[557] V.C.H. Norfolk, II, p. 335.
[558] Rot. Parl. III, p. 129 and Dugdale, Mon. II, p. 485.
[559] V.C.H. Dorset, II, p. 77.
[560] Visit. of Diocese of Norwich (Camden Soc.), p. 155.
[561] V.C.H. Glouc. II, p. 93.
[562] On other occasions, however, they were careful to take all their due. Vide the great Bishop Grandisson’s letter to the abbess and convent of Canonsleigh, announcing his forthcoming visitation and “mandantes quod in illum eventum de procuracione ea occasione nobis debita providere curetis in pecunia numerata.” Reg. of Bishop Grandisson, ed. Hingeston-Randolph, pt II, p. 767. At Davington in 1511 the Prioress deposed that “the house has to pay 20s. to the Archbishop for board at the time of his visitation.” E.H.R. VI, p. 28.
[563] Reg. Johannis de Pontissara (Cant. and York. Soc.), I, p. 299.
[564] Reg. Rich. de Swinfield (Cantilupe Soc.), p. 366. Other cases of excommunication are sometimes to be found in Bishops’ Registers, e.g. in 1335 the Prioresses of Cokehill and Brewood were excommunicated for failure to pay the tenth; one owed 9½d. and the other 1s. 8¼d.—paltry sums for which to damn a poor nun’s soul! Reg. Thomas de Charlton (Cantilupe Soc.), p. 57.
[565] Reg. John le Romeyn (Surtees Soc.), I, p. 159.
[566] Reg. Sede Vacante (Worc. Hist. Soc.), p. 62. Cf. remission of tithes by Bishop Dalderby to Greenfield, because of its poverty. V.C.H. Lincs. II, p. 155. Some Cistercian houses held papal bulls exempting them from the payment of tithes, e.g. Sinningthwaite and Swine. Dugdale, Mon. V, pp. 463, 494.