Remote Baysdale was once home to a small Cistercian priory, of which nothing remains. Troubles arose in the house, culminating in an order for the deprivation of the prioress on account of her “dilapidation of the goods of the house”, and her “excesses and perpetual and notorious misdeeds”. On 13 October 1308, the archbishop wrote to the convent regarding the miserable state of another nun, concerning whom he had heard that, on three separate occasions, she had yielded carnis decepta blandiciis – or been deceived by the pleasures of the flesh.
Page/Victoria, 1907
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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