(1) Walter Map, Courtiers' Trifles (c. 1215)
The Cistercians came to England... They obtain land from a rich man... by much pretending of innocence and... putting in God at every other word. The wood is cut down and levelled into a plain... bushes give place to barley, willows to wheat... in order to give them full time for these operations, their prayers have to be somewhat shortened... The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
