26,60n.,265,267,269,301,448n. 1,452,578,604;dilapidations at,169;ill-fame of,397,491,492,582;moral state of,595,596;Prioress of,180,469,477;and seeWells, KatherineLlewelyn,30,185Lokton, Anabilla de,52Londesborough, Rector of,220,231London,68,70,105,191,233—— Council of, 1200,21,585—— nunneries of,99Longland, John, Bishop of Lincoln,23,79,153,170,208,211,273,304,312,321,356n. 5,369,374,380,387,399,404Longspey, Alice,397,398,449,456,460Loughborough,146Loveday, Anne,19Loweliche, Denise,64n. 5,88n.,458,460,469,486n. 2,493Ludlow, Gild of Palmers,11Luitgard of Tongres,500,525Luue Ron, A,16,513n. 1,525,527Lylis, John,77Lymbrook Priory,113n. 1,183,248,263,309ff.,347n. 2,356n. 5,359n. 3,367n. 2,369,377,384,403n. 5,408n. 2,449,586;children at,573;Prioress of,361n. 1;private property at,324,325,339n. 2Lyminster,478,635Lynn, King’s,43,138,147Maiden Bradley, Prior of,451Malling Abbey,2,13,56,58n.,146;Abbess of,20n.,57,155n. 1,180,203,204,218;and seeRetlyng, Lora de;corrody granted in,208n. 2;fair of,106n. 2;financial mismanagement at,203,204;falling mill of,107n. 1;poverty of,184n. 4;prebends of,144;seal of,218Malnouë, nuns of,345Malory, Sir Thomas,514Malory’sMorte Darthur,556,557Manorial courts,103ff.Marcens,433ff.Marcham, Agnes,26,397Mare, Thomas de la,244,479Margaret, Countess of Ulster,39Marham, Abbess of,105,380n. 4;chartulary of,107Marie de Bretagne,305n. 6—— de France,558Marienberg,682Mariensee,678ff.Markyate Priory,154,156,351,358,408,423,450n. 2,452,457,460;custosof,230n. 8;debts of,162,210;disorder at,457,458,488,491,492;domestic economy of,332;illiteracy at,250;Prioress of,64,180,250,352;and seeLoweliche, Denise;visitation at,351,352,354Marlow, Little, Priory to,174,351,366;children at,570;poverty of,184n. 4;prioresses of,17n. 2;and seeBernard, Eleanor;Vernon, MargaretMarmyll, Cecily,455Marrick Priory,111n. 3,201,213,214,230n. 8,326,328,356n. 5,401n. 1,428,579;Prioress of,148n. 3,214Marshall, Richard,243Marshalsea, the,201Martin IV, Pope,209Mason, Barbara,380n. 4Matheolus, Les Lamentations de,542,543Matrimony, The Christen State of,378Matthew Paris,240Maundy Thursday,142,142n. 3,143n.Mautravers, Sir John,194Maxstoke Priory,210n. 2Meaux Abbey,449Mechthild of Hackeborn,239,500—— of Magdeburg,500,525,533Medforde, Clemence,73,76,77,81,82,166,167,218,221,234,330,361n. 1,377,405n. 2,490Melton, William de, Archbishop of York,199,235,248n. 7,264,301,329,356n. 4,365,373,427,467,468n. 1,469,477Menagier de Paris,563Messe des oisiaus, etc.,539Mestowe, Hundred of,105,422,422n. 2Metham, Margaret,138Middle class, rise of,9ff.Middleton, manor-house at,90Minchin Barrow Priory,4,188,358n. 4;custosof,153;poverty of,184n. 4;Prioress of,71Minories, the,2,3,12,13,26,39,100,114,146,176n. 3,328n. 5Minster Priory,20Misericord,316Mistress of novices,134Mitford, Katherine,33Molynes, Lord,423Montagu, Katherine,442n. 2Montfort, Isabel de,73—— Peter de,30—— Simon de,346Montivilliers Abbey,560n.,636,641,647;Abbess of,644,650;financial state