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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 356

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ife, Harold came to Waltham topay a visit to the shrine, and to offer up his devotionsthere at the great cross. His body, after having beenburied first on the field of battle under a cairn ofstones, was brought back at the request of his motherand buried in the church he had lately finished… … WALTHAM ABBEY Waltham Abbeytheir lands intact, William is said to have dispossessedthem of most of the movable wealth with whichHarold had enriched them, and to have carried plate,jewels and other movable property ofF to Normandy.The list given by the scribe of these riches is not un-interesting.…

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