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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 381

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of Scotland, with the well-knownstone of Scone, used at all the coronations in that latterkingdom. This was placed in the abbey church, and isstill preserved beneath the coronation chair. It is impossible, of course, to detail the events con-nected with the abbey in any sequence, within thenarrow… … WESTMINSTKK ABBEY: TllK SOUTH AMBULAIOKV Westminster1349, in proroguing Parliament for the second time,the King declared that it was worse than ever. Someweeks later the monastery was attacked; early in MayAbbot Bircheston died at Hampstead, and almost at thesame time twenty-seven of the monks were…

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