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103. vni] PRIVATE LIFE AND PRIVATE PROPERTY 337 of Prioress in 1303) and Isabella Couvel, asserted that certain animals and goods belonging to the priory were their private property and Archbishop Greenfield bids the Prioress admonish them to resign these within three days "to lawful and honest uses, " according to her judgment 1 . Similarly Bishop Bokyngham writes to Heynings in 1392 : We order that cows, sows, capons, hens and all animals of any kind soever, together with wild or tame birds, ...which are held by certain of the nuns (whether with or without licence)... Shall be delivered up to the common use of the convent within three days, without the alienation or subtraction of any of them 2 . In the light of these passages it is interesting to find that cows and pigs are among the legacies sometimes left to nuns 3 . At Nuncoton, in 1440, where certain nuns were in the habit of wandering in their gardens and gathering herbs, instead of at- tending Compline, Dame Alice Aunselle prays that they may all live in common and that no nun may have anything, such as cups and the like, as her own ; but that if any such there be, they be kept in common by their common servant and that they may not have houses or separate gardens appointed, as it were, to them 4, which illustrates how easily the household system slid into proprietas.
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