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Abbey " two monasteries — one of the lay brethren, another of the clerics." The 

 choir brethren were thus enabled always to work within a short distance of the 

 Abbey, and were strictly forbidden to remain a whole night in any of the gianges 

 without pressing necessity. The relations between the choir and lay brethren 

 were of the closest kind. Instead of being treated as slaves, as they were by their 

 feudal lords, these poor children of the soil and artizans were looked upon as bro- 

 thers, and were by special law of the Order to partake in all spiritual advantages 

 as though they were in-monks, which in fact they were in all but the name, for 

 they made their vows in presence of the Abbot like other brethren. 



Then followed a description of the building generally, as it is set forth in 

 detail by Mr. Thomas Blashill, of London, architect, in a guide book he has 

 published.* 



Mr. Haddon is indebted to the Very Kev. Prior RajTial, of St. Michael's 

 Priory, Clehonger, for the above "History of the Cistercian Order," by a Cis- 

 tercian Monk. 



*For Mr. Blashill's valuable paper on " Monastic Buildings,' read at Tintem, on August 

 2ist, 1877, see pages 4 to 11 of this volume. 



