96. Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary of Fountains I, ed. J. R. Walbran, Surtees
Society 42 (1862), p. 150; see D. Knowles, Religious Orders III (Cambridge, 1959),
p. 29.
97. Memorials of Fountains I, p. 150.
98. Documents relating to Downom’s expulsion from Fountains in 1449 are
printed
in Letters from the English Abbots to the Chapter at Cîteaux 1442-1521,
ed. C. H. Talbot, Camden Society Ser. 4 (London, 1967), no. 2 (pp. 22- 40). A
London physician, Henry Wells, was summoned to tend the ailing abbot, see Hammond
and Talbot, A Biographical Register of the Medical Practitioners in Medieval
England, pp 85-6; for Henry’s testimony, see Letters from the
English Abbots,
p. 30.
99. Cited in J. Fletcher, The Cistercians in Yorkshire (London, 1919), p. 92.
100. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary
of
Fountains III, ed. J. T. Fowler, Surtees Society (1918), p. 56.
101. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of Fountains III, pp. 15, 25
(ink);
p. 67 (liquorice for the abbot); p. 49 (part payment for a pair of clavichords);
p. 14 (cart), p. 25 (soap for the abbot), p. 51 (walnuts); p. 52 (map of the
world).
102. E.g. see ‘Memorandum Book of Swinton’, Memorials of FountainsIII,
pp. 108, 110.
103. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of Fountains III, p. 51.
104. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of Fountains III, p. 13.
105. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of Fountains III, p. 51 (boots);
p. 25 (felt hat for the abbot), p. 67 (hat for Swinton).
106. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of Fountains III, pp. 85 (copes),
16 (cowls), 25 (silk), 85 (black fur).
107. ‘Bursar’s Book’, Memorials of Fountains III, p. 15 (oat
straw); ‘Memorandum
of Swinton’, pp, 167, 202 (rye and rushes).
108. ‘Memorandum of Swinton’, Memorials of Fountains III, p. 112.
109. Memorials of Fountains III, p. xiii.
110. This has been edited and printed by D. J. H. Michelmore for the Yorkshire
Archaeological Society, The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, ed. D. J. H. Michelmore,
YAS Record
Series, 140 (1981).
111. Fountains Lease Book, p. xxix; no. 276 (pp. 292-293).
112. Fountains Lease Book, p. xxix; no. 276 (pp. 292-293, at p. 292). Ellen’s
husband, Robert, was the keeper of the west gates.
113. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 108.
114. See Knowles, Religious Orders III, pp. 35-6 for further details.
115. C. H. Talbot, ‘Marmaduke Huby, abbot of Fountains 1495-1525’,
in
Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis XX (1964), pp.165-184, at p. 168.
116. Letters of English Abbots ep. 33 (pp. 86-88).
117. Talbot, ‘Marmaduke Huby’, p. 170.
118. Letters from the English Abbots, pp. 13-14; see letter 89.
119. This letter is printed in Talbot, ‘Marmaduke Huby’, p. 178,
and
also
in Letters from the English Abbots, ep. 125 (pp. 239-241).
120. See Knowles, Religious Orders III, p. 35.
121. W. St John Hope, ‘Fountains Abbey’, Yorkshire Arch. Journal XV
(1898-99),
pp. 269-402, at p. 314.
122. For an account of this and Huby’s letter to the abbot of Cîteaux
describing the event, see Talbot, ‘Marmaduke Huby’, pp. 183-4; Letters
from the English Abbots, ep.131 (pp. 258-260).
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.
