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Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)

Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 34

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ed, upon a dreary Novemberday in 1530; and long- before dawn on tlie foHowing morning tlie disgracedprelate was buried by torchliglit in the abbey churcli. That church has longsince entirely disa])peared; and the day came when even the dust of the proudChancellor was scattered to the winds. The… … ST. MAUOAUETS: THE IOKCU. ^^-—^^^^^^ ST. NICHOLAS. had done to the townof Leicester, the earlentered the monasteryof his own foundation,and died there. Leices-ter Abbey was wealthyfrom the first. It counted thirty-six manors in Leicestershire alone among itsendowments, and was able to maintain the…

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