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The refectory

63. Walter Daniel, Life of Aelred, p. 11.
64. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 65-66.
65. Stephen of Sawley, Treatises, ch. 12, ‘Meals’ pp. 103-4, at p. 104.
66. C. J. Bond, ‘Water management in the rural monastery’, in The Archaeology of Rural Monasteries, ed R. Gilchrist and H. Mytum, (British Arch. Reports, Oxford, British Series 227; 1989), pp. 83-111, at p. 89.
67. English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, ed. G. Coppack and R. Gilyard-Beer (London, 1993), p. 43.
68. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxvi. For references to these grey loaves, see no. 231.
69. Memorials of Fountains III, p. xxviii. For examples, see pp. 46, 108, 111, 145, 147, 153, 156.
70. Memorials of Fountains III, p. 156.
71. Arnulph of Bohéries, Speculum Monachorum (A Mirror for Monks) Patrologia Latina 184, col. 1175.
72. Hailes visitation 1399, see C. Harper-Bill, ‘Cistercian visitation in the late Middle Ages: the case of Hailes Abbey’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 53 (1980), pp. 103-114, at p. 109.

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