Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 175
res with-out leaving even a trace of a collection which must have [151] THE GREATER ABBEYS been second to none of the ecclesiastical treasuries ofEurope. The end came to the glories of Glastonbury as it cameto the rest of the monastic establishments in the reign ofHenry VHI. On a charge of… … GLOUCESTER ^^^^^HE waters of the Severn seem in olden times tom C| have possessed some subtle attraction for the^^^^^ Order of St. Benedict. On the river^s banks, orat any rate in the valley from v^hich it collectsits tributary streams, from Gloucester to Shrew^sbury,stood Tewkesbury, Pershore,…
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