[667] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 115.
[668] She received 68s. 4d. in part payment for the commutation of the corrody.
[669] Jessopp, Frivola, pp. 55-6.
[670] Linc. Visit. II, p. 175.
[671] Alnwick’s Visit. MS. f. 71d.
[672] Visit. of the Diocese of Norwich (Camden Soc.), pp. 243, 303-4. There is in the Record Office a petition to the Chancellor from Richard Englyssh and Marjorie his wife, setting out that the Bishop of Rochester had granted Marjorie for life a corrody in Malling Abbey of seven loaves and four gallons of convent ale and three pence for cooked food weekly, which corrody she and her husband had held for some time, but that now the abbess and convent withheld it. Evidently it was a burden to the house, but it is not clear whether the bishop had forced a corrodian on the nuns, or had merely confirmed a grant by them. P.R.O. Early Chanc. Proc. 4/196.
[673] Archaeologia, XLVII, p. 58.
[674] Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 554. He had once before ordered the holders of corrodies there to display their grants, that it might be known whether they had fulfilled the services due from them. V.C.H. London, I, p. 459.
[675] The appropriation was confirmed by the Pope in 1401. Cal. of Papal Letters, V, p. 347. In 1440 Bishop Alnwick made an injunction at Heynings against the granting of corrodies. Linc. Visit. II, p. 135.