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View Movies Kirkstall refectory: footnotes

1. At Meaux, Yorkshire, backs were added to the seats in the refectory in the late fourteenth century (1372-96).

2. Capitula LXXXVIII , in Narrative and Legislative Texts from Early Citeaux, ed. C. Waddell (Citeaux, 1999), p. 494.

3. Hailes visitation 1399, see C. Harper-Bill, ‘Cistercian visitation in the late Middle Ages: the case of Hailes Abbey’ , Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 53 (1980), pp. 103-114 at p. 109.

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