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The infirmary - Notes

81. English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, p. 48; Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 78.
82. G. Coppack, ‘The planning of Cistercian monasteries in the later Middle Ages: the evidence from Fountains, Rievaulx, Sawley and Rushen’, in The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England, ed. J. G. Clark, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 18 (Woodbridge, 2002), pp. 197-209, at pp. 200-1; Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 78-79, 96-97.
83. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 78-79.
84. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 78-79.
85. Coppack, ‘The planning of Cistercian monasteries’, pp. 200-201; see p. 201 for a plan.
86. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 96-97.
87. For an account of this disputed election and the litigation that followed, see Chronica Monasterii de Melsa I, for an account of this, see pp. lxii-lxx; III, pp. 239-240, 258-271.
88. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 97; English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, pp. 50-51.
89. The ‘Bursar’s Book’ has been edited and printed by the Surtees Society, Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary of Fountains III, cont. and ed. J. T. Fowler, Surtees Society CXXX (1919), pp. 1-91, at. P. 32 (3s 4d was paid, 1456/7; Thomas is also mentioned in the fifteenth-century ‘Memorandum Book’, see pp. 210 and 251.
90. Memorials of Fountains III, p. 50. For the description of the pulvis vitalisand pulvis pestilenciae, see Memorials of Fountains III, p. 265.
91. Hammond and Talbot, A Biographical Register of the Medical Practitioners in Medieval England, pp 85-6.
92. Memorials of Fountains III, pp. xxvi, 179, 50.

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