Editing Alice Perrers (section)

=== Exile ===
In 1376, an ordinance aimed specifically at Perrers set penalties for women who practised "maintenance", interfering in the due process of the law.<ref name="The trials of Alice Perrers">{{cite journal |last1=Ormrod |first1=W.M. |date=2008 |title=The trials of Alice Perrers |journal=Speculum |volume=83 |issue=2 |page=370 |doi=10.1017/S0038713400013361 |jstor=20466215 |s2cid=154399794}}</ref> A contemporary description of the ordinance is as follows:

<blockquote>Because a complaint was made to the king that some women have pursued various business and disputes in the king's courts by way of maintenance, bribing and influencing the parties, which thing displeases the king; the king forbids any woman to do it, and especially Alice Perrers, on penalty of whatever the said Perrers can forfeit and of being banished from the realm.<ref name="The trials of Alice Perrers" /></blockquote>

Perrers was tried for [[corruption]] and subsequently [[exile]]d from England by the [[Good Parliament]], her lands [[Forfeiture (law)|forfeit]]. In May 1379, the [[Lord High Treasurer|royal treasurer]] [[Thomas de Brantingham|Thomas Brantingham]] delivered 21,868 pearls confiscated from Alice Perrers to the royal wardrobe.<ref>Laura Tompkins, 'Edward III's Gold-Digging Mistress', Cathleen Sarti, ''Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal Courts'' (Leeds: ARC, 2020), pp. 61, 67.</ref> She was later able to return and regain some of her lands, but she would spend the rest of her life trying to get everything back.<ref name=":2" />
[[File:Upminster 021.jpg|thumb|Church of St Laurence in Upminster, where Alice Perrers was buried]]