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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 308

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, wherein the monks satwhen they said service, which were like to the seatsin minsters and burned them and melted the leadtherewith, although there was wood plenty within aflight shot of them. ... In the rocks were found pewtervessels that were conveyed away and there hidden, so thatit seemeth that… … TINTERN ABBEY: INTERIOR Tinternrence at their Matins, Masses and other services and allother of their doings. This is a strange thing to con-sider that they who could this day think it to be thehouse of God, the next [did hold it as] the house ofthe devil; or else they would not have been so…

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