Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535

by Eileen Power

[647] V.C.H. Hants. II, p. 150.

[648] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 164. The “misrule of past presidents” is mentioned as a contributory cause of distress at Lilleshall (1351), St Mary’s Winchester (1364) and Tarrant (1366). Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1351, p. 177; 1364, p. 485; 1366, p. 239.

[649] E.H.R. VI, p. 28.

[650] Wharton, Anglia Sacra, I, p. 362.

[651] Ib. I, p. 364.

[652] Ib. I, p. 377.

[653] Gasquet, however, mistakenly attributes its state entirely to the plague. The Great Pestilence, p. 106.

[654] Alnwick’s Visit. MS. ff. 39d, 83, 96.

[655] Linc. Visit. II, p. 185.

[656] Ib. II, p. 114.