Also when guests come to the house, the prioress sends out the young nuns to make their beds, the which is a scandal to the house and a perilous thing.
Also the prioress does not give the nuns satisfaction in the matter of raiment and money for victuals: and she says that touching the premises the prioress is in the nuns’ debt for three-quarters of a year.
Also the buildings and tenements both within and without the priory are dilapidated, and many have fallen to the ground because of default in repairs.
Dame Isabel Benet says that when the prioress is enraged against any of the nuns, she calls them whores and pulls them by the hair, even in quire....
The prioress denies the article of cruelty as regards calling them whores and beggars; she denies also the violent laying of hands upon the nuns.
As to not having rendered an account, she confesses it, and for the reason that she has not a clerk who can write.
As to the burden of debt she refers herself to the account now to be rendered.
As to the neglection in repairing the sheep-folds, she refers herself to the visible evidence.
As to pawning the cup, she says that the same was done with the consent of the convent for the payment of tithes....