Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 103
nd washanded over to the charge of the abbot and some seniors.Thirty monks remained behind in the monastery and con-tinued to carry out their duties as before, until just asMass was over the Danes broke into the church wherethey were. Oskitel, the Danish king, murdered the abbotwith his own hands,… … CROWLAND the prior, for instance, was slaughtered in the sacristy;Lethwyn, the sub-prior, in the refectory, and one only oftheir number, Turgar, a boy of ten years, was spared. Allthe tombs were broken open in the hope of discoveringthe buried treasures, which, however, were not found.Being…
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