 It is unclear whether an excess of financial zeal led to a brush with the law in 1324.At Easter of that year Prioress Alice Swynnerton was accused, with two others, of taking by force two oxen, valued at 40 shillings, the property of Clement of Wolverhampton, at Horsebrook.She was distrained and her co-accused arrested by the sheriff to secure their appearance at the next court sessions.