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The precinct - Notes
1. The Suppression documents are printed as
appendix D in Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, pp. 226-337.
Also
see G. Coppack, ‘Description of Rievaulx Abbey in 1538-9’,
Journal of the British Archaeological Association 139 (1986), pp.
101-133. The four surviving documents are as follows:
(a) the grant of the site to Thomas Manners, the earl of Rutland,
December 1538 x March 1539
(b) an inventory for the earl following his receipt of the site
(c) a survey for the earl
(d) ministers’ accounts of the income from the land the earl
had received
The survey made for the Royal commissioners is not now known, see
Coppack, ‘Description of Rievaulx Abbey’, p. 101.
2. See G. Coppack, ‘Rievaulx and Fountains Abbeys: the interface between
estates
and monastery’, in L’Espace Cistercien, ed. L. Pressouyre (Paris,
1994), pp. 415-425; D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster,
1998).
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