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 290
foundation, to 1537, thatof its suppression, the monastery was ruled by a lineof twenty abbots. Of the earlier history very little indeedis known. From one indication it would appear thatthe Great Pestilence of 1349 visited the abbey some-what severely. The abbot, Peter de Wynton, was blessedonly… … Titchjield of this great scourge which carried off half of thepopulation of England. In 1529 John Max, who had been Abbot of Wel-beck from 1500 and who had been consecrated bishopof Elphin in 1525, was elefted abbot of Titchfield.From that time till 1535, when he died, he held bothit and Welbeck…
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