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Registrum Epistolarum Fratris Johannis Peckham Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores; or, Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 77, 3 vols (London, 1882-1885)

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The Register of John de Trillek, Bishop of Hereford (1344-1361), ed. J. H. Parry (Hereford, 1910)

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The Letters and Charters of Gilbert Foliot, Abbot of Gloucester (1139-48), Bishop of Hereford (1148-63), and London (1163-87), ed. Z. N. Brooke, completed by Dom Adrian Morey and C. N. L. Brooke (Cambridge, 1967)

Adam of Domerham, Historia de rebus gestis Glastoniensibus, 2 vols, ed. T. Hearne (London, 1727)

Adam of Usk, The Chronicle of Adam of Usk 1377-1421, Oxford Medival Texts (Oxford, 1997)

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Burton, Janet, The Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain 1000-1300 (Cambridge, 1994)

Burton, Janet, 'Transition and transformation: the Benedictine houses', in Monastic Wales: New Approaches, ed. Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (University of Wales: Cardiff, 2013), pp. 21-37

Cartwright, Jane, Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2008)

Cartwright, Jane, Y Forwyn Fair, Santesau a Lleianod: Agweddau ar Wyryfdod a Diweirdeb yng Nghymru'r Oesoedd Canol (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1999)

Cartwright, Jane, 'Dead Virgins: feminine sanctity in medieval Wales', Medium Aevum, 72 (2002), pp. 1-28

Cartwright, Jane, 'The Desire to Corrupt: Convents and Community in Medieval Wales', in Medieval Women in their Communities, ed. Diane Watt (Toronto, 1997), pp. 20-48

Cartwright, Jane, 'Abbess Annes and the ape', in Monastic Wales: New Approaches ed. Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (University of Wales: Cardiff, 2013), pp. 191-207

Clark, G. T., 'Kidwelly Castle', Archaeologia Cambrensis, new series, 7:9 (1852), pp. 1-20

Cooper, R., Abbeys and Priories of Wales (Swansea, 1992)

Coplestone-Crow, B., 'The foundation of the priories of Bassaleg and Malpas in the twelfth century', Monmouthshire Antiquary, 14 (1998), pp. 1-13

Cowley, F. G., The Monastic Order in South Wales 1066-1349 (Cardiff, 1977)

Cowley, F. G., 'Llangenydd and its priory', Glamorgan Historian, 5 (1968), pp. 220-227

Davies, J. C., 'Ewenny Priory: some recently-found records', National Library of Wales Journal, 3 (1944), pp. 107-137

Davies, M. E. , The Story of St Mary's Priory church, Abergavenny (Gloucester, 1947)

Fulton, H., 'Medieval Welsh poems to nuns', Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 21 (1991), pp. 87-112

Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis), Gerald of Wales, The Journey Through Wales / The Description of Wales (Harmondsworth, 1978)

Graham, Rose, 'The taxation of Pope Nicholas IVth', Engish Historical Review, 23 (1908), pp. 434-454

Graham, Rose, 'Four alien priories in Monmouthshire', Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 35 (1930), pp. 102-121

Gray, Madeleine, 'Women of holiness and power: the cults of St Radegund and St Mary Magdalene at Usk', The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 18 (2002), p. 13–22

Greenway, W., 'The election of John of Monmouth, bishop of Llandaff', Morganwg, 5 (1961), pp. 3-22

Gwynn-Jones, D., 'Brecon Cathedral c. 1093-1537: the Church of the Holy Rood', Brycheiniog, 24 (1990-1992), pp. 23-37

Hallam, E. M., 'Henry VIII's religious foundations of 1536-7 and the course of the dissolution', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 51 (1978), pp. 124-131

Harper, Sally, Music in Welsh Culture before 1650: A Study of the Principal Sources (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007)

Harris, J. P., The Priory and Parish Church of St Mary, Chepstow (Chepstow, 1997)

Harris, S. M., 'The kalendar of the 'Vitae Sanctorum Wallensium' (Vespasian A. 14)', Publications of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, 3 (1953), pp. 3-53

Heale, Martin, The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 22 (Boydell and Brewer: Woodbridge, 2004)

Heale, Martin, 'Not a thing for a stranger to enter upon'. The selection of monastic superiors in late medieval and Tudor England', in Monasteries and Society in the Later Middle Ages, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 35, ed. Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (Woodbridge, 2008), pp. 51-70

Hockey, S. F., 'Llangua, alien priory of Lyre', Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, 27 (1990), pp. 8-13

Hockey, S. F., 'William FitzOsbern and the endowment of his abbey at Lire', in Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 3, ed. R. Allen Brown (Bury St Edmunds, 1981), pp. 96-105

