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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 145

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ing Fountains on thesame day. Again in 1145, at the prayer of Hugh deBolebec, the monks of Fountains made a foundation atWoburn. And in 1146 thirteen of the brethren, at theinvitation of the bishop of Bergen, who had visited Foun-tains and was charmed with it, went over into Norwayand established… … FOUNTAINS tains to die, and it is pleasantly said in the chronicle thatthere by Gods providence an angel was speciallydeputed to visit and console him, w^ho was also wont toawaken him when he slept too long at night. In the following year 1147, three colonies were de-spatched from the prolific…

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