[211] Linc. Visit. II, pp. 123, 185, 133.

[212] See e.g. Visit. of Dioc. of Norwich (Camden Soc.), pp. 143, 290.

[213] Linc. Visit. II, p. 186. Compare ib. pp. 124, 135 (Gracedieu and Heynings); Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Gynewell, ff. 139-40 (Elstow, 1359); Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Bokyngham, ff. 343 (Elstow, 1387), 397 (Heynings, 1392); V.C.H. Yorks. III, pp. 117 (Moxby, 1252), 164 (Hampole, 1314).

[214] Dugdale, Mon. III, pp. 359-60. There are various other references to “Wynge” (i.e. Wing in Buckinghamshire) in the account, e.g. “Item receyvid of Richard Saie for the ferme of the personage of Wynge for a yere and a half within the tyme of this accompte xlviijli. Item. rec. of the same Richard Saie as in party of payment of the same ferme for a quarter of a yere xs,” “item, paid to the bisshop of Lincolns officers for the licens of Wynge for ij yere xxijs viijd. Item paid to the ffermour of Wynge for his goune for ij yere xiijs iiijd.” For the London lawsuit see below, p. [202].

[215] See P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1260, passim. The London references are in 1260/7 and 1260/17 respectively.

[216] Constitutions of the legate Ottobon in 1268. Wilkins, Concilia, II, p. 18.

[217] Hugo, Medieval Nunneries of the County of Somerset, Minchin Barrow, p. 81.

[218] Linc. Visit. II, p. 187.

[219] Wykeham’s Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), p. 500.

[220] V.C.H. Dorset, II, p. 89. In 1374 the Abbess of Canonsleigh had licence to have divine service celebrated in her presence in the chapel of St Theobald in the parish of Burlescombe “dicto monasterio contigua,” but her nuns were not to leave the claustral precincts on this pretext. Reg. of Bishop Brantyngham, ed. Hingeston-Randolph, pt I, p. 335.