Arncliffe and Mount Grace. 



season and hounds pass by the remains of St. John's well, rich 

 in tradition. 





Mount Grace : situated within the shadow of ArncHffe wood. 



When one recalls the situation of Byland, Rievaulx, Mount 

 Grace and other Yorkshire monasteries and abbeys, one cannot 

 help but be struck by the eye the early fathers had for the 

 picturesque, for shelter, and for localities likely to provide them 

 with food. The Carthusian order, of which Mount Grace was 

 one of the nine monasteries in England, did not, I fancy, eat 

 flesh, and their life was much more severe than most others. 

 The monks at Jervaulx and elsewhere had quite a good time 

 hunting and hawking, whilst Chaucer paints us a word picture 

 of these old-time, sport-loving monks : 



