Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 75
thin the gates died there. The last abbot, Gabriel Dunne or Donne, was ap-pointed only a very short time before the suppression ofthe abbey and not improbably in view of the surrender.At any rate the aft was ratified in the Chapter Houseon February 25, 1538, and Dunne received an annuityof ^ 120… … Biickfast Abbey monasteries, received several manors of the suppressedmonastery as his share of the plunder, and the site ofthe abbey itself became the property of Sir ThomasDennys, a large sharer in the spoils of the religioushouses. To prevent the bells of the abbey church beingbroken in pieces…
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