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24. Letters from the English Abbots, ep. 89 (pp. 181-183).
25. Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, p. 30.
26. Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, p. 216; the abbot of Rievaulx’s letter is printed in Talbot, ‘Marmaduke Huby’, p. 178, and also in Letters from the English Abbots, ep. 125 (pp. 239-241).
27. Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, p. 29.
28. Dobson, ‘The religious orders’, pp. 553, 578.
29. Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, pp. 35; 38.
30. Cited in J. McNulty, ‘William of Rymington, prior of Salley Abbey’, Yorkshire Arch. Journal XXX (1931), pp. 231-247, at p. 246.
31. Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, pp. 209-210.
32. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford’, p. 70; Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, pp. 207-209.
33. J. Catto, ‘Wyclif and Wycliffism at Oxford, 1356-1430’, in The History of the University of Oxford II: Late Medieval Oxford, ed. J. I. Catto and R. Evans (Oxford, 1992), pp. 175-261, at pp. 216-217; 230-232; Dobson, ‘The religious orders’, p. 578.
34. Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, p. 207; Catto ‘Wyclif and Wycliffism’, pp. 216, 231.
35. Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, pp. 213-214; For Richard’s letters to the abbot of Woburn, see Letters from the English Abbots, nos. 6 (pp. 44-46), 16 (pp. 65-66).
36. See the Statutes of St Bernard’s, issued in 1466, clause XVI, in Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, p79; Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John’s College, pp. 30-32.
37. Thomas’s book is BL, Royal MS 8A XVIII; for a description of this, see Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, pp. 204-5. Richard Dove’s fascinating notebook is BL, Sloane 513; see Talbot, ‘The English Cistercians’, pp. 203-4; Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford.’
38. For an extensive survey of this manuscript, see D. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford: Richard Dove of Buckfast and London BL Sloane 513’, Studia Monastica31 (1989), pp. 69-87.
39. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford’, p. 72.
40. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford’, p. 75.
41. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford’, p. 77.
42. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford’, pp. 77-78.
43. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford’, p. 76; see too Bell’s article on the measurement of land, and the importance of such topics to prepare one for an administrative office, D. Bell, ‘The measurement of Cistercian space: the evidence from England’, in L’Espace Cistercien, ed. L. Presouyré (Paris, 1994), pp. 253-263.
44. Bell, ‘The measurement of Cistercian space’, p. 256.
45. Bell, ‘A Cistercian at Oxford’, p. 70; BL Royal Ms. 6E VI and VII.
46. Talbot, ‘The Cistercians’, pp. 208-9.
46a. Sandler's recent work dates this to the third quarter of the fourteenth century; Sandler, Omne Bonum I, p.13.
47. Talbot, ‘The Cistercians’, p. 209.