[1287] Ib. pp. 113, MS. ff. 71d, 72, 77.
[1288] For other examples see Romsey (1311), Liveing, op. cit. p. 104; Clementhorpe (1317), Hampole (1308, 1314), Nunappleton (1346), Rosedale (1315), Arthington (1315, 1318); V.C.H. Yorks. III, pp. 129, 163-4, 172, 174, 188. Sopwell (1338), Dugdale, Mon. III, p. 366; Heynings (1392), Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Bokyngham, f. 397d; Lymbrook (1437), Hereford Epis. Reg. Spofford, p. 81; Burnham (1432-6), Visit. of Relig. Houses in Dioc. Lincoln, I, p. 24; Redlingfield (1514), Visit. of Dioc. of Norwich, pp. 139-40; Flamstead (1530), V.C.H. Herts. IV, p. 433; Nuncoton (1531), Archaeologia, XLVII, p. 58; Sinningthwaite (1534), Yorks. Arch. Journ. XVI, pp. 440-1. The injunction to St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, in 1432 has an odd variation: “withowte specialle graunte hadde in the chapetter house, among yow alle.” Dugdale, Mon. IV, pp. 553-4.
[1289] Reg. of John of Drokensford, p. 81. The Isabel Fychet mentioned in 1336 was probably one of these ladies.
[1290] Wykeham’s Reg. II, pp. 162-3. On this couple, see Smyth, Lives of the Berkeleys, pp. 364 ff.
[1291] Reg. Ralph of Shrewsbury, pp. 277, 278, 744-5. A few out of many other examples may be quoted: Alice, wife of John D’Aumarle, domicellus, may stay at Cornworthy from January till September (1333), Reg. of J. de Grandisson, pt. II, p. 724; Beatrix Paynell, sister of Sir John Foxley, may stay at Whitney from December to the Feast of St John the Baptist (1367), Wykeham’s Reg. II, p. 7; Avice de Lyncolnia, niece of William de Jafford, may stay for four years in Nunappleton (1309); he was the Archbishop’s receiver. V.C.H. Yorks. III, 171; Alice, wife of Alan of Ayste, may spend two years in Godstow (1363), V.C.H. Oxon. II, p. 73. It will be noted that nearly all these are great folk, who cannot lightly be refused.
[1292] Reg. J. de Grandisson, pt. I, p. 190.
[1293] V.C.H. Beds. I, p. 355.
[1294] Reg. John le Romeyn, I, p. 114.
[1295] See the list in Rye, Carrow Abbey, pp. 48-52, passim. Some of the men also brought servants or chaplains with them, e.g. William Wryght and servants, William Wade and William his chaplain, John Bernard and John his chaplain. The men must have been lodged outside the cloister precincts.
[1296] Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner (1900 ed.), II, p. 390 (no. 633). See also no. 617 and Introd. pp. ccxc-ccxcii.