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Jervaulx: footnotes 1. Roger’s account of the community’s well-being at this time provides an important list of their resources. In response to the Savigniac visitors’ claims that the community was not strong enough to survive independently, Roger claimed that they were overcoming hardships and on the way to self-sufficiency. They had: 5 carucates of land under cultivation, 40 cows with calves, 16 mares with fowls, 300 sheep, 5 sows with litter, 30 hides in the tannery, 2 years’ supply of wax and oil; they would soon, he maintained, have a proper, supple of cheese, bread, butter and ale. 2. For the foundation history, see Dugdale’s Monasticon, V, p. 512. 3. Cited in B. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries:
Cloister, Land, People (Otley, 1999), p. 104.
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