Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 299
oundation the porter, laundress, church-clerkand ferrymen had large carrodies or annual payments,which, however, were disallowed by Henry VIII;gifts to the poor were made on Maundy Thursday,on Christmas Day and the Feast of the Purification,Palm Sunday, the Assumption and All Saints Day forthe soul… … Tinternmonks; that there were six servants of the abbot; threemen fishing in the Severn for the monastery; fourkitchen servants, a tailor, a barber, a stableman and acutter of wood. Besides these curious particulars theaccounts reveal the fact that the royal officials, whosepurpose it was to get as…
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