Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 231
ene of their next opera-tions, leaving behind them under-officials and work-men to carry out the designed destruction by strippingthe roofs and pulling down the gutters and pipes, melt-ing the lead into pigs, throwing down the bells andbreaking them with sledge-hammers and packing themetal into… … Netley sioners returned to audit the accounts and to satisfythemselves that the work of destruction had been ac-compHshed to the Kings contentment. An instance of this maybe seen in the case of Netley.From the first arrival of the Royal Commissioners inFebruary 1537 to the final handing over the…
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