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 42
ained from the Conqueror thepromise to respeft the laws of the kingdom, and inparticular those of Edward the Confessor. Then, fear-ing the Kings vengeance, he fled to Ely, where in abrief time he died. Fredericks death opened the way to the appoint-ment of a Norman Superior, and after keeping… … o St Albans customs and to witness the negleft of the cultus of theold Saxon saints, and the introduction of that to whichtheir conquerors had been accustomed. Thus the Beecustomal was enforced at St Albans, and the gift ofeight psalters to the choir by Abbot Paul in 1085 seemsto suggest that the…
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