[961] V.C.H. Essex, II, p. 123, and see above, p. [105].
[962] The nuns of St Mary de Pré, St Albans, kept a huntsman. V.C.H. Herts. IV, p. 430 (note).
[963] V.C.H. Herts. IV, p. 431 (note); Dugdale, Mon. III, pp. 359-60.
[964] Hereford Reg. Thome Spofford, p. 82. (This was combined with an injunction against going to “comyn wakes and festes, spectacles and other worldly vanytees” outside the convent. Below, p. [377].).
[965] Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 554.
[966] Quoted in Coulton, Med. Garn. p. 304.
[967] See Chambers, op. cit. I, pp. 38-41.
[968] Ib. I, p. 56 (note). “The bishops of Durham in 1355, Norwich in 1362, and Winchester in 1374, 1422, and 1481 had ‘minstrels of honour’ like any secular noble.”
[969] Ib. I, pp. 39, 56 (notes).
[970] Langland, Piers the Plowman, C, Text VIII, l. 97.