Hughes, Kathleen Winifred, The Welsh Latin chronicles: Annales Cambriae and related texts, Proceedings of the British Academy, 59 (1975), pp. 233-258

James, T., 'Medieval Carmarthen and its burgesses', The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, 35 (1989), pp. 9-26

James, Terrence, 'Carmarthenshire's religious houses: a review of recent archaeological work', The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, 36 (2000), pp. 58-70

Jones, D. Daven, History of Kidwelly (Carmathen, 1908)

Kemp, W., 'St Mary's church, Abergavenny', Archaeologia Cambrensis (1936), pp. 350-357

Kightly, C., A Mirror of Medieval Wales: Gerald of Wales and his Journey of 1188, ed. D. M. Robinson (Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments: Cardiff, 1988)

Kissack, K. E., Monmouth: the Making of a County Town (Chichester, 1975)

Kissack, K. E., Medieval Monmouth (Monmouth, 1974)

Kissack, K. E., 'Religious life in Monmouth, 1066-1536', Publications of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, 14 (1964), pp. 25-57

Knight, J. and A. Johnson, Usk Castle, Priory and Town (Logaston, 2008)

Laws, E., 'Notes on the alien Benedictine priory of St Nicholas and St John the Evangelist in Monkton, Pembroke', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 6th series, 9 (1909), pp. 165-202

Lindley, Phillip G., 'Two fourteenth-century tomb monuments at Abergavenny and the mournful end of the Hastings earls of Pembroke', in Cardiff: Architecture and Archaeology in the Medieval Diocese of Llandaff, British Archaeological Association, Conference Transactions, 29, ed. John R. Kenyon and Diane M. Williams (Maney Publishing: Leeds, 2006), pp. 136-160

Lindley, Phillip G. and Galvin, Carol, 'New paradigms for the aristocratic funerary monument around 1300: reconstructing the tomb of John, second Baron Hastings (1287-1325) at Abergavenny Priory, Monmouthshire', Church Monuments, 21 (2006), pp. 58-93

Malden, Henry Elliot, 'The possession of the Cardigan Priory by Chertsey Abbey: a study in some mediaeval forgeries', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 3rd series, 5 (1911), pp. 141-156

Marchegay, P., 'Les prieur Anglais de Saint-Florent près Saumur', Bibliothèque de l`École des Chartres, 40 (1879), pp. 154-194

Maylan, C., 'Excavations at St. Mary's Priory, Usk, 1987', Montgomeryshire Collections, 9 (1993), pp. 29-42

Mein, A. G., 'Usk Priory; an unrecorded excavation', Monmouthshire Antiquary 9 (1993), pp. 43-45

Mein, A. G., 'St. Mary's priory church, Usk: some recent work and some new theories', The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 16 (2000), pp. 55-72

Morgan, G. E. F., 'The vanished tombs of Brecon Cathedral', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 80 (1925), pp. 257-274

Morgan, G. E. F. , Brecon Cathedral, formerly the Priory Church of St. John the Evangelist (Private publication, 1935)

Morgan, M. M., 'The suppression of the alien priories', History, 26 (1941), pp. 204-212

Morris, W. H., 'A Kidwelly town rental of the early sixteenth century', Carmarthen Antiquary, 11 (1975), pp. 55-87

Morris, W. H., 'Cydweli (Kidwelly) and the Glyn Dŵr revolt', The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, 3 (1959), pp. 4-16

New, Elizabeth A., 'Christological seals and Christocentric devotion in later medieval England and Wales', Antiquaries Journal, 82 (2002), pp. 47-68

New, Elizabeth A., 'Biblical imagery on seals in medieval England and Wales', in Pourquoi les sceaux ? La sigillographie nouvel enjeu de l’histoire de l’art, ed. M. Gil (Lille, 2010)

Newman, John, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (Penguin/University of Wales Press: London, 1995)

Park, David and Stewart, Sophie, 'The painted decoration of Ewenny Priory and the development of Romanesque altar imagery', in Cardiff: Architecture and Archaeology in the Medieval Diocese of Llandaff, British Archaeological Association, Conference Transactions, 29, ed. John R Kenyon and Diane M. Williams (Leeds, 2006), pp. 42-59

Power, Eileen, Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535 (Cambridge, 1922)

Pritchard, Emily M., Cardigan Priory (Olwen Powys, 1904)

Radford, Courtenay Arthur Ralegh, Ewenny Priory, Glamorgan, Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings Series (1952)

Rees, Sian E., 'Benedictine houses in south east Wales: continuity and conservation', The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 20 (2004), pp. 83-94

