The Prioress by: Mrs. H. R. Haweis (Artist) from: Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key (P. 22) -  1887 Additional Information: In her notes, Haweis notes that the Prioress's clothing is "borrowed from an Abbess or Prioress in a MS. of the Hisotry of the Emperors (Lib. of the Arsenal), fifteenth century" (112).