For the plans of friaries, see Mr Hope's On the Whitefriars or Carmelites of Hulne (Archaeol. Journal, vol. XLVII) and A. W. Clapham, On the Topography of the Dominican Priory of London (Archaeologia, vol. LXIII).
The above list embraces the most important contributions to the subject made during recent years. Many plans of other monasteries with brief descriptions will be found in the accounts of the summer meetings of the Royal Archaeological Institute in recent volumes of the Archaeol. Journal, and there are also plans of the chief monasteries in various volumes of The Builder. Mr Hope's plans of Durham are given in The Rites of Durham, ut sup. For further plans, see the topographical sections of the Victoria County History and the History of Northumberland (now in progress).
Historical monographs on religious houses, in which attention is paid to plan and architectural features, should not be forgotten. As examples of these may be cited S. O. Addy's Beauchief Abbey, Dr W. de Gray Birch's histories of Neath Abbey and Margam Abbey, C. Lynam's Croxden Abbey, and S. W. Williams' Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida. Guide-books are not as a rule very trustworthy, but the official guide-book to Tintern abbey, for the architectural part of which Mr Brakspear is responsible, and F. Bligh Bond's guide to Glastonbury abbey are among the notable exceptions.
Articles of great historical value will be found under various headings in Smith's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Catholic Encyclopaedia. It is unnecessary to refer to these in detail.
FOOTNOTES
[[1]] Conversi were found in houses of other orders, e.g. the Augustinian, but their position in such cases was less definite than in the Cistercian order. Male conversi were attached to houses of Cistercian nuns: examples of this are known in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
[[2]] In 1301 the Benedictine monks of Gloucester were allowed a frock and cowl out of the wardrobe at least once a year, day-shoes once in 18 months, boots once in five years, pairs of woollen shirts (langelli) once every four years. They could change when necessary a thick and thin tunic, their pilch or fur cloak (pellicea), ordinary boots, under-shirt (stamen) and drawers (femoralia).
[[3]] In 1230 the monks of St James', Bristol, a cell of Tewkesbury, petitioned the bishop of Worcester against the consecration of the Dominican church in St James' parish. Various documents in the York episcopal registers between 1279 and 1296 deal with the rivalry between the custodes of the alien priory of Scarborough and the local Dominicans. In both cases the root of ill-feeling was the diversion by the friars of the oblations due to the parish altar.