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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 234

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ene of their next opera-tions, leaving behind them under-officials and work-men to carry out the designed destruction by strippingthe roofs and pulling down the gutters and pipes, melt-ing the lead into pigs, throwing down the bells andbreaking them with sledge-hammers and packing themetal into… … g oo J w. MM< >■HiJH w Netleysioners returned to audit the accounts and to satisfythemselves that the work of destruction had been ac-compUshed to the Kings contentment. An instance of this maybe seen in the case of Netley.From the first arrival of the Royal Commissioners inFebruary 1537 to…

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