25. Dugdale, Monasticon V, p. 350.
26. Whilst the remains of Rievaulx and Fountains are now larger, this is because
of the later expansion of their choirs, E. Sharpe, ‘Byland Abbey exploration’,
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 4 (1876), pp. 1-8, at p. 7.
27. Yorkshire Deeds VI, ed. C. Clay (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Series LXXVI,
1930),
no. 155 (pp. 46-47), dated c. 1175 x 1186.
28. Dugdale, Monasticon V, p. 352.
29. J. Burton, Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain 1000-1300 (Cambridge,
1994),
p. 224; see Dugdale, Monasticon V, pp. 351-352.
30. For a detailed analysis of this, see Burton, ‘The abbeys of Byland
and
Jervaulx’, esp. pp. 123-126.
31. Burton, ‘The abbeys of Byland and Jervaulx’, pp. 124-125.
32. For this list, see Dugdale, Monasticon V, p. 353.
33. Burton, ‘The abbeys of Byland and Jervaulx’, p. 125. See Dugdale,
Monasticon V, pp. 352-353, for a copy of this letter.
34. Walter Daniel, The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, ed. and tr. F. Powicke (London
and Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 59, 60-61, 63-4.
35. For a detailed analysis of the foundation of Jervaulx, Janet Burton, ‘The
origins and development of the religious orders in Yorkshire’, pp. 191-203.
36. Yorkshire Deeds VII, ed. C. Clay (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Series LXXXIII,
1932), no. 374 (p. 128); this was pre 1167, for Aelred
of Rievaulx also appears
as a
witness.
37. J. Burton, ‘Settlement of disputes’, pp. 69-70.
38. Cited in N. Partner, Serious Entertainments: the Writing of History in
Twelfth-Century
England (Chicago, 1977), p. 57.
39. A. Lawrence, ‘Cistercian decoration: twelfth-century legislation on
illumination
and its interpretation in England’, Reading Medieval Studies 21 (1995),
pp. 31-52, see esp. pp. 32-33.
40. Lawrence, ‘Cistercian decoration’, pp. 34-36.
