10. Gilyard-Beer, ‘The grave of Roger de Mowbray’,
p. 61.
11. D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998),
p.
101 refers to a monk of Fountains who did so.
12. G. Coppack, ‘Description of Rievaulx Abbey in 1538-9’, Journal
of
the British Archaeological Association 139 (1986), pp. 101-133, at p. 122.
13. S. Harrison, Byland Abbey (English Heritage Guide), p. 12.
14. Chapter 35 of the Rule of St Benedict states that the two cooks starting
their duties in the kitchen for the week should wash the feet of those seated
to the
abbot’s left (the seniormost of the two should wash while the junior monk
dries), whereas the two cooks who have just completed their work in the kitchen
for the week should wash and dry the feet of those seated to the right of the
abbot.
15. Ecclesiastica Officia, 21: 33-40 (p. 104).