Woman under Monasticism

907

Ibid. ‘Shaftesbury,’ vol. 2, p. 473.

908

Ibid. ‘Barking,’ vol. 1, p. 441, charter nr 8.

909

Schröer, Winteney Version der regula St Benedicti, 1888, p. 16.

910

Edit. Koelbing, Englische Studien, vol. 2, pp. 60 ff. (line references in the text throughout this section are to this version).

911

Shermann, A. J., Hist. Coll. Jesus Cantab., edit. Halliwell, 1840, p. 16.

912

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Langley,’ vol. 4, p. 220.

913

Maskell, W., Monumenta Ritualia, 1882, vol. 3, p. 358 footnote.

914

Cf. above, p. 206.

915

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Catesby,’ vol. 4, p. 635.

916

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Bromhall,’ vol. 4, p. 506.

917

Jessopp, A., Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich (1492-1532), pp. 185, 190, 318.

918

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Wilton,’ vol. 2, p. 317.

919

Benedictus, Regula, c. 65 (in Migne, Patrol. Cursus Compl. vol. 66).

920

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Barking,’ vol. 1, p. 437, footnote k.

921

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Barking,’ vol. 1, p. 445 Computus.

922

Dugdale, Monasticon, charter nr 15.

923

I am unable to ascertain the quantity indicated by the ‘piece.’

924

I am unable to ascertain the difference between ‘stubbe’ and ‘shafte.’

925

Rogers, Th., Six Centuries of Work and Wages, 1884, p. 101.

926

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Mary’s, Winchester,’ vol. 2, p. 451, charter nr 4.

927

Jessopp, A., Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich (1492-1532), p. 290.

928

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Shaftesbury,’ vol. 2, p. 472.

929

Ibid. ‘St Mary, Winchester,’ vol. 2, p. 451, charter nr 4.

930

Ibid. ‘Kilburn,’ vol. 3, p. 424.

931

Blaauw, W. A., ‘Episcopal Visitations of the Benedictine Nunnery of Easebourne,’ Sussex Arch. Collections, vol. 9, p. 15.

932

Jessopp, A., Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich (1492-1532), p. 138.

933

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Elstow,’ vol. 3, p. 411, charter nr 8.

934

Ibid. ‘Barking,’ vol. 1, p. 438, footnote b.

935

‘Here begynneth a matere’ etc. (by John Alcock (?)), printed by Wynkyn de Worde (1500), last page but one.

936

Six Centuries of Work and Wages, 1884, p. 166.

937

Rye, W., Carrow Abbey, 1889, p. 48 ff.

938

Skelton, Poetical Works, 1843, vol. 1, p. 51, ‘Phyllyp Sparowe.’

939

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Rumsey,’ vol. 2, p. 507, footnote p.

940

Jessopp, A., Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich (1492-1532), p. 140.

941

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Helen’s,’ vol. 4, p. 551, charter nr 3.

942

Ibid. ‘Barking,’ vol. 1, p. 437, footnote m.

943

Fosbroke, British Monachism, 1843, p. 176.

944

Way, A., ‘Notices of the Benedictine Priory of St Mary Magdalen, at Rusper,’ Sussex Arch. Collections, vol. 5, p. 256.

945

Bateson, M., ‘Visitations of Archbishop Warham in 1511,’ in English Hist. Review, vol. 6, 1891, p. 28.

946

Maskell, W., Monumenta Rit., 1882, vol. 3, p. 331, ‘The order of consecration of Nuns,’ from Cambridge Fol. Mm. 3. 13, and Lansdown MS., 388; p. 360 ‘The manner to make a Nun,’ from Cotton MS., Vespasian A. 25, fol. 12.

947

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Chatteris,’ vol. 2, p. 614.

948

Way, A., ‘Notices of the Benedictine Priory of St Mary Magdalen at Rusper,’ Sussex Arch. Collections, vol. 5, p. 256.

949

Comp. Smith and Cheetham, Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, 1875, article ‘Hours of Prayer.’

