[1496] Linc. Visit. I, p. 50. Compare Reg. Walter Giffard, p. 249; Visit. of Dioc. of Norwich, ed. Jessopp (“Item Dna. A. D. et Dna. G. S. ... revelant secreta religionis et correctionis factae in conventu”) Linc. Epis. Reg. Memo. Bokyngham, ff. 397, 397d (“Et quod nullum decetero capitulum in domo capitulari in presencia secularis seu extranee persone quoquomodo teneatur sub pena iniunccionis nostre infrascripta”).

[1497] V.C.H. Yorks. III, 120, 167-8.

[1498] See below, [Note F].

[1499] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 164.

[1500] Linc. Visit. II, pp. 47, 120.

[1501] V.C.H. Yorks. III, p. 118.

[1502] For an account of the house, see V.C.H. Herts. IV, pp. 428-32. The regulations made by Abbot Richard de Wallingford (1328-36) are given in Gesta Abbat. II, pp. 213-4 and those by Abbot Michael or his successor Thomas de la Mare in Cott. MS. Nero D. i. ff. 173-4d; regulations by Thomas de la Mare (1349-96) occur in Gesta Abbat. II, p. 402. See also W. Page, “Hist. of the Monastery of St Mary de Pré” (St Albans and Herts. Arch. Soc. Trans. (New Series) I).

[1503] For an account of the house, see V.C.H. Herts. IV, pp. 422-6.

[1504] The accounts of the warden of St Mary de Pré for 1341-57 are preserved in the Public Record Office (Mins. Accts., bundle 867, Nos. 21-6) and are described in V.C.H. Herts. IV, p. 430 (notes). In the second half of the fifteenth century the accounts seem to have been kept by the Prioress; those for 1461-93 have survived. Ib. p. 431 (note).

[1505] See Gesta Abbat. II, p. 212.