[498] Wood, Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies, I, p. 35.
[499] Reg. of John of Drokensford (Somerset Rec. Soc.), p. 227. Text in Hugo, Medieval Nunneries of Somerset: Whitehall in Ilchester, p. 78. But seven years before they had been begging, according to the Bishop, by the compulsion of this expelled prioress, whose case was sub judice. Reg. p. 115 and Hugo, loc. cit.
[500] Reg. Sede Vacante (Worc. Rec. Soc.), pp. 112-3.
[501] Liveing, Records of Romsey Abbey, p. 145.
[502] V.C.H. Herts. IV, p. 427.
[503] V.C.H. Northants. II, p. 137.
[504] V.C.H. Herts. IV, pp. 434-5. The text of their petition is as follows: “A tres reverend pier en dieu, mon treshonure seigneur le chaunceller dengleterre, suppliant voz pouers oratrices la prioresse et les noneyns de Rowney en le countee de ... qe come lour esglise et autres mesons sont en poynt de cheyer a terre pur defaute de reparacion et ils nount dont lez reparailler, si noun dalmoigne de bones gens, qe plese a vostre treshonure seignurie de vostre grace eux granter vn patent pur vn lour procuratour, de aler en la paiis a coiller almoigns de bones gentz pur la sustenance et releuacioun du dit pouere mesoun et en noun de charite.” P.R.O. Ancient Petitions, 302/15063.
[505] V.C.H. Bucks. I, p. 358.
[506] V.C.H. Lincs. II, p. 179. Another licence in 1459.
[507] V.C.H. Northants. II, p. 137.