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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 359

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WAVERLEY Waverley was the first abbey of Cistercians foundedin England, and for this reason its abbot had pre-eminenceover all the other superiors of the Order in this country.iWilliam Giiifard, the second Bishop of Winchester afterthe Conquest, brought over these white monks fromAumone—one of…

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