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Prioress of,55,56,265,307Bival Abbey,636,647;Abbess of,645;financial state of,637,638Bixley, John,208Blackborough Priory,32,170,371,412;fair of,106n. 2;poverty of,184n. 4;Prioress of,64,65,220Black Death, the,164,177ff.,215,457Blacklow Hill,419Blankney, Vicar of,232Bleden, Joan,5Bleeding of nuns,257ff.,259n. 2,316,324,646;of monks,258,259Blois, Robert de,8Blund, Ann le,6—— Sir John le,6Boarders in nunnery,112,113,158Boccaccio,516n. 4,522Bodenham, Cecily,72Boleyn, Anne,54,55—— Thomas,77Bondeville Priory,636,646;accounts of,640;custosof,640;financial state of,255n. 2,637,638;inventory of,641,645;Prioress of,644,645Bonevyll, Sir William,329Boniface VIII,201n. 2,344,350,351,353,354—— IX,117,175,345Booth, Archbishop William,175Bossall, Vicar of,231Boteler, Margaret la,365Botere, Walter,33Botulphe, Joan,312Bourbon, Etienne de,309,372,516n. 1Bourbon, Marie de,558Bowes, Agnes,457Bowet, Henry, Archbishop of York,83n.,339,477Bowlis, Alice,48ff.Boy Bishop, the,311ff.Boyfield, Alice,46—— Elizabeth,46ff.Bradford-on-Avon, Church of,176Braies au Prestre, Les,541Brakle, Agnes,88Brampton Church,463Brantyngham, Thomas de, Bishop of Exeter,353,403n. 5,417Brasyer, Stephen,103Brentford, Chapel of the Angels,99Brenyntone, Alicia,33Bret, Isabel,27,32,191,192—— Robert,191n. 2,192Brewood (Staffs.),98,147n. 4,308,443n. 2—— Prioress of,183n. 6Brid, Aleyn,207Bridlington,427Bristol, St Bartholomew’s Hospital,442n. 2—— St Mary Magdalen,183,184n. 4Brittany, Duke John of,429Brodholme Priory,229n. 1,244,449;custosof,230;Prioress of,423Broke, Elizabeth,88n.,149,169,389,469Bromele, Thomas,267Bromhale Priory,73,81,87,360n. 2,377;dissolution of,603;prioresses of,seeJuliana of BromhaleBrompton, John,326—— Rector of,seePlayce, Robert deBromyard, John,516n. 2Broughton (Northants.), Rector of,352Browne, Agnes,20Bruce, Robert,427Brugge, Joan,424n. 2—— Peter,424n. 2Brun, Alicia,21Brunne, Robert of,521Brus, Elizabeth de,420—— Robert de,420Bruys, Joan,441n.Bryce, Master,149,170Buckingham, Archidiaconate of,174—— John, Bishop of Lincoln,22,24,220,223,226,249,273,322n.,337,386,390n. 5Buckland Priory,1,2,37,330;poverty of,165;Prioress of,37,38Bugga, Abbess,237Bungay,33,442n. 2Buonvisi, Lucrezia,474Burghersh, Bishop,450n. 2,582Burgo, Elizabeth de,420Burn, John,242Burnham Abbey,146,188,191,301,326,351,442n. 2,457;education of children at,263,272,569;poverty of,184n. 4Burton, Abbot of,4—— Margaret of,443n. 2Burtscheid, Abbey of,28Bury St Edmunds,48,370Busch, Johann,271,296,345,473,670ff.Bustard, John,231Butler, Agnes,449Bycombe, Isolda,410—— John,410Byland Abbey,427Caen, Abbaye-aux-Dames,305,636,646;accounts of,639;financial state of,637Caesarius of Heisterbach’sDialogus Miraculorum,27,27n. 1,28,108,274n.,277n. 1,296,297,450n. 3,511n.,516n. 3,520,531,627ff.,656Caldwell Priory,308n. 1,386;Prior of,46Calle, Richard,411,412Caluerley, Richard,399Calwell, Thomas,120Camberwell,71Cambridge, Elizabeth de,398—— Friars Minor of,122—— Jesus College,270,602—— Mayor of,122—— St John’s College,603—— St Radegund’s Priory,60n.,106n. 1,122,137ff.,148,151ff.,157,158,175,292n. 2,356n. 