950

Aungier, G. J., History and Antiquities of Syon, 1840; Myroure of Oure Ladye, Early English Text Soc., 1873, Introduction by Blunt, J. H.

951

Hammerich, Den hellige Birgitta, 1863.

952

A. SS. Boll., St Birgitta vidua, Oct. 8.

953

Myroure of Oure Ladye, Introd. p. xiv.

954

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, 1888, vol. 1, p. 42.

955

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Amesbury,’ vol. 1, p. 333.

956

Ibid. ‘Westwood,’ vol. 6, p. 1004.

957

Ibid. ‘Levenestre,’ vol. 6, p. 1032.

958

Aungier, G. J., History and Antiquities of Syon, 1840, p. 249 ff., from Arundel MS. nr 146 (chapter references throughout the text in this chapter are to this reprint).

959

Myroure of Oure Ladye, Introd. p. xxxv.

960

Aungier, G. J., History and Antiquities of Syon, 1840, pp. 312 ff., from Additional MS. nr 5208.

961

Aungier, G. J., History and Antiquities of Syon, 1840, pp. 405 ff. ‘A table of signs.’

962

Myroure of Oure Ladye, Introd. p. xxvi.

963

Myroure of Oure Ladye, Introd. p. xxix.

964

Aungier, G. J., History and Antiquities of Syon, 1840, p. 421, ‘Indulgentia monasterii de Syon,’ MS. Ashmol. nr 750; p. 422, ‘The Pardon of the monastery of Shene which is Syon,’ MS. Harleian 4012, art. 9.

965

Ibid. p. 426, footnotes.

966

Myroure of Oure Ladye, Introd. p. xlv. B. M. Addit. MS., nr 22285.

967

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde (?), 1526; reprinted for the Bradshaw Society, 1893.

968

Aungier, G. J., History and Antiquities of Syon, 1840, p. 529. MS. Harleian 2321, fol. 17 ff.

969

Ibid. p. 527.

970

Ibid. p. 527.

971

Ibid. p. 526.

972

Myroure of Oure Ladye, Introd. p. ix.

973

Ibid. p. 2.

974

Myroure of Oure Ladye, pp. 65 ff.

975

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Godstow,’ vol. 4, p. 357, Charter nr 16.

976

Ibid. ‘St Radegund’s,’ vol. 4, p. 215, Charter nr 3.

977

Ducange, ‘burnetum, pannus ex lana tincta confectus.’

978

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Rumsey,’ vol. 2, p. 507, footnote p.

979

Ibid. ‘Swine,’ vol. 5, p. 493.

980

Ibid. ‘Sopwell,’ vol. 3, p. 362, charter nr 7.

981

Ibid. ‘Chatteris,’ vol. 2, p. 614, charter nr 11.

982

Ibid. ‘Nun-Monkton,’ vol. 4, p. 192, charter nr 2.

983

Gasquet, A., The Great Pestilence, 1893, Introd. p. xvi.

984

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Thetford,’ vol. 4, p. 475.

985

Jessopp, A., Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich, 1492-1532, pp. 90, 155.

986

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Malling,’ vol. 3, p. 382; Gasquet, A., The Great Pestilence, 1893, pp. 104, 106.

987

Gasquet, p. 137.

988

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Wyrthorp,’ vol. 4, p. 266.

989

Ibid. ‘Seton,’ vol. 4, p. 226, charter nr 2.

990

Ibid. ‘St Sepulchre’s,’ vol. 4, p. 413, footnote l.

991

Way, A., ‘Notices of the Benedictine Priory of St Mary Magdalen at Rusper,’ Sussex Archæol. Collections, vol. 5, p. 244; Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Rusper,’ vol. 4, p. 586.

992

Blaauw, W. H., ‘Episcopal Visitations of the Priory of Easebourne,’ Sussex Archæol. Collections, vol. 9, pp. 1-32; Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Easebourn,’ vol. 4, p. 423.

993

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Sele,’ vol. 4, p. 668.

