388 BYLAND ABBEY. 



with difficulty distinguish their own bells, from the 

 bells of that abbey. In the year 1147, they remo- 

 ved to Stocking near Cukewald, under Black-how- 

 hill, when Roger de Mowbray gave them two caru- 

 cates of waste land, to build their monastery upon. 

 The town of Old Byland being reduced to a 

 grange, the preceding year the monks had built a 

 chapel at Scalton or Scawton, within the parish of 

 Byland, by the consent of the archbishop of York, 

 and sent to it one of their small consecrated bells, 

 which at this time remains in Scawton church as 

 appears by the inscription. 



At their new place (Stocking, now Old Stead,) 

 the monks repaired and built a small stone church, 

 a cloister and other houses, where they remained 

 thirty years, in which time many donations w r ere 

 made them. 



The monks having cleared a large tract of wood- 

 land, and drained the marshes, removed again on 

 the eve of All Saints, in the year 1177, (23 Henry 

 II.) a little more to the eastward, near to Burtoft, 

 and Berscliffe, between Whittaker and the foot of 

 Cambe-hill ; where this abbey, dedicated to the 

 Blessed Virgin, at length was settled, having a no- 

 ble cathedral, and monastery, which continued in 

 a flourishing condition till the general dissolution. 

 On the 30 of January, 28 Henry VIII. 1536, 

 this abbey was by the king's letters patent, preser- 

 ved from the dissolution of the lesser monasteries, 

 and refounded. But in 1540, it was surrendered 

 by. John Leeds, alias Allanbrigg the abbot, and 24 

 monks. At the time of the dissolution here were 



