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1. Walter Daniel, Vita Aelredi, The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, ed. and tr. F. M. Powicke (Oxford, 1950). , p. 11.
2. P. Fergusson and S. Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey (New Haven and London, 1999), pp. 42-3.
3. Stephen of Sawley, Treatises, tr. J. F. O’Sullivan (Kalamazoo, 1984), ch. 12, ‘Meals’ pp. 103-4, at p. 104.
4. Arnulph of Bohéries, Speculum Monachorum (A Mirror for Monks) Patrologia Latina 184, col. 1175.
5. Hailes visitation 1399, see C. Harper-Bill, ‘Cistercian visitation in the late Middle Ages: the case of Hailes Abbey’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 53 (1980), pp. 103-114, at p. 109.

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