448n. 1,477,598;boarders at,580;bursars of,223;cellaress of,469;enforced reception of nuns at,212;Prioress of,seeMore, Avice de la;St Quintin, Isabella deNunmonkton Priory,7,15,18n. 4,111n. 3,399n. 3,427,469,494n. 1,580,587,601;Prioress of,19,242;seeFairfax, MargaretNunneries, amusements in,303,304ff.,662;animals in,662,663;aristocratic members of,3ff.,12ff.,73,74,194,212,255,324,503;books of,239ff.;children in,264ff.,496,568ff.,655ff.;episcopal disapproval of,270ff.,568ff.,655ff.;custodesof,228ff.;discipline in,300ff.;disputes in,300ff.;education of girls in,260ff.,568ff.;and seechildren in;election of superior in,43ff.;expenses of,117ff.,134,183,211,636ff.;farm labourers of,150,151;financial difficulties of,161ff.,180ff.,217ff.,655;mismanagement of,166ff.,179n. 3,203ff.,235;food supplies of,138ff.,332ff.,334ff.,640ff.;girls forced into,33ff.;home farms of,109ff.;hospitality at,200,201,401ff.,417ff.,649;household staff of,150,151;illiteracy in,250ff.;income of,2,3,100ff.,134,161,183,223,270,641;earmarked,135;Latin, study of, in,246,247,249,250,276,286,288;middle-class members of,10ff.,26;moral state of,436ff.,597ff.,665ff.,675;numerical size of,2,3,161,213,215,215n. 4;overcrowding of,212ff.,225;payments for reception into,17ff.,658;pensions demanded from,194ff.;private rooms in,318ff.,328,336,654;quarrels in,663ff.;reasons for entering,25ff.,290;repairs to,123ff.,135;right of nominating to,189ff.,244n. 1;routine in,285ff.,475ff.;ruinous condition of,168ff.;satirists on,533ff.;seculars in,401ff.,446,470,660ff.;separate households (familiae) in,272ff.,316ff.,332,335,336,338,654,655;servants of,129,143ff., 651;status domusof,221,484;weak-minded in,33,34;widows in,38ff.Nuns, almsgiving by,118,120,121,132,649;annuities for,324,325;beer allowance of,141,141n.,167,168n. 1;bread allowance of,141n.,167,168n. 2;Bible reading by,254,255;claustration of,7,71,72,78,173,201n. 2,228,259,303,341ff.,543,660ff.;clothes of,119,135,136,211,235,255,302n. 1,303ff.,315,329ff.,585ff.,663,674,675;dowries of,17ff.,191n. 1,214,224,268;education, etc., of,237ff.;food allowances for,334,564ff.,648,649;journeys out of cloister by,354ff.;legacies to,325ff.;linguistic learning of,246,247,276,288;love and, in medieval popular literature,622ff.;money allowance of,141,338ff.;penances of,466ff.;personal property of,19,20,272,273,315ff.,322ff.,337ff.,651ff.,672ff.;pets of,302,303,305ff.;pilgrimages of,371ff.;pocket money (peculium) of,322,323,331,334,336ff.;occupations of,251ff.,285ff.;recreation of,259;songs about,502ff.Nuremberg, library of Dominicans at,240n. 2—— St Clare,239Obedientiaries,131,132,150,219,319,322,367;and seeCellaress,Treasuress, etc.Odiham, John de,198Oignies, Mary of,525Okeley, Katherine,397,398Oldyngton, Henry de,197Olifaunt, Elizabeth,420—— William,420Olyfard, Hugh,420,421Origny, nunnery of,432ff.Orwell,188Oseney, Abbot of,396Ottobon, Constitutions of,338,346,354,367,369Oundyl, Henry,203Overton, William,242Oxborow, Parson of,seeWiggenhall, JohnOxford, Council of, 1222,21,165,310,323,337,338,415—— St Frideswide,308n. 1—— scholars of,325,395,396,398,456,460Page, Robert,152Palmer, Robert,152Panham, Countess of,257Pantolfe, Sir William,251Pape, Thomas,399n. 