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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The accompanying documents, which have been transcribed from the register of John Longland, who was Bishop of Lincoln from 5 May 1521 until 7 May 1547, will not, I think, be without interest for some of our Fellows, throwing as they do a clear though but feeble light on the manner of life in certain monastic houses immediately before the Dissolution. In case you agree with me in this, I shall be obliged to you if you will read them at any meeting of the Society when it may be convenient for you to do so. I am indebted for the transcript from which my copy is taken to the Reverend A. R. Maddison, M.A., F.S.A.
page 49 note a Le Neve, and Hardy, , Fasti Eccl. Angl. ii. 21Google Scholar.
page 49 note b iii. 411.
page 50 note a Mon. Ang. iii. 415Google Scholar.
page 50 note b Ibid. iv. 218.
page 50 note c Ibid. v. 675.
page 50 note d Tho. Wright, F.S.A. Suppression of the Monasteries (Camd. Hoc), 214.
page 50 note c Mon. Aug. vi. 547Google Scholar. Pro. Soc. Ant. 2nd Series, vi. 266Google Scholar.
page 54 note a This word commonly means nun, A.-S. Minicen. Here, however, it probably signifies a lay sister.
page 54 note b Dormitory.
page 54 note c “Corodie is an allowance of meate, bread, drinke, money, cloathing, lodging, and such like things necessarie for substance.”— Les Termes de la Ley, 1624, f. 102.
page 56 note a See paper on this sport by Bray, William, F.S.A. in Archœol. XVIII. 313—335Google Scholar.
page 57 note a Canonry of Augustinians at Thornton-upon-Humber. Mon. Ang. vi. 324Google Scholar.
page 57 note b Newhouse or Newsome, a Premonstratensian house near Thornton. Mon. Ang. vi. 865Google Scholar.
page 58 note a Probably John Prynn, Sub-Dean and Treasurer of Lincoln and Prebendary of Ketton and Saint Martin's.—Le Neve, and Hardy, , Fasti Eccl. Angl. vol. ii. pp. 40, 90, 158, 186Google Scholar. A brass to his memory formerly existed in Lincoln Cathedral, inscribed “Hie jacet Johannes Prynn, utriusq. legis doctor, quondam subdecanus istius ecclesie, cathedralis Lincolnie, et canonicus residentiarius in eadem; qui obiit vicesimo nono die mensis Aprilis, anno Domini mo lviijo. Cujus anime propitietur Deus, amen. Expecto misericordiam tuarn Domine.” —Mon. Inscrns. in Lincoln Cath. in 1641. Coll. by Rob. Sanderson, 1851, p. 34.
page 58 note b A cocoa-nut mounted in silver, forming a cup. “Four nuts with three covers” were preserved in the cathedral of Winchester at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries.— Mon. Ang. i. 203Google Scholar. “One nut without a cover” was among the Abbot's plate at Peterborough at the same period.— Ibid. i. 367. “A nutte sylver and gylte with a cover xv. oz.” was kept at Sawtre Abbey, Hunts, 30th May, 28 Henry VIII. 1536— Archœol. XLIII. 239Google Scholar.
