[1041] Dugdale, Mon. III, p. 359.
[1042] Temp. Henry VII the Abbess of Elstow’s account records the payment of double commons of 1s. a week to the Prioress and 6d. a week single commons to each of the nuns. Pittances (double to the prioress) are paid on days of profession and on the greater feast. The nuns also had dress allowances in money. C. T. Flower, Obedientiars’ Accounts of Glastonbury and other Relig. Houses (St Paul’s Ecclesiol. Soc. VII, pt II, 1912), pp. 52, 55.
[1043] Visit. of Dioc. of Norwich, ed. Jessopp, p. 290.
[1044] Eng. Hist. Rev. VI, p. 34.
[1045] Linc. Visit. II, pp. 176, 177.
[1046] Reg. J. de Pontissara, I, p. 125.
[1047] Liveing, Records of Romsey Abbey, p. 103.
[1048] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 164.
[1049] Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Bokyngham, f. 397d. Compare Eudes Rigaud’s difficulties with the hens at Saint-Aubin, below, p. [653].
[1050] E.g. in the will of Agnes de Denton, 1356 (Item to dame Cecilie de Hmythwayt two cows), Testamenta Karleolensia, p. 12; Sir John Fairfax, 1393 (Item I bequeath to dame Katherine de Barlay, nun of Appleton, one cow. Item to dame Custance Colvyll, nun of Marrick, one cow); Sir William Dronsfeld, 1406 (Item I bequeath to dame Alice de Totehill, nun, one cow. Item I bequeath to dame Margaret de Barneby, one cow); Sir Thomas Rednes 1407 (Item to Alice Redness nun [of Hampole] one cow and one fat pig). Test. Ebor. I, pp. 189, 345, 349.