Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 337
id not lack benefactors, the endowment was so scantythat after struggling for more than eighty years, in 1234it was broken up for a time and the community scatteredin other monasteries of the Order, till the debts that hadbeen contracted at Woburn could be paid. How longthis dispersal continued… … WOBURN became a very rich house, however, and its net revenuewas returned in the time of Henry VIII as slightly under£392. Of its history little is known but the closing dramawhich ended with the execution of the abbot and the con-fiscation of the abbey possessions. The first incidentaffords us an…
Abbeys -- England · England -- Description and travel
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