Notes on rules and customs Comprising: - one file containing annotated typescript notes on rule, receiving postulants, and feast days; y - one file of typescript notes on rules and customs, including on duties of house sisters, singing plainsong and food; y - two notebooks containing manuscript notes on rules and customs; - one notebook summarising chapters from the Rule (c 18th century); y - one notebook containing extracts from the Rule in English and Portuguese (c 18th century); y - one notebook (c 1940s) containing manuscript notes on food preferences of the community, rules for the noviciate, rules for the refectory, rules for processions, a list of items required by postulants to enter Syon Abbey, and several loose pages of notes, possibly regarding a retreat. y c 18th-20th century