Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535

by Eileen Power

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],