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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 233

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tly re-established the monks in theirold place, which, according to some, here as elsewhere,was occupied by seculars. Edgars charter, issued apparently about 972, dedicatesthe church and monastery of Pershore to the Motherof our Lord, Mary ever a Virgin, to St. Peter, chief ofthe Apostles, and his… … PERSHORE possible, Edgar restored to them the lands which hadbeen taken from them in the past troubles. The churchand domestic buildings were at this time made of woodand were more than once destroyed by fire. An entryin an old manuscript states that in 976 a consul nequis-simus, named iElfer,…

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