Among Augustinian canons regular, Peter of Langtoft in his Chronique d'Angleterre around 1300 wrote a chronicle version in Anglo-Norman verse of the story of Guy of Warwick; as did Henry Knighton in Latin prose in his Chronica de Eventibus Angliae around 1366; it was the Augustinians at Oseney who held the manuscript now known as MS Digby 23, which contains the Chanson de Roland. The Augustinian canons at Leicester at the Abbey of the Assumption held a “Bellum Troianum in gallico,” “Liber de Drian et Madok” (which Busby identifies as the French prose Livre d'Artus, in Codex and Context, II, 764), “Beuz de Hampton in gallico,” and “Gesta Alexandri magni,” according to a catalogue from around 1500 (Blaess, “Manuscrits français,” p. 357).

Among Benedictines, we have seen the Chertsey Tiles telling the story of Tristram and Isolde, the Tristram and Isolde misericord at Chester, and a performance at St. Swithun's priory of the song of Colbrand (from the story of Guy of Warwick) for a visiting bishop. As early as 1247 the Abbey of Our Lady at Glastonbury owned a “Liber de capcione civitatis Antiochenae.