Capitula IX, in Narrative and Legislative Texts from Early Citeaux, ed. C. Waddell (Citeaux, 1999), p. 408.

D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998), p. 227.

A greenish glass.

This was dated 1296, Aberdeen. For the translation of this charter, see Aveling, Roche Abbey, pp. 41-2.

Unction: the anointing of the sick with consecrated oil; this took place in the church after dinner – all the community were required to attend except those tending visitors in the guest-house or the sick in the infirmary, and those serving in the refectory (who were eating at this time).

The Clairvaux Breve et Memoriale Scriptum in ed C. Waddell, Cistercian Lay Brothers: Twelfth-century Usages with related texts (Brecht, 2000), pp. 198-209, at p. 198.

G. Burnett, Roche Abbey: Guide to the Ancient Home of the Cistercians (Rotherham, 1919), p. 3.

P. Fergusson, Roche Abbey, English Heritage (London, 1990, rep. 1999), p. 11.

F. R. Fairbank, 'Roche Abbey: further reports on excavations there', Assoc. Arch. Soc. Reports and Papers 19 (1883), pp. 392-7, at p. 394, notes that the local family of Scrope bore a bend on their shield.