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Rievaulx Abbey: History - Foundation

1. ‘The foundation of the monastery of Fountains’, translated by A. W. Oxford, The Ruins of Fountains Abbey (London, 1910), appendix I, pp. 127-1, at p. 130.
2. For an extensive discussion of Kirkham, see J. Burton, ‘Kirkham Priory from Foundation to Dissolution’, University of York Borthwick Papers no. 86 (1995).
3. See J. Burton, ‘The estates and economy of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire’, Citeaux 49 (1998), pp. 29-94, at p. 30, for the dating of this charter.
4. This was the description of William of Newburgh, a canon of the nearby Augustinian priory.