[360] Aungier, op. cit. pp. 392-3.
[362] Aungier, op. cit. p. 395.
[363] I have been unable to discover what is meant by feri and asser.
[364] Tabite was a sort of moiré silk. Probably carpets or tablecloths here.
[365] Register of Crabhouse Nunnery, ed. M. Bateson (Norfolk Archaeology, XI, 1892), pp. 38-9.
[366] See, for instance, the Godstow Register; charters nos. 105, 139, 556 and 644 concern grants appropriated to clothing and nos. 52, 250, 536, 619 and 630 to the infirmary. No. 862 is a grant of five cartloads of alderwood yearly “to be take xv dayes after myghelmasse to drye their heryng.” Eng. Reg. of Godstow Nunnery, ed. A. Clark (E.E.T.S. 1905-11), pp. 102, etc. In the Crabhouse Register it is noted that a certain meadow is set aside so that “all the produce of the said meadow be forever granted for the vesture of the ten ladies who are oldest in religion of the whole house, so that each of the ten ladies receive yearly from the aforesaid meadow four shillings at the feast of St Margaret.” Op. cit. p. 37. When Wothorpe was merged in St Michael’s, Stamford, the diocesan stipulated that the proceeds of the priory and rectory of Wothorpe should be applied to the support of the infirmary and kitchen of St Michael’s. Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 268.
[367] See, for instance, the payment of a yearly pension of five marks from the appropriated church of St Clement’s for the clothing of the nuns of St Radegund’s, Cambridge, and similar assignations of the income from appropriated churches at Studley, St Michael’s Stamford, and Marrick. Gray, Priory of St Radegund, Cambridge, p. 27.
[368] See C. T. Flower, loc. cit., for an account of the Syon, Barking and Elstow accounts; also Blunt, Myroure of Oure Ladye, introd. pp. xxvi-xxxi, for Syon chambresses’ and cellaresses’ accounts (1536-7) and P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1261/4 for a Syon cellaress’s account (1481-2). See P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1260/14 for a St Michael’s Stamford chambress’s account (1408-9).
[369] See below, [Ch. VIII].