[18] Rolls series, ed. Thorpe, I. 136, 137 (Transl. II. 60). Also in Gervase of Canterbury, Rolls series, ed. Stubbs, II. 348.
[19] Chronicon Abbatiae Ramesiensis, Rolls ed. 1886, p. 397.
[20] According to an inquisition of 2 Edward III., the abbey of Croyland contained in 1328, forty-one monks, besides fifteen “corrodiarii” and thirty-six servitors. Chronicle of Croyland in Gale, I. 482.
[21] Epistolae Cantuarienses, Rolls series, No. 38, ed. Stubbs, Epist. CCLXXII. p. 254, and Introduction, p. lxvii.
[22] William of Newburgh, Rolls ed. p. 481.
[23] Ralph of Coggeshall, Rolls series, No. 66, p. 112.
[24] Roger of Wendover, III. 72.
[25] In the Life of St Hugh of Lincoln, who died in 1200, or eight years before the Papal Interdict, there is a clear reference to difficulties thrown by the priests in the way of burial, especially for the poor, and perhaps in a time of epidemic sickness such as the years 1194-6. See Vita S. Hugonis Lincolnensis, Rolls series, No. 37, pp. 228-233.
[26] Eadmer, l. c.
[27] Polychronicon, Rolls ed. VII. 90.