of,637Montmartre, nuns of,345More, Avice de la,58,59Mori, Gui de,532Mortimer, daughters of,420,450,451—— Roger,420Mortival, Bishop,213Morton, John, Archbishop of Canterbury,219,230n. 6,480,482n. 1Mortuaries,107ff.Mounceaux, Ella de,457Mowbray, Katherine,598Moxby,58n.,122,199,217n.,325,385,402n. 4,429,447,580;bakehouse and brewhouse of, dilapidated,170;debts of,200,220n. 4;destroyed by Scots,427;masters of,231;moral state of,599;prioresses of,148n. 3,427;and seeApelgarth, Sabina de,andBartone, Joan;Whenby Church appropriated to,113n. 1Muisis, Gilles li,305,542,543,661—— “Register” of,543,544Munkton, John,77,303n. 1,399n. 3Musgrave, Agnes,365Mydelsburg, Thomas,220n. 5Myroure of Oure Ladye,253,254,293,531,532Myssenden, James,326Neasham, St Mary’s,31,170n. 3,402n. 4;Prioress of,360n. 2Needlework in nunneries,255,256Nether Sutton,184Nevers, nuns of,305,593;and seeVert-VertNeville’s Cross, Battle of,428Newark, Henry of, Archbishop,248,338n. 3—— Ermentrude,441Newburgh Priory,232;Prior of,184Newcastle, St Bartholomew’s Priory,362n. 3;appropriations to,172;custosof,234;fire at,172;poverty of,234;Prioress of,360n. 2Newemerche, Elizabeth de,329Newhouse Abbey,230,387,399n. 3Newington, Prioress of,305Newman, Nicholas,149Newmarch, Jane,18Newton, Matilda,366n. 3Nicke, Richard, Bishop of Norwich,63,65,183,388,461,484n. 1Nicolson, Margaret,48Nonnes, Chansons de,437Norbery, Lady Anne,267Norbury, Roger de, Bishop of Lichfield,21,190n.,248Noreton, Roger de,165Norfolk, Thomas, family of,35Northallerton, St Stephen’s nunnery,428n. 3Northampton, Archdeacon of,174,175,353,441—— Battle of,45—— Friary at,388—— St James, Abbot of,220Northeleye, Rector of,seeJoseph, StephenNorthlode, Alice de,194,452—— John de,194Norwich, Bishops of,57,63,65,175,309n. 6,411;and seeGoldwellandNicke—— Isabel,168,336—— Priory,210n. 2,388—— Tombland in,91Nottingham, Archdeacon of,444Novellae Definitionesof Cistercians,362Novice, the,1ff.,352,260,261;mistress of,134,261n. 2;teacher of,260Noyon, Robert de,263Nun who Loved the World, The,511Nun, Why I can’t be a,545ff.Nunappleton Priory,16,52,61n. 2,87,154n. 1,200,213,251n. 2,248n.,322n.,326,338n. 3,339,373,374,389,400,402n. 4,406,410,445,601;accounts of, audited,220;boarders at,417,580;custosof,230n. 8;gifts to,326ff.;poverty of,184n. 4,200;Prioress of,326;visitations of,497,635Nunburnholme Priory,53n. 2,213,365n. 3,400n. 1,428,478;boarders at,580;custosof,220,230n. 8;Prioress of,478Nuncoton Priory,22,23,33,111n. 3,153,211,215,217n.,263,291,292,301,330,332,337,358,371,374,380,381n. 2,382,387,399,402n. 4,408n. 4,457;boarders of,413,576;bondmen of, alienated,205;corrodies sold at,205,207,208;debts of,225n. 4;frater at,317n. 1;households of nuns at,318;invalids at,259n. 1;jewels, etc., pawned,211;master of,231;Prioress of,79,153,205,211,408;revels at,312,313;seculars at,409Nuneaton Priory,2,3,14,34n. 1,146,186,421n. 1,441n.;alms given by,120;numbers of nuns at,215Nunkeeling Priory,6,52,58,184n. 4,212,257,291n. 2,357n. 5,427,