[1733] Ib. p. 183.
[1734] It may be noted that five nunneries had already disappeared between 1300 and 1500, viz. Waterbeach (transferred to Denny, 1348), Wothorpe (annexed to St Michael’s, Stamford, 1354) and St Stephen’s, Foukeholme, all of which owed their end to the Black Death; Lyminster (dissolved as an alien priory, 1414); and Rowney (suppressed on account of poverty, 1459).
[1735] Gray, Priory of St Radegund, pp. 44-5. For evidence of the decay of the nunnery during the last half of the fifteenth century, see ib. pp. 39-44.
[1736] Eckenstein, Woman under Mon. p. 436.
[1737] Dugdale, Mon. IV. p. 378.
[1738] Selected Poems of John Skelton, ed. W. H. Williams (1902), p. 113. There is an interesting compertum at Dr Rayne’s visitation of Studley in 1530 to the effect that “the woods of the priory had been much diminished by the late prioress and also by Thomas Cardinal of York for the construction of his College in the University of Oxford.” V.C.H. Oxon. II, p. 78.
[1741] Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 288.
[1742] Uhland, Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche Volkslieder (1844-5), II, p. 854 (No. 329); also in R. v. Liliencron, Deutsches Leben im Volkslied um 1530 (1884), p. 226, and (in a slightly different and modernised version) in L. A. v. Arnim and Clemens Brentano, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Reclam edit.), p. 24.