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Notes (continued)

42. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, pp. 86-94.
43. Platt, Monastic Grange, pp. 96-7.
44. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 103.
45. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, nos. 276 (pp. 292-3), and 235, pp. 245-247.
46. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 117-118. For an account of the excavations at Cowton, see Platt, Monastic Grange, appendix I.
47. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, pp. 105-106.
48. Platt, Monastic Grange, pp. 235-6.
49. Michelmore, The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxxvii.
50. Michelmore, The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxxvi.
51. Michelmore, The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, pp. xxxvi-xxxvii.
52. Michelmore, The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xlix.
53. For example, see The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 183 (pp. 169-170, at p. 170).
54. The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 202 (pp. 190-193, at p. 191).
55. For example, see the lease drawn up between Fountains and John Steill and his wife, regarding the keepership of Haddockstones Grange (1530), Fountains Abbey Lease Book nos. 227 and 228, pp. 226-232.
56. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xlix.
57. See Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 227 (1513), pp. 226-228, at p. 226.
58. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, pp. 106-7.
59. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 188 (pp. 174-175). The lease is between William Steill of Galphay (Galgha) and the abbot and community of Fountains.
60. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xlvi. See, for example, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 9 (pp. 11-12, at p. 12), for Marmaduke Yowdaill’s lease; the repairs here were to overseen by the cellarer or bursar of Fountains.
61. See Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 174 (p. 161).
62. This forty-year lease is printed in Fountains Abbey Lease Book no. 229 (pp. 232-234), and is dated August 1508.

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