[1021] Ib. I, pp. 14-15. He also leaves 40s. to the Prioress and convent “for a pittance,” 20s. to another nun there and 6s. 8d. to a nun of Watton. He evidently had great confidence in Alice Conyers, for the injunctions of his will are to be carried out “according to the counsel and help of the said Alice Conyers and of my executors.” For other gifts of plate to individuals, see Test. Ebor. I, p. 216, Somerset Med. Wills, I, pp. 18, 144, Reg. Stafford of Exeter, pp. 392, 415, 416, Testamenta Leodiensia (Thoresby Soc. Pub. II, 1890), p. 108.
[1022] Sharpe, Cal. of Wills ... in the Court of Husting, I, p. 688. She also leaves Margaret and two other nuns a piece of blanket to be divided between them.
[1023] Test. Ebor. I, p. 179. He also leaves her 40s. and a silver cup.
[1024] Somerset Medieval Wills, I, p. 47. Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, left a bed among other things to her daughter, a nun of the house of Minoresses without Aldgate (1399). Nicolas, Test. Vetusta, I, p. 148.
[1025] Test. Ebor. I, p. 382.
[1026] Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 194.
[1027] Test. Ebor. I, p. 51.
[1028] Reg. Stafford of Exeter, p. 392. For other gifts of clothes see Rye, Carrow Abbey, app. p. xix (a habit cloth), Lincoln Wills, ed. Foster, p. 84 (“a fyne mantyll of ix yerds off narow cloth”), Test. Ebor. I, p. 59 (my two robes with mantles), ib. II, p. 255 (my best harnassed belt).
[1029] At Hampole in 1320 he warned the prioress to correct those nuns who used new-fangled clothes, contrary to the accustomed use of the order, “whatever might be their condition or state of dignity,” V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 164 (where the date is wrongly given as 1314).
[1030] See e.g. Wilkins, Conc. I, p. 591; V.C.H. Bucks. I, p. 383; Linc. Visit. I, p. 52; ib. II, pp. 3, 8.