Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 189
tailed account which hascome down to us says that at times the place seemedmore like a fair than a religious house, and it notesthat the grass-plot of the cloister was so trodden by thevisitors playing games that not a vestige of green couldbe seen when the session of Parliament came to an end. On… … CI.OISTKK AND LAVATOKIUM, GLOfCl:;STER CATHEDRAL Gloucester entertained in the refectory at a magnificent repast,set out with great splendour by the community. The last abbot, William Malvern or Parker, waselected on May 4, 1515, and his community then con-sisted of thirty-four monks. The antiquary…
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