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English monastic life (1904)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London : Methuen · leaf 219

An illustration from English monastic life, 1904, leaf 219
ns in England. Thescanty but picturesque ruins of their old convent maystill be seen not far from the present Cistercian Abbeyof Mount St. Bernard, and quite near to Grace DieuManor-house, the home of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle.The convent was founded in Charnwood Forest by LadyRohesia de Verdon in… … DOMINICAN NUNS IN CHOIR mmmm THE NUNS 159 of his poems in the immediate neighbourhood, and thusdescribes the situation of the old nunnery as seen, orrather not seen, from Cole Orton some few miles away:— Beneath yon eastern ridge, the craggy boundRugged and high of Charnwoods forest groundStand…

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