1315. Archbishop Greenfield decreed, under pain of the greater excommunication, that no nun was to cause a girl or boy to sleep under any consideration in the dorter, and if any nun broke this command, the Prioress, under pain of deposition, was to signify her name without delay to the Archbishop. (V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 174.)
47. St Clement’s, York.
1310. Archbishop Greenfield forbade girls over twelve as boarders.
1317. Archbishop Melton forbade little girls, or males of any age, or secular women to sleep in the dorter with the nuns. (V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 129.)
48. Sinningthwaite.
1315. Archbishop Greenfield enjoined the Prioress and Subprioress not to permit boys or girls to eat flesh meat in Advent or Sexagesima, or during Lent eggs or cheese, in the refectory, contrary to the honesty of religion, but at those seasons when they ought to eat such things, they were to be assigned other places in which to eat them.
1319. Archbishop Melton forbade girls over twelve to be retained without special licence. (V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 177.)
*49. Swine.
1345. Peter del Hay of Spaldynton leaves in his will “to Joan my daughter residing (manenti) in Swyn vj s viij d.” (Test. Ebor. I, p. 12.) This is probably a boarder in the convent, perhaps a child.