MS. Dodsworth 76, fol. 17

Grant. Rowney, Benedictine priory. 11 September, 36 Hen. VI (1457). . Grant from Agnes Selby, the prioress, and convent of Rowheiney, alias Rowenea, alias Reveneia, otherwise called the nunnery of St. John the Baptist of Mundene, alias Rownay, after due consideration of the insufficiency of their diminished revenues for their support, and the ruinous state of their church and house, and the sincere devotion and pious intention of John Fray, the true patron of the same, to the said John the church, house, or priory, with all and singular the manors, lands, tenements, meadows, woods, rents, reversions and services for ever. Dated in their chapter-house at Rownay. [Printed in the Monasticon then being in the Hatton Library.]