[448] P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1260 passim.
[449] P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1260/1. It should, however, be noted that some of the items which go to make up the total of the debts are sums of money owing to members of the convent (e.g. the Prioress and Subprioress) by the treasuresses, though the sums owing to outsiders are larger.
[450] P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1257/10 ff. 34 and 34d, 39d. Similarly the Prioress’s account of Delapré for 4 Henry VIII contains a long list of debts. St Paul’s Ecclesiological Soc. VII (1912), p. 52. An analysis of Archbishop Eudes Rigaud’s visitations of nunneries in the Diocese of Rouen gives even more startling information on this point; all but four of the fourteen houses show a list of debts growing heavier year by year and this was in the thirteenth century (1249-69). See Reg. Visit. Archiep. Rothomag. ed. Bonnin passim.
[451] V.C.H. Dorset, II, p. 88.
[452] V.C.H. Oxon. II, p. 73.
[453] Cal. of Papal Petit. I, pp. 56, 122, 230.
[454] For other cases of debt, in different centuries, see V.C.H. Yorks. III, pp. 124, 161, 163-4, 188, 239, 240; Reg. Walter Giffard (Surtees Soc.), p. 148; V.C.H. Oxon. II, pp. 78, 104; V.C.H. Essex, p. 122; V.C.H. Derby, II, p. 43; V.C.H. Norfolk, II, p. 351; V.C.H. Hants. II, p. 150; V.C.H. Bucks. I, p. 355; Visit. of Diocese of Norwich (Camden Soc.), pp. 108, 109; Test. Ebor. I, pp. 284-5; Cal. of Papal Letters, VI, p. 25; Sussex Archaeol. Coll. IX, p. 7.
[455] Linc. Visit. II, p. 186.
[456] V.C.H. Lincs. II, p. 157.
[457] Linc. Visit. II, p. 92.