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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 40

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d from the Conqueror thepromise to respedl the laws of the kingdom, and inparticular those of Edward the Confessor. Then, fear-ing the Kings vengeance, he fled to E!ly, where in abrief time he died. Fredericks death opened the way to the appoint-ment of a Norman Superior, and after keeping… … s <! ■-)DPiW> o *SV Albanscustoms and to witness the negled: of the cultus of theold Saxon saints, and the introdudlion of that to whichtheir conquerors had been accustomed. Thus the Beecustomal was enforced at St Albans, and the gift ofeight psalters to the choir by Abbot Paul in 1085…

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