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Title: The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lefroy, William, 1836-1900
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ic ruins, might easily lead usinto hopelessly wrong imaginings of monkish life ifwe had not other records to check and guide us.From these \vc learn what coarse and humble farewas served from the vast kitchen to the noble hall,and what scanty and comfortless sleep was permittedin the imposing length of the well-built dormitory.Of the sleeping accommodation of the unreformcdBenedictines we have the following description in the Rites of Durham :— was a foursquare stone, wherein was a dozen cressetswrought in cither stone, being ever filled and supplied bythe cooke as they needed to give light to the moncks andnovices when they rose to their mattins at midnight and forthere other necessarye uses. But from tins type the Cistercian dormitory mustin many respects have diverged. In the first place,they were not a literary order, and the special ar-rangements for books and desk may well have beendispensed with. But from number 72 of the Con-suetudines other differences may with certainty be
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IERVAULX ABBEY. A faire large house, where all the monnks and thenovices did lye, every monncke having a little chamber otwainscott, verie close, severall by themselves, and the wyn-dowes towardes the cloyster, every wyndowe serving forone chambere, by reasonne the particion betwixt everychamber was close wainscotted one from another, and inevery of there wyndowes a deske to supporte there bookesfor there studdie. In the west syde of the said dorterwas the like chambers, and in like sort placed with theirwyndowes and desks towards the Fermery and the water,the chambers being all well boarded under foute. Thenovices had theire chambers severall by himselfe in thesouth end of the said dorter, adjoyning to the foresaid cham-bers, having eight chambers on either side, every novicehis chamber severall to himself, not so close nor so warmeas the other chambers, nor having any light but what camein at the foreside of their chambers, being all close bothabove and on either side. In either end

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