_;
Abbess of, 122

Depeden, Margaret, 326

---- Sir John, 325

Derby, Earl of, 146

Dereham, William de, 195

Derneburg, 673, 680

Deschamps, Eustache, 500, 507

Despenser, Hugh, 30, 420

---- Juliana, 198, 199

_Diolog concerning the Monarche_, 251

_Dives and Pauper_, 366_n. 4_

Dorset, Marquess of, 146

Dorter, 155, 169ff., 272, 273, 283, 313, 319, 409

Draycote, Cecilia de, 224

Dreffield, Maud de, 214

Drokensford, John de, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 71, 233, 358_n. 4_, 410

Du Bois, Pierre, 56

Dudley, Sir John, 279

Dunkirk, 258

Dunstable Priory, 308_n. 1_

Dunwyche, Alice, 484

Durant, Geoffrey, 40

---- Molde, 40

Durham, Bishops of, 31, 309_n. 6_, 427;
_see_ Hatfield, Thomas; Skirlaw, Walter

---- Priory, 210_n. 2_

---- Sherburn Hospital, 361_n. 2_

Dychere, Agnes, 167

Dymmok, Elizabeth, 413, 417

Dynham, Thomasyn, 269, 571

Eadburg, Abbess of Thanet, 237

Easebourne Priory, 4, 33, 63, 79, 188, 209, 255, 292_n. 2_, 330, 331,
340, 448_n. 1_, 452, 494_n. 1_, 582;
boarders at, 415;
churches appropriated to, 113_n. 1_, 182;
dilapidations at, 170, 171_n. 2_;
disorder at, 453, 454, 462;
inventory of goods of, 222_n. 3_;
library of, 241;
poverty of, 177;
prioresses of, 76ff., 83_n._, 205, 255, 454;
_see_ Montfort, Isabel de; Sackfelde, Margaret; Tawke, Agnes

Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, 191

Edward I, 455, 462

Edward II, 197, 204, 247, 427, 419

---- III, 9, 12, 198, 234

Edyndon, William of, Bishop of Winchester, 173, 213_n. 1_, 416

Egglestone Abbey, 428_n. 3_

Eleanor, Prioress of Arden, 83, 85, 87, 94, 211, 218, 382_n. 1_

Eleanor, wife of Henry III, 455

Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, 196

---- of York, 19

Ellerton Priory, 31, 428

Elstow Abbey, 2, 22, 24, 51_n._, 64_n. 6_, 186, 217, 226, 291_n. 2_,
333, 335, 351, 369, 383, 387, 390, 401_n. 1_, 402_n. 4_, 404,
405, 407_n. 1_, 454, 459ff., 463ff., 477, 581, 583;
Abbesses of, 19, 61, 64, 171, 195, 196, 217, 318, 464, 477;
_and see_ Boyfield, Eliz., _and_ Gascoigne, Agnes;
accounts, 131_n._, 335_n._;
bailiffs of, 227, 228, 249;
boarders at, 411, 415;
dilapidations at, 171;
education of children at, 262, 263, 272ff., 569;
election of Abbess at, 46ff.;
fair of, 106_n. 2_;
fashions at, 304, 586;
hospitality at, 358_n. 5_;
households of nuns at, 318, 320_n._, 321_n. 1_;
learning of novices, 244;
livings held by, 114;
number of nuns at, 216;
pensions demanded from, 195;
Precentress of, 261_n. 2_;
sacrist's accounts at, 136;
treasuress to be appointed at, 223;
visitations of, 497

Ely, Archdeacon of, 175

---- Bishops of, 423;
_see_ Alcock, John; Arundell, Thomas; Fordham, John of; Grey, William

---- fair, 138

Embroidery by nuns, 255ff., 287

Emma of Stapelton, 52, 53

---- of York, 51ff.

Ensfrid of Cologne, 54

Erasmus, 139, 376;
_Colloquies_, 549ff.

Erfurt, St Cyriac, 674

---- St Martin, 676

Erle, Peter, 327

Erlham, John de, 268

Escherde, 681, 682

_Escoufle, L'_, 560_n._

Esholt Priory, 52, 170_n. 3_, 177, 213, 251_n. 2_, 390, 402, 405,
467_n. 3_, 601;
bequest to, 326;
children at, 263, 269, 284, 579;
indulgence for contributors to repairs at, 175;
immorality at, 284;
Prioress of, 31, 57_n. 2_

Estates, management of, 71, 99, 100

Estrees, Angelique d', 451_n. 5_, 474

Eton, Robert de, 448

Etton, Alice, 31

Euphemia, Abbess of Wherwell, 29, 89, 90, 94, 169, 243, 501

Everesdon, John, 152

Everingham, Margaret, 449

Everyngham, Alice de, 442_n. 2_

Evesham Chronicle, 489_n. 1_

Evreux, St Sauveur, 636ff., 646

Ewer, Margaret, 370

Excommunication of nuns, 183

Exeter, Bishops of, 444, 445;
_and see_ Stapeldon, Grandisson, etc.

Eynsham Abbey, 449;
Abbot of, 234

Fairfax family, 7, 15, 18_n. 4_, 19, 20

---- Elizabeth, 328

---- John, 327

---- Margaret, 76, 77, 303_n. 1_, 327, 329, 399_n. 3_, 468_n. 4_, 500,
587

Fairs, 105, 106, 133, 138;
_and see_ Stourbridge Fair

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