A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



Brotherton and Joan Blaunkfront " to Ham- 

 po!e.i« 



The dispersion cannot have lasted long, for on 

 24 January 1325^^ Joan de Barton appeared 

 before the archbishop, and for certain lawful 

 reasons resigned. The reason for resignation is 

 apparent from a penance enjoined upon her for 

 having been guilty super tapsu carnis with the 

 chaplain, Laurence de Systeford.^* The details 

 of the penance imposed upon her, as to fasting 

 and prayers, are in accordance with what was 

 usual in these cases. She was to be shut up in 

 a room by herself, and on no account to go out- 

 side the convent precincts for a year, and not to 

 wear the black veil. The penance is dated 

 3 September 1325. 



A visitation held in March 1327-8^' resulted 

 in a series of injunctions to the nuns. As the 

 house was heavily in debt, corrodies, pensions, 

 &c., were not to be granted without the arch- 

 bishop's special licence. Some of the necessary 

 buildings were ruinous and unroofed, especially 

 the bake-house, brew-house, &c. These were 

 to be repaired as soon as possible. 



The nuns for the future were to wear mantles, 

 tunics, and other garments, according to the 

 statutes of the rule. 



Sabina de Apelgarth, for ' certain reasons,' 

 until the archbishop ordered otherwise, was to be 

 removed from all office and administration in the 

 house, she was to keep convent in divine service, 

 at fit times and places, and not to go outside 

 the doors, nor was she to send or receive letters, 

 &c. Joan Blaunkfront's penance was relaxed. 



This decretum was followed on 26 March^ by 

 the confirmation of a new prioress (Joan de 

 Toucotes) in place of Sabina de Apelgarth, whose 

 misconduct had led to her removal from office by 

 the archbishop. ^^ 



On 16 January 1423^^ Alice Dautry, who 

 had been prioress for twenty-six years, resigned 

 owing to feebleness of body, and Joan Lassels 

 was unanimously elected her successor /fr moduin 

 inspiracionh Spiritus Samti by Emma de Holder- 



" Pope Clement VI, 18 July I 345, gave orders for 

 Joan Blankefrontes, Augustinian nun of Molseby, who 

 had left her order, to be reconciled to it. Cal. Papal 

 Letters, iii, 188. 



'° On a slip between fol. 241 and fol. 242 is the 

 original letter from the Prioress and convent of Mun- 

 keton (\un Monkton), of the order o/St. Benedict, to 

 Archbishop Melton acknowledging the archbishop's 

 letter as to the reception of two nuns of Molseby oj 

 the order of St. Augustine. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Melton, fol. 244. 



" Ibid. fol. 2443. 1' Ibid. fol. 2±%b. 



" Ibid. fol. 248/J. 



" Though in the decretum her ' removal ' from all 

 office is spoken of, it is said in the entry of the con- 

 firmation of her successor's election that she resigned. 

 Probably she was constrained to do so. York Archi- 

 epis. Reg. Melton, fol. 248^, 240. 



"Ibid. fol. 324^. 



nesse, sub-prioress, Alice Goldesburgh, Alice Dau- 

 try, Margaret Grene, Agnes Hancotes, Alice 

 Moreton, Agnes Butteler, and Margaret Skypton. 

 nuns of the house. 



The house was supervised by the commis- 

 sioners on 28 May 1536 and suppressed on 

 4 August following.^' There were then 

 eight sisters, and Elizabeth VVarde, one of 

 the nuns, held a corrody granted her by the 

 prioress and convent for life. The commissioners 

 gave her 66f. 8(/., for which sum she released all 

 claim she had in the corrody. She was impotent 

 et surda, and in consideration of her poverty and 

 feebleness the money was paid over to a certain 

 honest man, who then and there pledged his 

 faith to take care of Elizabeth Warde for life. 



Among other payments made was that of ^d. 

 to two men for the carriage of the evidences of 

 the late priory to the house of a certain ' Magister 

 Moyses.' 



Prioresses of Moxby 



Euphemia, occurs 1304-5,'* resigned 1310" 

 Alice de Barton, confirmed 1310,'^'' occurs 



1322^' 

 Joan de Barton, resigned 1324 ^ 

 Sabina de Apelgarth succeeded,''^ resigned 



1328 'o 

 Joan de Toucotes, confirmed 1328 ^^ 

 Elizabeth Nevill,'^ died 1397 ^' 

 Alice Dautry, confirmed 31 Jan. 1397-8,'* 



resigned 1423 '° 

 Joan Lassels, confirmed 1423-4'° 

 Alice Moreton, died 1465 '' 

 Margaret Skipton, elected 1465 '* 

 Agnes de Tute, confirmed 1475'' 

 Philippa Jennyson, confirmed 1530-1,^" last 



prioress 



" For these particulars see K.R. Aug. Views of 

 Accts. bdle. 17. In 1527 the clear annual value of 

 the house was returned at ^£33 15/. (Subs. R. 

 [P.R.O.], bdle. 64, no. 303). According to the Fakr 

 Eccl. V, 87, it was only ^26 2/. lod. 



On 24 July 1475 Robert Shirwyn, pewtcrer, of 

 York, bequeathed to Katherine his sister, a nun of 

 Moxby, 6s. 8a'. ; and to the house of the nuns ' in 

 yasis electris ' to the value of 10/. Reg. York. Wills,, 

 iv, fol. 91. 



^* Pat. 32 Edw. I, m. 27. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. Greenfield, ii, fol. loi^. 



'Mbid. 



" Ibid. Melton, fol. 240. 



" Ibid. fol. 244. 



" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 566 ; and see above. 



'" York Archiepis. Reg. Melton, fol. 248^. 



" Ibid. ^ 



" ' Was the next prioress,' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv,. 

 566. 



" York Archiepis. Reg. sed. vac. fol. 2 i c 

 " Ibid. ^ 



"Ibid. fol. 324^. "Ibid. 



" Ibid. fol. 456.- « Ibid. 



"Ibid. G Nevill, fol. 172. 

 " Ibid. sed. vac. fol. 607. 



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