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Numbers varied depending on the size of the monastery and over time. Priories were generally smaller monasteries with fewer monks, abbeys were generally larger with more monks, but even this was not always the case.
At Kirkstall Abbey there were 31 monks in 1538, where there had previously been over 100. At Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire in about 1160 there were 140 monks and 500 lay brothers (Cistercian lay brothers were essentially a workforce who did not take the full vows of a monk but lived in the monastery and are sometimes included in the full total); by 1538 there were just 23.
At Abingdon Abbey in 1117 there were 80 monks, falling to just 25 by 1538. At Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire the monks were struck with plague in the early 14th century - 13 monks died in just 15 days.
1538 is a significant date because it marked the start of the closure of all English monasteries under Henry VIII.
Numbers were generally in the 30 to 150 range.
A further complication is that some large monasteries had "outstations" known as cells, where a very small number of monks might be based temporarily. One of these was at Jarrow, one of nine cells belonging to Durham Cathedral Priory - it housed a master and just 2 monks, who returned to the parent monastery after three years, to be replaced by others.
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