The introductory essay provides a vivid account of some of the last abbesses and prioresses drawn mainly from episcopal and archiepiscopal visitation records.
In later years she was named the prioress of the convent.
She served as prioress from 1773 to 1779, and a second term from 1785.
The provost and the convent's prioress stewarded its possessions together.
Silence was maintained unless the prioress granted an exception for a specific cause.
The bishop visited the priory in 1294 and asked the prioress to resign.
The complement here was also small: generally five canonesses and the prioress.
The prioress was instructed to take her meals in the refectory and to sleep in the dormitory, like the others.
