[478] Reg. of Crabhouse Nunnery (Norfolk Archaeology, XI, 1892), pp. 61, 62.

[479] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 181.

[480] Gray, op. cit. p. 32.

[481] Linc. Visit. II, p. 217.

[482] V.C.H. Hants. II, pp. 129-31 passim. For another complaint that tenements and leasehold houses belonging to a priory were ruinous and like to fall down, through the negligence of the prioress and bailiff, see the case of Legbourne in 1440. Linc. Visit. II, p. 185.

[483] New Coll. MS. ff. 87d-88. He ordered the Abbess to repair defects at once out of the common goods of the house. Better still, he would seem to have assisted them from his own pocket to carry out the injunction, for by his will (1402) he remitted to them a debt of £40, for the repair of their church and cloister. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, II, p. 708.

[484] V.C.H. Yorks. III, pp. 113, 124, 168, 174, 181, 183, 188, 240; Yedingham and Esholt (ib. pp. 128, 161) and St Mary, Neasham (V.C.H. Durham, II, p. 107) needed repair in the middle of the fifteenth century.

[485] Sussex Arch. Coll. IX, p. 23; V, pp. 256, 258.

[486] Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich (Camden Soc.), pp. 107-8, 109, 261, 311.

[487] Archaeologia, XLVII, pp. 52, 54, 59.