e Himin this way. We may—no doubt many in these dayswill—consider such a life very unnecessary and very use-less ; but at least we may recognize that it was not a sloth-ful life nor yet an idle one, and that years and centuriesof such a life were passed without any record except thatentered in the… … wa: h so RieDaulxThe last abbot of Rievaulx was Richard Blyton,appointed when the clouds which portended the stormthat overwhelmed the religious houses in the sixteenthcentury were already gathering. There were, indeed,reports and prophecies about the impending cata-strophe rife in the…
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