Alice Hampton

Sir William Hampton had been knighted for his role in defending London against the "Bastard of Fauconberg".

He had made his money selling fish and had risen to a position where he was offering loans to Edward IV of England.

It was agreed on 14 October 1484 that she would be given the privilege of her own confessor who could allow her fasts to be replaced by alternative commitments.

By 1492 she was living in London's suburbs at the Augustinian Holywell Priory in Shoreditch where she paid the prioress, Elizabeth Prudde, four pounds of pepper a year.

She arranged for her living area to have a view of the church altar and for a locked entrance to her garden.