[241] Sussex Archaeol. Coll. IX, pp. 18-19.
[242] Ib. V, p. 256.
[243] V.C.H. Oxon. II, p. 78.
[244] Archaeologia, XLVIII, pp. 56, 58.
[245] Alnwick’s Visit. MS. ff. 83 and d, 39d, 96.
[246] Linc. Visit. II, pp. 120, 121.
[247] Linc. Visit. II, pp. 2-4, 6.
[248] Cal. of Pat. Rolls (1441-6), p. 141.
[249] Linc. Visit. II, pp. 46-52.
[250] Compare the complaint of the sisters of the hospital of St James outside Canterbury in 1511, that the Prioress was a diffamatrix of the sisters and used to say publicly in the neighbourhood that they were incontinent et publice meretrices, to the great scandal of the house. The ages of the sisters were 84, 80, 50 and 36 respectively and the Prioress herself was 74. Eng. Hist. Rev. VI, p. 23.