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41. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, appendix I, pp. 127-230, at pp.191, 192.
42. ‘The foundation history of Fountain’ (Narratio), taken from St Bernard’s letter to the Fountains community, see Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 198.
43. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 201.
44. Bernard’s letter to Henry, in ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, pp. 199-200, at p. 200.
45. For a summary of the building work that Henry undertook, see G. Coppack, Fountains Abbey (London, 1993), pp. 32-38.
46. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 206.
47. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 207.
48. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 207.
49. William of Newburgh, History of English Affairs Book I, ed. P. Walsh and M. Kennedy (Warminster, 1988), ch. 17, pp. 82-3.
50. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, appendix I, pp. 127-230, at p. 210.
51. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 212.
52. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, pp. 211-212.
53. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 58.
54. For a summary of the building work undertaken by Richard, see Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 43-60.
55. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 231.
56. See J. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors 1132-1300 (Kalamazoo, 1987), pp. 118-121, esp. p. 121.
57. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 62.
58. Clay, ‘Early abbots’, p. 19.
59. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, pp. 218-220.
60. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, pp. 218-220.
61. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 223.
62. ‘The foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 223
63. Twelfth-Century Statutes from the Cistercian General Chapter, Latin text with English notes and commentary, ed. C. Waddell (Brecht, 2002), 1192: 42 (p. 252).
64. Twelfth-Century Statutes from the Cistercian General Chapter, Latin text with English notes and commentary, ed. C. Waddell (Brecht, 2002), 1199: 45 (p. 436).
65. 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.
66. Cited in A. Rigg, A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422 (Cambridge, 1992), p. 136 – poem 28 (of 54) lines 5-6.
67. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, pp. 119-221.

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