Note 2170 — Chapter X · THE NEW ENGLAND. 1170–1206.
Reading edition
See especially Gir. Cambr. Spec. Eccles., distt. ii. and iii. (Brewer, vol. iv. pp. 29 et seq.). “Grex albus, ordo nefandus,” is a description of the Cistercians quoted apparently from W. Map by his opponent W. Bothewald; Wright, Latin Poems attributed to W. Mapes, introd. p. xxxv. See also King Richard’s opinion of these two orders and of the Templars, in Gir. Cambr. as above, dist. ii. c. 12 (p. 54).