The nunneries

1. This list is compiled from information in J. Burton, The Yorkshire Nunneries in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Borthwick Papers 56 (York, 1979); J. Nichols, ‘The internal organisation of the Cistercian nunneries’, Cîteaux 30 (1979), pp. 23-40; D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998), pp. 470-1; A. Gwynn and N. Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland (1970), pp. 307-326; Medieval Religious Houses Scotland, ed. I. Cowan and D. Easson (1957, 76), pp. 144-150; D. Williams, ‘Cistercian nunneries in medieval Wales’, Cîteaux (1975), 26 pp. 155-171.
2. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 43.
3. Records of Visitations held by William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln 1436-1449, ed. A. H. Thompson (1919), II, p. 47.
4. Nichols, ‘Organisation of English nunneries’, pp. 28-9.
5. Williams, Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 410.
6. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 43.
7. C. Cross and N. Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns in Sixteenth-Century Yorkshire, Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. CL (Huddersfield, 1995), p. 560.
8. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 43.
9. H. E. Bell, ‘Esholt Priory’, Yorkshire Arch. Journal 33 (1938), p. 25.
10. Visitations of Religious Houses II, Lincoln Record Society 14 (1918), no. xxi (pp. 91-92, at p. 92).
11. Nichols, ‘Organisation of English Cistercian nunneries’, p. 39.
12. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 41.
13. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 38.
14. Visitations of Religious Houses II, Lincoln Record Society 14 (1918), April 1440, no. xxx (pp. 132-135, at 133-4).
15. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 42.
16. EYC VIII no. 148 / 1360; Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 6.
17. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 577.
18. Visitations of Religious Houses II, Lincoln Record Society 14 (1918), no. xxxix (pp. 183-7, at p. 185).
19. Williams, Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 334.
20. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 42.
21. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 42.
22. Visitations of Religious Houses I, Lincoln Record Society 7 (1914), no. xlvi. [pp. 111-112].
23. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 40.
24. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 588.
25. Graves, ‘English nuns in Lincolnshire’, p. 497, fn. 33.
26. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 38.
27. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 408.
28. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 403.
29. E. Power, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275-1535 (Cambridge, 1922), pp. 350. 434.
30. From an account of Alice de la Flagge, who was unanimously elected prioress of Whistones Priory, Worcestershire, but who, with befitting modesty, resisted this honour until she could resist no more and conceded, Nichols, ‘The internal organisation’, p. 26.
31. Burton, Yorkshire Nunneries, p. 40.
32. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, pp. 595-6.