994

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St John’s,’ vol. 6, p. 678.

995

Ibid. ‘Selbourne,’ vol. 6, p. 510.

996

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries, 1888, vol. 1, p. 52.

997

Wilkins, D., Concilia, 1737, vol. 3, pp. 413, 419, 462.

998

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Albans,’ vol. 2, p. 205.

999

Wilkins, D., Concilia, 1737, vol. 3, p. 390.

1000

Ibid. 1737, vol. 3, p. 630.

1001

Ibid. Year 1490, vol. 3, p. 632. Froude without taking into consideration the circumstances under which this letter was penned takes its contents as conclusive evidence of the abuses of the monastic system at the time of the Reformation. Comp. History of England, 1893, vol. 2, p. 304; Life and Letters of Erasmus, 1894, p. 18.

1002

Newcome, P., History of the Abbacy of St Albans, 1793, p. 399.

1003

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Albans,’ vol. 2, p. 206, footnote c; ‘the Book of Ramryge,’ MS. Cotton. Nero D. VII.

1004

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Mary de Prée,’ vol. 3, p. 353, charter nr 9.

1005

Ibid. ‘Sopwell,’ vol. 3, p. 363.

1006

‘Land of Cockayne,’ in Early English Lives of Saints, etc., Philological Society, 1858, p. 156.

1007

‘Why I cannot be a nun,’ in Early English Lives of Saints, etc., Philological Society, 1858, p. 138.

1008

Comp. above, pp. 339, 377.

1009

Möhler, J. A., Kirchengeschichte, edit. 1867, vol. 2, pp. 612 ff.

1010

Comp. Leuckfeld, Antiquitates Bursfeldenses, 1713; Pez, Bibliotheca ascetica, vol. 8, nrs 6 ff.

1011

Discussed in Klemm, G. F., Die Frauen, vol. 4, p. 181, using Ordinarius preserved at Dresden (MS. L. 92).

1012

Busch, J., Liber de reformatione monasteriorum (written between 1470-1475), edit. Grube, 1887.

1013

Deutsche Allgemeine Biographie, article ‘Busch, Joh.’

1014

Busch, Liber de reformatione monasteriorum, ‘Derneburg,’ p. 588.

1015

Ibid. ‘Wennigsen,’ ‘Mariensee,’ ‘Werder’ pp. 555 ff.

1016

Busch, Liber de reformatione monasteriorum, ‘Wienhausen,’ p. 629.

1017

Ibid. ‘St Georg in Halle,’ p. 568.

1018

Ibid. ‘Heiningen,’ p. 600.

1019

Ibid. ‘Frankenberg,’ p. 607.

1020

Ibid. ‘Dorstad,’ p. 644.

1021

Ibid. ‘Neuwerk,’ p. 609.

1022

Ibid. ‘Fischbeck,’ p. 640.

1023

Ibid. ‘Marienberg,’ p. 618.

1024

Busch, Liber de reformatione monasteriorum, ‘Marienborn,’ ‘Stendal,’ p. 622.

1025

Ibid. pp. 664 ff.

1026

Ibid. pp. 659 ff.

1027

Remling, F. X., Urkundl. Geschichte der Abteien und Klöster in Rheinbayern, 1836, ‘Schönfeld,’ vol. 1, p. 165; ‘Ramsen,’ vol. 1, p. 263; ‘Kleinfrankenthal,’ vol. 2, p. 79.

1028

Marx, J., Geschichte des Erzstifts Trier, 1860, vol. 3, p. 466 (Benedictine nunneries, pp. 457-511, Cistercian nunneries, pp. 579-593).

1029

Brusch, C., Chronol. Mon. Germ., 1682, p. 508.

1030

Fabri, F., De Civitate Ulmensi, edit. Veesenmeyer, Liter. Verein, Stuttgart, 1889, pp. 180 ff.

1031

Fabri, F., De Civitate Ulmensi, pp. 202 ff.

