[181] Ib. I, pp. 443, 445.
[182] Reg. Epis. Johannis Peckham (Rolls Series), I, p. 84.
[183] Reg. Epis. Johannis Peckham, II, pp. 651-2.
[184] Ib. II, pp. 659-60, 662-3. For another instance of a prioress faring better than her nuns, see Archbishop Lee’s injunctions to Nunappleton in 1534: “That their be no difference betwene the breade and ale prepared for the prioresse and the bredde and ale provided for the covent, but that she and they eatt of oon breade, and drinke of oon drinke and of oon ale.” Yorks. Archaeol. Journ. XVI. pp. 443-4.
[185] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 214.
[186] Linc. Visit. I, p. 50.
[187] Ib. II, p. 124.
[188] V.C.H. Lincs. II, pp. 155, 131-2.
[189] Sometimes, however, bishops licenced the head of a house to hear the service separately, e.g. in 1401 Wykeham licenced dame Lucy Everard, abbess of Romsey, to hear divine service in her oratory during one year, in the presence of one of her sisters and of her servants (familia). Wykeham’s Reg. (Hants. Rec. Soc.), II, p. 538. Cf. similar licence to the prioress of Polsloe in 1388. Reg. of Bishop Brantyngham of Exeter, pt. II, p. 675.
[190] Linc. Visit. II, p. 8. The same injunction was sent to Stixwould. Alnwick’s Visit. MS. f. 75d.