[577] For instance in 1275 the King granted the custody of Barking Abbey, void and in his hands, to his mother, Queen Eleanor. Cal. of Close Rolls, 1272-9, p. 210.
[578] Reg. Sede Vacante (Worc. Rec. Soc.), pp. 112-3. Compare the petition of St Mary’s Chester to Queen Eleanor, p. [172] above.
[580] Dugdale, Mon. II, p. 485 and Rot. Parl. III, p. 129. The petition was granted, but the nuns seem to have shown themselves unworthy of the royal clemency, for, after the death of Abbess Joan Furmage in 1394, the King was forced to abrogate the grant, because by fraudulent means an election had been obtained of an unfit person, who, with the object of securing confirmation, had repaired with an excessive number of men to places remote, to the waste and desolation of the convent. Cal. of Pat. Rolls, 1391-6, p. 511.
[581] Cal. of Papal Petitions, I, pp. 56-7.
[582] Cal. of Close Rolls (1313-8), p. 189 and ib. (1333-7), pp. 70-1; cf. ib. (1307-13), p. 1 and ib. (1323-7), p. 252 and ib. (1349-54), p. 29.
[583] Cal. of Close Rolls (1339-41), p. 377.
[584] Ib. (1343-6), pp. 407-8. Cf. p. 418.
[585] Ib. (1343-6), p. 599. The profits during vacancy were similarly remitted to Godstow in 1385 “because of its poverty and misfortunes” (V.C.H. Oxon. II, p. 73).
[586] Reg. Epist. Johannis Peckham (Rolls Ser.), I, pp. 40-1, 56-7, 189-90, 356-7, 366-7, 577.