Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535

by Eileen Power

[981] Chambers, op. cit. I, p. 361 (note 1).

[982] Dugdale, Mon. III, p. 360.

[983] Cussans, Hist. of Herts., Hertford Hundred, app. II, p. 268.

[984] Walcott, Inventory of Shepey, p. 23. There is perhaps another reference in the inventory of Langley in 1485: “iij quesyns (cushions) of olde red saye, ij smale quechyns embrodred and ij qwechyns namyde Seynt Nicolas qwechyns,” Walcott, Inventory of Langley, p. 6.

[985] E.g. (besides the well-known case of Dr Rock in The Church of Our Fathers), Gayley, Plays of our Forefathers, pp. 67-8.

[986] Leach, op. cit. p. 137.

[987] Ib. p. 131.

[988] Leach, op. cit. p. 137 (from Martène, III, p. 39). I have slightly altered the translation.

[989] On Benedictine poverty, see Dom Butler, Benedictine Monachism, ch. X.

[990] The alteration was made even by the Cistercians in 1335. See Linc. Visit. I, p. 238 (under Misericord). Among Black Monks it began much earlier.