2,398,571;accounts of,98,102n. 2,103,119,123,127,128n. 1,142,152,327,571;alms given by,121,122;bailiff of,seeKey, Thomas;chaplains of,153;church of,125;churches appropriated to,135n. 5;confessor of,152;clothes of nuns at,323;dissolution of,602;fire at,172;Garlick Fair of,106n. 1;gifts to,175,176;hospitality of,119,120;liveries of servants at,137;poverty of,184n. 4;prioresses of,147n. 5,152,169,177,366n. 2;and seeLancaster, Joan;repairs at,123ff.,169;servants of,137,152;visitation of,494n. 1Camoys, Margaret de,73Campsey Priory,2,39,64n. 6,167,168,243,336;hospitality at,417,418;mismanagement by Prioress of,168,417Canard Blanc, Le,617Cannington Priory,188,194,410,452;boarders at,453,578;coadjutresses appointed at,225;corrodies, unauthorised sale of, at,224;Prioress of,21,224,225,410,453;simoniacal admission of nuns at,224Canons Ashby Priory,231;Prior of,231Canonsleigh Abbey,2,113n. 1,183n. 4,248,353,376,406n. 1,411,416n. 1,417;Abbess of,71n. 4,224;coadjutress appointed at,224;claustration relaxed at,354,355,355n. 2;presentation of accounts at,219Canterbury, Archbishops of,87,347n. 2,482n. 1—— Holy Sepulchre,41,156n. 7,224,348,350,356n. 2,359n. 2,387,399,403n. 5,413n. 2,449,487,494n. 1,581;alms given by,120;custosof,230n. 8,232,234,487;poverty of,234—— Hospital of St James,82n. 4,184n. 5,390n. 5,494n. 1—— pilgrimage to,95,145—— Priory,210n. 2;Prior of,461,482n. 1Cantilupe, Thomas de, Bishop of Hereford,248,324,347n. 2,367n. 2,369Capron, John,454Carey, Eleanor,54,55—— John,54Carinthia, Monastery of,592Carmaynton, David,36,37Carrow Priory,6,12,113n. 1,148n. 1,268,292,305,366,587;boarders at,411,577;children at,267,268;churches appropriated to,113n. 2;complaints of bad food, etc., at,168n. 2;enforced reception of nuns into,212;lawsuit of,202n. 2;pestilence at,181;Philip Sparrow at,590ff.;Prioress of,72,105n. 3;and seeWilton, Edith;revels at,312;sanctuary at,422;titles granted to,116n. 1Cassian,294Castile, Constance of,421n. 1Castle Hedingham Priory,188,192;Prioress of,360n. 2Catesby, Joan,84—— Priory,78,82,83,87,106,107n. 1,110,146,186,188,225,228,292,304,335,358n. 2,378,388,395,402n. 3,408n. 2,447,477,486,489,583;accounts of,98,102n. 2,105n. 3,115n. 1,118n.,127,220;children at,265,272,409,577;dilapidations at,171n. 2;home farm of,109,127;households of nuns at,320;jewels pawned,211;master of,231;peculiumfor clothes,323,333;pilgrimages to,117;poverty of,175,184n. 4,205;Prioress of,66,107,109,121,180,192,210,211,255,272,283,320,323,333,395,452,463,477,488,493;and seeRich, Margaret;Wavere, MargaretCatherine, nun of Bungay,33Catley,18Catton, Rector of,30Caxton,241Caynes, Sir Robert de,192Cellaress of nunnery,117,119,132ff.,141,143,367,368;duties of,133,138;accounts of,119,131n.,135Chambress of nunnery,119,132,134,137,368;accounts of,119,131n.,135Champnys, Alice,243Chansons de Nonnes,502ff.,604ff.Chantimpré, Thomas of,584Chantress of nunnery,131,132Chaplains,143ff.,148n. 3,151;residences of,144Chapter house,249,252,475ff.,648ff.,672Chark, John,156Charles V of France,429Charter, foundation, exhibition of,221,251Charterys, Elizabeth,


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