[208] Stevenson, _Suppl. to Bentham’s Ch. of Ely_.
[211] _O. H. S._, Little, 135; best account of Adam in this book.
[212] _C. A. S._ (N.S.), 8vo ser. vii. 187 (1909). The story of the connexion between Chesterton and Vercelli is most interesting. A list of the books is in Lampugnani, _Sulla Vita di Guala Bicchieri, Vercelli_ (1842), 125 _et seq._; but I have not been able to see the book. See further Bekynton’s _Correspondence_, ii. 344 (Rolls Ser.); and Kennedy, _Poems of Cynewulf_ (1910), 6.
[214] Sandys, i. 486-489, _q.v._ for other interesting facts about this abbot.
[216] _Chron. mon. de Abingd._, ii. 153. A list of the precentor’s rents, applied to expenses of the writing-room and the organ, will be found in ii. 328.
[218] Stewart, _Ely Cath._, 280; _Surtees Soc._, lxix. 15-20; Robinson, I.
[226] Rymer, _Foedera_, viii. 501; cf. James^{ 17}, 153.
[227] Cam. Soc., _Bury Wills_ (1850), 105. Many of the gifts to Syon monastery came from priests.--Bateson, xxiii-xxvii. Cf. also lists of donors in James (M. R.), 535 _et seq._
[229] _Customary of Barnwell_ (Harl. MS. 3061).
[230] _Surtees Soc._ xv., Durham Rites, 70-71. The library would be that built by Wessington in 1446.
[234] _Lancs. and Ches. Hist. Soc._, xix. 106.
[235] _Chron. mon. de Melsa_, iii. lxxxiii.
[237] _Anglia Sacra_, i. 145-6; James (M. R.), l-li.
[238] MS. Arundel 57, Brit. Mus. See James (M. R.), lxxvii. “This boc is dan Michelis of Northgate, y-write an englis of his ozene hand. thet hatte: Ayenbyte of Inwyt. And is of the bochouse of Saynt Austines of Canterberi. mid the letters _CC_.” “Ymende, thet this boc is volveld ine the eve of the holy apostles Symon an Judas, of ane brother of the cloystre of Sauynt Austin of Canterberi, ine the yeare of oure lhordes beringe (birth) 1340.”
[239] _Surtees Soc._, xv., Durham Rites, 26.
[240] _C._ 1429-45. Most likely over the cloister. The books seem to have been arranged flat on sloping desks, to which they were chained.--James (M. R.)^{ 1}, 41.
[243] _Chron. mon. de Abingd._, ii. 371; _Customary of St. August._, _Cant._ (H. Brads. Soc.), introd.
[244] _Customary of St. August._, i. 96; ii. 36.
[246] _Stat. ant. ord. Carthus._, _c._ xvi. § 9.
[248] _Bibl. Cluniacensis_, lib. i.; Maitland, 440.