(6) Premonstratensian canons. See F. A. Gasquet, Collectanea Anglo-Premonstratensia, 3 vols., 1906 (Camden Soc., 3rd ser.). Some of the statutes are printed by J. W. Clark, op. cit. pp. 101-4.
(7) Nuns. See Lina Eckenstein, Women and Monasticism, Cambridge, 1896.
(8) Friars. See Monumenta Franciscana, 2 vols., 1858, 1882 (Rolls ser.), ed. J. S. Brewer and R. Howlett.
A number of general documents of great importance are prefixed to the accounts of individual houses of the several orders in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, 8 vols., 1817-30, ed. Caley, Ellis and Bandinel—e.g. the Carthusian Tractatus statutorum ... pro noviciis, and the Vita and Institutiones Sancti Gileberti prefixed to the accounts of houses of the order of Sempringham.
C. English Monasteries: History. Dugdale, Monasticon, ut sup., contains the text of a great number of documents, taken from various sources, relating to the large majority of English religious houses, together with a carefully annotated account of each house and a list of its heads. These accounts and lists have been supplemented and to some extent superseded by the articles upon the several religious houses which are contained in the published volumes of the Victoria History of the Counties of England, now in progress. The documents are in great part selected from the MS. chartularies of the various monasteries, of which many have been preserved in public and private collections. Some chartularies have been printed in full—e.g. the Surtees Society has published those of Newminster, Rievaulx and Whitby abbeys, and of Brinkburn and Guisbrough priories, and chartularies of Gloucester, Hyde and Ramsey abbeys, and the register of Malmesbury abbey have appeared in the Rolls series. Memorials of Fountains Abbey, 2 vols., ed. J. R. Walbran, and The Priory of Hexham, 2 vols., ed. J. Raine (Surtees Soc.), contain collections of charters in addition to other historical matter.
A bibliography of some of the most important sources for the history of the monastic life is prefixed to abbot Gasquet's English Monastic Life, 1904, a valuable account of the constitution and customs of religious houses, followed by an appendix containing the most complete list which has yet appeared of English monastic foundations. An annotated list (The English Student's Monasticon) forms vol. II of Mackenzie E. C. Walcott's English Minsters, 1879.
A large number of monastic chronicles have been printed in the Rolls series. The period before the Norman conquest is represented by the Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon, Thomas of Elmham's Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis, the Liber Monasterii de Hyda, the Chronicle of the Abbey of Ramsey, and the Vita S. Oswaldi (in Historians of the Church of York, vol. I). Later history is contained in the Annales Monastici, 5 vols. (Annals of Bermondsey, Burton, Margam, Oseney, Tewkesbury and Waverley abbeys, and of Dunstable, Winchester and Worcester priories), the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham, Historia et Cartularium Monasterii S. Petri Gloucestriae, 3 vols., Chronicon Monasterii de Melsa (Meaux), 3 vols., Walsingham's Gesta Abbatum Monasterii S. Albani, 3 vols., Registra quorundam abbatum S. Albani (15 cent.), 2 vols., and Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey, 3 vols. Jocelyn of Brakelond's and other chronicles were printed by the Camden Society among their publications: there is a translation of Jocelyn in the 'King's Classics.'
For custom-books, monastic account-books, etc., reference may be made to abbot Gasquet's bibliography, ut sup., where also there are notes of printed editions of monastic visitations and episcopal registers. The registers of archbishops Giffard and Wickwane of York (ed. W. Brown for the Surtees Soc.) and that of archbishop Romeyn, about to appear under the same editorship, contain many valuable documents relating to visitations of monasteries. The present writer is engaged upon an edition of similar documents from the Lincoln episcopal registers for the Lincoln Record Soc., of which vol. I (1420-36) is now in the press.