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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 267

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st daughter of SirNicholas Wadham, at that time Governor of the Isleof Wight, whose elder sister Jane had been for someyears a professed nun in the abbey. At this time theconvent steward was a certain John Foster, who hada house at Raddesley near Romsey. His position wouldhave given him accurate… … ROMSEV abbey: the nuns doorway ROMSEY prising to find that Foster was selected by the royal agentfor this service and that he sounded the nuns as to theirdispositions to do Henrys will and let him have theirproperty. In the report John Foster sent to Sir William Seymour,he says: According to your…

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