Nuns - Notes (continued)

32. Note that the cellarer of Nun Cotham was a lay-brother, Graves, ‘The organization of an English nunnery’, p. 343.
33. Burton, ‘Chariot of Aminadab’, p. 31.
34. Records of Visitations held by William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln 1436-1449, II, no. xxx, pp. 132-135, at p. 133. The nuns of Catesby were said to have rushed the Office, ibid., p. 48.
35. See, for example, Register of Greenfield no. 1629 (p. 233), for Swine in 1314.
36. Records of Visitations held by William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln 1436-1449, II, no. xxxix (pp. 183-7).
37. Williams, Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 402.
38. Register of Greenfield, no. 1379 (pp. 112-115 at p. 114); no. 1629 (p. 234).
39. Register of Greenfield, no. 1328 (p. 88; p. xxxii).
40. Register of Greenfield, no. 1379 (p. 114); see no. 1441 (pp. 138-139), for Hampole in 1308.
41. Williams, Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 404.
42. E. Power, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275-1535 (Cambridge, 1922), pp. 399-400; VCH York III, pp. 170-171.
43. Register of Greenfield nos. 1525, 1532 (pp. 188, 190).
44. Register of Greenfield, nos. 1254 (pp. 55-56, at p. 55), 1256 (p. 56).
45. Bell, ‘Esholt Priory’, p. 29; C. Cross and N. Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns in Sixteenth-Century Yorkshire, Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. CL (Huddersfield, 1995), p. 563.
46. Nichols, ‘The organisation of English Cistercian nunneries’, p. 29.
47. Records of Visitations held by William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln 1436-1449, ed. A. H. Thompson II, pp. 47, 50.
48. For a detailed account of this procedure, see the report of a visitation of Catesby in 1442, Records of Visitations held by William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln 1436-1449, II, no. xi (p. 46).
49. Records of Visitations held by William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln 1436-1449, II, p. 49.
50. Register of Greenfield, no. 1180 (pp. 23-25); nos. 1192 (pp. 29-31) and 1198 (pp. 33-35).
51. Register of Greenfield, nos. 1224 (p. 45); 1180 (pp. 23-25).
52. See, for example, the arrangements made for two nuns of Swine who were to be sent to Nun Appleton and Sinningthwaite, Register of Greenfield, no. 1637 (p. 242).
53. Register of Greenfield, pp. xxix-xxx; no. 1233 (pp. 48-9).
54. Register of Greenfield, nos. 1630 (pp. 235-8), 1634 (pp. 238-240).
55. This point is emphasised by Burton, ‘Chariot of Aminadab’, and Graves, ‘The organization’, p. 341.
56. Nuns made their confession through the grille although those who were very ill might do so in the chapter-house, Williams, Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 407.
57. Williams, Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 407.
58. Williams, Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 407.
59. Nichols, ‘The organisation of the English Cistercian nunneries’, pp. 34-5.
60. Register Greenfield, pp. 10-11.
61. Nichols, ‘The organisation of English Cistercian nunneries’, p. 30; see too Burton’s discussion, ‘Chariot of Aminadab’.
62. Nichols, ‘The organisation of English Cistercian nunneries’, p. 29.
63. Nichols, ‘The organisation of English Cistercian nunneries’, p. 30.
64. Nichols, ‘The organisation of English Cistercian nunneries’, p. 29.
65. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 407.
66. Register of Greenfield, no.1440 (p.138).
67. Burton, ‘Chariot of Aminadab’, pp. 30-31; Register of Greenfield, no. 1381 (pp. 116-118 at p. 117 - Basedale); no. 1379 (pp. 112-115, at p. 114).