16. William of Newburgh, A History of English Affairs by William the Small,
Canon
of Newburgh Book I, ed and tr. P. G. Walsh and M. J. Kennedy (1988), ch. XIV,
pp. 74-75.
17. Janet Burton has recently suggested that Thurstan’s letter should be
dated to c. 1140, in other words, that it was a later compilation, see Narratives
of
a New Order, p. 155. Thurstan’s letter, which is included in
the Narratio, survives also in two copies, one of which (a late twelfth-century
copy) is in Oxford,
Corpus Christi, MS 209.
18. For the most recent analysis of this, see Freeman, Narratives of a New
Orderand link to screen.
19. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in W.
Oxford,
The
Ruins of Fountains Abbey (London, 1910), appendix I, pp. 127-23, at p. 130.
20. See Thurstan’s letter, cited in the Narratio (Oxford, Ruins
of Fountains,
p. 143).
21. Thurstan’s account of Geoffrey and the reason he feared reform, see
his
letter to the archbishop of York, Narratio, pp. 137-163, at p. 140.
22. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins
of
Fountains, p. 134.
23. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins
of
Fountains, p. 132.
24. Thurstan’s letter to Archbishop William of Canterbury, which is incorporated
in the foundation history (Narratio), see ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio),
in Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, p. 158.
25. For a translation of this see Oxford, Ruins of Fountains, pp. 137-163. According
to Janet Burton, Thurstan’s letter was a later compilation, and should
be dated to c. 1140, see Freeman, Narratives of a New Order, p. 155.
26. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins
of
Fountains, p. 136.
27. For a recent analysis of the identity of these thirteen monks – and
the
discrepancies amongst the manuscripts – see J. Rüffer, ‘The
thirteen monks who left St Mary’s, York’, Cistercian Studies
Quarterly35: 2 (2000), pp. 187-199.
28. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins
of
Fountains, p. 164.
29. For a survey of Gervase’s abbacy and an edition of his confessions,
as well as an account of his life and death, see The Testament of Gervase
of
Louth
Park, ed. C. H. Talbot, Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, 7 (1951), pp. 32-45.
30. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins
of
Fountains, p. 164. This is an allusion to Genesis III: 14.
31. ‘Foundation history of Fountains’ (Narratio), in Oxford, Ruins
of
Fountains, p. 165. In Saxon, ‘Skel’ meant ‘spring’.
