Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 249
ess; but at least we may recognise that it was nota slothful life nor yet an idle one, and that years and cen-turies of such a life were passed without any record ex-cept that entered in the Book of Life. It is only thetrouble, the difficulty and the scandal that has found itsway into the pages of… … RIEVAULX ABBEY FROM THE TERRACE RIEVAULX overwhelmed the religious houses in the sixteenth centurywere already gathering. There were, indeed, reportsand prophecies about the impending catastrophe rife inthe neighbourhood of Rievaulx, and men were thought tobe casting envious eyes upon the property…
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