[310] Gasquet, Eng. Mon. Life, p. 194.
[311] For the abuses of appropriation, see Coulton, Medieval Studies, no. 8, pp. 6-8. For the part played by the lower clergy in the Peasants’ Revolt, see Petit-Dutaillis, Studies Supplementary to Stubbs’ Constit. Hist. II, pp. 270-1, and Kriehn, Studies in the Sources of the Social Revolt in 1381 (Amer. Hist. Review, 1901), VI, pp. 480-4.
[312] Valor Eccles. IV, p. 188.
[313] Ib. III, p. 276.
[314] Ib. I, p. 897.
[315] Jacka, op. cit. f. 35. See the list of “Farms and Pensions” in the prioress of Catesby’s accounts for 1414-5. Baker, Hist. and Antiqs. of Northants. I, p. 279.
[316] V.C.H. Northants. II, p. 98.
[317] Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 268.
[318] This appears from the regular entry of the amount brought in by the farms of the two churches in the account rolls. In 1458 the nuns received formal permission from the bishop to lease out and dispose of the fruits and revenues of any of the appropriated churches. Madox, Form. Anglic. dxc.
[319] P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1260/7.