[597] Ib. (1333-7), p. 175.
[598] Ib. (1343-6), p. 604.
[599] Liveing, op. cit. p. 99, and in the Register of Bishop Norbury of Lichfield there is a certificate (dated 1358) of “having admitted, twenty years ago, thirty nuns at Nuneaton at the request of the patron, the E. of Lancaster,” Will Salt Arch. Soc. Coll. I, p. 286. Perhaps there is a clerical error.
[600] Reg. Epist. Johannis Peckham (Rolls Ser.), I, pp. 189-90.
[601] Ib. I, pp. 356-7. The reference to “distinguished friends and benefactors” is interesting, because she was the daughter of Robert Bret, “civis London.”
[602] Op. cit. I, pp. 366-7. The assertion that the convent was required to receive Isabel “without burden to themselves by the provision of the parents of the said little maid” is interesting, partly because it suggests that the royal and episcopal nominees were not always received at a loss, partly because it looks suspiciously like a condonation of the dowry system by an otherwise strict disciplinarian.
[603] Sharpe, Cal. of Wills, I, p. 111.
[604] Op. cit. I, pp. 56-7.
[605] Ib. II, p. 704.
[606] An Agnes Turberville was sent by the King to Shaftesbury in 1345. Cal. of Close Rolls, 1343-6, p. 604.