[1386] See for Renaissance Italy, J. A. Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy (1886), VI, p. 340; A. Gagnière, Les Confessions d’une Abbesse du xvie siècle (Paris, 1888), pp. 128 ff. (Felice Rasponi); G. Marcotti, Donne e Monache (Firenze, 1884); but ecclesiastics were found among these monachini. In France the same pursuit became fashionable under the League. For a later date the Memoirs of Casanova provide the most striking illustrations.
[1387] Alnwick’s Visit. MS. f. 39d.
[1388] Linc. Visit. I, p. 84.
[1389] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 113.
[1390] Alnwick’s Visit. MS. ff. 83, 83d.
[1391] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 181.
[1392] “En visitaunt vostre mesun por plusure fiez truuames nus ke Johan de Seuekwurth, clerk, se auoit si mauuesement porte en demurant en la mesun ke il esteit atteint de folie de cors od vne de vos nuneins e vne autre esteit de ly atteinte, par defaute de purgaciun ke ele ne se poeit de li purger. Par quei nus defendimes a vus ke vus no le suffrissez en vostre mesun demurer, e a li ke la euene demurast.” Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Sutton, f. 129d.
[1393] V.C.H. Somerset, II, p. 157.
[1394] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 240.
[1395] Linc. Visit. II, p. 47.