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Cloister life in the days of Coeur de Lion (1893)

Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · London : Isbister & company, limited · leaf 198

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in mighthave taken place when the remains of Osric were transferredfrom St. Petronillas Chapel to the Lady Chapel; or later,in the first years of the sixteenth century, when, as Lelandtells us, the remains of the founder of the abbey were takenfrom the Lady Chapel and deposited in their present… … It was in the early spring- of 1890 that one night i sat inthe cold, bare gallery at the west end of the chapel of themonks of the Grande Chartreuse Monastery. Over the roughwooden balustrade, as I knelt, I looked down on the dim-lighted chapel. The monks, in their white woollen robes,with their…

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