1. Bond, Monastic Landscapes,p.
74.
2. A History of Nidderdale, ed. B. Jennings (Huddersfield, 1967),
pp. 63-4, 66, 77.
3. A History of Lead Mining in the Pennines, ed. A. Raistrick and
B. Jennings (London, 1965), pp. 35-36.
4. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. lxiv. See pp. 194-196,
nos, 203-204.
5. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 347.
6. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 110.
7. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 99; A History of Nidderdale,
ed. Jennings, p. 65.
8. A History of Lead Mining in the Pennines, ed. Raistrick and Jennings,
pp. 60-61; Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p.347.
9. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 99; Memorials of Fountains
III, p. 206; A History of Lead Mining in the Pennines, ed. Raistrick
and Jennings, pp. 77-78 .
10. Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus rerum [On the property
of things], cited in Medieval Lore: An epitome of the science,
geography, animal and plant folk-lore and myth in the Middle Ages,
being classified
gleanings from the encyclopaedia of Bartholomew Anglicus, On the
Property of Things, ed. R. Steele (London, 1893), p. 34.
11. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, pp. 76, 78.
12. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 111.
13. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 110-111; S. Moorhouse, 'Monastic
estates: their composition and development', in The Archaeology
of Rural Monasteries, ed. R. Gilchrist and H. Mytum, BAR British
Ser. 203 (1989), pp. 29-82, at p. 51. For a map of Bradley grange
showing the various industrial sites, see Moorhouse, 'Monastic estates',
p. 36.
14. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 99.
15. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 113.
16. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 330.
17. Clay, 'Bradley: a grange of Fountains', p. 100; Coppack, Fountains
Abbey, p. 113; Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 334.
18. February 1503, Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no 178
(pp. 163-4). This was a confirmation of an earlier grant.
19. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 114; Bond, Monastic
Landscapes,
p. 340.
20. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 340.
21. E. Dent, 'The impact of Fountains Abbey on Nidderdale', BA dissertation,
University College Ripon and York, 1995, available on the web at:
http://www.nidderdale.org/history/monastic/dissertation.
22. Williams, Cistercians p. 375;
23. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 75.
24. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 77.
25. See Williams, Cistercians, pp. 373-5.
26. English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, ed. G.
Coppack and R. Gilyard-Beer (London, 1993), p. 64.
27. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxvi.
28. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxvi; nos. 234-6,
240.
29. Account Book of Beaulieu Abbey, ed. S. F. Hockey, Camden Soc.
Fourth Ser. (1975). The best bread was conventual, then guest-house,
'clermatin' and family.
30. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 231 (pp. 239-241, at p. 240).
For references to horesbread, see Memorials of Fountains III, pp.
14, 112, 190.
31. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 126.
32. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxvi.
33. The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 234 (pp. 244-245).
34. English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, ed. G.
Coppack and R. Gilyard-Beer (London, 1993), p. 63.
35. G. Coppack, 'The water-driven corn mill at Fountains Abbey:
a major Cistercian mill of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries',
in Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture 5, ed. M. Parsons
Lillich, Cistercians Studies Series no. 167 (Kalamazoo, 1998), pp.
270-296.
36. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 121-123.
37. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, pp. 313, 317.
38. Coppack, 'The planning of Cistercian monasteries', p. 202.
39. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages,, p. 208.
Note that Bond questions whether or not there would have been sufficient
water power to drive a fulling mill, see Bond, Monastic Landscapes,
p. 322.
40. Coppack, 'The interface between estate and monastery', p. 420.
41. Coppack, 'The interface between estate and monastery', p. 420.
42. For example, see The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 183 (pp.
169-170, at p. 170).
43. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 232 (pp. 241-243) - the lease
was drafted in 1532.
44. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 119.
45. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 232 (pp. 241-243), at p.242.
A late fifteenth-century agreement (no. 226) reserved the right
of the community to dig marl in Ripley for use at Haddockstones
and Morker granges.
46. Michelmore, Lease Book of Fountains Abbey, nos. 276, 237; p.
293 n.
