Note 166 — TINTERNE ABBEY. (continued 2)

In the notes to Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle [vol. iii. § 8-9] we read:—“About this tyme the order of Cysteaux was fyrst brought into Englande by one Walter, that founded the first abbey of that religion at Ryuall.” The question, however, has been set at rest by the extracts already given from the Chronicles of Tinterne, in which the date of their appearance in Englande is fixed at the beginning of the twelfth century, regnante Henrico primo.