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ferance and knowledge? and for 

 what cause ? 



20. Item ; Whether y« do keep 

 chastity,not using the companyofany 

 single woman within this monastery, 

 or without ? and whether the mas- 

 ter, or any other brother of this 

 house be suspected upon inconti- 

 nency, or defamed for that he i* 

 much conversant with women ? 



1\. Item; \V helher women useth 

 and resorteth much to this monas- 

 tery by back-ways, or otherwise? 

 and whether they be accustomably, 

 or at any time, lodged within the 

 precinct thereof? 



22. J tern; V«'hether the master, or 

 any brother of this house, useth to 

 have any boys or young men laying 

 with him ? 



23. Itevi ; Whether the brethren 

 of this house keep their obedience, 

 being ready at their master's com- 

 mandment, in all things honest, law- 

 ful, and reasonable ? 



24. IlC7n ; Whether j'c do keep 

 silence in the church, cloister, re- 

 fectory, and dormitorie, at the hours 

 and time specitied in your rule ? 



26. Item; Whether ye do keep 

 fasting and abstinence, according to 

 your rules, statutes, ordinances, and 

 laudable customs of this house ? 



2(). It Oil ; Whether ye abstain 

 from licsh in time of advent, and 

 other times declared and specified by 

 the law, rules, and '.audable customs 

 of" this house ? 



27. Item; Whether ye wcarshirts 

 and sheets of woollen ; or that ye 

 have any constitution, ordinance, or 

 dispensation, granted or made to the 

 contrary, by suificient and lawful 

 authority ? 



Pntjifeiifcs rcgulvm Bencdicii tptam 

 , ardisaime tenentnr ad prwdicta coe- 



reinoniuiia observanrhi. 



§8. him^; WhcUier ye do steep 



together in the dormitorie under one 

 roof or not ? 



29. Item; Whether ye have all 

 separate beds, or any one of you 

 doth lay with another? 



30. item ; Whether ye do keep 

 the refectory at meals, so that two 

 parts, at the least, of the whole con- 

 vent be always there, unless the mas- 

 ter at every one time dispense with 

 you to the contrary ?^ 



31. Item; AVhether ye do wear 

 your religions habit continually, and 

 never leave it off but when ye go 

 to bed ? 



32. Item; Whether any brethren 

 of this honse have lightly departed 

 hence, and have gone to any other 

 house of like order and profession, 

 without special letters and licence of 

 their master ? 



33. Item; Whether the master 

 and brethren of this house have re- 

 ceived and admitted any brother of 

 another house without special li- 

 cence and letters of his master and 

 head ? 



34. Item ; Whether any of you, 

 since the time of your profession, 

 hath gone out of this house io his 

 friends, or otherwise ? 



35. Iteyn ; How often he did so, 

 and how long at every time yc tar- 

 ried forth ? 



36. Item ; Whether ye had spe- 

 cial licence of your master so to go 

 forth, or not ? 



37. Item ; Whether at any time 

 of your being forth, ye changed or 

 left off your habit, or any part 

 thereof ? 



SS. Item; Whether yc, or any of 

 you be, or hath been, in manifest 

 apostasy ; that is to say, fugitives 

 or vagabonds ? 



39. Item; For what cause or oc- 

 casion ye have so gone forth, and 

 been in apostasy ? and whether the 



cause 



