[1277] Loc. cit. and compare his injunction to Wherwell, ib. p. 268. Bishop Flemyng’s introduction to Elstow is rather contradictory: “Also that no nun admit secretly to her chamber any seculars or other men of religion and that if they be admitted she do not keep them there too long.” Visit. of Relig. Houses in Dioc. Lincoln, I, p. 51. At Godstow (1432) the injunction ran: “Also that the beds in the nuns’ lodgings be altogether removed from their chambers, save those for small children and that no nun receive any secular people for any recreation in the nuns’ chambers under pain of excommunication.” Ib. I, p. 67.
[1278] As at Godstow in 1432, Linc. Visit. I, p. 67, or Romsey in 1523, Liveing, Records of Romsey Abbey, p. 244.
[1279] Reg. Epis. J. Peckham, II, p. 664. Cf. his injunctions to other nunneries.
[1280] Linc. Visit. II, p. 116. Compare injunctions to Catesby, Langley, Markyate and St Michael’s, Stamford. Ib. pp. 51, 177, and Alnwick’s Visit. MS. ff. 6, 83d. For other examples see Lymbrook (1277), Reg. Thome de Cantilupo, p. 201; Polsloe (1319), Reg. W. de Stapeldon, p. 317; Studley (1530), Archaeologia, XLVII, p. 54.
[1281] Alnwick’s Visit. MS. f. 83d, cf. f. 6, and Linc. Visit. II, p. 177.
[1282] Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 554. Compare Romsey (1387), New Coll. MS. f. 86; Nuncoton (1531), Archaeologia, XLVII, p. 60. St Benedict’s Rule forbids all letters (cap. LIV).
[1283] Linc. Visit. II, pp. 46, 177; Alnwick’s Visit. MS. ff. 39d, 76, 95d.
[1284] Ib. p. 119.
[1285] Linc. Visit. II, p. 185.
[1286] Ib. p. 133.