123. The earl’s letter is printed in Memorials of Fountains I, no. LXVII
(p.
252). For Layton and Legh’s letter to Cromwell accusing him of various
acts of misconduct, see no. LXXIV (pp. 265-267).
124. For his ability as an abbot, see Monks, Friars and Nuns in Sixteenth-Century
Yorkshire, ed. C. Cross and N. Vickers Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 150 (Huddersfield,
1995), p. 117; Michelmore, The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, pp. xxx-xxxi.
125. Michelmore, The Lease Book of Fountains, p. xxxi.
126. Layton and Legh’s letter to Cromwell is printed in Memorials of
FountainsI, no. LXXIV (pp. 265-267).
127. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 117. The document regarding
the
pension assigned to Thirsk is printed in Memorials of Fountains I, no. LXXIII
(p. 265).
128. The documentation regarding Thirsk’s treasonous behaviour is printed
in
Memorials of Fountains I, nos. LXXV (the minutes of the evidence against Thirsk
and others; pp. 168-174) and LXXVI (the examination of Thirsk; pp. 274-5).
129. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 126. Robert, who had spent
some time as a Cistercian in Wales, had apparently declared that the commons
in Wales
had been ready to rise.
130. Monks, Friars and Nuns, ed. C. Cross and N. Vickers, Yorkshire Arch. Soc.
Rec.
Ser. 150 (Huddersfield, 1995), pp. 118-126.
131. For these figures, see R. N. Hadcock and D. Knowles, Medieval Religious
Houses:
England and Wales (Cambridge, 1971), pp. 108, 80, 66, 82.
132. G. Coppack, Fountains Abbey (London, 1993), p. 131. The inventory is printed
in Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary of Fountains I, ed. J. R. Walbran, Surtees
Society 42 (1862), no. LXXXII (pp. 288-296).
133. For Henry VIII’s plans to make Fountains the site of a new bishopric,
see
Memorials of Fountains I, no. LXXXVI (pp. 304-306.)
134. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 130.
135. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 131.
136. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 129.
137. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 116.
138. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, pp. 120, 122-128.
139. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, p. 124.
140. Cross and Vickers, Monks, Friars and Nuns, pp. 116, 124.
