[1061] Thus William of Wykeham, in the course of his severe injunction against proprietas at Romsey (1387), thus defines it: “Vt autem quid sit proprium vobis plenius innotescat, nos sancti Benedicti regulam imitantes, id totum proprium siue proprietatem fore dicimus et eciam declaramus, quicquid videlicet dederitis vel receperitis sine iussu vestre Abbatisse aut retinueritis sine permissione illius.” New Coll. MS. f. 86d.
[1062] Reg. Wickwane (Surtees Soc.), p. 140.
[1063] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 174.
[1064] Ib. III, p. 164.
[1065] Jessopp, Visit. of Dioc. of Norwich, p. 143.
[1066] Linc. Visit. II, p. 8.
[1067] “The monastery, however, itself ought if possible to be so constructed as to contain within it all necessaries, that is, water, mill, garden and [places for] the various crafts which are exercised within a monastery, so that there be no occasion for monks to wander abroad, since this is in no wise expedient for their souls.” Rule of St Benedict, tr. Gasquet, pp. 117-8.
[1068] Chap. L, ib. p. 88.
[1069] Chap. LI, ib. p. 89.
[1070] Chap. LXVII, ib. p. 118. This, however, is clearly exceptional; the regulation comes in a later chapter and not in the first edition of the rule. The translations of the rule made at a later date for nuns, sometimes specify visits “to fadir or moder or oþer frend” not mentioned in the original.