These injunctions against the use of the dorter by seculars illustrate another aspect of the movement for enclosure. |
She and Joan Tates, a novice, had not slept in the dorter with the other nuns, but in a private chamber. |
They prayed together in the choir, worked together in the cloister, ate together in the frater, and slept together in the dorter. |
The Bishop cut the Gordian knot for her by ordering all seculars to be turned out of the dorter. |
At Gracedieu the cellaress had a boy of seven with her in the dorter. |
Nor, dorter, he too mean ter die, but dats whut he got offn de Crismus tree. |