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Excerpt from Cartularium Abbathiae De Rievalle: Ordinis Cisterciensis Fundat Anno MCXXXII
I know, of course, that this is not a conclusive consideration, and that, if dwelt upon too much, it might prove a very broken reed indeed to rest upon. But what is to me much more conclusive is that in the earliest and, undoubtedly, most authentic statements relative to Walter Espec we have, no mention is made of an heir that had been, but was gone, no possible or even latent suggestion that he had ever been a father. The account referred to is printed in the Monasticon (vi. And is headed, E Libello Alredi Rievallensis Abbatis, de Bello Standardico (lelandi Collect, vol. Ii.
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