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 | | Not content with the great influence which she obtained over Edward, Alice interfered in the proceedings of the courts of law to secure sentences in favor of her friends, or of those who had purchased her favor; actions which induced the parliament of 1376 to forbid all women from practising in the law courts. |
 | | Alice was banished, but John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, allowed her to return to court after the death of Edward the Black Prince in June 1376, and the parliament of 1377 reversed the sentence against her. |
 | | Her time, however, was mainly spent in lawsuits, one being with William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, and another with her dead husband's nephew and heir, John de Windsor. |
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