_Of the pattern of virtue left for us by the Fathers_.
And now, in the last place, one must see how virtuous were these men, and what an example they left for us to imitate.

But no one amongst men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of a man which is in him; yet by considering his outward deeds one may guess what lieth hidden inwardly in him.
XXII.

_Of their simplicity and poverty_.
One may know by the humble plan of the former House which they builded how greatly these men loved simplicity and holy poverty.

For the inner walls thereof were small, and the House was covered in with reeds or thatch; so at that time what is now the part behind the church was the whole church itself; and the chapel that is now was then the refectory; the brewery was the kitchen, and the old brewery was our mill house and infirmary.

Moreover, the bounds of the monastery were so narrow that the present inner wall on the north of the barn was then the extreme outer wall of the House.