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 194
led account which hascome down to us says that at times the place seemedmore like a fair than a religious house, and it notesthat the grass-plot of the cloister was so trodden by thevisitors playing games that not a vestige of green couldbe seen when the session of Parliament came to an end. On the… … CLOISTER AND LAVATORIUM, GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL Gloucester entertained in the refectory at a magnificent repast,set out with great splendour by the cornmunity. The last abbot, William Malvern or Parker, waselected on May 4, 1515, and his community then con-sisted of thirty-four monks. The antiquary…
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