 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1857 - 454 pages
...non-payment. (Rot. Pat. 12 Henry IV. m. 44, dated Westm., Oct. 20, 1410.) The earliest reference to Eseborue in the Episcopal Registry (R. p. 39) makes mention...attendants much too large, and tarries long abroad, * Episcopal Beg. E. p. 79. The original volved, for a transcript of which I am SISS. of this and the... | |
 | Lina Eckenstein - Convents - 1896 - 526 pages
...prioress, who frequently rides abroad, and pretends she does so on the common business of the house, though it is not so, with a train of attendants much too...tarries long abroad, and she feasts sumptuously both at home and abroad — And while she does so the members of the convent are made to work like hired... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1901 - 402 pages
...she frequently rides abroad, and pretends that she does so on the common business of the house, but it is not so. with a train of attendants much too...and tarries long abroad, and she feasts sumptuously, and is very choice in her dress, so much so that the fur trimmings of her mantle are worth ico shillings."... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1901 - 452 pages
...she frequently rides abroad, and pretends that she does so on the common business of the house, but it is not so, with a train of attendants much too...and tarries long abroad, and she feasts sumptuously, and is very choice in her dress, so much so that the fur trimmings of her mantle are worth ico shillings."... | |
 | Eileen Power - Convents - 1922 - 770 pages
...that the house was in debt to the amount of £40 and this principally owing to her costly expenses : because she frequently rides abroad and pretends that...feasts sumptuously both when abroad and at home, and she is very choice in her dress, so that the fur trimmings of her mantle are worth a hundred shillings,... | |
 | Eileen Power, The Perfect The Perfect Library - 768 pages
...that the house was in debt to the amount of £40 and this principally owing to her costly expenses : because she frequently rides abroad and pretends that...feasts sumptuously both when abroad and at home, and she is very choice in her dress, so that the fur trimmings of her mantle are worth a hundred shillings,... | |
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At one nunnery we find the nuns complaining that their house is £20 in debt " and this principally owing to the costly expenses of the prioress, because she frequently rides abroad and pretends that she does so on the common business of the house although... 