Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535Power, Eileen
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Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535
Power, Eileen
Convents -- England; Monastic and religious life of women -- History
Item, one large gilded cup, with a cover and a round foot, and in the
bottom a chaplet of white and red roses and a hind carven in the midst
and all round the outside carven with eagles, lions, crowns and other
ingenious devices (_babonibus_), and in the pommel a nest and three
men standing and taking the chicks from the nest, of the weight of 18
marks.... Item a robe of murrey cloth of Ypres (? _yp'n_) containing a
mantle and hood furred with budge (? _purg'_), another hood furred
with ermine, a cloak furred with half vair, a long robe (_garnach'_)
furred with vair.... Item one bed of tapestry work of a white field,
with a stag standing under a great tree and on either side lilies and
a red border, with the complete tester and three curtains of white
boulter[1018].
In the same year Anne St Quintin left the same noble lady "one silken
quilt and one pair of sheets of cloth of Rennes"[1019]. Eleven years
earlier Sir John Fairfax, rector of Prescot, had left his sister Margaret
Fairfax, Prioress of Nunmonkton (of whom we have already heard much that
was not to her good):
one silver gilt cup with a cover, and one silver cup with a cover, one
mazer with a cover of silver gilt, one pix of silver for spices, six
silver spoons, one cloak of black cloth furred with gray, one round
silver basin and ten marks of silver[1020].
Master John de Wodhouse in 1345 leaves Dame Alice Conyers, nun of
Nunappleton, "fifteen marks [and] a long chest standing against my bed at
York, one maser cup with an image of St Michael in the bottom and one cup
of silver, which I had of her gift, with a hand in the bottom holding a
falcon"[1021], and Isabella, widow of Thomas Corp, a London pepperer, in
1356, leaves
to Margaret, sister of William Heyroun, vintner, nun at Barking, a
silver plated cup with covercle, twelve silver spoons, two cups of
mazer and a silver enamelled pix, together with three gold rings, with
emerald, sapphire and diamond respectively and divers household
goods[1022].
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