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 200
d, blessed be theMost High! we have five carucates of ploughland, fortycows with their calves, sixteen horses with their foals,given by the Earl of Brittany, five sows with theirlitters, three hundred sheep, thirty skins in tanning,and wax and oil more than enough, with a little help,for two years.… … jferyaulx After this Peter declared that if the abbot of By-land would send a community and an abbot, with thepromise that Fors should continue and be allowed toelectits own abbot in succession, he and his companionswould gladly hand over all their possessions to them.This having been promised,…
Abbeys
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