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 236
ne of their next opera-tions, leaving behind them under-officials and work-men to carry out the designed destruction by strippingthe roofs and pulling down the gutters and pipes, melt-ing the lead into pigs, throwing down the bells andbreaking them with sledge-hammers and packing themetal into… … Jl Netley sioners returned to audit the accounts and -to satisfythemselves that the work of destruction had been ac-compHshed to the Kings contentment. An instance of this maybe seen in the case of Netley.From the first arrival of the Royal Commissioners inFebruary 1537 to the final handing over…
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