[1436] V.C.H. Bucks. I, p. 383.
[1437] V.C.H. Northants. II, p. 114.
[1438] V.C.H. Northants. II, p. 101.
[1439] See A. H. Thompson, “Registers of John Gynewell, Bishop of Lincoln, for the Years 1347-1350.” Archaeol. Journ. 2nd ser., vol. XVIII, p. 331.
[1440] Linc. Visit. I, pp. 81-2.
[1441] Linc. Visit. I, pp. 82-6.
[1442] Ib. pp. 111-2. It should be noted that the word “incest” is used in its religious sense; it was properly used of intercourse between persons who were both under ecclesiastical vows and thus in the relation of spiritual father and daughter, or brother and sister, but it soon came to be used loosely to denote a breach of chastity in which one party was professed.
[1443] Lambeth, Reg. Courtenay, I, f. 336.
[1444] Linc. Visit. I, p. 50. Flemyng adds “or manifestly suspect.”
[1445] Ib. p. 54.