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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 388

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lace. The Queen sat alone below on the rushes alldesolate and dismayed. . . .And when he opened hiswindows and looked on the Thames, he might see theriver full of boats of the Duke of Gloucester his ser-vants watching that no person should go to sandluarynor none should pass unsearched. It was just… … MX O H M og; <ci gi M / ft.) t I WestminsterIn the year 1500 John Islip was unanimously eleftedabbot. At that period it seemed almost certain thatHenry VI would have been canonised and the abbotand community petitioned the King to remove thebody from Windsor where it was buried. It is said…

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