[1151] Reg. Thome de Cantilupo, p. 201.

[1152] New Coll. MS. f. 85d.

[1153] Quoted in Thiers, op. cit. p. 133, who considers the question in his ch. XIX.

[1154] Archaeologia, XLVII, pp. 52-3.

[1155] See illustration of Henry VI being received as a Confrater at Bury St Edmunds, reproduced in Gasquet, Engl. Mon. Life, facing p. 126, from Harl. MS. 2278, f. 6.

[1156] Amundesham, Annales (Rolls Ser.), I, pp. 65-9, passim.

[1157] V.C.H. Herts. IV, p. 424.

[1158] “I will that Ilke prior and priores that comes to my beryall at yt day hafe iii s iiij d and Ilke chanon and Nune xij d ... and Ilke prior and priores that comes to the xxx day [i.e. the so-called “month’s-mind”] hafe vj s viij d and Ilke chanon or none that comes to the said xxx day haf xx d.” Lincoln Diocese Documents, ed. A. Clark (E.E.T.S.), pp. 50, 53.

[1159] P.R.O. Mins. Accts. 1260/20. This was probably Constance of Castile, second wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who died on March 24, 1394, and was buried with great magnificence at The Newarke, Leicester. S. Armitage Smith, John of Gaunt (1904), pp. 357-8. The date of the account roll is unfortunately illegible, but from this internal evidence it should probably be dated 1393-4. There is another entry “paye a couent pur lalme le Duk de Lancastre vij s iij d,” in which “Duk” is possibly a slip for “Duchesse.”

[1160] There were over seventy places of pilgrimage in Norfolk alone. Cutts, Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages (3rd ed. 1911), p. 162.