1. ‘Foundation
history of Fountains’ (Narratio),
in A. W. Oxford, The Ruins of Fountains Abbey (London, 1910), p.
165. In Saxon, ‘Skel’ meant ‘spring’.
2. The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, ed. D. J. H. Michelmore, Yorkshire Arch. Soc.
Record Ser. CXL (Leeds, 1981), p. xxxiv.
3. For the most rigorous analysis of Fountains’ landholding, its acquisition
of lands, its relations with benefactors, see J. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey
and
its Benefactors (Kalamazoo, 1987); Michelmore includes a useful and concise overview
in the preface to his edition of The Fountains Abbey Lease Book (Leeds, 1981),
pp. xxix-l; G. Coppack’s recent survey includes a useful discussion – G.
Coppack, Fountains Abbey (Stroud, 2003), pp. 103-118.
4. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in The
Ruins of
Fountains
Abbey, ed. A. W. Oxford, (London, 1910), p. p. 165. In Saxon, ‘Skel’ meant ‘spring’.
5. The foundation charter is printed in Memorials of Fountains I, ed. J. Walbran,
Surtees Society 42 (1863), pp. 156-157.
6. J. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors (Kalamazoo, 1987), pp. 29-30.
7. Extensive excavations were conducted at Cowton in 1962, see C. Platt, The
Monastic Grange in Medieval England: A Reassessment (London, 1969), appendix
1, pp. 138-182.
For a useful discussion of Fountains’ activities in the Nidderdale area,
with case studies of Bewerley and Cayton granges, see E. Dent, ‘The impact
of Fountains Abbey on Nidderdale’, BA dissertation, University College
Ripon and York, 1995, available on the web at: www.nidderdale.org/index.htm.
For an analysis of Bradley grange, near Huddersfield, see C. T. Clay, ‘Bradley,
a grange of Fountains’, Yorkshire Arch. Journal 29 (1929), pp.97-106.
8. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, pp. 54-56.
9. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxxv.
10. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 11.
11. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 100
12. Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium - Courtier's Trifles, ed. and tr. M. R. James,
rev. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford, 1982), p. 75.
13. For the Mowbrays as patrons of Fountains, see Wardrop, Fountains Abbey, pp.
137-147; for William de Stuteville, see pp. 149, 275; for Robert of Ingerthorpe,
see p.
120.
14. The knightly families accounted for about 60% of all patronage received by
Fountains; for discussion of this group, see Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and
its
Benefactors,
pp. 171-212.
15. Platt, Monastic Grange, p. 213.
16. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 275.
17. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (‘Narratio’), Ruins
of Fountains, ed. A. Oxford, p. 225; Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its
Benefactors,
p. 207.
18. Cited in A. Rigg, A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422 (Cambridge,
1992),
p. 136, poem number 28, lines 5-6.
19. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 121.
20. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 120; p. 119, n. 247.
21. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, pp. 119-221.
22. ‘The foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in A. Oxford,
Ruins
of Fountains, p. 224.
