e great abbey in the day of its magni-ficence: to this it was slowly and painfully built upduring the five hundred years of its existence. Thefirst abbot was succeeded by Leofstan, another of themonks who had come as founders from Hulme, andit was during the time of his abbacy that Edward… … Bury St Edmundsordinary pilgrim. Upon the death of Leofstan thefavour of the Confessor procured the election of Bald-win, a monk of St Denis and his own physician, andthe convent had no reason to regret their compliancewith the Kings suggestion. Even after the Conquestthis learned abbot continued…
Abbeys
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