The precinct - Notes

1. The Suppression documents are printed as appendix D in Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, pp. 226-337. Also see G. Coppack, ‘Description of Rievaulx Abbey in 1538-9’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association 139 (1986), pp. 101-133. The four surviving documents are as follows:
(a) the grant of the site to Thomas Manners, the earl of Rutland, December 1538 x March 1539
(b) an inventory for the earl following his receipt of the site
(c) a survey for the earl
(d) ministers’ accounts of the income from the land the earl had received
The survey made for the Royal commissioners is not now known, see Coppack, ‘Description of Rievaulx Abbey’, p. 101.
2. See G. Coppack, ‘Rievaulx and Fountains Abbeys: the interface between estates and monastery’, in L’Espace Cistercien, ed. L. Pressouyre (Paris, 1994), pp. 415-425; D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998).