 For his manuscripts he restored the library over the prior's chapel, but many of his books were destroyed some quarter of a century later in a fire.Celling was a careful manager, clearing the priory of debt and undertaking building work.He charged himself with the education of Thomas Linacre, who is said to have been his pupil at Canterbury, and who certainly accompanied him on his second journey to Italy, an embassy to Rome between 1485 and 1490.