[351] See Tinterne Abbey: Descrip. of Dole.
[352] Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. iii. Orat. August.
[353] The Rules—of which the above are but a meagre and imperfect outline—are expressed with great beauty and simplicity in the original, to which the reader is again referred. It is worth mentioning that the celebrated Thomas à Kempis was a monk of this Order; and, perhaps, no devotional work has appeared in so many languages, or run through so many editions, as his “De Imitatione Christi.”
[354] The tracts written, and supposed to be written, by him, were published by Bertrand Tissier in 1662.
[355] Vol. iii. page 66.
[356] Conveyances of smoke by holes in the walls are of very ancient date in English castles; but the earliest certain instance of chimneys, properly so called, is understood to occur in some castles abroad, about the year 1347.
[357] See Raglan Castle, description and woodcut, ante.
[358] The Castle of Grosmont, by a grant of King John, belonged to the family of Breoses, but afterwards to Hubert de Burgh, who, to “calm a court tempest,” resigned it with three others to Edward III. See description of the Castle in this work.
[359] Thomas’s Glendower, 132
[360] Memoirs of Owen Glendower, 1822.