[1347] On the other hand for a case of spoliation in which Juliana Yong, a nun, was involved as one of the aggressors see Cal. of Pap. Petit. I, pp. 333-4.
[1348] Linc. Reg. Dalderby, f. 16.
[1349] Linc. Visit. I, pp. 108-9. Compare a case in 1375 at Romsey when certain persons broke into the houses of the Abbess within the Abbey and carried off Joan, late the wife of Peter Brugge, and her property, consisting of her gold rings, gold brooches or bracelets with precious stones, linen and woollen clothes and furs; her chaplain aiding. Liveing, op. cit. p. 166.
[1350] Cal. of Pat. Rolls (1340-3), p. 127.
[1351] Ib. (1367-70), p. 10. The Abbess was the worldly Joan Formage. Licences for crenellating monasteries are rather unusual; but cathedral closes were very generally crenellated at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries, e.g. Lincoln, York, Lichfield, Wells and Exeter. There is a good example of a crenellated monastery at the Benedictine Priory of Ewenny near Bridgend, Glamorgan, a cell of Gloucester. This is near the south coast of Wales, where, as along the Welsh border, towers either crenellated or with certain defensive features are common. Cf. the numerous fortified churches in the south of France, e.g. Albi Cathedral (Tarn) and Les Saintes-Maries (Bouches-du-Rhône), the latter close to the shore of the Mediterranean. (For this note I am indebted to Mr A. Hamilton Thompson.)
[1352] Froissart, tr. Berners, I, ch. xxxviii. For the sufferings of other monasteries on the south coast see P. G. Mode, The Influence of the Black Death on the English Monasteries, p. 31.
[1353] See Denifle, La Désolation des Eglises ... pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans (1899). In t. I is a long list of monasteries which had been ruined during the fourteenth century. The following (no. 176) is typical: “Monasterium monialium B. Mariae de Bricourt O.S.B. Trecen. dioec., causantibus a 40 annis guerris desolatum et destructum, libris aliisque destitutum et ab omnibus monialibus derelictum 1442” (pp. 55-6).
[1354] Dugdale, Mon. II, pp. 316, 452, 636.
[1355] Serjeantson, Delapré Abbey (1909), pp. 21-3.
[1356] Graham, Essay on Engl. Monasteries (Hist. Ass. 1913), p. 29. The text of the assessment is given in the notes to the Taxatio Ecclesiastica Pape Nicholai (Record Com. 1802).