Anglo-Norman language
Bishop Bateman (who founded Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1350, and completed the foundation of Gonville Hall) was at that time concerned with the chantry which Maud of Lancaster (Henry's sister) was establishing at the Augustinian nunnery of Campsey Priory, and, in preparation for the removal of their college of five (male) chaplains to Bruisyard, in 1353–54 he drew up provisional statutes for their observance. In the same period, as patron of Flixton Priory, he drew up new statutes for "la meson de Dames de Flixtune" (in the Anglo-Norman language), by which they were thereafter to be governed. Bateman died early in 1355, and by 1357 Joan de Hemynhall had succeeded Isabel Weltham as prioress. He had effectively reformed the priory, which in 1359 was able to acquire in mortmain houses and lands in South Elmham and Flixton to the value of 46s.4d. yearly under an existing licence.