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 366
ofwool and corn was noted for its superiority over thatof less assiduous farmers. The foundations of the abbey of the Blessed Maryof Waverley, were laid by Bishop Giffard on Novem-ber 24, 11 28. Furness, colonised from Savigny, becameCistercian about the same time; and Tintern, Rievaulx,Fountains… … Waverley the valleys—the Cistercian houses were first plantedin solitudes and in out-of-the-way and uncultivatedplaces. By a rule of the Order these foundations wereall placed under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin,and it was a rule that no other monastery, even of itsown Order, was to be built…
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