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Rickards, R., The Church and Priory of St. Mary, Usk (London, 1904)

Rippon, S., Gwent Levels: The Evolution of a Wetland Landscape, Council for British Archaeology Research Report, 105 (York, 1996)

Rock, Vivienne, 'The medieval monuments at St. Mary's priory church, Abergavenny, Gwent', in Medieval Life, 3 (1995), pp. 17-24

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Shoesmith, R., Excavations at Chepstow 1973-1974, Cambrian Archaeological Monograph, 4 (Cardiff, 1991)

Shoesmith, Ron, 'Chepstow town, priory and port wall', in Chepstow Castle: its history and buildings, ed. Rick Turner and Andy Johnson (Almeley, 2006), pp. 199-212; 288-89

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Thurlby, Malcolm, 'The Romanesque priory church of St Michael at Ewenny', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 47 (1988), pp. 281-294

Tracy, C., Harrison, H. and Miles, D., 'The choir-stalls at the Priory Church of St. Mary, Abergavenny', Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 155 (2002), pp. 203-254

Turbervill, J. P., Ewenny Priory: Monastery and Fortress (London, 1901)

Walker, D., 'Brecon Priory in the Middle Ages', in Links with the Past: Swansea and Brecon Historical Essays, ed. O. W. Jones and D. Walker (Llandybie, 1974), pp. 37-65

Ward, Jennifer C., 'Elizabeth de Burgh and Usk castle', The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 18 (2002), pp. 13-22

Welch, C. E., 'An early charter of Ewenny Priory', National Library of Wales Journal, 10 (1957-8), pp. 415-416

Williams, David H., Welsh History through Seals (Cardiff Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru: Cardiff, 1982)

Williams, David H., 'Monmouth Priory at the Suppression', Monmouthshire Antiquary, 3: 3 and 4 (1977-8), pp. 186-191

Williams, David H., 'Usk nunnery', Monmouthshire Antiquary, 4 (1980), pp. 44-45

Williams, David H., 'St. Mary's Priory, Usk: Excavation of 1998', Monmouthshire Antiquary, 16 (2000), pp. 73-83

Williams, David H., 'Goldcliff priory', The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 3 (1970-1971), pp. 37-54

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Website for St Mary's Priory Church, Abergavenny - monuments (View website)

Website for St Mary's Priory, Abergavenny - the tithe barn (View website)

Brecon Cathedral website (View website)

British History online - Cardiff Priory (View website)

Cadw - Ewenny (View website)

Monmouth Priory website (View website)

Monastic Matrix website - Usk (View website)

Monkton Rectorial Benefice - SS Nicholas & John Monkton (View website)

Image of impression from 14th-c seal of Ewenny Priory (View website)

Aerial photograph of St John's Cathedral Brecon (former priory) (View website)

Image of cresset stone, Brecon (View website)

People's Collection Wales - images relating to the Benedictines in Wales (View website)

People's Collection Wales (View website)

Photograph of interior of Ewenny Priory Church (View website)

Twelfth-century Norman font, Brecon Priory (View website)

Usk Priory: medieval stained glass window (View website)

St Mary's Parish Church, Cardigan: stained glass window with fifteenth-century fragments (View website)

Crawshay, Robert, Brecon, exterior of the priory church, 1876 (View website)

Crawshay, Robert, Brecon, interior of the priory church, 1876 (View website)

Kemp, Brian, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online - Roger of Salisbury (View website) (Subscription reqd.)

Mortimer, Richard, Oxford Dictionary of National biography online - Gilbert Fitz Richard / de Clare (View website) (Subscription reqd.)

Pritchard, Emily, Online book - Cardigan Priory in the Olden Days (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Mary's Church, Kidwelly (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Mary's Priory, Abergavenny (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St John's Priory, Brecon (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Mary's Church, Cardigan (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St John's Priory, Carmarthen (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Mary's Church, Chepstow (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - Ewenny Priory (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - Goldcliff Priory (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Padarn's Church (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Cenydd's Church, Llangenydd (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Ciwa's, Llangua (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Mary the Virgin, Whitecross Street, Monmouth (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - Monkton Priory (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - Usk Priory (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Mary's parish church, Kidwelly, fourteenth-century sedilia (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - Monkton Old Hall, possibly former guesthouse (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St Mary's Church, Usk (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - Usk Priory gatehouse (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - St David's Church within Brecon; St Nicholas's Chapel (View website)

RCAHMW, Coflein database - Ewenny Priory dovecot (View website)

Williams, Glanmor, Kidwelly Priory (View website)

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