Pygot would put the priory on a firm financial footing increasing annual revenues from £117 to £169.
She had widows and children choosing to live with the nuns and one of the guests included her relative Agnes.
Pygot built a new dormitory and repaired the convent's mill, and she was entrusted to be an executor of people's wills.
Julian of Norwich died in or around 1416[5] but the anchoress's cell in the corner of the churchyard did not remain empty.
[1] Pygot's death date is unclear but she was alive in 1474 and she was buried at the abbey.