[707] New Coll. MS. f. 55d.

[708] Linc. Visit. I, p. 53.

[709] Archaeologia, XLVII, p. 55.

[710] E.H.R. VI, pp. 33-4. From the fact that the Prioress was ordered to make up the number again to fourteen, as soon as she conveniently could, it appears that the ten nuns who gave evidence before the Archbishop represented the full strength of the house.

[711] A few out of many specific instances may be given: Wroxall 1323 (V.C.H. Warwick. II, p. 71); Polesworth 1456 (ib. p. 63); Fairwell 1367 (Reg. of Bishop Stretton, p. 119); Romsey 1302 (Reg. Johannis de Pontissara Cant. and York. Soc. p. 127); Moxby 1318 (V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 239); Nuncoton 1531 (Arch. XLVII, p. 58); Sinningthwaite 1534 (Yorks. Arch. Journ. XVI, p. 441).

[712] See above, pp. [64-5].

[713] Linc. Visit. I, p. 50.

[714] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 188.

[715] Ib. III, p. 177.

[716] E.g. Clemence Medforde at Ankerwyke in 1441 and Eleanor of Arden in 1396. See above, pp. [81], [85].