[350] Maurice Hewlett, The Song of the Plow (1916), pp. 9-10.
[351] Baker, Hist. and Antiq. of Northants. I, p. 283. Compare the St Radegund’s Cambridge accounts: “Et in butumine empto cum pycche hoc anno pro bidentibus signandis et ungendis, ij s j d. Et in clatis emptis ad faldam, iij s iij d. Et solutum pro remocione falde per diversas vices, iij d. ... Et in bidentibus hoc anno lavandis et tondendis ij s iij d.” Gray, op. cit. pp. 155, 171.
[352] They are a regular item in the St Michael’s, Stamford, accounts and compare the accounts of St Radegund’s, Cambridge: “And in viij pairs of gloves bought for divers hired men at harvest as was needful xij d.” Gray, op. cit. pp. 157, 172.
[353] Tusser, Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, ed. W. Payne and S. J. Herrtage (Eng. Dialect. Soc. 1878), pp. 129-30.
[354] Tusser, op. cit. p. 132.
[355] Ib. p. 181.
[356] C. T. Flower, Obedientiars’ Accounts of Glastonbury and other Religious Houses (St Paul’s Ecclesiological Soc. vol. VII, pt II (1912)), pp. 50-62. The nunnery accounts described include accounts of the Abbess of Elstow (22 Hen. VII), the Prioress of Delapré (4 and 9 Hen. VII), the Cellaress of Barking, the Cellaress of Syon, the Sacrist of Syon and the Chambress of Syon. On obedientiaries and their accounts in general, see the introduction to Compotus Rolls of the Obedientiaries of St Swithun’s Priory, Winchester, ed. G. W. Kitchin (Hants. Rec. Soc. 1892).
[357] Liveing, Records of Romsey Abbey, p. 236. At St Mary’s Winchester at the same date the 14 nuns included the abbess, prioress, subprioress, infirmaress, precentrix and three sub-chantresses, scrutatrix, dogmatista and librarian. V.C.H. Hants. II, p. 124.
[358] Aungier, Hist. of Syon Mon. p. 392.
[359] Myroure of Oure Ladye, ed. Blunt (E.E.T.S.), introd. p. xxviii.