[241c] “Hundred Rolls,” p. 317.
[241d] “Ibid.,” p. 365.
[241e] “Ibid.,” p. 299.
[241f] “Placit de quo Warranto,” p. 404.
[241g] “Hundred Rolls,” p. 317.
[241h] For the years 1281 to 1301.
[241i] Letter from Rev. R. W. Sibthorpe to Dr. Bloxham, “Life of Sibthorpe,” (1880), p. 138.
[242] Stukeley, “Itin. Cur.,” p. 29. The pageants of Corpus Christi day are described by Dugdale, and in the “Northumberland Household Book,” 1512.
[243a] Acta Regia. Quoted by Oliver, “Religious Houses,” p. 52, note 68. The corruption which was gradually eating its way into the monastic life came, in some cases, to be felt by those who were admitted to their intimacy. The author of a poem contemporary with Chaucer, in the 14th century, says,
I was a friere ful many a day,
Therefor the soth I wot;
But when I saw that their lyvinge
Accorded not to their prechynge,
Of I cast my friere clothynge,
And wyghtly went my way.