Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · London : Isbister & company, limited · leaf 202
f the London Charterhouse, splintered topieces, for so only could their resistance be overcome, by theiron sceptre and the iron hand that held it. The description of the suppression of St. Brunos chiefhouse in England nearly five centuries after the foundation ofthe Grande Chartreuse, by a pen by… … that picturesque and brilliant story of our great historian ismore eloquent and moving than the words in which he de-scribes the Carthusian monks of London, a.d. 1535, preparingfor their violent and shameful death. Thus with unobtrusiveboldness did these poor men prepare themselves for theirend,…
Abbeys · Monasticism and religious orders
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