disused before the suppression, when the number of monks was growing smaller, but the other is still ready for a load of logs, whose smoke would pour out of the tall chimney. Two large openings in the west wall gave some heat to the refectory. Here, in the warming house, in Advent, the brothers kept a "solemn banquet" of "figs and raisins, cakes and ale," of whose celebration at Durham it is said that there was "no superfluity or excess, but a scholastical and moderate congratulation amongst themselves." A door in the south-west corner opened upon a little court; the woodhouse stood in the eastern part of it, and a wooden bridge, from the refectory corner, led across the river. Over this bridge came the stout brothers in their gowns of brown or white, their arms full of wood. At Durham, near the warming house, there was a garden and a bowling alley.
The muniment room at Studley Royal contains among its treasures a
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