A catalog of the antiquities and works of art, exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, in the month of May, 1861 (1869)
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, French, George Russell, 1803-1881, London (England). Ironmongers' Company · [S.l. : s.n.] · leaf 86
S.A. The Reading Abbey Key, found some years ago, hidden carefully away within a holein one of the walls of the church. Its wards are so made as to fall into the shape of a Latincross, with the limbs widening at the end, and a broad pipe at the transom ; the shank is rathershort but thick, as is… … 58 /Intiquities and Works of Art^ Reading Abbey was one of the richest and most important establishments in the kingdom ;the conventual buildings covered a space of half a mile in circumference, and the revenues amountedto ;^i,938 14?. id.—{Diigdale). The last abbot, Hugh Farringdon, was hanged,…
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