[1011] Linc. Visit. I, p. 68.
[1012] See above, pp. [15], [17], [18].
[1013] Test. Ebor. I, pp. 296-7.
[1014] Ib. II, p. 97.
[1015] Lincolnshire Wills, ed. A. R. Maddison (1880), pp. 4, 6.
[1016] See, for example, Test. Ebor. I, pp. 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 31, 43, 54, 62, 90, 98, 109, 143, 166, 179, 216, 292, 337, 345, 349, 363, 376, 382 (chiefly wills of clergy and country gentry); Nicolas, Test. Vetusta, I, pp. 52, 70, 76, 79, 85, 115, 116, 120, 121, 123, 137, 155, 170, 196, 300, 377 (chiefly wills of the aristocracy); Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills, pp. 18, 21, 25, 26, 40, 41, 56, 60, 67, 71, 76, 80, 87, 97, 125, 138, 139, 150, 160 (chiefly wills of clergy and country gentry). The wills of the citizens of London preserved in the court of Husting contain many legacies to nuns, chiefly annual rents.
[1017] Gray, Priory of St Radegund, Cambridge, p. 156.
[1018] Test. Ebor. I, pp. 317, 322, 324. The items occur in the inventory of the Bishop’s goods and against each is written “Detur Priorissae de Swyna sorori meae.”
[1019] Ib. I, p. 332.
[1020] Test. Ebor. I, pp. 187-9. He also left the Prioress 13s. 4d. and each nun 6s. 8d. and each sister 3s. 4d. To certain nuns he left special bequests, to Margaret de Pykering, “one piece of silver, with the head of a stag in the bottom and 2s.,” to Elizabeth Fairfax 26s. 8d. and to Margaret de Cotam 13s. 4d.; also to the Prioress and convent “my white vestment with the gold stars and all the appurtenances thereof and my cross with Mary and John in silver and one gilt chalice.” Nor were his legacies confined to Nunmonkton; he left his two sisters at Sempringham 100s. and two nuns of Nunappleton and Marrick respectively, a cow each.