The Cistercian studium at Oxford

1. D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998), p. 100.
2. See Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, pp. 97-98; for further discussion of the Parisian college, see The Early History of St John’s College Oxford, ed. W. H. Stevenson and H. E. Salter, Oxford Historical Society NS I (1939), pp. 3-4.
3. The seal of the college shows an abbot and fourteen monks, see Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 99. For further reading, see The Early History of St John’s College Oxford, ed. W. H. Stevenson and H. E. Salter, Oxford Historical Society NS I (1939); C. H. Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians and the universities’, Studia Monastica IV (1962), pp. 197-220; R. B. Dobson, ‘The religious orders 1370-1540’, chapter 13 in The History of the University of Oxford II: Late Medieval Oxford, ed. J. I. Catto and R. Evans (Oxford, 1992), pp. 539-579; Talbot’s introduction to Letters from the English Abbots to the Chapter at Cîteaux 1442-1521, ed. C. H. Talbot for the RHS, Camden Soc. Ser 4 (London, 1967), pp. 12-14; H. G. Richardson, ‘Cistercian formularies’, in Formularies Which Bear on the History of Oxford c. 1204-1420 II (Oxford Historical Soc. NS. V), ed. H. E. Salter, W. A. Pantin and H. G. Richardson (1942), pp. 279-328; statutes issued by the General Chapter relating to the foundation appear as appendix A (pp. 299-300).
4. R. B. Dobson, ‘The religious orders 1370-1540’, chapter 13 in The History of the University of Oxford II: Late Medieval Oxford, ed. J. I. Catto and R. Evans (Oxford, 1992), pp. 539-579, at p. 544.
5. The Early History of St John’s College Oxford, ed. Stevenson and Salter, pp. 5-6; Richardson, ‘Cistercian formularies’, pp. 289, 295.
6. This letter names the abbots of the Southern Province and is printed in Richardson, ‘Cistercian formularies’, pp. 300-301; it is likely that a similar letter was sent to the Northern province (York), see The Early History of St John’s College Oxford, ed. Stevenson and Salter, p. 7.
7. Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, pp. 202-203
8. Dobson, ‘The religious orders’, p. 545.
9. Darnton’s letter to the abbot of Cîteaux appears as no. 54 in Letters from the English Abbots (pp. 115-116.)
10. Dobson, ‘The religious orders’, p. 552; Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, p. 12; D. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford: Richard Dove of Buckfast and London BL Sloane 513’, Studia Monastica31 (1989), pp. 69-87.
11. Stevenson and Salter, The Early Days of St John’s College, p. 12.
12. See Henry VI’s licence to the archbishop of Canterbury, permitting the foundation of St Bernard’s in 1437, printed as appendix III in Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College (pp. 67-9).
13. This document is printed as appendix II in Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College (pp. 63-66).
14. The petition to found St Bernard’s and the foundation deed are printed as appendices III and IV in Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, pp. 67-72.
15. Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, p. 13.
16. Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, p. 16.
17. Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, p. 213. These statutes appear as appendix VI in Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, pp. 73-81. The statutes followed by the Paris studium no longer survive.
18. Statutes XII, IV and VIII in Stevenson and Salter, The Early Days of St John’s College, pp. 77-78.
19. Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, pp. 24-25.
20. For letters to the abbot of Cîteaux complaining of this, see Letters from the English Abbots, ep. 1, 5, 11.
21. Letters from the English Abbots, ep. 33 (pp. 87-88).
22. Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, p. 214.
23. Letters from the English Abbots ep. 54 (pp. 114-6).