[184] _Trans. Cumb. and West. Antiq. and Archaeol. Soc._ Vol. XVI. p. 259. I take this opportunity of thanking my friend Mr Hope for allowing me to use his plan of Furness Abbey, and also for pointing out to me the evolution of the Cistercian book-rooms which I have done my best to describe in the text. [185] _Calder Abbey: its Ruins and its History._ By A. G. Loftie, M.A. [186] Mr Hope tells me that he has lately re-examined these recesses, and failed to discover traces of furniture or fittings of any kind within them. [187] _Voyage Litteraire_, Paris, 1717, Vol. I. p. 101. [188] _Cat. des Manuscrits des Bibliotheques Publiques de France._ Departements, Tom. V. Catalogue des Manuscrits de Citeaux, No. 635 (p. 405). Parvus liber incathenatus ad analogium cathedre ex opposito capituli. [189] _The Rites of Durham_, ed. Surtees Soc. 1844, p. 70. [190] _Notes on the Abbey Buildings of Westminster_, Arch. Journ. XXXIII. pp. 15-49. [191] _Notes on the Abbey Buildings of Westminster_, Arch. Journ. XXXIII. pp. 21, 22. [192] _Notes on the Abbey Buildings of Westminster_, Arch. Journ. XXXIII. p. 16. [193] MSS, Mus. Brit. MSS. Cotton, Otho. c. XI. fol. 84. [194] See a paper by myself in _Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. and Comm._ IX. pp. 47-56. [195] _Voyage Litteraire_, ed. 1717. Part I. 297. [196] _Dictionnaire du Mobilier_, s. v. _Armoire_. [197] Viollet-le-Duc, _ut supra_, p. 4, where full details of the press at Obazine are given. The photograph from which my illustration has been made was specially taken for my use through the kind help of my friend Dr James, who had seen the press in 1899. [198] Viollet-le-Duc, _ut supra_, p. 14. I have myself examined this press. My friend Mr Hope informs me that there is a press of this character in the nether vestry at S. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, described by him in _Inventories of the parish church of S. Peter Mancroft, Norwich_, Norf. and Norw. Archaeol. Soc, XIV. p. 29. [199] See Mr Hope's _Notes on the Benedictine Abbey of S. Peter at Gloucester_, in _Records of Gloucester Cathedral_, 1897, p. 23. [200] See above, p. 93. [201] _Memorials of S. Edmund's Abbey_, Rolls Series, II. 327. The writer is describing the mischief done by the rioters of 1327: Deinde claustrum ingressi, cistulas, id est caroles, et armariola fregerunt, et libros et omnia in eis inventa similiter asportaverunt. I owe this quotation to Dr James, _On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury_, Camb. Ant. Soc. Octav. Publ. No. XXVIII. p. 158. [202] _Liber Evesham_, Hen. Bradshaw Soc. 1893, p. 196. Abbat Ombresleye (1367-79) built "paginam illam claustri contiguam ecclesie ubi carolae fratrum consistunt." [203] _Accounts of the Obedientiaries of Abingdon Abbey_, ed. Camden Society, 1892, p. 47. "Expense circa sedilia claustri" is the heading of an account for wood bought and for carpenter's work. The sum spent was L2. 15_s._ 3_d._