gate asked the person’s name, took the guest to pray, then handed him over to ‘brother hospitaller’ who took the guest to the guesthouse, offered refreshment and saw to the guest’s comfort.  He had as many assistants as were deemed necessary.  The porter dispensed alms at the gate and gave the poor the left-over food.  A statute of 1275 said only the founder
could have hospitality, but this was unenforceable (C/WC).  Titchfield could seat 189 at table, 80 in the refectory, 62 in the infirmary hall and 47 in the vault.
A corrody was a grant of food and lodging for life (the reward of long service, or bought for cash or land or as a result of royal favour which the abbey could not refuse) (C/WC).
Cockersand had a hospital.

Beneficed canons were expected to live as regular and austere a life as their cloistered brethren. They had to maintain a regular connection with the abbey, attend visitations and
take part in elections.  They were forbidden to eat with parishioners, but spiritually subject to the bishop.

Premonstratensians never claimed to be a learned order;  their traditions were ascetic
rather than intellectual.  However, Titchfield's library had 224 volumes in 1400, containing nearly 1000 works, mostly theology, grammar, law, medicine and surgery (C/WC).
In the 12th century there was an annual distribution of books on Ash Wednesday.  By the
13th century books were more common.
The library was in the cloister.  Welbeck had a scriptorium (possibly Hagnaby and Sulby too).  They could lend books to and borrow books from lay people.
Canons were not encouraged to go to university until 1252 when a college was founded for
them in Paris.  No English canons went there, but some attended English universities in the 15th century (C/WC) eg Adam of Dryburgh.

Canons originally ate no meat except fowl-meat, unless they were sick or at the abbot's table.  Eventually the rule was slackened to all monks during certain fixed periods of recreation, through the year.
A "pittance" was a small dish served to the monks in addition to the common dishes.
Canons drank mostly beer, but wine and mead on feast days.

Canons washed daily (before Tierce), but their feet only weekly (before Maundy of the poor) and had a bath, shave and change of clothes 5 times a year.

There was a fire from Ist November onwards (KNOWLES).

There were 5 orders of sin (levior, media, gravis, gravior, gravissima culpa), the punishments ranging from repeating one psalm and receiving one 'correction' if late for meals to expulsion (C/WC).