3Papelwyk, Sibil,67,68Paris, Faculty of Theology at,314Paston, Edmond,10—— John,10n.,72,423—— Margaret,267n. 1,302—— Margery,411,412Patent, Joan,322n.Pateshull, Sir John,411Patryk, Alice,327Pavy, Joan,412Paynel, Cecilia,370Peasants’ Revolt,114Peckham, John, Archbishop of Canterbury,27,60,62,64,149,156n. 7,167,188,191,217,223,224,230n. 8,232,248,258n. 4,306,307,312,313,346ff.,353,358,385n. 2,387,390n. 5,407,416,456,464,487,581,586Pecok, Reginald, Bishop of Chichester,447n. 6Peke, William,18Pelayo, Alvar,545n. 1Pelham, Maud,452Pembroke, Countess of,330Percy, Joan de,597,598—— Lady Margaret,411—— Sir W.,146Peresson, John,152Pergolotti, Francesco,111Periculoso,343n. 3,344ff.,350,353,354,360,367,376,440Persones Tale, Chaucer’s,295,296Peruzzi, the,9Perys, Edmund,43,91,92Peterborough Abbey,200,291—— Abbots of,44,45,115,230,444,481Philippa, Queen,198—— Duchess of York,418Pilgrimage of Grace,282Pilgrimages,371ff.Pilly, Katherine,57,58Pinley,30Pirckheimer, Charitas,239,500—— Wilibald,501Pisan, Christine de,Livre du dit de Poisy,558ff.Pittancer,143Pittances,112,118,120,135,142,143,147,155,221,223,323,328n. 2,334,336,370,522,567,568Plagues, medieval,178ff.;and seeBlack DeathPlantagenet, Bridget,276,279ff.—— Elizabeth,279Playce, Robert de,18Pocket money (peculium),322,323Poer, Maude,410Poisy, Livre du dit de,558ff.Poisy, Priory of,558ff.—— Prioress of,seeBourbon, Marie dePoitiers, Holy Cross,345Pole, Katherine de la,42,263,270,571Polesworth Abbey,160,366,416n. 1;Abbess of,42n. 1,217n. 1;alms given by,120;children at,265,267,282,579;servants of,159Poleter, Robert le,198Polsloe Priory,171n. 2,190,242,248,259n. 1,286,353,386,403n. 5,408n. 2,416n. 1;claustration relaxed at,354,355;meals at,317;poverty of,192,193;presentation of accounts at,219Poncher, Étienne,345Pontefract,419Pontoise, John of, Bishop of Winchester,156,183,195,218ff.,244n.,259n. 1,336,350,387Poore, Richard, Bishop of Salisbury,527Popeley, Elizabeth,88n.Porter, Alice,67—— James,198—— Richard,152Portsmouth, Joan,453Potton, Rectory of,114Poutrelle, Agnes,67Powes, Emma,361n. 1Pratica della Mercatura,111Pratt, Ralph,462Praty, Richard, Bishop of Chichester,340Preaux, St Leger,636;Abbess of,643;financial state of,637Precentrix of nunnery,seeChantressPrémontré, nuns of,343Prestewych, Margaret de,35,36Preston, Anne,46,49—— Margery,49Prioress,seeHead of houseProctors for begging,173,174Punchardon, Margaret de,365Punder, Margaret,63Pyghtesley, Richard,103Pykering, Joan de,51ff.—— Margaret de,328n. 1Pykkell, Robert,152Rading, Philippa de,198Radyngton, Joan de,224Raoul de Cambrai,432ff.,560n.Rasponi, Felice,474,501Ratclyff, Margaret,44,102Raulyn,202Rayn, John,46,47Raynevill, Thomas de,466n. 1Reading, Abbot of,279Receiver of nunnery,99,100,147,151,219Redlingfield Priory,64n. 6,249,263,319n. 3,452,468,578—— Prioresses of,64,65,467;seeHermyte, IsabelRedynges, Margaret,202Relics,116,117Rennes, Cloth of,76,77“Rents of Assize,”101,102Rents from lands and houses,100,101,118,119Retlyng, Lora de,204Reymound, Thomas,242Reynolds, Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury,36,37,179Rich, Margaret,117Richemond, Elianore,152Ridel, Mary,198,199Rievaulx, Abbot of,seeAelredRigaud, Eudes, Archbishop of Rouen,163n. 4,