shillings on his dis-missal, Thomas the plumber and six chorister boys,who got three shillings each. When the Dissolution hadbeen effected, the ruins were left to decay. The veryseclusion of the spot, perhaps, has served to preserve the 165 The Greater Abbeysruin better than we might have expected… … CHAPTER XIX Romsey ROMSEY was an ancient abbey of nuns pleas-antly placed on the banks of the Test in Hamp-shire. At one time, no doubt, the ground roundabout was marshy, and the church and domestic build-ings were set on an island or raised ground in the sur-rounding low-lying country, always of a…
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