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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 65

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Winchcombe, created Bishop ofWorcester in 1380, and Thomas Skeffington, Bishop ofBangor in 1505, who built the tower of the cathedral. Besides the daughter-houses already named, Beaulieuestablished two cells, one in Cornwall, at a place calledLlanachebran or St Keveran, where there had been ahouse… … Beaulieu be founded there; but the next year, 1204, on theestabHshment of Beaulieu in Hampshire, it was agreedthat the donation should be transferred to this house,and a few monks of Beaulieu were established hereunder the ordinary conditions which regulated thegovernment of the cells of any abbey.…

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