mary-in-the-fields

Updated: May 27, 2025

There were seven nunneries in Norfolk and Suffolk. Five of them lost their prioresses. How many poor nuns were taken who can guess? In the College of St. Mary-in-the-fields, at Norwich, five of the seven prebendaries died. In September the abbot of St. Benet's Hulm was carried off. Again we ask and receive no answer what must have been the mortality among the monks and the servants of the convent?

Augustus Jessopp - The Coming of the Friars