1032

Jäger, A., Der Streit des Cardinals N. von Cusa mit dem Herzoge Sigmund von Oesterreich, 1861, 2 vols, (the struggle over Sonnenburg is in vol. 1).

1033

Ibid. vol. 1 (page references in the text throughout this section are to the above account).

1034

Jäger, A., Der Streit des Cardinals N. von Cusa etc., 1861, Vorwort, p. x.

1035

Tritheim, Opera pia et spiritualia, edit. Busaeus, 1604, ‘Orationes,’ pp. 840-916.

1036

Tritheim, Opera, etc., Epist. nr 3, p. 921 (written 1485).

1037

Geiler, Predigten Teutsch, 1508; Seelen-Paradies, 1510, etc.

1038

Information on those works of Butzbach which are not published is given in the second supplementary volume, pp. 439 ff. of Hutten, U. v., Opera, edit. Böcking, 1857.

1039

Wimpheling, Germania, transl. Martin, E., 1885, ch. 77.

1040

Erasmus, Colloquies, transl. Bailey, edit. Johnson, 1878, ‘The Virgin averse to Matrimony,’ vol. 1, p. 225.

1041

Erasmus, Colloquies, ‘The Penitent Virgin,’ vol. 1, p. 237.

1042

Ibid. ‘The Uneasy Wife,’ vol. 1, p. 241.

1043

Ibid. ‘The Young Man and Harlot,’ vol. 1, p. 291.

1044

Ibid. ‘The Lying-in Woman,’ vol. 1, p. 441.

1045

Erasmus, Colloquies, ‘The Assembly or Parliament of Women,’ vol. 2, p. 203.

1046

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Radegund’s,’ vol. 4, p. 215, charter nr 3.

1047

Gasquet, F. A., Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, 1888, vol. 1, p. 62.

1048

At a meeting of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (reported in the Academy, Feb. 23, 1895), Mr T. D. Atkinson read a paper on ‘The Conventual Buildings of the priory of St Radegund,’ illustrated by a plan showing such of the college buildings as were probably monastic, and also the position of some foundations discovered in the previous summer. According to this paper the present cloister occupies the same position as that of the nuns, and the conventual church was converted into a college chapel by Alcock. The college hall which is upstairs is the old refectory, the rooms below being very likely used as butteries, as they still are. The present kitchen is probably on the site of the old monastic kitchen, and very likely the rooms originally assigned to the Master are those which had been occupied by the prioress. Further details of arrangement were given about the dormitory, the chapter house, the calefactory and common-room, etc., from which we gather that the men who occupied the nunnery buildings, put these to much the same uses as they had served before.

1049

Fiddes, ‘Life of Card. Wolsey,’ 1726, Collect., p. 100.

1050

Ibid. p. 99.

1051

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Bromhall,’ vol. 4, p. 506.

1052

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Lillechurch,’ vol. 4, p. 379, footnote e.

1053

Gairdner, J., Letters and papers of the reign of Henry VIII, Rolls Series, vol. 10, Preface, p. 43, footnote, and nr 890.

1054

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Frideswith’s,’ vol. 2, p. 138. Fiddes, ‘Life of Card. Wolsey,’ 1726, Collect., p. 95.

1055

Wilkins, D., Concilia, 1737, ‘Bull’ (Sept. 1524), vol. 3, p. 703; ‘Breve regium,’ ibid. p. 705.

1056

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Frideswith’s,’ vol. 2, p. 138, footnote x.

1057

Ibid. ‘Wykes,’ vol. 4, p. 513; ‘Littlemore,’ vol. 4, p. 490, nr 12.

1058

Rymer, Foedera, ‘Bulla pro monasteriis supprimendis,’ vol. 6, p. 116; ‘Bulla pro uniendis monasteriis,’ p. 137.

1059

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, 1888, vol. 1, pp. 101 ff.

1060

Blunt, The Reformation of the Church of England, 1882, vol. 1, p. 92, footnote, says that the lady in question was ‘Eleanor the daughter of Cary who had lately married (Anne’s) sister Margaret.’

