Rievaulx Abbey: History - Rise and Fall - Notes

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21. For a detailed discussion of changes in land-holding at this time, see Emelia Jamrosziak ‘Rievaulx Abbey and its social environment 1132-1300’s, PhD thesis, Leeds (2002).
22. For an account of this agreement, see Feet of Fines Henry III 1216-72 (pt. II), pp. 1-2, 27.
23. Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward I 1276, July 13 (p. 152); 1288: April 28 (p. 294).
24. Canivez, Statutes of the General Chapter III, 1291: 61.
25. The Chronicle of Lanercost, tr. H. Maxwell (1913; Llanerch facsimile reprint 2001), p. 217. Despite its name, the chronicle was probably written by a friar, perhaps from Carlisle.
26. Chronicle of Lanercost, p. 228.
27. Chronica Monasterii de Melsa III, ed. E. A. Bond, Rolls Series (London, 1868), p. 37.
28. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 156.
29. For a detailed discussion of the Scots’ attempts to secure independence, and the impact this had on the North of England, see C. McNamee, The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland 1306-1328 (East Linton, 1997).
30. Cited in Cassidy-Welch, Monastic Spaces, p. 185.
31. Statutes, 1196: 32; for Richard’s statement to the General Chapter in 1195, see 1195: These excerpts are taken from Waddell’s new edition of the twelfth / early thirteenth-century statutes, Twelfth-Century Statutes from the Cistercian General Chapter, Latin text with English notes and commentary, ed. C. Waddell, Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses Studia et Documenta XII (Brecht, 2002), pp. 363 and 339.
32. The Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary of Sallay in Craven II, YAS Rec Ser. xc (1934), no. 411.
33. Williams, Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 43.
34. Register John le Romeyn II, Surtees Soc. 128 (1917), p. 141.
35. Register Corbridge, 1300-1304 I, Surtees Soc. 138 (1925), no. cccxiv (p. 123).
36. Register Corbridge, 1300-1304 I, Surtees Soc. 138 (1925), no. cccxxiii (p. 126).
37. Register Greenfield III, Surtees Soc. 151 (1936), no. 1176 (p. 22).
38. Register Greenfield IV, Surtees Soc. 152 (137), no. 2352 (p. 364). For further details see vol. V, pp. xxxvii ff.
39. Register Greenfield V, Surtees Soc. 153 (1938), no. 2354 (pp. 1-5 at p. 1).
40. For a list of the prelates and nobles who were summoned to this meeting of parliament, see Calendar of Close Rolls Henry III 1264-8, pp. 84-7.
41. Fletcher, The Cistercians in Yorkshire, pp. 138-9.
42. The abbot duly received dispensation. Brother James, the churchwarden of Scarborough, received a letter instructing him to absolve the abbot of Rievaulx in accordance with the Cardinal Bishop’s letter to the archbishop of York, Reg. Corbridge I (1300-1304), Surtees Soc. 138 (1925), no. 293 (p. 119).

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