[1810] Regestrum Visitationum Archiepiscopi Rothamagensis, ed. Bonnin (1852). See analysis by L. Delisle in the Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 1846.
[1811] There is however a copy of the Bishop’s letter of injunctions, sent on later, appended to his report of the state of Villarceaux in 1249 (Reg. pp. 44-5).
[1812] Walcott, M. E. C., English Minsters, II (The English Student’s Monasticon), pp. 210 and V.C.H. Dorset, II, p. 48.
[1813] V.C.H. Sussex, II, p. 121 and Dugdale, Mon. VI, pp. 1032-3. The later history of this cell can be traced from occasional references. It was a very small house and contained only a prioress and two nuns in 1380. Dugdale says that after the French wars Richard Earl of Arundel treated with the Abbess of Almenèches for the purchase of some lands belonging to Lyminster and in 1404 a papal brief enumerated the possessions of Almenèches in England and elsewhere, with a threat of penalties against all who should disturb them. Dugdale, Mon. VI, pp. 1032-3. Five years later a memorandum in the Register of Bishop Rede of Chichester notes the admission of a new Prioress, Nichola de Hereez, on the presentation of the Abbess and Convent of Almenèches, in place of Georgete la Cloutiere, deceased. Reg. Robert Rede (Sussex Rec. Soc. 1908), pp. 38-9. Clearly French women were ruling over the house, though the nuns may possibly have been English. Shortly afterwards Henry V finally dissolved the alien priories in England and the lands belonging to Lyminster were settled by Henry VI upon Eton College.
[1814] Reg. p. 236.
[1815] Walcott, op. cit. p. 141 and V.C.H. Norfolk, II, p. 463, and Dugdale, op. cit. p. 1057.
[1816] Walcott, op. cit. p. 173.
[1817] Reg. p. 94.
[1818] Ib. p. 261. In 1314-5 the Abbess of the Holy Trinity petitioned the King of England, complaining that she had been distrained in aid of the marriage of his eldest daughter, whereas she held all her lands in frank almoin. Rot. Parl. I, p. 331.
[1819] Irrespective of double houses such as the Magdalen of Rouen.