1061

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Wilton,’ vol. 2, p. 317, gives the correspondence. The abbess who succeeded to Isabel Jordan was probably Cecil Bodman or Bodenham, of whom more p. 441.

1062

Fish, S., ‘A Supplicacyon for the Beggers,’ republished Early Engl. Text Soc., 1871.

1063

More, Th., ‘The Supplycacyon of Soulys,’ 1529 (?).

1064

Wright, Th., Three chapters of letters on the Suppression (Camden Soc., 1843), nrs 6-11.

1065

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, vol. 1, pp. 110-150.

1066

Gairdner, J., Letters and Papers etc., vol. 8, Preface, pp. 33 ff.

1067

Wilkins, D., Concilia, 1737, vol. 3, p. 755.

1068

Dict. of Nat. Biography, article ‘Legh, Sir Thomas.’

1069

Wright, Three chapters etc., p. 56.

1070

Gairdner, J., Letters etc., vol. 9, nr 139.

1071

Ibid. Preface, p. 20.

1072

Ibid. vol. 9, nr 280.

1073

Gasquet, Henry VIII etc., vol. 1, p. 273.

1074

Wright, Three chapters of letters, p. 55.

1075

Gasquet, Henry VIII etc., vol. 1, p. 276; Ellis, H., Original Letters, Series 3, vol. 3, p. 11, says that after resigning at Little Marlow she became abbess at Malling.

1076

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Little Marlow,’ vol. 4, p. 419; ‘Ankerwyke,’ vol. 4, p. 229.

1077

Gairdner, J., Letters and Papers etc., vol. 9, nr 1075 (her house is unknown).

1078

Ellis, H., Original Letters, Series 1, vol. 2, p. 91.

1079

Wright, Three chapters etc., p. 74.

1080

Gairdner, J., Letters and Papers etc., vol. 9, nr 357.

1081

Gairdner, J., Letters and Papers etc., vol. 9, nr 732.

1082

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII etc., vol. 1, p. 293.

1083

Wright, Three chapters etc., p. 107.

1084

Ibid. p. 114; Gasquet, Henry VIII etc., vol. 1, p. 303.

1085

Gairdner, J., Letters and Papers etc., vol. 10, nr 364.

1086

Wright, Three chapters etc., p. 91.

1087

Ellis, H., Original Letters, Series 3, vol. 3, p. 38.

1088

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Harwold,’ vol. 6, p. 330.

1089

Ellis, H., Original Letters, speaks of the image of Our Lady of Caversham which was plated all over with silver, Series 1, vol. 2, p. 79; of that of St Modwen of Burton on Trent with her red cowl and staff, Series 3, vol. 3, p. 104; of the ‘huge and great image’ of Darvellgathern held in great veneration in Wales, Series 1, vol. 2, p. 82; and of others, which were brought to London and burnt.

1090

Wright, Three chapters etc., p. 116.

1091

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII etc., vol. 2, p. 47.

1092

Ibid. Appendix 1.

1093

Gairdner, J., Letters and Papers etc., vol. 9, nr 1094.

1094

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII etc., vol. 2, App. 1.

1095

Wright, Three chapters etc., p. 139.

1096

Ellis, H., Orig. Letters, Series 3, vol. 3, p. 37.

1097

Ibid. p. 116.

1098

Ibid. p. 39.

1099

Wright, Three chapters etc., p. 129.

1100

Gairdner, J., Letters and Papers etc., vol. 10, nr 383 (1536).

1101

Wright, Three chapters etc., p. 136.

1102

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII etc., vol. 2, App. 1.

1103

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘St Mary’s,’ vol. 2, p. 451, charter nr 4.

1104

Gasquet, A., Henry VIII etc., vol. 2, App. 1.

1105

Gairdner, J., Letters and Papers etc. vol. 11, nr 385 (20).

1106

Ibid. (22, 23, 35).

1107

Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Chatteris,’ vol. 2, p. 614, calls her ‘Anne Gayton.’