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For a very full study of the whole subject of English convent life at this period see Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 . F. Hingeston Randolph , p. 169. The passage about Philippa is translated in G.G. Coulton, Chaucer and His England , p. 181. See the account of expenses involved in making Elizabeth Sewardby a nun of Nunmonkton in Testamenta Eboracensia, ed.
For social historians have as yet hardly, perhaps, made as much use as they might of the evidence of wills. The enormous amount of miscellaneous information to be derived therefrom about the life of our forefathers can hardly be believed, save by those who have turned the pages of such a collection as the great Testamenta Eboracensia.
Testamenta Eboracensia, a selection of wills from the Registry at York, ed. James Raine, 6 vols. The Surtees Society has also published several other collections of wills from Durham and elsewhere, relating to the northern counties. A large number of wills have been printed or abstracted. See, for instance, Wills and Inventories from the Registers of Bury St Edmunds, ed.
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