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there founded the Order, and John de Byford, son of Baldwin 
de Byford, who was the companion of Peter de Gausela, founder 
of the house of Newhouse, and Hugh de Grimsby and Roger de 
Alesby, and William le Sores, men of virtuous life and great 
piety ; together with other men of God. ‘These, O Dale, are 
thy living stones--thy chosen stones—the stones precious in the 
foundation of thy Church: which stones are jointed with that 
mighty corner stone 
NOTES. 
1, Lavendon was an Abbey of Premonstratensian Canons in Bucks. 
2. Lindsay is the largest of the three divisions of the County of Lincoln. 
It occupies all the land north of a line drawn from Lincoln to Boston. 
8. The Church of S. Mary in Derby is no longer in existence, and its very 
site is unknown. It is supposed to have stood at the bottom of the street 
now called S. Mary’s Gate. : 
4, Stanley is a village about two miles from Dale Abbey. 
5, The rock-dwelling of the hermit still exists in the side of the hill 
south-east of the site of the Abbey, but like so many relics of the past 
has suffered grievous mutilations at the hands of ignorant persons. 
6, Borrowash. r 
7. The little Chapel which now serves as the Church of Dale doubtless 
occupies the site of the hermit’s oratory. His well may still be seen a short 
distance north-east of the Church. 
8, The River Erewash. 
9, This hill is now called Linderidge. 
10. Now Calke. A Priory of Augustinian or Black Canons was founded 
here circa 1110. 
11. An Abbey of Black Canons near Derby. 
12, A Premonstratensian Abbey near Lincoln. 
13, An Abbey of White Canons in Nottinghamshire. 
14, The regular parlour, where conversation might be carried on by per- 
mission of a superior; it was asmall apartment adjoining the Chapter House. 
Sometimes the passage to the infirmary or cemetery was used for the purpose. 
The Statutes forbade speaking in the Church, Cloister, Dormitory, and 
Fratry. 
15, Newhouse was the mother abbey of the English Circary of the Order. 
It was situated in the north of Lincolnshire, but its site is now unrecogni- 
sable. 
