¹ But the prior of Kirkebi in No. 266 was not from Kirby Bellars as in 1226 this did not exist and the words in No. 240 do not mean that the donors were monks but that they were of the lay fraternity of the house.

² The loss of the original charters is by no means ‘remarkable’ (3), the misericord should not be identified with the parlour, (17,207) the court is much more likely to have been held in the gatehouse than in the chapter house (5).

³ For the general history of the order Gosse, P., Histoire de l'abbaye et de l'ordre d'Arrouaise, Lille 1786Google Scholar, is still valuable, though M. L. Milis of Ghent is at present engaged on a more extensive survey of its earlier phases; the expansion of Arrouaisian houses in England has been studied by the reviewer in Trans. R. Hist. Soc., 5th. Ser. i (1951). 79–87.Google Scholar