[1051] Alnwick’s Visit. MS. f. 72.
[1052] Wilkins, Conc. I, p. 593.
[1053] New Coll. MS. ff. 85d, 86. The sin of proprietas seems to have been serious in this house, for the Bishop couples his prohibition of wills with a prohibition of private rooms and pupils, and later (f. 86d) makes a general injunction against private property.
[1054] V.C.H. Dorset, II, p. 78.
[1055] Wilkins, Conc. I, p. 592.
[1056] In connection with this, see Wickwane’s injunction to Nunappleton in 1281, “We also forbid locked boxes and chests, save if the prioress shall have ordained some seemly arrangement of the kind and shall often see and inspect the contents.” Reg. Wickwane (Surtees Soc.), p. 141. Also Newark’s injunction to Swine in 1298 that “the Prioress and two senior nuns should cause the boxes of any nuns of whom suspicion [of property] should arise to be opened in her presence and the contents seen. And if anyone will not open her box ... then let the prioress break it open.” Reg. of John le Romayn and Hen. of Newark (Surtees Soc.), II, p. 223; compare Eudes Rigaud’s struggle against locked boxes, below, p. [652].
[1057] Wilkins, Conc. II, p. 16.
[1058] “Where the lawe and the professyon of yche religyouse person that thei have shuld have one fraitoure and house to ete in in commyn and not in private chaumbers, and so to lygg and slepe in one house, in youre said covent sustren reteynen money and proveis thame selfe privatly ayensthe ordir of religion, etc.” The injunction is coupled with a strong injunction against dowries. Hereford Reg. T. Spofford, p. 224. Compare the injunction to Lymbrook, p. [324] above.
[1059] V.C.H. Dorset, II, p. 77.
[1060] For other references to the peculium for clothing, see Visit. of Dioc. of Norwich, ed. Jessopp, p. 274; Sussex Arch. Coll. IX, p. 23; Liveing, Records of Romsey Abbey, p. 130.