Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535

by Eileen Power

[617] Op. cit. (1327-30), p. 366.

[618] Op. cit. (1313-8), p. 611; (1327-30), p. 564; (1341-3), p. 133.

[619] See below. For the prebendal stalls in the churches of five of these abbeys (Romsey, Wherwell, St Mary’s Winchester, Shaftesbury and Wilton), see above, p. [144].

[620] Reg. Johannis de Pontissara (Cant. and York. Soc.), I, pp. 243-4, 300-1, 315-6.

[621] Reg. Simonis de Gandavo (Cant. and York. Soc.), pp. 2-3.

[622] Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, IV, p. 329.

[623] Rot. Parl. I, p. 381. John de Houton, clerk, had been sent to Elstow in 1318 (Cal. of Close Rolls (1318-23), p. 119).

[624] Cal. of Close Rolls (1313-8), p. 611.

[625] Op. cit. (1307-13), pp. 581-2.

[626] Cal. of Close Rolls (1313-8), p. 437. The avenere was an officer of the household who had the charge of supplying provisions for the horses. See Promptorium Parvulorum (Camden Soc.), I, p. 19, n. 2.