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The outer court - Notes

127. English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, ed. G. Coppack and R. Gilyard-Beer (London, 1993), p. 63.
128. G. Coppack, ‘The water-driven corn mill at Fountains Abbey: a major Cistercian mill of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries’, in Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture 5, ed. M. Parsons Lillich, Cistercians Studies Series no. 167 (Kalamazoo, 1998), pp. 270-296.
129. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 121-123.
130. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, pp. 313, 317.
131. Coppack, ‘The planning of Cistercian monasteries’, p. 202.
132. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages, p. 208. Note that Bond questions whether or not there would have been sufficient water power to drive a fulling mill, see Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 322.
133. Coppack, ‘The interface between estate and monastery’, p. 420.
134. Coppack, ‘The interface between estate and monastery’, p. 420.
135. Talbot, ‘Account Book of Beaulieu Abbey’, p. 200; Bond, Monastic Landscapes, pp. 320-323.
136. English Heritage Guide to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, ed. G. Coppack and R. Gilyard-Beer (London, 1993), p. 64.
137. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxvi.
138. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxvi; nos. 234-6, 240.
139. Account Book of Beaulieu Abbey, ed. S. F. Hockey, Camden Soc. Fourth Ser. (1975). The best bread was conventual, then guest-house, ‘clermatin’ and family.
140. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 231 (pp. 239-241, at p. 240). For references to horsebread, see Memorials of Fountains III, pp. 14, 112, 190.
141. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 126.
142. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xxvi.
143. The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 234 (pp. 244-245).
144. For example, see The Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 183 (pp. 169-170, at p. 170).
145. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 232 (pp. 241-243) – the lease was drafted in 1532.
146. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 119.
147. Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 232 (pp. 241-243), at p.242. A late fifteenth-century agreement (no. 226) reserved the right of the community to dig marl in Ripley for use at Haddockstones and Morker granges.
148. Michelmore, Lease Book of Fountains Abbey, nos. 276, 237; p. 293 n.

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