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A History of the County of Chester
… of an estimated annual expenditure of 78 4 s. 1 d. Alms accounted for 24 a year and stipends were paid to two …
A History of the County of Northampton
… In 1318 Bishop Dalderby licensed the nuns to beg for alms on account of their poverty. 2 In 1385, during the rule … nuns, to incur the opprobrium of mendicity and to beg alms after the fashion of friars of the mendicant orders, and …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… only rated at 3 s. in 1291. In 1296 the nuns had to beg alms to support themselves, 3 and in 1297 certain men were …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… by a great fire, and the brethren were obliged to beg alms before they could rebuild them, 9 and had to sell the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… assigned a great number of estates and tithes to provide alms for the poor, to augment the pittances of the convent, …
A History of the County of Nottingham
… Among the deductions was 3 6 s. 8 d. distributed in alms yearly in memory of the founder. 24 A composition was …
A History of the County of Dorset
… ground that they were unable to support more or to give alms to the poor. 79 Evidently the decree was not observed, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… abbots, priors, and archdeacons of his diocese, to collect alms for the nuns of St. Margaret of Bromhall, in Sarum …
A History of the County of Chester
… their precinct. 16 The nuns were partially supported by alms of 40 s. a year from the earls of Chester in the 12th and early 13th centuries and those alms, together with a quarter of the tithes of the expenses … 22 By 1277 the nuns had converted their various royal alms into a fixed annual payment of 24 marks and by 1300 the …
A History of the County of Nottingham
… s. to the York chapter. There was also a distribution of alms to the poor four times a year, amounting to 2 6 s. 8 d., …