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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 227

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yton,Legh, Aprice and London, and they went rapidly roundthe country, sending in letters, reports and officialaccusations against the good name of individuals calledcompertes^ to Crumwell. It must have been some timein the late autumn of 1535 that the visitors came toNetley, and judging from other… … Netleythe Kings declaration that the smaller religious houseswere in a bad moral state, whilst, thanks be to God,the great and solemn abbeys were all that could be de-sired, Parliament fixed the pecuniary limit of moraldelinquency at ^200 a year, and with indignation de-creed the suppression of all…

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