12. The History of William of Newburgh,
tr. J. Stevenson (Llanerch facsimile, Felinfach, 1996), bk. I,
ch.
XV
(p. 420).
13. Dugdale, Monasticon V, p. 349.
14. Burton, ‘The abbeys of Byland and Jervaulx’, p. 122; Dugdale,
MonasticonV, p. 349.
15. This is perhaps a rather fanciful version of events and has parallels with
the foundation history of Ford Abbey;
Burton, Monastic Order in Yorkshire,
p.
111.
Another version of the history states that the group reached York where Archbishop
Thurstan directed them to Roger de Mowbray. Burton explains that where the author
is presented with conflicting evidence and is unsure which is the more reliable
of the two, he generally records both versions, Burton, ‘Settlement of
disputes’, p. 68, fn. 3.
16. Fundatio Domus Bellelandae, in Dugdale, Monasticon, V, p. 350. For a translation,
see F. Stenton, The First Century of English Feudalism 1066-1166 (2nd edn. Oxford,
1961), p. 72-3. According to Burton, the community probably also received pasture
at Rose Hill and Hovingham at this time, J. Burton, ‘The origins and development
of the religious orders in Yorkshire c. 1069-c. 1200, York D. Phil (1977), p.
179.
17. Dugdale, Monasticon, V, p. 350.
18. J. Burton, Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain 1000-1300 (Cambridge,
1994), p. 68; Burton, ‘The abbeys of Byland and Jervaulx’, p. 123.
19. Dugdale, Monasticon V, p. 350.
20. D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998),
p.
173.
21. Dugdale, Monasticon, V, p. 350.
22. Dugdale, Monasticon V, p. 353; translation from P. Fergusson, Architecture
of Solitude: Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England (Princeton, 1984),
p.
72.
23. Dugdale, Monasticon V, p. 353.
24. Fergusson, Architecture of Solitude, p. 81.
