25. S. Harrison, Byland Abbey (English Heritage
Guide), p. 13.
26. Harrison, Byland Abbey, p. 13.
27. Stephen of Sawley, ‘Mirror for Novices’, in Stephen of Sawley,
Treatises,
tr. J. F. O’Sullivan (Kalamazoo, 1984), ch. 10, pp. 102-3
28. Stephen of Sawley, ‘Mirror for Novices’, pp.102/103.
29. Canivez, Statutes I, 1181: 2.
30. Ecclesiastica Officia, 70 (pp. 202-8), ‘Out of the depths I have cried
to thee, O Lord.’
According to the twelfth-century customary of the Order, the first time that
an archbishop, bishop, papal legate or king visited an abbey – and whenever
the pope arrived – he was to be ceremoniously received by the entire community
at the gate and led to the choir of the church. Thereafter he was led to the
chapter-house for the blessing and reading; the visitor might address the community
after which he was refreshed in the guesthouse, Ecclesiastica Officia 86: 1-12
(p. 246).
