. The greater abbeys of England. and in process oftime abbess. She subsequently caused great scandalthroughout England by leaving her convent and secretlymarrying Matthew, Earl of Boulogne and she was under the vow of chastity by the laws of thechurch her marriage was null and void, and she was com-pelled to return to her convent. The two daughters ofthe union were subsequently legitimated by Parliamentin 1189. The Great Pestilence of 1349 wrought great havoc inthe community of Romsey. At the election of JeanJacke as abbess in 1333 ninety nuns were present and re-corded their vote
. The greater abbeys of England. and in process oftime abbess. She subsequently caused great scandalthroughout England by leaving her convent and secretlymarrying Matthew, Earl of Boulogne and she was under the vow of chastity by the laws of thechurch her marriage was null and void, and she was com-pelled to return to her convent. The two daughters ofthe union were subsequently legitimated by Parliamentin 1189. The Great Pestilence of 1349 wrought great havoc inthe community of Romsey. At the election of JeanJacke 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 must have been the losses by thefact that the number of the nuns is found to have beenreduced to eighteen in 1478 and they never rose abovetwenty-five until their final suppression. In fact, if it [238].
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