Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 263
e as abbess in 1333 ninety nuns were present and re-corded their votes. Sixteen years later she died, in 1349,and a successor was elected in the person of Joan Gervays,who received the royal assent on May 7. We have nodetailed account of the death-roll in the convent, but wemay judge how terrible… … ROMSEY had not been that the nuns of the Winchester diocese foundin Bishop Edyndon, during the terrible scourge of thefourteenth century and after, a special patron, it is morethan probable that Romsey as well as many other conventswould have been unable to recover the disaster. In adocument…
Abbeys -- England · England -- Description and travel
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