[1476] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 239.
[1477] Ib. p. 183.
[1478] Ib. p. 120. For those Yorkshire cases see below, [Note G], passim.
[1479] Liveing, op. cit. pp. 213-6.
[1481] Cal. of Papal Letters, X, p. 471. The dispensation mentions that she “has secretly lost her virginity and has not yet been publicly defamed.”
[1482] Ib. V, p. 161 and VII, p. 373.
[1483] The Pope writes to Mitford, Bishop of Salisbury, desiring him to restore Alice Wilton, nun of Shaftesbury, to the position which she had forfeited by the sin of incontinence. The Bishop reinstates the nun and declares her eligible for all offices except that of Abbess. V.C.H. Dorset, II, p. 78, note 93.