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102. Memorials of Fountains III, pp. 75, 252.
103. The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 276 (pp. 291-293).
104. Memorials of Fountains I, pp 125-6, p. 114.
105. Twelfth-Century Statutes from the Cistercian General Chapter, Latin text with English notes and commentary, ed. C. Waddell (Brecht, 2002), 1199: 45 (p. 436).
106. Twelfth-Century Statutes from the Cistercian General Chapter, Latin text with English notes and commentary, ed. C. Waddell (Brecht, 2002), 1200: 23 (p. 462). See Waddell’s comments on the probable reason for this visit and sour relations between Geoffrey and Ralph; see too statutes 1192: 26 and 1198: 46.
107. The Cistercian house at Boyle, Roscommon, had a ‘great stone house’ for guests by 1202, almost twenty years before the church was complete, R. Stalley, The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland: An Account of the History and Architecture of the White Monks in Ireland from 1142-1540 (London, New Haven, 1987), p. 173.
108. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 59-60; English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, pp. 59-61.
109. English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, p. 60.
110. Gerald of Wales, Giraldi Cambrensis Opera III, ed. J. S. Brewer (Rolls Series), pp 201-2.
111. Gerald of Wales, The Journey Through Wales, tr. L. Thorpe (Harmondsworth, 1978), p. 107.
112. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 156.
113. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 270 (pp. 291-293), at p. 293. The lease was drawn up in 1512.
114. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, pp. 120-1
115. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 101.
116. Account Book of Beaulieu Abbey, ed. S. F. Hockey, Camden Soc. Fourth Ser. (1975), pp. 269-270.
117. The Account Book of Beaulieu Abbey, p. 271.
118. For example, see Memorials of Fountains III, pp. 50 (figs), 51 (walnuts), 56 (pears), 89 (fish), 25 (oysters), 49 (quails), 14, 19 (partridges), 61 (venison).
119. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of Fountains III, p. 51.
120. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of Fountains III, p. 13.
121. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 141.
122. For example, see Memorials of Fountains III, pp. 18, 19, 59, 60.

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