The greater abbeys of England, with illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble (1908)
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York ; Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 170
Glastonbury, and in his best-loved occupations of the cloistered life, Dunstan becameBishop of Winchester, and then Archbishop of Canter-bury. But amidst all the occupations for Church andState which engrossed the greater part of his life, henever forgot his monastic home, and his name has everbeen… … Glastonbury monarchs of both dynasties. Edmund Ironside enrichedthe abbey with land and possessions and when, aftervaUant though vain struggles, he died for his Saxonfatherland, his body was laid to rest in the spot he hadchosen for his tomb in St Dunstans Church. ToGlastonbury also in 1030 came…
Abbeys
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