[205] Cf. Appendix iii.

[206] Cf. Appendix iv.

[207] Cf. Appendix v.

[208] Monasticon, v, 383.

[209] Cf. supra, p. 164.

[210] Bazin’s novel, translated into English under the title of The Nun, describes the suppression of a French nunnery in recent years, and the after-history of the sisters. It is very instructive.

[211] Wright’s Letters, 243.

[212] Sleigh’s Leek, 140.

[213] Ibid., 64. He left his chalice of silver-gilt to his “servant and nephew Nicholas Whitney,” stipulating that if the Abbey were ever restored the chalice should be returned to it.

[214] His rent-roll of lands which he continued to manage, dated Oct. 6th, 34 Hen. viij, is in the William Salt Library at Stafford (Box 145).