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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 229

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t in chancel and nave to keep the pot a-boiling. Per-haps even the flames may account for the precious volumenoted by Leland in the library at Netley—RhetoricaCiceronis. The Cistercian monks wHo lived at Netley were soon(disposed of by the commissioners. The abbot, as I havesaid, had been appointed… … o oo CQ< H2 NETLEY way to get rid of them was to send them all to Beaulieu.We can, perhaps, imagine their feelings as they wereshipped across the Southampton water on the first stageof their short journey to their new home. Probably fromthe boat, as they looked back over the waters in…

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